Overview of the Tenth Dialog System Technology Challenge: DSTC10 - Koichiro Yoshino; Yun-Nung Chen; Paul A. Crook; Satwik Kottur; Jinchao Li; Behnam Hedayatnia; Seungwhan Moon; Zhengcong Fei; Zekang Li; Jinchao Zhang; Yang Feng; Jie Zhou; et al. (IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2024)

Text Mining with MATLAB®, Second Edition - Rafael E. Banchs (Springer, 2021)

Automatic Evaluation and Moderation of Open-domain Dialogue Systems - Chen Zhang; João Sedoc; Luis Fernando D'Haro; Rafael E. Banchs; Alexander Rudnicky (CoRR, 2021)

Deep AM-FM: Toolkit for Automatic Dialogue Evaluation - Chen Zhang; Luis Fernando D'Haro; Rafael E. Banchs; Thomas Friedrichs; Haizhou Li (Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade - 11th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, IWSDS 2020, Madrid, Spain, 21-23 September, 2020, 2020)

Automatic evaluation of end-to-end dialog systems with adequacy-fluency metrics - Luis Fernando D'Haro; Rafael E. Banchs; Chiori Hori; Haizhou Li (Comput. Speech Lang., 2019)

Joint Learning of Word and Label Embeddings for Sequence Labelling in Spoken Language Understanding - Jiewen Wu; Luis Fernando D'Haro; Nancy F. Chen; Pavitra Krishnaswamy; Rafael E. Banchs (IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, ASRU 2019, Singapore, December 14-18, 2019, 2019)

Reranking of Responses Using Transfer Learning for a Retrieval-Based Chatbot - Ibrahim Taha Aksu; Nancy F. Chen; Luis Fernando D'Haro; Rafael E. Banchs (Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction - 10th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, IWSDS 2019, Syracuse, Sicily, Italy, 24-26 April 2019, 2019)

Online FAQ Chatbot for Customer Support - Thi-Ly Vu; Zin Tun Kyaw; Chng Eng Siong; Rafael E. Banchs (Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction - 10th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, IWSDS 2019, Syracuse, Sicily, Italy, 24-26 April 2019, 2019)

Overview of the Dialogue Breakdown Detection Challenge 4 - Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Luis F. D'Haro; Bayan Abu Shawar; Rafael E. Banchs; Kotaro Funakoshi; Michimasa Inaba; Yuiko Tsunomori; Tetsuro Takahashi; João Sedoc (Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction - 10th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, IWSDS 2019, Syracuse, Sicily, Italy, 24-26 April 2019, 2019)

9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology, IWSDS 2018, Singapore, April 18-20, 2018 - Luis Fernando D'Haro; Rafael E. Banchs; Haizhou Li (Springer, 2019)

Joint Learning of Word and Label Embeddings for Sequence Labelling in Spoken Language Understanding - Jiewen Wu; Luis Fernando D'Haro; Nancy F. Chen; Pavitra Krishnaswamy; Rafael E. Banchs (CoRR, 2019)

Attention-based Semantic Priming for Slot-filling - Jiewen Wu; Rafael E. Banchs; Luis Fernando D'Haro; Pavitra Krishnaswamy; Nancy F. Chen (Proceedings of the Seventh Named Entities Workshop, NEWS@ACL 2018, Melbourne, Australia, July 20, 2018, 2018)

NEWS 2018 Whitepaper - Nancy F. Chen; Xiangyu Duan; Min Zhang; Rafael E. Banchs; Haizhou Li (Proceedings of the Seventh Named Entities Workshop, NEWS@ACL 2018, Melbourne, Australia, July 20, 2018, 2018)

Report of NEWS 2018 Named Entity Transliteration Shared Task - Nancy F. Chen; Rafael E. Banchs; Min Zhang; Xiangyu Duan; Haizhou Li (Proceedings of the Seventh Named Entities Workshop, NEWS@ACL 2018, Melbourne, Australia, July 20, 2018, 2018)

Multi-Modal Robot Apprenticeship: Imitation Learning Using Linearly Decayed DMP+ in a Human-Robot Dialogue System - Yan Wu; Ruohan Wang; Luis F. D'Haro; Rafael E. Banchs; Keng Peng Tee (2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2018, Madrid, Spain, October 1-5, 2018, 2018)

Humor Intelligence for Virtual Agents - Andreea I. Niculescu; Rafael E. Banchs (9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology, IWSDS 2018, Singapore, April 18-20, 2018, 2018)

Chatbol, a Chatbot for the Spanish "La Liga" - Carlos Segura; Àlex Palau; Jordi Luque; Marta R. Costa-jussà; Rafael E. Banchs (9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology, IWSDS 2018, Singapore, April 18-20, 2018, 2018)

Proceedings of the Seventh Named Entities Workshop, NEWS@ACL 2018, Melbourne, Australia, July 20, 2018 - Nancy F. Chen; Rafael E. Banchs; Xiangyu Duan; Min Zhang; Haizhou Li (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018)

Continuous space models for CLIR - Parth Gupta; Rafael E. Banchs; Paolo Rosso (Inf. Process. Manag., 2017)

An integrated framework for multimodal human-robot interaction - Luis Fernando D'Haro; Andreea I. Niculescu; Caixia Cai; Suraj Nair; Rafael E. Banchs; Alois C. Knoll; Haizhou Li (2017 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA ASC 2017, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 12-15, 2017, 2017)

