Professor Marilyn Walker
Department of Computer Science
University of California Santa Cruz
1156 N. High, SOE-3
Santa Cruz, Ca. 95064
Phone:831 429 1058
Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab
maw@soe.ucsc.edu

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor of Computer Science, Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2009 to present
Visiting Professor, Google Research, Mountain View. Generation and Dialogue groups. September 2016 to June 1st 2017
Professor of Computational Media, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2014 to 2016
Professor of Computer Science, Head of Cognitive Systems Group, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England, 2003 to 2009
Principal Research Staff Member, ATT Labs - Research, Florham Park, N.J., Speech Processing Software and Technology Research, 1996 to 2003
Research Scientist, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, Ma., Interactive Learning and Entertainment, 1993 to 1996
Consultant, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, England, on dialogue systems, speech technology, and personal information systems: 1989-1993
Researcher, Dialogue Modeling Department, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba City, Japan: Summer 1991
Researcher, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, England, Human Computer Interaction Department: 1988-1989
Researcher, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, Ca. Natural Language Project: 1984-1988

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania 1993. Informational Redundancy and Resource Bounds in Dialogue
M.A. Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, 1993.
M.S. Computer Science, Stanford University, 1988.
B.A. Computer and Information Science, With Honors, University of California Santa Cruz, 1984.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Natural Language Processing, Conversational Agents, Dialogue Systems, Machine Learning Methods for Dialogue, Modeling Narrative Structure, Natural Language Generation, Argument Mining, Stance Classification, Sentiment Classification, Personality Modeling from Language, Dialogue in Interactive Stories and Games, Crowdsourcing and Evaluation.

GRANTS and GIFTS

  • $203,181 UCSC portion. Principal Investigator, US National Science Foundation,EAGER: Collaborative Research: Interactive Dialog Agents for Social Language Development and Listening Comprehension. \$300,000 with Co-PIs Neff and Solari at UC Davis. 2017.
  • $100,000. Sponsored Research Project, Hitachi Corporation. Grounded Interaction and Engagement in Dialogue. Co-Principal Investigator with Leila Takayama, UCSC Psychology Department.
  • $50,000. Gift from Fujitsu Corporation. Reinforcement Learning in Dialogue.
  • $100,000. Gift from Amazon associated with the Amazon Alexa Prize Competition. Semi-Finalist team selected from over 100 teams who applied to compete.
  • $1,038,556 UCSC portion. Principal Investigator, US National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research: RI: Processing Opinion Sharing Dialog in Social Media. CO-PIs Pranav Anand, Linguistics. Steve Whittaker and Jean E. Fox Tree, Psychology. Collaborative grant with Craig Martell, Naval Postgraduate School.
  • $213,000, Principal Investigator, Nuance Foundation: Learning Generation Dictionaries for Dialogue Interaction.
  • $8,000, Principal Investigator, Research Experience for Undergraduates. Supplement to RI: Processing Opinion Sharing Dialog in Social Media. US National Science Foundation.
  • $16,000, Co-Principal Investigator, Research Experience for Undergraduates. Supplement to HCC: Gestural and Linguistic Expressivity and Entrainment in Dialogue. US National Science Foundation
  • $498,000, Co-Principal Investigator, U.S. National Science Foundation, HCC: Small: Collaborative Research: Gestural and Linguistic Expressivity and Entrainment in Dialogue (with PI Jean E. Fox Tree, UCSC and Michael Neff, UC Davis) 09/1/2011-8/31/2014.
  • $362,365, Principal Investigator, U.S. National Science Foundation, Pilot: Expressing Dramatic Character in Dialogue: A Toolkit for Creative Exploration of Linguistic Style (with Co-PI Noah Wardrip-Fruin). Amount includes REU supplement of $16K. 2010-2013
  • $140,000, Co-Principal Investigator, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA), Persuasion in Online Forums and Debates (with PI Pranav Anand, Assistant Professor, UCSC Linguistics Dept.) 2010-2011
  • $168,000, Principal Investigator, U.S. National Science Foundation, EAGER: Collaborative Research: Modeling Distinctive Partners in Adaptive Spoken Dialog. Amount includes REU supplement of $8K. Does not include $148,000 to S.E. Brennan at SUNY SB under collaborative grant. 2010-2012
  • $83,000, Principal Investigator, U.S. National Science Foundation, EAGER:Spy Feet: Natural Language Generation for Games for Girls (with Co-PIs Sri Kurniawan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin). Amount includes REU supplement of $8K. 2010-2011
  • $192,400, Principal Investigator, Naval Postgraduate School BAA-003 Award, Perlocutions in Dialogue. 2010-2010
  • $12,000, Principal Investigator, Japanese Patent Office, Research Gift. 2010-2011
  • $52,500. Principal Investigator: NTT Research Collaboration Grant, 2004-2005,
  • $332,500. Principal Investigator: Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, 2003-2008,
  • Member: HUMAINE Network of Excellence, 2004-2007
  • $800k. Principal Investigator: AT&T DARPA Communicator Project, 2001-2002,
  • $750k. Principal Investigator: DARPA Communicator Cross-Site Evaluation Project, 2000-2002,
  • $75k. Consultant: University of Pennsylvania ISLE Project on DATA Resources for spoken and multimodal dialogue (NSF/EU funded project), 2000-2002,
  • PROFESSIONAL and SCHOLARLY HONORS
    ACL Fellow. December 2016. Named a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), in recognition of fundamental contributions to statistical methods for dialog optimization, to centering theory, and to expressive generation for dialog.
    Best Paper Award. Learning Fine-Grained Knowledge about Contingent Relations between Everyday Events. Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Ernesto Hernandez and Marilyn Walker. SIGDIAL 2016.
    Keynote Address. Sentiment and Sarcasm in Online Dialogue. International Conference on Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. (SEMDIAL 2015), Gothenberg, Sweden. August 2015.
    Best Paper Award. Identifying Narrative Clause Types in Personal Stories Reid Swanson, Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Thomas Corcoran and Marilyn A. Walker SIGDIAL 2014.
    Keynote Address. Generating Different Tellings of Stories and Answers to Questions from Narrative Representations. International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2014), Philadelphia, PA, June 2014.
    Keynote Address. Does Personality Matter?: Expressive Generation for Spoken Dialogue Interaction. International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems(IWSDS 2012), Paris, France, November 2012
    Distinguished Lecturer Series Invited Talk. Expressive Generation for Interactive Stories. University of Pittsburgh, Intelligent Systems Program (ISP) Distinguished Lecture. Friday, April 13th. 2012.
    Best Paper Award. Perceived or Not Perceived: Film Character Models for Expressive NLG, International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, November 2011
    Best Student Paper Award. with Ph.D. student Grace I. Lin. All the World’s a Stage: Learning Character Models from Film, Artificial Intelligence in Digital Entertainment Conference, October 2011.
    Best Paper Award. Cats Rule and Dogs Drool, ACL-HLT Workshop on Sentiment and Subjectivity, 2011
    Keynote Address. Dynamic Adaptation in Dialogue - International Conference on Discourse and Dialogue, Tokyo - 2010. SIGDIAL, Tokyo. 2010:
    Keynote Address. International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2009
    Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award , University of Sheffield, U.K., 2003-2009
    Keynote Address. Online or Offline. How can we evaluate Question Generation?. NSF Workshop on Question Generation, 2008:
    Keynote Address. NSF Workshop on Question Generation, 2008
    Keynote Address. LREC'04: Can we talk? Methods for Evaluation and Training of Spoken Dialogue Systems
    ACL'04 Program Co-Chair
    Chair of valuation, Meritorious Service Award. DARPA Communicator.
    AT&T Student Mentoring Award, 2000
    Invited Plenary Talk , Reinforcement Learning in Dialogue, AAAI 1997
    National Science Foundation Fellowship to the Science and Engineering Institute in Japan. 1991
    Dean's Research Fellow, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania: 1989-1992
    Hewlett Packard Research Fellowship, Stanford University: 1988
    Graduated With Honors from UCSC, 1984.

