Eric Nichols

75 papers A* 7A 6B 9C 1Misc 1Journal 18Unranked 33
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 — conf
Holistic LLM-Based Expressive Behavior Generation for Robots.
HRI Companion
Eric Nichols, Miguel Mejia Tobar, Randy Gomez
2026 J jnl
Transferring Policy of Offline Reinforcement Learning From Hybrid Dataset to Real World via Progressive Neural Network.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Pengyu Zhao, Zheng Fang, Tongxu Ai, Eric Nichols, Randy Gomez, Bo He, Guangliang Li
2025 B conf
I Love Lemurs! What's Your Favorite Animal? : Generating Personality-Driven Conversations for the Tabletop Robot Haru.
RO-MAN
Lu Cao, Tung Nguyen, Paul Reisert, Eric Nichols, Chikara Maeda, Darryl Lam, Sarah Rose Siskind, Randy Gomez
2025 — conf
Improving Social Robot's Emotional Intelligence with Physiological Feedback.
ROBIO
Yang Chen, Mingyang Hu, Liu Tian, Eric Nichols, Randy Gomez, Guangliang Li
2025 A conf
Social Robot Haru Assisting Dynamic Group Discussion with Autonomous Eye Gaze Behavior.
IROS
Fei Tang, Mingyang Hu, Yu Fang, Hongqi Yu, Eric Nichols, Randy Gomez, Guangliang Li
2025 — conf
Social Robot Haru Imitating Human Gaze for Attention and Turn-Taking Coordination in Multi-party Conversation.
ICSR+AI (1)
Liu Tian, Yang Chen, Mingyang Hu, Eric Nichols, Randy Gomez, Guangliang Li
2024 — conf
A Framework for Mapping High-Dimensional Perceptual Features into the Low-Dimensional Salient Feature Space of a Social Robot.
ICSR + AI (2)
Randy Gomez, Eric Nichols, Yu Fang, Serge Thill, Álvaro Páez, Luis Merino
2024 — conf
Ain't Misbehavin' - Using LLMs to Generate Expressive Robot Behavior in Conversations with the Tabletop Robot Haru.
HRI (Companion)
Zining Wang, Paul Reisert, Eric Nichols, Randy Gomez
2024 J jnl
Ain't Misbehavin' - Using LLMs to Generate Expressive Robot Behavior in Conversations with the Tabletop Robot Haru.
CoRR
Zining Wang, Paul Reisert, Eric Nichols, Randy Gomez
2024 A* conf
Assisting Group Discussions Using Desktop Robot Haru.
ICRA
Fei Tang, Chuanxiong Zheng, Hongqi Yu, Lei Zhang, Eric Nichols, Randy Gomez, Guangliang Li
2024 A conf
Autonomous Storytelling for Social Robot with Human-Centered Reinforcement Learning.
IROS
Lei Zhang, Chuanxiong Zheng, Hui Wang, Randy Gomez, Eric Nichols, Guangliang Li
2024 A* conf
Design of Embodied Mediator Haru for Remote Cross Cultural Communication.
ICRA
Randy Gomez, Deborah Szapiro, Sara Cooper, Nabil Bougria, Guillermo Pérez, Eric Nichols, Javier Giménez-Figueroa, Jose M. Perez-Moleron, Matthew Peavy, Daniel Serrano, Luis Merino
2024 — conf
Developing Autonomous Robot-Mediated Behavior Coaching Sessions with Haru.
HRI (Companion)
Matous Jelínek, Eric Nichols, Randy Gomez
2024 J jnl
Developing Autonomous Robot-Mediated Behavior Coaching Sessions with Haru.
CoRR
Matous Jelínek, Eric Nichols, Randy Gomez
2024 J jnl
Domain Adaptation in Intent Classification Systems: A Review.
CoRR
Jesse Atuhurra, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Taro Watanabe, Eric Nichols
2024 — conf
Improving Perceived Emotional Intelligence of Embodied Chatbot Haru via Multi-Modal Interaction.
ROBIO
Hongqi Yu, Fei Tang, Lei Zhang, Randy Gomez, Eric Nichols, Guangliang Li
2024 A* conf
Shaping Social Robot to Play Games with Human Demonstrations and Evaluative Feedback.
ICRA
Chuanxiong Zheng, Lei Zhang, Hui Wang, Randy Gomez, Eric Nichols, Guangliang Li
2024 — conf
Three Principles for Social Robots as Embodied Mediators.
ICSR + AI (3)
Randy Gomez, Eleanor Sandry, Selma Sabanovic, Deborah Szapiro, Vicky Charisi, Daniel Serrano, Thomas H. Weisswange, Matthew P. Aylett, Guangliang Li, Pourang Irani, Eric Nichols, Luis Merino
2024 J jnl
Transferring Meta-Policy From Simulation to Reality via Progressive Neural Network.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Wei Meng, Hao Ju, Tongxu Ai, Randy Gomez, Eric Nichols, Guangliang Li
2024 J jnl
Would you be impressed: applying principles of magic to chatbot conversations.
Frontiers Robotics AI
Sarah Rose Siskind, Eric Nichols, Randy Gomez
2023 — conf
A Pilot Evaluation of a Conversational Listener for Conversational User Interfaces.
CUI
Matthew Peter Aylett, Andrea Carmantini, Christopher J. Pidcock, Eric Nichols, Randy Gomez
2023 J jnl
A Study on Social Robot Behavior in Group Conversation.
CoRR
Tung Nguyen, Eric Nichols, Randy Gomez
2023 — conf
Emotional Understanding and Behavior Learning for Haru via Social Reinforcement Learning.
ICSR (2)
Lei Zhang, Chuanxiong Zheng, Hui Wang, Eric Nichols, Randy Gomez, Guangliang Li
2023 — conf
Haru He's Here to Help!: A Demonstration of Implementing Comedic Rapid Turn-taking for a Social Robot.
HRI (Companion)
Matthew P. Aylett, Andrea Carmantini, Christopher J. Pidcock, Eric Nichols, Randy Gomez, Sarah Rose Siskind
2023 A conf
How to Make a Robot Grumpy Teaching Social Robots to Stay in Character with Mood Steering.
IROS
Eric Nichols, Deborah Szapiro, Yurii Vasylkiv, Randy Gomez
2022 A* conf
Developing The Bottom-up Attentional System of A Social Robot.
ICRA
Randy Gomez, Álvaro Páez, Yu Fang, Serge Thill, Luis Merino, Eric Nichols, Keisuke Nakamura, Heike Brock
2022 A conf
Hey Haru, Let's Be Friends! Using the Tiers of Friendship to Build Rapport through Small Talk with the Tabletop Robot Haru.
IROS
Eric Nichols, Sarah Rose Siskind, Levko Ivanchuk, Guillermo Pérez, Waki Kamino, Selma Sabanovic, Randy Gomez
2022 B conf
I Can't Believe That Happened! : Exploring Expressivity in Collaborative Storytelling with the Tabletop Robot Haru.
RO-MAN
Eric Nichols, Deborah Szapiro, Yurii Vasylkiv, Randy Gomez
2022 J jnl
Lexical Acquisition during Dialogues through Implicit Confirmation.
Dialogue Discourse
Kazunori Komatani, Kohei Ono, Ryu Takeda, Eric Nichols, Mikio Nakano
2021 A conf
Collaborative Storytelling with Social Robots.
IROS
Eric Nichols, Leo Gao, Yurii Vasylkiv, Randy Gomez
2021 J jnl
Design and Analysis of a Collaborative Story Generation Game for Social Robots.
Frontiers Comput. Sci.
Eric Nichols, Leo Gao, Yurii Vasylkiv, Randy Gomez
2021 B conf
Developing a Robot's Empathetic Reactive Response Inspired by a Bottom-Up Attention Model.
ICSR
Randy Gomez, Yu Fang, Serge Thill, Ricardo Ragel, Heike Brock, Keisuke Nakamura, Yurii Vasylkiv, Eric Nichols, Luis Merino
2021 B conf
Exploring Affective Storytelling with an Embodied Agent.
RO-MAN
Randy Gomez, Deborah Szapiro, Kerl Galindo, Luis Merino, Heike Brock, Keisuke Nakamura, Yu Fang, Eric Nichols
2021 B conf
Iterative Design of an Emotive Voice for the Tabletop Robot Haru.
ICSR
Eric Nichols, Sarah Rose Siskind, Waki Kamino, Selma Sabanovic, Randy Gomez
2020 B conf
An Exploration of Simple Reactive Responses for Conveying Aliveness Using the Haru Robot.
ICSR
Yurii Vasylkiv, Heike Brock, Yu Fang, Eric Nichols, Keisuke Nakamura, Serge Thill, Randy Gomez
2020 C conf
Collaborative Storytelling with Large-scale Neural Language Models.
MIG
Eric Nichols, Leo Gao, Randy Gomez
2020 J jnl
Collaborative Storytelling with Large-scale Neural Language Models.
CoRR
Eric Nichols, Leo Gao, Randy Gomez
2020 Misc conf
Multi-Label Sound Event Retrieval Using A Deep Learning-Based Siamese Structure With A Pairwise Presence Matrix.
ICASSP
Jianyu Fan, Eric Nichols, Daniel Tompkins, Ana Elisa Méndez Méndez, Benjamin Elizalde, Philippe Pasquier
2020 J jnl
Multi-label Sound Event Retrieval Using a Deep Learning-based Siamese Structure with a Pairwise Presence Matrix.
CoRR
Jianyu Fan, Eric Nichols, Daniel Tompkins, Ana Elisa Méndez Méndez, Benjamin Elizalde, Philippe Pasquier
2019 — conf
Hierarchical Sound Event Classification.
DCASE
Eric Nichols, Daniel Tompkins, Jianyu Fan
2017 A* conf
An Attention-based Regression Model for Grounding Textual Phrases in Images.
IJCAI
Ko Endo, Masaki Aono, Eric Nichols, Kotaro Funakoshi
2017 — conf
Lexical Acquisition through Implicit Confirmations over Multiple Dialogues.
SIGDIAL Conference
Kohei Ono, Ryu Takeda, Eric Nichols, Mikio Nakano, Kazunori Komatani
2017 — conf
Results of the WNUT2017 Shared Task on Novel and Emerging Entity Recognition.
NUT@EMNLP
Leon Derczynski, Eric Nichols, Marieke van Erp, Nut Limsopatham
2016 — conf
DeepNNNER: Applying BLSTM-CNNs and Extended Lexicons to Named Entity Recognition in Tweets.
NUT@COLING
Fabrice Dugas, Eric Nichols
2016 J jnl
Named Entity Recognition with Bidirectional LSTM-CNNs.
Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics
Jason P. C. Chiu, Eric Nichols
2015 J jnl
Named Entity Recognition with Bidirectional LSTM-CNNs.
CoRR
Jason P. C. Chiu, Eric Nichols
2015 — conf
SpRL-CWW: Spatial Relation Classification with Independent Multi-class Models.
SemEval@NAACL-HLT
Eric Nichols, Fadi Botros
2013 J jnl
Biologically Inspired SNN for Robot Control.
IEEE Trans. Cybern.
Eric Nichols, Liam McDaid, Nazmul H. Siddique
2012 B conf
A Latent Discriminative Model for Compositional Entailment Relation Recognition using Natural Logic.
COLING
Yotaro Watanabe, Junta Mizuno, Eric Nichols, Naoaki Okazaki, Kentaro Inui
2012 A* conf
Automatically Discovering Talented Musicians with Acoustic Analysis of YouTube Videos.
ICDM
Eric Nichols, Charles DuHadway, Hrishikesh B. Aradhye, Richard F. Lyon
2012 J jnl
Leveraging Diverse Lexical Resources for Textual Entailment Recognition.
ACM Trans. Asian Lang. Inf. Process.
Yotaro Watanabe, Junta Mizuno, Eric Nichols, Katsuma Narisawa, Keita Nabeshima, Naoaki Okazaki, Kentaro Inui
2012 — conf
Organizing Information on the Web through Agreement-Conflict Relation Classification.
AIRS
Junta Mizuno, Eric Nichols, Yotaro Watanabe, Kentaro Inui
2011 J jnl
Deep open-source machine translation.
Mach. Transl.
Francis Bond, Stephan Oepen, Eric Nichols, Dan Flickinger, Erik Velldal, Petter Haugereid
2011 — conf
Recognizing Confinement in Web Texts.
