Jason D. Williams

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2003-2023
Publications (10 Years): 30

Top Topics

Reinforcement Learning

Semantic Parsing

Top Venues

SIGDIAL Conference

Publications

Zidi Xiu, Kai-Chen Cheng, David Q. Sun, Jiannan Lu, Hadas Kotek, Yuhan Zhang, Paul McCarthy, Christopher Klein, Stephen Pulman, Jason D. Williams
Feedback Effect in User Interaction with Intelligent Assistants: Delayed Engagement, Adaption and Drop-out. CoRR (2023)
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
Intelligent Assistant Language Understanding On Device. CoRR (2023)
David Q. Sun, Artem Abzaliev, Hadas Kotek, Zidi Xiu, Christopher Klein, Jason D. Williams
DELPHI: Data for Evaluating LLMs' Performance in Handling Controversial Issues. CoRR (2023)
David Q. Sun, Artem Abzaliev, Hadas Kotek, Christopher Klein, Zidi Xiu, Jason D. Williams
DELPHI: Data for Evaluating LLMs' Performance in Handling Controversial Issues. EMNLP (Industry Track) (2023)
Zidi Xiu, Kai-Chen Cheng, David Q. Sun, Jiannan Lu, Hadas Kotek, Yuhan Zhang, Paul McCarthy, Christopher Klein, Stephen Pulman, Jason D. Williams
Feedback Effect in User Interaction with Intelligent Assistants: Delayed Engagement, Adaption and Drop-out. PAKDD (2) (2023)
Deepak Muralidharan, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Weicheng Zhang, Stephen Pulman, Lin Li, Megan Barnes, Jingjing Pan, Jason D. Williams, Alex Acero
DEXTER: Deep Encoding of External Knowledge for Named Entity Recognition in Virtual Assistants. Interspeech (2021)
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
Noise Robust Named Entity Understanding for Voice Assistants. NAACL-HLT (Industry Papers) (2021)
Deepak Muralidharan, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Weicheng Zhang, Stephen Pulman, Lin Li, Megan Barnes, Jingjing Pan, Jason D. Williams, Alex Acero
DEXTER: Deep Encoding of External Knowledge for Named Entity Recognition in Virtual Assistants. CoRR (2021)
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
Noise-robust Named Entity Understanding for Virtual Assistants. CoRR (2020)
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
Conversational Semantic Parsing for Dialog State Tracking. EMNLP (1) (2020)
Pranay Dighe, Saurabh Adya, Nuoyu Li, Srikanth Vishnubhotla, Devang Naik, Adithya Sagar, Ying Ma, Stephen Pulman, Jason D. Williams
Lattice-Based Improvements for Voice Triggering Using Graph Neural Networks. ICASSP (2020)
Pranay Dighe, Saurabh Adya, Nuoyu Li, Srikanth Vishnubhotla, Devang Naik, Adithya Sagar, Ying Ma, Stephen Pulman, Jason D. Williams
Lattice-based Improvements for Voice Triggering Using Graph Neural Networks. CoRR (2020)
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
Conversational Semantic Parsing for Dialog State Tracking. CoRR (2020)
David Q. Sun, Hadas Kotek, Christopher Klein, Mayank Gupta, William Li, Jason D. Williams
Improving Human-Labeled Data through Dynamic Automatic Conflict Resolution. CoRR (2020)
David Q. Sun, Hadas Kotek, Christopher Klein, Mayank Gupta, William Li, Jason D. Williams
Improving Human-Labeled Data through Dynamic Automatic Conflict Resolution. COLING (2020)
Xi C. Chen, Adithya Sagar, Justine T. Kao, Tony Y. Li, Christopher Klein, Stephen Pulman, Ashish Garg, Jason D. Williams
Active Learning for Domain Classification in a Commercial Spoken Personal Assistant. INTERSPEECH (2019)
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
Leveraging User Engagement Signals For Entity Labeling in a Virtual Assistant. CoRR (2019)
Matthew J. Hausknecht, Ricky Loynd, Greg Yang, Adith Swaminathan, Jason D. Williams
NAIL: A General Interactive Fiction Agent. CoRR (2019)
Xi C. Chen, Adithya Sagar, Justine T. Kao, Tony Y. Li, Christopher Klein, Stephen Pulman, Ashish Garg, Jason D. Williams
