Dynamic dialogue modelling

Project Information

DYMO

Grant agreement ID: 804636

DOI

10.3030/804636

EC signature date 24 October 2018

Start date 1 September 2019

End date 31 January 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 499 956,00

EU contribution

€ 1 499 956,00

Coordinated by

HEINRICH-HEINE-UNIVERSITAET DUESSELDORF
Germany

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (3)

A Confidence-based Acquisition Model for Self-supervised Active Learning and Label Correction

Author(s): Carel van Niekerk, Christian Geishauser, Michael Heck, Shutong Feng, Hsien-chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Benjamin Ruppik, Renato Vukovic, Milica Gašić
Published in: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Issue 13, 2025, Page(s) 167-187, ISSN 2307-387X
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/tacl_a_00734

Learning with an Open Horizon in Ever-Changing Dialogue Circumstances

Author(s): Christian Geishauser; Carel van Niekerk; Nurul Lubis; Hsien-chin Lin; Michael Heck; Shutong Feng; Benjamin Ruppik; Renato Vukovic; Milica Gasic
Published in: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2024, ISSN 2329-9290
Publisher: IEEE Advancing Technology for Humanity
DOI: 10.1109/taslp.2024.3385289

Learning from Noisy Labels via Self-Taught On-the-Fly Meta Loss Rescaling

Author(s): Michael Heck, Christian Geishauser, Nurul Lubis, Carel Van Niekerk, Shutong Feng, Hsien-Chin Lin, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Renato Vukovic, Milica Gasic
Published in: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Issue 39, 2025, Page(s) 24059-24068, ISSN 2374-3468
Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
DOI: 10.1609/aaai.v39i22.34580

Conference proceedings (25)

Local Topology Measures of Contextual Language Model Latent Spaces with Applications to Dialogue Term Extraction

Author(s): Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Michael Heck, Carel van Niekerk, Renato Vukovic, Hsien-chin Lin, Shutong Feng, Marcus Zibrowius, Milica Gasic
Published in: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2025, Page(s) 344-356
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics, SIGDIAL 2024
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.sigdial-1.31

Uncertainty Measures in Neural Belief Tracking and the Effects on Dialogue Policy Performance

Author(s): Carel van Niekerk, Andrey Malinin, Christian Geishauser, Michael Heck, Hsien-chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Shutong Feng and Milica Gašic
Published in: Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2021, Page(s) 7901–7914
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.623

LAVA: Latent Action Spaces via Variational Auto-encoding for Dialogue Policy Optimization

Author(s): N. Lubis, C. Geishauser, M. Heck, H-C. Lin, M. Moresi, C. van Niekerk, M. Gašić
Published in: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2020, Page(s) 465–479
Publisher: International Committee on Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.41

Dialogue Term Extraction using Transfer Learning and Topological Data Analysis

Author(s): Renato Vukovic, Michael Heck, Benjamin Ruppik, Carel van Niekerk, Marcus Zibrowius, Milica Gasic
Published in: 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2022
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6858565

Dialogue Evaluation with Offline Reinforcement Learning

Author(s): Nurul Lubis, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-Chin Lin, Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck, Shutong Feng, Milica Gasic
Published in: 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2022
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2209.00876

ConvLab-3: A Flexible Dialogue System Toolkit Based on a Unified Data Format

Author(s): Qi Zhu, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-chin Lin, Carel van Niekerk, Baolin Peng, Zheng Zhang, Shutong Feng, Michael Heck, Nurul Lubis, Dazhen Wan, Xiaochen Zhu, Jianfeng Gao, Milica Gasic, Minlie Huang
Published in: Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, 2023
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-demo.9

Robust Dialogue State Tracking with Weak Supervision and Sparse Data

Author(s): Michael Heck, Nurul Lubis, Carel van Niekerk, Shutong Feng, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-Chin Lin, Milica Gasic
Published in: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/tacl_a_00513

Actor-Double-Critic: Incorporating Model-Based Critic for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems

Author(s): Y.-C. Wu, B.-H. Tseng, M. Gašić
Published in: Findings of EMNLP 2020, 2020, Page(s) 854–863
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2020.findings-emnlp.75

Less is More: Local Intrinsic Dimensions of Contextual Language Models

Author(s): Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Julius von Rohrscheidt, Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck, Renato Vukovic, Shutong Feng, Hsien-chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Bastian Rieck, Marcus Zibrowius, Milica Gašić
Published in: 2025
Publisher: NeurIPS 2025
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.01034

EmoWOZ: A Large-Scale Corpus and Labelling Scheme for Emotion Recognition in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems

Author(s): Feng, Shutong; Lubis, Nurul; Geishauser, Christian; Lin, Hsien-chin; Heck, Michael; van Niekerk, Carel; Gašić, Milica
Published in: Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022), Issue 1, 2022, Page(s) 4096–4113
Publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2109.04919

Speech-based Slot Filling using Large Language Models

Author(s): Guangzhi Sun, Shutong Feng, Dongcheng Jiang, Chao Zhang, Milica Gasic, Phil Woodland
Published in: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, 2024, Page(s) 6351-6362
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.findings-acl.379

Infusing Emotions into Task-oriented Dialogue Systems: Understanding, Management, and Generation

Author(s): Shutong Feng, Hsien-chin Lin, Christian Geishauser, Nurul Lubis, Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck, Benjamin Ruppik, Renato Vukovic, Milica Gašić
Published in: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2025, Page(s) 699-717
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics, SIGDIAL 2024
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.sigdial-1.60

Knowing What You Know: Calibrating Dialogue Belief State Distributions via Ensembles

Author(s): Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Marco Moresi, Milica Gasic
Published in: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, 2020, Page(s) 3096-3102
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2020.findings-emnlp.277

ChatGPT for Zero-shot Dialogue State Tracking: A Solution or an Opportunity?

Author(s): Michael Heck, Nurul Lubis, Benjamin Ruppik, Renato Vukovic, Shutong Feng, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-chin Lin, Carel van Niekerk, Milica Gasic
Published in: Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), 2023
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.acl-short.81

Out-of-Task Training for Dialog State Tracking Models

Author(s): M. Heck, C. Geishauser, H-C. Lin, N. Lubis, M. Moresi, C. van Niekerk, M. Gašić
Published in: COLING 2020, 2020, Page(s) 6767–6774
Publisher: International Committee on Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.596

What does the User Want? Information Gain for Hierarchical Dialogue Policy Optimisation

Author(s): C. Geishauser, S. Hu, H. Lin, N. Lubis, M. Heck, S. Feng, C. van Niekerk, M. Gasic
Published in: IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/asru51503.2021.9687856

Affect Recognition in Conversations Using Large Language Models

Author(s): Shutong Feng, Guangzhi Sun, Nurul Lubis, Wen Wu, Chao Zhang, Milica Gasic
Published in: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2025, Page(s) 259-273
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics, SIGDIAL 2024
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.sigdial-1.23

From Chatter to Matter: Addressing Critical Steps of Emotion Recognition Learning in Task-oriented Dialogue

Author(s): Shutong Feng, Nurul Lubis, Benjamin Ruppik, Christian Geishauser, Michael Heck, Hsien-chin Lin, Carel van Niekerk, Renato Vukovic, Milica Gasic
Published in: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2023
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.8

GenTUS: Simulating User Behaviour and Language in Task-oriented Dialogues with Generative Transformers

Author(s): Hsien-Chin Lin, Christian Geishauser, Shutong Feng, Nurul Lubis, Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck and Milica Gasic
Published in: 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2022
Publisher: The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2208.10817

EmoUS: Simulating User Emotions in Task-Oriented Dialogues

Author(s): Hsien-Chin Lin, Shutong Feng, Christian Geishauser, Nurul Lubis, Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck, Benjamin Ruppik, Renato Vukovic, Milica Gasić
Published in: SIGIR '23: Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2023
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3539618.3592092

Dynamic Dialogue Policy for Continual Reinforcement Learning

Author(s): Christian Geishauser, Carel van Niekerk, Nurul Lubis, Michael Heck, Hsien-Chin Lin, Shutong Feng, Milica Gasic
Published in: The 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2022
Publisher: International Committee on Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2204.05928

Dialogue Ontology Relation Extraction via Constrained Chain-of-Thought Decoding

Author(s): Renato Vukovic, David Arps, Carel van Niekerk, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Hsien-Chin Lin, Michael Heck, Milica Gašić
Published in: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2024
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics, SIGDIAL 2024
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2408.02361

Topology of Word Embeddings: Singularities Reflect Polysemy

Author(s): A. Jakubowski, M. Gašić, M. Zibrowius
Published in: *SEM 2020, 2020
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2011.09413

TripPy: A Triple Copy Strategy for Value Independent Neural Dialog State Tracking

Author(s): M. Heck, C. van Niekerk, N. Lubis, C. Geishauser, H-C. Lin, M. Moresi, M. Gašić
Published in: Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)), 2020, Page(s) 35–44
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2020.sigdial-1.4

Domain-independent User Simulation with Transformers for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems

Author(s): Lin, Hsien-chin; Lubis, Nurul; Hu, Songbo; van Niekerk, Carel; Geishauser, Christian; Heck, Michael; Feng, Shutong; Gašić, Milica
Published in: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), 2021, Page(s) 445–456
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.sigdial-1.47