Blaise Thomson

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2007-2017
Publications (10 Years): 4

Top Topics

Matrix Factorization

Spoken Dialogue Systems

Recurrent Neural Networks

Top Venues

SIGDIAL Conference

Publications

Nikola Mrksic, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young
Neural Belief Tracker: Data-Driven Dialogue State Tracking. ACL (1) (2017)
Nikola Mrksic, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Blaise Thomson, Milica Gasic, Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, Pei-Hao Su, David Vandyke, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Steve J. Young
Counter-fitting Word Vectors to Linguistic Constraints. HLT-NAACL (2016)
Nikola Mrksic, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Blaise Thomson, Milica Gasic, Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, Pei-Hao Su, David Vandyke, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Steve J. Young
Counter-fitting Word Vectors to Linguistic Constraints. CoRR (2016)
Nikola Mrksic, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young
Neural Belief Tracker: Data-Driven Dialogue State Tracking. CoRR (2016)
Nikola Mrksic, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Blaise Thomson, Milica Gasic, Pei-hao Su, David Vandyke, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Steve J. Young
Multi-domain Dialog State Tracking using Recurrent Neural Networks. ACL (2) (2015)
Nikola Mrksic, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Blaise Thomson, Milica Gasic, Pei-hao Su, David Vandyke, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Steve J. Young
Multi-domain Dialog State Tracking using Recurrent Neural Networks. CoRR (2015)
Jason D. Williams, Matthew Henderson, Antoine Raux, Blaise Thomson, Alan W. Black, Deepak Ramachandran
The Dialog State Tracking Challenge Series. AI Mag. 35 (4) (2014)
Milica Gasic, Dongho Kim, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Catherine Breslin, Matthew Henderson, Martin Szummer, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young
Incremental on-line adaptation of POMDP-based dialogue managers to extended domains. INTERSPEECH (2014)
Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams
The Second Dialog State Tracking Challenge. SIGDIAL Conference (2014)
Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young
Robust dialog state tracking using delexicalised recurrent neural networks and unsupervised adaptation. SLT (2014)
Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young
Word-Based Dialog State Tracking with Recurrent Neural Networks. SIGDIAL Conference (2014)
Pirros Tsiakoulis, Catherine Breslin, Milica Gasic, Matthew Henderson, Dongho Kim, Martin Szummer, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young
Dialogue context sensitive HMM-based speech synthesis. ICASSP (2014)
Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams
The third Dialog State Tracking Challenge. SLT (2014)
Helen F. Hastie, Marie-Aude Aufaure, Panos Alexopoulos, Hugues Bouchard, Catherine Breslin, Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, 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 Villazón-Terrazas, Majid Yazdani, Steve J. Young, Yanchao Yu
The PARLANCE mobile application for interactive search in English and Mandarin. SIGDIAL Conference (2014)
Steve J. Young, Catherine Breslin, Milica Gasic, Matthew Henderson, Dongho Kim, Martin Szummer, Blaise Thomson, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Eli Tzirkel-Hancock
Evaluation of Statistical POMDP-Based Dialogue Systems in Noisy Environments. IWSDS (2014)
Milica Gasic, Catherine Breslin, Matthew Henderson, Dongho Kim, Martin Szummer, Blaise Thomson, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Steve J. Young
POMDP-based dialogue manager adaptation to extended domains. SIGDIAL Conference (2013)
Catherine Breslin, Milica Gasic, Matthew Henderson, Dongho Kim, Martin Szummer, Blaise Thomson, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Steve J. Young
Continuous asr for flexible incremental dialogue. ICASSP (2013)
Steve J. Young, Milica Gasic, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams
POMDP-Based Statistical Spoken Dialog Systems: A Review. Proc. IEEE 101 (5) (2013)
Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young
Deep Neural Network Approach for the Dialog State Tracking Challenge. SIGDIAL Conference (2013)
Milica Gasic, Catherine Breslin, Matthew Henderson, Dongho Kim, Martin Szummer, Blaise Thomson, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Steve J. Young
On-line policy optimisation of Bayesian spoken dialogue systems via human interaction. ICASSP (2013)
Helen F. Hastie, Marie-Aude Aufaure, Panos Alexopoulos, Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Nina Dethlefs, Milica Gasic, James Henderson, Oliver Lemon, Xingkun Liu, Peter Mika, Nesrine Ben Mustapha, Verena Rieser, Blaise Thomson, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Yves Vanrompay
Demonstration of the PARLANCE system: a data-driven incremental, spoken dialogue system for interactive search. SIGDIAL Conference (2013)
Filip Jurcícek, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young
Reinforcement learning for parameter estimation in statistical spoken dialogue systems. Comput. Speech Lang. 26 (3) (2012)
Milica Gasic, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Eli Tzirkel, Steve J. Young
The Effect of Cognitive Load on a Statistical Dialogue System. SIGDIAL Conference (2012)
Ulrich Paquet, Blaise Thomson, Ole Winther
A hierarchical model for ordinal matrix factorization. Stat. Comput. 22 (4) (2012)
Matthew Henderson, Milica Gasic, Blaise Thomson, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
Discriminative spoken language understanding using word confusion networks. SLT (2012)
