Publications

Nurul Lubis, Sakriani Sakti, Koichiro Yoshino, and Satoshi Nakamura. "Positive Emotion Elicitation in Chat-Based Dialogue Systems." IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Volume: 27, Issue: 4, Pp 866-877, April 2019. (PDF)

Nurul Lubis, Dessi Lestari, Sakriani Sakti, Ayu Purwarianti, and Satoshi Nakamura. "Construction of Spontaneous Emotion Corpus from Indonesian TV Talk Shows and Its Application on Multimodal Emotion Recognition." Transactions on Information and Systems, Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Vol.E101-D No.8, pp.2092-2100, August 2018. (PDF)

Nurul Lubis, Sakriani Sakti, Koichiro Yoshino, and Satoshi Nakamura. "Emotional Triggers and Responses in Spontaneous Affective Interaction: Recognition, Prediction, and Analysis." Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence 33, no. 1 (2018): DSH-D_1-10. (PDF)

Nurul Lubis, Michal Heck, Carel van Niekerk and Milica Gašić, "Adaptable Conversational Machines", AI Magazine, 2020. (HTML)

2022

Nurul Lubis, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-chin Lin, Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck, Shutong Feng and Milica Gašić, "Dialogue Evaluation with Offline Reinforcement Learning." Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL). 2022. (PDF)

Hsien-chin Lin, Christian Geishauser, Shutong Feng, Nurul Lubis, Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck and Milica Gašić, "GenTUS: Simulating User Behaviour and Language in Task-oriented Dialogues with Generative Transformers." Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL). 2022. (PDF)

Shutong Feng, Nurul Lubis, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-chin Lin, Michael Heck, Carel van Niekerk and Milica Gašić, "EmoWOZ: A Large-Scale Corpus and Labelling Scheme for Emotion Recognition in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems." Proceedings of The 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC). 2022. (PDF)

2021

Christian Geishauser, Songbo Hu, Hsien-Chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Michael Heck, Shutong Feng, Carel van Niekerk, Milica Gašić, "What Does The User Want? Information Gain for Hierarchical Dialogue Policy Optimisation." Proceedings of ASRU 2021. (PDF)

Hsien-Chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Songbo Hu, Carel van Niekerk, Christian Geishauser, Michael Heck, Shutong Feng, Milica Gašić, "Domain-independent User Simulation with Transformers for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems.” Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL). 2021. (PDF)

2020

Nurul Lubis, Christian Geishauser, Michael Heck, Hsien-Chin  Lin, Marco Moresi, Carel van Niekerk, Milica Gašić, "LAVA: Latent Action Spaces via Variational Auto-encoding for Dialogue Policy Optimization." Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). 2020.  (PDF)

Michael Heck, Carel van Niekerk, Nurul Lubis, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-Chin Lin, Marco Moresi, Milica Gašić, "TripPy: A Triple Copy Strategy for Value Independent Neural Dialog State Tracking."  Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL). 2020. (PDF) *Best Paper Award*

2019

Nurul Lubis, Sakriani Sakti, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura. "Dialogue Model and Response Generation for Emotion Improvement Elicitation." Proceedings of the 3rd Conversational AI Workshop. 2019.  (PDF)

2018

Nurul Lubis, Sakriani Sakti, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura. "Optimizing Neural Response Generator with Emotional Impact Information." Proceedings of 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT). IEEE, 2018. (HTML)

Nurul Lubis, Sakriani Sakti, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura. "Unsupervised Counselor Dialogue Clustering for Positive Emotion Elicitation in Neural Dialogue System." Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL). 2018. (PDF)

Nurul Lubis, Sakriani Sakti, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura. "Eliciting Positive Emotion through Affect-Sensitive Dialogue Response Generation: A Neural Network Approach." Proceedings of the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18). Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2018. (PDF)

2017

Nurul Lubis, Michael Heck, Sakriani Sakti, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura. "Processing Negative Emotions Through Social Communication: Multimodal Database Construction and Analysis." Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII2017). Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC), 2017. (HTML)

Nurul Lubis, Sakriani Sakti, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura. "Eliciting Positive Emotional Impact in Dialogue Response Selection." Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS), 2017. (PDF)

2016

Nurul Lubis, Randy Gomez, Sakriani Sakti, Keisuke Nakamura, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura, Kazuhiro Nakadai. "Construction of Japanese Audio-Visual Emotion Database and Its Application in Emotion Recognition." Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2016. (PDF)

Nurul Lubis, Sakriani Sakti, Graham Neubig, Tomoki Toda, Ayu Purwarianti, and Satoshi Nakamura. "Emotion and Its Triggers in Human Spoken Dialogue: Recognition and Analysis." Situated Dialog in Speech-Based Human-Computer Interaction. Springer International Publishing, 2016. (PDF)

2015

Nurul Lubis, Sakriani Sakti, Graham Neubig, Koichiro Yoshino, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura. "A Study of Social-Affective Communication: Automatic Prediction of Emotion Triggers and Responses in Television Talk Shows." Proceedings of ASRU 2015. IEEE, 2015. (PDF) *Best Rated Poster Presentation Award*

Nurul Lubis, Sakriani Sakti, Graham Neubig, Tomoki Toda, and Satoshi Nakamura. "Construction and Analysis of Social-Affective Interaction Corpus in English and Indonesian." Proceedings of the 18th Oriental Chapter of the International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques (COCOSDA), 2015. (HTML)

2014

Nurul Lubis, Dessi Lestari, Ayu Purwarianti, Sakriani Sakti, and Satoshi Nakamura. "Emotion Recognition on Indonesian Television Talk Shows." Proceedings of Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT) 2014. IEEE, 2014. (HTML) 

Nurul Lubis, Dessi Lestari, Ayu Purwarianti, Sakriani Sakti, and Satoshi Nakamura. "Construction and analysis of Indonesian emotional speech corpus." Proceedings of the 17th Oriental Chapter of the International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques (COCOSDA), 2014. IEEE, 2014. (HTML) *Best Student Paper Award*

Doctoral

Nurul Lubis. "Eliciting Emotion Improvements with Chat-based Dialogue Systems." 2019.

Master

Nurul Lubis. "Study of Social-Affective Communication: Emotion Recognition, Emotional Triggers Prediction, and Dialogue Response Selection." 2017.

Bachelor

Nurul Lubis. "Speech-based Emotion Recognition in Indonesian." 2014.