| 2026 | LREC | MUDiC: A Dataset for Multi-User Dialogue and Collaboration in Chatbot Interaction. | Nicolas Wagner, Cristina Luna Jimnez, Elisabeth Andr, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes |
| 2025 | SIGdial | Retrieving Relevant Knowledge Subgraphs for Task-Oriented Dialogue. | Nicholas Thomas Walker, Pierre Lison, Laetitia Hilgendorf, Nicolas Wagner, Stefan Ultes |
| 2024 | HAI | Exploring the Impact of Non-Verbal Virtual Agent Behavior on User Engagement in Argumentative Dialogues. | Annalena Bea Aicher, Yuki Matsuda, Keiichi Yasumoto, Wolfgang Minker, Elisabeth Andr, Stefan Ultes |
| 2024 | SIGdial | Enhancing Model Transparency: A Dialogue System Approach to XAI with Domain Knowledge. | Isabel Feustel, Niklas Rach, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes |
| 2024 | SIGdial | On the Controllability of Large Language Models for Dialogue Interaction. | Nicolas Wagner, Stefan Ultes |
| 2023 | HCI | Towards Modelling Elaborateness in Argumentative Dialogue Systems. | Annalena Aicher, Marc Fuchs, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes |
| 2023 | HCI | Evaluating a Spoken Argumentative Dialogue System. | Annalena Aicher, Stefan Hillmann, Thilo Michael, Sebastian Mller, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes |
| 2023 | HCI | Exploring the Mobile Usability of Argumentative Dialogue Systems for Opinion Building. | Annalena Aicher, Stefan Hillmann, Sebastian Mller, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes |
| 2023 | INLG | System-Initiated Transitions from Chit-Chat to Task-Oriented Dialogues with Transition Info Extractor and Transition Sentence Generator. | Ye Liu, Stefan Ultes, Wolfgang Minker, Wolfgang Maier |
| 2023 | IVA | The Influence of Avatar Interfaces on Argumentative Dialogues. | Annalena Aicher, Klaus Weber, Elisabeth Andr, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes |
| 2023 | SIGdial | Towards Breaking the Self-imposed Filter Bubble in Argumentative Dialogues. | Annalena Aicher, Daniel Kornmller, Yuki Matsuda, Stefan Ultes, Wolfgang Minker, Keiichi Yasumoto |
| 2022 | LREC | Towards Building a Spoken Dialogue System for Argument Exploration. | Annalena Aicher, Nadine Gerstenlauer, Isabel Feustel, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes |
| 2022 | LREC | User Interest Modelling in Argumentative Dialogue Systems. | Annalena Aicher, Nadine Gerstenlauer, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes |
| 2022 | LREC | Towards Modelling Self-imposed Filter Bubbles in Argumentative Dialogue Systems. | Annalena Aicher, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes |
| 2021 | ICDCN | Decide or Delegate: How Script Knowledge Based Conversational Assistants Should Act in Inconclusive Situations. | Juliana Miehle, Sabine Wieluch, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes |
| 2021 | RANLP | Naturalness Evaluation of Natural Language Generation in Task-oriented Dialogues Using BERT. | Ye Liu, Wolfgang Maier, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes |
| 2021 | SIGdial | From Argument Search to Argumentative Dialogue: A Topic-independent Approach to Argument Acquisition for Dialogue Systems. | Niklas Rach, Carolin Schindler, Isabel Feustel, Johannes Daxenberger, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes |
| 2021 | SIGdial | Blending Task Success and User Satisfaction: Analysis of Learned Dialogue Behaviour with Multiple Rewards. | Stefan Ultes, Wolfgang Maier |
| 2020 | COMMA | Increasing the Naturalness of an Argumentative Dialogue System Through Argument Chains. | Niklas Rach, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes |
| 2020 | LREC | Estimating User Communication Styles for Spoken Dialogue Systems. | Juliana Miehle, Isabel Feustel, Julia Hornauer, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes |
| 2020 | LREC | Comparative Study of Sentence Embeddings for Contextual Paraphrasing. | Louisa Pragst, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes |
| 2020 | LREC | Evaluation of Argument Search Approaches in the Context of Argumentative Dialogue Systems. | Niklas Rach, Yuki Matsuda, Johannes Daxenberger, Stefan Ultes, Keiichi Yasumoto, Wolfgang Minker |
| 2020 | SIGdial | Similarity Scoring for Dialogue Behaviour Comparison. | Stefan Ultes, Wolfgang Maier |
| 2019 | SIGdial | Improving Interaction Quality Estimation with BiLSTMs and the Impact on Dialogue Policy Learning. | Stefan Ultes |
| 2018 | COMMA | Markov Games for Persuasive Dialogue. | Niklas Rach, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes |
| 2018 | EMNLP | MultiWOZ - A Large-Scale Multi-Domain Wizard-of-Oz Dataset for Task-Oriented Dialogue Modelling. | Pawel Budzianowski, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Iigo Casanueva, Stefan Ultes, Osman Ramadan, Milica Gasic |
| 2018 | ICMI | EVA: A Multimodal Argumentative Dialogue System. | Niklas Rach, Klaus Weber, Louisa Pragst, Elisabeth Andr, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes |
| 2018 | LREC | Expert Evaluation of a Spoken Dialogue System in a Clinical Operating Room. | Juliana Miehle, Nadine Gerstenlauer, Daniel Ostler, Hubertus Feuner, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes |
| 2018 | LREC | What Causes the Differences in Communication Styles? A Multicultural Study on Directness and Elaborateness. | Juliana Miehle, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes |
| 2018 | LREC | On the Vector Representation of Utterances in Dialogue Context. | Louisa Pragst, Niklas Rach, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes |
| 2018 | NAACL | Feudal Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Management in Large Domains. | Iigo Casanueva, Pawel Budzianowski, Pei-Hao Su, Stefan Ultes, Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Milica Gasic |
| 2018 | SIGdial | Feudal Dialogue Management with Jointly Learned Feature Extractors. | Iigo Casanueva, Pawel Budzianowski, Stefan Ultes, Florian Kreyssig, Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Yen-Chen Wu, Milica Gasic |
| 2018 | SIGdial | Changing the Level of Directness in Dialogue using Dialogue Vector Models and Recurrent Neural Networks. | Louisa Pragst, Stefan Ultes |
| 2018 | SIGdial | Variational Cross-domain Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems. | Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Florian Kreyssig, Pawel Budzianowski, Iigo Casanueva, Yen-Chen Wu, Stefan Ultes, Milica Gasic |
| 2018 | SIGdial | Addressing Objects and Their Relations: The Conversational Entity Dialogue Model. | Stefan Ultes, Pawel Budzianowski, Iigo Casanueva, Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Yen-Chen Wu, Steve J. Young, Milica Gasic |
| 2017 | ACL | PyDial: A Multi-domain Statistical Dialogue System Toolkit. | Stefan Ultes, Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, Pei-Hao Su, David Vandyke, Dongho Kim, Iigo Casanueva, Pawel Budzianowski, Nikola Mrksic, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gasic, Steve J. Young |
| 2017 | EACL | A Network-based End-to-End Trainable Task-oriented Dialogue System. | Tsung-Hsien Wen, David Vandyke, Nikola Mrksic, Milica Gasic, Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, Pei-Hao Su, Stefan Ultes, Steve J. Young |
| 2017 | ICAIL | Towards an Argumentative Dialogue System. | Niklas Rach, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes |
| 2017 | ICMI | Challenges for adaptive dialogue management in the KRISTINA project. | Louisa Pragst, Juliana Miehle, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes |
| 2017 | IJCNLP | Acquisition and Assessment of Semantic Content for the Generation of Elaborateness and Indirectness in Spoken Dialogue Systems. | Louisa Pragst, Koichiro Yoshino, Wolfgang Minker, Satoshi Nakamura, Stefan Ultes |
| 2017 | Interspeech | Domain-Independent User Satisfaction Reward Estimation for Dialogue Policy Learning. | Stefan Ultes, Pawel Budzianowski, Iigo Casanueva, Nikola Mrksic, Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, Pei-Hao Su, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gasic, Steve J. Young |
