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Overview

Oliver Lemon is affiliated with Heriot-Watt University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans across various facets of computer science with a particular emphasis on artificial intelligence. The primary domains of their work involve natural language processing, multimodal machine learning applications, and social robot interaction.

Their publication record includes contributions in the field of artificial intelligence and associated subfields. Key areas of study are:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Social Psychology
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • General Health Professions

Oliver Lemon's research work covers several main topics, such as:

  • Topic Modeling
  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • AI in Service Interactions
  • Speech and Dialogue Systems
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Social Robot Interaction and HRI (Human-Robot Interaction)
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition

The scientist has published in notable venues including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
  • 2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
  • AI Communications
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Alessandro Suglia
  • Ioannis Konstas
  • Nancie Gunson
  • Daniel Hernández García
  • Christian Dondrup

Among their recent publications are:

  • Multi-party Interaction with a Robot Receptionist, 2022, 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
  • Developing a Social Conversational Robot for the Hospital waiting room, 2022, 2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
  • Encoding Syntactic Constituency Paths for Frame-Semantic Parsing with Graph Convolutional Networks, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Conversational AI for multi-agent communication in Natural Language, 2022, AI Communications
  • Demonstration of a Robot Receptionist with Multi-party Situated Interaction, 2022, 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

Best Publications

  • multithreaded context for robust conversational interfaces: Context-sensitive speech recognition and interpretation of corrective fragments

    Oliver Lemon;Alexander Gruenstein

  • Developing technology for autism: an interdisciplinary approach

    K. Porayska-Pomsta;C. Frauenberger;H. Pain;G. Rajendran

  • DIPPER : Description and formalisation of an information-state update dialogue system architecture

    Johan Bos;Ewan Klein;Oliver Lemon;Tetsushi Oka

  • Generating tailored, comparative descriptions in spoken dialogue

    Johanna D. Moore;Mary Ellen Foster;Oliver Lemon;Michael White

  • A Simple and Generic Belief Tracking Mechanism for the Dialog State Tracking Challenge: On the believability of observed information

    Zhuoran Wang;Oliver Lemon

  • Learning user simulations for information state update dialogue systems

    Kallirroi Georgila;James Henderson;Oliver Lemon

  • Hybrid reinforcement/supervised learning of dialogue policies from fixed data sets

    James Henderson;James Henderson;Oliver Lemon;Oliver Lemon;Kallirroi Georgila;Kallirroi Georgila

  • Human-computer dialogue simulation using hidden Markov models

    H. Cuayahuitl;S. Renals;O. Lemon;H. Shimodaira

  • User simulation for spoken dialogue systems: learning and evaluation

    Kallirroi Georgila;James Henderson;Oliver Lemon

  • Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Dialogue Systems

    Verena Rieser;Oliver Lemon

  • Machine learning for spoken dialogue systems

    Oliver Lemon;Olivier Pietquin

  • Collaborative Activities and Multi-tasking in Dialogue Systems Towards natural dialogue with robots

    Oliver Lemon;Alexander Gruenstein;Stanley Peters

  • An ISU dialogue system exhibiting reinforcement learning of dialogue policies: generic slot-filling in the TALK in-car system

    Oliver Lemon;Kallirroi Georgila;James Henderson;Matthew Stuttle

  • The WITAS multi-modal dialogue system I.

    Oliver Lemon;Anne Bracy;Alexander Gruenstein;Stanley Peters

  • Hybrid reinforcement/supervised learning for dialogue policies from COMMUNICATOR data

    James Henderson;Oliver Lemon;Kallirroi Georgila

  • Natural Language Generation as Planning Under Uncertainty for Spoken Dialogue Systems

    Verena Rieser;Oliver Lemon

  • Learning what to say and how to say it: Joint optimisation of spoken dialogue management and natural language generation

    Oliver Lemon

  • EVALUATING EFFECTIVENESS AND PORTABILITY OF REINFORCEMENT LEARNED DIALOGUE STRATEGIES WITH REAL USERS: THE TALK TOWNINFO EVALUATION

    O. Lemon;K. Georgila;J. Henderson

  • Data-Driven Methods for Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Systems: Computational Learning for Conversational Interfaces

    Oliver Lemon;Olivier Pietquin

  • Blending Human and Artificial Intelligence to Support Autistic Children’s Social Communication Skills

    Kaśka Porayska-Pomsta;Alyssa M. Alcorn;Katerina Avramides;Sandra Beale

  • Spatial logic and the complexity of diagrammatic reasoning

    Oliver Lemon;I Pratt

  • Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

    Yasuhiro Katagiri;Mikio Nakano;Raquel Fernández;Oliver Lemon

Frequent Co-Authors

Verena Rieser
Verena Rieser Heriot-Watt University
Bonnie Webber
Bonnie Webber University of Edinburgh
Steve Young
Steve Young University of Cambridge
Steve Renals
Steve Renals University of Edinburgh
Alex Lascarides
Alex Lascarides University of Edinburgh
Tim J. Smith
Tim J. Smith Birkbeck, University of London
Johanna D. Moore
Johanna D. Moore University of Edinburgh
Olivier Pietquin
Olivier Pietquin Google (United States)
Dilek Hakkani-Tur
Dilek Hakkani-Tur University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nicholas Asher
Nicholas Asher Toulouse Institute of Computer Science Research

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