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Steve J. Young

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Papers indexed

137

Venues

15

Active years

1971–2018

Best venue rank

A*

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Papers

137 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2018SIGdialAddressing 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
2017ACLNeural Belief Tracker: Data-Driven Dialogue State Tracking.Nikola Mrksic, Diarmuid Saghdha, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young
2017ACLPyDial: 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
2017ACLMorph-fitting: Fine-Tuning Word Vector Spaces with Simple Language-Specific Rules.Ivan Vulic, Nikola Mrksic, Roi Reichart, Diarmuid Saghdha, Steve J. Young, Anna Korhonen
2017EACLA 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
2017ICMLLatent Intention Dialogue Models.Tsung-Hsien Wen, Yishu Miao, Phil Blunsom, Steve J. Young
2017InterspeechDomain-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
2017WSDMStatistical Spoken Dialogue Systems and the Challenges for Machine Learning.Steve J. Young
2017SIGdialDialPort, 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
2017SIGdialSample-efficient Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning with Supervised Data for Dialogue Management.Pei-Hao Su, Pawel Budzianowski, Stefan Ultes, Milica Gasic, Steve J. Young
2017SIGdialReward-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
2016ACLOn-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
2016COLINGExploiting 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
2016EMNLPConditional 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
2016NAACLCounter-fitting Word Vectors to Linguistic Constraints.Nikola Mrksic, Diarmuid Saghdha, Blaise Thomson, Milica Gasic, Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, Pei-Hao Su, David Vandyke, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Steve J. Young
2016NAACLMulti-domain Neural Network Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems.Tsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gasic, Nikola Mrksic, Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, Pei-Hao Su, David Vandyke, Steve J. Young
2016SIGdialTowards Using Conversations with Spoken Dialogue Systems in the Automated Assessment of Non-Native Speakers of English.Diane J. Litman, Steve J. Young, Mark J. F. Gales, Kate M. Knill, Karen Ottewell, Rogier C. van Dalen, David Vandyke
2015ACLMulti-domain Dialog State Tracking using Recurrent Neural Networks.Nikola Mrksic, Diarmuid Saghdha, Blaise Thomson, Milica Gasic, Pei-hao Su, David Vandyke, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Steve J. Young
2015ASRUPolicy committee for adaptation in multi-domain spoken dialogue systems.Milica Gasic, Nikola Mrksic, Pei-hao Su, David Vandyke, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Steve J. Young
2015ASRUMulti-domain dialogue success classifiers for policy training.David Vandyke, Pei-hao Su, Milica Gasic, Nikola Mrksic, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Steve J. Young
2015EMNLPSemantically Conditioned LSTM-based Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems.Tsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gasic, Nikola Mrksic, Pei-hao Su, David Vandyke, Steve J. Young
2015ICASSPDistributed dialogue policies for multi-domain statistical dialogue management.Milica Gasic, Dongho Kim, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Steve J. Young
2015InterspeechLearning from real users: rating dialogue success with neural networks for reinforcement learning in spoken dialogue systems.Pei-hao Su, David Vandyke, Milica Gasic, Dongho Kim, Nikola Mrksic, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Steve J. Young
2015SIGdialReward Shaping with Recurrent Neural Networks for Speeding up On-Line Policy Learning in Spoken Dialogue Systems.Pei-Hao Su, David Vandyke, Milica Gasic, Nikola Mrksic, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Steve J. Young
