Publications


2023/forthcoming

Pat Healey, Christine Howes, Ruth Kempson, Greg Mills, Matthew Purver, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Arash Esghi and Julian Hough. "Who's there?": Depicting Identity in Interaction. Commentary on Clark & Fischer, Social robots as depictions of social agents, Behavioural and Brain Sciences. April 2023. pdf (pre-print, soon) bib online (£)

2022

Elif Ecem Özkan, Tom Gurion, Julian Hough, Patrick GT Healey, and Lorenzo Jamone. Speaker Motion Patterns during Self-repairs in Natural Dialogue. At ACM ICMI. 2022 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Bengaluru (Bangalore), India, November 2022. pdf bib
Massimo Poesio, Richard Bartle, Jon Chamberlain, Julian Hough, Chris Madge, Diego Perez-Llebana, Matthew Purver and Juntao Yu. ARCIDUCA: Annotating Reference and Coreference In Dialogue Using Conversational Agents in games. In Proceedings of SemDial 2022 (DubDial), Dublin, August 2022. pdf bib
Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Arash Eshghi, Christine Howes, Gregory Mills, Ruth Kempson, Julian Hough, Patrick Healey and Matthew Purver. Language and Cognition as Distributed Process and Interactions. In Proceedings of SemDial 2022 (DubDial), Dublin, August 2022. pdf bib
Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Julian Hough and John Kelleher. eds. Proceedings of the 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. SemDial 2022 (DubDial), Dublin, August 2022. pdf bib
Anna Nagele, Julian Hough and Zara Dinnen. The Subjectivities of Wearable Sleep-Trackers - A Discourse Analysis. In Proceedings of ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems - Late Breaking Work, New Orleans, May 2022. pdf (pre-print) bib online (£)

2021

Jorge Del-Bosque-Trevino, Julian Hough and Matthew Purver. Communicative Grounding of Analogical Explanations in Dialogue. In Proceedings of ReInAct, Gothenburg, Sweden, October 2021. pdf bib
Elif Ecem Özkan, Tom Gurion, Julian Hough, Patrick Healey and Lorenzo Jamone. Specific hand motion patterns correlate to miscommunications during dyadic conversations. In Proceedings of 2021 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), Beijing, China (hybrid). August 2021. pdf (pre-print, soon) bib online (£)
Md Mabrur Husan Dihyat and Julian Hough. Can rule-based chatbots outperform Neural models without pre-training in Small Data Situations?: A Preliminary Comparison of AIML and Seq2Seq In Proceedings of SemDial 2021 (PotsDial), Potsdam, Germany (hybrid) September 2021. pdf bib
Morteza Rohanian, Julian Hough and Matthew Purver. Alzheimer's Dementia Recognition using Acoustic, Lexical, Disfluency and Speech Pause Features Robust to Noisy Inputs. In Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2021, Brno, Czechia (hybrid). August 2021. pdf bib
Shamila Nasreen, Julian Hough and Matthew Purver. Detecting Alzheimer's Disease using Interactional and Acoustic features from Spontaneous Speech. In Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2021, Brno, Czechia (hybrid). August 2021. pdf bib
Morteza Rohanian and Julian Hough. Best of both worlds: Making high accuracy non-incremental transformer-based disfluency detection incremental. In Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 2021, Bangkok, Thailand (Virtual). August 2021 pdf bib
Shamila Nasreen, Julian Hough and Matthew Purver. Rare-Class Dialogue Act Tagging for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis. In Proceedings of SIGDIAL 2021, Singapore (Hybrid). July 2021. pdf bib
Matthew Purver, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Gijs Wijnholds, Ruth Kempson and Julian Hough. Incremental Composition in Distributional Semantics. In Journal of Logic, Language and Information. 30:379-406, 2021. pdf bib
Shamila Nasreen, Morteza Rohanian, Julian Hough and Matthew Purver. Alzheimer's Dementia Recognition from Spontaneous Speech using Disfluency and Interactional Features. In Frontiers in Computer Science. 3:640669, 2021. pdf bib
Frank Grimm, David Schlangen, Julian Hough and Philipp Cimiano. Reproducing an experiment in automatic disfluency detection. In Studies in Analytical Reproducibility: the Conquaire Project. Philipp Cimiano, Christian Pietsch, Cord Wiljes (Eds.).2021. pdf bib

2020

Jonathan Ginzburg, Robin Cooper, Julian Hough and David Schlangen. Incrementality and HPSG: Why not?. In Constraint-Based Syntax and Semantics: Papers in Honor of Danièle Godard, ed. by Anne Abeillé and Olivier Bonami. CSLI Lecture Notes. 2020. pdf (pre-print) bib online (£)
Morteza Rohanian and Julian Hough. Re-framing Incremental Deep Language Models for Dialogue Processing with Multi-task Learning. In Proceedings of COLING 2020, Barcelona (virtual), December 2020 *AWARDED OUTSTANDING PAPER* pdf bib
Morteza Rohanian, Julian Hough and Matthew Purver. Multi-modal fusion with gating using audio, lexical and disfluency features for Alzheimer's Dementia recognition from spontaneous speech. In Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2020, Shanghai (virtual), October 2020 pdf bib
Jorge Del-Bosque-Trevino, Julian Hough and Matthew Purver. Investigating the Semantic Wave in Tutorial Dialogues: An Annotation Scheme and Corpus Study on Analogy Components. In Proceedings of SemDial 2020 (WatchDial), Waltham, MA (virtual) July 2020. pdf bib
Tom Gurion, Patrick Healey and Julian Hough. Comparing Models of Speakers' and Listeners' Head Nods. In Proceedings of SemDial 2020 (WatchDial), Waltham, MA (virtual) July 2020. pdf bib
Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Arash Eshghi, Julian Hough, Christine Howes, Ruth Kempson, Jieun Kiaer, Matthew Purver, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh and Graham White. Affordance Competition in Dialogue: The Case of Syntactic Universals. In Proceedings of SemDial 2020 (WatchDial), Waltham, MA (virtual) July 2020. pdf bib
David Hopes and Julian Hough. A Statistical and Machine Learning Investigation into the Effect of Demographic Context on Dialogue Phenomena. In Proceedings of SemDial 2020 (WatchDial), Waltham, MA (virtual) July 2020. pdf bib
Julian Hough, Lorenzo Jamone, David Schlangen, Guillaume Walck and Robert Hashcke. A Types-As-Classifiers Approach to Human-Robot Interaction for Continuous Structured State Classification. CLASP Papers in Computational Linguistics, Vol. 2, February 2020. pdf bib

2019

Shamila Nasreen, Matthew Purver and Julian Hough. Interaction Patterns in Conversations with Alzheimer's Patients. Poster in SLSP 2019, Ljublijana, October 2019. pdf bib
Christine Howes, Julian Hough and Casey Kennington. eds. Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. SemDial 2019 (LondonLogue), September 2019. pdf bib
Shamila Nasreen, Matthew Purver and Julian Hough. A Corpus Study on Questions, Responses and Misunderstanding Signals in Conversations with Alzheimer's Patients. In Proceedings of SemDial 2019 (LondonLogue), September 2019. pdf bib
Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Christine Howes, Arash Eshghi, Ruth Kempson, Julian Hough, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Matthew Purver, Gijs Wijnholds. Normativity, Meaning Plasticity, and the Significance of Vector Space Semantics. In Proceedings of SemDial 2019 (LondonLogue), September 2019. pdf bib
Julian Hough and Andrew Lewis-Smith. Exploring Lattice-based Models of Relevance in Dialogue for Questions and Implicatures. In Proceedings of SemDial 2019 (LondonLogue), September 2019. pdf bib
Arash Eshghi, Vladislav Maraev, Christine Howes, Julian Hough, Chiara Mazzocconi. "What are you laughing at?" Incremental Processing of Laughter in Interaction . In Proceedings of SemDial 2019 (LondonLogue), September 2019. pdf bib
Morteza Rohanian, Julian Hough and Matthew Purver. Detecting Depression with Word-Level Multimodal Fusion. Interspeech 2019, September 2019. pdf bib
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Matthew Purver, Arash Eshghi, Julian Hough, Ruth Kempson and Patrick G.T. Healey. Eds. Proceedings of the IWCS Workshop Vector Semantics for Discourse and Dialogue. VSDD Workshop at IWCS 2019. Gothenburg. June 2019. pdf bib
Jorge Del Bosque Trevino, Julian Hough and Matthew Purver. Long- and Short-term Common Ground for Tailored Explanations in Voice User Interfaces. Presented at the CHI Workshop on Understanding Speech Interface Interactions, Glasgow, 2019. pdf bib

