Jason D. Williams

Steve Young, Milica Gasic, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams: POMDP-Based Statistical Spoken Dialog Systems: A Review. Proceedings of the IEEE 101(5): 1160-1179 (2013)

Jason D. Williams, Kai Yu, Brahim Chaib-draa, Oliver Lemon, Roberto Pieraccini, Olivier Pietquin, Pascal Poupart, Steve Young: Introduction to the Issue on Advances in Spoken Dialogue Systems and Mobile Interface. J. Sel. Topics Signal Processing 6(8): 889-890 (2012)

Jason D. Williams: Challenges and Opportunities for State Tracking in Statistical Spoken Dialog Systems: Results From Two Public Deployments. J. Sel. Topics Signal Processing 6(8): 959-970 (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): 177-179 (2012)

Ethan Selfridge, Iker Arizmendi, Peter A. Heeman, Jason D. Williams: Integrating Incremental Speech Recognition and POMDP-Based Dialogue Systems. SIGDIAL Conference 2012: 275-279

Jason D. Williams: A critical analysis of two statistical spoken dialog systems in public use. SLT 2012: 55-60

Jason D. Williams, I. Dan Melamed, Tirso Alonso, Barbara Hollister, Jay G. Wilpon: Crowd-sourcing for difficult transcription of speech. ASRU 2011: 535-540

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 Young, Maxine Eskenazi: Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010: Comparison of Live and Control Test Results. SIGDIAL Conference 2011: 2-7

Ethan Selfridge, Iker Arizmendi, Peter A. Heeman, Jason D. Williams: Stability and Accuracy in Incremental Speech Recognition. SIGDIAL Conference 2011: 110-119

Jason D. Williams: Incremental partition recombination for efficient tracking of multiple dialog states. ICASSP 2010: 5382-5385

Jason D. Williams, Iker Arizmendi, Alistair Conkie: Demonstration of AT&T "Let's Go": A production-grade statistical spoken dialog system. SLT 2010: 157-158

Jason D. Williams: Spoken dialogue systems: Challenges, and opportunities for research. ASRU 2009: 25

Lihong Li, Jason D. Williams, Suhrid Balakrishnan: Reinforcement learning for dialog management using least-squares Policy iteration and fast feature selection. INTERSPEECH 2009: 2475-2478

Jason D. Williams, Suhrid Balakrishnan: Estimating Probability of Correctness for ASR N-Best Lists. SIGDIAL Conference 2009: 132-135

Jason D. Williams: Evaluating user simulations with the Cramér-von Mises divergence. Speech Communication 50(10): 829-846 (2008)

Jason D. Williams: Exploiting the ASR n-best by tracking multiple dialog state hypotheses. INTERSPEECH 2008: 191-194

Jason D. Williams: The best of both worlds: unifying conventional dialog systems and POMDPs. INTERSPEECH 2008: 1173-1176

Jason D. Williams, Steve Young: Partially observable Markov decision processes for spoken dialog systems. Computer Speech & Language 21(2): 393-422 (2007)

Jason D. Williams: Using particle filters to track dialogue state. ASRU 2007: 502-507

Jason D. Williams: A method for evaluating and comparing user simulations: The Cramér-von Mises divergence. ASRU 2007: 508-513

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 Young, Dmitry Zelenko: Reports on the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06) Workshop Program. AI Magazine 27(4): 92-102 (2006)

Matthew N. Stuttle, Jason D. Williams, Steve Young: A framework for dialogue data collection with a simulated ASR channel. INTERSPEECH 2004

Jason D. Williams, Steve Young: Characterizing task-oriented dialog using a simulated ASR chanel. INTERSPEECH 2004

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