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Overview

Marilyn A. Walker is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a focus on subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Information Systems, and Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

Their work engages with a range of main topics, including:

  • Topic Modeling
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Expert finding and Q&A systems
  • Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research

Recent publications by Marilyn A. Walker feature output in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, and Dialogue & Discourse. Selected papers include:

  • The RATT PARROT: serendipitous discovery of a peculiarly scintillating pulsar in MeerKAT imaging observations of the Great Saturn - Jupiter Conjunction of 2020. I. Dynamic imaging and data analysis (2024, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)
  • Referential Communication Between Friends and Strangers in the Wild (2021, Dialogue & Discourse)
  • Controlling Personality Style in Dialogue with Zero-Shot Prompt-Based Learning (2023, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • Attention Is Indeed All You Need: Semantically Attention-Guided Decoding for Data-to-Text NLG (2021, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • Dependency Dialogue Acts -- Annotation Scheme and Case Study (2023, arXiv (Cornell University))

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Marilyn A. Walker include Lena Reed, Cecilia Li, Juraj Juraska, Liren Wu, and Angela Ramirez, indicating ongoing research partnerships in various areas of their work.

Throughout their career, Marilyn A. Walker has contributed to multiple publications across key venues, particularly:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 11 publications
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Dialogue & Discourse
  • ACADIA quarterly

This profile reflects the body of work and collaborative efforts of Marilyn A. Walker, emphasizing their diverse engagement in computer science research with significant contributions to natural language processing, dialogue systems, and interdisciplinary studies involving astronomy and astrophysics.

Best Publications

  • Using linguistic cues for the automatic recognition of personality in conversation and text

    François Mairesse;Marilyn A. Walker;Matthias R. Mehl;Roger K. Moore

  • PARADISE: A Framework for Evaluating Spoken Dialogue Agents

    Marilyn A. Walker;Diane J. Litman;Candace A. Kamm;Alicia Abella

  • Optimizing dialogue management with reinforcement learning: experiments with the NJFun system

    Satinder Singh;Diane Litman;Michael Kearns;Marilyn Walker

  • CHARACTER CONTROL SYSTEM ON SCREEN

    Nitta Tohei;Jewell Darrin B;Walker Marilyn A

  • Towards developing general models of usability with PARADISE

    Marilyn Walker;Candace Kamm;Diane Litman

  • Japanese discourse and the process of centering

    Marilyn Walker;Sharon Cote;Masayo Iida

  • MATCH: An Architecture for Multimodal Dialogue Systems

    Michael Johnston;SrinivasBangalore;Gunaranjan Vasireddy;Amanda Stent

  • Reinforcement Learning for Spoken Dialogue Systems

    Satinder P. Singh;Michael J. Kearns;Diane J. Litman;Marilyn A. Walker

  • Mixed Initiative in Dialogue: An Investigation into Discourse Segmentation

    Marilyn Walker;Steve Whittaker

  • A Corpus for Research on Deliberation and Debate

    Marilyn Walker;Jean Fox Tree;Pranav Anand;Rob Abbott

  • An application of reinforcement learning to dialogue strategy selection in a spoken dialogue system for email

    Marilyn A. Walker

  • Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of Darpa Communicator Spoken Dialogue Systems

    Marilyn A. Walker;Rebecca Passonneau;Julie E. Boland

  • Cats Rule and Dogs Drool!: Classifying Stance in Online Debate

    Pranav Anand;Marilyn Walker;Rob Abbott;Jean E. Fox Tree

  • Improvising linguistic style: social and affective bases for agent personality

    Marilyn A. Walker;Janet E. Cahn;Stephen J. Whittaker

  • Evaluating spoken dialogue agents with PARADISE: Two case studies

    Marilyn A. Walker;Diane J. Litman;Candace A. Kamm;Alicia Abella

  • Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers)

    Marilyn Walker;Heng Ji;Amanda Stent

  • Centering in Naturally-Occurring Discourse: An Overview

    Marilyn A. Walker;Aravind K. Joshi;Ellen F. Prince

  • PERSONAGE: Personality Generation for Dialogue

    Francois Mairesse;Marilyn Walker

  • Automated sentence planning in a task classification system

    Marilyn A. Walker;Owen Christopher Rambow;Monica Rogati

  • Trainable Sentence Planning for Complex Information Presentations in Spoken Dialog Systems

    Amanda Stent;Rashmi Prassad;Marilyn Walker

  • Method and system for predicting understanding errors in automated dialog systems

    Allen Louis Gorin;Irene Langkilde Geary;Marilyn Ann Walker;Jeremy H. Wright

  • Stance Classification using Dialogic Properties of Persuasion

    Marilyn Walker;Pranav Anand;Rob Abbott;Ricky Grant

Frequent Co-Authors

Diane J. Litman
Diane J. Litman University of Pittsburgh
Owen Rambow
Owen Rambow Stony Brook University
Steve Whittaker
Steve Whittaker University of California, Santa Cruz
Rashmi Prasad
Rashmi Prasad University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Amanda Stent
Amanda Stent Colby College
Allen Louis Gorin
Allen Louis Gorin AT&T (United States)
Ellen Riloff
Ellen Riloff University of Utah
Satinder Singh
Satinder Singh DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Johanna D. Moore
Johanna D. Moore University of Edinburgh
Michael Kearns
Michael Kearns University of Pennsylvania

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