Publications

Patents

• 7778836 - System and method of using modular spoken-dialog components - August 17, 2010
• 7746990 - Providing Called Number Characteristics To Click To Dial Customers - June 29, 2010
• 7734958 - Method and apparatus for a programming language having fully undoable, timed reactive instructions - June 8, 2010
• 7630917 - Automatic Learning For Mapping Spoken/Text Descriptions Of Products Onto Available Products - December 8, 2009
• 7430510 - System and method of using modular spoken-dialog components - September 30, 2008
• 7421393 - System for developing a dialog manager using modular spoken-dialog components - September 2, 2008
• 7412393 - Method for developing a dialog manager using modular spoken-dialog components, August 12, 2008
• 7328146 - Spoken language understanding that incorporates prior knowledge into boosting - February 5, 2008
• 7203866 - Method and apparatus for a programming language having fully undoable, timed reactive instructions - April 10, 2007
• 7174481 - Method and apparatus for a programming language having fully undoable, timed reactive instructions - February 6, 2007
• 7152029 - Spoken language understanding that incorporates prior knowledge into boosting - December 19, 2006

Papers

1. Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Nerendra Gupta, Sveva Besane, Premkumar Mani, Have2eat: a Restaurant Finder with Review Summarization for Mobile Phones, The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010) - demo paper, Beijing, China, August 23-27, 2010.    bibtex

2. Narendra Gupta, Mazin Gilbert, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Emotion Detection in Email Customer Care, Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL Workshop on Computational Approaches to Analysis and Generation of Emotion in Text, Los Angeles, CA, USA, June 5, 2010.    bibtex

3. Narendra Gupta, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Patrick Haffner, Capturing The Stars: Predicting Ratings For Service And Product Reviews, Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL Workshop on Semantic Search (SemanticSearch 2010), Los Angeles, CA, USA, June 5, 2010.    bibtex

4. Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Jay G. Wilpon, Thomas Okken, A Speech Mashup Framework for Multimodal Mobile Services, The Eleventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and Workshop on Machine Learning for Multi-modal Interaction (ICMI-MLMI 2009), Cambridge, MA, USA, November 2-6, 2009.    bibtex

5. Srinivas Bangalore, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amanda J. Stent, Learning the Structure of Task-driven Human-Human Dialogs, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (Special Issue on New Approaches to Statistical Speech and Text Processing), -, September, 2008.    bibtex

6. Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amanda J. Stent, Srinivas Bangalore, Trainable Speaker-Based Referring Expression Generation, Twelfth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2008), Manchester, UK, August 16-17, 2008.    bibtex

7. Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amanda J. Stent, Srinivas Bangalore, Referring Expression Generation Using Speaker-based Attribute Selection and Trainable Realization (ATT-REG), The 5th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Salt Fork State Park, OH, USA, June 12-14, 2008.    bibtex

8. Rittwik Jana, Andrea Basso, Yih-Farn Chen, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, David Gibbon, Bernard Renger, Bin Wei, Bridging Communication Services - Connecting Virtual Worlds to Real World, MobEA VI- Personal Rich Social Media - WWW2008 Workshop, Beijing, China, April 22, 2008.    bibtex

9. Amanda J. Stent, Srinivas Bangalore, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Where do the Words Come From? Learning Models for Word Choice and Ordering from Spoken Dialog Corpora, ICASSP 2008 - 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, March 30 - April 4, 2008.    bibtex

10. Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Mazin Gilbert, Bernard Renger, David Gibbon, Zhu Liu, Behzad Shahraray, Bootstrapping Spoken Dialogue Systems by Exploiting Reusable Libraries, Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Cambridge University Press, -, 2007.    bibtex

11. Yih-Farn Chen, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, David Gibbon, Rittwik Jana, Serban Jora, Bernard Renger, Bin Wei, GeoTracker: Geospatial and Temporal RSS Navigation, The 16th International World Wide Web Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 8-12, 2007.    bibtex

12. Yih-Farn Chen, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, David Gibbon, Rittwik Jana, Serban Jora, Bernard Renger, Bin Wei, GeoTV: Navigating Geocoded RSS to Create an IPTV Experience, The 16th International World Wide Web Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 8-12, 2007.    bibtex

13. Giovanni Andreani, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Mazin Gilbert, Dan Gillick, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, and Oliver Lemon, Let's DiSCoH: Collecting an Annotated Open Corpus with Dialogue Acts and Reward Signals for Natural Language Helpdesks, Proccedings of the 1st IEEE/ACL 2006 Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Palm Beach, Aruba, December 10-13, 2006.    bibtex

14. Charles Lewis and Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Prompt Selection with Reinforcement Learning in an AT&T Call Routing Application, Proccedings of the 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech 2006 - ICSLP), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, September 17-21, 2006.    bibtex

15. Srinivas Bangalore, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio and Amanda Stent, Learning the Structure of Task-driven Human-Human Dialogs, Proceedings of the 3rd Joint Conference of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING/ACL 20006), Sydney, Australia, July 17-21, 2006.    bibtex

16. Charles Lewis and Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Dialogue Strategy Optimization with Reinforcement Learning in an AT&T Call Routing Application, AAAI Workshop on Statistical and Empirical Approaches for Spoken Dialogue Systems, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 17, 2006.    bibtex

17. Fan Yang, Junlan Feng and Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, A Data Driven Approach to Relevancy Recognition for Contextual Question Answering, HLT-NAACL 2006 Workshop on Interactive Question Answering, New York, USA, June 8-9, 2006.    bibtex

18. Srinivas Bangalore, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, and Amanda Stent, Towards Learning to Converse: Structuring Task-Oriented Human-Human Dialogs, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Toulouse, France, May 14-19, 2006.    bibtex

19. Junlan Feng, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Mazin Gilbert, and Mark Beutnagel, Webtalk: Towards Automatically Building Spoken Dialog Systems Through Mining Websites, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Toulouse, France, May 14-19, 2006.    bibtex

20. Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Automated Wizard-of-Oz for Spoken Dialogue Systems, Interspeech'2005 - Eurospeech - 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Lisboa, Portugal, September 4-8, 2005.    bibtex

21. Mazin Gilbert, Jay G. Wilpon, Benjamin Stern, and Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Intelligent Virtual Agents for Contact Center Automation, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume 22, Number 5, September, 2005.    bibtex

22. Charles Lewis and Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, A Clarification Algorithm for Spoken Dialogue Systems, 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Philadelphia, PA, USA, March 18-23, 2005.    bibtex

23. Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio and Charles Lewis, Florence: a Dialogue Manager Framework for Spoken Dialogue Systems, ICSLP 2004, 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Jeju, Jeju Island, Korea, October 4-8, 2004.    bibtex

24. Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio and Charles Lewis, An XPath-based Discourse Analysis Module for Spoken Dialogue Systems, The Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference, New York NY, May 17-22, 2004.    bibtex

25. Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Bootstrapping Spoken Dialog Systems with Data Reuse, Proceedings of the 5th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, April 30 - May 1, 2004.    bibtex

26. Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Dawn Dutton, Narendra Gupta, Barbara Hollister, Mazin Rahim, Giuseppe Riccardi, Robert Schapire, and Juergen Schroeter, AT&T help desk, ICSLP2002, 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Denver (CO), USA, September 16-20, 2002.    bibtex

27. M. Rahim, G.D 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, Eurospeech 2001, European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Aalborg, Denmark, September 3-7, 2001.    bibtex

28. Jennifer L. Beckham, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Nils Klarlund, Towards SMIL as a Foundation for Multimodal, Multimedia Applications, Eurospeech 2001, European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Aalborg, Denmark, September 3-7, 2001.    bibtex

29. E. Levin, S. Narayanan, K. Biatov, E. Bocchieri, G. Di Fabbrizio, S. Lee, A. Pokrovsky, P. Ruscitti, M. Rahim, M. Walker, The AT&T DARPA Communicator, ICSLP2000, 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Beijing, China, October 16 -20, 2000.    bibtex

30. S. Narayanan, G. Di Fabbrizio, J. Hubbell, C. Kamm, B. Buntschuh, P. Ruscitti, J. Wright, Effects of Dialog Initiative and Multimodal Presentation Strategies on Large Directory Information Access, ICSLP2000, 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Beijing, China, October 16 -20, 2000.    bibtex

31. G. Di Fabbrizio and S. Narayanan, Web-Based Monitoring, Logging and Reporting Tools For Multi-Service Multimodal Systems, ICSLP2000, 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Beijing, China, October 16 -20, 2000.    bibtex

32. M. Rahim, R. Pieraccini, W. Eckert, E.Levin, G. Di Fabbrizio, G. Riccardi, C. Kamm, and S. Narayanan, A Spoken Dialogue System for Conference/Workshop Services, ICSLP2000, 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Beijing, China, October 16 -20, 2000.    bibtex

33. E. Bocchieri, G. Di Fabbrizio, S. Lee, E. Levin, S. Narayanan, A. Pokrovsky, P. Ruscitti, M. Rahim, and M. Walker, Spoken dialogue systems: Some case studies from AT&T, DARPA Communicator PI Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, September 11-13, 2000.    bibtex

34. G. Di Fabbrizio, S. Narayanan, P. Ruscitti, C. Kamm, B. Buntschuh, J. Hubbell, J. Wright, and J. Hamaker, Unifying Conversational Multimedia Interfaces For Accessing Network Services Across Communication Devices, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, New York City, New York, USA, July 30 - August 2, 2000.    bibtex

35. E. Levin, R. Pieraccini, W. Eckert, G. Di Fabbrizio, S. Narayanan, Spoken Language Dialogue: From Theory To Practice, IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Keystone, Colorado, USA, December 12 -15, 1999.    bibtex