    EDITED VOLUMES and BOOKS
    Editor: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. Yukiko Nakano, Michael Neff, Ana Paiva, and Marilyn Walker, 2012. Springer-Verlag.
    Guest Editor: Computer Speech and Language, Special Issue on Spoken Language Generation. With Owen Rambow. 2002.
    Editor: Aravind K. Joshi, and Ellen F. Prince, editors. Centering Theory in Discourse . Oxford University Press, 1998.
    Guest Editor: Computational Linguistics, Special Issue on Empirical Studies in Discourse. With Johanna Moore. 1996

    THESIS
    Marilyn Walker, Informational Redundancy and Resource Bounds in Dialogue . Ph.D. Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania 1993.

    JOURNAL ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS
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    Assessing the impact of hand motion on virtual character personality. Yingying Wang, Jean E. Fox Tree, M Walker, M Neff ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP) 13 (2). 2016. PDF

    Kris Liu, Jackson Tolins, Jean E. Fox Tree, Michael Neff, and Marilyn Walker. Two Techniques for Assessing Virtual Agent Personality. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 99: 7-1. pp. 94-105. 2016 PDF

    Extracting Relevant Knowledge for the Detection of Sarcasm and Nastiness in the Social Web. Raquel Justo. Thomas Corcoran, Stephanie M. Lukin, Marilyn Walker and M. Ines Torres. Knowledge-Based Systems. KBS special issue on Big Data for Social Analysis. Elsevier. 2014. PDF

    Walker, M. and Anand, P and Abbott, R. and Tree, J.E.F. and Martell,C. and King, J. That's your evidence:? Classifying Stance in Online Political and Social Debate . Decision Support Sciences. 1-30. Elsevier. In Press. 2011

    Francois Mairesse and Marilyn Walker. Controlling User Perceptions of Linguistic Style: Trainable Generation of Personality Traits. Computational Linguistics, 2011.

    Michael Neff, Nicolaus Toothman}, Robeson Bowmani}, Jean E. Fox Tree and Marilyn A. Walker (2011). Don't Scratch: Self-adaptors Reflect Emotional Stability. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, vol. 6895. (paper and sample clips from the study are available at www.springerlink.com). 2011.

    Francois Mairesse and Marilyn Walker. Towards Personality-Based User Adaptation: Psychologically Informed Stylistic Language Generation. . User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 20:3, pages 227-278, 2010.

    Michael Neff, Yingying Wang, Rob Abbott and Marilyn A. Walker (2010). Evaluating the Effect of Gesture and Language on Personality Perception in Conversational Agents . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, ISSN 0302-9743, vol. 4738, pp. 203-217. (paper and sample clips from the study are available at www.springerlink.com)

    N. Bee, C. Pollock, E. Andre and M. Walker. Bossy or Wimpy: Expressing Social Dominance by Combining Gaze and Linguistic Behaviors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, ISSN 0302-9743, vol. 4738, pp. 203-217. 2010.

    Michael Neff, Yingying Wang, Rob Abbott and Marilyn A. Walker (2010). Evaluating the Effect of Gesture and Language on Personality Perception in Conversational Agents . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, ISSN 0302-9743, vol. 4738, pp. 203-217. (paper and sample clips from the study are available at www.springerlink.com)

    Marilyn Walker, Amanda Stent, Francois Mairesse, Rashmi Prasad. Individual and Domain Adaptation in Sentence Planning for Dialogue. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2007.

    Francois Mairesse, Marilyn Walker, Matthias Mehl and Roger Moore (2007) Using Linguistic Cues for the Automatic Recognition of Personality in Conversation and Text Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Vol 30, pp 457-501.

    Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Marilyn Walker and Rashmi Prasad An Unsupervised Method for Learning Generation Dictionaries for Spoken Dialogue Systems by Mining User Reviews. Journal of ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, 2007.

    Pam Jordan and Marilyn Walker. Learning Content Selection Rules for Generating Object Descriptions in Dialogue. In Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Vol 24, pp. 157-194, 2005.

    Marilyn Walker. Can We Talk? Methods for Evaluation and Training of Spoken Dialogue System (written version of invited keynote, LREC 2004). In Language Resources and Evaluation, Vol 39(1), pp. 65-75, Springer Netherlands, 2005.

    Steve Whittaker and Marilyn Walker. Evaluating Dialogue Strategies in Multimodal Dialogue Systems. In W. Minker, D. Bühler and L. Dybkjaer, editors, Spoken Multimodal Human-Computer Dialogue in Mobile Environments. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.

    Marilyn Walker, S. Whittaker, A. Stent, P. Maloor, J. Moore, M. Johnston, G. Vasireddy. Generation and Evaluation of User Tailored Responses in Multimodal Dialogue. In Cognitive Science, Vol 28., Issue 5, September-October 2004, Rumelhart Prize Special Issue Honoring Aravind K. Joshi, pp. 811-840, 2004.

    Marilyn Walker, Owen Rambow and Monica Rogati. Training a Sentence Planner for Spoken Dialogue Using Boosting Computer Speech and Language Special Issue on Spoken Language Generation , July 2002.

    Marilyn Walker and Owen Rambow. Spoken Language Generation Computer Speech and Language Special Issue on Spoken Language Generation , July 2002.

    Marilyn Walker, Irene Langkilde-Geary, Helen Wright Hastie, Jerry Wright, and Allen Gorin. Automatically Training A Problematic Dialogue Predictor for the HMIHY Spoken Dialogue System Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2002.

    Satinder Singh, Diane Litman, Michael Kearns and Marilyn Walker. Optimizing Dialogue Management with Reinforcement Learning: Experiments with the NJFun System. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research(JAIR), 2002.

    Marilyn Walker. An Application of Reinforcement Learning to Dialogue Strategy Selection in a Spoken Dialogue System for Email . Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, JAIR, Vol 12., pp. 387-416, 2000.

    Marilyn A. Walker, Candace. A. Kamm and Diane J. Litman. Towards Developing General Models of Usability with PARADISE . Natural Language Engineering, 2000.

    Marilyn A. Walker. Toward a Model of the Interaction of Centering with Global Discourse Structure. . Verbum, 2000.

    Marilyn Walker, Diane J. Litman, Candace A. Kamm and Alicia Abella. Evaluating Spoken Dialogue Agents with {PARADISE}: Two Case Studies . In Computer Speech and Language, 12-3, 1998.

    Marilyn A. Walker. Centering, anaphora resolution, and discourse structure. In Marilyn A. Walker, Aravind K. Joshi, and Ellen F. Prince, editors, Centering in Discourse. Oxford University Press, 1998.

    Marilyn A. Walker, Aravind K. Joshi, and Ellen F. Prince. Centering in naturally-occurring discourse: An overview. In Marilyn A. Walker, Aravind K. Joshi, and Ellen F. Prince, editors, Centering in Discourse. Oxford University Press, 1998.

    Candace A. Kamm, Marilyn A. Walker, and Larry R. Rabiner, The role of speech processing in human-computer intelligent communication. Speech Communication, 1997.