| 2017 | SIGdial | Sub-domain Modelling for Dialogue Management with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning. | Pawel Budzianowski, Stefan Ultes, Pei-Hao Su, Nikola Mrksic, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Iigo Casanueva, Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, Milica Gasic |
| 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 | Interaction Quality Estimation Using Long Short-Term Memories. | Niklas Rach, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes |
| 2017 | SIGdial | Sample-efficient Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning with Supervised Data for Dialogue Management. | Pei-Hao Su, Pawel Budzianowski, Stefan Ultes, Milica Gasic, Steve J. Young |
| 2017 | SIGdial | Reward-Balancing for Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems using Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning. | Stefan Ultes, Pawel Budzianowski, Iigo Casanueva, Nikola Mrksic, Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, Pei-Hao Su, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gasic, Steve J. Young |
| 2016 | ACL | On-line Active Reward Learning for Policy Optimisation in Spoken Dialogue Systems. | Pei-Hao Su, Milica Gasic, Nikola Mrksic, Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, Stefan Ultes, David Vandyke, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Steve J. Young |
| 2016 | COLING | Exploiting Sentence and Context Representations in Deep Neural Models for Spoken Language Understanding. | Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, Milica Gasic, Nikola Mrksic, Pei-Hao Su, Stefan Ultes, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Steve J. Young |
| 2016 | EMNLP | Conditional Generation and Snapshot Learning in Neural Dialogue Systems. | Tsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gasic, Nikola Mrksic, Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, Pei-Hao Su, Stefan Ultes, David Vandyke, Steve J. Young |
| 2016 | SIGdial | Cultural Communication Idiosyncrasies in Human-Computer Interaction. | Juliana Miehle, Koichiro Yoshino, Louisa Pragst, Stefan Ultes, Satoshi Nakamura, Wolfgang Minker |
| 2015 | SP | Analysis of an Extended Interaction Quality Corpus. | Stefan Ultes, Mara Jess Platero Snchez, Alexander Schmitt, Wolfgang Minker |
| 2015 | SIGdial | Quality-adaptive Spoken Dialogue Initiative Selection And Implications On Reward Modelling. | Stefan Ultes, Matthias Kraus, Alexander Schmitt, Wolfgang Minker |
| 2014 | ICASSP | Emotions are a personal thing: Towards speaker-adaptive emotion recognition. | Maxim Sidorov, Stefan Ultes, Alexander Schmitt |
| 2014 | ICMI | Automatic Recognition of Personality Traits: A Multimodal Approach. | Maxim Sidorov, Stefan Ultes, Alexander Schmitt |
| 2014 | LREC | Comparison of Gender- and Speaker-adaptive Emotion Recognition. | Maxim Sidorov, Stefan Ultes, Alexander Schmitt |
| 2014 | LREC | First Insight into Quality-Adaptive Dialogue. | Stefan Ultes, Hseyin Dikme, Wolfgang Minker |
| 2014 | SIGdial | Interaction Quality Estimation in Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Hybrid-HMMs. | Stefan Ultes, Wolfgang Minker |
| 2013 | ICASSP | JaCHMM: A Java-based conditioned Hidden Markov Model library. | Stefan Ultes, Robert ElChabb, Alexander Schmitt, Wolfgang Minker |
| 2013 | NAACL | On Quality Ratings for Spoken Dialogue Systems - Experts vs. Users. | Stefan Ultes, Alexander Schmitt, Wolfgang Minker |
| 2013 | SIGdial | Improving Interaction Quality Recognition Using Error Correction. | Stefan Ultes, Wolfgang Minker |
| 2012 | LREC | A Parameterized and Annotated Spoken Dialog Corpus of the CMU Let's Go Bus Information System. | Alexander Schmitt, Stefan Ultes, Wolfgang Minker |
| 2012 | NAACL | Towards Quality-Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Management. | Stefan Ultes, Alexander Schmitt, Wolfgang Minker |
| 2011 | Interspeech | Attention, Sobriety Checkpoint! Can Humans Determine by Means of Voice, if Someone is Drunk... and Can Automatic Classifiers Compete? | Stefan Ultes, Alexander Schmitt, Wolfgang Minker |