| 2022 | EMNLP | InstructDial: Improving Zero and Few-shot Generalization in Dialogue through Instruction Tuning. | Prakhar Gupta, Cathy Jiao, Yi-Ting Yeh, Shikib Mehri, Maxine Esknazi, Jeffrey P. Bigham |
| 2022 | LREC | DialCrowd 2.0: A Quality-Focused Dialog System Crowdsourcing Toolkit. | Jessica Huynh, Ting-Rui Chiang, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2022 | LREC | Interactive Evaluation of Dialog Track at DSTC9. | Shikib Mehri, Yulan Feng, Carla Gordon, Seyed Hossein Alavi, David R. Traum, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2022 | SIGdial | The DialPort tools. | Jessica Huynh, Shikib Mehri, Cathy Jiao, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2022 | SIGdial | LAD: Language Models as Data for Zero-Shot Dialog. | Shikib Mehri, Yasemin Altun, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2021 | SIGdial | GenSF: Simultaneous Adaptation of Generative Pre-trained Models and Slot Filling. | Shikib Mehri, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2021 | SIGdial | Schema-Guided Paradigm for Zero-Shot Dialog. | Shikib Mehri, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2020 | ACL | "None of the Above": Measure Uncertainty in Dialog Response Retrieval. | Yulan Feng, Shikib Mehri, Maxine Esknazi, Tiancheng Zhao |
| 2020 | ACL | USR: An Unsupervised and Reference Free Evaluation Metric for Dialog Generation. | Shikib Mehri, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2020 | Interspeech | Detection of Voicing and Place of Articulation of Fricatives with Deep Learning in a Virtual Speech and Language Therapy Tutor. | Ivo Anjos, Maxine Esknazi, Nuno Marques, Margarida Grilo, Isabel Guimares, Joo Magalhes, Sofia Cavaco |
| 2020 | SIGdial | Unsupervised Evaluation of Interactive Dialog with DialoGPT. | Shikib Mehri, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2019 | ACL | Pretraining Methods for Dialog Context Representation Learning. | Shikib Mehri, Evgeniia Razumovskaia, Tiancheng Zhao, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2019 | CoNLL | BeamSeg: A Joint Model for Multi-Document Segmentation and Topic Identification. | Pedro Mota, Maxine Esknazi, Lusa Coheur |
| 2019 | EMNLP | Multi-Granularity Representations of Dialog. | Shikib Mehri, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2019 | NAACL | Rethinking Action Spaces for Reinforcement Learning in End-to-end Dialog Agents with Latent Variable Models. | Tiancheng Zhao, Kaige Xie, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2019 | SIGdial | Investigating Evaluation of Open-Domain Dialogue Systems With Human Generated Multiple References. | Prakhar Gupta, Shikib Mehri, Tiancheng Zhao, Amy Pavel, Maxine Esknazi, Jeffrey P. Bigham |
| 2019 | SIGdial | Structured Fusion Networks for Dialog. | Shikib Mehri, Tejas Srinivasan, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2018 | ACL | Unsupervised Discrete Sentence Representation Learning for Interpretable Neural Dialog Generation. | Tiancheng Zhao, Kyusong Lee, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2018 | AIED | Efficient Navigation in Learning Materials: An Empirical Study on the Linking Process. | Pedro Mota, Lusa Coheur, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2018 | Interspeech | Multimodal Polynomial Fusion for Detecting Driver Distraction. | Yulun Du, Alan W. Black, Louis-Philippe Morency, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2018 | SIGdial | DialCrowd: A toolkit for easy dialog system assessment. | Kyusong Lee, Tiancheng Zhao, Alan W. Black, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2018 | SIGdial | Zero-Shot Dialog Generation with Cross-Domain Latent Actions. | Tiancheng Zhao, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2017 | AAAI | Integrating Verbal and Nonvebval Input into a Dynamic Response Spoken Dialogue System. | Ting-Yao Hu, Chirag Raman, Salvador Medina Maza, Liangke Gui, Tadas Baltrusaitis, Robert E. Frederking, Louis-Philippe Morency, Alan W. Black, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2017 | ACL | Learning Discourse-level Diversity for Neural Dialog Models using Conditional Variational Autoencoders. | Tiancheng Zhao, Ran Zhao, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2017 | RecSys | Explainable Entity-based Recommendations with Knowledge Graphs. | Rose Catherine, Kathryn Mazaitis, Maxine Esknazi, William W. Cohen |
| 2017 | SIGdial | DialPort, Gone Live: An Update After A Year of Development. | Kyusong Lee, Tiancheng Zhao, Yulun Du, Edward Cai, Allen Lu, Eli Pincus, David R. Traum, Stefan Ultes, Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, Milica Gasic, Steve J. Young, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2017 | SIGdial | Generative Encoder-Decoder Models for Task-Oriented Spoken Dialog Systems with Chatting Capability. | Tiancheng Zhao, Allen Lu, Kyusong Lee, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2016 | EMNLP | Predicting the Relative Difficulty of Single Sentences With and Without Surrounding Context. | Elliot Schumacher, Maxine Esknazi, Gwen A. Frishkoff, Kevyn Collins-Thompson |
