Publications

(2018). Exposing real-world challenges using HRI in the wild. 4th Workshop on Public Space Human-Robot Interaction (PubRob) at the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2018).

(2018). A Farewell to Arms: Non-verbal Communication for Non-humanoid Robots. Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human- Robot Interaction at the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2018).

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(2015). Determining appropriate first contact distance: trade-offs in human-robot interaction experiment design. Workshop on Designing and Evaluating Social Robots for Public Settings at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2015).

(2011). Nelson: A Low-Cost Social Robot for Research and Education. Proceedings of the 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE).

(2011). An Inter-Disciplinary Workshop Based On Social Robotics. poster presentation at the 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE).

(2011). An Intelligent Low-Cost Scanning Range Finder. Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TEPRA).

(2010). Wizard of Oz Experiments for a Companion Dialogue System: Eliciting Companionable Conversation. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC).

(2010). Evaluating Human-Machine Conversation for Appropriateness. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC).

(2010). Deliberative E-Rulemaking Decision Facilitation: Challenges to Enacting Real World Deliberation. proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation (OD2010).

(2010). Automatic Extraction of Cue Phrases for Cross-Corpus Dialogue Act Classification. proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2010)).

(2009). Introduction to Interactive QA. Journal of Natural Language Engineering: Special Issue on Interactive Question Answering.

(2008). Query Log Analysis for Adaptive Dialogue-Driven Search. Handbook of Research on Web Log Analysis.

(2008). Investigating the Portability of Corpus-Derived Cue Phrases for Dialogue Act Classification. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2008).

(2008). Evaluating Human-Computer Conversation in Companions. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation.

(2008). Cross-Domain Dialogue Act Tagging. proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2008).

(2008). Automatic Induction of Dialogue Structure from the Companions Dialogue Corpus. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation.

(2006). HLT-NAACL Workshop on Interactive Question Answering. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

(2005). Error Analysis of Dialogue Act Classification. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue.

(2005). Empirical determination of thresholds for optimal dialogue act classification. Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue.

(2005). Dialogue Act Classification Based on Intra-Utterance Features. Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding.

(2004). Human Dialogue Modelling Using Annotated Corpora. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2004).

(2004). Data Driven Strategies for an automated dialogue system. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2004), Barcelona.

(2003). Human dialogue modelling using machine learning. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing III, Sel. papers from RANLP).

(2002). Multi-Layered Dialogue Annotation for Automated Multilingual Customer Service. Proceedings of the ISLE workshop on Dialogue Tagging for Multimodal Human Computer Interaction, Edinburgh.

(2000). The YPA - An Assistant for Classified Directory Enquiry. Intelligent Systems and Soft Computing: Prospects, Tools and Applications.

(2000). Extracting Semi-Structured Data - Lessons Learnt. Proceedings of the 2/$^nd$ International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP2000).

(1999). Natural Language Engineering: Slot-Filling in the YPA. Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Interfaces, Dialogue and Partner Modelling (at the Fachtagung für Kn̈stliche Intelligenz KI'99).

(1999). Natural Language Access to Yellow Pages. Proceedings of the 3/$^rd$ International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems (KES'99).

(1999). Natural Language Access to Yellow Pages. Proceedings of the 8/$^th$ Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI'99).

(1999). Extracting Semi-Structured Data - Lessons Learnt. AAAI Fall Symposium on Using Layout for the Generation, Understanding or Retrieval of Documents.