36. M. Rahim, R. Pieraccini, W. Eckert, E. Levin, G. Di Fabbrizio, G. Riccardi, C. Lin, C. Kamm, W99 - A Spoken Dialogue System For The ASRU'99 Workshop, IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Keystone, Colorado, USA, December 12 -15, 1999.    bibtex

37. G. Di Fabbrizio, C. Kamm, P. Ruscitti, S. Narayanan, B. Buntschuh, A. Abella, J. Hubbell, and J. Wright, Extending a Standard-based IP and Computer Telephony Platform to Support Multi-modal Services, ESCA Workshop on Interactive Dialogue in Multi-Modal Systems, Kloster Irsee, Germany, June 22-25, 1999.    bibtex

38. A. Abella, B. Buntschuh, G. Di Fabbrizio, C. Kamm, M. Mohri, S. Narayanan, S. Marcus, and D. Sharp, VPQ: A Spoken Language Interface to Large Scale Directory Information, ICSLP1998, 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Sydney, Australia, November 30 - December 4, 1998.    bibtex

39. M. Walker, J. Fromer, G. Di Fabbrizio, C. Mestel, and D. Hindle, What can I say?: Evaluating a spoken language interface to email, SIGCHI, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Los Angeles, CA USA, April 18-23, 1998.    bibtex

40. D. Hindle, J. Fromer, M. Walker, G. Di Fabbrizio, C. Mestel, Evaluating Competing Agent Strategies for a Voice Email Agent, Eurospeech 1997, European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Rhodes, Greece, September 22-25, 1997.    bibtex

41. M. Walker, D. Hindle, G. Di Fabbrizio, J. Fromer, and C. Mestel, An Evaluation of Mixed Initiative and System Initiative Dialogue Strategies in a Spoken Dialogue Email Agent, AT&T User Experience Symposium 1997, Holmdel, New Jersey, USA, May 22-23, 1997.    bibtex

42. M. D'Amico and G. Di Fabbrizio, Relational database for quantitative and statistical analysis of static and dynamic biomechanical spinal measurement, 2nd International Symposium on Three Dimensional Scoliotic Deformities, Pescara, Italy, September 26-29, 1994.    bibtex

43. P. L. Salza, G. Di Fabbrizio, M. Oreglia, M. Falcone, C.Sementina, C. Delogu, Valutazione della prosodia di un sintetizzatore da testo in un sistema interattivo di dialogo, Gli apetti prosodici dell'Italiano, Atti delle 4e giornate di studio del gruppo di fonetica sperimentale (A.I.A.) - Collana degli atti dell'Associazione Italiana di Acustica, pp. 189-198, Torino, Italia, 11 - 12 Novembre, 1993.    bibtex

44. P.L. Salza, G. Di Fabbrizio, M. Oreglia, M. Flacone, C. Sementina, and C. Delogu, Development of a context dependent methodology for Text-To-Speech syntheses evaluation in interactive dialogue systems, Project ESPRIT 6819 SAM-A Report - Speech Technology Assessment in Multilingual Applications, , October, 1993.    bibtex

45. F. Canavesio, G. Castagneri, G. Di Fabbrizio, A. Massone, TESCOS - An integrated workstation to collect large speech databases on the telephone network, AVIOS '93 - Speech Technology Symposium, San Josè, California, USA, September 28-30, 1993.    bibtex

46. G. Castagneri, G. Di Fabbrizio, A. Massone, and M. Oreglia, SIRVA - A large speech database collected on the Italian telephone network, Eurospeech 1993, European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Berlin, Germany, September 21-23, 1993.    bibtex

47. F. Canavesio, G. Castagneri, G. Di Fabbrizio, F. Senia, An overview on speech recognizer testing activities performed in CSELT, Workshop on Applications of Speech Technology, Lautrach, Germany, September 16-17, 1993.    bibtex

48. F. Canavesio, G. Castagneri, G. Di Fabbrizio, and F. Senia, Comparison of two methods of performance assessment of commercial Speech Recognition Systems operating in telephone environment, CCITT (Comité Consultatif International Téléphonique et Télégraphique) Contribution, , May, 1993.    bibtex

49. F. Canavesio, G. Castagneri, G. Di Fabbrizio, and F. Senia, Comparison between two methodologies of testing isolated word speech recognizers, ICSLP 1992, 2nd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Banff, Alberta, Canada, October 12-16, 1992.    bibtex

50. M. D'Amico and G. Di Fabbrizio, A relational database for quantitative biomechanical data analysis, ISBS '92, X International Symposium of Biomechanics in Sport, Milan, Italy, June 15-19, 1992.    bibtex

51. F. Canavesio, G. Castagneri, G. Di Fabbrizio, and F. Senia, Performance assessment of a commercial speech recognition system in telephone environment, CITT (Comité Consultatif International Téléphonique et Télégraphique) Contribution, COM XII - E, , August, 1991.    bibtex