| 2016 | LREC | metaTED: a Corpus of Metadiscourse for Spoken Language. | Rui Correia, Nuno J. Mamede, Jorge Baptista, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2016 | SIGdial | Towards End-to-End Learning for Dialog State Tracking and Management using Deep Reinforcement Learning. | Tiancheng Zhao, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2015 | EMNLP | Lexical Level Distribution of Metadiscourse in Spoken Language. | Rui Correia, Maxine Esknazi, Nuno J. Mamede |
| 2015 | SIGdial | The Real Challenge 2014: Progress and Prospects. | Maxine Esknazi, Alan W. Black, Sungjin Lee, David R. Traum |
| 2015 | SIGdial | An Incremental Turn-Taking Model with Active System Barge-in for Spoken Dialog Systems. | Tiancheng Zhao, Alan W. Black, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2014 | ACL | Cross-Lingual Information to the Rescue in Keyword Extraction. | Chung-Chi Huang, Maxine Esknazi, Jaime G. Carbonell, Lun-Wei Ku, Ping-Che Yang |
| 2014 | HCOMP | Tracking Human Process Using Crowd Collaboration to Enrich Data. | David Pellow, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2014 | Interspeech | Incremental dialog processing in a task-oriented dialog. | Fabrizio Ghigi, Maxine Esknazi, M. Ins Torres, Sungjin Lee |
| 2013 | ICASSP | Automated two-way entrainment to improve spoken dialog system performance. | Jos Lopes, Maxine Esknazi, Isabel Trancoso |
| 2013 | SIGdial | Recipe For Building Robust Spoken Dialog State Trackers: Dialog State Tracking Challenge System Description. | Sungjin Lee, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2012 | Interspeech | Prosodic Entrainment in an Information-Driven Dialog System. | Andrew Fandrianto, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2012 | Interspeech | Addressing Confusions in Spoken Language in ESL Pronunciation Tutors. | Oscar Saz, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2012 | NAACL | Future Directions in Spoken Dialog Systems: A Community of Possibilities. | Alan W. Black, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2012 | SIGdial | An Unsupervised Approach to User Simulation: Toward Self-Improving Dialog Systems. | Sungjin Lee, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2012 | SIGdial | Exploiting Machine-Transcribed Dialog Corpus to Improve Multiple Dialog States Tracking Methods. | Sungjin Lee, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2011 | AIED | Self-assessment of Motivation: Explicit and Implicit Indicators in L2 Vocabulary Learning. | Kevin Dela Rosa, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2011 | ASRU | Towards choosing better primes for spoken dialog systems. | Jos Lopes, Maxine Esknazi, Isabel Trancoso |
| 2011 | FlAIRS | Impact of Word Sense Disambiguation on Ordering Dictionary Definitions in Vocabulary Learning Tutors. | Kevin Dela Rosa, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2011 | Interspeech | Speaking to the Crowd: Looking at Past Achievements in Using Crowdsourcing for Speech and Predicting Future Challenges. | Gabriel Parent, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2011 | SIGdial | Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010: Comparison of Live and Control Test Results. | Alan W. Black, Susanne Burger, Alistair Conkie, Helen Wright Hastie, Simon Keizer, Oliver Lemon, Nicolas Merigaud, Gabriel Parent, Gabriel Schubiner, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2010 | Interspeech | Lexical entrainment of real users in the let's go spoken dialog system. | Gabriel Parent, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2010 | NAACL | Clustering dictionary definitions using Amazon Mechanical Turk. | Gabriel Parent, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2009 | FlAIRS | Measuring Hint Level in Open Cloze Questions. | Juan Pino, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2009 | NAACL | A Finite-State Turn-Taking Model for Spoken Dialog Systems. | Antoine Raux, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2009 | SIGdial | The Spoken Dialogue Challenge. | Alan W. Black, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2008 | ACL | Building Practical Spoken Dialog Systems. | Antoine Raux, Brian Langner, Alan W. Black, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2008 | Interspeech | Let's go lab: a platform for evaluation of spoken dialog systems with real world users. | Maxine Esknazi, Alan W. Black, Antoine Raux, Brian Langner |
