Publications by Peter Heeman

2008

• F. Yang, P. Heeman, K. Hollingshead, and S. Strayer. DialogueView: Annotating and viewing dialogue with multiple levels of abstraction. In Natural Language Engineering, Vol. 14, pgs. 3-32, 2008.
• F. Yang, P. Heeman, and A. Kun. Switching to real-time tasks in muti-tasking dialogue. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Manchester UK, August 2008.

2007

• P. Heeman. Combining Reinforcement Learning with Information-State Update Rules. In Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting, pages 268-275, Rochester NY, April 2007.
• F. Yang and P. Heeman. Avoiding and Resolving Initiative Conflicts in Dialogue. In Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting, pages 17-24, Rochester NY, April 2007.
• P. Heeman, A. McMillin, and J. Scott Yaruss. Intercoder Reliability in Annotating Complex Disfluencies. In Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Antwerp Belgium, August 2007.
• F. Yang and P. Heeman. Exploring Initiative Strategies Using Computer Simulation. In Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Antwerp Belgium, August 2007.
• A. Shyrokov, A. Kun , and P. Heeman. Experimental Modeling of Human-Human Multi-threaded Dialogues in the Presence of a Manual-Visual Task. In Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 190-193, Antwerp Belgium, September 2007.

2006

• P. Heeman, A. McMillin, and J. S. Yaruss. An annotation scheme for complex disfluencies. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, September 2006.
• S. Toh, F. Yang, and P. Heeman. An annotation scheme for agreement analysis. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, September 2006.

2005

• M. English and P. Heeman. Learning mixed initiative dialog strategies by using reinforcement learning on both conversants. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1011-1018, Vancouver Canada, October 2005.
• P. Heeman, F. Yang, A. Kun, and A. Shyrokov. Conventions in human-human multi-threaded dialogues: A preliminary study. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, pages 293-295, San Diego, January 2005.
• P. Heeman, S. Yaruss, and A. McMillin. Towards a detailed annotation scheme for clustered disfluencies. In Workshop on the Characteristics and Assessment of Stuttered Speech, London England, June 2005.
• A. Kun, T. Miller, and P. Heeman. Evaluation of a ubiquitous computing application for law enforcement. In Proceedings of the Ubiquitous Applications Workshop at the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing: What makes for good application-led research in ubiquitous computing?, Munich Germany, May 2005.

2004

• P. Heeman. The American English SALA-II Data Collection. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, pages 567--570, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2004.
• F. Yang, P. Heeman, and K. Hollingshead. Towards understanding mixed-initiative in task-oriented dialogues. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-04), pages 217-220, October 2004
• F. Yang and P. Heeman. Using computer simulation to compare two models of mixed-initiative. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-04), pages 213-216, October 2004.
• F. Yang, P. Heeman, and S. Strayer. Evaluation of ``Clean Display'' in DialogueView. Technical Report CSLU-04-001, Center for Spoken Language Understanding, OGI School of Science & Engineering, June 2004.
• K. Hollingshead and P. Heeman. Using a uniform-weight grammar to model disfluencies in stuttered read speech: a pilot study. Technical Report CSLU-04-002, Center for Spoken Language Understanding, OGI School of Science & Engineering, July 2004.

2003

• P. Heeman, F. Yang, and S. Strayer. Control in task-oriented dialogues. In Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech)}, pages 209-212, Geneva Switzerland, September 2003.
• S. Strayer, P. Heeman, and F. Yang. Reconciling control and discourse structure. In J. van Kuppevelt and R. Smith, editors, Current and New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue, Chapter 14, pages 305-323. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2003
• F. Yang, P. Heeman, and S. Strayer. Acoustically verifying speech repair annotations. In 3rd Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, Gothenburg Sweden, September 2003.
• P. Heeman. SALA II American English Mobile Network Database. Technical report, Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon Health & Science University. 2003.

2002

• P. Heeman, F. Yang, and S. Strayer. DialogueView: An annotation tool for dialogue. In Proceedings of the 3rd SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 50-59, Philadephia, July 2002.
• F. Yang, S. Strayer, and P. Heeman. ACT: a graphical dialogue annotation comparison tool. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-02), pages 1553-1556, Denver, September 2002.