2018

Ruth Kempson, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Arash Eshghi, and Julian Hough. Ellipsis in Dynamic Syntax. In the Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis. Oxford University Press, 2018. pdf (pre-print) bib online (£)
Jonathan Ginzburg, Robin Cooper, Julian Hough and David Schlangen. Incrementality and Clarification/Sluicing potential. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21 (SuB21). 2018. pdf bib
Tom Gurion, Patrick G.T. Healey and Julian Hough. Real-time testing of non-verbal interaction:An experimental method and platform. In Proceedings of AixDial (SemDial), Aix-en-Provence, 2018. pdf bib
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Matthew Purver, Julian Hough and Ruth Kempson. Exploring Semantic Incrementality with Dynamic Syntax and Vector Space Semantics. In Proceedings of AixDial (SemDial), Aix-en-Provence, 2018. pdf bib
Julian Hough and Lorenzo Jamone. Predicting Object Affordances within a Continuous Dialogue State Update Process for Human-Robot-Interaction. Presented at the 1st International Workshop on Computational Models of Affordance in Robotics, Pittsburg, June 2018. pdf bib
Julian Hough, Lorenzo Jamone, David Schlangen, Guillaume Walck and Robert Hashcke. Towards a Types-As-Classifiers Approach to Dialogue Processing in Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Dialogue and Perception (DaP 2018), Gothenburg, June 2018. pdf bib
Julian Hough, Arash Eshghi, Matthew Purver and Graham White. Proposals to Generalise Dynamic Syntax for Wider Application. Presented at the 2nd Dynamic Syntax Conference, Edinburgh, April 2018. pdf bib slides (pdf)
Matthew Purver, Julian Hough and Christine Howes. Computational models of miscommunication phenomena. In Topics in Cognitive Science, 2018. online (open-access) bib

2017

Ting Han, Julian Hough and David Schlangen. Natural Language Informs the Interpretation of Iconic Gestures: A Computational Approach. Proceedings of The 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2017. pdf bib
Iwan de Kok, Felix Hülsmann, Thomas Waltemate, Cornelia Frank, Julian Hough, Thies Pfieffer, David Schlangen, Thomas Shack, Mario Botsch and Stefan Kopp. The Intellifent Coaching Space: A Demonstration. Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), Stockholm, August 2017. pdf bib
Julian Hough, Sina Zarrieß and David Schlangen. Grounding imperatives to actions is not enough: The challenge for Grounded Natural Language Understanding from Human-Human Data. Proceedings of Grounded Language Understanding (GLU2017), Stockholm, August 2017. pdf bib
Angelika Maier, Julian Hough and David Schlangen. Towards Deep End-of-Turn Prediction for Situated Spoken Dialogue Systems. Proceedings of the Interspeech2017, Stockholm, August 2017. pdf bib
Christine Howes, Mary Lavelle, Patrick G. T. Healey, Julian Hough and Rose McCabe. Disfluencies in dialogues with patients with schizophrenia. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, London, July 2017. pdf bib
Christine Howes, Mary Lavelle, Patrick G. T. Healey, Julian Hough and Rose McCabe. Self-repair in dialogue with patients with schizophrenia. Proceedings of Communication and Cognition - Miscommunication: Getting lost in language(s), London, July 2017. pdf bib
Julian Hough and David Schlangen. Joint, Incremental Disfluency Detection and Utterance Segmentation from Speech. In Proceedings of EACL 2017, Valencia, April 2017. pdf bib
Julian Hough and David Schlangen. It's Not What You Do, It's How You Do It: Grounding Uncertainty for a Simple Robot. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2017), Vienna, March 2017. pdf (pre-print) bib online (£)
Julian Hough and David Schlangen. A Model of Continuous Intention Grounding for HRI. Presented at The Role of Intentions in Human-Robot Interaction" workshop in conjunction with the 2017 Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2017), Vienna, March 2017. pdf bib
Julian Hough and Matthew Purver. Probabilistic Record Type Lattices for Incremental Reference Processing. In Chatzikyriakidis & Luo (eds.), Modern Perspectives in Type-Theoretical Semantics, Springer, 2017. pdf (pre-print) bib online (£)