Active Learning for Domain Classification in a Commercial Spoken Personal Assistant. CoRR (2019)
Hai Wang, Jason D. Williams, SingBing Kang
Learning to Globally Edit Images with Textual Description. CoRR (2018)
Jason D. Williams, Kavosh Asadi, Geoffrey Zweig
Hybrid Code Networks: practical and efficient end-to-end dialog control with supervised and reinforcement learning. CoRR (2017)
Jason D. Williams, Lars Liden
Demonstration of interactive teaching for end-to-end dialog control with hybrid code networks. SIGDIAL Conference (2017)
Jason D. Williams, Kavosh Asadi, Geoffrey Zweig
Hybrid Code Networks: practical and efficient end-to-end dialog control with supervised and reinforcement learning. ACL (1) (2017)
Donghao Ren, Saleema Amershi, Bongshin Lee, Jina Suh, Jason D. Williams
Squares: Supporting Interactive Performance Analysis for Multiclass Classifiers. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 23 (1) (2017)
Seokhwan Kim, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Rafael E. Banchs, Jason D. Williams, Matthew Henderson, Koichiro Yoshino
The fifth dialog state tracking challenge. SLT (2016)
Seokhwan Kim, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Rafael E. Banchs, Jason D. Williams, Matthew Henderson
The Fourth Dialog State Tracking Challenge. IWSDS (2016)
Jason D. Williams, Antoine Raux, Matthew Henderson
Introduction to the Special Issue on Dialogue State Tracking. Dialogue Discourse 7 (3) (2016)
Kavosh Asadi, Jason D. Williams
Sample-efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dialog Control. CoRR (2016)
Jason D. Williams, Geoffrey Zweig
End-to-end LSTM-based dialog control optimized with supervised and reinforcement learning. CoRR (2016)
Jason D. Williams, Antoine Raux, Matthew Henderson
The Dialog State Tracking Challenge Series: A Review. Dialogue Discourse 7 (3) (2016)
Jason D. Williams, Eslam Kamal, Mokhtar Ashour, Hani Amr, Jessica Miller, Geoffrey Zweig
Fast and easy language understanding for dialog systems with Microsoft Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS). SIGDIAL Conference (2015)
Jason D. Williams, Nobal B. Niraula, Pradeep Dasigi, Aparna Lakshmiratan, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Mouni Reddy, Geoffrey Zweig
Rapidly Scaling Dialog Systems with Interactive Learning. IWSDS (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)
Jason D. Williams
Web-style ranking and SLU combination for dialog state tracking. SIGDIAL Conference (2014)
Lihong Li, He He, Jason D. Williams
Temporal supervised learning for inferring a dialog policy from example conversations. SLT (2014)
Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams
The Second Dialog State Tracking Challenge. SIGDIAL Conference (2014)
Ke Zhai, Jason D. Williams
Discovering Latent Structure in Task-Oriented Dialogues. ACL (1) (2014)
Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams
The third Dialog State Tracking Challenge. SLT (2014)
Ethan Selfridge, Iker Arizmendi, Peter A. Heeman, Jason D. Williams
Continuously Predicting and Processing Barge-in During a Live Spoken Dialogue Task. SIGDIAL Conference (2013)
Steve J. Young, Milica Gasic, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams
POMDP-Based Statistical Spoken Dialog Systems: A Review. Proc. IEEE 101 (5) (2013)
Jason D. Williams, Antoine Raux, Deepak Ramachandran, Alan W. Black
The Dialog State Tracking Challenge. SIGDIAL Conference (2013)
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
Recent advances in deep learning for speech research at Microsoft. ICASSP (2013)
Angeliki Metallinou, Dan Bohus, Jason D. Williams
Discriminative state tracking for spoken dialog systems. ACL (1) (2013)
Ethan Selfridge, Iker Arizmendi, Peter A. Heeman, Jason D. Williams
Integrating Incremental Speech Recognition and POMDP-Based Dialogue Systems. SIGDIAL Conference (2012)
