Michael Heck

69 papers A* 2A 2B 14C 3Misc 1Journal 32Unranked 15
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
A Confidence-based Acquisition Model for Self-supervised Active Learning and Label Correction.
Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics
Carel van Niekerk, Christian Geishauser, Michael Heck, Shutong Feng, Hsien-Chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Renato Vukovic, Milica Gasic
2025 J jnl
Emotionally Intelligent Task-oriented Dialogue Systems: Architecture, Representation, and Optimisation.
CoRR
Shutong Feng, Hsien-Chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Renato Vukovic, Milica Gasic
2025 A* conf
Learning from Noisy Labels via Self-Taught On-the-Fly Meta Loss Rescaling.
AAAI
Michael Heck, Christian Geishauser, Nurul Lubis, Carel van Niekerk, Shutong Feng, Hsien-Chin Lin, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Renato Vukovic, Milica Gasic
2025 J jnl
Less is More: Local Intrinsic Dimensions of Contextual Language Models.
CoRR
Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Julius von Rohrscheidt, Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck, Renato Vukovic, Shutong Feng, Hsien-Chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Bastian Rieck, Marcus Zibrowius, Milica Gasic
2025 J jnl
Prompt reinforcing for long-term planning of large language models.
CoRR
Hsien-Chin Lin, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Carel van Niekerk, Chia-Hao Shen, Michael Heck, Nurul Lubis, Renato Vukovic, Shutong Feng, Milica Gasic
2025 J jnl
Text-to-SQL Task-oriented Dialogue Ontology Construction.
CoRR
Renato Vukovic, Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Hsien-Chin Lin, Shutong Feng, Nurul Lubis, Milica Gasic
2024 B conf
Dialogue Ontology Relation Extraction via Constrained Chain-of-Thought Decoding.
SIGDIAL
Renato Vukovic, David Arps, Carel van Niekerk, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Hsien-Chin Lin, Michael Heck, Milica Gasic
2024 J jnl
Dialogue Ontology Relation Extraction via Constrained Chain-of-Thought Decoding.
CoRR
Renato Vukovic, David Arps, Carel van Niekerk, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Hsien-Chin Lin, Michael Heck, Milica Gasic
2024 B conf
Infusing Emotions into Task-oriented Dialogue Systems: Understanding, Management, and Generation.
SIGDIAL
Shutong Feng, Hsien-Chin Lin, Christian Geishauser, Nurul Lubis, Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Renato Vukovic, Milica Gasic
2024 J jnl
Infusing Emotions into Task-oriented Dialogue Systems: Understanding, Management, and Generation.
CoRR
Shutong Feng, Hsien-Chin Lin, Christian Geishauser, Nurul Lubis, Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Renato Vukovic, Milica Gasic
2024 J jnl
Learning With an Open Horizon in Ever-Changing Dialogue Circumstances.
IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process.
Christian Geishauser, Carel van Niekerk, Nurul Lubis, Hsien-Chin Lin, Michael Heck, Shutong Feng, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Renato Vukovic, Milica Gasic
2024 J jnl
Learning from Noisy Labels via Self-Taught On-the-Fly Meta Loss Rescaling.
CoRR
Michael Heck, Christian Geishauser, Nurul Lubis, Carel van Niekerk, Shutong Feng, Hsien-Chin Lin, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Renato Vukovic, Milica Gasic
2024 J jnl
Local Topology Measures of Contextual Language Model Latent Spaces With Applications to Dialogue Term Extraction.
CoRR
Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Michael Heck, Carel van Niekerk, Renato Vukovic, Hsien-Chin Lin, Shutong Feng, Marcus Zibrowius, Milica Gasic
2024 B conf
Local Topology Measures of Contextual Language Model Latent Spaces with Applications to Dialogue Term Extraction.
SIGDIAL
Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Michael Heck, Carel van Niekerk, Renato Vukovic, Hsien-Chin Lin, Shutong Feng, Marcus Zibrowius, Milica Gasic
2023 J jnl
CAMELL: Confidence-based Acquisition Model for Efficient Self-supervised Active Learning with Label Validation.
CoRR
Carel van Niekerk, Christian Geishauser, Michael Heck, Shutong Feng, Hsien-Chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Renato Vukovic, Milica Gasic
2023 — conf
ChatGPT for Zero-shot Dialogue State Tracking: A Solution or an Opportunity?