2015SIGdialStochastic Language Generation in Dialogue using Recurrent Neural Networks with Convolutional Sentence Reranking.Tsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gasic, Dongho Kim, Nikola Mrksic, Pei-Hao Su, David Vandyke, Steve J. Young
2014ICASSPDialogue context sensitive HMM-based speech synthesis.Pirros Tsiakoulis, Catherine Breslin, Milica Gasic, Matthew Henderson, Dongho Kim, Martin Szummer, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young
2014InterspeechIncremental on-line adaptation of POMDP-based dialogue managers to extended domains.Milica Gasic, Dongho Kim, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Catherine Breslin, Matthew Henderson, Martin Szummer, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young
2014InterspeechInverse reinforcement learning for micro-turn management.Dongho Kim, Catherine Breslin, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Milica Gasic, Matthew Henderson, Steve J. Young
2014InterspeechDialogue context sensitive speech synthesis using factorized decision trees.Pirros Tsiakoulis, Catherine Breslin, Milica Gasic, Matthew Henderson, Dongho Kim, Steve J. Young
2014SIGdialThe PARLANCE mobile application for interactive search in English and Mandarin.Helen F. Hastie, Marie-Aude Aufaure, Panos Alexopoulos, Hugues Bouchard, Catherine Breslin, Heriberto Cuayhuitl, Nina Dethlefs, Milica Gasic, James Henderson, Oliver Lemon, Xingkun Liu, Peter Mika, Nesrine Ben Mustapha, Tim Potter, Verena Rieser, Blaise Thomson, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Yves Vanrompay, Boris Villazn-Terrazas, Majid Yazdani, Steve J. Young, Yanchao Yu
2014SIGdialWord-Based Dialog State Tracking with Recurrent Neural Networks.Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young
2014SIGdialKeynote: Statistical Approaches to Open-domain Spoken Dialogue Systems.Steve J. Young
2013ICASSPContinuous asr for flexible incremental dialogue.Catherine Breslin, Milica Gasic, Matthew Henderson, Dongho Kim, Martin Szummer, Blaise Thomson, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Steve J. Young
2013ICASSPOn-line policy optimisation of Bayesian spoken dialogue systems via human interaction.Milica Gasic, Catherine Breslin, Matthew Henderson, Dongho Kim, Martin Szummer, Blaise Thomson, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Steve J. Young
2013SIGdialPOMDP-based dialogue manager adaptation to extended domains.Milica Gasic, Catherine Breslin, Matthew Henderson, Dongho Kim, Martin Szummer, Blaise Thomson, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Steve J. Young
2013SIGdialDeep Neural Network Approach for the Dialog State Tracking Challenge.Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young
2012SIGdialThe Effect of Cognitive Load on a Statistical Dialogue System.Milica Gasic, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Eli Tzirkel, Steve J. Young
2011ASRUOn-line policy optimisation of spoken dialogue systems via live interaction with human subjects.Milica Gasic, Filip Jurccek, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
2011ICASSPJoint modelling of voicing label and continuous F0 for HMM based speech synthesis.Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
2011InterspeechUncertainty Management for On-Line Optimisation of a POMDP-Based Large-Scale Spoken Dialogue System.Lucie Daubigney, Milica Gasic, Senthilkumar Chandramohan, Matthieu Geist, Olivier Pietquin, Steve J. Young
2011InterspeechReal User Evaluation of Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Amazon Mechanical Turk.Filip Jurccek, Simon Keizer, Milica Gasic, Franois Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
2011SIGdialSpoken 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
2010ACLPhrase-Based Statistical Language Generation Using Graphical Models and Active Learning.Franois Mairesse, Milica Gasic, Filip Jurccek, Simon Keizer, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
2010ICASSPWord-level emphasis modelling in HMM-based speech synthesis.Kai Yu, Franois Mairesse, Steve J. Young
