Publications by Year

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Index



Journal Articles and Book Chapters


Proceedings
Patents
  • "System and method of handling problematic input during context-sensitive help for multi-modal” US 7,177, 816B2, February 13,

  • "System and method of context-sensitive help for multi-modal dialog systems. “ US 7,177,815B2. February 13, 2007.

Ph.D Thesis 2000
Modelling prosodic and dialogue information for automatic speech recognition. University of Edinburgh. [ps], [pdf].


Conference Papers
2023
  • **Best Paper Award** Chiyah-Garcia, F.J., Suglia, A., Eshghi, A. and Hastie, H. (2023). What are you referring to?’ Evaluating the ability of multi-modal dialogue models to process clarificational exchanges. In Proceedings of SIGDIAL [arXiv], [code].

  • **2023 KROS Interdisciplinary Research Conference Award in Social Human-Robot Interaction** Lim, M., Robb, D.A., Wilson, B.W., and Hastie, H. (2023). Feeding the Coffee Habit: A Longitudinal Study of a Robo-Barista. In Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) [pdf].

  • Moujahid, M., Robb, D. A., Dondrup, C., and Hastie, H. (2023). Come closer: The Effects of Robot Personality on Human Proxemics Behaviours. In Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) [pdf]. **Honourable Mention*

  • Nesset, B., Romeo, M., Rajendran, G., and Hastie, H. (2023). Robot Broken Promise? Repair strategies for mit igating loss of trust for repeated failures. In Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) [link].

  • McKenna, P.E., Romeo, M., Pimentel, J., Diab, M., Moujahid, M., Hastie, H. (2023). Theory of Mind and Trust in Human-Robot Navigation. In Proceedings of the 1st Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Symposium. ACM, Edinburgh [pdf].

  • Gavriilidis, K., Munafo, A., Pang, W. and Hastie, H. (2023). A Surrogate Model Framework for Explainable Autonomous Behaviour. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Workshop on Explainable Robotics [pdf].

  • Robb, D.A., Liu, X., and Hastie, H. (2023). Explanation Styles for Trustworthy Autonomous Systems. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2023) [pdf].

2022
  • **KROS Interdisciplinary Research Conference Award in Social Human-Robot Interaction** Lim, M., Aguas Lopes, J.D., Robb, D.A., Wilson, B.W., Moujahid, M., and Hastie H. (2022). We are all Individuals: The role of Robot Personality and Human Traits in Trustworthy Interaction. In Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) [pdf].

  • Romeo, M., Mckenna, P.E., Robb, D.A., Rajendran, G., Nesset, B., Cangelosi A. and Hastie H. (2022). Exploring Theory of Mind for Human-Robot Collaboration. In Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) [pdf].**Best Paper Award Finalist**

  • Gavriilidis, K., Munafo, A., Hastie, H., Cesar, C., DeFilippo C.M., and Benjamin, M.R. (2022) Towards Explaining Autonomy with Verbalised Decision Tree States. In Proceedings of 2022 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Symposium (AUV) [link].

  • Moujahid, M., Hastie, H., and Lemon, O. (2022). Multi-party interaction with a Robot Receptionist. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction [link].

  • Moujahid, M., Wilson, B. W., Hastie, H., and Lemon, O. (2022). Demonstration of a Robot Receptionist with Multi-party Situated Interaction. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction [extended abstract] [video].

  • Nesset, B., Rajendran, G., Lopes, J.A. and Hastie, H. (2022). Sensitivity of Trust Scales in the Face of Errors. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction [link].

  • Lim, M., Lopes, J.A., Robb, D.A., Wilson, B. W., Moujahid, M. and Hastie, H. (2022). Demonstration of a Robo-Barista for In the Wild Interaction. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction [link]. [video].

  • Chiyah-Garcia, F., Suglia, A., Lopes, J., Eshghi, A., and Hastie, H. (2022). Exploring Multi-Modal Representations for Ambiguity Detection & Coreference Resolution in the SIMMC 2.0 Challenge. In Proceedings of AAAI 2022 DSTC10 Workshop [arXiv].