    Marilyn A. Walker and Johanna D. Moore. Empirical Studies in Discourse. Computational Linguistics, 20-2, 1997.

    Marilyn A. Walker. The effect of resource limits and task complexity on collaborative planning in dialogue. Artificial Intelligence Journal, 85:1-2, 1996.

    Marilyn A. Walker. Inferring Acceptance and Rejection in Dialogue by Default Rules of Inference. Language and Speech, 39-2, 1996.

    Marilyn A. Walker. Limited attention and discourse structure. Computational Linguistics, 22-2, 1996.

    Marilyn A. Walker and Ellen F. Prince. A bilateral approach to givenness: a Hearer-Status algorithm and a Centering algorithm. In Gundel, J. and Fretheim, T., eds. Reference accessibility. 1995.

    Marilyn A. Walker. Testing collaborative strategies by computational simulation: Cognitive and task effects . Knowledge Based Systems, 1995.

    Marilyn A. Walker, Masayo Iida, and Sharon Cote. Japanese Discourse and the Process of Centering. Computational Linguistics, 20-2, 1994.

    PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCE & WORKSHOP PAPERS
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    [2017] Neha Nayak, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Marilyn Walker, and Larry Heck. To Plan or not to Plan? Discourse planning in slot-value informed sequence to sequence models for language generation. International Conference on Spoken Language. INTERSPEECH-17. PDF .

    [2017] Lena Reed, Jiaqi Wu, S. Oraby, Pranav Anand, Marilyn Walker, Learning Lexico-Functional Patterns for First-Person Affect. ACL17: Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Short Paper. PDF .

    [2017] Jiaqi Wu, Marilyn Walker, Pranav Anand and Steve Whittaker. Linguistic Reflexes of Well-Being and Happiness in Echo 8th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis at EMNLP2017. Full Paper. Oral Presentation. PDF .

    [2017] Grace Lin and Marilyn Walker. Stylistic Variation in Television Dialogue for Natural Language Generation EMNLP Workshop on Stylistic Variation. Full Paper. Poster Presentation. PDF .

    [2017] Shereen Oraby, Sheideh Homayon, and Marilyn Walker. Harvesting Creative Templates for Generating Stylistically Varied Restaurant Reviews. EMNLP Workshop on Stylistic Variation. Full Paper. Oral Presentation. PDF .

    [2017] Shereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Amita Misra, Ellen Riloff and Marilyn Walker. Are you serious?: Rhetorical Questions and Sarcasm in Social Media Dialog. Full Paper. Poster Presentation. 18th Annual Meeting of the SIGdial Conference on Discourse and Dialogue. PDF .

    [2017] Amita Misra, Shereen Oraby, Shubangi Tandon, Shararth TS, Pranav Anand, and Marilyn Walker. Summarizing Dialogic Arguments from Social Media Proceedings of the Joint SEMDIAL and SIGDIAL 2017 Special Session on Negotiation Dialogue. Full Paper. Oral Presentation. PDF .

    [2017] Zhichao Hu and Marilyn Walker. Inferring Narrative Causality between Event Pairs in Films. Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. pp.342--351. Full Paper. Poster Presentation. PDF . . %http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-3640PDF .

    [2017] Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Jiaqi Wu, Ruimin Wang, Pranav Anand and Marilyn Walker. Modelling Protagonist Goals and Desires in First-Person Narrative, Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. pp. 360--369. Full Paper. Oral Presentation. Nominated for a Best Paper Award. PDF . .

    [2017] Stephanie Lukin, Pranav Anand; Marilyn Walker; Steve Whittaker Argument Strength is in the Eye of the Beholder: Audience Effects in Persuasion. Full Paper. Oral presentation. PDF .

    [2017] Geetanjali Rakshit, Kevin Bowden, Lena Reed, Amita Misra and Marilyn Walker. Debbie, the Debate Bot of the Future. International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems. Full Paper. Oral presentation. PDF .

    [2017] Zhichao Hu, Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Marilyn Walker. Inference of Fine-Grained Event Causality from Blogs and Films. EventStory Workshop at ACL-2017. Full paper. Short oral and poster presentation. PDF . .

    [2016] Amita Misra, Brian Ecker, Theodore Handleman, Nicolaus Hahn, and Marilyn Walker. NLDS-UCSC at SemEval-2016 Task 6: A Semi-Supervised Approach to Detecting Stance in Tweets. SemEval@ NAACL-HLT, 420-427. Full paper. Poster presentation. PDF . .

    [2016] Shereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Ernesto Hernandez, Lena Reed, Ellen Riloff, and Marilyn Walker. Creating and Characterizing a Diverse Corpus of Sarcasm in Dialogue. 17th Annual Meeting of the SIGdial Conference on Discourse and Dialogue. Full Paper. Oral Presentation. PDF .

    [2016] Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Ernesto Hernandez, and Marilyn Walker. Learning Fine-Grained Knowledge about Contingent Relations between Everyday Events. The 17th Annual SIGdial meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. Full Paper. Oral Presentation. PDF . {\bf Best Paper Award}.

    [2016] Amita Misra, Brian Ecker, and Marilyn Walker. Measuring the Similarity of Sentential Arguments in Dialogue. The 17th Annual SIGdial meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. Full Paper. Poster Presentation. PDF . % PDF .

    [2016] Asheq Qadir, Ellen Riloff, and Marilyn Walker. Automatically Inferring Implicit Properties in Similes. HLT-NAACL, 1223-1232. Full Paper. Poster Presentation. PDF .. .

    [2016] Stephanie M. Lukin, and Marilyn Walker. PersonaBank: A Corpus of Personal Narratives and Their Story Intention Graphs. LREC: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. Full Paper. Poster Presentation. PDF .

    [2016] Jackson Tolins, Kris Liu, Yingying Wang, Jean E. Fox Tree, MA Walker, Michael Neff. A Multimodal Motion-Captured Corpus of Matched and Mismatched Extravert-Introvert Conversational Pairs. LREC: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. PDF .

    [2016] Kris Liu, Jean E. Fox Tree, MA Walker. Coordinating Communication in the Wild: The Artwalk Dialogue Corpus of Pedestrian Navigation and Mobile Referential Communication. Full Paper. Poster. LREC: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. PDF .

    [2016] Jackson Tolins, Kris Liu, Michael Neff, MA Walker, and Jean E. Fox Tree. Full Paper. A Verbal and Gestural Corpus of Story Retellings to an Expressive Embodied Virtual Character. LREC: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. PDF .

    [2016] Robert Abbott, Brian Ecker, Pranav Anand and Marilyn Walker. Internet Argument Corpus 2.0: An SQL schema for Dialogic Social Media and the Corpora to go with it. Full Paper. LREC: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. PDF .

    [2016] Kevin K. Bowden, Grace I. Lin, Lena I. Reed, Jean E. Fox Tree, and Marilyn Walker. 2016. Full Paper. Oral Presentation. M2D: Monolog to Dialog Generation for Conversational Story Telling. 9th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling. PDF .. .

    [2016] Zhichao Hu, Michelle Dick, CN Chang, K Bowden, M Neff, Jean E. Fox Tree, and Marilyn Walker. 2016. Full Paper. Poster Presentation. A Corpus of Gesture-Annotated Dialogues for Monologue-to-Dialogue Generation from Personal Narratives. LREC: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. PDF .

    [2015] Dhanya Sridhar, James Foulds, Bert Huang, Lise Getoor, and Marilyn Walker. Joint models of disagreement and stance in online debate. In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2015. Full Paper. Oral Presentation. PDF .

