News

2022/09/22: Our paper titled Learning Interpretable Latent Dialogue Actions With Less Supervision (Hudeček & Dušek) was accepted at AACL-IJCNLP. A preprint is on arXiv.

2022/07/15: Our paper titled AARGH! End-to-end Retrieval-Generation for Task-Oriented Dialog (Nekvinda & Dušek) was accepted at SIGDIAL. It is now available on arXiv.

2022/06/30: I gave a talk on Neural Conversational AI at the MLSS^N summer school in Cracow. You can get the slides here, live recording on Youtube is here.

2022/06/01: The ERC NG-NLG project officially started in April. I was hiring a post-doc – see details here.

2022/04/06: Our paper DIASER: A Unifying View on Task-Oriented Dialogue Annotation (Hudeček et al.) was accepted for LREC 2022. You can now see the paper in the proceedings.

2022/03/22: I gave a talk at the AICZECHIA seminar on Large Language Models for Data-to-text Generation. You can get the slides here, recording will be on YouTube soon.

2022/02/28: Our paper titled Neural Pipeline for Data-to-text Generation (Kasner & Dušek) was accepted at the ACL conference. You can see it now in ACL Anthology.

2022/02/14: We're starting another run of the Dialogue Systems course, this time it's included in the prg.ai minor as well.

2022/01/10: I was awarded an ERC grant titled Next-Generation Natural Language Generation. It joins explicit semantics and neural language models in order to get natural and accurate NLG outputs. You can read a short report in the UK Forum magazine, more info will follow.

2021/10/08 I co-organized the 6th workshop on Search-oriented Conversational AI. You can have a look at the report in the SIGIR Forum.

2021/09/22: Our paper titled AuGPT: Auxiliary Tasks and Data Augmentation for End-To-End Dialogue with Pre-Trained Language Models (Kulhánek et al.) was accepted at the NLP4ConvAI workshop at EMNLP.

2021/09/21: Our INLG paper on NLG error analysis (van Miltenburg et al.) was awarded a Commendation for an outstanding position paper!

2021/08/26: Our paper MiRANews: Dataset and Benchmarks for Multi-Resource-Assisted News Summarization (Xu et al., with HWU) was accepted to EMNLP Findings.

2021/08/06: I was involved in the GEM benchmark – Generation, Evaluation & Metrics. This was presented at an ACL workshop and included a shared task. You can have a look at the workshop website.

2021/07/26: I have 2 papers accepted at INLG 2021 – Underreporting of errors in NLG output, and what to do about it (van Miltenburg et al., multi-party collaboration) and the winning automatic metric for the Accuracy Evaluation Shared Task, titled Text-in-Context: Token-Level Error Detection for Table-to-Text Generation (Kasner et al.) with Simon Mille from Pompeu Fabra University.

2021/06/15: I started my summer research visit at Prof. Milica Gašić's lab at Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf

2021/05/28: Our paper Shades of BLEU, Flavours of Success: The Case of MultiWOZ (Nekvinda & Dušek) was accepted to the GEM ACL Workshop.

2021/05/06: 2 papers accepted at ACL 2021 – AggGen: Ordering and Aggregating while Generating (Xu et al.) with Heriot-Watt University and Discovering Dialogue Slots with Weak Supervision (Hudeček et al.) with Zhou Yu from Columbia University.

2021/04/21: Our collaboration with LIMSI – Defining And Detecting Inconsistent System Behavior in Task-oriented Dialogues (Schaub et al.) was accepted to the TALN-RÉCITAL conference.

2021/04/26: The EDU-AI project (education chatbot) funded by the Czech Technical Agency has started.

Biographical

• My CV
• List of publications (incl. talks)

Tools I'm participating on

• Alex – spoken dialogue system framework
• Flect – statistical morphology generation
• MTMonkey – machine translation web services infrastructure
• RatPred – trainable NLG quality estimation
• TGen – a statistical natural language generator
• Treex – a modular NLP toolkit

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