When industrial robots become social: On the design and evaluation of a multimodal interface for welding robots - Andreea I. Niculescu; Luis Fernando D'Haro; Rafael E. Banchs (2017 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA ASC 2017, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 12-15, 2017, 2017)

On the construction of more human-like chatbots: Affect and emotion analysis of movie dialogue data - Rafael E. Banchs (2017 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA ASC 2017, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 12-15, 2017, 2017)

Towards improving the performance of chat oriented dialogue system - Ridong Jiang; Rafael E. Banchs (2017 International Conference on Asian Language Processing, IALP 2017, Singapore, December 5-7, 2017, 2017)

Squeezing bottlenecks: Exploring the limits of autoencoder semantic representation capabilities - Parth Gupta; Rafael E. Banchs; Paolo Rosso (Neurocomputing, 2016)

Cross-language plagiarism detection over continuous-space- and knowledge graph-based representations of language - Marc Franco-Salvador; Parth Gupta; Paolo Rosso; Rafael E. Banchs (Knowl. Based Syst., 2016)

A deep source-context feature for lexical selection in statistical machine translation - Parth Gupta; Marta R. Costa-jussà; Paolo Rosso; Rafael E. Banchs (Pattern Recognit. Lett., 2016)

Exploring Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks in Sequential Labelling for Dialogue Topic Tracking - Seokhwan Kim; Rafael E. Banchs; Haizhou Li (Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016, August 7-12, 2016, Berlin, Germany, Volume 1: Long Papers, 2016)

Evaluating and Combining Name Entity Recognition Systems - Ridong Jiang; Rafael E. Banchs; Haizhou Li (Proceedings of the Sixth Named Entity Workshop, NEWS@ACL 2016, Berlin, Germany, August 12, 2016, 2016)

Whitepaper of NEWS 2016 Shared Task on Machine Transliteration - Xiangyu Duan; Min Zhang; Haizhou Li; Rafael E. Banchs; A. Kumaran (Proceedings of the Sixth Named Entity Workshop, NEWS@ACL 2016, Berlin, Germany, August 12, 2016, 2016)

Report of NEWS 2016 Machine Transliteration Shared Task - Xiangyu Duan; Rafael E. Banchs; Min Zhang; Haizhou Li; A. Kumaran (Proceedings of the Sixth Named Entity Workshop, NEWS@ACL 2016, Berlin, Germany, August 12, 2016, 2016)

A Report on the Automatic Evaluation of Scientific Writing Shared Task - Vidas Daudaravicius; Rafael E. Banchs; Elena Volodina; Courtney Napoles (Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, BEA@NAACL-HLT 2016, June 16, 2016, San Diego, California, USA, 2016)

A Multimodal Control Architecture for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - Marco Antonio Gutierrez; Luis Fernando D'Haro; Rafael E. Banchs (Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Human Agent Interaction, HAI 2016, Biopolis, Singapore, October 4-7, 2016, 2016)

Designing MUSE: A Multimodal User Experience for a Shopping Mall Kiosk - Andreea I. Niculescu; Kheng Hui Yeo; Rafael Enrique Banchs (Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Human Agent Interaction, HAI 2016, Biopolis, Singapore, October 4-7, 2016, 2016)

A Web-based Platform for Collection of Human-Chatbot Interactions - Lue Lin; Luis Fernando D'Haro; Rafael E. Banchs (Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Human Agent Interaction, HAI 2016, Biopolis, Singapore, October 4-7, 2016, 2016)

Automatic Correction of ASR Outputs by Using Machine Translation - Luis Fernando D'Haro; Rafael E. Banchs (17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA, September 8-12, 2016, 2016)

The Fourth Dialog State Tracking Challenge - Seokhwan Kim; Luis Fernando D'Haro; Rafael E. Banchs; Jason D. Williams; Matthew Henderson (Dialogues with Social Robots - Enablements, Analyses, and Evaluation, Seventh International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, IWSDS 2016, Saariselkä, Finland, January 13-16, 2016, 2016)

The fifth dialog state tracking challenge - Seokhwan Kim; Luis Fernando D'Haro; Rafael E. Banchs; Jason D. Williams; Matthew Henderson; Koichiro Yoshino (2016 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2016, San Diego, CA, USA, December 13-16, 2016, 2016)

Proceedings of the Sixth Named Entity Workshop, NEWS@ACL 2016, Berlin, Germany, August 12, 2016 - Xiangyu Duan; Rafael E. Banchs; Min Zhang; Haizhou Li; A. Kumaran (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016)

Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation, HyTra@COLING, Osaka, Japan, December 11, 2016 - Patrik Lambert; Bogdan Babych; Kurt Eberle; Rafael E. Banchs; Reinhard Rapp; Marta R. Costa-jussà (The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee, 2016)

Adequacy-Fluency Metrics: Evaluating MT in the Continuous Space Model Framework - Rafael E. Banchs; Luis F. D'Haro; Haizhou Li (IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2015)

Decoupling Word-Pair Distance and Co-occurrence Information for Effective Long History Context Language Modeling - Tze Yuang Chong; Rafael E. Banchs; Engsiong Chng; Haizhou Li (IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2015)