ACL (2)
Michael Heck, Nurul Lubis, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Renato Vukovic, Shutong Feng, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-Chin Lin, Carel van Niekerk, Milica Gasic
2023 J jnl
ChatGPT for Zero-shot Dialogue State Tracking: A Solution or an Opportunity?
CoRR
Michael Heck, Nurul Lubis, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Renato Vukovic, Shutong Feng, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-Chin Lin, Carel van Niekerk, Milica Gasic
2023 — conf
ConvLab-3: A Flexible Dialogue System Toolkit Based on a Unified Data Format.
EMNLP (Demos)
Qi Zhu, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-Chin Lin, Carel van Niekerk, Baolin Peng, Zheng Zhang, Shutong Feng, Michael Heck, Nurul Lubis, Dazhen Wan, Xiaochen Zhu, Jianfeng Gao, Milica Gasic, Minlie Huang
2023 A* conf
EmoUS: Simulating User Emotions in Task-Oriented Dialogues.
SIGIR
Hsien-Chin Lin, Shutong Feng, Christian Geishauser, Nurul Lubis, Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Renato Vukovic, Milica Gasic
2023 J jnl
EmoUS: Simulating User Emotions in Task-Oriented Dialogues.
CoRR
Hsien-Chin Lin, Shutong Feng, Christian Geishauser, Nurul Lubis, Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Renato Vukovic, Milica Gasic
2023 B conf
From Chatter to Matter: Addressing Critical Steps of Emotion Recognition Learning in Task-oriented Dialogue.
SIGDIAL
Shutong Feng, Nurul Lubis, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Christian Geishauser, Michael Heck, Hsien-Chin Lin, Carel van Niekerk, Renato Vukovic, Milica Gasic
2023 J jnl
From Chatter to Matter: Addressing Critical Steps of Emotion Recognition Learning in Task-oriented Dialogue.
CoRR
Shutong Feng, Nurul Lubis, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Christian Geishauser, Michael Heck, Hsien-Chin Lin, Carel van Niekerk, Renato Vukovic, Milica Gasic
2022 J jnl
ConvLab-3: A Flexible Dialogue System Toolkit Based on a Unified Data Format.
CoRR
Qi Zhu, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-Chin Lin, Carel van Niekerk, Baolin Peng, Zheng Zhang, Michael Heck, Nurul Lubis, Dazhen Wan, Xiaochen Zhu, Jianfeng Gao, Milica Gasic, Minlie Huang
2022 B conf
Dialogue Evaluation with Offline Reinforcement Learning.
SIGDIAL
Nurul Lubis, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-Chin Lin, Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck, Shutong Feng, Milica Gasic
2022 J jnl
Dialogue Evaluation with Offline Reinforcement Learning.
CoRR
Nurul Lubis, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-Chin Lin, Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck, Shutong Feng, Milica Gasic
2022 B conf
Dialogue Term Extraction using Transfer Learning and Topological Data Analysis.
SIGDIAL
Renato Vukovic, Michael Heck, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Carel van Niekerk, Marcus Zibrowius, Milica Gasic
2022 J jnl
Dialogue Term Extraction using Transfer Learning and Topological Data Analysis.
CoRR
Renato Vukovic, Michael Heck, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Carel van Niekerk, Marcus Zibrowius, Milica Gasic
2022 J jnl
Dynamic Dialogue Policy Transformer for Continual Reinforcement Learning.
CoRR
Christian Geishauser, Carel van Niekerk, Nurul Lubis, Michael Heck, Hsien-Chin Lin, Shutong Feng, Milica Gasic
2022 B conf
Dynamic Dialogue Policy for Continual Reinforcement Learning.
COLING
Christian Geishauser, Carel van Niekerk, Hsien-Chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Michael Heck, Shutong Feng, Milica Gasic
2022 B conf
EmoWOZ: A Large-Scale Corpus and Labelling Scheme for Emotion Recognition in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems.
LREC
Shutong Feng, Nurul Lubis, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-Chin Lin, Michael Heck, Carel van Niekerk, Milica Gasic
2022 B conf
GenTUS: Simulating User Behaviour and Language in Task-oriented Dialogues with Generative Transformers.
SIGDIAL
Hsien-Chin Lin, Christian Geishauser, Shutong Feng, Nurul Lubis, Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck, Milica Gasic
2022 J jnl
GenTUS: Simulating User Behaviour and Language in Task-oriented Dialogues with Generative Transformers.
CoRR
Hsien-Chin Lin, Christian Geishauser, Shutong Feng, Nurul Lubis, Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck, Milica Gasic
2022 J jnl
Robust Dialogue State Tracking with Weak Supervision and Sparse Data.
CoRR
Michael Heck, Nurul Lubis, Carel van Niekerk, Shutong Feng, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-Chin Lin, Milica Gasic
2022 J jnl
Robust Dialogue State Tracking with Weak Supervision and Sparse Data.
Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics
Michael Heck, Nurul Lubis, Carel van Niekerk, Shutong Feng, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-Chin Lin, Milica Gasic
2021 B conf
Domain-independent User Simulation with Transformers for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems.
SIGDIAL
Hsien-Chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Songbo Hu, Carel van Niekerk, Christian Geishauser, Michael Heck, Shutong Feng, Milica Gasic
2021 J jnl
Domain-independent User Simulation with Transformers for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems.
CoRR
Hsien-Chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Songbo Hu, Carel van Niekerk, Christian Geishauser, Michael Heck, Shutong Feng, Milica Gasic
2021 J jnl
EmoWOZ: A Large-Scale Corpus and Labelling Scheme for Emotion in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems.
CoRR
Shutong Feng, Nurul Lubis, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-Chin Lin, Michael Heck, Carel van Niekerk, Milica Gasic
2021 — conf
Uncertainty Measures in Neural Belief Tracking and the Effects on Dialogue Policy Performance.
EMNLP (1)
Carel van Niekerk, Andrey Malinin, Christian Geishauser, Michael Heck, Hsien-Chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Shutong Feng, Milica Gasic
2021 J jnl
Uncertainty Measures in Neural Belief Tracking and the Effects on Dialogue Policy Performance.
CoRR
Carel van Niekerk, Andrey Malinin, Christian Geishauser, Michael Heck, Hsien-Chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Shutong Feng, Milica Gasic
2021 J jnl
What Does The User Want? Information Gain for Hierarchical Dialogue Policy Optimisation.
CoRR
Christian Geishauser, Songbo Hu, Hsien-Chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Michael Heck, Shutong Feng, Carel van Niekerk, Milica Gasic
2021 C conf
What does the User Want? Information Gain for Hierarchical Dialogue Policy Optimisation.
ASRU
Christian Geishauser, Songbo Hu, Hsien-Chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Michael Heck, Shutong Feng, Carel van Niekerk, Milica Gasic
2020 J jnl
Adaptable Conversational Machines.
AI Mag.
Nurul Lubis, Michael Heck, Carel van Niekerk, Milica Gasic
2020 — conf
Knowing What You Know: Calibrating Dialogue Belief State Distributions via Ensembles.
EMNLP (Findings)
Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-Chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Marco Moresi, Milica Gasic
2020 J jnl
Knowing What You Know: Calibrating Dialogue Belief State Distributions via Ensembles.
CoRR
Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-Chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Marco Moresi, Milica Gasic
2020 B conf
LAVA: Latent Action Spaces via Variational Auto-encoding for Dialogue Policy Optimization.
COLING
Nurul Lubis, Christian Geishauser, Michael Heck, Hsien-Chin Lin, Marco Moresi, Carel van Niekerk, Milica Gasic
2020 J jnl
LAVA: Latent Action Spaces via Variational Auto-encoding for Dialogue Policy Optimization.
CoRR
Nurul Lubis, Christian Geishauser, Michael Heck, Hsien-Chin Lin, Marco Moresi, Carel van Niekerk, Milica Gasic
2020 B conf
Out-of-Task Training for Dialog State Tracking Models.
COLING
Michael Heck, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-Chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Marco Moresi, Carel van Niekerk, Milica Gasic
2020 J jnl
Out-of-Task Training for Dialog State Tracking Models.
CoRR
Michael Heck, Carel van Niekerk, Nurul Lubis, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-Chin Lin, Marco Moresi, Milica Gasic
2020 B conf
TripPy: A Triple Copy Strategy for Value Independent Neural Dialog State Tracking.
SIGdial
Michael Heck, Carel van Niekerk, Nurul Lubis, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-Chin Lin, Marco Moresi, Milica Gasic
2020 J jnl
TripPy: A Triple Copy Strategy for Value Independent Neural Dialog State Tracking.