2021
  • Lopes, J., and Hastie, H. (2021). The Language of Persuasion, Negotiation and Trust. In Proceedings of SemDial [link].

  • Gavriilidis, K., Carreno, Y., Munafo, A., Pang, W., Petrick, RP, and Hastie, H. (2021). Plan Verbalisation for Robots Acting in Dynamic Environments. In KEPS '21: Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS'21) [pdf].

  • Katsakioris, M., Konstas, I., Mignotte, P.Y. and Hastie, H. (2021). Learning to Read Maps: Understanding Natural Language Instructions from Unseen Maps. In Proceedings of the Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding (SpLU) and Grounded Communication for Robotics (RoboNLP). ACM, Thailand [pdf].

  • Chiyah Garcia, F., Smith, S., Lopes, J., Ramamoorthy, S., and Hastie, H. (2021). Self-Explainable Robots in Remote Environments. In HRI '21: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI'21) [link].

  • Nesset, B., Robb, D.A., Lopes, J. and Hastie, H. (2021). Transparency in HRI: Trust and Decision Making in the Face of Robot Errors. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’21) [link].

  • Clinciu, M., Eshghi, A and Hastie, H. (2021). A Study of Automatic Metrics for the Evaluation of Natural Language Explanations. In Proceedings of the European Association of Computational Linguistics (EACL'21) [arXiv].

2020
  • Katsakioris, M., Konstas, I. and Hastie, H. (2020). ROSMI: A Multimodal Corpus for Map-based Instruction-Giving. In Proceedings of ACM ICMI conference (ICMI’20). ACM, New York, NY, USA [link].

  • Lopes, J., Chiyah Garcia, F., and Hastie, H. (2020). The Lab vs The Crowd: An Investigation into Data Quality for Neural Dialogue Models. In Workshop on Human in the Loop Dialogue Systems at NeurIPS 2020 [arXiv].

  • Chiyah Garcia, F., Lopes, J., Liu, X., and Hastie, H. (2020). CRWIZ: A Framework for Crowdsourcing Real-Time Wizard-of-Oz Dialogues. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020). European Language Resources Association (ELRA) [link].

  • Mocialov, B., Turner, G. and Hastie, H., (2020). Towards Large-Scale Data Mining for Data-Driven Analysis of Sign Languages. In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Sign Language Resources in the Service of the Language Community, Technological Challenges and Application Perspectives, LREC, France. 2020 [link].

  • Chiyah Garcia, F., Lopes, J., and Hastie, H. (2020). Natural Language Interaction to Facilitate Mental Models of Remote Robots. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Mental Models of Robots, HRI'20, ACM [arXiv].

  • Robb, D.A., Ahmad, M.A., Tiseo, C., Aracri, S., McConnell, A.C., Page, V., Dondrup, C., Chiyah Garcia, F. J., Nguyen, H., Pairet, È., Ardón Ramírez, P., Semwal, T., Taylor, H.M., Wilson, L.J., Lane, D., Hastie, H., and Lohan K. (2020). Robots in the Danger Zone: Exploring Public Perception through Engagement. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’20), March 23–26, 2020, Cambridge, UK. ACM, New York, NY, USA [link] [video].

  • Lopes, J., Robb, D.A., Liu, X., and Hastie, H. (2020). Demonstration of A Social Robot for Control of Remote Autonomous Systems. In HRI ’20: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. ACM, New York, NY, USA [link] [video].

  • Clinciu, M.A. and Hastie, H. (2020). Let's Evaluate Explanations! In Proceedings of HRI 2020 Workshop on Test Methods and Metrics for Effective HRI in Real World Human-Robot Teams (Extended Abstract) [link].
2019
2018
  • Mocialov, B., Turner, G., and Hastie, H. (2018). Transfer Learning for British Sign Language Modelling. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, COLING [link].

  • Francisco J. Chiyah Garcia, David A. Robb, Atanas Ivaylov Laskov, Xingkun Liu, Pedro Patron, and Helen Hastie (2018). Explainable Autonomy: A Study of Explanation Styles for Building Clear Mental Models through a Multimodal Interface. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of Natural Language Generation (INLG), Tilburg, The Netherlands [arXiv].