CLARA: A Multifunctional Virtual Agent for Conference Support and Touristic Information - Luis Fernando D'Haro; Seokhwan Kim; Kheng Hui Yeo; Ridong Jiang; Andreea I. Niculescu; Rafael E. Banchs; Haizhou Li (Natural Language Dialog Systems and Intelligent Assistants, 6th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, IWSDS 2015, Busan, Korea, January 11-13, 2015, 2015)

Whitepaper of NEWS 2015 Shared Task on Machine Transliteration - Min Zhang; Haizhou Li; Rafael E. Banchs; A. Kumaran (Proceedings of the Fifth Named Entity Workshop, NEWS@ACL 2015, Beijing, China, July 31, 2015, 2015)

Report of NEWS 2015 Machine Transliteration Shared Task - Rafael E. Banchs; Min Zhang; Xiangyu Duan; Haizhou Li; A. Kumaran (Proceedings of the Fifth Named Entity Workshop, NEWS@ACL 2015, Beijing, China, July 31, 2015, 2015)

A robust spoken Q&A system with scarce in-domain resources - Luis Fernando D'Haro; Seokhwan Kim; Rafael E. Banchs (Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA 2015, Hong Kong, December 16-19, 2015, 2015)

Automatic ranking of swear words using word embeddings and pseudo-relevance feedback - Luis Fernando D'Haro; Rafael E. Banchs (Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA 2015, Hong Kong, December 16-19, 2015, 2015)

Configuration of dialogue agent with multiple knowledge sources - Ridong Jiang; Rafael E. Banchs; Seokhwan Kim; Luis F. D'Haro; Andreea I. Niculescu; Kheng Hui Yeo (Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA 2015, Hong Kong, December 16-19, 2015, 2015)

RevUP: Automatic Gap-Fill Question Generation from Educational Texts - Girish Kumar; Rafael E. Banchs; Luis Fernando D'Haro (Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, BEA@NAACL-HLT 2015, June 4, 2015, Denver, Colorado, USA, 2015)

Wikification of Concept Mentions within Spoken Dialogues Using Domain Constraints from Wikipedia - Seokhwan Kim; Rafael E. Banchs; Haizhou Li (Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2015, Lisbon, Portugal, September 17-21, 2015, 2015)

Automatic fill-the-blank question generator for student self-assessment - Girish Kumar; Rafael E. Banchs; Luis Fernando D'Haro (2015 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2015, El Paso, TX, USA, October 21-24, 2015, 2015)

Automated Simultaneous Interpretation: Hints of a Cognitive Framework for Machine Translation - Rafael E. Banchs (Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation, HyTra@ACL 2015, July 31, 2015, Beijing, China, 2015)

Towards improving the performance of Vector Space Model for Chinese Frequently Asked Question Answering - Ridong Jiang; Seokhwan Kim; Rafael E. Banchs; Haizhou Li (2015 International Conference on Asian Language Processing, IALP 2015, Suzhou, China, October 24-25, 2015, 2015)

Designing IDA - An Intelligent Driver Assistant for Smart City Parking in Singapore - Andreea I. Niculescu; Mei Quin Lim; Seno A. Wibowo; Kheng Hui Yeo; Boon Pang Lim; Michael Popow; Dan Chia; Rafael E. Banchs (Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2015 - 15th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Bamberg, Germany, September 14-18, 2015, Proceedings, Part IV, 2015)

Smarter driving with IDA, the intelligent driving assistant for singapore - Andreea I. Niculescu; Ngoc Thuy Huong Thai; Chongjia Ni; Boon Pang Lim; Kheng Hui Yeo; Rafael E. Banchs (16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2015, Dresden, Germany, September 6-10, 2015, 2015)

Talk it out: adding speech interaction to support informational and transactional applications on public touch-screen kiosks - Kheng Hui Yeo; Rafael E. Banchs (16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2015, Dresden, Germany, September 6-10, 2015, 2015)

Conversational agent and management tools for conference and tourism domain - Luis Fernando D'Haro; Seokhwan Kim; Rafael E. Banchs (16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2015, Dresden, Germany, September 6-10, 2015, 2015)

TDTO language modeling with feedforward neural networks - Tze Yuang Chong; Rafael E. Banchs; Engsiong Chng; Haizhou Li (16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2015, Dresden, Germany, September 6-10, 2015, 2015)

The Path to Success: Failures in rEal Robots (FinE-R) - Luis Fernando D'Haro; Andreea I. Niculescu; Aravindkumar Vijayalingam; Marco A. Gutierrez; Suraj Nair; Rafael E. Banchs (Proceedings of the workshop the Path to Success: Failures in rEal Robots co-located with IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2015), Hamburg, Germany, October 1, 2015, 2015)

Perceptive Parallel Processes Coordinating Geometry and Texture - Marco A. Gutierrez; Rafael E. Banchs; Luis F. D'Haro (Proceedings of the Workshop on Multimodal and Semantics for Robotics Systems (MuSRobS) co-located with IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2015), Hamburg, Germany, October 1, 2015, 2015)

Towards Improving Dialogue Topic Tracking Performances with Wikification of Concept Mentions - Seokhwan Kim; Rafael E. Banchs; Haizhou Li (Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2015 Conference, The 16th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2-4 September 2015, Prague, Czech Republic, 2015)

