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Dilek Hakkani-Tur

71 papers · 2004–2026 · 10 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (10) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (8) πŸƒ Academic Marathon (21) πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge 🌍 Conference Polyglot (10) πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (13) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🀝 Dynamic Duo (19) πŸ‘₯ Mega-Team (31) πŸ”¬ Deep Specialist (23) 🧬 Topic Evolution πŸ† Keyword Champion (11) πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (250) ⚑ Prolific Year (7) ❓ The Questioner (9) πŸ’Ž Century Club (70) πŸ“ˆ Trend Setter πŸš€ Conference Pioneer πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (8)

Conferences

ACL (19) EMNLP (14) INTERSPEECH (11) NAACL (11) AAAI (6) EACL (4) COLING (2) IJCNLP (2) ICLR (1) NIPS (1)

Top co-authors

Yang Liu (19) Gokhan Tur (16) Di Jin (14) Asli Celikyilmaz (10) Seokhwan Kim (9) Heng Ji (8) Mahdi Namazifar (8) Behnam Hedayatnia (8) Karthik Gopalakrishnan (7) Devamanyu Hazarika (7)

Keywords

dialogue system (13) task-oriented dialogue (11) zero-shot learning (8) response generation (6) dialogue state tracking (6) large language model (6) few-shot learning (5) multi-task learning (5) embodied ai (4) slot filling (4) transfer learning (4) reinforcement learning (4) natural language generation (4) dialog system (3) multi-turn conversation (3) knowledge selection (3) language model (3) conversational agent (3) domain adaptation (3) natural language understanding (3)

