Jason D. Williams

81 papers A 9B 1C 4Misc 4Journal 31Unranked 31

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	J	`jnl`	Model-based real-time optimization in continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing. Comput. Chem. Eng. Hazem Damiri, Martin Steinberger, Lisa Kuchler, Atabak Azimi, Stefano Martinuzzi, Peter Sagmeister, Jason D. Williams, Stefan Koch, Markus Tranninger, Jakob Rehrl, Selma Celikovic, Stephan Sacher, C. Oliver Kappe, Martin Horn
2023	—	`conf`	DELPHI: Data for Evaluating LLMs' Performance in Handling Controversial Issues. EMNLP (Industry Track) David Q. Sun, Artem Abzaliev, Hadas Kotek, Christopher Klein, Zidi Xiu, Jason D. Williams
2023	J	`jnl`	DELPHI: Data for Evaluating LLMs' Performance in Handling Controversial Issues. CoRR David Q. Sun, Artem Abzaliev, Hadas Kotek, Zidi Xiu, Christopher Klein, Jason D. Williams
2023	—	`conf`	Feedback Effect in User Interaction with Intelligent Assistants: Delayed Engagement, Adaption and Drop-out. PAKDD (2) Zidi Xiu, Kai-Chen Cheng, David Q. Sun, Jiannan Lu, Hadas Kotek, Yuhan Zhang, Paul McCarthy, Christopher Klein, Stephen Pulman, Jason D. Williams
2023	J	`jnl`	Feedback Effect in User Interaction with Intelligent Assistants: Delayed Engagement, Adaption and Drop-out. CoRR Zidi Xiu, Kai-Chen Cheng, David Q. Sun, Jiannan Lu, Hadas Kotek, Yuhan Zhang, Paul McCarthy, Christopher Klein, Stephen Pulman, Jason D. Williams
2023	J	`jnl`	Intelligent Assistant Language Understanding On Device. CoRR Cecilia Aas, Hisham Abdelsalam, Irina Belousova, Shruti Bhargava, Jianpeng Cheng, Robert Daland, Joris Driesen, Federico Flego, Tristan Guigue, Anders Johannsen, Partha Lal, Jiarui Lu, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Nathan Perkins, Dhivya Piraviperumal, Stephen Pulman, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, David Q. Sun, John Torr, Marco Del Vecchio, Jay Wacker, Jason D. Williams, Hong Yu
2023	—	`ed.`	Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 5: Industry Track), ACL 2023, Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023. ACL (industry) Sunayana Sitaram, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Jason D. Williams
2021	A	`conf`	DEXTER: Deep Encoding of External Knowledge for Named Entity Recognition in Virtual Assistants. Interspeech Deepak Muralidharan, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Weicheng Zhang, Stephen Pulman, Lin Li, Megan Barnes, Jingjing Pan, Jason D. Williams, Alex Acero
2021	J	`jnl`	DEXTER: Deep Encoding of External Knowledge for Named Entity Recognition in Virtual Assistants. CoRR Deepak Muralidharan, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Weicheng Zhang, Stephen Pulman, Lin Li, Megan Barnes, Jingjing Pan, Jason D. Williams, Alex Acero
2021	Misc	`conf`	Generating Natural Questions from Images for Multimodal Assistants. ICASSP Alkesh Patel, Akanksha Bindal, Hadas Kotek, Christopher Klein, Jason D. Williams
2021	—	`conf`	Noise Robust Named Entity Understanding for Voice Assistants. NAACL-HLT (Industry Papers) Deepak Muralidharan, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Sida Gao, Xiao Yang, Justine T. Kao, Stephen Pulman, Atish Kothari, Ray Shen, Yinying Pan, Vivek Kaul, Mubarak Seyed Ibrahim, Gang Xiang, Nan Dun, Yidan Zhou, Andy O, Yuan Zhang, Pooja Chitkara, Xuan Wang, Alkesh Patel, Kushal Tayal, Roger Zheng, Peter Grasch, Jason D. Williams, Lin Li
2020	—	`conf`	Conversational Semantic Parsing for Dialog State Tracking. EMNLP (1) Jianpeng Cheng, Devang Agrawal, Héctor Martínez Alonso, Shruti Bhargava, Joris Driesen, Federico Flego, Dain Kaplan, Dimitri Kartsaklis, Lin Li, Dhivya Piraviperumal, Jason D. Williams, Hong Yu, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Anders Johannsen
2020	J	`jnl`	Conversational Semantic Parsing for Dialog State Tracking. CoRR Jianpeng Cheng, Devang Agrawal, Héctor Martínez Alonso, Shruti Bhargava, Joris Driesen, Federico Flego, Dain Kaplan, Dimitri Kartsaklis, Lin Li, Dhivya Piraviperumal, Jason D. Williams, Hong Yu, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Anders Johannsen