  • D. A. Robb, J.S. Willners, N. Valeyrie, F.J.C. Garcia, A. Laskov, X. Liu, P. Patron, H. Hastie and Y. Petillot (2018). A Natural Language Interface with Relayed Acoustic Communications for Improved Command and Control of AUVs. In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Symposium, 2018. [arXiv]

  • Jose David Lopes, Katrin Lohan and Helen Hastie. (2018) 'Symptoms of Cognitive Load in Interactions with a Dialogue System’. In Proceedings of the ICMI Workshop on Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data, Boulder, CO, USA [pdf].

  • David A. Robb, Francisco J. Chiyah Garcia, Atanas Laskov, Xingkun Liu, Pedro Patron, and Helen Hastie. 2018. Keep Me in the Loop: Increasing Operator Situation Awareness through a Conversational Multimodal Interface. In 2018 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’18), October 16–20, 2018, Boulder, CO, USA [link].

  • Helen Hastie, Francisco J. Chiyah Garcia, David A. Robb, Atanas Laskov, and Pedro Patron. 2018. MIRIAM: A Multimodal Interface for Explaining the Reasoning Behind Actions of Remote Autonomous Systems. In 2018 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’18), October 16–20, 2018, Boulder, CO, USA [link].

  • Helen Hastie, Katrin Lohan, Mike Chantler, David A. Robb, Ron Petrick, David Lane, Subramanian Ramamoorthy and Sethu Vijayakumar (2018). The ORCA Hub: Explainable Offshore Robotics through Intelligent Interfaces. Workshop on Explainable Robotic Systems. HRI Conference, Chicago, USA [pdf].

  • Francisco J. Chiyah Garcia, David A. Robb, Xingkun Liu, Atanas Laskov, Pedro Patron, and Helen Hastie (2018). Explain Yourself: A Natural Language Interface for Scrutable Autonomous Robots. Workshop on Explainable Robotic Systems. HRI Conference, Chicago, USA [pdf].

2017
  • Helen Hastie, Katrin Lohan, Amol Deshmukh and Ruth Aylett (2017). The Interaction Between Voice and Appearance in the Embodiment of a Robot Tutor. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Robotic (ICSR), Tsukuba, Japan [pdf].

  • Mocialov, B., Turner, G., Lohan, K. and Hastie, H.(2017). Towards Continuous Sign Language Recognition with Deep Learning. 2017 IEEE-RAS 17th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids) [pdf].

  • Amanda Cercas Curry, Helen Hastie and Verena Rieser (2017). A Review of Evaluation Techniques for Social Dialogue Systems. ICMI Workshop on Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents. Glasgow, UK [arXiv].

  • Helen Hastie, Xingkun Liu and Pedro Patron (2017). Trust Triggers for Multimodal Command and Control Interfaces. In Proceedings of ICMI. Glasgow, UK [link].

  • Helen Hastie, F. Javier C. Garcia, David A. Robb, and Pedro Patron (2017). MIRIAM: A Multimodal Chat-based Interface for Autonomous Systems. In Proceedings of ICMI. Glasgow, UK [link].

  • M. De Lucas Alvarez, H.Hastie and D. Lane (2017). Navigation-based learning for survey trajectory classification in autonomous underwater vehicles. In Proceedings of 2017 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Sept. 25--28, 2017, Tokyo [link].

  • Helen Hastie, Xingkun Liu, Pedro Patron and Yvan Petillot (2017).Talking autonomous vehicles: Automatic AUV mission analysis in natural language In Proceedings of OCEANS MTS/IEEE, Aberdeen, UK [link].

2016

  • H.Hastie, P. Dente, D. Kuster and A. Kappas (2016). Sound Emblems for Affective Multimodal Output of a Robotic Tutor: A Perception Study. In Proceedings of ICMI, Tokyo, Japan. [pdf]

  • H.Hastie, X. Liu and P. Patron (2016) A Demonstration of Multimodal Debrief Generation for AUVs, Post-mission and In-mission. In Proceedings of ICMI, Tokyo, Japan. [pdf]

  • H.Hastie (2016). Emulating Empathy for Educational Robots. Proceedings of EPSRC Human-LIke Computing Machine Intelligence 20th Workshop, London, UK (Extended Abstract). [pdf].