    [2015] Amita Misra, Pranav Anand, Jeannie Fox Tree, and Marilyn A. Walker. Using Summarization to Discover Argument Facets in Online Idealogical Dialog. North American ACL Meeting, NAACL 2015. Full paper. .

    [2015] Shereen Oraby, Lena Reed, Ryan Compton, Ellen Riloff, Marilyn Walker, and Steve Whittaker. And That’s A Fact: Distinguishing Factual and Emotional Argumentation in Online Dialogue. Workshop on Argument Mining at the North American ACL Meeting, NAACL 2015. Full Paper. Oral Presentation. PDF .

    [2015] Zhichao Hu, Marilyn A. Walker, Michael Neff, and Jean E. Fox Tree. Storytelling agents with personality and adaptivity. In Intelligent Virtual Agents, pp. 181-193. Springer International Publishing, 2015. PDF .

    [2015] Stephanie Lukin} and Marilyn A. Walker. Narrative variations in a virtual storyteller. Intelligent Virtual Agents. Springer International Publishing, 2015. PDF .

    [2015] Reid Swanson, Brian Ecker, and Marilyn A. Walker. Argument Mining: Extracting Arguments from Online Dialogue. 16th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. pp. 217-228. SIGDIAL2015. Full Paper. Oral Presentation. PDF .

    [2015] Ashequl Qadir, Ellen Riloff, and Marilyn A. Walker Learning to Recognize Affective Polarity in Similes. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. EMNLP, 190-200. PDF .

    [2015] Stephanie Lukin, Lena Reed, and Marilyn A. Walker. Generating Sentence Planning Variations for Story Telling. 16th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. SIGDIAL-2015. Full Paper. Oral Presentation. PDF .

    [2015] Christopher Antoun, Matthew Antoun, James Owen Ryan, Ben Samuel, Reid Swanson, and Marilyn A. Walker. Generating Natural Language Retellings from Prom Week Play Traces. Proc. PCG in Games (2015). PDF .

    [2014] Dhanya Sridhar, Lise Getoor, and Marilyn Walker. Collective Stance Classification of Posts in Online Debate Forums. ACL Joint Workshop on Social Dynamics and Personal Attributes in Social Media. pp. 109-117. PDF .

    [2014] James O. Ryan, Casey Barackman, Nicholas Kontje, Taylor Owen-Milner, Marilyn A. Walker, Michael Mateas, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Combinatorial Dialogue Authoring. International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling. Full Paper. Oral Presentation. PDF .

    [2014] Stephanie Lukin} James Ryan, and Marilyn Walker. Automating Direct Speech Variations in Stories and Games. 3rd Workshop on Games and NLP. Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. Oral presentation. PDF .

    [2014] Reid Swanson, Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Thomas Corcoran} and Marilyn A Walker. Identifying Narrative Clause Types in Personal Stories. 15th Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. SIGDIAL-2014. pp 171-183. {\bf Best Paper Award} PDF .

    [2014] Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Thomas Corcoran, Reid Swanson} and Marilyn A Walker and Kenji Sagae and Andrew S. Gordon. Minimal Narrative Annotation Schemes and Their Applications. In the Seventh Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies, INT-7. PDF .

    [2014] James O. Ryan, Marilyn A. Walker and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Toward recombinant dialogue in interactive narrative. 7th Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies. INT-7. PDF .

    [2014] Zhichao Hu, Gabrielle Halberg, Carolynn R. Jimenez, Marilyn A Walker. Entrainment in Pedestrian Direction Giving: How many kinds of entrainment? International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems. PDF .

    [2014] Stephanie M. Lukin, G. Michael Youngblood, Honglu Du, and Marilyn Walker. Building Community and Commitment with a Virtual Coach in Mobile Wellness Programs. Intelligent Virtual Agents. Poster. 279--284. 2014. Springer International Publishing. PDF .

    [2014] Reid Swanson, Stephanie Lukin, Luke Eisenberg, Thomas Corcoran} and Marilyn Walker. Getting Reliable Annotations for Sarcasm in Online Dialogues. In Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC. PDF .

    [2013] Zhichao Hu, Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Larissa Munishkina, Reid Swanson, and Marilyn Walker. Unsupervised Induction of Contingent Event Pairs from Film Scenes. In Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. PDF .

    [2013] Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Reid Swanson} and Marilyn Walker. Evaluation, Orientation, and Action in Interactive StoryTelling. In the Sixth Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies, INT-6. PDF .

    [2013] Marilyn Walker, Jennifer Sawyer, Carolynn Jimenez, Elena Rishes, Grace I Lin, Zhichao Hu, Jane Pinckard, Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Using Expressive Language Generation to Increase Authorial Leverage. Ninth Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference. PDF

    [2013] Stephanie Lukin, Marilyn Walker. Really? Well. apparently bootstrapping improves the performance of sarcasm and nastiness classifiers for online dialogue. Workshop on Language and Social Media. North American Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics. PDF

    [2013] Kris Liu, Jackson Tolins, Jean E. Fox Tree and Marilyn Walker and Michael Neff. Judging IVA Personality Using an Open-Ended Questionnnaire. Intelligent Virtual Agents. Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI), LNAI 8108 pp. 396--405. Springer. PDF

    [2013] Elena Rishes, Stephanie M. Lukin, David K Elson, Marilyn A. Walker. Generating different story tellings from semantic representations of narrative. Conference on Interactive Digitial Storytelling. ICIDS 2013. p. 192--204. Springer International Publishing. PDF

    [2013] Amita Misra, Marilyn A. Walker. Topic Independent Identification of Agreement and Disagreement in Social Media Dialogue. Conference of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. SIGDIAL 2013. PDF

    [2012] Marilyn A. Walker and Jean E Fox Tree and Pranav Anand and Rob Abbott and Joseph King. A Corpus for Research on Deliberation and Debate. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. p.812--817. PDF

    [2012], Marilyn A Walker and Pranav Anand and Robert Abbott and Ricky Grant. Stance classification using dialogic properties of persuasion. Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. 592--596. PDF

    [2012]. Marilyn A. Walker, Jennifer Sawyer, Grace Lin, Sam Wing. Does Personality Matter? Expressive Generation for Dialogue Interaction. In Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems. 285--301. Springer New York. PDF

    [2012], Marilyn A. Walker and Grace I. Lin and Jennifer Sawyer. An Annotated Corpus of Film Dialogue for Learning and Characterizing Character Style. LREC Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. 1373--1378. PDF

    [2011] Michael Neff, Nicolaus Toothman, Robeson Bowmani, Jean E. Fox Tree and Marilyn A. Walker (2011). Don't Scratch: Self-adaptors Reflect Emotional Stability. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, vol. 6895. pp 398-411. (paper and sample clips from the study are available at www.springerlink.com). PDF

    [2011] Rob Abbott and Marilyn A. Walker and Pranav Anand and Jean E. Fox Tree and Robeson Bowmani and Joseph King. How can you say such things?!?: Recognizing Disagreement in Informal Political Argument. ACL HLT Workshop on Language in Social Media. Association for Computational Linguistics. PDF

    [2011] Marilyn A. Walker, Ricky Grant, Grace Lin, Jennifer Sawyer, Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Michael Buell. Perceived or Not Perceived: Film Character Models for Expressive NLG. In Interactive Storytelling: Fourth Joint Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2011. Best paper Award. Oral presentation. PDF

    [2011] Anand, P. and Walker, M. and Abbott, R. and Fox Tree, J.E. and Bowmani, R. and Minor, M.. Cats Rule and Dogs Drool!: Classifying Stance in Online Debate. Best Paper Award. ACL HLT Workshop on Sentiment and Subjectivity. PDF .

