Publications
- Into the Unknown Unknowns: Engaged Human Learning through Participation in Language Model Agent Conversations
Yucheng Jiang, Yijia Shao, Dekun Ma, Sina J. Semnani, Monica S. Lam
In The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) , Miami, Florida, November 12 –16, 2024.
- SPINACH: SPARQL-Based Information Navigation for Challenging Real-World Questions
Shicheng Liu*, Sina J. Semnani*, Harold Triedman, Jialiang Xu, Isaac Dan Zhao, Monica S. Lam
In Findings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) , Miami, Florida, November 12 –16, 2024.
- Zero-shot Persuasive Chatbots with LLM-Generated Strategies and Information Retrieval
Kazuaki Furumai, Roberto Legaspi, Julio Vizcarra, Yudai Yamazaki, Yasutaka Nishimura, Sina J. Semnani, Kazushi Ikeda, Weiyan Shi, Monica S. Lam
In Findings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) , Miami, Florida, November 12 –16, 2024.
- SPAGHETTI: Open-Domain Question Answering from Heterogeneous Data Sources with Retrieval and Semantic Parsing
Heidi C. Zhang, Sina J. Semnani, Farhad Ghassemi, Jialiang Xu, Shicheng Liu, Monica S. Lam
In Findings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , Bangkok, Thailand, August 11-16, 2024.
- Assisting in Writing Wikipedia-like Articles From Scratch with Large Language Models
Yijia Shao, Yucheng Jiang, Theodore A. Kanell, Peter Xu, Omar Khattab, Monica S. Lam
In Proceedings of the North American Chapter of Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) , Mexico City, Mexico, June 16–21, 2024.
- SUQL: Conversational Search over Structured and Unstructured Data with Large Language Models
Shicheng Liu, Jialiang Xu, Wesley Tjangnaka, Sina J. Semnani, Chen Jie Yu, Monica S. Lam
In Findings of the North American Chapter of Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) , Mexico City, Mexico, June 16–21, 2024.
- ReactGenie: A Development Framework for Rich Multimodal Interactions Using Large Language Models
Jackie (Junrui) Yang, Yingtian Shi, Yuhan Zhang, Karina Li, Daniel Wan Rosli, Anisha Jain, Shuning Zhang, Tianshi Li, James A. Landay, Monica S. Lam
In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24) , Honolulu, HI, USA, May 11–16, 2024.
- AMMA: Adaptive Multimodal Assistants Through Automated State Tracking and User Model-Directed Guidance Planning
Jackie (Junrui) Yang, Leping Qiu, Emmanuel Corona-Moreno, Louisa Shi, Hung Bui, Monica S. Lam, James A. Landay
In 2024 IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR) , Orlando, FL, March 16-21, 2024.
- Fine-tuned LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less with Few-Shot Sequence-to-Sequence Semantic Parsing over Wikidata
Silei Xu*, Shicheng Liu*, Theo Culhane, Elizaveta Pertseva, Meng-Hsi Wu, Sina J. Semnani, Monica S. Lam
In Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023 , Resorts World Convention Centre, Singapore, December 6-10, 2023.
- WikiChat: Stopping the Hallucination of Large Language Model Chatbots by Few-Shot Grounding on Wikipedia
Sina J. Semnani, Violet Z. Yao*, Heidi C. Zhang*, Monica S. Lam
In Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023 , Resorts World Convention Centre, Singapore, December 6-10, 2023.
- X-RiSAWOZ: High-Quality End-to-End Multilingual Dialogue Datasets and Few-shot Agents
Mehrad Moradshahi*, Tianhao Shen*, Kalika Bali, Monojit Choudhury, Gael de Chalendar, Anmol Goel, Sungkyun Kim, Prashant Kodali, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Nasredine Semmar, Sina Semnani, Jiwon Seo, Vivek Seshadri, Manish Shrivastava, Michael Sun, Aditya Yadavalli, Chaobin You, Deyi Xiong, Monica S. Lam
In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023.
- Zero and Few-Shot Localization of Task-Oriented Dialogue Agents with a Distilled Representation
Mehrad Moradshahi, Sina Semnani, Monica S. Lam
In Proceedings of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) , Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2-6 2023.
- Contextual Semantic Parsing for Multilingual Task-Oriented Dialogues
Mehrad Moradshahi, Victoria C. Tsai, Giovanni Campagna, Monica S. Lam
In Proceedings of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) , Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2-6 2023.
- HomeView: Automatically Building Smart Home Digital Twins With Augmented Reality Headsets
Zhuoyue Lyu, Jackie (Junrui) Yang, Monica S. Lam, and James A. Landay
In Adjunct Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '22 Adjunct) , Bend, Oregon, Oct 29-Nov 2, 2022.