Blaise Thomson, Milica Gasic, Matthew Henderson, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Steve J. Young
N-best error simulation for training spoken dialogue systems. SLT (2012)
Milica Gasic, Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Steve J. Young
Policy optimisation of POMDP-based dialogue systems without state space compression. SLT (2012)
Filip Jurcícek, Simon Keizer, Milica Gasic, François Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
Real User Evaluation of Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Amazon Mechanical Turk. INTERSPEECH (2011)
Milica Gasic, Filip Jurcícek, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
On-line policy optimisation of spoken dialogue systems via live interaction with human subjects. ASRU (2011)
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
Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010: Comparison of Live and Control Test Results. SIGDIAL Conference (2011)
Filip Jurcícek, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young
Natural actor and belief critic: Reinforcement algorithm for learning parameters of dialogue systems modelled as POMDPs. ACM Trans. Speech Lang. Process. 7 (3) (2011)
Simon Keizer, Milica Gasic, Filip Jurcícek, François Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
Parameter estimation for agenda-based user simulation. SIGDIAL Conference (2010)
Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Simon Keizer, Milica Gasic, Filip Jurcícek, François Mairesse, Steve J. Young
Bayesian dialogue system for the Let's Go Spoken Dialogue Challenge. SLT (2010)
François Mairesse, Milica Gasic, Filip Jurcícek, Simon Keizer, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
Phrase-Based Statistical Language Generation Using Graphical Models and Active Learning. ACL (2010)
Milica Gasic, Filip Jurcícek, Simon Keizer, François Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
Gaussian Processes for Fast Policy Optimisation of POMDP-based Dialogue Managers. SIGDIAL Conference (2010)
Blaise Thomson, Filip Jurcícek, Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, François Mairesse, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
Parameter learning for POMDP spoken dialogue models. SLT (2010)
Kai Yu, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young
From discontinuous to continuous F0 modelling in HMM-based speech synthesis. SSW (2010)
Steve J. Young, Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, François Mairesse, Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu
The Hidden Information State model: A practical framework for POMDP-based spoken dialogue management. Comput. Speech Lang. 24 (2) (2010)
Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young
Bayesian update of dialogue state: A POMDP framework for spoken dialogue systems. Comput. Speech Lang. 24 (4) (2010)
Filip Jurcícek, Blaise Thomson, Simon Keizer, François Mairesse, Milica Gasic, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
Natural belief-critic: a reinforcement algorithm for parameter estimation in statistical spoken dialogue systems. INTERSPEECH (2010)
Filip Jurcícek, Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, François Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
Transformation-based learning for semantic parsing. INTERSPEECH (2009)
Fabrice Lefèvre, Milica Gasic, Filip Jurcícek, Simon Keizer, François Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
k-Nearest Neighbor Monte-Carlo Control Algorithm for POMDP-Based Dialogue Systems. SIGDIAL Conference (2009)
François Mairesse, Milica Gasic, Filip Jurcícek, Simon Keizer, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
Spoken language understanding from unaligned data using discriminative classification models. ICASSP (2009)
Kai Yu, Tomoki Toda, Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, François Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young
Probablistic modelling of F0 in unvoiced regions in HMM based speech synthesis. ICASSP (2009)
Milica Gasic, Fabrice Lefèvre, Filip Jurcícek, Simon Keizer, François Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
Back-off action selection in summary space-based POMDP dialogue systems. ASRU (2009)
Blaise Thomson, Jost Schatzmann, Steve J. Young
Bayesian update of dialogue state for robust dialogue systems. ICASSP (2008)
Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, François Mairesse, Jost Schatzmann, Steve J. Young
Evaluating semantic-level confidence scores with multiple hypotheses. INTERSPEECH (2008)
Simon Keizer, Milica Gasic, François Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
Modelling user behaviour in the HIS-POMDP dialogue manager. SLT (2008)
Blaise Thomson, Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, François Mairesse, Jost Schatzmann, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
User study of the Bayesian update of dialogue state approach to dialogue management. INTERSPEECH (2008)
Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, François Mairesse, Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young
Training and Evaluation of the HIS POMDP Dialogue System in Noise. SIGDIAL Workshop (2008)
Steve J. Young, Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Karl Weilhammer, Hui Ye
The Hidden Information State Dialogue Manager: A Real-World POMDP-Based System. HLT-NAACL (Demonstrations) (2007)
Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young
Error simulation for training statistical dialogue systems. ASRU (2007)
Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Karl Weilhammer, Hui Ye, Steve J. Young
Agenda-Based User Simulation for Bootstrapping a POMDP Dialogue System. HLT-NAACL (Short Papers) (2007)
Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young
Statistical User Simulation with a Hidden Agenda. SIGdial (2007)