2010InterspeechNatural belief-critic: a reinforcement algorithm for parameter estimation in statistical spoken dialogue systems.Filip Jurccek, Blaise Thomson, Simon Keizer, Franois Mairesse, Milica Gasic, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
2010InterspeechCross-lingual spoken language understanding from unaligned data using discriminative classification models and machine translation.Fabrice Lefvre, Franois Mairesse, Steve J. Young
2010InterspeechStill talking to machines (cognitively speaking).Steve J. Young
2010InterspeechContext adaptive training with factorized decision trees for HMM-based speech synthesis.Kai Yu, Heiga Zen, Franois Mairesse, Steve J. Young
2010SIGdialGaussian Processes for Fast Policy Optimisation of POMDP-based Dialogue Managers.Milica Gasic, Filip Jurccek, Simon Keizer, Franois Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
2010SIGdialParameter estimation for agenda-based user simulation.Simon Keizer, Milica Gasic, Filip Jurccek, Franois Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
2009ASRUBack-off action selection in summary space-based POMDP dialogue systems.Milica Gasic, Fabrice Lefvre, Filip Jurccek, Simon Keizer, Franois Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
2009ICASSPSpoken language understanding from unaligned data using discriminative classification models.Franois Mairesse, Milica Gasic, Filip Jurccek, Simon Keizer, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
2009ICASSPTrajectory training considering global variance for HMM-based speech synthesis.Tomoki Toda, Steve J. Young
2009ICASSPProbablistic modelling of F0 in unvoiced regions in HMM based speech synthesis.Kai Yu, Tomoki Toda, Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, Franois Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young
2009InterspeechTransformation-based learning for semantic parsing.Filip Jurccek, Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, Franois Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
2009SIGdialk-Nearest Neighbor Monte-Carlo Control Algorithm for POMDP-Based Dialogue Systems.Fabrice Lefvre, Milica Gasic, Filip Jurccek, Simon Keizer, Franois Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
2008ICASSPBayesian update of dialogue state for robust dialogue systems.Blaise Thomson, Jost Schatzmann, Steve J. Young
2008InterspeechEmotion conversion using F0 segment selection.Zeynep Inanoglu, Steve J. Young
2008InterspeechThe linear transformation of LF glottal waveforms for voice conversion.Arantza del Pozo, Steve J. Young
2008InterspeechUser study of the Bayesian update of dialogue state approach to dialogue management.Blaise Thomson, Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, Franois Mairesse, Jost Schatzmann, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
2008InterspeechEvaluating semantic-level confidence scores with multiple hypotheses.Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, Franois Mairesse, Jost Schatzmann, Steve J. Young
2008SIGdialTraining and Evaluation of the HIS POMDP Dialogue System in Noise.Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, Franois Mairesse, Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
2007ASRUError simulation for training statistical dialogue systems.Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young
2007ICASSPThe Hidden Information State Approach to Dialog Management.Steve J. Young, Jost Schatzmann, Karl Weilhammer, Hui Ye
2007InterspeechA system for transforming the emotion in speech: combining data-driven conversion techniques for prosody and voice quality.Zeynep Inanoglu, Steve J. Young
2007NAACLAgenda-Based User Simulation for Bootstrapping a POMDP Dialogue System.Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Karl Weilhammer, Hui Ye, Steve J. Young
2007NAACLThe Hidden Information State Dialogue Manager: A Real-World POMDP-Based System.Steve J. Young, Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Karl Weilhammer, Hui Ye
2007SIGdialStatistical User Simulation with a Hidden Agenda.Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young