| 2008 | ITS | Self-assessment in Vocabulary Tutoring. | Michael Heilman, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2008 | ITS | Word Sense Disambiguation for Vocabulary Learning. | Anagha Kulkarni, Michael Heilman, Maxine Esknazi, Jamie Callan |
| 2008 | SIGdial | Optimizing Endpointing Thresholds using Dialogue Features in a Spoken Dialogue System. | Antoine Raux, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2007 | AIED | Choosing Reading Passages for Vocabulary Learning by Topic to Increase Intrinsic Motivation. | Michael Heilman, Alan Juffs, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2007 | ASRU | A multi-layer architecture for semi-synchronous event-driven dialogue management. | Antoine Raux, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2007 | NAACL | Combining Lexical and Grammatical Features to Improve Readability Measures for First and Second Language Texts. | Michael Heilman, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2007 | SIGdial | Comparing Spoken Dialog Corpora Collected with Recruited Subjects versus Real Users. | Hua Ai, Antoine Raux, Dan Bohus, Maxine Esknazi, Diane J. Litman |
| 2006 | Interspeech | Classroom success of an intelligent tutoring system for lexical practice and reading comprehension. | Michael Heilman, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2006 | Interspeech | Doing research on a deployed spoken dialogue system: one year of let's go! experience. | Antoine Raux, Dan Bohus, Brian Langner, Alan W. Black, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2006 | ITS | Using Simulated Students for the Assessment of Authentic Document Retrieval. | Jonathan Brown, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2005 | Interspeech | Let's go public! taking a spoken dialog system to the real world. | Antoine Raux, Brian Langner, Dan Bohus, Alan W. Black, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2005 | NAACL | Automatic Question Generation for Vocabulary Assessment. | Jonathan Brown, Gwen A. Frishkoff, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2004 | NAACL | Non-Native Users in the Let's Go!! Spoken Dialogue System: Dealing with Linguistic Mismatch. | Antoine Raux, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2003 | Interspeech | LET's GO: improving spoken dialog systems for the elderly and non-natives. | Antoine Raux, Brian Langner, Alan W. Black, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2001 | Interspeech | A study on speech over the telephone and aging. | Maxine Esknazi, Alan W. Black |
| 2000 | Interspeech | An empirical study of the effectiveness of speech-recognition-based pronunciation training. | Laura Mayfield Tomokiyo, Le Wang, Maxine Esknazi |
| 1999 | Interspeech | User adaptation in the fluency pronunciation trainer. | Maxine Esknazi, Scott Hansma, John Corwin, Jordi Albornoz |
| 1999 | Interspeech | Data collection and processing in the carnegie mellon communicator. | Maxine Esknazi, Alexander I. Rudnicky, Karin Gregory, Paul C. Constantinides, Robert Brennan, Christina L. Bennett, Jwan Allen |
| 1998 | LREC | Issues in database design: recordng and processing speech from new populations. | Maxine Esknazi, Christopher Hogan, Jeffrey Allen, Robert E. Frederking |
| 1997 | Interspeech | Issues in database creation: recording new populations, faster and better labelling. | Maxine Esknazi, Christopher Hogan, Jeffrey Allen, Robert E. Frederking |
| 1997 | Interspeech | Automatic generation of context-dependent pronunciations. | Mosur Ravishankar, Maxine Esknazi |
| 1996 | Interspeech | Detection of foreign speakers' pronunciation errors for second language training - preliminary results. | Maxine Esknazi |
| 1993 | Interspeech | Trends in speaking styles research. | Maxine Esknazi |
| 1993 | Interspeech | The design and recording of icy, a corpus for the study of intraspeaker variability and the characterisation of speaking styles. | Vincent Pean, Sheila M. Williams, Maxine Esknazi |
| 1992 | Interspeech | Changing speech styles: strategies in read speech and casual and careful spontaneous speech. | Maxine Esknazi |
| 1991 | Interspeech | BREF, a large vocabulary spoken corpus for French. | Lori F. Larnel, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Maxine Esknazi |
| 1990 | Interspeech | Design considerations and text selection for BREF, a large French read-speech corpus. | Jean-Luc Gauvain, Lori Lamel, Maxine Esknazi |
| 1987 | Interspeech | The use of rough spectral features for large vocabulary recognition. | Gilles Adda, Maxine Esknazi, P. E. Stem |
| 1986 | ICASSP | An expert system for speech spectrogram reading. | Paul-Eric Stern, Maxine Esknazi, Daniel Memmi |
| 1984 | ICASSP | The French language database: Defining, planning, and recording a large database. | Ren Carr, Raymond Descout, Maxine Esknazi, Joseph-Jean Mariani, M. Rossi |