Johan Boye's publications

In journals

• Generation and Evaluation of Multiple-choice Reading Comprehension Questions for Swedish (with Dmytro Kalpakchi). Northern European Journal of Language Technology, vol 10, no 1, 2024.
• Quinductor: a multilingual data-driven method for generating reading-comprehension questions using Universial Dependencies (with Dmytro Kalpakchi). Journal of Natural Language Engineering, vol 30, issue 2, March 2024, pp. 217-255.
• Learning landmark salience models from users' route instructions (with Jana Götze). Journal of Location Based Services, 10:1, pp 47-63, 2016.
• Generating context-sensitive ECA responses to user barge-in interruptions (with Nigel Crook, Debora Field, Sue Harding, Steve Pulman, Cameron Smith, Roger Moore, and Marc Cavazza). Journal of Multimodal User Interfaces, vol 6, issue 1-2, pp. 16-25, July 2012.
• Robust parsing and spoken negotiative dialogue with databases (with Mats Wirén). Journal of Natural Language Engineering, vol 14, issue 3, pp. 289-312, 2008.
• Robust spoken language understanding in a computer game (with Joakim Gustafson and Mats Wirén). Journal of Speech Communication, 48, pp. 335-353, 2006.
• Language processing strategies and mixed-initiative dialogues (with Manny Rayner, Ian Lewin, Ralph Becket, Dave Carter and Mats Wirén). Electronic transactions of Artificial intelligence, 3, section D, pp. 73-88, 1999.
• Directional Types and the Annotation Method (with Jan Maluszynski). Journal of Logic Programming , Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 179-220, 1997.

In peer-reviewed books

• Walk this way: Spatial grounding for city exploration (with Morgan Fredriksson, Jana Götze, Joakim Gustafson and Jürgen Königsmann). In Natural interaction with robots, knowbots and smartphones, pp. 59-67, Springer-Verlag, 2014.
• Language technology for eGovernment - Business cases (with Martin Henkel, Erik Perjons, Eriks Sneiders, Jussi Karlgren and Anders Thelemyr). In New perspectives in information systems and technologies, volume 1, pp 83-95, Advances in intelligent systems and computing, vol 275, Springer-Verlag, 2014.
• Plug and play spoken dialogue processing (with Manny Rayner, Ian Lewin, and Genevieve Gorrell). In van Kuppevelt, Smith (eds) Current and new directions in discourse and dialogue, pp. 257-281, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.
• Logic Programs with External Procedures (with Jan Maluszynski, Staffan Bonnier, Feliks Kluzniak, Andreas Kågedal and Ulf Nilsson). In Logic Programming Languages: Constraints, Functions and Objects. The MIT Press, 1993.