2006InterspeechBootstrapping language models for dialogue systems.Karl Weilhammer, Matthew N. Stuttle, Steve J. Young
2006InterspeechA clustering approach to semantic decoding.Hui Ye, Steve J. Young
2005ACIIIntonation Modelling and Adaptation for Emotional Prosody Generation.Zeynep Inanoglu, Steve J. Young
2005InterspeechThe hidden vector state language model.Vidura Seneviratne, Steve J. Young
2005InterspeechImproving the speech recognition performance of beginners in spoken conversational interaction for language learning.Hui Ye, Steve J. Young
2005SIGdialQuantitative Evaluation of User Simulation Techniques for Spoken Dialogue Systems.Jost Schatzmann, Kallirroi Georgila, Steve J. Young
2005SIGdialPartially Observable Markov Decision Processes with Continuous Observations for Dialogue Management.Jason D. Williams, Pascal Poupart, Steve J. Young
2004ICASSPHigh quality voice morphing.Hui Ye, Steve J. Young
2004InterspeechA framework for dialogue data collection with a simulated ASR channel.Matthew N. Stuttle, Jason D. Williams, Steve J. Young
2004InterspeechCharacterizing task-oriented dialog using a simulated ASR chanel.Jason D. Williams, Steve J. Young
2004InterspeechVoice conversion for unknown speakers.Hui Ye, Steve J. Young
2003ICASSPHidden vector state model for hierarchical semantic parsing.Yulan He, Steve J. Young
2003InterspeechPerceptually weighted linear transformations for voice conversion.Hui Ye, Steve J. Young
2003SIGdialUsing Wizard-of-Oz simulations to bootstrap Reinforcement - Learning based dialog management systems.Jason D. Williams, Steve J. Young
2002InterspeechTalking to machines (statistically speaking).Steve J. Young
2001ICASSPIndicator variable dependent output probability modelling via continuous posterior functions.Andreas Tuerk, Steve J. Young
2001UAIStatistical Modeling in Continuous Speech Recognition (CSR).Steve J. Young
2000DACCase studies: Chip design on the bleeding edge (panel session abstract).John M. Cohn, Rob A. Rutenbar, Steve J. Young, Chris Malachowsky, Luis Aldaz
2000ICASSPProbabilistic simulation of human-machine dialogues.Konrad Scheffler, Steve J. Young
2000InterspeechClass-based language model adaptation using mixtures of word-class weights.Gareth Moore, Steve J. Young
2000InterspeechLoosely coupled HMMs for ASR.Harriet J. Nock, Steve J. Young
1999InterspeechModelling speaking rate using a between frame distance metric.Andreas Tuerk, Steve J. Young
1999InterspeechOff-line acoustic modelling of non-native accents.Silke M. Witt, Steve J. Young
1998ICASSPExperiments in broadcast news transcription.Philip C. Woodland, Thomas Hain, Sue E. Johnson, Thomas Niesler, Andreas Tuerk, Steve J. Young
1998InterspeechEstimation of models for non-native speech in computer-assisted language learning based on linear model combination.Silke M. Witt, Steve J. Young
1997ICASSPBroadcast news transcription using HTK.Philip C. Woodland, Mark J. F. Gales, David Pye, Steve J. Young
1997ICASSPAcoustic indexing for multimedia retrieval and browsing.Steve J. Young, Martin G. Brown, Jonathan Foote, Gareth J. F. Jones, Karen Sprck Jones
1997InterspeechA comparative study of methods for phonetic decision-tree state clustering.Harriet J. Nock, Mark J. F. Gales, Steve J. Young
1997InterspeechLanguage learning based on non-native speech recognition.Silke M. Witt, Steve J. Young
1996ICASSPRobust talker-independent audio document retrieval.Gareth J. F. Jones, J. T. Foote, Karen Sprck Jones, Steve J. Young
1996ICASSPFast implementation methods for Viterbi-based word-spotting.Kate M. Knill, Steve J. Young
1996ICASSPLattice-based discriminative training for large vocabulary speech recognition.Valtcho Valtchev, Julian Odell, Philip C. Woodland, Steve J. Young
1996InterspeechPseudo-articulatory speech synthesis for recognition using automatic feature extraction from x-ray data.C. Simon Blackburn, Steve J. Young
1996InterspeechUse of Gaussian selection in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition using HMMs.Kate M. Knill, Mark J. F. Gales, Steve J. Young
