publications

2021

1. arXiv

   Style Control for Schema-Guided Natural Language Generation

   Alicia Y Tsai, Shereen Oraby, Vittorio Perera, and 5 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.12211, 2021

   Bib

   @article{tsai2021style,
     title = {Style Control for Schema-Guided Natural Language Generation},
     author = {Tsai, Alicia Y and Oraby, Shereen and Perera, Vittorio and Kao, Jiun-Yu and Du, Yuheng and Narayan-Chen, Anjali and Chung, Tagyoung and Hakkani-Tur, Dilek},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.12211},
     year = {2021}
   }

2. arXiv

   Alexa Conversations: An Extensible Data-driven Approach for Building Task-oriented Dialogue Systems

   Anish Acharya, Suranjit Adhikari, Sanchit Agarwal, and 8 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.09088, 2021

   Bib

   @article{acharya2021alexa,
     title = {Alexa Conversations: An Extensible Data-driven Approach for Building Task-oriented Dialogue Systems},
     author = {Acharya, Anish and Adhikari, Suranjit and Agarwal, Sanchit and Auvray, Vincent and Belgamwar, Nehal and Biswas, Arijit and Chandra, Shubhra and Chung, Tagyoung and Fazel-Zarandi, Maryam and Gabriel, Raefer and others},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.09088},
     year = {2021}
   }

2020

1. INLG

   Schema-Guided Natural Language Generation

   Yuheng Du, Shereen Oraby, Vittorio Perera, and 5 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2020

   Bib

   @inproceedings{du-etal-2020-schema,
     title = {Schema-Guided Natural Language Generation},
     author = {Du, Yuheng and Oraby, Shereen and Perera, Vittorio and Shen, Minmin and Narayan-Chen, Anjali and Chung, Tagyoung and Venkatesh, Anushree and Hakkani-Tur, Dilek},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation},
     year = {2020},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
   }

2018

1. AAAI

   Multi-Task Learning for Parsing the Alexa Meaning Representation Language

   Vittorio Perera, Tagyoung Chung, Thomas Kollar, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (AAAI-18), 2018

   Bib

   @inproceedings{perera2018multi,
     title = {Multi-Task Learning for Parsing the Alexa Meaning Representation Language},
     author = {Perera, Vittorio and Chung, Tagyoung and Kollar, Thomas and Strubell, Emma},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-Second {AAAI} Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (AAAI-18)},
     year = {2018},
     publisher = {{AAAI} Press},
   }

2017

1. IEEE-RAS

   Autonomous narration of humanoid robot kitchen task experience

   Qingxiaoyang Zhu, Vittorio Perera, Mirko Wächter, and 2 more authors

   In 2017 IEEE-RAS 17th international conference on humanoid robotics (humanoids), 2017

   Bib

   @inproceedings{zhu2017autonomous,
     title = {Autonomous narration of humanoid robot kitchen task experience},
     author = {Zhu, Qingxiaoyang and Perera, Vittorio and W{\"a}chter, Mirko and Asfour, Tamim and Veloso, Manuela},
     booktitle = {2017 IEEE-RAS 17th international conference on humanoid robotics (humanoids)},
     year = {2017},
     publisher = {IEEE}
   }

2. RO-MAN

   Learning to understand questions on the task history of a service robot

   Vittorio Perera and Manuela Veloso

   In 2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2017

   Bib

   @inproceedings{perera2017learning,
     title = {Learning to understand questions on the task history of a service robot},
     author = {Perera, Vittorio and Veloso, Manuela},
     booktitle = {2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)},
     year = {2017},
     publisher = {IEEE}
   }

2016

1. RO-MAN

   Dynamic Generation and Refinement of Robot Verbalization

   Vittorio Perera, Sai P Selveraj, Stephanie Rosenthal, and 1 more author

   In 2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2016

   Bib

   @inproceedings{perera2016dynamic,
     title = {Dynamic Generation and Refinement of Robot Verbalization},
     author = {Perera, Vittorio and Selveraj, Sai P and Rosenthal, Stephanie and Veloso, Manuela},
     booktitle = {2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)},
     year = {2016},
     publisher = {IEEE}
   }

2015

1. IJCAI

   Handling Complex Commands as Service Robot Task Requests

   Vittorio Perera and Manuela Veloso

   In Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015

   Bib

   @inproceedings{perera2015handling,
     title = {Handling Complex Commands as Service Robot Task Requests},
     author = {Perera, Vittorio and Veloso, Manuela},
     booktitle = {Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
     year = {2015},
     publisher = {{AAAI} Press}
   }

2. Robotics

   Learning Task Knowledge from Dialog and Web Access

   Vittorio Perera, Robin Soetens, Thomas Kollar, and 5 more authors

   Robotics, 2015

   Bib

   @article{perera2015learning,
     title = {Learning Task Knowledge from Dialog and Web Access},
     author = {Perera, Vittorio and Soetens, Robin and Kollar, Thomas and Samadi, Mehdi and Sun, Yichao and Nardi, Daniele and van de Molengraft, Ren{\'e} and Veloso, Manuela},
     journal = {Robotics},
     year = {2015},
     publisher = {Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute},
   }

2013

1. ICRA

   Learning environmental knowledge from task-based human-robot dialog

   Thomas Kollar, Vittorio Perera, Daniele Nardi, and 1 more author

   In Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2013 IEEE International Conference on, 2013

   Bib

   @inproceedings{kollar2013learning,
     title = {Learning environmental knowledge from task-based human-robot dialog},
     author = {Kollar, Thomas and Perera, Vittorio and Nardi, Daniele and Veloso, Manuela},
     booktitle = {Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2013 IEEE International Conference on},
     year = {2013},
     publisher = {IEEE}
   }

2. AGI

   Knowledgeable talking robots

   Luigia Carlucci Aiello, Emanuele Bastianelli, Luca Iocchi, and 3 more authors

   In International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, 2013

   Bib

   @inproceedings{aiello2013knowledgeable,
     title = {Knowledgeable talking robots},
     author = {Aiello, Luigia Carlucci and Bastianelli, Emanuele and Iocchi, Luca and Nardi, Daniele and Perera, Vittorio and Randelli, Gabriele},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence},
     year = {2013},
     publisher = {Springer}
   }

3. AI*IA

   Kernel-based discriminative re-ranking for spoken command understanding in hri

   Roberto Basili, Emanuele Bastianelli, Giuseppe Castellucci, and 2 more authors

   In Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, 2013

   Bib

   @inproceedings{basili2013kernel,
     title = {Kernel-based discriminative re-ranking for spoken command understanding in hri},
     author = {Basili, Roberto and Bastianelli, Emanuele and Castellucci, Giuseppe and Nardi, Daniele and Perera, Vittorio},
     booktitle = {Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence},
     year = {2013},
     publisher = {Springer}
   }

2012

1. ICSR

   A multi-modal approach for natural human-robot interaction

   Thomas Kollar, Anu Vedantham, Corey Sobel, and 3 more authors

   In International Conference on Social Robotics, 2012

   Bib

   @inproceedings{kollar2012multi,
     title = {A multi-modal approach for natural human-robot interaction},
     author = {Kollar, Thomas and Vedantham, Anu and Sobel, Corey and Chang, Cory and Perera, Vittorio and Veloso, Manuela},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Social Robotics},
     year = {2012},
     publisher = {Springer}
   }