  • H.Hastie, M.Y. Lim, S. Janarthanam, A. Deshmukh, R.Aylett, M.E. Foster, and L Hall. I Remember You! Interaction with Memory for an Empathic Virtual Robotic Tutor. In Proceedings of AAMAS, 2016 Singapore [link].

  • Mei Yii Lim, Amol Deshmukh, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Helen Hastie, Ruth Aylett, and Lynne Hall. A Treasure Hunt With An Empathic Virtual Tutor. In Proceedings of AAMAS, 2016 Singapore (Demonstration) [pdf].

  • Amol Deshmukh, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Helen Hastie, Mei Yii Lim, Ruth Aylett and Ginevra Castellano, How Expressiveness of a Robotic Tutor is Perceived by Children in a Learning Environment, International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Christchurch, New Zealand, Late-breaking report, March 2016 [pdf].

  • Lynne Hall, Colette Hume, Sarah Tazzyman, Amol Deshmukh, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Helen Hastie, Ruth Aylett, Ginevra Castellano, Fotis Papadopoulos, Aidan Jones, Lee J. Corrigan, Ana Paiva, Patrícia Alves Oliveira, Tiago Ribeiro, Wolmet Barendregt, Sofia Serholt & Arvid Kappas, Map Reading with an Empathic Robot Tutor, International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Christchurch, New Zealand, Extended Abstracts, March 2016 [pdf].

  • Helen Hastie and Heriberto Cuayáhuitl and Nina Dethlefs and Simon Keizer and Xingun Liu. Evaluation of NLG in an end-to-end Spoken Dialogue System- worth it? In Proceedings of IWSDS, 2016 [pdf].

2015

  • Mary Ellen Foster, Amol Deshmukh, Srini Janarthanam, Mei Yii Lim, Helen Hastie, Ruth Aylett, How does affective robot feedback influence learner experience in a real-world treasure hunt? In Proceedings of First International Workshop on Educational Robots (WONDER), 2015 [pdf].

  • Aidan Jones, Dennis Küster, Christina Anne Basedow, Patrıcia Alves-Oliveira, Sofia Serholt, Helen Hastie,Wolmet Barendregt, Arvid Kappas, Ana Paiva, Ginevra Castellano. Empathic robotic tutors for personalized learning: a multidisciplinary approach. In Proceedings of ICSR, 2015 [link].

  • Srinivasan Janarthanam, Helen Hastie, Amol Deshmukh, Ruth Aylett and Mary Ellen Foster (2015).A Reusable Interaction Management Module: Use case for Empathic Robotic Tutoring. In Proceedings of SemDial, 2015 [pdf].

  • David McGookin, Dimitra Gkatzia and Helen Hastie (2015). Supporting Exploratory Navigation for Runners Through Geographic Area Classification with Crowd-Sourced Data. In proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI). Copenhagen, Denmark, 2015 (2015 acceptance rate: 23%) [pdf].

  • Helen Hastie (2015). Challenges of Military Applications for Data-to-Text Generation. In Proceedings of the 1st International workshop on Data-to-text Generation (D2T). Edinburgh, UK (non-refereed) [pdf].

  • Dimitra Gkatzia and Helen Hastie (2015). An Ensemble method for Content Selection for Data-to-text Systems. In the 1st International workshop on Data-to-text Generation (D2T). Edinburgh, UK (non-refereed). [pdf]

  • Amol Deshmukh, Aidan Jones, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Helen Hastie, Tiago Ribeiro, Ruth Aylett, Ana Paiva, Ginevra Castellano, Mary Ellen Foster, Lee Corrigan, Fotios Papadopoulos, Eugenio Di Tullio and Pedro Sequeira (2015). An Empathic Robotic Tutor in a Map Application (Demonstration). In Proceedings of AAMAS. [pdf]

  • Mary Ellen Foster Amol Deshmukh Srinivasan Janarthanam Mei Yii Lim Helen Hastie Ruth Aylett (2015).Influencing the Learning Experience Through Affective Agent Feedback in a Real-World Treasure Hunt (Extended Abstract). In Proceedings of AAMAS. [pdf]

  • Zhuoran Wang and Helen Hastie (2015). A Prototype for AUV Post-mission Debrief Generation from Metadata (Demonstration). In Proceedings of AAMAS. [pdf].

  • Tiago Ribeiro, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Eugenio Di Tullio, Sofia Petisca, Pedro Sequeira, Amol Deshmukh, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Mary Ellen Foster, Aidan Jones, Lee J Corrigan, Fotios Papadopoulos, Helen Hastie, Ruth Aylett, Ginevra Castellano and Ana Paiva, (2016). The Empathic Robotic Tutor: Featuring the NAO Robot. In Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts Pages 285-285. [link] [video].

2014
  • Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Nina Dethlefs, Helen Hastie, Xingkun Liu (2014). Training a Statistical Surface Realiser from Automatic Slot Labelling. In Proceedings of SLT. [pdf].

  • Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Sofia Petisca, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Helen Hastie, Ana Paiva (2014). How do you imagine robots? Children's expectations about robots, In Proceedings of Child-Robot Interaction Workshop, Interaction Design and Children Conference 2014, Denmark. [pdf].

  • Mary Ellen Foster, Mei Yii Lim, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Amol Deshmukh, Helen Hastie and Ruth Aylett. 2014. Affective Feedback for an Embodied Agent in a Real-world Treasure Hunt, In Proceedings of Multimodal, Multi-Party, Real-World Human-Robot Interaction '14, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2014, Turkey. [link].

  • Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Nina Dethlefs, Helen Hastie (2014). A Semi-Supervised Clustering Approach for Semantic Slot Labelling. In Proceedings of ICMLA [pdf].

  • Sofia Serholt, Wolmet Barendregt, Iolanda Leite, Helen Hastie, Aidan Jones, Ana Paiva, Asimina Vasalou, Ginevra Castellano (2014). Teachers’ Views on the Use of Empathic Robotic Tutors in the Classroom. In Proceedings of Ro-man'14 [pdf].

  • Patricia Oliveira, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Ana Margarida Candeias, Amol Deshmukh, Tiago Ribeiro, Helen Hastie, Ana Paiva, Ruth Aylett. (2014). Towards Dialogue Dimensions for a Robotic Tutor in Collaborative Learning Scenarios. In Proceedings of Ro-man'14 [pdf].

  • Nina Dethlefs, Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Helen Hastie, Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon. 2014. Getting to Know Users: Accounting for the Variability in User Ratings. Abstract paper in the Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial). Edinburgh, Scotland (non-referred) [pdf].

  • Helen Hastie, Marie-Aude Aufaure, Panos Alexopoulos, Hughes Bouchard, Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Nina Dethlefs, Milica Gasic, James Henderson, Oliver Lemon, Xingkun Liu, Peter Mika, Tim Potter, Verena Rieser, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Yves Vanrompay, Boris Villa-Terrazas, Majid Yazdani, Steve Young and Yanchao Yu. 2014. Two Alternative Frameworks for Deploying Spoken Dialogue Systems to Mobile Platforms for Evaluation “in the Wild”. Abstract paper in the Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial). Edinburgh, Scotland (non-referred) [pdf].

  • Mei Yii Lim, Mary Ellen Foster, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Amol Deshmukh, Helen Hastie and Ruth Aylett (2014). Studying the Effects of Affective Feedback in Embodied Tutors. Abstract paper in the Workshop on Semantics of Dialogue (SemDial), Edinburgh, UK (non-refereed) [pdf].

  • Mei Yii Lim, Mary Ellen Foster, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Amol Deshmukh, Helen Hastie and Ruth Aylett (2014). Let's go for a treasure hunt. In Proceedings of the Affective Agents Workshop, 14th International conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Boston, USA [pdf].

  • Dimitra Gkatzia, Helen Hastie and Oliver Lemon (2014). Comparing Multi-label classification with Reinforcement Learning for Summarisation of Time-series data. In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 22-27 June, Baltimore, USA, 2014 [pdf].

  • Helen Hastie, Marie-aude Aufaure, Panos Alexopoulos, Hugues Bouchard, Heriberto Cuayahuitl, Nina Dethlefs, Milica Gasic, James Henderson, Oliver Lemon, Xingkun Liu, Peter Mika, Nesrine Ben Mustapha, Tim Potter, Verena Rieser, Blaise Thomson, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Yves Vanrompay, Boris Villazon-Terrazas, Majid Yazdani, Steve Young and Yanchao Yu (2014). The PARLANCE mobile application for interactive search in English and Mandarin. In Proceedings of SIGDIAL 2014, 18-20 June, Philadelphia, USA, 2014. [pdf].

  • Dimitra Gkatzia, Helen Hastie and Oliver Lemon (2014). Multi-adaptive Natural Language Generation using Principal Component Regression. In Proceedings of International Natural Language Generation (INLG). 19-21 June, Philadelphia, USA, 2014 [pdf].

  • Helen Hastie and Anja Belz (2014). A Comparative Evaluation Framework for NLG in Interactive Systems. In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC). Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2014 [pdf].

  • Dimitra Gkatzia, Helen Hastie, and Oliver Lemon (2014). Finding middle ground? Multi-objective Natural Language Generation From Time-series Data. In Proceedings of the Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL). Gothenburg, Sweden [pdf].

  • Nina Dethlefs, Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Helen Hastie, Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon. Cluster-Based Prediction of User Ratings for Stylistic Surface Realisation. In Proceedings of the Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL). Gothenburg, Sweden, April 2014 [pdf].

  • Srinivasan Janarthanam, Helen Hastie, Amol Deshmukh, Ruth Aylett (2014). Towards a Serious Game Playing Empathic Robotic Tutorial Dialogue System. Proceedings of HRI 2014.[link].


2013
  • Heriberto Cuayahuitl, Nina Dethlefs, Helen Hastie, Oliver Lemon (2013). Barge-in Effects in Bayesian Dialogue Act Recognition and Simulation. In Proceedings of ASRU 2013[pdf].

  • Amol Deshmukh, Srini Janarthanam, Shweta Bhargava, Helen Hastie and Ruth Aylett (2013). "WoZ Pilot Experiment for Empathic Robotic Tutors: Opportunities and Challenges", Proceedings of ICSR 2013. [pdf].

  • John Truesdale, Sandy Louchart, Helen Hastie and Ruth Aylett (2013). Suitability of Modelling Context for use within Emergent Narrative. In Proceedings of The International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling. [link]

  • Hastie et al. (2013) Demonstration of the PARLANCE system: a data-driven incremental, spoken dialogue system for interactive search. In Proceedings of SIGDIAL [pdf].

  • Heriberto Cuayahuitl, Nina Dethlefs, Helen Hastie, Oliver Lemon (2013). Impact of ASR N-Best Information on Bayesian Dialogue Act Recognition. In Proceedings of SIGDIAL [pdf].

  • Shweta Bhargava, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Helen Hastie, Amol Deshmukh, Ruth Aylett (2013). Demonstration of the Emote Wizard of Oz Interface for Empathic Robotic Tutors. In Proceedings of SIGDIAL 2013 [pdf].

  • N. Dethlefs, H.Hastie, H. Cuayáhuitl and O. Lemon (2013). Conditional Random Fields for Responsive Surface Realisation Using Global Features. In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Sofia, Bulgaria [pdf] [bib].

  • D. Gkatzia, H. Hastie, S. Janarthanam and O.Lemon (2013). Generating student feedback from time-series data using Reinforcement Learning. In Proceedings of the 14th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG). Sofia, Bulgaria.[pdf].

  • Ginevra Castellano, Ana Paiva, Arvid Kappas, Ruth Aylett, Helen Hastie, Wolmet Barendregt, Fernando Nabais and Susan Bull (2013) Towards Empathic Virtual and Robotic Tutors. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Memphis, Tennessee, USA [pdf].