Proceedings of the Fifth Named Entity Workshop, NEWS@ACL 2015, Beijing, China, July 31, 2015 - Xiangyu Duan; Rafael E. Banchs; Min Zhang; Haizhou Li; A. Kumaran (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015)

Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation, HyTra@ACL 2015, July 31, 2015, Beijing, China - Bogdan Babych; Kurt Eberle; Patrik Lambert; Reinhard Rapp; Rafael E. Banchs; Marta R. Costa-jussà (The Association for Computer Linguistics, 2015)

Proceedings of the Workshop on Multimodal and Semantics for Robotics Systems (MuSRobS) co-located with IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2015), Hamburg, Germany, October 1, 2015 - Marco A. Gutierrez; Rafael E. Banchs; Suraj Nair (CEUR-WS.org, 2015)

The Future of Human-Robot Spoken Dialogue: from Information Services to Virtual Assistants (NII Shonan Meeting 2015-7) - Rafael E. Banchs; Sakriani Sakti; Etsuo Mizukami (NII Shonan Meet. Rep., 2015)

On-line and Off-line Chinese-Portuguese Translation Service for Mobile Applications - Jordi Centelles; Marta R. Costa-jussà; Rafael E. Banchs; Alexander F. Gelbukh (Computación y Sistemas, 2014)

Using annotations on Mechanical Turk to perform supervised polarity classification of Spanish customer comments - Marta R. Costa-jussà; Jens Grivolla; Bart Mellebeek; Francesc Benavent; Joan Codina; Rafael E. Banchs (Inf. Sci., 2014)

Is there Hope for Interlingua methods? A CLIR Comparison Experiment between Interlingua and Query Translation - Marta R. Costa-jussà; Rafael E. Banchs (Res. Comput. Sci., 2014)

A Composite Kernel Approach for Dialog Topic Tracking with Structured Domain Knowledge from Wikipedia - Seokhwan Kim; Rafael E. Banchs; Haizhou Li (Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2014, June 22-27, 2014, Baltimore, MD, USA, Volume 2: Short Papers, 2014)

A Comparative Evaluation of 2D And 3D Visual Exploration of Document Search Results - Rafael E. Banchs (Information Retrieval Technology - 10th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2014, Kuching, Malaysia, December 3-5, 2014. Proceedings, 2014)

Emotional Links between Structure and Content in Online Communications - Rafael E. Banchs; Andreas Kaltenbrunner (Information Retrieval Technology - 10th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2014, Kuching, Malaysia, December 3-5, 2014. Proceedings, 2014)

An empirical evaluation of an IR-based strategy for chat-oriented dialogue systems - Rafael E. Banchs; Seokhwan Kim (Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA 2014, Chiang Mai, Thailand, December 9-12, 2014, 2014)

R-cube: A dialogue agent for restaurant recommendation and reservation - Seokhwan Kim; Rafael E. Banchs (Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA 2014, Chiang Mai, Thailand, December 9-12, 2014, 2014)

Design and evaluation of a conversational agent for the touristic domain - Andreea I. Niculescu; Kheng Hui Yeo; Luis F. D'Haro; Seokhwan Kim; Ridong Jiang; Rafael E. Banchs (Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA 2014, Chiang Mai, Thailand, December 9-12, 2014, 2014)

An IR-Based Strategy for Supporting Chinese-Portuguese Translation Services in Off-line Mode - Jordi Centelles; Marta Ruiz Costa-jussà; Rafael E. Banchs; Alexander F. Gelbukh (Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 15th International Conference, CICLing 2014, Kathmandu, Nepal, April 6-12, 2014, Proceedings, Part II, 2014)

CHISPA on the GO: A mobile Chinese-Spanish translation service for travellers in trouble - Jordi Centelles; Marta R. Costa-jussà; Rafael E. Banchs (Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2014, April 26-30, 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2014)

A Principled Approach to Context-Aware Machine Translation - Rafael E. Banchs (Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation, HyTra@EACL 2014, April 27, 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2014)

Wikipedia-based Kernels for dialogue topic tracking - Seokhwan Kim; Rafael E. Banchs; Haizhou Li (IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014, Florence, Italy, May 4-9, 2014, 2014)

Improving language modeling by using distance and co-occurrence information of word-pairs and its application to LVCSR - Tze Yuang Chong; Rafael E. Banchs; Engsiong Chng; Haizhou Li (IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014, Florence, Italy, May 4-9, 2014, 2014)

Spoken dialogue system for restaurant recommendation and reservation - Rafael E. Banchs; Seokhwan Kim (15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2014, Singapore, September 14-18, 2014, 2014)

A client mobile application for Chinese-Spanish statistical machine translation - Jordi Centelles; Marta R. Costa-jussà; Rafael E. Banchs (15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2014, Singapore, September 14-18, 2014, 2014)

SARA - singapore's automated responsive assistant for the touristic domain - Andreea I. Niculescu; Rafael E. Banchs; Ridong Jiang; Seokhwan Kim; Kheng Hui Yeo; Arthur Niswar (15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2014, Singapore, September 14-18, 2014, 2014)

SARA: Singapore's Automated Responsive Assistant, A Multimodal Dialogue System for Touristic Information - Andreea I. Niculescu; Ridong Jiang; Seokhwan Kim; Kheng Hui Yeo; Luis F. D'Haro; Arthur Niswar; Rafael E. Banchs (Mobile Web Information Systems - 11th International Conference, MobiWIS 2014, Barcelona, Spain, August 27-29, 2014. Proceedings, 2014)

