Seeing eye to eye: trustworthy embodiment for task-based conversational agents - David A. Robb; José Lopes; Muneeb Imtiaz Ahmad; Peter E. McKenna; Xingkun Liu; Katrin S. Lohan; Helen Hastie (Frontiers Robotics AI, 2023)

Explanation Styles for Trustworthy Autonomous Systems - David A. Robb; Xingkun Liu; Helen Hastie (Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2023, London, United Kingdom, 29 May 2023 - 2 June 2023, 2023)

Demonstration of a Social Robot for Control of Remote Autonomous Systems - José Lopes; David A. Robb; Xingkun Liu; Helen F. Hastie (Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2020, Cambridge, UK, March 23-26, 2020, 2020)

A Crowdsourcing-Based Knowledge Graph Construction Platform - Xingkun Liu; Zhiying Tu; Zhongjie Wang; Xiaofei Xu; Yin Chen (Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2020 Workshops - AIOps, CFTIC, STRAPS, AI-PA, AI-IOTS, and Satellite Events, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 14-17, 2020, Proceedings, 2020)

CRWIZ: A Framework for Crowdsourcing Real-Time Wizard-of-Oz Dialogues - Francisco Javier Chiyah Garcia; José Lopes; Xingkun Liu; Helen F. Hastie (Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2020, Marseille, France, May 11-16, 2020, 2020)

CRWIZ: A Framework for Crowdsourcing Real-Time Wizard-of-Oz Dialogues - Francisco Javier Chiyah Garcia; José Lopes; Xingkun Liu; Helen F. Hastie (CoRR, 2020)

Exploring Interaction with Remote Autonomous Systems using Conversational Agents - David A. Robb; José Lopes; Stefano Padilla; Atanas Laskov; Francisco Javier Chiyah Garcia; Xingkun Liu; Jonatan Scharff Willners; Nicolas Valeyrie; Katrin S. Lohan; David Lane; Pedro Patrón; Yvan R. Petillot; et al. (Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS 2019, San Diego, CA, USA, June 23-28, 2019, 2019)

A Digital Twin for Human-Robot Interaction - Èric Pairet; Paola Ardón Ramirez; Xingkun Liu; José Lopes; Helen F. Hastie; Katrin S. Lohan (14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2019, Daegu, South Korea, March 11-14, 2019, 2019)

Towards a Conversational Agent for Remote Robot-Human Teaming - José Lopes; David A. Robb; Muneeb Imtiaz Ahmad; Xingkun Liu; Katrin S. Lohan; Helen F. Hastie (14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2019, Daegu, South Korea, March 11-14, 2019, 2019)

Benchmarking Natural Language Understanding Services for Building Conversational Agents - Xingkun Liu; Arash Eshghi; Pawel Swietojanski; Verena Rieser (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)

User Evaluation of a Multi-dimensional Statistical Dialogue System - Simon Keizer; Ondrej Dusek; Xingkun Liu; Verena Rieser (Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, SIGdial 2019, Stockholm, Sweden, September 11-13, 2019, 2019)

Benchmarking Natural Language Understanding Services for building Conversational Agents - Xingkun Liu; Arash Eshghi; Pawel Swietojanski; Verena Rieser (CoRR, 2019)

Challenges in Collaborative HRI for Remote Robot Teams - Helen F. Hastie; David A. Robb; José Lopes; Muneeb Imtiaz Ahmad; Pierre Le Bras; Xingkun Liu; Ronald P. A. Petrick; Katrin S. Lohan; Mike J. Chantler (CoRR, 2019)

User Evaluation of a Multi-dimensional Statistical Dialogue System - Simon Keizer; Ondrej Dusek; Xingkun Liu; Verena Rieser (CoRR, 2019)

A dialogue based mobile virtual assistant for tourists: The SpaceBook Project - Phil J. Bartie; William A. Mackaness; Oliver Lemon; Tiphaine Dalmas; Srini Janarthanam; Robin L. Hill; Anna Dickinson; Xingkun Liu (Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., 2018)

Scoring robotic competitions: Balancing judging promptness and meaningful performance evaluation - Fausto Ferreira; Gabriele Ferri; Yvan R. Petillot; Xingkun Liu; Marta Palau Franco; Matteo Matteucci; Francisco Javier Pérez-Grau; Alan F. T. Winfield (2018 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, ICARSC 2018, Torres Vedras, Portugal, April 25-27, 2018, 2018)

Keep Me in the Loop: Increasing Operator Situation Awareness through a Conversational Multimodal Interface - David A. Robb; Francisco Javier Chiyah Garcia; Atanas Laskov; Xingkun Liu; Pedro Patrón; Helen F. Hastie (Proceedings of the 2018 on International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2018, Boulder, CO, USA, October 16-20, 2018, 2018)

