I am a computer scientist working in the field of NLP and I received a bachelor's degree from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in 2019 and continued to finish a master's degree in 2022 in Prof. Milica Gašić's dialogue systems and machine learning (DSML) group. Since the start of 2023 I am a PhD student in the DSML group with the topic of automatic dialogue ontology construction for task-oriented dialogue.
For any inquiries, feel free to reach out to me via mail!
@InProceedings{vukovic-etal-2024-dialogue,
author = {Renato Vukovic and David Arps and Carel Niekerk and Benjamin Ruppik and Hsien-chin Lin and Michael Heck and Milica Gasic},
title = {Dialogue Ontology Relation Extraction via Constrained Chain-of-Thought Decoding},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue},
year = {2024},
}
@InProceedings{ruppik-etal-2024-local,
author = {Benjamin Ruppik and Michael Heck and Carel Niekerk and Renato Vukovic and Hsien-chin Lin and Shutong Feng and Marcus Zibrowius and Milica Gasic},
title = {Local Topology Measures of Contextual Language Model Latent Spaces with Applications to Dialogue Term Extraction},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (Nominated for Best Paper)},
year = {2024},
}
@InProceedings{feng-etal-2024-infusing,
author = {Shutong Feng and Hsien-chin Lin and Christian Geishauser and Nurul Lubis and Carel Niekerk and Michael Heck and Benjamin Ruppik and Renato Vukovic and Milica Gasic},
title = {Infusing Emotions into Task-oriented Dialogue Systems: Understanding, Management, and Generation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue},
year = {2024},
}
@InProceedings{geishauser2024recored,
author = {Christian Geishauser and Carel Niekerk and Nurul Lubis and Hsien-chin Lin and Michael Heck and Shutong Feng and Benjamin Ruppik and Renato Vukovic and Milica Gašić},
title = {Learning with an Open Horizon in Ever-Changing Dialogue Circumstances},
booktitle = {IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing},
year = {2024},
}
@InProceedings{Niekerk2023CAMELLCA,
author = {Carel Niekerk and Christian Geishauser and Michael Heck and Shutong Feng and Hsien-chin Lin and Nurul Lubis and Benjamin Ruppik and Renato Vukovic and Milica Gašić},
title = {CAMELL: Confidence-based Acquisition Model for Efficient Self-supervised Active Learning with Label Validation},
booktitle = {ArXiv preprint},
year = {2023},
}
@InProceedings{feng-etal-2023-chatter,
author = {Shutong Feng and Nurul Lubis and Benjamin Ruppik and Christian Geishauser and Michael Heck and Hsien-chin Lin and Carel Niekerk and Renato Vukovic and Milica Gašić},
title = {From Chatter to Matter: Addressing Critical Steps of Emotion Recognition Learning in Task-oriented Dialogue},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue},
year = {2023},
}
@InProceedings{10.1145/3539618.3592092,
author = {Hsien-Chin Lin and Shutong Feng and Christian Geishauser and Nurul Lubis and Carel Niekerk and Michael Heck and Benjamin Ruppik and Renato Vukovic and Milica Gašić},
title = {EmoUS: Simulating User Emotions in Task-Oriented Dialogues},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval},
year = {2023},
}
@InProceedings{heck-etal-2023-chatgpt,
author = {Michael Heck and Nurul Lubis and Benjamin Ruppik and Renato Vukovic and Shutong Feng and Christian Geishauser and Hsien-chin Lin and Carel Niekerk and Milica Gašić},
title = {ChatGPT for Zero-shot Dialogue State Tracking: A Solution or an Opportunity?},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)},
year = {2023},
}
@InProceedings{vukovic-etal-2022-dialogue,
author = {Renato Vukovic and Michael Heck and Benjamin Ruppik and Carel Niekerk and Marcus Zibrowius and Milica Gašić},
title = {Dialogue Term Extraction using Transfer Learning and Topological Data Analysis},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue},
year = {2022},
}
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