Antonio Roque

I'm a CS PhD candidate at the University of Southern California. I work with David Traum at the Institute for Creative Technologies, doing research on dialogue modeling in spoken dialogue systems.

I'm involved with ISCA's Student Advisory Committee and the IEEE SLTC newsletter. I was on the program committee for SIGdial 2008 and the advisory committee for the Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems.

My undergraduate degree is in English with a concentration in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan. After graduation I pursued a career of computer consulting and programming, simultaneously taking CS classes at Eastern Michigan University. 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 fall 2003 I did an internship at AT&T Labs-Research.

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Publications

2008

Antonio Roque and David Traum, "Degrees of Grounding Based on Evidence of Understanding", The 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, 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

2007

Antonio Roque and David Traum, "A Model of Compliance and Emotion for Potentially Adversarial Dialogue Agents", The 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, 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", The 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, 2007. pdf

Antonio Roque, "Reacting to Agreement and Error in Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Degrees of Groundedness", AAAI-07 Twelfth 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," 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, 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," 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech 2006 - ICSLP), 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," 25th Army Science Conference, 2006. (Received Best Paper Award). pdf

Antonio Roque, Hua Ai, David Traum, "Evaluation of an Information State-Based Dialogue Manager," Brandial 2006: The 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 2006. pdf

Pre-2006

Carolyn P. Rose, Dumisizwe Bhembe, Antonio Roque, Kurt VanLehn. "A Hybrid Text Classification Approach for Analysis of Student Essays." Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 03 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." Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Sydney, Australia, July 20-24, 2003. 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." Intelligent Tutoring Systems Conference. Biarritz/San Sebastian, June 2-8 2002. 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." Intelligent Tutoring Systems Conference. Biarritz/San Sebastian, June 2-8 2002. pdf

Carolyn P. Rose, Dumisizwe Bhembe, Antonio Roque, Ramesh Srivastava, Kurt VanLehn. "An Efficient Incremental Architecture for Robust Interpretation." Human Languages Technologies Conference. San Diego, March 24-27, 2002. pdf

Rose, Carolyn; Reva Freedman; Pamela Jordan; Michael Ringenberg; Antonio Roque; Kay Schulze; Robert Shelby; Stephanie Siler; Donald Treacy; Kurt VanLehn; Anders Weinstein; and Mary Wintersgill. (2000). "Conceptual Tutoring in Atlas-Andes." In Building Dialogue Systems for Tutorial Applications: Papers from the 2000 Fall Symposium (North Falmouth, MA), demo session. AAAI Technical Report FS-00-01.