Renato Vukovic


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.

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Publications

Dialogue Ontology Relation Extraction via Constrained Chain-of-Thought Decoding
Renato Vukovic, David Arps, Carel Niekerk, Benjamin Ruppik, Hsien-chin Lin, Michael Heck, Milica Gasic
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2024
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	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}, 
}
Local Topology Measures of Contextual Language Model Latent Spaces with Applications to Dialogue Term Extraction
Benjamin Ruppik, Michael Heck, Carel Niekerk, Renato Vukovic, Hsien-chin Lin, Shutong Feng, Marcus Zibrowius, Milica Gasic
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (Nominated for Best Paper), 2024
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@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}, 
}
Infusing Emotions into Task-oriented Dialogue Systems: Understanding, Management, and Generation
Shutong Feng, Hsien-chin Lin, Christian Geishauser, Nurul Lubis, Carel Niekerk, Michael Heck, Benjamin Ruppik, Renato Vukovic, Milica Gasic
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2024
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@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}, 
}
Learning with an Open Horizon in Ever-Changing Dialogue Circumstances
Christian Geishauser, Carel Niekerk, Nurul Lubis, Hsien-chin Lin, Michael Heck, Shutong Feng, Benjamin Ruppik, Renato Vukovic, Milica Gašić
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2024
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@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}, 
}
CAMELL: Confidence-based Acquisition Model for Efficient Self-supervised Active Learning with Label Validation
Carel Niekerk, Christian Geishauser, Michael Heck, Shutong Feng, Hsien-chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Benjamin Ruppik, Renato Vukovic, Milica Gašić
ArXiv preprint, 2023
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@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}, 
}
From Chatter to Matter: Addressing Critical Steps of Emotion Recognition Learning in Task-oriented Dialogue
Shutong Feng, Nurul Lubis, Benjamin Ruppik, Christian Geishauser, Michael Heck, Hsien-chin Lin, Carel Niekerk, Renato Vukovic, Milica Gašić
Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2023
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@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}, 
}
EmoUS: Simulating User Emotions in Task-Oriented Dialogues
Hsien-Chin Lin, Shutong Feng, Christian Geishauser, Nurul Lubis, Carel Niekerk, Michael Heck, Benjamin Ruppik, Renato Vukovic, Milica Gašić
Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2023
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@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}, 
}
ChatGPT for Zero-shot Dialogue State Tracking: A Solution or an Opportunity?
Michael Heck, Nurul Lubis, Benjamin Ruppik, Renato Vukovic, Shutong Feng, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-chin Lin, Carel Niekerk, Milica Gašić
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), 2023
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@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}, 
}
Dialogue Term Extraction using Transfer Learning and Topological Data Analysis
Renato Vukovic, Michael Heck, Benjamin Ruppik, Carel Niekerk, Marcus Zibrowius, Milica Gašić
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2022
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@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}, 
}

Talks

Dialogue Ontology Relation Extraction via Constrained Chain-of-Thought Decoding
Oral Presentation SIGDIAL 2024, Kyoto University, Japan, 2024
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Graph Neural Networks for Ontology Relation Extraction
Tech Talk DSML Group, HHU Düsseldorf, 2024
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Task-oriented Conversational Modelling with Subjective Knowledge
Oberseminar DSML Group, HHU Düsseldorf, 2023
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Übernimmt Künstliche Intelligenz irgendwann die Weltherrschaft?
Das Lessing Gymnasium Düsseldorf: Podcast, 2023
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ChatGPT Nutzungsbeispiele und -tipps
Institut für Pharmazeutische und Medizinische Chemie, HHU Düsseldorf, 2023
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Beyond Hype: Technical Insights into ChatGPT and the Future of Conversational AI
HeiCAD Brown Bag Lunch HHU Düsseldorf, 2023
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Dialogue Relation Extraction
Oberseminar DSML Group, HHU Düsseldorf, 2022
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