2001

• P. Heeman and J. Allen. Improving robustness by modeling spontaneous speech events. Robustness in languages and speech technology, pages 123-152. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.
• P. Heeman. Modeling Spontaneous Speech Events during Recognition. In First International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, New Orleans, August 2001.
• P. Heeman, D. Cole, and A. Cronk. The U.S. SpeechDat-Car data collection. In Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech), pages 2031-2034, Aalborg Denmark, September 2001.
• S. Strayer and P. Heeman. Reconciling initiative and discourse structure. In Proceedings of the 2nd SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 153-161, Aalborg Denmark, September 2001.
• P. Heeman and S. Strayer. Adaptive modeling of dialogue initiative. In Proceedings of the NAACL Workshop on Adaption in Dialogue Systems, pages 79-80, Pittsburgh, June 2001.
• P. Heeman and D. Cole. SpeechDat-Car: US English. Technical report, Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon Graduate Institute. 2001.

2000

• Karen Ward and P. Heeman. Acknowledgments in human-computer interaction. In Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 280--287, Seattle, May 2000.

1999

• P. Heeman and James F. Allen. Speech Repairs, Intonational Phrases and Discourse Markers: Modeling Speakers' Utterances in Spoken Dialog, Computational Linguistics, Vol. 25-4, pages 527-572, 1999.
• P. Heeman. Modeling Speech Repairs and Intonational Phrasing to Improve Speech Recognition, Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Keystone, Colorado, December 1999.
• P. Heeman. POS Tags and Decision Trees for Language Modeling. In Proceedings of the Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora, College Park, Maryland, June 1999.
• P. Heeman and K.H. Loken-Kim. Detecting and Correcting Speech Repairs in Japanese, ICPhS Satellite Meeting on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, Berkeley, July 1999.
• E. Kaiser, M. Johnston, and P. Heeman. Profer: Predictive, robust finite-state parsing for spoken language. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Audio, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Phoenix, March 1999.

1998

• P. Heeman. POS Tagging versus Classes in Language Modeling. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora, Montreal, August 1998.
• P. Heeman, Michael Johnston, Justin Denney and Edward Kaiser. Beyond Structured Dialogues: Factoring Out Grounding, Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-98).
• P. Heeman and Michael Johnston. Beyond Structured Dialogues: Incorporating Clark's Models of Language Usage. In proceedings of COOP'98 Workshop on Use of Clark's Models of Language for the design of Cooperative Systems, May 1998.
• P. Heeman, Donna Byron and James F. Allen. Identifying Discourse Markers in Spoken Dialog. In AAAI 1998 Spring Symposium on Applying Machine Learning to Discourse Processing, Stanford, March 1998, pages 44-51.
• Donna K. Byron and P. Heeman. Discourse Marker Use in Task-Oriented Spoken Dialog. Technical Report 664, Computer Science Dept., U. Rochester, March 1998.

1997

• P. Heeman and James F. Allen. Intonational Boundaries, Speech Repairs, and Discourse Markers: Modeling Spoken Dialog. In 35nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-97), July 1997.
• P. Heeman and James F. Allen. Incorporating POS Tagging into Language Modeling. In Proceedings of the 5th Eurospean Conference On Speech Communication and Technology, Rhodes, Greece, September 1997, pages 2767-2770.
• P. Heeman and Géraldine Damnati. Deriving Phrase-based Language Models. In IEEE Workshop on Speech Recognition and Understanding, Santa Barbara, California, December 1997.
• Donna K. Byron and P. Heeman. Discourse Marker Use in Spoken Dialog. In Proceedings of the 5th Eurospean Conference On Speech Communication and Technology, Rhodes, Greece, September 1997, pages 2223-2226.
• P. Heeman. Speech Repairs, Intonational Boundaries and Discourse Markers: Modeling Speakers' Utterances in Spoken Dialog. Technical Report 673, U. Rochester, December 1997. Doctoral dissertation.
• David Traum and P. Heeman. Utterance Units in Spoken Dialogue. In Maier, E., Mast, M., and LuperFoy, S., editors, Dialogue Processing in Spoken Language Systems, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1997, pages 125-140.