In peer-reviewed conferences

• Nested noun phrase identification using BERT (with Shweta Misra). Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING), 2024. Video presentation
• Quasi: a synthetic Question-Answering dataset in Swedish using GPT-3 and zero-shot learning (with Dmytro Kalpakchi). Proceedings of the 24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa 2023), pp 477-491.
• Automatically generating question-answer pairs for assessing basic reading comprehension in Swedish (with Dmytro Kalpakchi). Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC22), 2022.
• Textinator: an internationalized tool for annotation and human evaluation in natural language processing and generation (with Dmytro Kalpakchi). In Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022), pp. 856-866, 2022.
• Minor changes make a difference: a case study on the consistency of UD-based dependency parsers (with Dmytro Kalpakchi). In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2021), pp. 96-108, 2021.
• BERT-based distractor generation for Swedish reading comprehension questions using a small-scale dataset (with Dmytro Kalpakchi). In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2021), pp. 377-393, 2021.
• UDon2: a library for manipulating Universal Dependencies trees (with Dmytro Kalpakchi). In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2020), pp. 120-125, 2020.
• SpaceRefNet: a neural approach to spatial reference resolution in a real city environment (with Dmytro Kalpakchi). In Proc. 20th SIGDial conference on discourse and dialogue, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019.
• Reference resolution for pedestrian wayfinding systems (with Jana Götze). In Societal Geo-innovation: Selected papers of the 20th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, pp 59-75, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 2017.
• SpaceRef: A corpus of street-level geographic descriptions (with Jana Götze). Proc. 10th LREC Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Portoroz, Slovenia, 2016.
• Learning landmark salience models from users' route instructions (with Jana Götze). Proc. 12th International Symposium on Location Based Services, Augsburg, Germany, 2015.
• "Turn left" vs. "Walk towards the cafe": When relative directions work better than landmarks (with Jana Götze). Proc. 18th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Lisboa, Portugal, 2015.
• Resolving spatial references using crowdsourced geographical data (with Jana Götze). Proc. 20th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, Wilna, Lithuania, 2015.
• Crowdsourcing street-level geographic information using a spoken dialogue system (with Raveesh Meena, Gabriel Skantze and Joakim Gustafson). Proc. 15th SIGDial workshop on discourse and dialogue, Philadelphia, USA, 2014.
• A demonstration of a natural-language pedestrian routing system (with Morgan Fredriksson, Jana Götze and Jürgen Königsmann). In Proc. 5th international workshop on spoken dialogue systems, IWSDS'2014, Napa, USA, 2014.
• Interpreting instructions in a pedestrian routing domain (with Jana Götze, Morgan Fredriksson and Jürgen Königsmann). In Proc. 17th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, DialDam'2013, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2013.
• Deriving salience models from human route directions (with Jana Götze). In Proc. CoSLI-3 workshop on Computational models of spatial language interpretation and generation, Potsdam, Germany, 2013.
• Walk this way: Spatial grounding for city exploration (poster) With Morgan Fredriksson, Jana Götze, Joakim Gustafson and Jürgen Königsmann. In Proc. 4th international workshop on spoken dialogue systems, IWSDS'2012, Paris, France, 2012.
• Handling user interruptions in an embodied conversational agent (with Nigel Crook, Steve Pulman, Cameron Smith, Roger Moore, and Marc Cavazza). Proceedings of the 9th international conference on autonomous agents and multiagent systems (AAMAS'2010), Toronto, Canada, 2010.
• Interaction strategies for an affective conversational agent (with Cameron Smith, Nigel Crook, Steve Pulman, Simon Dobnik, Marc Cavazza, and others). Proceedings of the 10th international conference on intelligent virtual agents (IVA'2010), Philadelphia, USA, 2010.
• How was your day? (with Steve Pulman, Marc Cavazza, Cameron Smith and Raul Santos de la Cámara. Proceedings of ACL10, Companiable Dialogue Systems workshop, pp 37-42, Uppsala, Sweden, 2010.
• Dialogue management for automatic troubleshooting and other problem-solving applications. Proceedings of the 8th SIGDial workshop on discourse and dialogue, Antwerp, Belgium, 2007.
• Multi-slot semantics for natural-language call routing systems (with Mats Wirén). Proceedings of the NAACL'07 workshop Bridging the gap: Academic and industrial research in dialog technologies, Rochester, NY, USA, 2007.
• How to do dialogue in a fairy-tale world (with Joakim Gustafson). In Proceedings of the 6th SIGDial workshop on discourse and dialogue, Lisbon, Portugal, 2005.
• Providing computer game characters with conversational abilities (with Joakim Gustafson, Morgan Fredriksson and Jürgen Königsmann). In Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 05)., Kos, Greece, 2005.
• The Swedish NICE corpus -- Spoken dialogues between children and embodied characters in a computer game scenario (with Linda Bell, Joakim Gustafson, Mattias Heldner and Mats Wirén). In Proceedings of Interspeech'05, Lisbon, Portugal, 2005.
• Contextual interpretation in multimodal dialogue systems: Two case studies (with Mats Wirén and Joakim Gustafson). In Proceedings of Catalog (8th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue), Barcelona, Spain, 2004.
• The NICE fairy-tale game system (with Joakim Gustafson, Linda Bell and Mats Wirén). Proceedings of the 5th SIGDial workshop on discourse and dialogue, Boston, USA, 2004.
• Robust parsing of utterances in negotiative dialogue (with Mats Wirén). Proceedings of Eurospeech, Geneva, Switzerland, 2003.
• Negotiative spoken-dialogue interfaces to databases (with Mats Wirén). Proceedings of Diabruck (7th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue), Wallerfangen, Germany, 2003.
• Constraint manipulation and visualization in a multimodal dialogue system (with Joakim Gustafson, Linda Bell, Jens Edlund and Mats Wirén) Proceedings of the ISCA workshop on Multimodal dialogue in mobile environments, Kloster Irsee, Germany, 2002.
• Plug and play speech understanding (with Manny Rayner, Genevieve Gorrell and Ian Lewin. Proceedings of the 2nd SIGDial workshop on discourse and dialogue, Aalborg, Denmark, 2001.
• Do CFG-based language models need agreement constraints? (with Manny Rayner, Genevieve Gorrell, Beth Ann Hockey and John Dowding). Proceedings of NAACL 01, Pittsburgh, USA, 2001.
• Real-time handling of fragmented utterances (with Linda Bell and Joakim Gustafson). Proceedings of the NAACL workshop on adaptation in dialogue systems, Pittsburgh, USA, 2001.
• Adapt -- a multimodal conversational dialogue system in an apartment domain (with Joakim Gustafson, Linda Bell, Jonas Beskow, Rolf Carlson, Jens Edlund, Björn Granström, David House and Mats Wirén). Proceedings of ICSLP, Bejing, China, 2000.
• Modality convergence in a multimodal dialogue system (with Linda Bell, Joakim Gustafson and Mats Wirén). In Proceedings of Gotalog (4th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue), Gothenburg, Sweden, 2000.
• Asynchronous dialogue management (with Manny Rayner and Beth Ann Hockey). In Proceedings of Gotalog (4th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue), Gothenburg, Sweden, 2000.
• Language processing strategies and mixed-initiative dialogues (with Manny Rayner, Ian Lewin, Ralph Becket, Dave Carter and Mats Wirén). Proceedings of the 1st IJCAI workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, Stockholm, Sweden, 1999.
• Language processing for spoken dialogue systems: Is shallow parsing enough? (with Manny Rayner, Ian Lewin, Ralph Becket, Dave Carter and Mats Wirén). Proceedings of the ISCA workshop on Accessing Information in Spoken Audio, Cambridge, UK, 1999.
• Declarative Diagnosis of Constraint Programs: an Assertion Based Approach (with Jan Maluszynski and Wlodek Drabent). In Proc. of AADEBUG'97 (Third Int. Workshop on Automated Debugging), Linköping, Sweden, 1997.
• Two Aspects of Directional Types (with Jan Maluszynski). In Proc. of the int'l conference on Logic Programming 95. The MIT Press, 1995.
• Avoiding Dynamic Delays in Functional Logic Programs. In Proc. of the 5th Int'l symposium om Programming Language Implementation and Logic Programming (PLILP'93) . Springer-Verlag 1993.
• Synthesis of Directionality Information for Functional Logic Programs (with Jukka Paakki and Jan Maluszynski). In Proc. of the 3rd int'l workshop on Static Analysis (WSA'93) . Springer-Verlag, 1993.
• S-SLD-resolution: an Operational Semantics for Logic programs with External Procedures. In Proc. of the 3rd Int'l symposium om Programming Language Implementation and Logic Programming (PLILP'91) . Springer-Verlag 1991.