Sequential Labeling for Tracking Dynamic Dialog States - Seokhwan Kim; Rafael E. Banchs (Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2014 Conference, The 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 18-20 June 2014, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2014)

Query expansion for mixed-script information retrieval - Parth Gupta; Kalika Bali; Rafael E. Banchs; Monojit Choudhury; Paolo Rosso (The 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '14, Gold Coast , QLD, Australia - July 06 - 11, 2014, 2014)

Why Industrial Robots Should Become More Social - On the Design of a Natural Language Interface for an Interactive Robot Welder - Andreea I. Niculescu; Rafael E. Banchs; Haizhou Li (Social Robotics - 6th International Conference, ICSR 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia, October 27-29, 2014. Proceedings, 2014)

English-to-Hindi system description for WMT 2014: Deep Source-Context Features for Moses - Marta R. Costa-jussà; Parth Gupta; Paolo Rosso; Rafael E. Banchs (Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, WMT@ACL 2014, June 26-27, 2014, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 2014)

Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation, HyTra@EACL 2014, April 27, 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden - Rafael E. Banchs; Marta R. Costa-jussà; Reinhard Rapp; Patrik Lambert; Kurt Eberle; Bogdan Babych (The Association for Computer Linguistics, 2014)

Evaluating Indirect Strategies for Chinese-Spanish Statistical Machine Translation - Marta R. Costa-jussà; Carlos A. Henríquez Q.; Rafael E. Banchs (CoRR, 2014)

Squeezing bottlenecks: exploring the limits of autoencoder semantic representation capabilities - Parth Gupta; Rafael E. Banchs; Paolo Rosso (CoRR, 2014)

Cross-Language Document Retrieval by using nonlinear Semantic Mapping - Rafael E. Banchs; Marta R. Costa-jussà (Appl. Artif. Intell., 2013)

Automatic normalization of short texts by combining statistical and rule-based techniques - Marta R. Costa-jussà; Rafael E. Banchs (Lang. Resour. Evaluation, 2013)

Modeling of term-distance and term-occurrence information for improving n-gram language model performance - Tze Yuang Chong; Rafael E. Banchs; Engsiong Chng; Haizhou Li (Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2013, 4-9 August 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria, Volume 2: Short Papers, 2013)

Meaning Unit Segmentation in English and Chinese: a New Approach to Discourse Phenomena - Jennifer Williams; Rafael Enrique Banchs; Haizhou Li (Proceedings of the Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation, DiscoMT@ACL 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 9, 2013, 2013)

PAN@FIRE: Overview of the Cross-Language !ndian News Story Search (CL!NSS) Track - Parth Gupta; Paul D. Clough; Paolo Rosso; Mark Stevenson; Rafael E. Banchs (Proceedings of the 5th 2013 Forum on Information Retrieval Evaluation, FIRE '13, New Delhi, India, December 4-6, 2013, 2013)

Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation: Overview and Developments - Marta R. Costa-jussà; Rafael E. Banchs; Reinhard Rapp; Patrik Lambert; Kurt Eberle; Bogdan Babych (Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation, HyTra@ACL 2013, August 8, 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2013)

Evaluating Indirect Strategies for Chinese - Spanish Statistical Machine Translation: Extended Abstract - Marta R. Costa-jussà; Carlos A. Henríquez Q.; Rafael E. Banchs (IJCAI 2013, Proceedings of the 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Beijing, China, August 3-9, 2013, 2013)

AIDA: Artificial Intelligent Dialogue Agent - Rafael E. Banchs; Ridong Jiang; Seokhwan Kim; Arthur Niswar; Kheng Hui Yeo (Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, The 14th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 22-24 August 2013, SUPELEC, Metz, France, 2013)

Information Retrieval Technology - 9th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2013, Singapore, December 9-11, 2013. Proceedings - Rafael E. Banchs; Fabrizio Silvestri; Tie-Yan Liu; Min Zhang; Sheng Gao; Jun Lang (Springer, 2013)

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation, HyTra@ACL 2013, August 8, 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria - Marta R. Costa-jussà; Reinhard Rapp; Patrik Lambert; Kurt Eberle; Rafael E. Banchs; Bogdan Babych (The Association for Computer Linguistics, 2013)

Evaluating Indirect Strategies for Chinese-Spanish Statistical Machine Translation - Marta R. Costa-jussà; Carlos A. Henríquez Q.; Rafael E. Banchs (J. Artif. Intell. Res., 2012)

BIA: a Discriminative Phrase Alignment Toolkit - Patrik Lambert; Rafael E. Banchs (Prague Bull. Math. Linguistics, 2012)

IRIS: a Chat-oriented Dialogue System based on the Vector Space Model - Rafael E. Banchs; Haizhou Li (The 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the System Demonstrations, July 10, 2012, Jeju Island, Korea, 2012)

Movie-DiC: a Movie Dialogue Corpus for Research and Development - Rafael E. Banchs (The 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference, July 8-14, 2012, Jeju Island, Korea - Volume 2: Short Papers, 2012)

An Empirical Evaluation of Stop Word Removal in Statistical Machine Translation - Tze Yuang Chong; Rafael E. Banchs; Eng Siong Chng (Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Exploiting Synergies between Information Retrieval and Machine Translation (ESIRMT) and Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation HyTra@EACL 2012, Avignon, France, April 23-27, 2012, 2012)