Jason D. Williams
Challenges and Opportunities for State Tracking in Statistical Spoken Dialog Systems: Results From Two Public Deployments. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process. 6 (8) (2012)
Jason D. Williams, Kai Yu, Brahim Chaib-draa, Oliver Lemon, Roberto Pieraccini, Olivier Pietquin, Pascal Poupart, Steve J. Young
Introduction to the Issue on Advances in Spoken Dialogue Systems and Mobile Interface. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process. 6 (8) (2012)
Jason D. Williams
A critical analysis of two statistical spoken dialog systems in public use. SLT (2012)
Junlan Feng, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, John H. L. Hansen, Jason D. Williams
Trends in Speech and Language Processing [In the Spotlight]. IEEE Signal Process. Mag. 29 (1) (2012)
Jason D. Williams, I. Dan Melamed, Tirso Alonso, Barbara Hollister, Jay G. Wilpon
Crowd-sourcing for difficult transcription of speech. ASRU (2011)
Ethan Selfridge, Iker Arizmendi, Peter A. Heeman, Jason D. Williams
Stability and Accuracy in Incremental Speech Recognition. SIGDIAL Conference (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)
Jason D. Williams, Iker Arizmendi, Alistair Conkie
Demonstration of AT&T "Let's Go": A production-grade statistical spoken dialog system. SLT (2010)
Jason D. Williams
Incremental partition recombination for efficient tracking of multiple dialog states. ICASSP (2010)
Jason D. Williams
Spoken dialogue systems: Challenges, and opportunities for research. ASRU (2009)
Lihong Li, Jason D. Williams, Suhrid Balakrishnan
Reinforcement learning for dialog management using least-squares Policy iteration and fast feature selection. INTERSPEECH (2009)
Jason D. Williams, Suhrid Balakrishnan
Estimating Probability of Correctness for ASR N-Best Lists. SIGDIAL Conference (2009)
Jason D. Williams
Exploiting the ASR n-best by tracking multiple dialog state hypotheses. INTERSPEECH (2008)
Jason D. Williams
The best of both worlds: unifying conventional dialog systems and POMDPs. INTERSPEECH (2008)
Jason D. Williams
Evaluating user simulations with the Cramér-von Mises divergence. Speech Commun. 50 (10) (2008)
Jason D. Williams
A method for evaluating and comparing user simulations: The Cramér-von Mises divergence. ASRU (2007)
Jason D. Williams
Using particle filters to track dialogue state. ASRU (2007)
Jason D. Williams, Steve J. Young
Partially observable Markov decision processes for spoken dialog systems. Comput. Speech Lang. 21 (2) (2007)
Wolfgang Achtner, Esma Aïmeur, Sarabjot Singh Anand, Doug 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
Reports on the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06) Workshop Program. AI Mag. 27 (4) (2006)
Jason D. Williams, Pascal Poupart, Steve J. Young
Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes with Continuous Observations for Dialogue Management. SIGDIAL Workshop (2005)
Jason D. Williams, Steve J. Young
Characterizing task-oriented dialog using a simulated ASR chanel. INTERSPEECH (2004)
Jason D. Williams, Silke M. Witt
A Comparison of Dialog Strategies for Call Routing. Int. J. Speech Technol. 7 (1) (2004)
Matthew N. Stuttle, Jason D. Williams, Steve J. Young
A framework for dialogue data collection with a simulated ASR channel. INTERSPEECH (2004)
Jason D. Williams, Steve J. Young
Using Wizard-of-Oz simulations to bootstrap Reinforcement - Learning based dialog management systems. SIGDIAL Workshop (2003)
Jason D. Williams, Andrew T. Shaw, Lawrence Piano, Michael Abt
Preference, perception, and task completion of open, menu-based, and directed prompts for call routing: a case study. INTERSPEECH (2003)
Silke M. Witt, Jason D. Williams
Two studies of open vs. directed dialog strategies in spoken dialog systems. INTERSPEECH (2003)