Publications

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Conference

Is this Dialogue Coherent? Learning from Dialogue Acts and Entities
Cervone, A., & Riccardi, G.
In Proceedings of the 21st Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2020).
Boise, Idaho, US 2020
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Annotation of Emotion Carriers in Personal Narratives
Tammewar, A., Cervone, A., Messner, E. M., & Riccardi, G.
In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020).
Marseille, France, 2020
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Natural Language Generation at Scale: A Case Study for Open Domain Question Answering
Cervone, A., Khatri, C., Goel, R., Hedayatnia, B., Venkatesh, A., Hakkani-Tur, D., & Gabriel, R.
In Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2019).
Tokyo, Japan, 2019
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Towards Coherent and Engaging Spoken Dialog Response Generation Using Automatic Conversation Evaluators
Yi, S., Goel, R., Khatri, C., Cervone, A., Chung, T., Hedayatnia, B., Venkatesh, A., Gabriel R., & Hakkani-Tur, D.
In Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2019).
Tokyo, Japan, 2019
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Active Annotation: bootstrapping annotation lexicon and guidelines for supervised NLU learning
Marinelli, F., Cervone, A., Tortoreto G., Stepanov, E. A., Di Fabbrizio, G., & Riccardi, G.
In Interspeech 2019.
Graz, Austria, 2019
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Modeling user context for valence prediction from narratives
Tammewar, A., Cervone, A., Messner, E. M., & Riccardi, G.
In Interspeech 2019.
Graz, Austria, 2019
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Improving speech synthesis with discourse relations
Aubin, A., Cervone, A., Watts, O., & King, S.
In Interspeech 2019.
Graz, Austria, 2019
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Inquisitive Mind: A conversational news companion
Dubiel, M., Cervone, A., & Riccardi, G.
In 1st International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces 2019.
Dublin, Ireland, 2019
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Affective Behaviour Analysis of On-line User Interactions: Are On-line Support Groups more Therapeutic than Twitter?
Tortoreto, G., Stepanov, E. A., Cervone, A., Dubiel, M., & Riccardi, G.
In Association for Computational Linguistics Conference, Workshop on Social Media Mining for Health Applications, Florence, 2019.
Florence, Italy, 2019
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Automatically Predicting User Ratings for Conversational Systems
Cervone, A., Gambi, E., Tortoreto, G., Stepanov, E. A., & Riccardi, G.
In Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2018.
Turin, Italy, 2019
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Coherence Models for Dialogue
Cervone, A., Stepanov, E., & Riccardi, G.
In Interspeech 2018, 1011-1015.
Hyderabad, India, 2018
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ISO-Standard Domain-Independent Dialogue Act Tagging for Conversational Agents
Mezza, S., Cervone, A., Stepanov, E., Tortoreto, G., & Riccardi, G.
In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (pp. 3539-3551).
Santa Fe, New Mexico, US, 2018
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Roving mind: a balancing act between open–domain and engaging dialogue systems
Cervone, A., Tortoreto, G., Mezza, S., Gambi, E., & Riccardi, G.
In Proceedings of the Alexa Prize.
Las Vegas, Nevada, US, 2018
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Irony Detection: from the Twittersphere to the News Space
Cervone, A., Stepanov, E. A., Celli, F., & Riccardi, G.
In Proceedings of the Fourth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2017.
Rome, Italy, 2017

Towards automatic detection of reported speech in dialogue using prosodic cues
Cervone, A., Lai, C., Pareti, S., & Bell, P.
In Interspeech 2015
Dresden, Germany, 2015
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Detecting attribution relations in speech: a corpus study
Cervone, A., Pareti, S., Bell, P., & Prodanof, I.
In Proceedings of the First Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2014.
Pisa, Italy, 2014

Dissertations

Discourse parsing for statistical parametric TTS
Cervone, A.
Edimburgh, UK, 2015
(Master’s thesis, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh).

Attribution relations extraction in speech: A lexical-prosodic approach
Cervone, A.
Pavia, Italy, 2014
(Master’s thesis, Universita degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia).