Language and Interaction Resesarch [LAIR]

Dr. Shaolin Qu

Shaolin received his Ph.D. in 2009. Currently he is a software engineer at Google in Mountain View, California.

Publications

Incorporating Non-Verbal Modalities in Spoken Language Understanding for Multimodal Conversational Systems. S. Qu, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2009.
Context-based Word Acquisition for Situated Dialogue in a Virtual World. S. Qu and J. Y. Chai. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 37, pp.347-377, March 2010.
The Role of Interactivity in Human Machine Conversation for Automated Word Acquisition. S. Qu and J. Y. Chai. The 10th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, London, UK, Sep tember, 2009.
Incorporating Temporal and Semantic Information with Eye Gaze for Automatic Word Acquisition in Multimodal Conversational Systems. S. Qu and J. Chai. Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Honolulu, October 2008.
Beyond Attention: The Role of Deictic Gesture in Intention Recognition in Multimodal Conversational Interfaces. S. Qu and J. Chai. ACM 12th International Conference on Intelligent User interfaces (IUI). Canary Islands, Jan 13-17, 2008.
An Exploration of Eye Gaze in Spoken Language Processing for Multimodal Conversational Interfaces. S. Qu and J. Chai. 2007 Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (NAACL-07), Rochester NY, April, 2007.
Cognitive Principles in Robust Multimodal Interpretation. J. Chai, Z. Prasov, and S. Qu. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Vol 27, pp. 55-83, 2006.
Salience Modeling based on Non-verbal Modalities for Spoken Language Understanding. S. Qu and J. Chai. ACM 8th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), pp. 193-200, Banff, Canada, November 2-4, 2006.
A Salience Driven Approach to Robust Input Interpretation in Multimodal Conversational Systems. J. Chai and S. Qu. Conferences on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP), pp. 217-224, Vancouver, Canada, October 6-8, 2005.