IWCS
Megumi Ohki, Eric Nichols, Suguru Matsuyoshi, Koji Murakami, Junta Mizuno, Shouko Masuda, Kentaro Inui, Yuji Matsumoto
2011 — conf
TU Group at NTCIR9-RITE: Leveraging Diverse Lexical Resources for Recognizing Textual Entailment.
NTCIR
Yotaro Watanabe, Junta Mizuno, Eric Nichols, Katsuma Narisawa, Keita Nabeshima, Kentaro Inui
2010 J jnl
Case Study on a Self-Organizing Spiking Neural Network for Robot Navigation.
Int. J. Neural Syst.
Eric Nichols, L. J. McDaid, Mia Nazmul Haque Siddique
2010 J jnl
Paraphrasing Training Data for Statistical Machine Translation.
Inf. Media Technol.
Eric Nichols, Francis Bond, D. Scott Appling, Yuji Matsumoto
2010 — conf
Statement map: reducing web information credibility noise through opinion classification.
AND
Koji Murakami, Eric Nichols, Junta Mizuno, Yotaro Watanabe, Shouko Masuda, Hayato Goto, Megumi Ohki, Chitose Sao, Suguru Matsuyoshi, Kentaro Inui, Yuji Matsumoto
2009 — conf
Annotating Semantic Relations Combining Facts and Opinions.
Linguistic Annotation Workshop
Koji Murakami, Shouko Masuda, Suguru Matsuyoshi, Eric Nichols, Kentaro Inui, Yuji Matsumoto
2009 A conf
Data-driven exploration of musical chord sequences.
IUI
Eric Nichols, Dan Morris, Sumit Basu
2009 — conf
Lyric Extraction and Recognition on Digital Images of Early Music Sources.
ISMIR
Eric Nichols, Donald Byrd
2009 — conf
Lyric-Based Rhythm Suggestion.
ICMC
Eric Nichols
2009 — conf
Relationships Between Lyrics and Melody in Popular Music.
ISMIR
Eric Nichols, Dan Morris, Sumit Basu, Christopher Raphael
2009 — conf
Statement map: assisting information crediblity analysis by visualizing arguments.
WICOW
Koji Murakami, Eric Nichols, Suguru Matsuyoshi, Asuka Sumida, Shouko Masuda, Kentaro Inui, Yuji Matsumoto
2008 — conf
Automated Scientific Discovery and Hofstadter's Fluid Concepts Model.
AAAI Fall Symposium: Automated Scientific Discovery
Alexandre Linhares, Eric Nichols
2008 — conf
Improving statistical machine translation by paraphrasing the training data.
IWSLT
Francis Bond, Eric Nichols, Darren Scott Appling, Michael Paul
2007 — conf
A Simple Algorithm for Automatic Generation of Polyphonic Piano Fingerings.
ISMIR
Alia Al Kasimi, Eric Nichols, Christopher Raphael
2007 — conf
Automatic Transcription of Music Audio Through Continuous Parameter Tracking.
ISMIR
Eric Nichols, Christopher Raphael
2007 — conf
Combining resources for open source machine translation.
TMI
Eric Nichols, Francis Bond, Darren Scott Appling, Yuji Matsumoto
2006 — conf
Globally Optimal Audio Partitioning.
ISMIR
Eric Nichols, Christofer Raphael
2006 — conf
Multilingual Ontology Acquisition from Multiple MRDs.
OntologyLearning@COLING/ACL
Eric Nichols, Francis Bond, Takaaki Tanaka, Sanae Fujita, Dan Flickinger
2005 — conf
Extracting Representative Arguments from Dictionaries for Resolving Zero Pronouns.
MTSummit
Shigeko Nariyama, Eric Nichols, Francis Bond, Takaaki Tanaka, Hiromi Nakaiwa
2005 A* conf
Robust Ontology Acquisition from Machine-Readable Dictionaries.
IJCAI
Eric Nichols, Francis Bond, Dan Flickinger
2004 B conf
Acquiring an Ontology for a Fundamental Vocabulary.
COLING
Francis Bond, Eric Nichols, Sanae Fujita, Takaaki Tanaka
2004 B conf
The Hinoki Treebank A Treebank for Text Understanding.
IJCNLP
Francis Bond, Sanae Fujita, Chikara Hashimoto, Kaname Kasahara, Shigeko Nariyama, Eric Nichols, Akira Ohtani, Takaaki Tanaka, Shigeaki Amano