Anton Leuski
Anton Leuski is Research Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California (USC) working at the Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT). His current and past work focuses on interactive information access, information organization, document visualization, language understanding, and dialogue processing.
Projects
Virtual Characters
Publications
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Time-offset interaction with a Holocaust survivor. In: Intelligent User Interfaces. Haifa, Israel: ACM; 2014. Abstract
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Full TextImproving Spoken Dialogue Understanding Using Phonetic Mixture Models. In: Cross-Disciplinary Advances in Applied Natural Language Processing: Issues and Approaches.; 2012. p. 225-38. Abstract
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Full TextReinforcement learning of question-answering dialogue policies for virtual museum guides. In: 13th Annual SIGdial meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. Seoul, South Korea; 2012.
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Full TextCreating conversational characters using question generation tools. Dialogue and Discourse. 2012;3(2):125-46. Abstract
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Full TextAugmenting conversational characters with generated question-answer pairs. In: AAAI Symposium on Question Generation.; 2011. Abstract
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Full TextImproving spoken dialogue understanding using phonetic mixture models.. Palm Beach, Florida; 2011. Abstract
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Full TextInteractive characters for cultural training of small military units. Reykjavík, Iceland; 2011. Abstract
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Full TextCheckpoint exercise: Training with virtual actors in virtual worlds. Reykjavík, Iceland; 2011. Abstract
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Full TextEvaluating conversational characters created through question generation.. Palm Beach, Florida; 2011. Abstract
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Full TextNPCEditor: Creating virtual human dialogue using information retrieval techniques. AI Magazine. 2011;32(2):42-56. Abstract
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Full TextNPCEditor: A Tool for Building Question-Answering Characters. In: Proceedings of The Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC).; 2010.
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Ada and Grace: Toward Realistic and Engaging Virtual Museum Guides. In: Intelligent Virtual Agents: 10th International Conference, IVA 2010. Philadelphia; 2010.
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Full TextPractical Language Processing for Virtual Humans. In: Twenty-Second Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-10).; 2010.
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Semi-formal Evaluation of Conversational Characters. In: Grumberg O, Kaminski M, Katz S, Wintner S, editors. Languages: From Formal to Natural. Essays Dedicated to Nissim Francez on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. Vol 5533. Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 22-35. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol 5533).
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Full TextA Virtual Tour Guide for Virtual Worlds. In: IVA '09: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Springer; 2009. p. 372-8.
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Full TextAt the Virtual Frontier: Introducing Gunslinger, a Multi-Character, Mixed-Reality, Story-Driven Experience. In: IVA '09: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag; 2009. p. 500-1.
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Full TextCoherence of off-topic responses for a virtual character. In: Proceedings of the 26th Army Science Conference. Orlando, Florida, USA; 2008.
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Full TextField Testing of an interactive question-answering character. In: Proceedings of the ELRA workshop on evaluation. Marrakech, Morocco; 2008. p. 36-40.
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Full TextA Statistical Approach for Text Processing in Virtual Humans. In: Proceedings of the 26th Army Science Conference. Orlando, Florida, USA; 2008.
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Full TextFrom domain specification to virtual humans: An integrated approach to authoring tactical questioning characters. In: Proceedings of Interspeech. Brisbane, Australia; 2008.
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Natural Language Dialogue Architectures for Tactical Questioning Characters. In: Army Science Conference. Florida; 2008.
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Full TextUsing Information State to Improve Dialogue Move Identification in a Spoken Dialogue System. In: Proceedings of Interspeech. Antwerp, Belgium; 2007.
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Full TextVirtual Patients for Clinical Therapist Skills Training. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. Paris, France; 2007. p. 197-210.
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Full TextHassan: A Virtual Human for Tactical Questioning. In: Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue.; 2007. p. 71-4.
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Full TextDealing with Out of Domain Questions in Virtual Characters. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'06). Marina del Rey, CA; 2006.
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Full TextHow to talk to a hologram. In: Edmonds E, Riecken D, Paris CL, Sidner CL, editors. Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (IUI'06). Sydney, Australia: ACM Press New York, NY, USA; 2006. p. 360-2.
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Full TextBuilding Effective Question Answering Characters. In: Proceedings of the 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue. Sydney, Australia; 2006.
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Full TextRadiobot-CFF: A Spoken Dialogue System for Military Training. In: Proceedings of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. Pittsburgh, PA; 2006.
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Full TextTracking Dragon-Hunters with Language Models. In: Yu PS, Tsotras V, Fox E, Liu B, editors. Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). Arlington, VA: ACM Press. NY, USA; 2006. p. 698-707.
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Full TextAsking questions to limited domain virtual characters: how good does speech recognition have to be?. In: Proceedings of the 25th Army Science Conference.; 2006.
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Full TextStatistical Shallow Semantic Parsing despite Little Training Data. In: Proceedings of 9th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (ACL/SIGPARSE'05). Vancouver, B.C., Canada; 2005.
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Full TextContext Features in Email Archives. In: Proceedings of IRiX workshop at SIGIR'05.; 2005.
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Full TextDealing With Doctors: Virtual Humans for non-team interaction training. In: Proceedings of ACL/ISCA 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue. Lisbon, Portugal; 2005.
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Full TextEmail is a stage: discovering people roles from email archives. In: Sanderson M, Järvelin PK, Allan J, Bruza P, editors. Proceedings of 27th annual international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'04). Sheffield, United Kingdom: ACM Press. NY, USA; 2004. p. 502-3.
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Full TextFirst Steps Toward Linking Dialogues: Mediating Between Free-text Questions and Pre-recorded Video Answers. In: Proceedings of the 24th Army Science Conference. Orlando, Florida, USA; 2004.
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Full TextInteractive Information Retrieval Using Clustering and Spatial Proximity. User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction (UMUAI). 2004;14:259-88.
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Full TextProtecting the Privacy of Observable Behavior in Distributed Recommender Systems. In: Proceedings of SIGIR'03 Workshop on Implicit Measures of User Interests and Preferences.; 2003.
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Full TextSearching Recorded Speech Based on the Temporal Extent of Topic Labels. In: Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia Knowledge Management. Palo Alto, CA; 2003.
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Full TextMaking MIRACLEs: Interactive Translingual Search for Cebuano and Hindi. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP). 2003;2:219-44.