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Kenji Sagae
Research Assistant Professor.
Research area: Computational Linguistics
PhD
,
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
With the group:
2008
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2015
External site:
http://people.ict.usc.edu/~sagae/
Projects
Deep Green
Incremental Speech Processing for Rapid Dialogue
IOTA
Logic-Based NLU
New Tools for Rapid NLU and NLG Development
SASO-EN
SimCoach
SimCoach Pro QOL
SimSensei
Standard Patient Hospital
Tactical Questioning (TACQ)
Virtual Humans: Natural Language
Virtual Intelligent Guides for Online Realms (VIGOR)
Publications
Morbini F
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Audhkhasi K
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Artstein R
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Van Segbroeck M
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Sagae K
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Georgiou P
, et al.
A reranking approach for recognition and classification of speech input in conversational dialogue systems
. In: Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 2012 IEEE.; 2012. p. 49-54.
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Georgila K
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Black AW
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Sagae K
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Traum DR
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Practical Evaluation of Human and Synthesized Speech for Virtual Human Dialogue Systems
. In: International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Istanbul, Turkey; 2012.
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Morbini F
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DeVault D
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Sagae K
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Gerten J
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Nazarian A
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Traum D
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FLoReS: A Forward Looking, Reward Seeking, Dialogue Manager
. In: 4th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems. Paris, France: Springer New York; 2012.
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Morbini F
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Forbell E
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DeVault D
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Sagae K
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Traum DR
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Rizzo AA
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A mixed-initiative conversational dialogue system for healthcare
. In: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. Seoul, South Korea: Association for Computational Linguistics; 2012. p. 137-9. (SIGDIAL '12).
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Yao X
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Tosch E
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Chen G
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Nouri E
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Artstein R
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Leuski A
, et al.
Creating conversational characters using question generation tools.
Dialogue and Discourse. 2012;3(2):125-46.
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Morbini F
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Sagae K
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Joint Identification and Segmentation of Domain-Specific Dialogue Acts for Conversational Dialogue Systems
. In: Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Techologies. Portland, Oregon, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics; 2011. p. 95-100.
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Rizzo A
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Sagae K
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Forbell E
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Kim J
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Lange B
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Buckwalter J
, et al.
SimCoach: An Intelligent Virtual Human System for Providing Healthcare Information and Support
. In: I/ITSEC 2011. Orlando, Florida; 2011.
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DeVault D
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Sagae K
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Traum DR
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Detecting the Status of a Predictive Incremental Speech Understanding Model for Real-Time Decision-Making in a Spoken Dialogue System
. In: InterSpeech 2011. Florence, Italy; 2011.
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DeVault D
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Sagae K
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Traum DR
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Incremental interpretation and prediction of utterance meaning for interactive dialogue
. Dialogue & Discourse. 2011;2(1):143-70.
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Gerber M
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Gordon AS
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Sagae K
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Open-domain commonsense reasoning using discourse relations from a corpus of weblog stories
. In: FAM-LbR '10: Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 First International Workshop on Formalisms and Methodology for Learning by Reading. Morristown, NJ, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics; 2010. p. 43-51.
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Sagae K
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DeVault D
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Traum DR
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Interpretation of Partial Utterances in Virtual Human Dialogue Systems
. In: 11th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2010 Demonstration). Downtown Los Angeles; 2010.
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Yao X
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Bhutada P
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Georgila K
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Sagae K
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Artstein R
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Traum DR
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Practical Evaluation of Speech Recognizers for Virtual Human Dialogue Systems
. In: LREC-2010. Valetta, Malta; 2010.
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Huang L
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Sagae K
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Dynamic Programming for Linear-Time Incremental Parsing
. In: Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Uppsala, Sweden: Association for Computational Linguistics; 2010. p. 1077-86.
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Ozkan D
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Sagae K
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Morency L-
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Latent Mixture of Discriminative Experts for Multimodal Prediction Modeling
. In: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2010). Beijing, China: Coling 2010 Organizing Committee; 2010. p. 860-8.
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Sagae K
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Self-Training without Reranking for Parser Domain Adaptation and Its Impact on Semantic Role Labeling
. In: Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Domain Adaptation for Natural Language Processing. Uppsala, Sweden: Association for Computational Linguistics; 2010. p. 37-44.
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Roque A
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Georgila K
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Artstein R
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Sagae K
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Traum DR
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Natural Language Processing for Joint Fire Observer Training
. In: Proceedings of the 27th Army Science Conference.; 2010.
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Sagae K
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Davis E
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Lavie A
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Macwhinney B
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Wintner S
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Morphosyntactic annotation of CHILDES transcripts
. Journal of Child Language. 2010;37:705-29.
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Sagae K
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Christian G
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DeVault D
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Traum DR
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Towards Natural Language Understanding of Partial Speech Recognition Results in Dialogue Systems.
. In: Short Paper Proceedings of NAACL HLT.; 2009.
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DeVault D
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Sagae K
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Traum DR
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Can I finish? Learning when to respond to incremental interpretation results in interactive dialogue
. In: 10th Annual SIGDIAL meeting on Discourse and Dialogue . London, UK; 2009.
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