CoRR
Michael Heck, Carel van Niekerk, Nurul Lubis, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-Chin Lin, Marco Moresi, Milica Gasic
2018 J jnl
Dirichlet Process Mixture of Mixtures Model for Unsupervised Subword Modeling.
IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process.
Michael Heck, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura
2018 J jnl
Learning Supervised Feature Transformations on Zero Resources for Improved Acoustic Unit Discovery.
IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst.
Michael Heck, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura
2017 A conf
Ensembles of Multi-Scale VGG Acoustic Models.
INTERSPEECH
Michael Heck, Masayuki Suzuki, Takashi Fukuda, Gakuto Kurata, Satoshi Nakamura
2017 C conf
Feature optimized DPGMM clustering for unsupervised subword modeling: A contribution to zerospeech 2017.
ASRU
Michael Heck, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura
2017 B conf
Processing negative emotions through social communication: Multimodal database construction and analysis.
ACII
Nurul Lubis, Michael Heck, Sakriani Sakti, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura
2016 — conf
Iterative training of a DPGMM-HMM acoustic unit recognizer in a zero resource scenario.
SLT
Michael Heck, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura
2016 A conf
Supervised Learning of Acoustic Models in a Zero Resource Setting to Improve DPGMM Clustering.
INTERSPEECH
Michael Heck, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura
2016 — conf
Unsupervised Linear Discriminant Analysis for Supporting DPGMM Clustering in the Zero Resource Scenario.
SLTU
Michael Heck, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura
2015 C conf
The NAIST ASR system for the 2015 Multi-Genre Broadcast challenge: On combination of deep learning systems using a rank-score function.
ASRU
Quoc Truong Do, Michael Heck, Sakriani Sakti, Graham Neubig, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura
2015 — conf
The NAIST English speech recognition system for IWSLT 2015.
IWSLT (Evaluation Campaign)
Michael Heck, Quoc Truong Do, Sakriani Sakti, Graham Neubig, Satoshi Nakamura
2014 — conf
The 2014 KIT IWSLT speech-to-text systems for English, German and Italian.
IWSLT (Evaluation Campaign)
Kevin Kilgour, Michael Heck, Markus Müller, Matthias Sperber, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel
2013 — conf
Incremental unsupervised training for university lecture recognition.
IWSLT
Michael Heck, Sebastian Stüker, Sakriani Sakti, Alex Waibel, Satoshi Nakamura
2013 — conf
Segmentation of Telephone Speech Based on Speech and Non-speech Models.
SPECOM
Michael Heck, Christian Mohr, Sebastian Stüker, Markus Müller, Kevin Kilgour, Jonas Gehring, Quoc Bao Nguyen, Van Huy Nguyen, Alex Waibel
2013 — conf
The 2013 KIT IWSLT speech-to-text systems for German and English.
IWSLT (Evaluation Campaign)
Kevin Kilgour, Christian Mohr, Michael Heck, Quoc Bao Nguyen, Van Huy Nguyen, Evgeniy Shin, Igor Tseyzer, Jonas Gehring, Markus Müller, Matthias Sperber, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel
2012 Misc conf
A hybrid phonotactic language identification system with an SVM back-end for simultaneous lecture translation.
ICASSP
Michael Heck, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel
2012 — conf
The 2012 KIT and KIT-NAIST English ASR systems for the IWSLT evaluation.
IWSLT
Christian Saam, Christian Mohr, Kevin Kilgour, Michael Heck, Matthias Sperber, Keigo Kubo, Sebastian Stüker, Sakriani Sakti, Graham Neubig, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura, Alex Waibel
2012 — conf
The KIT-NAIST (contrastive) English ASR system for IWSLT 2012.
IWSLT
Michael Heck, Keigo Kubo, Matthias Sperber, Sakriani Sakti, Sebastian Stüker, Christian Saam, Kevin Kilgour, Christian Mohr, Graham Neubig, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura, Alex Waibel
2010 — conf
Spoken news queries over the world wide web.
SSCS@MM
Sebastian Stüker, Michael Heck, Katja Renner, Alex Waibel
2010 — conf
The KIT translation system for IWSLT 2010.
IWSLT
Jan Niehues, Mohammed Mediani, Teresa Herrmann, Michael Heck, Christian Herff, Alex Waibel