Antonio Roque

I'm a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Southern California, where I received my PhD in Computer Science. I work with David Traum at the Institute for Creative Technologies, doing research on dialogue modeling for spoken dialogue systems in virtual environments.

I'm involved with the IEEE SLTC newsletter and ISCA's Student Advisory Committee. I was on the program committee for SIGdial 2008, the organizing committee for the Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems, and I have co-organized a workshop on multi-modal grounding.

I was a programmer in a web shop during the dot-com boom when I made the (timely) move to research. From 2000 - 2003 I worked on a natural language intelligent tutoring system at the University of Pittsburgh with Kurt VanLehn and Carolyn Rose. In 2003 I did an internship at AT&T Labs-Research.

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Publications

2009

Antonio Roque and David Traum, "Improving a Virtual Human Using a Model of Degrees of Grounding," IJCAI-09. pdf

Dusan Jan, Antonio Roque, Anton Leuski, Jacki Morie, and David Traum, "A Virtual Tour Guide for Virtual Worlds," IVA 09. pdf

Michael Rushforth, Sudeep Gandhe, Ron Artstein, Antonio Roque, Sarrah Ali, Nicolle Whitman, and David Traum, "Varying Personality in Spoken Dialogue with a Virtual Human," IVA 09. pdf. (Related technical report: pdf.)

Antonio Roque, "Dialogue Management in Spoken Dialogue Systems with Degrees of Grounding," PhD Dissertation.

2008

Antonio Roque and David Traum, "Degrees of Grounding Based on Evidence of Understanding," SIGdial 2008. pdf

Sudeep Gandhe, David DeVault, Antonio Roque, Bilyana Martinovski, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski, Jillian Gerten, David Traum, "From Domain Specification to Virtual Humans: An integrated approach to authoring tactical questioning characters," Interspeech 2008. pdf

David Traum, Anton Leuski, Antonio Roque, Sudeep Gandhe, David DeVault, Jillian Gerten, Susan Robinson, Bilyana Martinovski, "Natural Language Dialogue Architectures for Tactical Questioning Characters," 2008 Army Science Conference. pdf

2007

Antonio Roque and David Traum, "A Model of Compliance and Emotion for Potentially Adversarial Dialogue Agents," SIGdial 2007. pdf

David Traum, Antonio Roque, Anton Leuski, Panayiotis Georgiou, Jillian Gerten, Bilyana Martinovski, Shrikanth Narayanan, Susan Robinson and Ashish Vaswani, "Hassan: A Virtual Human for Tactical Questioning," SIGdial 2007. pdf

Antonio Roque, "Reacting to Agreement and Error in Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Degrees of Groundedness," AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium, 2007. (Abstract describing Thesis work in progress). pdf

Hua Ai, Antonio Roque, Anton Leuski, David Traum, "Using Information State to Improve Dialogue Move Identification in a Spoken Dialogue System," Interspeech 2007. pdf

2006

Antonio Roque and David Traum, "An Information State-Based Dialogue Manager for Call for Fire Dialogues," SIGdial 2006. pdf

Antonio Roque, Anton Leuski, Vivek Rangarajan, Susan Robinson, Ashish Vaswani, Shri Narayanan, David Traum, "Radiobot-CFF: A Spoken Dialogue System for Military Training," Interspeech 2006. pdf

Susan Robinson, Antonio Roque, Ashish Vaswani, Charles Hernandez, Bill Millspaugh, and David Traum, "Evaluation of a Spoken Dialogue System for Virtual Reality Call for Fire Training," 2006 Army Science Conference. (Received Best Paper Award). pdf

Antonio Roque, Hua Ai, David Traum, "Evaluation of an Information State-Based Dialogue Manager," Semdial 2006 (Brandial). pdf

Pre-2006

Carolyn P. Rose, Antonio Roque, Dumisizwe Bhembe, Kurt VanLehn. "A Hybrid Text Classification Approach for Analysis of Student Essays," HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop on Educational Applications of NLP. pdf

Carolyn P. Rose, Andy Gaydos, Brian Hall, Antonio Roque, Kurt VanLehn. "Overcoming the Knowledge Engineering Bottleneck for Understanding Student Language Input," 2003 Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. pdf

Carolyn P. Rose, Dumisizwe Bhembe, Antonio Roque, Stephanie Siler, Ramesh Srivastava, Kurt VanLehn. "A Hybrid Language Understanding Approach for Robust Selection of Tutoring Goals," 2002 Intelligent Tutoring Systems Conference. pdf

Kurt VanLehn, Pamela W. Jordan, Carolyn Penstein Rose, Dumisizwe Bhembe, Michael Bottner, Andy Gaydos, Maxim Makatchev, Umarani Pappuswamy, Michael A. Ringenberg, Antonio Roque, Stephanie Siler, Ramesh Srivastava. "The Architecture of Why2-Atlas: A Coach for Qualitative Physics Essay Writing," 2002 Intelligent Tutoring Systems Conference. pdf

Carolyn P. Rose, Dumisizwe Bhembe, Antonio Roque, Ramesh Srivastava, Kurt VanLehn. "An Efficient Incremental Architecture for Robust Interpretation," 2002 Human Languages Technologies Conference. pdf

Carolyn Rose, Reva Freedman, Pamela Jordan, Michael Ringenberg, Antonio Roque, Kay Schulze, Robert Shelby, Stephanie Siler, Donald Treacy, Kurt VanLehn, Anders Weinstein, and Mary Wintersgill. "Interactive Conceptual Tutoring in Atlas-Andes," Demo session, Building Dialogue Systems for Tutorial Applications: Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium.