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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Natural Language Processing: Dialogue Modeling, Dialogue Management, Rapid Dialogue Prototyping, Semantics & Pragmatics.

Decision-theoretic reasoning and planning: Bayesian Networks, Markov Decision Processes, Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes.

Affective Computing and Human Computer Interaction.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. T.H. Bui, M. Frampton, J. Dowding and S. Peters. Decision detection using directed graphical models and semantic similarity, in Proceedings of the 10th SIGdial, London, UK, September 11-12, 2009

2. M. Frampton, J. Huang, T.H. Bui and S. Peters. Real-time decision detection in multi-party dialogue, in Proceedings of the 20th EMNLP, Singapore, August 6-7, 2009.

3. T.H. Bui, M. Poel, A. Nijholt and J. Zwiers. A tractable hybrid DDN-POMDP approach to affective dialogue modeling for probabilistic frame-based dialogue systems. Natural Language Engineering 15 (2): 273-307,  2009

4. T.H. Bui. Toward Affective Dialogue Management using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes. PhD thesis, University of Twente, 2008

5. T.H. Bui, B.W. van Schooten and D.H.W. Hofs Practical Dialogue Manager Development using POMDPs, in Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial, Antwerp, Belgium, September 1-2, pp. 215-218, 2007

6. T.H. Bui, M. Poel, A. Nijholt and J. Zwiers A POMDP approach to Affective Dialogue Modeling, Fundamentals of Verbal and Non-verbal Communication and the Biometrical Issue, Vol. 18, IOS Press, Amsterdam, pp. 349-355, 2007

7. T.H. Bui, J. Zwiers, A. Nijholt and M. Poel Generic dialogue modeling for multi-application dialogue systems, in Proceedings of the 2nd MLMI, LNCS, Vol. 3869, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 174-185, 2006

8. A. Lisowska, M. Rajman and T.H. Bui ARCHIVUS: A System for Accessing the Content of Recorded Multimodal Meetings, in Proceedings of the 1st MLMI, LNCS, Vol. 3361, Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 291-304, 2005

9. M. Rajman, T.H. Bui, A. Rajman, F. Seydoux, A. Trutnev, and S. Quarteroni. Assessing the usability of a dialogue management system designed in the framework of a rapid dialogue prototyping methodology. Acta Acustica united with Acustica, Vol. 90, no. 6 pp. 1096-1111, S. Hirzel Verlag - Stuttgart, 2004

10. T.H. Bui, M. Rajman and M. Melichar Rapid Dialogue Prototyping Methodology, in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, LNCS, volume 3206, Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 579-586, 2004

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