    [2011] Marilyn A. Walker, Ricky Grant, Grace Lin, Jennifer Sawyer, Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Michael Buell. Murder in the Arboretum: Comparing Character Models to Personality Models. In 4th International Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies. Long Oral Presentation. PDF

    [2011] Grace I. Lin and Marilyn A.Walker. (2011). All the World’s a Stage: Learning Character Models from Film. In Proceedings of the Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Entertainment. AAAI Press. Best Student Paper Award. PDF

    [2011] Kris Liu and Natalia Blackwell and Jean E. Fox Tree and Marilyn A. Walker. A Hula Hoop almost Hit Me!: Running a Map Task in the Wild to Study Conversational Alignment. Poster presented at the 21st annual meeting of the {\em Society for Text and Discourse. Poitiers, France, July 11-13.

    [2011] Reed, A., Samuel B., Sullivan A., Grant, R., Grow A., Lazaro J., Mahal J., Sri Kurniawan, Marilyn A. Walker, Noah Wardrip-Fruin. (2011). A Step Towards the Future of Role-Playing Games: The SpyFeet Mobile RPG Project. In Proceedings of the Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Entertainment. AAAI Press. PDF

    [2011] Aaron A. Reed, Ben Samuel, Anne Sullivan, Ricky Grant, April Grow, Justin Lazaro, Jennifer Mahal, Sri Kurniawan, Marilyn A. Walker, Noah Wardrip-Fruin. SpyFeet: An Exercise RPG. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games. ACM. PDF

    [2010] Michael Neff, Yingying Wang, Rob Abbott and Marilyn A. Walker (2010) Evaluating the Effect of Gesture and Language on Personality Perception in Conversational Agents. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, ISSN 0302-9743, vol. 4738, pp. 203-217. (paper and sample clips from the study are available at www.springerlink.com) PDF .

    [2010] N. Bee, C. Pollock, E. André and M. Walker. PDF Bossy or Wimpy: Expressing Social Dominance by Combining Gaze and Linguistic Behaviors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, ISSN 0302-9743, vol. 4738, pp. 203-217.

    [2010] Khosmood, F. and Walker, M. Grapevine: a gossip generation system.. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games. p. 92--99. 2010. ACM. PDF

    [2010] Marilyn A. Walker. Dynamic adaptation in dialog systems. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group in Discourse and Dialogue, Association for Computational Linguistics. PDF .

    [2009] Marilyn A.Walker. Endowing Virtual Characters with Expressive Conversational Skills. Intelligent Virtual Agents. Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference. Springer. PDF .

    [2008] Joseph Polifroni and Marilyn A. Walker. Intensional Summaries as Cooperative Responses in Dialogue: Automation and Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). PDF

    [2008] Francois Mairesse and Marilyn A. Walker. Trainable Generation of Big-Five Personality Styles through Data-driven Parameter Estimation. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). PDF

    Gupta, S., Walker, M.A., Romano, D.M.(2008). Using a Shared Representation to Generate Action and Social Language for a Virtual Dialogue Environment. AAAI 2008, Spring Symposium on Emotion, Personality and Social Behavior, Stanford University in March 26-28, 2008.

    Gupta, S., Walker, M.A., Romano, D.M.(2008). POLLy: A Conversational System that uses a Shared, Representation to Generate Action and Social Language. IJCNLP 2008, The Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Hyderabad, India, January 7-12, 2008.

    Gupta, S., Walker, M.A., Romano, D.M.(2007). How Rude are You?: Evaluating Politeness and Affect in Interaction. Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII-2007), 12th September 2007, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, ISSN 0302-9743, vol. 4738, pp. 203-217.

    Francois Mairesse and Marilyn Walker (2007). PERSONAGE: Personality Generation for Dialogue. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Prague, June 2007.

    Joseph Polifroni and Marilyn Walker. An Analysis of Automatic Content Selection Algorithms for Spoken Dialogue System Summaries. In IEEE/ACL, Aruba 2006.

    Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Rashmi Prasad and Marilyn Walker. Learning to Generate Naturalistic Utterances Using Reviews in Spoken Dialogue Systems. In COLING-ACL, Australia 2006.

    Francois Mairesse and Marilyn Walker. Words Mark the Nerds: Computational Models of Personality Recognition through Language. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2006), Vancouver, July 2006.

    Francois Mairesse and Marilyn Walker. Automatic Recognition of Personality in Conversation. In Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2006, New York City, June 2006.

    Emma Barker, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Fran{ç}ois Mairesse, Robert Gaizauskas, Marilyn Walker and Jonathan Foster. Simulating Cub Reporter Dialogues: The collection of naturalistic human-human dialogues for information access to text archives. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006), Genoa, May 2006.

    Joseph Polifroni and Marilyn Walker. Learning Database Content for Spoken Dialogue System Design. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006), Genoa, May 2006.

    Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Rashmi Prasad and Marilyn Walker. Augmenting Variation of System Utterances using Corpora in Spoken Dialogue Systems. In IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), Puerto Rico, 2005 .

    Francois Mairesse and Marilyn Walker. Learning to Personalize Spoken Generation for Dialogue Systems. In Proceedings of Interspeech'2005 - Eurospeech: 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, pages 1881-1884, Lisbon, September 2005.

    Amanda Stent, Rashmi Prasad and Marilyn Walker. Trainble Sentence Planning for Complex Information Presentation in Spoken Dialog Systems. In  42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2004, Barcelona, 2004.

    Marilyn Walker, Rashmi Prasad and Amanda Stent. A Trainable Generator for Recommendations in Multimodal Dialog. In EUROSPEECH: European Conference on Speech Processing pages 1697-1701, Geneva, 2003.

    Stephen Whittaker, Marilyn Walker and Preetam Maloor. Should I Tell All? An Experiment On Conciseness in Spoken Dialogue. In EUROSPEECH: European Conference on Speech Processing pages 1685-1689, Geneva, 2003.

    Marilyn Walker, Alex Rudnicky, John Aberdeen , Elizabeth Bratt, John Garofolo, Helen Hastie, Audrey Le, Bryan Pellom, Alex Potamianos, Rebecca Passonneau, Rashmi Prasad, Salim Roukos, Gregory Sanders, Stephanie Seneff and David Stallard. DARPA Communicator Evaluation: Progress from 2000 to 2001. In ICSLP 2002.

    Marilyn Walker, Alex Rudnicky, Rashmi Prasad, John Aberdeen , Elizabeth Bratt, John Garofolo, Helen Hastie, Audrey Le , Bryan Pellom, Alex Potamianos, Rebecca Passonneau, Salim Roukos, Gregory Sanders, Stephanie Seneff, David Stallard. DARPA Communicator: Cross-System Results for the 2001 Evaluation . In ICSLP 2002.

    J. Chen, S. Bangalore, O. Rambow and M. Walker,  ``Towards Automatic Generation of Natural Language Generation Systems'',  International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002), Taipei, Taiwan, 2002.

    Amanda Stent, Marilyn Walker, Steve Whittaker and Preetam Maloor. User-Tailored Generation for Spoken Dialogue: An Experiment In ICSLP, 2002.

    Whittaker, S., Walker, M., and Moore, J.. Fish or Fowl: A Wizard of Oz Evaluation of Dialogue Strategies in the Restaurant Domain . Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. 2002.

