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Jason D. Williams
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- affiliation: Apple, Cupertino, CA, USA
- affiliation (former): Microsoft Research
Other persons with a similar name
- Jason Williams — disambiguation page
- Jason A. Williams — Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA
- Jason P. Williams
- Jason Williams 0001 — Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK
- Jason Williams 0002 (aka: Jason L. Williams) — Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group, CSIRO, QLD, Australia
- Jason Williams 0003 — Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA
- Jason Williams 0004 — University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Jason Williams 0005 — University of Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Jason Williams 0007 — Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Jason Williams 0008 — Sony Corporate Laboratories Europe, Stuttgart, Germany
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2020 – today
- 2023
- [c49]David Q. Sun, Artem Abzaliev, Hadas Kotek, Christopher Klein, Zidi Xiu, Jason D. Williams:
DELPHI: Data for Evaluating LLMs' Performance in Handling Controversial Issues. EMNLP (Industry Track) 2023: 820-827 - [c48]Zidi Xiu, Kai-Chen Cheng, David Q. Sun, Jiannan Lu, Hadas Kotek, Yuhan Zhang, Paul McCarthy, Christopher Klein, Stephen Pulman, Jason D. Williams:
Feedback Effect in User Interaction with Intelligent Assistants: Delayed Engagement, Adaption and Drop-out. PAKDD (2) 2023: 145-158 - [e1]Sunayana Sitaram, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Jason D. Williams:
Proceedings of the The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Industry Track, ACL 2023, Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics 2023, ISBN 978-1-959429-68-5 [contents] - [i17]Zidi Xiu, Kai-Chen Cheng, David Q. Sun, Jiannan Lu, Hadas Kotek, Yuhan Zhang, Paul McCarthy, Christopher Klein, Stephen Pulman, Jason D. Williams:
Feedback Effect in User Interaction with Intelligent Assistants: Delayed Engagement, Adaption and Drop-out. CoRR abs/2303.10255 (2023) - [i16]Cecilia Aas, Hisham Abdelsalam, Irina Belousova, Shruti Bhargava, Jianpeng Cheng, Robert Daland, Joris Driesen, Federico Flego, Tristan Guigue, Anders Johannsen, Partha Lal, Jiarui Lu, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Nathan Perkins, Dhivya Piraviperumal, Stephen Pulman, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, David Q. Sun, John Torr, Marco Del Vecchio, Jay Wacker, Jason D. Williams, Hong Yu:
Intelligent Assistant Language Understanding On Device. CoRR abs/2308.03905 (2023) - [i15]David Q. Sun, Artem Abzaliev, Hadas Kotek, Zidi Xiu, Christopher Klein, Jason D. Williams:
DELPHI: Data for Evaluating LLMs' Performance in Handling Controversial Issues. CoRR abs/2310.18130 (2023) - 2021
- [c47]Alkesh Patel, Akanksha Bindal, Hadas Kotek, Christopher Klein, Jason D. Williams:
Generating Natural Questions from Images for Multimodal Assistants. ICASSP 2021: 2270-2274 - [c46]Deepak Muralidharan, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Weicheng Zhang, Stephen Pulman, Lin Li, Megan Barnes, Jingjing Pan, Jason D. Williams, Alex Acero:
DEXTER: Deep Encoding of External Knowledge for Named Entity Recognition in Virtual Assistants. Interspeech 2021: 1234-1238 - [c45]Deepak Muralidharan, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Sida Gao, Xiao Yang, Justine T. Kao, Stephen Pulman, Atish Kothari, Ray Shen, Yinying Pan, Vivek Kaul, Mubarak Seyed Ibrahim, Gang Xiang, Nan Dun, Yidan Zhou, Andy O, Yuan Zhang, Pooja Chitkara, Xuan Wang, Alkesh Patel, Kushal Tayal, Roger Zheng, Peter Grasch, Jason D. Williams, Lin Li:
Noise Robust Named Entity Understanding for Voice Assistants. NAACL-HLT (Industry Papers) 2021: 196-204 - [i14]Deepak Muralidharan, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Weicheng Zhang, Stephen Pulman, Lin Li, Megan Barnes, Jingjing Pan, Jason D. Williams, Alex Acero:
DEXTER: Deep Encoding of External Knowledge for Named Entity Recognition in Virtual Assistants. CoRR abs/2108.06633 (2021) - 2020
- [c44]David Q. Sun, Hadas Kotek, Christopher Klein, Mayank Gupta, William Li, Jason D. Williams:
Improving Human-Labeled Data through Dynamic Automatic Conflict Resolution. COLING 2020: 3547-3557 - [c43]Jianpeng Cheng, Devang Agrawal, Héctor Martínez Alonso, Shruti Bhargava, Joris Driesen, Federico Flego, Dain Kaplan, Dimitri Kartsaklis, Lin Li, Dhivya Piraviperumal, Jason D. Williams, Hong Yu, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Anders Johannsen:
Conversational Semantic Parsing for Dialog State Tracking. EMNLP (1) 2020: 8107-8117 - [c42]Pranay Dighe, Saurabh Adya, Nuoyu Li, Srikanth Vishnubhotla, Devang Naik, Adithya Sagar, Ying Ma, Stephen Pulman, Jason D. Williams:
Lattice-Based Improvements for Voice Triggering Using Graph Neural Networks. ICASSP 2020: 7459-7463 - [i13]Pranay Dighe, Saurabh Adya, Nuoyu Li, Srikanth Vishnubhotla, Devang Naik, Adithya Sagar, Ying Ma, Stephen Pulman, Jason D. Williams:
Lattice-based Improvements for Voice Triggering Using Graph Neural Networks. CoRR abs/2001.10822 (2020) - [i12]Deepak Muralidharan, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Sida Gao, Xiao Yang, Lin Li, Justine T. Kao, Stephen Pulman, Atish Kothari, Ray Shen, Yinying Pan, Vivek Kaul, Mubarak Seyed Ibrahim, Gang Xiang, Nan Dun, Yidan Zhou, Andy O, Yuan Zhang, Pooja Chitkara, Xuan Wang, Alkesh Patel, Kushal Tayal, Roger Zheng, Peter Grasch, Jason D. Williams:
Noise-robust Named Entity Understanding for Virtual Assistants. CoRR abs/2005.14408 (2020) - [i11]Jianpeng Cheng, Devang Agrawal, Héctor Martínez Alonso, Shruti Bhargava, Joris Driesen, Federico Flego, Dain Kaplan, Dimitri Kartsaklis, Lin Li, Dhivya Piraviperumal, Jason D. Williams, Hong Yu, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Anders Johannsen:
Conversational Semantic Parsing for Dialog State Tracking. CoRR abs/2010.12770 (2020) - [i10]Alkesh Patel, Akanksha Bindal, Hadas Kotek, Christopher Klein, Jason D. Williams:
Generating Natural Questions from Images for Multimodal Assistants. CoRR abs/2012.03678 (2020) - [i9]David Q. Sun, Hadas Kotek, Christopher Klein, Mayank Gupta, William Li, Jason D. Williams:
Improving Human-Labeled Data through Dynamic Automatic Conflict Resolution. CoRR abs/2012.04169 (2020)
2010 – 2019
- 2019
- [c41]Xi C. Chen, Adithya Sagar, Justine T. Kao, Tony Y. Li, Christopher Klein, Stephen Pulman, Ashish Garg, Jason D. Williams:
Active Learning for Domain Classification in a Commercial Spoken Personal Assistant. INTERSPEECH 2019: 1478-1482 - [i8]Emily Dinan, Varvara Logacheva, Valentin Malykh, Alexander H. Miller, Kurt Shuster, Jack Urbanek, Douwe Kiela, Arthur Szlam, Iulian Serban, Ryan Lowe, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Alan W. Black, Alexander I. Rudnicky, Jason D. Williams, Joelle Pineau, Mikhail Burtsev, Jason Weston:
The Second Conversational Intelligence Challenge (ConvAI2). CoRR abs/1902.00098 (2019) - [i7]Matthew J. Hausknecht, Ricky Loynd, Greg Yang, Adith Swaminathan, Jason D. Williams:
NAIL: A General Interactive Fiction Agent. CoRR abs/1902.04259 (2019) - [i6]Xi C. Chen, Adithya Sagar, Justine T. Kao, Tony Y. Li, Christopher Klein, Stephen Pulman, Ashish Garg, Jason D. Williams:
Active Learning for Domain Classification in a Commercial Spoken Personal Assistant. CoRR abs/1908.11404 (2019) - [i5]Deepak Muralidharan, Justine T. Kao, Xiao Yang, Lin Li, Lavanya Viswanathan, Mubarak Seyed Ibrahim, Kevin Luikens, Stephen Pulman, Ashish Garg, Atish Kothari, Jason D. Williams:
Leveraging User Engagement Signals For Entity Labeling in a Virtual Assistant. CoRR abs/1909.09143 (2019) - 2018
- [i4]Hai Wang, Jason D. Williams, SingBing Kang:
Learning to Globally Edit Images with Textual Description. CoRR abs/1810.05786 (2018) - 2017
- [j13]Donghao Ren, Saleema Amershi, Bongshin Lee, Jina Suh, Jason D. Williams:
Squares: Supporting Interactive Performance Analysis for Multiclass Classifiers. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 23(1): 61-70 (2017) - [c40]Jason D. Williams, Kavosh Asadi, Geoffrey Zweig:
Hybrid Code Networks: practical and efficient end-to-end dialog control with supervised and reinforcement learning. ACL (1) 2017: 665-677 - [c39]Jason D. Williams, Lars Liden:
Demonstration of interactive teaching for end-to-end dialog control with hybrid code networks. SIGDIAL Conference 2017: 82-85 - [i3]Jason D. Williams, Kavosh Asadi, Geoffrey Zweig:
Hybrid Code Networks: practical and efficient end-to-end dialog control with supervised and reinforcement learning. CoRR abs/1702.03274 (2017) - 2016
- [j12]Jason D. Williams, Antoine Raux, Matthew Henderson:
Introduction to the Special Issue on Dialogue State Tracking. Dialogue Discourse 7(3): 1-3 (2016) - [j11]Jason D. Williams, Antoine Raux, Matthew Henderson:
The Dialog State Tracking Challenge Series: A Review. Dialogue Discourse 7(3): 4-33 (2016) - [c38]Seokhwan Kim, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Rafael E. Banchs, Jason D. Williams, Matthew Henderson:
The Fourth Dialog State Tracking Challenge. IWSDS 2016: 435-449 - [c37]Seokhwan Kim, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Rafael E. Banchs, Jason D. Williams, Matthew Henderson, Koichiro Yoshino:
The fifth dialog state tracking challenge. SLT 2016: 511-517 - [i2]Jason D. Williams, Geoffrey Zweig:
End-to-end LSTM-based dialog control optimized with supervised and reinforcement learning. CoRR abs/1606.01269 (2016) - [i1]Kavosh Asadi, Jason D. Williams:
Sample-efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dialog Control. CoRR abs/1612.06000 (2016) - 2015
- [c36]Jason D. Williams, Nobal B. Niraula, Pradeep Dasigi, Aparna Lakshmiratan, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Mouni Reddy, Geoffrey Zweig:
Rapidly Scaling Dialog Systems with Interactive Learning. IWSDS 2015: 1-13 - [c35]Jason D. Williams, Eslam Kamal, Mokhtar Ashour, Hani Amr, Jessica Miller, Geoffrey Zweig:
Fast and easy language understanding for dialog systems with Microsoft Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS). SIGDIAL Conference 2015: 159-161 - 2014
- [j10]Jason D. Williams, Matthew Henderson, Antoine Raux, Blaise Thomson, Alan W. Black, Deepak Ramachandran:
The Dialog State Tracking Challenge Series. AI Mag. 35(4): 121-124 (2014) - [c34]Ke Zhai, Jason D. Williams:
Discovering Latent Structure in Task-Oriented Dialogues. ACL (1) 2014: 36-46 - [c33]Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams:
The Second Dialog State Tracking Challenge. SIGDIAL Conference 2014: 263-272 - [c32]Jason D. Williams:
Web-style ranking and SLU combination for dialog state tracking. SIGDIAL Conference 2014: 282-291 - [c31]Lihong Li, He He, Jason D. Williams:
Temporal supervised learning for inferring a dialog policy from example conversations. SLT 2014: 312-317 - [c30]Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams:
The third Dialog State Tracking Challenge. SLT 2014: 324-329 - 2013
- [j9]Steve J. Young, Milica Gasic, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams:
POMDP-Based Statistical Spoken Dialog Systems: A Review. Proc. IEEE 101(5): 1160-1179 (2013) - [c29]Angeliki Metallinou, Dan Bohus, Jason D. Williams:
Discriminative state tracking for spoken dialog systems. ACL (1) 2013: 466-475 - [c28]Li Deng, Jinyu Li, Jui-Ting Huang, Kaisheng Yao, Dong Yu, Frank Seide, Michael L. Seltzer, Geoffrey Zweig, Xiaodong He, Jason D. Williams, Yifan Gong, Alex Acero:
Recent advances in deep learning for speech research at Microsoft. ICASSP 2013: 8604-8608 - [c27]Ethan Selfridge, Iker Arizmendi, Peter A. Heeman, Jason D. Williams:
Continuously Predicting and Processing Barge-in During a Live Spoken Dialogue Task. SIGDIAL Conference 2013: 384-393 - [c26]Jason D. Williams, Antoine Raux, Deepak Ramachandran, Alan W. Black:
The Dialog State Tracking Challenge. SIGDIAL Conference 2013: 404-413 - [c25]Jason D. Williams:
Multi-domain learning and generalization in dialog state tracking. SIGDIAL Conference 2013: 433-441 - 2012
- [j8]Jason D. Williams, Kai Yu, Brahim Chaib-draa, Oliver Lemon, Roberto Pieraccini, Olivier Pietquin, Pascal Poupart, Steve J. Young:
Introduction to the Issue on Advances in Spoken Dialogue Systems and Mobile Interface. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process. 6(8): 889-890 (2012) - [j7]Jason D. Williams:
Challenges and Opportunities for State Tracking in Statistical Spoken Dialog Systems: Results From Two Public Deployments. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process. 6(8): 959-970 (2012) - [j6]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) - [c24]Jason D. Williams:
A belief tracking challenge task for spoken dialog systems. SDCTD@NAACL-HLT 2012: 23-24 - [c23]Ethan Selfridge, Iker Arizmendi, Peter A. Heeman, Jason D. Williams:
Integrating Incremental Speech Recognition and POMDP-Based Dialogue Systems. SIGDIAL Conference 2012: 275-279 - [c22]Jason D. Williams:
A critical analysis of two statistical spoken dialog systems in public use. SLT 2012: 55-60 - 2011
- [c21]Jason D. Williams, I. Dan Melamed, Tirso Alonso, Barbara Hollister, Jay G. Wilpon:
Crowd-sourcing for difficult transcription of speech. ASRU 2011: 535-540 - [c20]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 J. Young, Maxine Eskénazi:
Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010: Comparison of Live and Control Test Results. SIGDIAL Conference 2011: 2-7 - [c19]Ethan Selfridge, Iker Arizmendi, Peter A. Heeman, Jason D. Williams:
Stability and Accuracy in Incremental Speech Recognition. SIGDIAL Conference 2011: 110-119 - [c18]Jason D. Williams:
An Empirical Evaluation of a Statistical Dialog System in Public Use. SIGDIAL Conference 2011: 130-141 - 2010
- [c17]Jason D. Williams:
Incremental partition recombination for efficient tracking of multiple dialog states. ICASSP 2010: 5382-5385 - [c16]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
2000 – 2009
- 2009
- [c15]Jason D. Williams:
Spoken dialogue systems: Challenges, and opportunities for research. ASRU 2009: 25 - [c14]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 - [c13]Jason D. Williams, Suhrid Balakrishnan:
Estimating Probability of Correctness for ASR N-Best Lists. SIGDIAL Conference 2009: 132-135 - 2008
- [j5]Jason D. Williams:
Evaluating user simulations with the Cramér-von Mises divergence. Speech Commun. 50(10): 829-846 (2008) - [c12]Jason D. Williams:
Demonstration of a POMDP Voice Dialer. ACL (Demo Papers) 2008: 1-4 - [c11]Umar Syed, Jason D. Williams:
Using Automatically Transcribed Dialogs to Learn User Models in a Spoken Dialog System. ACL (2) 2008: 121-124 - [c10]Jason D. Williams:
Exploiting the ASR n-best by tracking multiple dialog state hypotheses. INTERSPEECH 2008: 191-194 - [c9]Jason D. Williams:
The best of both worlds: unifying conventional dialog systems and POMDPs. INTERSPEECH 2008: 1173-1176 - 2007
- [j4]Jason D. Williams, Steve J. Young:
Partially observable Markov decision processes for spoken dialog systems. Comput. Speech Lang. 21(2): 393-422 (2007) - [j3]Jason D. Williams, S. Young:
Scaling POMDPs for Spoken Dialog Management. IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process. 15(7): 2116-2129 (2007) - [c8]Jason D. Williams:
Using particle filters to track dialogue state. ASRU 2007: 502-507 - [c7]Jason D. Williams:
A method for evaluating and comparing user simulations: The Cramér-von Mises divergence. ASRU 2007: 508-513 - 2006
- [j2]Wolfgang Achtner, Esma Aïmeur, Sarabjot Singh Anand, Douglas E. 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 J. Young, Dmitry Zelenko:
Reports on the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06) Workshop Program. AI Mag. 27(4): 92-102 (2006) - 2005
- [c6]Jason D. Williams, Pascal Poupart, Steve J. Young:
Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes with Continuous Observations for Dialogue Management. SIGDIAL Workshop 2005: 25-34 - 2004
- [j1]Jason D. Williams, Silke M. Witt:
A Comparison of Dialog Strategies for Call Routing. Int. J. Speech Technol. 7(1): 9-24 (2004) - [c5]Jason D. Williams, Steve J. Young:
Characterizing task-oriented dialog using a simulated ASR chanel. INTERSPEECH 2004: 185-188 - [c4]Matthew N. Stuttle, Jason D. Williams, Steve J. Young:
A framework for dialogue data collection with a simulated ASR channel. INTERSPEECH 2004: 241-244 - 2003
- [c3]Silke M. Witt, Jason D. Williams:
Two studies of open vs. directed dialog strategies in spoken dialog systems. INTERSPEECH 2003: 589-592 - [c2]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: 2209-2212 - [c1]Jason D. Williams, Steve J. Young:
Using Wizard-of-Oz simulations to bootstrap Reinforcement - Learning based dialog management systems. SIGDIAL Workshop 2003: 135-139
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