Julian Hough
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Julian Hough

PhD student in Computational Linguistics
Turing Test

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School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
julian.hough@eecs.qmul.ac.uk

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Cognitive Science
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About Me

I'm a PhD student in the Cognitive Science group at Queen Mary University of London. My research centers around building computational models of natural language interaction, and how best to implement these in dialogue systems.

I've worked on the DynDial project, particularly, working with my supervisor Matthew Purver and Arash Eshghi in developing the DyLan dialogue system and am now working on incremental semantic grammar learning within the RISER project. My PhD focusses on incorporating self-repair capabilities into incremental parsing and generation.

As for fun events, do check out the Language, Music and Interaction symposium.


Publications

Matthew Purver, Julian Hough and Eleni Gregoromichelaki. Dialogue and Compound Contributions. To appear in Natural Language Generation For Interactive Systems, A. Stent and S. Bangalore (eds.), Cambridge University Press.
Matthew Purver, Arash Eshghi and Julian Hough. Data-driven Learning in an Incremental Grammar Framework. In the Linguistic Evidence conference, Berlin, April 2013. pdf
Arash Eshghi, Matthew Purver and Julian Hough. Probabilistic Induction for an Incremental Semantic Grammar. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS), Potsdam, March 2013. pdf bib
Arash Eshghi, Julian Hough, Matthew Purver, Ruth Kempson and Eleni Gregoromichelaki. Conversational Interactions: Capturing Dialogue Dynamics. In S. Larsson and L. Borin (eds.), From Quantification to Conversation: Festschrift for Robin Cooper, Tributes 19, pages 325-349, College Publications, 2012. pdf bib
(Talk) Julian Hough and DynDial project colleagues. DS-TTR and Incremental Dialogue Processing. 1st International Workshop on Type Theory with Records, University of Gothenburg, December 2012. slides
Julian Hough and Matthew Purver. Processing Self-Repairs in an Incremental Type-Theoretic Dialogue System. SemDial 2012 (SeineDial), Paris, September 2012. pdf bib
Arash Eshghi, Matthew Purver, Julian Hough and Yo Sato. Inducing lexical entries for an incremental semantic grammar. In Constraint Solving and Language Processing, Orléans, September 2012. pdf bib
Julian Hough. Incremental Semantics Driven Natural Language Generation with Self-Repairing Capability. In Proceedings of the Student Workshop associated with RANLP 2011, Hissar, Bulgaria, September 2011. pdf bib
Arash Eshghi, Matthew Purver and Julian Hough. DyLan: Parser for Dynamic Syntax. Technical Report EECSRR-11-05, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, October 2011. pdf bib
(Talk) Julian Hough, Matthew Purver and Arash Eshghi. Dynamic Representations in a Dialogue System. Workshop on Incrementality in Linguistic and Musical Interaction, King's College London, March 2011. slides
Matthew Purver, Arash Eshghi and Julian Hough. Incremental Semantic Construction in a Dialogue System. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS), Oxford, January 2011. pdf bib

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Last updated: April 22nd 2013