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The Fourth Dialog State Tracking Challenge

Seokhwan Kim, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Rafael E. Banchs, Jason Williams, Matthew Henderson

Proceedings International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS) | January 2016

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Compact and Interpretable Dialogue State Representation with Genetic Sparse Distributed Memory

Layla El Asri, Romain Laroche, Olivier Pietquin

Proceedings of IWSDS | January 2016

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Unconventional Approaches to Gathering and Sharing Resources for Spoken Dialog Research

Maxine Eskenazi, Sungjin Lee, Tiancheng Zhao, Ting Yao Hu, Alan W Black

LREC 2016 Novel Incentives for Collecting Data and Annotation from People: types, implementation, tasking requirements, workflow and results workshop, PortoroÅ¾, Slovenia, 2016 | January 2016

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Overview of FIRE-2015 Shared Task on Mixed Script Information Retrieval

Royal Sequiera, Monojit Choudhury, Parth Gupta, Paolo Rosso, Shubham Kumar, Somnath Banerjee, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Gokul Chittaranjan, Amitava Das, Kunal Chakma

Proceedings of FIRE 2015 | December 2015

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TabMCQ: A Dataset of General Knowledge Tables and Multiple-choice Questions

Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Peter Turney, Eduard Hovy

December 2015

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Detecting Interrogative Utterances with Recurrent Neural Networks

Junyoung Chung, Jacob Devlin, Hany Hassan Awadalla

NIPS 2015 Workshop on Machine Learning for Spoken Language Understanding and Interaction | December 2015

Best Paper Award at NIPS – 2015 Workshop on Machine Learning for Spoken Language Understanding and Interactions

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TurkServer

TurkServer is a package for building interactive web-based user experiments on the Meteor (opens in new tab) web app framework. It uses Meteor’s powerful publish/subscribe data model and reactivity to make building real-time user interfaces less error-prone,…

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Applying Cross-Entropy Difference for Selecting Parallel Training Data from Publicly Available Sources for Conversational Machine Translation

Will Lewis, Christian Federmann,

Proceedings of IWSLT 2015 | December 2015

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Deng receives prestigious IEEE Technical Achievement Award

December 3, 2015

By George Thomas Jr., Writer, Microsoft Adding to an already lengthy list of accolades, Li Deng, partner research manager in Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash. lab, has received the 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award…

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A Comparative Study of Neural Network Models for Lexical Intent Classification

Suman Ravuri, Andreas Stolcke

Proc. IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop | December 2015

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