Explainable Autonomy: A Study of Explanation Styles for Building Clear Mental Models - Francisco Javier Chiyah Garcia; David A. Robb; Xingkun Liu; Atanas Laskov; Pedro Patrón; Helen F. Hastie (Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, November 5-8, 2018, 2018)

Explain Yourself: A Natural Language Interface for Scrutable Autonomous Robots - Francisco Javier Chiyah Garcia; David A. Robb; Xingkun Liu; Atanas Laskov; Pedro Patrón; Helen F. Hastie (CoRR, 2018)

A Natural Language Interface with Relayed Acoustic Communications for Improved Command and Control of AUVs - David A. Robb; Jonatan Scharff Willners; Nicolas Valeyrie; Francisco Javier Chiyah Garcia; Atanas Laskov; Xingkun Liu; Pedro Patrón; Helen F. Hastie; Yvan R. Petillot (CoRR, 2018)

Trust triggers for multimodal command and control interfaces - Helen F. Hastie; Xingkun Liu; Pedro Patrón (Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2017, Glasgow, United Kingdom, November 13 - 17, 2017, 2017)

A demonstration of multimodal debrief generation for AUVs, post-mission and in-mission - Helen F. Hastie; Xingkun Liu; Pedro Patrón (Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2016, Tokyo, Japan, November 12-16, 2016, 2016)

Extrinsic Versus Intrinsic Evaluation of Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems and Social Robotics - Helen F. Hastie; Heriberto Cuayáhuitl; Nina Dethlefs; Simon Keizer; Xingkun Liu (Dialogues with Social Robots - Enablements, Analyses, and Evaluation, Seventh International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, IWSDS 2016, Saariselkä, Finland, January 13-16, 2016, 2016)

euRathlon 2015: A Multi-domain Multi-robot Grand Challenge for Search and Rescue Robots - Alan F. T. Winfield; Marta Palau Franco; Bernd Brüggemann; Ayoze Castro; Miguel Cordero Limon; Gabriele Ferri; Fausto Ferreira; Xingkun Liu; Yvan R. Petillot; Juha Röning; Frank E. Schneider; Erik Stengler; et al. (Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 17th Annual Conference, TAROS 2016, Sheffield, UK, June 26 - July 1, 2016, Proceedings, 2016)

The PARLANCE mobile application for interactive search in English and Mandarin - Helen F. Hastie; Marie-Aude Aufaure; Panos Alexopoulos; Hugues Bouchard; Catherine Breslin; Heriberto Cuayáhuitl; Nina Dethlefs; Milica Gasic; James Henderson; Oliver Lemon; Xingkun Liu; Peter Mika; et al. (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)

Training a statistical surface realiser from automatic slot labelling - Heriberto Cuayáhuitl; Nina Dethlefs; Helen F. Hastie; Xingkun Liu (2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2014, South Lake Tahoe, NV, USA, December 7-10, 2014, 2014)

Evaluating a City Exploration Dialogue System with Integrated Question-Answering and Pedestrian Navigation - Srinivasan Janarthanam; Oliver Lemon; Phil J. Bartie; Tiphaine Dalmas; Anna Dickinson; Xingkun Liu; William A. Mackaness; Bonnie L. Webber (Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2013, 4-9 August 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria, Volume 1: Long Papers, 2013)

A Multithreaded Conversational Interface for Pedestrian Navigation and Question Answering - Srinivasan Janarthanam; Oliver Lemon; Xingkun Liu; Phil J. Bartie; William A. Mackaness; Tiphaine Dalmas (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)

Demonstration of the PARLANCE system: a data-driven incremental, spoken dialogue system for interactive search - Helen F. Hastie; Marie-Aude Aufaure; Panos Alexopoulos; Heriberto Cuayáhuitl; Nina Dethlefs; Milica Gasic; James Henderson; Oliver Lemon; Xingkun Liu; Peter Mika; Nesrine Ben Mustapha; Verena Rieser; et al. (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)

A Web-based Evaluation Framework for Spatial Instruction-Giving Systems - Srinivasan Janarthanam; Oliver Lemon; Xingkun Liu (The 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the System Demonstrations, July 10, 2012, Jeju Island, Korea, 2012)

A Statistical Spoken Dialogue System using Complex User Goals and Value Directed Compression - Paul A. Crook; Zhuoran Wang; Xingkun Liu; Oliver Lemon (EACL 2012, 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Avignon, France, April 23-27, 2012, 2012)