2012
  • M. K. Wolters, J. Martínez-Miranda, H. Hastie and C. Matheson (2012). Managing Data in Help4Mood. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Computing Paradigms for Mental Health - MindCare 2012, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal

  • N. Dethlefs, V. Rieser, H. Hastie and O. Lemon (2012). Towards Optimising Modality Allocation for Multimodal Output Generation in Incremental Dialogue. In Proceedings of the ECAI Workshop on Machine Learning for Interactive Systems: Bridging the Gap Between Language, Motor Control and Vision (MLIS-2012), Montpellier, France [pdf].

  • N. Dethlefs, H. Hastie, V. Rieser and O. Lemon (2012) Optimising Incremental Dialogue Decisions Using Information Density for Interactive Systems. In Proceedings of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL 2012), July 12–14, 2012, Jeju, Korea [pdf].

  • N. Dethlefs, H. Hastie, V.Rieser, O. Lemon (2012). Optimising Incremental Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems: Reducing the Need for Fillers. In Proc. of INLG [pdf].

  • H. Hastie, O. Lemon, N. Dethlefs (2012). Incremental Spoken Dialogue Systems: Tools and Data. In Proceedings of the NAACL Workshop on Future Directions and Needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data, Montréal, Canada. [pdf].

  • N. Dethlefs, H. Hastie, V.Rieser, O. Lemon (2012). Optimising Incremental Generation for Information Presentation of Mobile Search Results. In Proceedings of Symposium: Influencing People with Information, Aberdeen April 2012. [prezi], [pdf].

  • D. Gkatzia H. Hastie, (2012). Dynamic User Modelling for Personalised Report Generation of Time-series Data. In Proceedings of Symposium: Influencing People with Information, Aberdeen April 2012. [pdf].

  • M. K. Wolters, L. Ferrini, J. Martinez-Miranda, H. Hastie, C. Burton, The Help4Mood Consortium (2012). Help4Mood – a Flexible Solution for Supporting People With Depression in the Community across Europe In Proc. of Med-e-Tel  [pdf].


2011 and earlier

  • Janarthanam, S., Hastie, H., Lemon, O and Liu, X. (2011). The day after the day after tomorrow? A machine learning approach to adaptive temporal expression generation: training and evaluation with real users. In Proc. of SIGDIAL [pdf].

  • Alan W Black, Susanne Burger, Alistair Conkie, Helen Hastie, Simon Keizer, Oliver Lemon, Nicolas Merigaud, Gabriel Parent, Gabriel Schubiner, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams, Kai Yu, Steve Young and Maxine Eskenazi (2011). Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010: Comparison of Live and Control Test Results.  In Proc. of SIGDIAL [pdf].

  • Hastie, H., Merigaud, N., Liu, X., and Lemon, O. (2010). “Let’s Go DUDE!” using the Spoken Dialogue Challenge to teach Spoken Dialogue Development. In  Proceedings of SLT, SDC Special Session , Berkeley, U.S.A. [pdf].

  • Hastie, H., Liu, X. and  Lemon, O. (2009) Automatic Generation of Information State Update Dialogue Systems that Dynamically Create Voice XML, as Demonstrated on the iPhone. In Proc of SIGDIAL, London, UK [pdf].

  • Lemon, O., Liu, X., and Hastie, H. (2008)."Build your own" spoken dialogue systems: automatically generating ISU dialogue systems from business user resources. In Proc of COLING Conference, Manchester, UK [pdf].

  • Hastie, H., Craven, P. and Orr, M. (2007). WIRE: A Wearable Spoken Language Understanding  System for the Military . In Proc of HLT Conference, Rochester, NY [pdf].

  • Orr, M., Hastie, H., Miksch, D., Flanders, J., and Corrado, C., (2005). Capturing Critical Information using The Wearable Intelligent Reporting Environment (WIRE). In Proc. of DHS S&T Partnership Conference, Boston, MA [pdf].

  • Hastie, H.  and Daniels, J. J. (2004). An Adaptive Speech Recognizer that Learns using Short and Long Term Memory. In Proc. of the Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, San Jose, CA, July 25-29, 2004 [pdf].

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