Large Language Models and Laughter: Is it Still the Best Medicine?. Eleni Giannitzi, Vladislav Maraev and Christine Howes (2024). International Society for Humor Studies Conference.
Reacting to the last laugh: Probing non-humorous laughter with Furhat robot. Eleni Giannitzi, Vladislav Maraev and Christine Howes (2024). Laughter and Other Non-Verbal Vocalisations Workshop.
No laughing matter: Creating and interpreting emotions through interaction. Christine Howes, Ellen Breitholtz and Vladislav Maraev (2024). Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion.
Metaphoricity, deliberateness, and conversation behaviours: a case study of behavioral patterns in the use of linguistic metaphors. Amy Han Qiu, Christine Howes and Vladislav Maraev (2024). Highlights in the Language Sciences Conference.
Towards Investigating Gaze and Laughter Coordination in Socially Interactive Agents. Vladislav Maraev, Chiara Mazzocconi, Christine Howes and Catherine Pelachaud (2023). Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. poster
Because is why: Children’s acquisition of topoi through why questions. Christine Howes, Ellen Breitholtz and Vladislav Maraev (2023). Proceedings of the 2023 CLASP Conference on Learning with Small Data (LSD).
Multimodal face-managing: Be polite by all means. Chiara Mazzocconi, Vladislav Maraev and Christine Howes (2023). GeSpIn 2023: 8th Gesture and Speech in Interaction conference. poster
Menstruating vampires: What talk about taboos can tell us about dialogue. Christine Howes, Vladislav Maraev and Ellen Breitholtz (2023). Proceedings of the 27th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. poster
Not bloody funny: Rhetorical resources for laughter in interaction. Christine Howes, Vladislav Maraev and Ellen Breitholtz (2023). 18th International Pragmatics Conference.
Deniable offenses - different ways of communicating controversial messages. Ellen Breitholtz, Vladislav Maraev and Christine Howes (2023). 18th International Pragmatics Conference.
In search of meaning and its representations for computational linguistics. Simon Dobnik, Robin Cooper, Adam Ek, Bill Noble, Staffan Larsson, Nikolai Ilinykh, Vladislav Maraev and Vidya Somashekarappa (2022). Proceedings of the 2022 CLASP Conference on (Dis)embodiment.
Dialogue strategies for... cómo se dice entrenamiento de vocabulario?. Andrea Carrión Fresno, Staffan Larsson and Vladislav Maraev (2022). Proceedings of the 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Full Papers.
Looking for Laughs: Gaze Interaction with Laughter Pragmatics and Coordination. Chiara Mazzocconi, Vladislav Maraev, Vidya Somashekarappa and Christine Howes (2021). Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. poster
Why Should I Turn Left? Towards Active Explainability for Spoken Dialogue Systems.. Vladislav Maraev, Ellen Breitholtz, Christine Howes and Jean-Philippe Bernardy (2021). Proceedings of the Reasoning and Interaction Conference (ReInAct 2021).
Dialogue act classification is a laughing matter. Vladislav Maraev, Bill Noble, Chiara Mazzocconi and Christine Howes (2021). Proceedings of the 25th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Full Papers.
What do you mean? Eliciting enthymemes in text-based dialogue. Ebba Axelsson Nord, Vladislav Maraev, Ellen Breitholtz and Christine Howes (2021). Proceedings of the 25th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Poster Abstracts. poster
Non-humorous Use of Laughter in Spoken Dialogue Systems. Vladislav Maraev, Jean-Philippe Bernardy and Christine Howes (2021). Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents (LaCATODA 2021).
Can the Transformer Learn Nested Recursion with Symbol Masking?. Jean-Philippe Bernardy, Adam Ek and Vladislav Maraev (2021). Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021.
Watch out for laughs: Gaze and laughter coordination in dialogue. Chiara Mazzocconi, Vladislav Maraev, Vidya Somashekarappa and Christine Howes (2021). Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing.
`Is it ok if I laugh now?’: Laughter and gaze coordination in interaction. Chiara Mazzocconi, Vladislav Maraev, Vidya Somashekarappa and Christine Howes (2021). Proceedings of the 4th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference.
Funny story... Reasoning and perspective taking in humorous interaction. Vladislav Maraev, Ellen Breitholtz and Christine Howes (2021). 17th International Pragmatics Conference.
This smells like cat’s wee: Laughter and gaze during disagreements about hummus. Vidya Somashekarappa, Chiara Mazzocconi, Vladislav Maraev and Christine Howes (2021). 17th International Pragmatics Conference.
Looking at the Pragmatics of Laughter. Chiara Mazzocconi, Vladislav Maraev, Vidya Somashekarappa and Christine Howes (2021). Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Large-scale text pre-training helps with dialogue act recognition, but not without fine-tuning. Bill Noble and Vladislav Maraev (2021). Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS). video
LDM: A Linear Dialogue Manager. Vladislav Maraev, Jean-Philippe Bernardy and Jonathan Ginzburg (2020). Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Short Papers. video
How do you make an AI get the joke? Here’s what I found on the web. Vladislav Maraev, Ellen Breitholtz and Christine Howes (2020). First AISB Symposium on Conversational AI (SoCAI).
LOL what?: Empirical study of laughter in chat based dialogues. Vladislav Maraev, Chiara Mazzocconi, Gregory Mills and Christine Howes (2020). Proceedings of Laughter Workshop 2020. poster
Laughables and laughter perception: Preliminary investigations. Chiara Mazzocconi, Gulun Jin, Vladislav Maraev, Christine Howes, Jonathan Ginzburg and Sophie Scott (2020). Dialogue and Perception - Extended papers from DaP2018.
‘What are you laughing at?’ Incremental Processing of Laughter in Interaction. Arash Eshghi, Vladislav Maraev, Christine Howes, Julian Hough and Chiara Mazzocconi (2019). Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Poster Abstracts. poster
How to Put an Elephant in the Title: Modeling Humorous Incongruity with Topoi. Ellen Breitholtz and Vladislav Maraev (2019). Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Full Papers.
Neural dialogue act recognition with transformer pre-training. Bill Noble and Vladislav Maraev (2019). Vector Semantics for Dialogue and Discourse workshop at IWCS 2019.
A Comparison of Algorithms for Detection of ‘Figurativeness’ in Metaphor, Irony and Puns. Elena Mikhalkova, Nadezhda Ganzherli, Vladislav Maraev, Anna Glazkova and Dmitriy Grigoriev (2019). van der Aalst W. et al. (eds) Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts. AIST 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Laughter relevance spaces. Vladislav Maraev, Arash Eshghi, Julian Hough, Christine Howes and Chiara Mazzocconi (2019). The 3rd Dynamic Syntax Conference.
Predicting Laughter Relevance Spaces in Dialogue. Vladislav Maraev, Christine Howes and Jean-Philippe Bernardy (2019). Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction
- 10th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, IWSDS
2019, Syracuse, Sicily, Italy, 24-26 April 2019.
Towards an Annotation Scheme for Causes of Laughter in Dialogue. Vladislav Maraev and Christine Howes (2018). 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology, IWSDS
2018, Singapore, April 18-20, 2018.
Integrating laughter into spoken dialogue systems: preliminary analysis and suggested programme. Vladislav Maraev, Chiara Mazzocconi, Christine Howes and Jonathan Ginzburg (2018). Proc. FAIM/ISCA Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Multimodal Human Robot Interaction.
Analysis of laughables: a preliminary perception study. Chiara Mazzocconi, Vladislav Maraev, Christine Howes and Jonathan Ginzburg (2018). Proceedings of the Workshop on Dialogue and Perception.
Laughter Repair. Chiara Mazzocconi, Vladislav Maraev and Jonathan Ginzburg (2018). Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Full Papers.
Clarifying laughter. Chiara Mazzocconi, Vladislav Maraev and Jonathan Ginzburg (2018). Proceedings of Laughter Workshop 2018.
Towards KoS/TTR-based proof-theoretic dialogue management. Vladislav Maraev, Jonathan Ginzburg, Staffan Larsson, Ye Tian and Jean-Philippe Bernardy (2018). Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Full Papers.
Learning Profiles in Duplicate Question Detection. Chakaveh Saedi, João António Rodrigues, João Silva, António Branco and Vladislav Maraev (2017). 2017 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration,
IRI 2017, San Diego, CA, USA, August 4-6, 2017.
Character-level convolutional neural network for paraphrase detection and other experiments. Vladislav Maraev, Chakaveh Saedi, João Rodrigues, António Branco and João Silva (2017). Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language.
Boosting a Rule-Based Chatbot Using Statistics and User Satisfaction Ratings. Octavia Efraim, Vladislav Maraev and João Rodrigues (2017). Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language.
Ways of Asking and Replying in Duplicate Question Detection. João António Rodrigues, Chakaveh Saedi, Vladislav Maraev, João Silva and António Branco (2017). Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational
Semantics, *SEM ACM 2017, Vancouver, Canada, August 3-4, 2017.