    M Walker, S. Whittaker, A. Stent, P. Maloor, J. Moore, M. Johnston, G. Vasireddy. Speech plans: generating evaluative responses in spoken dialogue. International Natural Language Generation Conference.

    Johnston, M., Ehlen, P., Bangalore, S., Walker., M., Stent, A., Maloor, P., and Whittaker, S. (2002). MATCH: An Architecture for Multimodal Dialogue Systems. In Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics , 2002.

    Helen Wright Hastie, Rashmi Prasad and Marilyn A. Walker, What's the Trouble: Automatically Identifying Problematic Dialogs in DARPA Communicator Dialog Systems In Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics , 2002.

    Helen Wright Hastie, Marilyn A. Walker and Rashmi Prasad, Automatic Evaluation: Using a DATE Dialogue Act Tagger for User Satisfaction and Task Completion Prediction In Language Resources and Evaluation Conference , 2002.

    Marilyn A. Walker, Rebecca Passonneau and Julie E. Boland Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of Darpa Communicator Spoken Dialogue Systems In Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics , 2001.

    Monica Rogati, Marilyn A. Walker and Owen Rambow. Training a Sentence Planner for Spoken Dialog: The Impact of Syntactic and Planning Features In EUROSPEECH: European Conference on Speech Processing , 2001. , 2001.

    M. Walker, J. Aberdeen, J. Boland, E. Bratt, J. Garofolo, L. Hirschman, A. Le, S. Lee, S. Narayanan, K. Papineni, B. Pellom, J. Polifroni, A. Potamianos, P. Prabhu, A. Rudnicky, G. Sanders, S. Seneff, D. Stallard, S. Whittaker. DARPA Communicator Dialog Travel Planning Systems: The June 2000 Data Collection In EUROSPEECH: European Conference on Speech Processing , 2001.

    M. Rahim, G. Di Fabbrizio, C. Kamm, M. Walker, A. Pokrovsky, P. Ruscitti, E. Levin, S. Lee, A. Syrdal, K. Schlosser. VOICE-IF: A MIXED-INITIATIVE SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM FOR AT&T CONFERENCE SERVICES In EUROSPEECH: European Conference on Speech Processing , 2001.

    Marilyn A. Walker and Rebecca Passonneau. DATE: A Dialogue Act Tagging Scheme for Evaluation of Spoken Dialogue Systems. In Human Language Technology Conference , San Diego, March, 2001.

    Marilyn A. Walker, Owen Rambow and Monica Rogati. SPoT: A Trainable Sentence Planner In North American Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics , 2001.

    Owen Rambow, Monica Rogati and Marilyn A. Walker. Evaluating a Trainable Sentence Planner for a Spoken Dialogue Travel System In Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics , 2001.

    Rambow, Owen; Bangalore, Srinivas; and Walker, Marilyn, 2001. Natural Language Generation in Dialog Systems. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research (HLT2001), San Diego, USA.[pdf]

    Dutton, D., Chu, S., Hubbell, J., Walker, M., Narayanan, S. (April 2001) Just (All) the Facts, Ma'am, CHI 2001, Seattle,WA.

    Dutton, D., Chu, S., Hubbell, J., Walker, M., Narayanan, S. (March 2001). Amount of Information Presented in a Complex List: Effects on User Performance, Human Language Technology Conference, HLT 2001, San Diego, CA.

    Pamela Jordan and Marilyn Walker. Learning Attribute Selections for Non-Pronominal Expressions In the Proceedings of ACL 2000, Hong Kong, October 2000.

    Levin, E., Narayanan, S., Pieraccini, R., Biatov, K., Bocchieri, E., DiFabbrizio, G., Eckert, W., Lee, S., Pokrovsky, A., Rahim, M., Ruscitti, P. and Walker, M. 2000 The AT&T DARPA Communicator Mixed-Initiative Spoken Dialog System. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing . 2000.

    Marilyn A. Walker, Jerry Wright, Irene Langkilde. Using Natural Language Processing and Discourse Features to Identify Understanding Errors in a Spoken Dialogue System. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning , 2000.

    Marilyn A. Walker, Irene Langkilde , Jerry Wright, Allen Gorin and Diane Litman. Learning to Predict Problematic Situations in a Spoken Dialogue System: Experiments with How May I Help You? In North American Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics , 2000.

    Diane J. Litman, Michael S. Kearns, Satinder Singh, and Marilyn A. Walker. Automatic Optimization of Dialogue Management. In Proceedings of COLING 2000.

    Satinder Singh, Michael S. Kearns, Diane J. Litman, and Marilyn A. Walker. Empirical Evaluation of a Reinforcement Learning Spoken Dialogue System. In Proceedings of AAAI 2000.

    Kary Myers, Michael S. Kearns, Satinder Singh, Marilyn A. Walker. A Boosting Approach to Topic Spotting on SubDialogues. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning , 2000.

    Marilyn A. Walker, Lynette Hirschman and John Aberdeen. Evaluation For Darpa Communicator Spoken Dialogue Systems In Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC , 2000.

    Marilyn A. Walker, Candace Kamm and Julie Boland. Developing And Testing General Models Of Spoken Dialogue System Perfor mance In Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC , 2000.

    Marilyn A. Walker, Julie Boland and Candace Kamm. The Utility of Elapsed Time as a Usability Metric for Spoken Dialogue Systems In ASRU99 , 1999.

    Irene Langkilde, Marilyn A. Walker, Jerry Wright, Allen Gorin and Diane Litman. Automatic Prediction of Problematic Human-Computer Dialogues in How May I Help You? In ASRU99 , 1999.

    Satinder Singh, Michael S. Kearns, Diane J. Litman, and Marilyn A. Walker. Reinforcement Learning for Spoken Dialogue Systems. In Proceedings of NIPS*99.

    Diane Litman, Marilyn A. Walker and Michael Kearns. Automatic Detection of Poor Speech Recognition at the Dialogue Level. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics , ACL99, 1999.

    Candace Kamm, Marilyn A. Walker, and Diane Litman. "Evaluating Spoken Language Systems" In Proceedings of American Voice Input/Output Society, , AVIOS, 1999. Recipient of a Best Paper Award

    Candace Kamm, Diane Litman, Marilyn A. Walker. From Novice to Expert: The Effect of Tutorials on User Expertise with Spoken Dialogue Systems. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing , ICSLP98, 1998.

    Diane Litman, Shimei Pan and Marilyn Walker. Evaluating Response Strategies in a Web-Based Spoken Dialogue Agent. In Proceedings of ACL/COLING 98 , 1998.

    Marilyn Walker, Jeanne Fromer, Shrikanth Narayanan. Learning Optimal Dialogue Strategies: A Case Study of a Spoken Dialogue Agent for Email. In Proceedings of ACL/COLING 98 , 1998.

    Marilyn Walker, Jeanne Fromer, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Craig Mestel and Don Hindle. What Can I Say? . In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , CHI98, 1997.

    Marilyn Walker, Don Hindle, Jeanne Fromer, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio and Craig Mestel. Evaluating Competing Agent Strategies for a Voice Email Agent . In Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Speech Technology and Communication , EUROSPEECH 97, 1997.

    Marilyn A. Walker, Janet E. Cahn and Stephen J. Whittaker. Improvising Linguistic Style: Social and Affective Bases for Agent Personality . In Proceedings of the Conference on Autonomous Agents, AGENTS97, 1997. This work was also written up in the Dallas Morning News and the Newark Star Ledger.

