Research Interests:

Spoken Dialogue Systems, Structured Classification, Kernel Machines, Nonparametric Bayesian Methods, Statistical Machine Translation, Natural Language Processing, Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction

Research Experience:

2011-Present: Research Associate/Fellow, MACS, Heriot-Watt University

ASUR-DSTL: Report generation from meta-data.
JAMES: Joint Action for Multimodal Embodied Social Systems.
SpaceBook: A speech-driven, hands-free, eyes-free device for pedestrian navigation and exploration.
ABC-POMDP: Automatic Belief Compression for POMDP-based Spoken Dialogue Systems.

April - May 2014: Visiting Researcher, Baidu Inc., Beijing

2009-2011: Research Assistant/Associate, Dept. of Computer Science, UCL

2008: Research Assistant (Part-Time), EAR Institute, UCL

Conversation Piece: A speech-based interactive art installation.

Education:

2009: PhD in Computer Science, University College London, United Kingdom. Supervised by: Prof. John Shawe-Taylor
2005: BEng in Communication Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China.

Selected Publications:

Zengtao Jiao, Zhuoran Wang, Guanchun Wang, Hao Tian, Hua Wu & Haifeng Wang (2015) On the Granularity of Dialog Strategies: Insights from Large-scale Analyses of Two Commercial Travel Information Spoken Dialog Systems. AAAI 2015 Spring Symposium on Turn-taking and Coordination in Human-Machine Interaction, Palo Alto, CA, USA. (To appear)

Zhuoran Wang, Hongliang Chen, Guanchun Wang, Hao Tian, Hua Wu & Haifeng Wang (2014) Policy Learning for Domain Selection in an Extensible Multi-domain Spoken Dialogue System. Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2014), Doha, Qatar, pp. 57-67. [pdf][bib]

Simon Keizer, Mary Ellen Foster, Zhuoran Wang & Oliver Lemon (2014) Machine Learning for Social Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 4(3):14:1-14:32. [pdf][bib]

Paul A Crook, Simon Keizer, Zhuoran Wang, Wenshuo Tang & Oliver Lemon (2014) Real User Evaluation of a POMDP Spoken Dialogue System using Automatic Belief Compression. Computer Speech & Language, 28(4):873-887. [pdf][bib]

Zhuoran Wang & Oliver Lemon (2013) A Simple and Generic Belief Tracking Mechanism for the Dialog State Tracking Challenge: On the believability of observed information. The Fourteenth Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2013), Metz, France, pp. 423-432. (Nominated for Best Paper Award) [pdf][bib][code]

Mary Ellen Foster, Simon Keizer, Zhuoran Wang & Oliver Lemon (2012) Machine Learning of Social States and Skills for Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction. ECAI Workshop on Machine Learning for Interactive Systems (MLIS 2012), Montpellier, France, pp. 9-11. [pdf][bib]

Zhuoran Wang & Oliver Lemon (2012) A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach to Learning Multimodal Interaction Management. The Fourth IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2012), Miami, Florida, USA, pp. 13-18. [pdf][bib][code]

Paul A. Crook, Zhuoran Wang, Xingkun Liu & Oliver Lemon (2012) A Statistical Spoken Dialogue System using Complex User Goals and Value Directed Compression Demonstrations at the Thirteenth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2012), Avignon, France, pp. 46-50. [pdf][bib]

Zhuoran Wang, Anoop D. Shah, A. Rosemary Tate, Spiros Denaxas, John Shawe-Taylor & Harry Hemingway (2012) Extracting Diagnoses and Investigation Results from Unstructured Text in Electronic Health Records by Semi-Supervised Machine Learning. PLoS One, 7(1):e30412 [pdf][bib]

Zhuoran Wang, John Shawe-Taylor & Anoop Shah (2010) Semi-Supervised Feature Learning from Clinical Text. IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), Hong Kong, pp. 462-466. [pdf][bib]

Zhuoran Wang & John Shawe-Taylor (2010) A Kernel Regression Framework for SMT. Machine Translation Journal, 24(2): 87-102. [pdf][bib]

Zhuoran Wang (2009) Learning Machine Translation in High-Dimensional Spaces. Doctoral dissertation, University College London, United Kingdom. [bib]

Lucia Specia, Marco Turchi, Zhuoran Wang, John Shawe-Taylor & Craig Saunders (2009) Improving the Confidence of Machine Translation Quality Estimates. Machine Translation Summit XII, Ottawa, Canada. [pdf][bib]

Alexa Wright, Alfred Linney & Zhuoran Wang (2009) Conversation Piece 2008. The Fifteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA), The Exhibition, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, UK.

Zhuoran Wang & John Shawe-Taylor (2009) Large-Margin Structured Prediction via Linear Programming. The Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2009), Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA, pp. 599-606. [pdf][bib][code][video lecture]

Zhuoran Wang & John Shawe-Taylor (2009) Kernel Based Machine Translation. Learning Machine Translation, Cyril Goutte, Nicola Cancedda, Marc Dymetman & George Foster (editors), NIPS Workshop Series, The MIT Press, pp. 169-184. [preview][bib]

Zhuoran Wang & John Shawe-Taylor (2008) Kernel Regression Framework for Machine Translation: UCL System Description for WMT 2008 Shared Translation Task. The ACL Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Columbus, Ohio, USA, pp. 155-158. [pdf][bib]

Zhuoran Wang, John Shawe-Taylor & Sandor Szedmak (2007) Kernel Regression Based Machine Translation. Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2007), Short Paper Vol, Rochester, New York, USA, pp. 185-188. [pdf][bib]

Yanqiu Shao, Zhuoran Wang, Jiqing Han & Ting Liu (2005) Modifying Spectral Envelope to Synthetically Adjust Voice Quality and Articulation Parameters for Emotional Speech Synthesis. The First International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2005), Beijing, China, pp. 334-341. [pdf][bib]

Zhuoran Wang & Ting Liu (2005) Chinese Unknown Word Identification Based on Local Bigram Model. International Journal of Computer Processing of Languages, 18(3):185-196. [bib]

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