Integrating Location, Visibility, and Question-Answering in a Spoken Dialogue System for Pedestrian City Exploration - Srinivasan Janarthanam; Oliver Lemon; Xingkun Liu; Phil J. Bartie; William A. Mackaness; Tiphaine Dalmas; Jana Götze (Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2012 Conference, The 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 5-6 July 2012, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, 2012)

Adaptive Information Presentation for Spoken Dialogue Systems: Evaluation with real users - Verena Rieser; Simon Keizer; Oliver Lemon; Xingkun Liu (ENLG 2011 - Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, 28-30 September 2011, Nancy, France, 2011)

"The day after the day after tomorrow?" A machine learning approach to adaptive temporal expression generation: training and evaluation with real users - Srinivasan Janarthanam; Helen Wright Hastie; Oliver Lemon; Xingkun Liu (Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference, The 12th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, June 17-18, 2011, Oregon Science & Health University, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2011)

Optimising Information Presentation for Spoken Dialogue Systems - Verena Rieser; Oliver Lemon; Xingkun Liu (ACL 2010, Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 11-16, 2010, Uppsala, Sweden, 2010)

"Let's Go, DUDE!" using the Spoken Dialogue Challenge to teach Spoken Dialogue development - Helen Wright Hastie; Nicolas Merigaud; Xingkun Liu; Oliver Lemon (2010 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2010, Berkeley, California, USA, December 12-15, 2010, 2010)

Automatic Generation of Information State Update Dialogue Systems that Dynamically Create Voice XML, as Demonstrated on the iPhone - Helen Wright Hastie; Xingkun Liu; Oliver Lemon (Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference, The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 11-12 September 2009, London, UK, 2009)

"Build Your Own" Spoken Dialogue Systems: Automatically Generating ISU Dialogue Systems from Business User Resources - Oliver Lemon; Xingkun Liu; Helen Wright Hastie (COLING 2008, 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Demo Proceedings, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester, UK, 2008)

Dialogue Policy Learning for Combinations of Noise and User Simulation: Transfer Results - Oliver Lemon; Xingkun Liu (Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, SIGdial 2007, Antwerp, Belgium, September 1-2, 2007, 2007)

DUDE: A Dialogue and Understanding Development Environment, Mapping Business Process Models to Information State Update Dialogue Systems - Oliver Lemon; Xingkun Liu (EACL 2006, 11st Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference, April 3-7, 2006, Trento, Italy, 2006)

Implementing advanced spoken dialogue management in Java - Ian M. O'Neill; Philip Hanna; Xingkun Liu; Des Greer; Michael F. McTear (Sci. Comput. Program., 2005)

Handling errors and determining confirmation strategies - An object-based approach - Michael F. McTear; Ian M. O'Neill; Philip Hanna; Xingkun Liu (Speech Commun., 2005)

Developing extensible and reusable spoken dialogue components: an examination of the Queen's communicator - Philip Hanna; Ian M. O'Neill; Xingkun Liu; Michael F. McTear (9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, INTERSPEECH-Eurospeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal, September 4-8, 2005, 2005)

The Queen's Agents: Using Collaborating Object-Based Dialogue Agents in the Queen's Communicator - Ian M. O'Neill; Philip Hanna; Xingkun Liu; Michael F. McTear (COLING 2004, 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference, 23-27 August 2004, Geneva, Switzerland, 2004)

Cross domain dialogue modelling: an object-based approach - Ian M. O'Neill; Philip Hanna; Xingkun Liu; Michael F. McTear (8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH-ICSLP 2004, Jeju Island, Korea, October 4-8, 2004, 2004)

The queen's communicator: an object-oriented dialogue manager - Ian M. O'Neill; Philip Hanna; Xingkun Liu; Michael F. McTear (8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003 - INTERSPEECH 2003, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1-4, 2003, 2003)

A Java implementation of cross-domain mixed initiative spoken dialogue management - Ian M. O'Neill; Philip Hanna; Xingkun Liu; Des Greer (Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Programming in Java, PPPJ 2003, Kilkenny City, Ireland, June 16-18, 2003, 2003)

Querying Data-Intensive Programs for Data Design - Jianhua Shao; Xingkun Liu; Gaihua Fu; Suzanne M. Embury; W. A. Gray (Advanced Information Systems Engineering, 13th International Conference, CAiSE 2001, Interlaken, Switzerland, June 4-8, 2001, Proceedings, 2001)

A Framework for Business Rule Presentation - Gaihua Fu; Jianhua Shao; Suzanne M. Embury; W. A. Gray; Xingkun Liu (12th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2001), 3-7 September 2001, Munich, Germany, 2001)