    Marilyn Walker, Diane Litman, Candace Kamm and Alicia Abella. PARADISE: A Framework for Evaluating Spoken Dialogue Agents . PDF In Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics , ACL 97, 1997.

    Kamm, C. and Walker, M. A., Design and evaluation of spoken dialog systems. Proc. 1997 IEEE Workshop on Speech Recognition and Understanding, 1997.

    Marilyn A. Walker and Pamela Jordan. Design-world: A testbed of communicative action and resource limits. Special Issue of the SIGART Bulletin on AI Education, 1995.

    Pamela Jordan and Marilyn A. Walker. Deciding to Remind During Collaborative Problem Solving: Empirical Evidence for Agent Strategies . In Proceedings ofthe Conference of the American Association Artificial Intelligence, AAAI96, 1996.

    Marilyn A. Walker. Experimentally evaluating communicative strategies: The effect of the task . In Proceedings of the Conference of the American Association Artificial Intelligence, AAAI94, 1994.

    Marilyn A. Walker. Discourse and Deliberation: Testing a collaborative strategy . In 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: COLING 94, 1994.

    Marilyn A. Walker and Owen Rambow. The Role of Cognitive Modeling in Communicative Intentions. In The 7th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 1994.

    Marilyn A. Walker. Rejection by Implicature . In Proceedings of the 20th Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1994.

    Marilyn A. Walker. 1993. When given information is accented: Repetition, paraphrase and inference in dialogue . In Proceedings of Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting

    Ellen F. Prince and Marilyn A. Walker. 1993. A bilateral approach to givenness: a hearer-status algorithm and a centering algorithm. In 4th International Pragmatics Conference.

    Marilyn A. Walker. Redundant affirmation, deliberation and discourse . In Penn Review of Linguistics, volume 17, 1993.

    Marilyn A. Walker. 1992. Redundancy in collaborative dialogue . In Fourteenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics,COLING, Nantes.

    Marilyn A. Walker, Andrew L. Nelson, and Phil Stenton. 1992. A Case Study of Natural Language Customisation: The practical effects of world knowledge . In Fourteenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING, Nantes.

    Marilyn A. Walker, Masayo Iida, and Sharon Cote. 1990. Centering in Japanese Discourse . In COLING90: Proc. 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Helsinki.

    Marilyn A. Walker and Steve Whittaker. 1990. Mixed Initiative in Dialogue: An investigation into discourse segmentation . In Proc. 28th Annual Meeting of the ACL.

    Marilyn A. Walker. 1989. Evaluating Discourse Processing Algorithms . In Proc. 27th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics.

    Marilyn A. Walker. 1989. Natural Language in a Desk-Top Environment . In Proceedings of HCI89, 3rd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Boston, Mass, pages 502-509.

    Susan E. Brennan, Marilyn  Walker Friedman and Carl J. Pollard. 1987. A Centering Approach to Pronouns . In Proc. 25th Annual Meeting of the ACL.

    PATENTS AWARDED and FILED

  • 2011. US Patent 7,933,773. Gorin, A.L. and Geary, I.L. and Walker, M.A. and Wright, J.H., Natural language understanding monitoring system for identifying a task.
  • 2011. US Patent 7,949,537. Walker, M.A. and Rambow, O.C. and Rogati, M., Method for automated sentence planning in a task classification system.
  • 2011. US Patent 7,957,970. Gorin, A.L. and Geary, I.L. and Litman, D.J. and Walker, M.A. and Wright, J.H., Method and system for predicting problematic situations in automated dialog.
  • 2009. US Patent 7,487,088. Method and system for predicting understanding errors in automated dialog systems.
  • 2009. US Patent 7,574,362. Walker, M.A. and Rambow, O.C. and Rogati, M., Method for automated sentence planning in a task classification system.
  • 2009. US Patent 7,529,667. Gorin, A.L. and Geary, I.L. and Walker, M.A. and Wright, J.H., Automated dialog system and method.
  • 2008. US Patent 7,440,893. AL Gorin, IL Geary, MA Walker, Automated dialog method with first and second thresholds for adapted dialog strategy.
  • 2008. US Patent 7,440,893. AL Gorin, IL Geary, MA Walker, Automated dialog method with first and second thresholds for adapted dialog strategy.
  • 2006. US Patent 7,003,459. Gorin, A.L. and Geary, I.L. and Walker, M.A. and Wright, J.H., Method and system for predicting understanding errors in automated dialog systems.
  • 2004. US Patent 6,751,591. Gorin, A.L. and Geary, I.L. and Walker, M.A. and Wright, J.H., Method and system for predicting understanding errors in a task classification system.
  • 2002. US Patent App. 10/217,010. Bangalore, S. and Johnston, M. and Walker, M.A. and Whittaker, S.,System and method for querying information using a flexible multi-modal interface.
  • 2002. US Patent App. 10/258,851. Walker, M.A. and Rambow, O.C. and Rogati, M., Method for automated sentence planning.
  • 2000. US Patent 6,072,467. Walker, M., Continuously variable control of animated on-screen characters. (40 citations)
  • US Patent 5,757,360. Nitta, T. and Jewell, D.B. and Walker, M.A., Hand held computer control device. (48 citations)
  • Hand Held Computer Control Device, U.S. Patent # 5,757,360, Awarded May 26th, 1998