Proceedings of the Special Workshop on Rediscovering 50 Years of Discoveries@ACL 2012, Jeju Island, Korea, July 10, 2012 - Rafael E. Banchs (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012)

Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Exploiting Synergies between Information Retrieval and Machine Translation (ESIRMT) and Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation HyTra@EACL 2012, Avignon, France, April 23-27, 2012 - Marta R. Costa-jussà; Patrik Lambert; Rafael E. Banchs; Reinhard Rapp; Bogdan Babych (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012)

A vector-space dynamic feature for phrase-based statistical machine translation - Marta R. Costa-jussà; Rafael E. Banchs (J. Intell. Inf. Syst., 2011)

Evaluación de estrategias para la traducción automática estadística de chino a castellano con el inglés como lengua pivote - Marta R. Costa-jussà; Carlos A. Henríquez Q.; Rafael E. Banchs; José B. Mariño (Proces. del Leng. Natural, 2011)

AM-FM: A Semantic Framework for Translation Quality Assessment - Rafael E. Banchs; Haizhou Li (The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference, 19-24 June, 2011, Portland, Oregon, USA - Short Papers, 2011)

Comparative Evaluation of Spanish Segmentation Strategies for Spanish-Chinese Transliteration - Rafael E. Banchs (Proceedings of the 3rd Named Entities Workshop, NEWS@IJCNLP 2011, Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 12, 2011, 2011)

Deriving translation units using small additional corpora - Carlos A. Henríquez Q.; José B. Mariño; Rafael E. Banchs (Proceedings of the 15th Annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2011, Leuven, Belgium, May 30-31, 2011, 2011)

Deriving translation units using small additional corpora - Carlos A. Henríquez Q.; José B. Mariño; Rafael E. Banchs (Proceedings of the 15th Annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2011, Leuven, Belgium, May 30-31, 2011, 2011)

Enhancing scarce-resource language translation through pivot combinations - Marta R. Costa-jussà; Carlos A. Henríquez Q.; Rafael E. Banchs (Fifth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2011, Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 8-13, 2011, 2011)

A Semantic Feature for Statistical Machine Translation - Rafael E. Banchs; Marta R. Costa-jussà (Proceedings of Fifth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation, SSST@ACL 2011, Portland, Oregon, USA, 23 June, 2011, 2011)

The BM-I2R Haitian-Créole-to-English translation system description for the WMT 2011 evaluation campaign - Marta R. Costa-jussà; Rafael E. Banchs (Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, WMT@EMNLP 2011, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 30-31, 2011, 2011)

The structure of political discussion networks: a model for the analysis of online deliberation - Sandra González-Bailón; Andreas Kaltenbrunner; Rafael E. Banchs (J. Inf. Technol., 2010)

Using collocation segmentation to extract translation units in a phrase-based statistical machine translation system - Marta R. Costa-jussà; Vidas Daudaravicius; Rafael E. Banchs (Proces. del Leng. Natural, 2010)

Urban cycles and mobility patterns: Exploring and predicting trends in a bicycle-based public transport system - Andreas Kaltenbrunner; Rodrigo Meza; Jens Grivolla; Joan Codina; Rafael E. Banchs (Pervasive Mob. Comput., 2010)

Plagiarism Detection Using Information Retrieval and Similarity Measures Based on Image Processing Techniques - Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010 - Marta R. Costa-jussà; Rafael E. Banchs; Jens Grivolla; Joan Codina (CLEF 2010 LABs and Workshops, Notebook Papers, 22-23 September 2010, Padua, Italy, 2010)

Integration of statistical collocation segmentations in a phrase-based statistical machine translation system - Marta R. Costa-jussà; Vidas Daudaravicius; Rafael E. Banchs (Proceedings of the 14th Annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2010, Saint Raphaël, France, May 27-28, 2010, 2010)

Sentence Similarity-Based Source Context Modelling in PBSMT - Rejwanul Haque; Sudip Kumar Naskar; Andy Way; Marta R. Costa-jussà; Rafael E. Banchs (International Conference on Asian Language Processing, IALP 2010, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China, 28-30 December 2010, 2010)

Where are you From? - Tell Me HOW you Write and I Will Tell you WHO you are - Marta R. Costa-jussà; Rafael E. Banchs; Joan Codina (ICAART 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Volume 1 - Artificial Intelligence, Valencia, Spain, January 22-24, 2010, 2010)

I\(^2\)r's machine translation system for IWSLT 2010 - Xiangyu Duan; Rafael E. Banchs; Jun Lang; Deyi Xiong; AiTi Aw; Min Zhang; Haizhou Li (2010 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2010, Paris, France, December 2-3, 2010, 2010)

UPC-BMIC-VDU system description for the IWSLT 2010: testing several collocation segmentations in a phrase-based SMT system - Carlos A. Henríquez Q.; Marta R. Costa-jussà; Vidas Daudaravicius; Rafael E. Banchs; José B. Mariño (2010 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2010, Paris, France, December 2-3, 2010, 2010)

Opinion Mining of Spanish Customer Comments with Non-Expert Annotations on Mechanical Turk - Bart Mellebeek; Francesc Benavent; Jens Grivolla; Joan Codina; Marta R. Costa-jussà; Rafael E. Banchs (Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Creating Speech and Language Data with Amazon's Mechanical Turk, Los Angeles, USA, June 6, 2010, 2010)