2020	J	`jnl`	Generating Natural Questions from Images for Multimodal Assistants. CoRR Alkesh Patel, Akanksha Bindal, Hadas Kotek, Christopher Klein, Jason D. Williams
2020	B	`conf`	Improving Human-Labeled Data through Dynamic Automatic Conflict Resolution. COLING David Q. Sun, Hadas Kotek, Christopher Klein, Mayank Gupta, William Li, Jason D. Williams
2020	J	`jnl`	Improving Human-Labeled Data through Dynamic Automatic Conflict Resolution. CoRR David Q. Sun, Hadas Kotek, Christopher Klein, Mayank Gupta, William Li, Jason D. Williams
2020	Misc	`conf`	Lattice-Based Improvements for Voice Triggering Using Graph Neural Networks. ICASSP Pranay Dighe, Saurabh Adya, Nuoyu Li, Srikanth Vishnubhotla, Devang Naik, Adithya Sagar, Ying Ma, Stephen Pulman, Jason D. Williams
2020	J	`jnl`	Lattice-based Improvements for Voice Triggering Using Graph Neural Networks. CoRR Pranay Dighe, Saurabh Adya, Nuoyu Li, Srikanth Vishnubhotla, Devang Naik, Adithya Sagar, Ying Ma, Stephen Pulman, Jason D. Williams
2020	J	`jnl`	Noise-robust Named Entity Understanding for Virtual Assistants. CoRR Deepak Muralidharan, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Sida Gao, Xiao Yang, Lin Li, Justine T. Kao, Stephen Pulman, Atish Kothari, Ray Shen, Yinying Pan, Vivek Kaul, Mubarak Seyed Ibrahim, Gang Xiang, Nan Dun, Yidan Zhou, Andy O, Yuan Zhang, Pooja Chitkara, Xuan Wang, Alkesh Patel, Kushal Tayal, Roger Zheng, Peter Grasch, Jason D. Williams
2019	A	`conf`	Active Learning for Domain Classification in a Commercial Spoken Personal Assistant. INTERSPEECH Xi C. Chen, Adithya Sagar, Justine T. Kao, Tony Y. Li, Christopher Klein, Stephen Pulman, Ashish Garg, Jason D. Williams
2019	J	`jnl`	Active Learning for Domain Classification in a Commercial Spoken Personal Assistant. CoRR Xi C. Chen, Adithya Sagar, Justine T. Kao, Tony Y. Li, Christopher Klein, Stephen Pulman, Ashish Garg, Jason D. Williams
2019	J	`jnl`	Leveraging User Engagement Signals For Entity Labeling in a Virtual Assistant. CoRR Deepak Muralidharan, Justine T. Kao, Xiao Yang, Lin Li, Lavanya Viswanathan, Mubarak Seyed Ibrahim, Kevin Luikens, Stephen Pulman, Ashish Garg, Atish Kothari, Jason D. Williams
2019	J	`jnl`	NAIL: A General Interactive Fiction Agent. CoRR Matthew J. Hausknecht, Ricky Loynd, Greg Yang, Adith Swaminathan, Jason D. Williams
2019	J	`jnl`	The Second Conversational Intelligence Challenge (ConvAI2). CoRR Emily Dinan, Varvara Logacheva, Valentin Malykh, Alexander H. Miller, Kurt Shuster, Jack Urbanek, Douwe Kiela, Arthur Szlam, Iulian Serban, Ryan Lowe, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Alan W. Black, Alexander I. Rudnicky, Jason D. Williams, Joelle Pineau, Mikhail Burtsev, Jason Weston
2018	J	`jnl`	Learning to Globally Edit Images with Textual Description. CoRR Hai Wang, Jason D. Williams, SingBing Kang
2017	—	`conf`	Demonstration of interactive teaching for end-to-end dialog control with hybrid code networks. SIGDIAL Conference Jason D. Williams, Lars Liden
2017	—	`conf`	Hybrid Code Networks: practical and efficient end-to-end dialog control with supervised and reinforcement learning. ACL (1) Jason D. Williams, Kavosh Asadi, Geoffrey Zweig
2017	J	`jnl`	Hybrid Code Networks: practical and efficient end-to-end dialog control with supervised and reinforcement learning. CoRR Jason D. Williams, Kavosh Asadi, Geoffrey Zweig
2017	J	`jnl`	Squares: Supporting Interactive Performance Analysis for Multiclass Classifiers. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. Donghao Ren, Saleema Amershi, Bongshin Lee, Jina Suh, Jason D. Williams
2016	J	`jnl`	End-to-end LSTM-based dialog control optimized with supervised and reinforcement learning. CoRR Jason D. Williams, Geoffrey Zweig
2016	J	`jnl`	Introduction to the Special Issue on Dialogue State Tracking. Dialogue Discourse Jason D. Williams, Antoine Raux, Matthew Henderson
2016	J	`jnl`	Sample-efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dialog Control. CoRR Kavosh Asadi, Jason D. Williams
2016	J	`jnl`	The Dialog State Tracking Challenge Series: A Review. Dialogue Discourse Jason D. Williams, Antoine Raux, Matthew Henderson
2016	—	`conf`	The Fourth Dialog State Tracking Challenge. IWSDS Seokhwan Kim, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Rafael E. Banchs, Jason D. Williams, Matthew Henderson
2016	—	`conf`	The fifth dialog state tracking challenge. SLT Seokhwan Kim, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Rafael E. Banchs, Jason D. Williams, Matthew Henderson, Koichiro Yoshino
2015	—	`conf`	Fast and easy language understanding for dialog systems with Microsoft Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS). SIGDIAL Conference Jason D. Williams, Eslam Kamal, Mokhtar Ashour, Hani Amr, Jessica Miller, Geoffrey Zweig
2015	—	`conf`	Rapidly Scaling Dialog Systems with Interactive Learning. IWSDS Jason D. Williams, Nobal B. Niraula, Pradeep Dasigi, Aparna Lakshmiratan, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Mouni Reddy, Geoffrey Zweig
2014	—	`conf`	Discovering Latent Structure in Task-Oriented Dialogues. ACL (1) Ke Zhai, Jason D. Williams
2014	—	`conf`	Temporal supervised learning for inferring a dialog policy from example conversations. SLT Lihong Li, He He, Jason D. Williams
2014	J	`jnl`	The Dialog State Tracking Challenge Series. AI Mag. Jason D. Williams, Matthew Henderson, Antoine Raux, Blaise Thomson, Alan W. Black, Deepak Ramachandran
2014	—	`conf`	The Second Dialog State Tracking Challenge. SIGDIAL Conference Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams
2014	—	`conf`	The third Dialog State Tracking Challenge. SLT Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams
2014	—	`conf`	Web-style ranking and SLU combination for dialog state tracking. SIGDIAL Conference Jason D. Williams
2013	—	`conf`	Continuously Predicting and Processing Barge-in During a Live Spoken Dialogue Task. SIGDIAL Conference Ethan Selfridge, Iker Arizmendi, Peter A. Heeman, Jason D. Williams
2013	—	`conf`	Discriminative state tracking for spoken dialog systems. ACL (1) Angeliki Metallinou, Dan Bohus, Jason D. Williams
2013	—	`conf`	Multi-domain learning and generalization in dialog state tracking. SIGDIAL Conference Jason D. Williams
2013	J	`jnl`	POMDP-Based Statistical Spoken Dialog Systems: A Review. Proc. IEEE Steve J. Young, Milica Gasic, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams
2013	Misc	`conf`	Recent advances in deep learning for speech research at Microsoft. ICASSP Li Deng, Jinyu Li, Jui-Ting Huang, Kaisheng Yao, Dong Yu, Frank Seide, Michael L. Seltzer, Geoffrey Zweig, Xiaodong He, Jason D. Williams, Yifan Gong, Alex Acero
2013	—	`conf`	The Dialog State Tracking Challenge. SIGDIAL Conference Jason D. Williams, Antoine Raux, Deepak Ramachandran, Alan W. Black
2012	—	`conf`	A belief tracking challenge task for spoken dialog systems. SDCTD@NAACL-HLT Jason D. Williams
2012	—	`conf`	A critical analysis of two statistical spoken dialog systems in public use. SLT Jason D. Williams
2012	J	`jnl`	Challenges and Opportunities for State Tracking in Statistical Spoken Dialog Systems: Results From Two Public Deployments. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process. Jason D. Williams
2012	—	`conf`	Integrating Incremental Speech Recognition and POMDP-Based Dialogue Systems. SIGDIAL Conference Ethan Selfridge, Iker Arizmendi, Peter A. Heeman, Jason D. Williams
2012	J	`jnl`	Introduction to the Issue on Advances in Spoken Dialogue Systems and Mobile Interface. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process. Jason D. Williams, Kai Yu, Brahim Chaib-draa, Oliver Lemon, Roberto Pieraccini, Olivier Pietquin, Pascal Poupart, Steve J. Young
2012	J	`jnl`	Trends in Speech and Language Processing [In the Spotlight]. IEEE Signal Process. Mag. Junlan Feng, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, John H. L. Hansen, Jason D. Williams
2011	—	`conf`	An Empirical Evaluation of a Statistical Dialog System in Public Use. SIGDIAL Conference Jason D. Williams
2011	C	`conf`	Crowd-sourcing for difficult transcription of speech. ASRU Jason D. Williams, I. Dan Melamed, Tirso Alonso, Barbara Hollister, Jay G. Wilpon
2011	—	`conf`	Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010: Comparison of Live and Control Test Results. SIGDIAL Conference Alan W. Black, Susanne Burger, Alistair Conkie, Helen Wright Hastie, Simon Keizer, Oliver Lemon, Nicolas Merigaud, Gabriel Parent, Gabriel Schubiner, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young, Maxine Eskénazi
2011	—	`conf`	Stability and Accuracy in Incremental Speech Recognition. SIGDIAL Conference Ethan Selfridge, Iker Arizmendi, Peter A. Heeman, Jason D. Williams
2010	—	`conf`	Demonstration of AT&T "Let's Go": A production-grade statistical spoken dialog system. SLT Jason D. Williams, Iker Arizmendi, Alistair Conkie
2010	Misc	`conf`	Incremental partition recombination for efficient tracking of multiple dialog states. ICASSP Jason D. Williams
2009	—	`conf`	Estimating Probability of Correctness for ASR N-Best Lists. SIGDIAL Conference Jason D. Williams, Suhrid Balakrishnan
2009	A	`conf`	Reinforcement learning for dialog management using least-squares Policy iteration and fast feature selection. INTERSPEECH Lihong Li, Jason D. Williams, Suhrid Balakrishnan
2009	C	`conf`	Spoken dialogue systems: Challenges, and opportunities for research. ASRU Jason D. Williams
2008	—	`conf`	Demonstration of a POMDP Voice Dialer. ACL (Demo Papers) Jason D. Williams
2008	J	`jnl`	Evaluating user simulations with the Cramér-von Mises divergence. Speech Commun. Jason D. Williams
2008	A	`conf`	Exploiting the ASR n-best by tracking multiple dialog state hypotheses. INTERSPEECH Jason D. Williams
2008	A	`conf`	The best of both worlds: unifying conventional dialog systems and POMDPs. INTERSPEECH Jason D. Williams
2008	—	`conf`	Using Automatically Transcribed Dialogs to Learn User Models in a Spoken Dialog System. ACL (2) Umar Syed, Jason D. Williams
2007	C	`conf`	A method for evaluating and comparing user simulations: The Cramér-von Mises divergence. ASRU Jason D. Williams
2007	J	`jnl`	Partially observable Markov decision processes for spoken dialog systems. Comput. Speech Lang. Jason D. Williams, Steve J. Young
2007	J	`jnl`	Scaling POMDPs for Spoken Dialog Management. IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process. Jason D. Williams, S. Young
2007	C	`conf`	Using particle filters to track dialogue state. ASRU Jason D. Williams
2006	J	`jnl`	Reports on the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06) Workshop Program. AI Mag. Wolfgang Achtner, Esma Aïmeur, Sarabjot Singh Anand, Douglas E. Appelt, Naveen Ashish, Tiffany Barnes, Joseph E. Beck, M. Bernardine Dias, Prashant Doshi, Chris Drummond, William Elazmeh, Ariel Felner, Dayne Freitag, Hector Geffner, Christopher W. Geib, Richard Goodwin, Robert C. Holte, Frank Hutter, Fair Isaac, Nathalie Japkowicz, Gal A. Kaminka, Sven Koenig, Michail G. Lagoudakis, David B. Leake, Lundy Lewis, Hugo Liu, Ted Metzler, Rada Mihalcea, Bamshad Mobasher, Pascal Poupart, David V. Pynadath, Thomas Roth-Berghofer, Wheeler Ruml, Stefan Schulz, Sven Schwarz, Stephanie Seneff, Amit P. Sheth, Ron Sun, Michael Thielscher, Afzal Upal, Jason D. Williams, Steve J. Young, Dmitry Zelenko
2005	—	`conf`	Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes with Continuous Observations for Dialogue Management. SIGDIAL Workshop Jason D. Williams, Pascal Poupart, Steve J. Young
2004	J	`jnl`	A Comparison of Dialog Strategies for Call Routing. Int. J. Speech Technol. Jason D. Williams, Silke M. Witt
2004	A	`conf`	A framework for dialogue data collection with a simulated ASR channel. INTERSPEECH Matthew N. Stuttle, Jason D. Williams, Steve J. Young
2004	A	`conf`	Characterizing task-oriented dialog using a simulated ASR chanel. INTERSPEECH Jason D. Williams, Steve J. Young
2003	A	`conf`	Preference, perception, and task completion of open, menu-based, and directed prompts for call routing: a case study. INTERSPEECH Jason D. Williams, Andrew T. Shaw, Lawrence Piano, Michael Abt
2003	A	`conf`	Two studies of open vs. directed dialog strategies in spoken dialog systems. INTERSPEECH Silke M. Witt, Jason D. Williams
2003	—	`conf`	Using Wizard-of-Oz simulations to bootstrap Reinforcement - Learning based dialog management systems. SIGDIAL Workshop Jason D. Williams, Steve J. Young