2016

Iwan de Kok, Julian Hough, David Schlangen and Stefan Kopp. Deictic Gestures in Coaching Interactions. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction - MA3HMI '16. at ACM ICMI 2016, Tokyo, Japan. November, 2016. pdf bib
Julian Hough and David Schlangen. Investigating Fluidity for Human-Robot Interaction with Real-time, Real-world Grounding Strategies In Proceedings of the 17th Annual SigDial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, Los Angeles, USA. September 2016. pdf bib
Jonathan Ginzburg, Robin Cooper, Julian Hough and David Schlangen. Incrementality and Clarification/Sluicing potential. At Sinn und Bedeutung 21, Edinburgh, UK. September 2016. pdf bib
Julian Hough and David Schlangen PentoRob: A Puzzle-Playing Robot for Dialogue Experiments. In Proceedings of Proceedings of JerSem: The 20th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Brunswick, New Jersey. July 2016. pdf bib
Julian Hough, Ye Tian, Laura de Ruiter, Simon Betz, Spyros Kousidis, David Schlangen and Jonathan Ginzburg. DUEL: A Multi-lingual Multimodal Dialogue Corpus for Disfluency, Exclamations and Laughter. At the 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Portorož (Slovenia), May 2016. pdf bib
Sina Zarrieß, Julian Hough, Casey Kennington, Ramesh Manuvinakurike, David DeVault, Raquel Fernández, and David Schlangen. PentoRef: A Corpus of Spoken References in Task-oriented Dialogues. At the 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Portorož (Slovenia), May 2016. pdf bib
Christine Howes, Mary Lavelle, Patrick Healey, Julian Hough and Rose McCabe. Helping hands? Gesture and self-repair in schizophrenia. In Proceedings of the Resources and Processing of Linguistic and Extra-Linguistic Data from People with Various Forms of Cognitive/Psychiatric Impairments (RaPID-2016) Portorož (Slovenia), May 2016. pdf bib
Pat Healey, Christine Howes, Julian Hough and Matthew Purver. Better late than Now-or-Never: The case of interactive repair phenomena. Commentary on Christiansen & Chater, The Now-or-Never bottleneck: A fundamental constraint on language, Behavioural and Brain Sciences 39 (e62). January 2016. pdf bib
Timo Baumann, Casey Kennington, Julian Hough and David Schlangen. Recognising Conversational Speech: What an Incremental ASR Should Do for a Dialogue System and How to Get There. At the International Workshop Series on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2016, Ulm University, January 2016. pdf bib

2015

Jonathan Ginzburg, Ellen Breitholtz, Robin Cooper, Julian Hough and Ye Tian. Understanding Laughter. In Proceedings of the 20th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, December 2015. pdf bib
Iwan de Kok, Julian Hough, Hülsmann, Mario Botsch, David Schlangen and Stefan Kopp. A Multimodal System for Real-Time Action Instruction in Motor Skill Learning. In Proceedings of ACM ICMI. 17th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Seattle, Washington, USA. November, 2015 2015. pdf bib
Julian Hough and David Schlangen. Recurrent Neural Networks for Incremental Disfluency Detection. In Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2015 , Dresden, Germany, September 2015. pdf bib
Iwan de Kok, Julian Hough, Felix Hülsmann, Thomas Waltemate, Mario Botsch, David Schlangen and Stefan Kopp. Demonstrating the Dialogue System of the Intelligent Coaching Space. In Proceedings of SemDial 2015 (goDIAL), Gothenburg, August 2015. pdf bib
Julian Hough, Iwan de Kok, David Schlangen and Stefan Kopp. Timing and Grounding in Motor Skill Coaching Interaction: Consequences for the Information State. In Proceedings of SemDial 2015 (goDIAL), Gothenburg, August 2015. pdf bib
Julian Hough, Laura De Ruiter, Simon Betz and David Schlangen. Disfluency and Laughter Annotation in a light-weight dialogue mark-up protocol. At the The Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DISS 2015) ICPhS Satelite Meeting , Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2015. pdf bib
Spyros Kousidis, Julian Hough and David Schlangen. Exploring the Body and Head Kinematics of Laughter, Filled Pauses and Breaths. In Proceedings of the The 4th Interdisciplinary Workshop on Laughter and Other Non-verbal Vocalisations in Speech , Enschede, Netherlands, April 2015. pdf bib
Julian Hough, Casey Kennington, David Schlangen and Jonathan Ginzburg. Incremental Semantics for Dialogue Processing: Requirements and a Comparison of Two Approaches. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS), London, April 2015. pdf bib
Arash Eshghi, Christine Howes, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Julian Hough and Matthew Purver. Feedback in Conversation as Incremental Semantic Update. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS), London, April 2015. pdf bib
(talk) Julian Hough and David Schlangen. Inferring Meaning from Disfluencies in an Incremental Dialogue Framework. At the Interactive Meaning Construction Workshop at 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS), London, April 2015. slides (pdf)
Julian Hough. Modelling Incremental Self-Repair Processing in Dialogue. PhD Thesis. Queen Mary University of London, 2015 pdf bib

2014

Julian Hough and Matthew Purver. Strongly Incremental Repair Detection. In Proceedings of EMNLP, Doha, Qatar, October 2014. pdf bib video
Iwan de Kok, Julian Hough, Cornelia Frank, Stefan Kopp and David Schlangen. Dialogue Structure of Coaching Sessions. In Proceedings of SemDial 2014 (DialWatt), Edinburgh, September 2014. pdf bib
Jonathan Ginzburg, Ye Tian, Pascal Amsili, Claire Beyssade, Barbera Hemforth, Yannick Mathieu, Claire Saillard, Julian Hough, Spyros Kousidis and David Schlangen. The Disfluency, Exclamation and Laughter in Dialogue (DUEL) Project. In proceedings of SemDial 2014 (DialWatt), Edinburgh, September 2014. pdf bib
Christine Howes, Julian Hough, Matthew Purver and Rose McCabe. Helping, I Mean Assessing Psychiatric Communication: An Application of Incremental Self-Repair Detection. In proceedings of SemDial 2014 (DialWatt), Edinburgh, September 2014. pdf bib
Julian Hough and Matthew Purver. Lattice Theoretic Relevance in Incremental Reference Processing. In the RefNet Workshop on Psychological and Computational Models of Reference Comprehension and Production, Edinburgh, August 2014. pdf bib
Matthew Purver, Julian Hough and Eleni Gregoromichelaki. Dialogue and Compound Contributions. In Natural Language Generation For Interactive Systems, A. Stent and S. Bangalore (eds.), Cambridge University Press. pdf bib
Julian Hough and Matthew Purver. Probabilistic Type Theory for Incremental Dialogue Systems. EACL workshop Type Theory and Natural Language Semantics (TTNLS), Gothenburg, April 2014. pdf bib

2013

Julian Hough and Matthew Purver. Modelling Expectation in the Self-Repair Processing of Annotat-, um, Listeners. SemDial 2013 (DialDam), Amsterdam, December 2013. pdf bib
Arash Eshghi, Julian Hough and Matthew Purver. Incremental Grammar Induction from Child-Directed Utterances. In the ACL Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL), Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013. pdf bib
Christine Howes, Pat Healey, Arash Eshghi and Julian Hough. "Well, that's one way": Interactivity in parsing and production. Commentary on Pickering & Garrod, An integrated theory of language production and comprehension, Behavioural and Brain Sciences 36 Issue 4. June 2013. pdf bib
Matthew Purver, Arash Eshghi and Julian Hough. Data-driven Learning in an Incremental Grammar Framework. In the Linguistic Evidence conference, Berlin, April 2013. pdf bib
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

2012

(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 (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, College Publications, 2012. pdf bib
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

2011

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. *AWARDED BEST SHORT PAPER* 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 Research Reports, EECSRR-11-05. ISSN 2043-0167 http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/jspui/handle/123456789/5012. 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 (pdf) bib
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