  • INVITED TALKS
    [2017] Invited Panelist. International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems. Special Session Panel on CHAT Dialogue Systems. June 6-9.
    [2017] Invited keynote. Natural Language Generation for Dialogue Systems. INTEL Research Summit. March 16th, 2017. Santa Clara, Ca.
    [2016] Invited talk. Young Researchers Round Table on Spoken Dialogue Systems. Santa Monica. Ca.
    [2015] Argument Mining and Sentiment in Online Dialogue. IBM Distinguished Speaker Series. Advanced Innovation Lab. IBM Almaden.
    [2015] Keynote Address, Sentiment and Sarcasm in Online Dialogue International Conference on Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL 2015), Gothenberg, Sweden.
    [2014] Keynote Address Generating Different Tellings of Stories and Answers to Questions from Narrative Representations. International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2014), Phildelphia, PA.
    [2013] Using Bootstrapping to Recognize Social Dialogue Acts in Online Dialogue. EU and NSF Sponsored Workshop on Social Media and Big Data. University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen, Denmark. May 2013.
    [2012] Sarcasm and Summarization of Online Dialogue. University of Pennsylvania. NSF Sponsored workshop on Summarizing Opinion and Speaker Attitude in Speech.
    [2012] Expressive Generation for Interactive Stories. University of Pittsburgh, Intelligent Systems Program (ISP) Distinguished Lecture. Friday, April 13th.
    [2012] Invited Keynote. Does Personality Matter?: Expressive Generation for Spoken Dialogue Interaction. International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems(IWSDS 2012), Paris, France, Nov. 2012.
    [2011] Expressive Generation of Dialog for Games, Dialog Systems and Interactive Stories. Sony Playstation. Foster City.
    [2010] Keynote Address, Dynamic Adaptation in Dialog Systems. SIGDIAL, Tokyo, Japan.
    [2010] Affective Adaptation for Dialog Systems. IBM Almaden Natural Language Processing Seminar.
    [2009] Statistical Personalized Language Generation for Interactive Dialogue Applications. University of Michigan, School of Information, Faculty Research Seminar.
    [2009] Keynote Address , Endowing virtual characters with expressive conversational skills. Intelligent Virtual Agents, Amsterdam.
    [2008] Statistical Spoken Language Generation of Stylistic Variation for Dialogue Applications. UC Irvine Department of Informatics Seminar.
    [2008] Personality Modeling in Dialogue Systems. SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center Seminar, with F. Mairesse.
    [2008] Generating Language with Personality. Trinity College Dublin, Dublin Computational Linguistics Research Seminar.
    2008. Keynote Address, Online or Offline: How Can We Evaluate Question Generation. NSF Workshop on Question Generation, Washington D.C.
    [2008] Statistical Spoken Language Generation of Stylistic Variation for Dialogue Applications. NC State, Future of Games Seminar Series
    [2008] Statistical Spoken Language Generation of Stylistic Variation for Dialogue Applications. Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA.
    2007. Generating Language with Personality for Dialogue Systems and Computer Gaming. Univ. of York, York, U.K. Computer Science Colloquium.
    2007. Generating Language with Personality for Dialogue Systems. Distinguished Speaker Series, Northwestern University Technology and Social Behavior
    2007 Generating Characters with Introverted and Extraverted Personality for Computer Gaming. University of Pennsylvania Cognitive Science Colloquium.
    2007. Generating Language with Personality for Dialogue Systems. Stanford University Center for the Study of Language and Information Colloquium.
    2007. Generating Characters with Introverted and Extraverted Personality. University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland. 2007.
    Learning to Generate Naturalistic Utterances for Spoken Dialogue Systems by Mining User Reviews. Columbia University Computational Linguistics Colloquium. New York City, New York. 2006.
    A Bootstrapping Approach to Learning Generation Dictionaries for Tourist Domains. Ohio State University Computer Science Colloquium. 2006.
    A Bootstrapping Approach to Learning Generation Dictionaries. MIT Computer Science and AI Lab. 2006.
    Learning to Generate Naturalistic Utterances for Spoken Dialogue Systems by Mining User Reviews. Columbia University, Computer Science Colloquium 2006.
    Learning to Generate Naturalistic Utterances for Spoken Dialogue Systems by Mining User Reviews. Ohio State University Computer Science Colloquium. 2006.
    Learning to Generate Naturalistic Utterances for Spoken Dialogue Systems by Mining User Reviews. MIT Computer Science and AI Lab. 2004.
    Can we talk? Methods for Evaluation and Training of Spoken Dialogue Systems. Keynote Address. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference LREC'04, Lisbon, Portugal 2004.
    Can we talk? Prospects for automatically training dialogue systems. University of Brighton Information Technology Research Institute Colloquium, Oct 2004 2003.
    Towards Trainable, Customizable, Conversational Spoken Dialogue Systems. Lockheed Martin Computer Science Colloquium. 2002.
    Towards Trainable, Customizable, Conversational Spoken Dialogue Systems. University of Toronto, Computer Science Colloquium. 2002.
    Towards Trainable, Customizable, Conversational Spoken Dialogue Systems. University of Sheffield Natural Language Processing Colloquium. 2002.
    Towards Trainable, Customizable, Conversational Spoken Dialogue Systems. Johns Hopkins University Summer School Tutorial. Baltimore MD. 2002.
    Training a Sentence Planner for Spoken Dialogue Using Boosting. Cambridge University Computer Lab Colloquium. 2002.
    Speech Plans: User Adaptive Generation for Dialogue Systems. University of York Computer Science Colloquium. 2002.
    Towards Trainable, Customizable, Conversational Spoken Dialogue Systems. Edinburgh Informatics Colloquium. 2001.
    SPoT: A Trainable Sentence Planner for Spoken Dialogue. Columbia U. Stochastic Generation Day. 2001.
    Sentence Planning for Dialogue Systems. U. of Pennsylvania Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Colloquium. Philadelphia, PA. 2001.
    SPoT: A Trainable Sentence Planner for Spoken Dialogue. University of Brighton Institute for Research in Informatics, Brighton, England. 2001.
    SPoT: A Trainable Sentence Planner for Spoken Dialogue. Edinburgh Informatics Colloquium. Edinburgh, U.K. 2000.
    Reinforcement learning in Dialogue Systems. IBM Research NLP and Speech Colloquium. 1999.
    Automatic Detection of Poor Speech Recognition at the Dialogue Level. Rutgers University Cognitive Science Colloquium 1999.
    Automatic Detection of Poor Speech Recognition at the Dialogue Level. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K. 1998.
    Performance Models for Dialogue Strategy Choices in Spoken Dialogue Systems. Lucent Bell Labs Natural Language Colloquium 1998.
    Performance Models for Dialogue Strategy Choices in Spoken Dialogue Systems. BBN Technologies Colloquium 1998.
    Performance Models for Dialogue Strategy Choices in Spoken Dialogue Systems. Brandeis University Computer Science Colloquium 1998.
    Performance Models for Dialogue Strategy Choices in Spoken Dialogue Systems. University of Maryland Computational Linguistics Colloquium 1997. {\bf Invited Plenary Address,
    Performance Models for Spoken Dialogue Agents. AAAI 97 Providence R.I. 1995.
    Linguistic Variation and Character in the VIVA Virtual Theatre. Villanova University Computer Science Colloquium 1995.
    Linguistic Variation and Character in the VIVA Virtual Theatre. MIT Media Lab Colloquium, Cambridge MA. 1995.
    Linguistic Variation and Character in the VIVA Virtual Theatre. Lifelike Computer Characters Conference, Snowbird, Utah 1995.
    Experimentally Evaluating Communicative Strategies. ATT Bell Laboratories Applied Speech Research Dept Colloquium, Murray Hill New Jersey 1995.
    Experimentally Evaluating Communicative Strategies. Johns Hopkins University Computer Science Dept. Colloquium, Baltimore, MD 1995.
    Experimentally Evaluating Communicative Strategies. MITRE Human Computer Interface Dept Colloquium, Bedford, MA 1995.
    Experimentally Evaluating Communicative Strategies. Naval Research Lab Colloquium, Washington D.C. 1994.
    Testing Collaborative Communicative Strategies by Computational Simulation: Cognitive and Task Effects. Duke University Computer Science Dept. Colloquium 1994.
    Testing Collaborative Communicative Strategies by Computational Simulation: Cognitive and Task Effects. North Carolina State University Computer Science Dept. Colloquium 1994.
    Making them Talk: Experiments on Building Conversational Agents. MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA. 1994.
    Resource Bounds in Dialogue. Computational Linguistics Colloquium, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 1994.
    Rejection by Implicature. Linguistics Department Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh. USA 1993.
    A Model of Redundant Information in Dialogue. Linguistics Dept. Colloquium, Stanford University, Stanford, Ca. 1991.
    Informational Redundancy in Problem-Solving Dialogues. Computer Science Colloquium, Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Cambridge University, U.K. 1991.
    The Interpretation of Japanese Zero Pronouns in Machine Translation. Meeting of the Joint Industry-Government Machine Translation Working Group, JEIDA, Tokyo, Japan. 1991.
    Redundancy and Resource-Bounds in Task-Oriented Dialogue. ICOT Colloquium, Tokyo, Japan 1991.
    Centering Theory in Japanese Discourse. ICOT Colloquium, Tokyo, Japan 1991.
    Centering Theory in Japanese Discourse. Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT) Basic Research Labs Colloquium, Tokyo, Japan 1991.
    Centering Theory in Japanese Discourse. Natural Language Colloquium, Interpreting Telephony Laboratories, (ATR) Nara, Japan 1991.
    A Model of Dialogue for Resource-Bounded Agents. Cognitive Science Colloquium, Electrotechnical Laboratory, ETL, Tsukuba, Japan