A Non-linear Semantic Mapping Technique for Cross-Language Sentence Matching - Rafael E. Banchs; Marta R. Costa-jussà (Advances in Natural Language Processing, 7th International Conference on NLP, IceTAL 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland, August 16-18, 2010, 2010)

Using Collocation Segmentation to Augment the Phrase Table - Carlos A. Henríquez Q.; Marta Ruiz Costa-jussà; Vidas Daudaravicius; Rafael E. Banchs; José B. Mariño (Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR, WMT@ACL 2010, Uppsala, Sweden, July 15-16, 2010, 2010)

Emotional Reactions and the Pulse of Public Opinion: Measuring the Impact of Political Events on the Sentiment of Online Discussions - Sandra González-Bailón; Rafael E. Banchs; Andreas Kaltenbrunner (CoRR, 2010)

Extracción crosslingüe de documentos usando mapas semánticos no-lineales - Rafael E. Banchs; Marta R. Costa-jussà (Proces. del Leng. Natural, 2009)

Semantic Mapping for Related Term Identification - Rafael E. Banchs (Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 10th International Conference, CICLing 2009, Mexico City, Mexico, March 1-7, 2009. Proceedings, 2009)

Barcelona media SMT system description for the IWSLT 2009: introducing source context information - Marta R. Costa-jussà; Rafael E. Banchs (2009 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2009, Tokyo, Japan, December 1-2, 2009, 2009)

Barcelona Media SMT system description for the IWSLT 2009 - Marta R. Costa-jussà; Rafael E. Banchs (Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign@IWSLT 2009, Tokyo, Japan, December 1-2, 2009, 2009)

The TALP-UPC Phrase-Based Translation System for EACL-WMT 2009 - José A. R. Fonollosa; Maxim Khalilov; Marta R. Costa-jussà; José B. Mariño; Carlos A. Henríquez Q.; Adolfo Hernández; Rafael E. Banchs (Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, WMT@EACL 2009, Athens, Greece, March 30-31, 2009, 2009)

System Combination for Machine Translation of Spoken and Written Language - Evgeny Matusov; Gregor Leusch; Rafael E. Banchs; Nicola Bertoldi; Daniel Déchelotte; Marcello Federico; Muntsin Kolss; Young-Suk Lee; José B. Mariño; Matthias Paulik; Salim Roukos; Holger Schwenk; et al. (IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2008)

Word association models and search strategies for discriminative word alignment - Patrik Lambert; Rafael E. Banchs (Proceedings of the 12th Annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2008, Hamburg, Germany, September 22-23, 2008, 2008)

The TALP&I2r SMT systems for IWSLT 2008 - Maxim Khalilov; Marta R. Costa-jussà; Carlos A. Henríquez Q.; José A. R. Fonollosa; Adolfo Hernández; José B. Mariño; Rafael E. Banchs; Boxing Chen; Min Zhang; AiTi Aw; Haizhou Li (2008 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, October 20-21, 2008, 2008)

Exploiting MDS Projections for Cross-language IR - Rafael E. Banchs; Andreas Kaltenbrunner (Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2008, Singapore, July 20-24, 2008, 2008)

The TALP-UPC Ngram-Based Statistical Machine Translation System for ACL-WMT 2008 - Maxim Khalilov; Adolfo Hernández; Marta R. Costa-jussà; Josep Maria Crego; Carlos A. Henríquez Q.; Patrik Lambert; José A. R. Fonollosa; José B. Mariño; Rafael E. Banchs (Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, WMT@ACL 2008, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 19, 2008, 2008)

Bicycle cycles and mobility patterns - Exploring and characterizing data from a community bicycle program - Andreas Kaltenbrunner; Rodrigo Meza; Jens Grivolla; Joan Codina; Rafael E. Banchs (CoRR, 2008)

A neural stochastic multiscale optimization framework for sensor-based parameter estimation - Rafael E. Banchs; Hector Klie; Adolfo Rodriguez; Sunil G. Thomas; Mary F. Wheeler (Integr. Comput. Aided Eng., 2007)

The TALP n-gram-based SMT system for IWSLT 2007 - Patrik Lambert; Marta R. Costa-jussà; Josep Maria Crego; Maxim Khalilov; José B. Mariño; Rafael E. Banchs; José A. R. Fonollosa; Holger Schwenk (2007 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2007, Trento, Italy, October 15-16, 2007, 2007)

Discriminative Alignment Training without Annotated Data for Machine Translation - Patrik Lambert; Rafael E. Banchs; Josep Maria Crego (Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Proceedings, April 22-27, 2007, Rochester, New York, USA, 2007)

Human Evaluation of Machine Translation Through Binary System Comparisons - David Vilar; Gregor Leusch; Hermann Ney; Rafael E. Banchs (Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, WMT@ACL 2007, Prague, Czech Republic, June 23, 2007, 2007)

Ngram-Based Statistical Machine Translation Enhanced with Multiple Weighted Reordering Hypotheses - Marta R. Costa-jussà; Josep Maria Crego; Patrik Lambert; Maxim Khalilov; José A. R. Fonollosa; José B. Mariño; Rafael E. Banchs (Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, WMT@ACL 2007, Prague, Czech Republic, June 23, 2007, 2007)