1996

• P. Heeman, Kyung-ho Loken-Kim, and James F. Allen. Combining the Detection and Correction of Speech Repairs. In Proceedings of the Internatial Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-96), pages 358-361, Philadephia, October 1996. Also appears in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Spoken Dialogue (ISSD-96), pages 133-136, Philidephia, October 1996.
• David Traum and P. Heeman. Utterance Units in Spoken Dialogue. ECAI Workshop on Dialogue Processing in Spoken Language Systems, pages 84-91, Budapest, August 1996.
• David Traum and P. Heeman. Utterance Units and Grounding in Spoken Dialogue. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-96), pages 1884-1887, Philadephia, October 1996.
  Wave form, pitch contour and annotations for example d93-13.2: image sound. For example d93-16.2: image sound.
• David R. Traum, Lenhart K. Schubert, Massimo Poesio, Nathaniel G. Martin, Marc Light, Chung Hee Hwang, P. Heeman, George Ferguson, and James Allen. Knowledge Representation in the TRAINS-93 Conversation System. In International Journal of Expert Systems, 9(1):173-223, 1996.

1995

• P. Heeman and Graeme Hirst. Collaborating on Referring Expressions. In Compuational Linguistics, Vol. 21-3, 1995.
  
• James F. Allen, Lenhart K. Schubert, George Ferguson, P. Heeman, Chung Hee Hwang, Tsuneaki Kato, Marc Light, Nathaniel G. Martin, Bradford W. Miller, Massimo Poesio, and David R. Traum. The TRAINS Project: A case study in building a conversational planning agent. In Journal of Experimental and Theoretical AI, 7:7--48, 1995. Also published as Trains TN 94-3 and TR 532, Computer Science Dept., U. Rochester, September 1994. HTML version also available.
• P. Heeman and K. Lokem-Kim. Using structural information to detect speech repairs. TR IEICE SP95-91, December 1995.
• P. Heeman and James F. Allen, The Trains Spoken Dialogue Corpus. Published on CD-ROM by the Linguistics Data Consortium, April 1995. (See CD-ROM page.)
• P. Heeman and James Allen, The Trains 93 Dialogues. Trains TN 94-2, Computer Science Dept., U. Rochester, March 1995. (See TRAINS Dialogue page.)
• P. Heeman and James Allen, Dialogue Transcription Tools. Trains TN 94-1, Computer Science Dept., U. Rochester, Revised March 1995. (See TRAINS Dialogue page.)

1994

• Graeme Hirst, Susan McRoy, P. Heeman, Philip Edmonds, and Diane Horton. Repairing Conversational Misunderstandings and Non-Understandings, In Speech Communications, Volume 15, pages 213-229, 1994.
• P. Heeman and James Allen. Detecting and Correcting Speech Repairs. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-94), pages 295-302, Las Cruces, June 1994.
• P. Heeman and James Allen, Tagging Speech Repairs. In ARPA Workshop on Human Language Technology, pages 187-192, Princeton, March 1994.
• David R. Traum, James F. Allen and George Ferguson, P. Heeman, Chung-Hee Hwang, Tsuneaki Kato, Nathaniel Martin, Massimo Poesio, and Lenhart K. Schubert. Integrating Natural Language Understanding and Plan Reasoning in the Trains-93 Conversation System In AAAI Spring Symposium on Active NLP, Stanford, March 1994.
• M. Poesio and G. Ferguson and P. Heeman and C. H. Hwang and D. R. Traum and J. F. Allen and N. Martin and L. K. Schubert. Knowledge Representation in the Trains System, In AAAI 1994 Fall Symposium on Knowledge Representation for Natural Language Processing in Implemented Systems, New Orleans, November, 1994.
• P. Heeman. Spoken Dialogue Understanding and Local Context. Technical Report 523, Computer Science Dept., U. Rochester, July 1994. Thesis proposal.

1993

• Graeme Hirst, Susan McRoy, P. Heeman, Philip Edmonds, and Diane Horton. Repairing Conversational Misunderstandings and Non-Understandings, In International Symposium on Spoken Dialogue (ISSD-94), Waseda University, Tokyo; November 1993; Invited Paper. Also appears in The ATR Workshop on Automatic Speech Translation, 1993.
• P. Heeman, Speech Actions and Mental States in Task-Oriented Dialogues. In Working Notes AAAI Spring Symposium on Reasoning about Mental States: Formal Theories & Applications, March 1993.

1991

• P. Heeman, Collaborating on referring expressions. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Student Session pages 345-346, Berkeley, June 1991.
• P. Heeman, A Computational model of collaborating on referring expressions. Master's Thesis, Technical Report CSRI 251, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, September 1991.

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