"Dealing with Out of Domain Questions in Virtual Characters",
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'06), Marina del Rey, CA, August, 2006.
"Simulation of Small Group Discussions for Middle Level of Detail Crowds",
Proceedings of the Army Science Conference, 2004.
"Small group discussion simulation for middle level of detail crowds",
8th workshop on semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, 2004.
"Rapidly deploying grammar-based speech applications with active learning and back-off grammars",
SIGdial '08: Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 64–67, June, 2008.
"Handling out-of-grammar commands in mobile speech interaction using backoff filler models",
SLP '07: Proceedings of the Workshop on Grammar-Based Approaches to Spoken Language Processing, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 33–40, 2007.
"Latent Mixture of Discriminative Experts for Multimodal Prediction Modeling",
Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2010), Beijing, China, Coling 2010 Organizing Committee, pp. 860–868, August, 2010.
"Implicit Cues for Explicit Generation: Using Telicity as a Cue for Tense Structure in a Chinese to English MT System",
Machine Translation Summit VIII, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, September 2001.
Abstract
"Searching Recorded Speech Based on the Temporal Extent of Topic Labels",
Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia Knowledge Management, Palo Alto, CA, March, 2003.
"Protecting the Privacy of Observable Behavior in Distributed Recommender Systems",
Proceedings of SIGIR'03 Workshop on Implicit Measures of User Interests and Preferences, August, 2003.
"Augmenting conversational characters with generated question-answer pairs",
AAAI Symposium on Question Generation, November 2011.
Abstract
"A Cultural Decision-Making Model for Virtual Agents Playing Negotiation Games",
International Workshop on Culturally Motivated Virtual Characters,, Reykjavík, Iceland, September 2011.
Abstract
"A cultural decision-making model for negotiation based on inverse reinforcement learning",
34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sapporo, Japan, 2012.
"Culture-specific models of negotiation for virtual characters: multi-attribute decision-making based on culture-specific values",
AI & Society, Special Issue on Culturally Motivated Virtual Characters, In Press.
"The virtuality Continuum revisited",
CHI 2005 Workshop on the virtuality continuum revisited, Portland, Oregon, April 2005.
Abstract
"The Transonics Spoken Dialogue Translator: An aid for English-Persian Doctor-Patient interviews",
working notes of the AAAI Fall symposium on Dialogue Systems for Health Communication, pp. 97–103, 2004.
"TRANSONICS: A SPEECH TO SPEECH SYSTEM FOR ENGLISH-PERSIAN INTERACTIONS",
IEEE ASRU, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, December 2003.
Abstract
"Do You Want To Talk About It? A First Step Towards Emotion Integrated Dialogue.",
Tutorial and Research Workshop on Affective Dialogue Systems, Kloster Irsee, Germany, June 2004.
Abstract
"Joint Identification and Segmentation of Domain-Specific Dialogue Acts for Conversational Dialogue Systems",
Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Techologies, Portland, Oregon, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 95–100, June, 2011.
"A mixed-initiative conversational dialogue system for healthcare",
Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Seoul, South Korea, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 137–139, 2012.
"A reranking approach for recognition and classification of speech input in conversational dialogue systems",
Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 2012 IEEE, pp. 49 -54, December, 2012.
"FLoReS: A Forward Looking, Reward Seeking, Dialogue Manager",
4th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems, Paris, France, Springer New York, 2014, 2012.
Abstract
"Reinforcement learning of question-answering dialogue policies for virtual museum guides",
13th Annual SIGdial meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, Seoul, South Korea, 2012.
"Functions and Patterns of Speaker and Addressee Identifications in Distributed Complex Organizational Tasks Over Radio",
Diabruck: seventh workshop on semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, 2003.
"Rejection of empathy and its linguistic manifestations",
Formal and Informal Negotiation, FINEXIN, Canada: Ottawa,Ontario, May 2005.
Abstract
"Breakdown in Human-machine interaction: the error is the clue",
ISCA tutorial and research workshop on Error handling in dialogue systems, August 2003.
Abstract