publications

2021

1. arXiv

   Style Control for Schema-Guided Natural Language Generation

   Tsai, Alicia Y, Oraby, Shereen, Perera, Vittorio, Kao, Jiun-Yu, Du, Yuheng, Narayan-Chen, Anjali, Chung, Tagyoung, and Hakkani-Tur, Dilek

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.12211 2021

   Bib

   @article{tsai2021style,
     abbr = {arXiv},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {Style Control for Schema-Guided Natural Language Generation},
     author = {Tsai, Alicia Y and Oraby, Shereen and Perera, Vittorio and Kao, Jiun-Yu and Du, Yuheng and Narayan-Chen, Anjali and Chung, Tagyoung and Hakkani-Tur, Dilek},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.12211},
     year = {2021}
   }

2. arXiv

   Alexa Conversations: An Extensible Data-driven Approach for Building Task-oriented Dialogue Systems

   Acharya, Anish, Adhikari, Suranjit, Agarwal, Sanchit, Auvray, Vincent, Belgamwar, Nehal, Biswas, Arijit, Chandra, Shubhra, Chung, Tagyoung, Fazel-Zarandi, Maryam, Gabriel, Raefer, and others,

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.09088 2021

   Bib

   @article{acharya2021alexa,
     abbr = {arXiv},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {Alexa Conversations: An Extensible Data-driven Approach for Building Task-oriented Dialogue Systems},
     author = {Acharya, Anish and Adhikari, Suranjit and Agarwal, Sanchit and Auvray, Vincent and Belgamwar, Nehal and Biswas, Arijit and Chandra, Shubhra and Chung, Tagyoung and Fazel-Zarandi, Maryam and Gabriel, Raefer and others},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.09088},
     year = {2021}
   }

2020

1. INLG

   Schema-Guided Natural Language Generation

   Du, Yuheng, Oraby, Shereen, Perera, Vittorio, Shen, Minmin, Narayan-Chen, Anjali, Chung, Tagyoung, Venkatesh, Anushree, and Hakkani-Tur, Dilek

   In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation 2020

   Bib

   @inproceedings{du-etal-2020-schema,
     abbr = {INLG},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {Schema-Guided Natural Language Generation},
     author = {Du, Yuheng and Oraby, Shereen and Perera, Vittorio and Shen, Minmin and Narayan-Chen, Anjali and Chung, Tagyoung and Venkatesh, Anushree and Hakkani-Tur, Dilek},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation},
     year = {2020},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     selected = {true}
   }

2018

1. AAAI

   Multi-Task Learning for Parsing the Alexa Meaning Representation Language

   Perera, Vittorio, Chung, Tagyoung, Kollar, Thomas, and Strubell, Emma

   In Proceedings of the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (AAAI-18) 2018

   Bib

   @inproceedings{perera2018multi,
     abbr = {AAAI},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {Multi-Task Learning for Parsing the Alexa Meaning Representation Language},
     author = {Perera, Vittorio and Chung, Tagyoung and Kollar, Thomas and Strubell, Emma},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-Second {AAAI} Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (AAAI-18)},
     year = {2018},
     publisher = {{AAAI} Press},
     selected = {true}
   }

2017

1. IEEE-RAS

   Autonomous narration of humanoid robot kitchen task experience

   Zhu, Qingxiaoyang, Perera, Vittorio, Wächter, Mirko, Asfour, Tamim, and Veloso, Manuela

   In 2017 IEEE-RAS 17th international conference on humanoid robotics (humanoids) 2017

   Bib

   @inproceedings{zhu2017autonomous,
     abbr = {IEEE-RAS},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {Autonomous narration of humanoid robot kitchen task experience},
     author = {Zhu, Qingxiaoyang and Perera, Vittorio and W{\"a}chter, Mirko and Asfour, Tamim and Veloso, Manuela},
     booktitle = {2017 IEEE-RAS 17th international conference on humanoid robotics (humanoids)},
     year = {2017},
     publisher = {IEEE}
   }

2. RO-MAN

   Learning to understand questions on the task history of a service robot

   Perera, Vittorio, and Veloso, Manuela

   In 2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) 2017

   Bib

   @inproceedings{perera2017learning,
     abbr = {RO-MAN},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {Learning to understand questions on the task history of a service robot},
     author = {Perera, Vittorio and Veloso, Manuela},
     booktitle = {2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)},
     year = {2017},
     publisher = {IEEE}
   }