1996InterspeechDiscriminative optimisation of large vocabulary recognition systems.V. Valtchev, Philip C. Woodland, Steve J. Young
1996SIGIRRetrieving Spoken Documents by Combining Multiple Index Sources.Gareth J. F. Jones, J. T. Foote, Karen Sparck Jones, Steve J. Young
1995ICASSPA fast and flexible implementation of parallel model combination.Mark John Francis Gales, Steve J. Young
1995ICASSPVideo mail retrieval: the effect of word spotting accuracy on precision.Gareth J. F. Jones, J. T. Foote, Karen Sprck Jones, Steve J. Young
1995ICASSPThe 1994 HTK large vocabulary speech recognition system.Philip C. Woodland, C. J. Leggetter, Julian Odell, Valtcho Valtchev, Steve J. Young
1995InterspeechTowards improved speech recognition using a speech production model.C. Simon Blackburn, Steve J. Young
1995InterspeechTalker-independent keyword spotting for information retrieval.J. T. Foote, Gareth J. F. Jones, Karen Sparck Jones, Steve J. Young
1995InterspeechThe application of parallel model combination to a large vocabulary dictation task.Mark J. F. Gales, Steve J. Young
1995InterspeechLarge vocabulary multilingual speech recognition using HTK.David Pye, Philip C. Woodland, Steve J. Young
1994ICASSPA fast lattice-based approach to vocabulary independent wordspotting.David A. James, Steve J. Young
1994ICASSPContinuous speech recognition in noise using spectral subtraction and HMM adaptation.Juan Arturo Nolazco-Flores, Steve J. Young
1994ICASSPLarge vocabulary continuous speech recognition using HTK.Philip C. Woodland, J. J. Odell, V. Valtchev, Steve J. Young
1994InterspeechParallel model combination on a noise corrupted resource management task.Mark J. F. Gales, Steve J. Young
1994InterspeechComputer assisted grammar construction.H.-H. Shih, Steve J. Young
1994InterspeechRecognition ********* a dynamic network decoder design for large vocabulary speech recognition.V. Valtchev, J. J. Odell, Philip C. Woodland, Steve J. Young
1994NAACLA One Pass Decoder Design For Large Vocabulary Recognition.J. J. Odell, V. Valtchev, Philip C. Woodland, Steve J. Young
1994NAACLSession 11: Acoustic Modeling and Robust CSR.Steve J. Young
1994NAACLTree-Based State Tying for High Accuracy Modelling.Steve J. Young, J. J. Odell, Philip C. Woodland
1993ICASSPMMI training for continuous phoneme recognition on the TIMIT database.S. Kapadia, Valtcho Valtchev, Steve J. Young
1993ICASSPRecurrent input transformations for hidden Markov models.Valtcho Valtchev, S. Kapadia, Steve J. Young
1993InterspeechAdapting a HMM-based recogniser for noisy speech enhanced by spectral subtraction.Juan Arturo Nolazco-Flores, Steve J. Young
1993InterspeechHMM recognition in noise using parallel model combination.Mark J. F. Gales, Steve J. Young
1993InterspeechSegmental hidden Markov models.Mark J. F. Gales, Steve J. Young
1993InterspeechThe HTK tied-state continuous speech recogniser.Philip C. Woodland, Steve J. Young
1993InterspeechThe use of state tying in continuous speech recognition.Steve J. Young, Philip C. Woodland
1992ICASSPAn improved approach to the hidden Markov model decomposition of speech and noise.Mark J. F. Gales, Steve J. Young
1992ICASSPSpeech recognition using hidden Markov model decomposition and a general background speech model.Michelle Q. Wang, Steve J. Young
1992ICASSPThe general use of tying in phoneme-based HMM speech recognisers.Steve J. Young
1992InterspeechHidden Markov model state-based cepstral noise compensation.V. Beattie, Steve J. Young
1992InterspeechA trellis-based language model for speech recognition.Nick Waegner, Steve J. Young
1991ICASSPNoisy speech recognition using hidden Markov model state-based filtering.V. L. Beattie, Steve J. Young
1990ICASSPCompetitive training in hidden Markov models [speech recognition].Steve J. Young
1990InterspeechTime-frequency spectral analysis of speech.David Rainton, Steve J. Young
1988ICASSPSpeech recognition in VODIS II.Steve J. Young, N. H. Russell, J. H. S. Thornton
1971DACA microprogram simulator.Steve J. Young