Papers

Beyond Sample-Level Feedback: Using Reference-Level Feedback to Guide Data Synthesis EACL 2026
MOCHA: Are Code Language Models Robust Against Multi-Turn Malicious Coding Prompts? EMNLP 2025
Aligning LLMs with Individual Preferences via Interaction COLING 2025
SMART: Self-Aware Agent for Tool Overuse Mitigation ACL 2025
Infogent: An Agent-Based Framework for Web Information Aggregation NAACL 2025
Can a Single Model Master Both Multi-turn Conversations and Tool Use? CoALM: A Unified Conversational Agentic Language Model ACL 2025
Know Your Mistakes: Towards Preventing Overreliance on Task-Oriented Conversational AI Through Accountability Modeling ACL 2025
Enabling Chatbots with Eyes and Ears: An Immersive Multimodal Conversation System for Dynamic Interactions ACL 2025
Selective In-Context Data Augmentation for Intent Detection using Pointwise V-Information EACL 2023
PLACES: Prompting Language Models for Social Conversation Synthesis EACL 2023
Towards Credible Human Evaluation of Open-Domain Dialog Systems Using Interactive Setup AAAI 2023
DialGuide: Aligning Dialogue Model Behavior with Developer Guidelines EMNLP 2023
Using In-Context Learning to Improve Dialogue Safety EMNLP 2023
CESAR: Automatic Induction of Compositional Instructions for Multi-turn Dialogs EMNLP 2023
Multimodal Embodied Plan Prediction Augmented with Synthetic Embodied Dialogue EMNLP 2023
Alexa Arena: A User-Centric Interactive Platform for Embodied AI NIPS 2023
KILM: Knowledge Injection into Encoder-Decoder Language Models ACL 2023
Think Before You Speak: Explicitly Generating Implicit Commonsense Knowledge for Response Generation ACL 2022
VISITRON: Visual Semantics-Aligned Interactively Trained Object-Navigator ACL 2022
What is wrong with you?: Leveraging User Sentiment for Automatic Dialog Evaluation ACL 2022
On the Limits of Evaluating Embodied Agent Model Generalization Using Validation Sets ACL 2022
Empowering parameter-efficient transfer learning by recognizing the kernel structure in self-attention NAACL 2022
Analyzing the Limits of Self-Supervision in Handling Bias in Language EMNLP 2022
Enhancing Knowledge Selection for Grounded Dialogues via Document Semantic Graphs NAACL 2022
Sketching as a Tool for Understanding and Accelerating Self-attention for Long Sequences NAACL 2022
Attention Biasing and Context Augmentation for Zero-Shot Control of Encoder-Decoder Transformers for Natural Language Generation AAAI 2022
Inducer-tuning: Connecting Prefix-tuning and Adapter-tuning EMNLP 2022
ALFRED-L: Investigating the Role of Language for Action Learning in Interactive Visual Environments EMNLP 2022
TEACh: Task-Driven Embodied Agents That Chat AAAI 2022
Can I Be of Further Assistance? Using Unstructured Knowledge Access to Improve Task-oriented Conversational Modeling ACL 2021
Few Shot Dialogue State Tracking using Meta-learning EACL 2021
Style Control for Schema-Guided Natural Language Generation EMNLP 2021
Think Before You Speak: Learning to Generate Implicit Knowledge for Response Generation by Self-Talk EMNLP 2021
Towards Zero and Few-shot Knowledge-seeking Turn Detection in Task-orientated Dialogue Systems EMNLP 2021
Can I Be of Further Assistance? Using Unstructured Knowledge Access to Improve Task-oriented Conversational Modeling IJCNLP 2021
Alexa Conversations: An Extensible Data-driven Approach for Building Task-oriented Dialogue Systems NAACL 2021
Entity Resolution in Open-domain Conversations NAACL 2021
Semantic Aligned Multi-modal Transformer for Vision-LanguageUnderstanding: A Preliminary Study on Visual QA NAACL 2021
Incorporating Commonsense Knowledge Graph in Pretrained Models for Social Commonsense Tasks EMNLP 2020
From Machine Reading Comprehension to Dialogue State Tracking: Bridging the Gap ACL 2020
MA-DST: Multi-Attention-Based Scalable Dialog State Tracking AAAI 2020
Are Neural Open-Domain Dialog Systems Robust to Speech Recognition Errors in the Dialog History? An Empirical Study INTERSPEECH 2020
Just Ask: An Interactive Learning Framework for Vision and Language Navigation AAAI 2020
MMM: Multi-Stage Multi-Task Learning for Multi-Choice Reading Comprehension AAAI 2020
HyST: A Hybrid Approach for Flexible and Accurate Dialogue State Tracking INTERSPEECH 2019
Robust Zero-Shot Cross-Domain Slot Filling with Example Values ACL 2019
Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI ACL 2019
Learning to Navigate the Web ICLR 2019
Topical-Chat: Towards Knowledge-Grounded Open-Domain Conversations INTERSPEECH 2019
Towards Universal Dialogue Act Tagging for Task-Oriented Dialogues INTERSPEECH 2019
Deep Learning for Dialogue Systems COLING 2018
Deep Learning based Situated Goal-oriented Dialogue Systems INTERSPEECH 2018
An Efficient Approach to Encoding Context for Spoken Language Understanding INTERSPEECH 2018
Dialogue Learning with Human Teaching and Feedback in End-to-End Trainable Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems NAACL 2018
Bootstrapping a Neural Conversational Agent with Dialogue Self-Play, Crowdsourcing and On-Line Reinforcement Learning NAACL 2018
Deep Learning for Dialogue Systems ACL 2017
To Plan or not to Plan? Discourse Planning in Slot-Value Informed Sequence to Sequence Models for Language Generation INTERSPEECH 2017
Towards Zero-Shot Frame Semantic Parsing for Domain Scaling INTERSPEECH 2017
A New Pre-Training Method for Training Deep Learning Models with Application to Spoken Language Understanding INTERSPEECH 2016
End-to-End Memory Networks with Knowledge Carryover for Multi-Turn Spoken Language Understanding INTERSPEECH 2016
Multi-Domain Joint Semantic Frame Parsing Using Bi-Directional RNN-LSTM INTERSPEECH 2016
Resolving Referring Expressions in Conversational Dialogs for Natural User Interfaces EMNLP 2014
Semi-Supervised Semantic Tagging of Conversational Understanding using Markov Topic Regression ACL 2013
Mining Search Query Logs for Spoken Language Understanding NAACL 2012
A Joint Model for Discovery of Aspects in Utterances ACL 2012
Discovery of Topically Coherent Sentences for Extractive Summarization ACL 2011
A Hybrid Hierarchical Model for Multi-Document Summarization ACL 2010
Who, What, When, Where, Why? Comparing Multiple Approaches to the Cross-Lingual 5W Task ACL 2009
Anchored Speech Recognition for Question Answering NAACL 2009
Who, What, When, Where, Why? Comparing Multiple Approaches to the Cross-Lingual 5W Task IJCNLP 2009
Mining Spoken Dialogue Corpora for System Evaluation and Modelin EMNLP 2004