2016

1. RO-MAN

   Dynamic Generation and Refinement of Robot Verbalization

   Perera, Vittorio, Selveraj, Sai P, Rosenthal, Stephanie, and Veloso, Manuela

   In 2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) 2016

   Bib

   @inproceedings{perera2016dynamic,
     abbr = {RO-MAN},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {Dynamic Generation and Refinement of Robot Verbalization},
     author = {Perera, Vittorio and Selveraj, Sai P and Rosenthal, Stephanie and Veloso, Manuela},
     booktitle = {2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)},
     year = {2016},
     publisher = {IEEE}
   }

2015

1. IJCAI

   Handling Complex Commands as Service Robot Task Requests

   Perera, Vittorio, and Veloso, Manuela

   In Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2015

   Bib

   @inproceedings{perera2015handling,
     abbr = {IJCAI},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {Handling Complex Commands as Service Robot Task Requests},
     author = {Perera, Vittorio and Veloso, Manuela},
     booktitle = {Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
     year = {2015},
     publisher = {{AAAI} Press}
   }

2. Robotics

   Learning Task Knowledge from Dialog and Web Access

   Perera, Vittorio, Soetens, Robin, Kollar, Thomas, Samadi, Mehdi, Sun, Yichao, Nardi, Daniele, Molengraft, René, and Veloso, Manuela

   Robotics 2015

   Bib

   @article{perera2015learning,
     abbr = {Robotics},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {Learning Task Knowledge from Dialog and Web Access},
     author = {Perera, Vittorio and Soetens, Robin and Kollar, Thomas and Samadi, Mehdi and Sun, Yichao and Nardi, Daniele and van de Molengraft, Ren{\'e} and Veloso, Manuela},
     journal = {Robotics},
     year = {2015},
     publisher = {Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute},
     selected = {true}
   }

2013

1. ICRA

   Learning environmental knowledge from task-based human-robot dialog

   Kollar, Thomas, Perera, Vittorio, Nardi, Daniele, and Veloso, Manuela

   In Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2013 IEEE International Conference on 2013

   Bib

   @inproceedings{kollar2013learning,
     abbr = {ICRA},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {Learning environmental knowledge from task-based human-robot dialog},
     author = {Kollar, Thomas and Perera, Vittorio and Nardi, Daniele and Veloso, Manuela},
     booktitle = {Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2013 IEEE International Conference on},
     year = {2013},
     publisher = {IEEE}
   }

2. AGI

   Knowledgeable talking robots

   Aiello, Luigia Carlucci, Bastianelli, Emanuele, Iocchi, Luca, Nardi, Daniele, Perera, Vittorio, and Randelli, Gabriele

   In International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence 2013

   Bib

   @inproceedings{aiello2013knowledgeable,
     abbr = {AGI},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {Knowledgeable talking robots},
     author = {Aiello, Luigia Carlucci and Bastianelli, Emanuele and Iocchi, Luca and Nardi, Daniele and Perera, Vittorio and Randelli, Gabriele},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence},
     year = {2013},
     publisher = {Springer}
   }

3. AI*IA

   Kernel-based discriminative re-ranking for spoken command understanding in hri

   Basili, Roberto, Bastianelli, Emanuele, Castellucci, Giuseppe, Nardi, Daniele, and Perera, Vittorio

   In Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence 2013

   Bib

   @inproceedings{basili2013kernel,
     abbr = {AI*IA},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {Kernel-based discriminative re-ranking for spoken command understanding in hri},
     author = {Basili, Roberto and Bastianelli, Emanuele and Castellucci, Giuseppe and Nardi, Daniele and Perera, Vittorio},
     booktitle = {Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence},
     year = {2013},
     publisher = {Springer}
   }

2012

1. ICSR

   A multi-modal approach for natural human-robot interaction

   Kollar, Thomas, Vedantham, Anu, Sobel, Corey, Chang, Cory, Perera, Vittorio, and Veloso, Manuela

   In International Conference on Social Robotics 2012

   Bib

   @inproceedings{kollar2012multi,
     abbr = {ICSR},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {A multi-modal approach for natural human-robot interaction},
     author = {Kollar, Thomas and Vedantham, Anu and Sobel, Corey and Chang, Cory and Perera, Vittorio and Veloso, Manuela},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Social Robotics},
     year = {2012},
     publisher = {Springer}
   }