N-gram-based Machine Translation - José B. Mariño; Rafael E. Banchs; Josep Maria Crego; Adrià de Gispert; Patrik Lambert; José A. R. Fonollosa; Marta R. Costa-jussà (Comput. Linguistics, 2006)

CHISPA-MT: Un consorcio para el desarrollo de sistemas de traducción automática entre las lenguas china y castellana - Rafael E. Banchs (Proces. del Leng. Natural, 2006)

Improving Statistical Word Alignments with Morpho-syntactic Transformations - Adrià de Gispert; Deepa Gupta; Maja Popovic; Patrik Lambert; José B. Mariño; Marcello Federico; Hermann Ney; Rafael E. Banchs (Advances in Natural Language Processing, 5th International Conference on NLP, FinTAL 2006, Turku, Finland, August 23-25, 2006, Proceedings, 2006)

A Neural Stochastic Optimization Framework for Oil Parameter Estimation - Rafael E. Banchs; Hector Klie; Adolfo Rodriguez; Sunil G. Thomas; Mary F. Wheeler (Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - IDEAL 2006, 7th International Conference, Burgos, Spain, September 20-23, 2006, Proceedings, 2006)

A Feasibility Study for Chinese-Spanish Statistical Machine Translation - Rafael E. Banchs; Josep Maria Crego; Patrik Lambert; José B. Mariño (5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, ISCSLP 2006, Singapore, December 13-16, 2006, 2006)

The TALP n-gram-based SMT system for IWSLT 2006 - Josep Maria Crego; Adrià de Gispert; Patrik Lambert; Maxim Khalilov; Marta R. Costa-jussà; José B. Mariño; Rafael E. Banchs; José A. R. Fonollosa (2006 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2006, Keihanna Science City, Kyoto, Japan, November 27-28, 2006, 2006)

TALP phrase-based system and TALP system combination for IWSLT 2006 - Marta R. Costa-jussà; Josep Maria Crego; Adrià de Gispert; Patrik Lambert; Maxim Khalilov; José A. R. Fonollosa; José B. Mariño; Rafael E. Banchs (2006 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2006, Keihanna Science City, Kyoto, Japan, November 27-28, 2006, 2006)

Tuning machine translation parameters with SPSA - Patrik Lambert; Rafael E. Banchs (2006 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2006, Keihanna Science City, Kyoto, Japan, November 27-28, 2006, 2006)

Acceptance Testing of a Spoken Language Translation System - Rafael E. Banchs; Antonio Bonafonte; Javier Pérez (Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2006, Genoa, Italy, May 22-28, 2006, 2006)

Machine Translation System Development Based on Human Likeness - Patrik Lambert; Jesús Giménez; Marta R. Costa-jussà; Enrique Amigó; Rafael E. Banchs; Lluís Màrquez; José A. Rodriguez-Fonollosa (2006 IEEE ACL Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2006, Palm Beach, Aruba, December 10-13, 2006, 2006)

Morpho-syntactic Information for Automatic Error Analysis of Statistical Machine Translation Output - Maja Popovic; Adrià de Gispert; Deepa Gupta; Patrik Lambert; Hermann Ney; José B. Mariño; Marcello Federico; Rafael E. Banchs (Proceedings on the Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, WMT@HLT-NAACL 2006, New York City, NY, USA, June 8-9, 2006, 2006)

TALP Phrase-based statistical translation system for European language pairs - Marta R. Costa-jussà; Josep Maria Crego; Adrià de Gispert; Patrik Lambert; Maxim Khalilov; José B. Mariño; José A. R. Fonollosa; Rafael E. Banchs (Proceedings on the Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, WMT@HLT-NAACL 2006, New York City, NY, USA, June 8-9, 2006, 2006)

N-gram-based SMT System Enhanced with Reordering Patterns - Josep Maria Crego; Adrià de Gispert; Patrik Lambert; Marta R. Costa-jussà; Maxim Khalilov; Rafael E. Banchs; José B. Mariño; José A. R. Fonollosa (Proceedings on the Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, WMT@HLT-NAACL 2006, New York City, NY, USA, June 8-9, 2006, 2006)

Guidelines for Word Alignment Evaluation and Manual Alignment - Patrik Lambert; Adrià de Gispert; Rafael E. Banchs; José B. Mariño (Lang. Resour. Evaluation, 2005)

Modelo estocástico de traducción basado en N-gramas de tuplas bilinges y combinación log-lineal de características - José B. Mariño; Rafael E. Banchs; Josep Maria Crego; Adrià de Gispert; Patrik Lambert; José A. R. Fonollosa (Proces. del Leng. Natural, 2005)

Statistical Machine Translation of Euparl Data by using Bilingual N-grams - Rafael E. Banchs; Josep Maria Crego; Adrià de Gispert; Patrik Lambert; José B. Mariño (Proceedings of the Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts@ACL 2005, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, June 29-30, 2005, 2005)

Bilingual N-gram Statistical Machine Translation - José B. Mariño; Rafael E. Banchs; Josep Maria Crego; Adrià de Gispert; Patrik Lambert; José A. R. Fonollosa; Marta R. Costa-jussà (Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit X: Papers, MTSummit 2005, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005, 2005)

Time-harmonic field analysis of electric logging systems - Rafael E. Banchs; Francis X. Bostick (IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2002)