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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Image and Language Processing, Computer Graphics and Visualisation, Human Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous and Wearable Computing |
| Keywords | machine learning, natural language processing, human-computer interaction |
| Honours and awards | 2018: ERC Starting Grant 2018: Sofja Kovalevskaja Award 2017: EPSRC First Grant 2016: Google Faculty Award 2011: EPSRC PhD Plus Award |
Current contact address
| Country | Germany |
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| City | Düsseldorf |
| Institution | Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf |
| Institute | Institut für Sprache und Information |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Dietrich Klakow | Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken |
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| Prof. Dr. Laura Kallmeyer | Institut für Sprache und Information, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf |
| Prof. Dr. Laura Kallmeyer | Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/12/2018 |
Programme(s)
| 2018 | Sofja Kovalevskaja Award Programme |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2025 | Niekerk, Carel van and Geishauser, Christian and Heck, Michael and Feng, Shutong and Lin, Hsien-chin and Lubis, Nurul and Ruppik, Benjamin and Vukovic, Renato and Ga{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Milica: A Confidence-based Acquisition Model for Self-supervised Active Learning and Label Correction. In: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 13, 2025, 167--187 |
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| 2025 | Heck, M. and Geishauser, C. and Lubis, N. and van Niekerk, C. and Feng, S. and Lin, H.-C. and Ruppik, B. M. and Vukovic, R. and Gasic, M.: Learning from Noisy Labels via Self-Taught On-the-Fly Meta Loss Rescaling. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2025. 24059--24068 |
| 2024 | Feng, Shutong and Sun, Guangzhi and Lubis, Nurul and Wu, Wen and Zhang, Chao and Gasic, Milica: Affect Recognition in Conversations Using Large Language Models. In: Kawahara, Tatsuya and Demberg, Vera and Ultes, Stefan and Inoue, Koji and Mehri, Shikib and Howcroft, David and Komatani, Kazunori, Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. Kyoto, Japan: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024. 259--273 |
| 2024 | Vukovic, Renato and Arps, David and van Niekerk, Carel and Ruppik, Benjamin Matthias and Lin, Hsien-chin and Heck, Michael and Gasic, Milica: Dialogue Ontology Relation Extraction via Constrained Chain-of-Thought Decoding. In: Kawahara, Tatsuya and Demberg, Vera and Ultes, Stefan and Inoue, Koji and Mehri, Shikib and Howcroft, David and Komatani, Kazunori, Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. Kyoto, Japan: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024. 370--384 |
| 2024 | Feng, Shutong and Lin, Hsien-chin and Geishauser, Christian and Lubis, Nurul and van Niekerk, Carel and Heck, Michael and Ruppik, Benjamin and Vukovic, Renato and Ga{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Milica: Infusing Emotions into Task-oriented Dialogue Systems: Understanding, Management, and Generation. In: Kawahara, Tatsuya and Demberg, Vera and Ultes, Stefan and Inoue, Koji and Mehri, Shikib and Howcroft, David and Komatani, Kazunori, Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. Kyoto, Japan: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024. 699--717 |
| 2024 | Geishauser, Christian and van Niekerk, Carel and Lubis, Nurul and Lin, Hsien-chin and Heck, Michael and Feng, Shutong and Ruppik, Benjamin and Vukovic, Renato and Gašić, Milica: Learning With an Open Horizon in Ever-Changing Dialogue Circumstances. In: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 32, 2024, 2352-2366 |
| 2024 | Ruppik, Benjamin Matthias and Heck, Michael and van Niekerk, Carel and Vukovic, Renato and Lin, Hsien-chin and Feng, Shutong and Zibrowius, Marcus and Gasic, Milica: Local Topology Measures of Contextual Language Model Latent Spaces with Applications to Dialogue Term Extraction. In: Kawahara, Tatsuya and Demberg, Vera and Ultes, Stefan and Inoue, Koji and Mehri, Shikib and Howcroft, David and Komatani, Kazunori, Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. Kyoto, Japan: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024. 344--356 |
| 2024 | Sun, Guangzhi and Feng, Shutong and Jiang, Dongcheng and Zhang, Chao and Gasic, Milica and Woodland, Phil: Speech-based Slot Filling using Large Language Models. In: Ku, Lun-Wei and Martins, Andre and Srikumar, Vivek, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024. Bangkok, Thailand: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024. 6351--6362 |