- A Few-Shot Semantic Parser for Wizard-of-Oz Dialogues with the Precise ThingTalk Representation
Giovanni Campagna, Sina J. Semnani, Ryan Kearns, Lucas Jun Koba Sato, Monica S. Lam
In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , Dublin, Ireland, May 2022.
- HybridTrak: Adding Full-Body Tracking to VR Using and Off-the-Shelf Webcam
Jackie (Junrui) Yang, Tuochao Chen, Fang Qin, Monica S. Lam, James A. Landay
In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , New Orleans, LA, April 2022.
- DIY Assistant: A Multi-Modal End-User Programmable Virtual Assistant
Michael H. Fischer*, Giovanni Campagna*, Euirim Choi, Monica S. Lam
In Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2021) , June 2021
- Grounding Open-Domain Instructions to Automate Web Support Tasks
Nancy Xu, Sam Masling, Michael Du, Giovanni Campagna, Larry Heck, James Landay, Monica S Lam
In Proceedings of the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2021) , New Orleans, LA, April 2022.
- Neural Generation Meets Real People: Towards Emotionally Engaging Mixed-Initiative Conversations
Ashwin Paranjape, Abigail See, Kathleen Kenealy, Haojun Li, Amelia Hardy, Peng Qi, Kaushik Ram Sadagopan, Nguyet Minh Phu, Dilara Soylu, Christopher D. Manning
ArXiv Preprint
- AutoQA: From Databases To Q&A Semantic Parsers With Only Synthetic Training Data
Silei Xu*, Sina J. Semnani*, Giovanni Campagna, Monica S. Lam
In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing , November 2020
- Localizing Open-Ontology QA Semantic Parsers in a Day Using Machine Translation
Mehrad Moradshahi, Giovanni Campagna, Sina J. Semnani, Silei Xu, Monica S. Lam
In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing , November 2020.
- Soteria: A Provably Compliant User Right Manager Using a Novel Two-Layer Blockchain Technology
Wei-Kang Fu, Yi-Shan Lin, Giovanni Campagna, Chun-Ting Liu, De-Yi Tsai, Chung-Huan Mei, Edward Y. Chang, Shih-Wei Liao, Monica S. Lam
In IEEE Infrastructure Conference , October 2020.
- DoThisHere: Multimodal Interaction to Improve Cross-Application Tasks on Mobile Devices
Jackie Yang, Monica S. Lam, James A. Landay
In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) , October 2020.
- State-Machine-Based Dialogue Agents with Few-Shot Contextual Semantic Parsers
Giovanni Campagna, Sina J. Semnani, Ryan Kearns, Lucas Jun Koba Sato, Monica S. Lam
ArXiv Preprint
- Schema2QA: High-Quality and Low-Cost Q&A Agents for the Structured Web
Silei Xu, Giovanni Campagna, Jian Li, and Monica S. Lam
In Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management , October 2020.
Website - End-User Programming of Virtual Assistant Skills and Graphical User Interfaces
Michael H. Fischer
Dissertation
- Zero-Shot Transfer Learning with Synthesized Data for Multi-Domain Dialogue State Tracking
Giovanni Campagna, Agata Foryciarz, Mehrad Moradshahi, and Monica S. Lam
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) , July 2020
- Soundr: Head Position and Orientation Prediction Using a Microphone Array
Jackie Yang, Gaurab Banerjee, Vishesh Gupta, Monica S. Lam, and James A. Landay
In CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu, HI , Honolulu, HI, April 2020.
- ImagineNet: Restyling Apps Using Neural Style Transfer
Michael H. Fischer, Richard R. Yang, and Monica S. Lam
ArXiv Preprint
- Genie: A Generator of Natural Language Semantic Parsers for Virtual Assistant Commands
Giovanni Campagna*, Silei Xu*, Mehrad Moradshahi, Richard Socher, and Monica S. Lam
In Proceedings of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation , Phoenix, AZ, June 2019.
Artifact Dataset - Controlling Fine-Grain Sharing in Natural Language with a Virtual Assistant
Giovanni Campagna, Silei Xu, Rakesh Ramesh, Michael Fischer, and Monica S. Lam
In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) , 2018
- Brassau: Automatically Generating Graphical User Interfaces for Virtual Assistants
Michael Fischer, Giovanni Campagna, Silei Xu, and Monica S. Lam
In 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. (MobileHCI) , 2018
- Almond: The Architecture of an Open, Crowdsourced, Privacy-Preserving, Programmable Virtual Assistant
Giovanni Campagna, Rakesh Ramesh, Silei Xu, Michael Fischer, and Monica S. Lam
In Proceedings of the 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) , Perth, Australia, April 2017