| 2023 | Lin, Hsien-Chin and Feng, Shutong and Geishauser, Christian and Lubis, Nurul and van Niekerk, Carel and Heck, Michael and Ruppik, Benjamin and Vukovic, Renato and Gasi\'{c}, Milica: EmoUS: Simulating User Emotions in Task-Oriented Dialogues. Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2023. 2526–2531 |
| 2023 | Feng, Shutong and Lubis, Nurul and Ruppik, Benjamin and Geishauser, Christian and Heck, Michael and Lin, Hsien-chin and van Niekerk, Carel and Vukovic, Renato and Gasic, Milica: From Chatter to Matter: Addressing Critical Steps of Emotion Recognition Learning in Task-oriented Dialogue. In: Stoyanchev, Svetlana and Joty, Shafiq and Schlangen, David and Dusek, Ondrej and Kennington, Casey and Alikhani, Malihe, Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. Prague, Czechia: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023. 85--103 |
| 2023 | Heck, Michael and Lubis, Nurul and Ruppik, Benjamin and Vukovic, Renato and Feng, Shutong and Geishauser, Christian and Lin, Hsien-chin and van Niekerk, Carel and Gasic, Milica: {C}hat{GPT} for Zero-shot Dialogue State Tracking: A Solution or an Opportunity?. In: Rogers, Anna and Boyd-Graber, Jordan and Okazaki, Naoaki, Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers). Toronto, Canada: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023. 936--950 |
| 2023 | Zhu, Qi and Geishauser, Christian and Lin, Hsien-chin and van Niekerk, Carel and Peng, Baolin and Zhang, Zheng and Feng, Shutong and Heck, Michael and Lubis, Nurul and Wan, Dazhen and Zhu, Xiaochen and Gao, Jianfeng and Gasic, Milica and Huang, Minlie: {C}onv{L}ab-3: A Flexible Dialogue System Toolkit Based on a Unified Data Format. In: Feng, Yansong and Lefever, Els, Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations. Singapore: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023. 106--123 |
| 2022 | Lubis, Nurul and Geishauser, Christian and Lin, Hsien-chin and van Niekerk, Carel and Heck, Michael and Feng, Shutong and Gasic, Milica: Dialogue Evaluation with Offline Reinforcement Learning. In: Lemon, Oliver and Hakkani-Tur, Dilek and Li, Junyi Jessy and Ashrafzadeh, Arash and Garcia, Daniel Hern{\'a}ndez and Alikhani, Malihe and Vandyke, David and Du{\v{s}}ek, Ond{\v{r}}ej, Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. Edinburgh, UK: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022. 478--489 |
| 2022 | Vukovic, Renato and Heck, Michael and Ruppik, Benjamin and van Niekerk, Carel and Zibrowius, Marcus and Gasic, Milica: Dialogue Term Extraction using Transfer Learning and Topological Data Analysis. In: Lemon, Oliver and Hakkani-Tur, Dilek and Li, Junyi Jessy and Ashrafzadeh, Arash and Garcia, Daniel Hern{\'a}ndez and Alikhani, Malihe and Vandyke, David and Du{\v{s}}ek, Ond{\v{r}}ej, Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. Edinburgh, UK: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022. 564--581 |
| 2022 | Geishauser, Christian and van Niekerk, Carel and Lin, Hsien-chin and Lubis, Nurul and Heck, Michael and Feng, Shutong and Ga{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Milica: Dynamic Dialogue Policy for Continual Reinforcement Learning. In: Calzolari, Nicoletta and Huang, Chu-Ren and Kim, Hansaem and Pustejovsky, James and Wanner, Leo and Choi, Key-Sun and Ryu, Pum-Mo and Chen, Hsin-Hsi and Donatelli, Lucia and Ji, Heng and Kurohashi, Sadao and Paggio, Patrizia and Xue, Nianwen and Kim, Seokhwan and Hahm, Younggyun and He, Zhong and Lee, Tony Kyungil and Santus, Enrico and Bond, Francis and Na, Seung-Hoon, Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Gyeongju, Republic of Korea: International Committee on Computational Linguistics, 2022. 266--284 |
| 2022 | Heck, Michael and Lubis, Nurul and van Niekerk, Carel and Feng, Shutong and Geishauser, Christian and Lin, Hsien-Chin and Ga{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Milica: Robust Dialogue State Tracking with Weak Supervision and Sparse Data. In: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 10, 2022, 1175--1192 |
| 2022 | Feng, Shutong and Lubis, Nurul and Geishauser, Christian and Lin, Hsien-chin and Heck, Michael and van Niekerk, Carel and Gasic, Milica: {E}mo{WOZ}: A Large-Scale Corpus and Labelling Scheme for Emotion Recognition in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems. In: Calzolari, Nicoletta and B{\'e}chet, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and Blache, Philippe and Choukri, Khalid and Cieri, Christopher and Declerck, Thierry and Goggi, Sara and Isahara, Hitoshi and Maegaard, Bente and Mariani, Joseph and Mazo, H{\'e}l{\`e}ne and Odijk, Jan and Piperidis, Stelios, Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. Marseille, France: European Language Resources Association, 2022. 4096--4113 |
| 2022 | Lin, Hsien-chin and Geishauser, Christian and Feng, Shutong and Lubis, Nurul and van Niekerk, Carel and Heck, Michael and Gasic, Milica: {G}en{TUS}: Simulating User Behaviour and Language in Task-oriented Dialogues with Generative Transformers. In: Lemon, Oliver and Hakkani-Tur, Dilek and Li, Junyi Jessy and Ashrafzadeh, Arash and Garcia, Daniel Hern{\'a}ndez and Alikhani, Malihe and Vandyke, David and Du{\v{s}}ek, Ond{\v{r}}ej, Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. Edinburgh, UK: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022. 270--282 |
| 2021 | Lin, Hsien-chin and Lubis, Nurul and Hu, Songbo and van Niekerk, Carel and Geishauser, Christian and Heck, Michael and Feng, Shutong and Gasic, Milica: Domain-independent User Simulation with Transformers for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems. In: Li, Haizhou and Levow, Gina-Anne and Yu, Zhou and Gupta, Chitralekha and Sisman, Berrak and Cai, Siqi and Vandyke, David and Dethlefs, Nina and Wu, Yan and Li, Junyi Jessy, Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. Singapore and Online: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021. 445--456 |
| 2021 | van Niekerk, Carel and Malinin, Andrey and Geishauser, Christian and Heck, Michael and Lin, Hsien-chin and Lubis, Nurul and Feng, Shutong and Gasic, Milica: Uncertainty Measures in Neural Belief Tracking and the Effects on Dialogue Policy Performance. In: Moens, Marie-Francine and Huang, Xuanjing and Specia, Lucia and Yih, Scott Wen-tau, Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021. 7901--7914 |
| 2021 | Geishauser, C. and Hu, S. and Lin, H. and Lubis, N. and Heck, M. and Feng, S. and van Niekerk, C. and Gašić, M.: What does the User Want? Information Gain for Hierarchical Dialogue Policy Optimisation. 2021 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU). 2021. 969-976 |
| 2020 | Lubis, Nurul and Heck, Michael and van Niekerk, Carel and Gašić, Milica: Adaptable Conversational Machines. In: AI Magazine, 41, 2020, 28-44 |
| 2020 | van Niekerk, Carel and Heck, Michael and Geishauser, Christian and Lin, Hsien-chin and Lubis, Nurul and Moresi, Marco and Gasic, Milica: Knowing What You Know: Calibrating Dialogue Belief State Distributions via Ensembles. In: Cohn, Trevor and He, Yulan and Liu, Yang, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020. Online: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020. 3096--3102 |
| 2020 | Heck, Michael and Geishauser, Christian and Lin, Hsien-chin and Lubis, Nurul and Moresi, Marco and van Niekerk, Carel and Gasic, Milica: Out-of-Task Training for Dialog State Tracking Models. In: Scott, Donia and Bel, Nuria and Zong, Chengqing, Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Barcelona, Spain (Online): International Committee on Computational Linguistics, 2020. 6767--6774 |
| 2020 | Lubis, Nurul and Geishauser, Christian and Heck, Michael and Lin, Hsien-chin and Moresi, Marco and van Niekerk, Carel and Gasic, Milica: {LAVA}: Latent Action Spaces via Variational Auto-encoding for Dialogue Policy Optimization. In: Scott, Donia and Bel, Nuria and Zong, Chengqing, Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Barcelona, Spain (Online): International Committee on Computational Linguistics, 2020. 465--479 |
| 2020 | Heck, Michael and van Niekerk, Carel and Lubis, Nurul and Geishauser, Christian and Lin, Hsien-Chin and Moresi, Marco and Gasic, Milica: {T}rip{P}y: A Triple Copy Strategy for Value Independent Neural Dialog State Tracking. In: Pietquin, Olivier and Muresan, Smaranda and Chen, Vivian and Kennington, Casey and Vandyke, David and Dethlefs, Nina and Inoue, Koji and Ekstedt, Erik and Ultes, Stefan, Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. 1st virtual meeting: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020. 35--44 |
| 2019 | Wesselmann, Paula and Wu, Yen-Chen and Gašić, Milica: Curiosity-driven Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Management. ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). 2019. 7210-7214 |
| 2019 | Tseng, Bo-Hsiang and Budzianowski, Pawe{\l} and Wu, Yen-chen and Gasic, Milica: Tree-Structured Semantic Encoder with Knowledge Sharing for Domain Adaptation in Natural Language Generation. In: Nakamura, Satoshi and Gasic, Milica and Zukerman, Ingrid and Skantze, Gabriel and Nakano, Mikio and Papangelis, Alexandros and Ultes, Stefan and Yoshino, Koichiro, Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. Stockholm, Sweden: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019. 155--164 |
| 2018 | Chen, Lu and Chang, Cheng and Chen, Zhi and Tan, Bowen and Gašić, Milica and Yu, Kai: Policy Adaptation for Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Dialogue Management. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). 2018. 6074-6078 |