Selected Publications

Kristiina Jokinen and Graham Wilcock (2024)
Exploring a Japanese Cooking Database: A robot uses GenAI and a knowledge graph to chat about culinary delights
19th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2024), Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Graham Wilcock  (2024)
New Technologies for Spoken Dialogue Systems: LLMs, RAG and the GenAI Stack
14th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS 2024), Sapporo, Japan.

Graham Wilcock  and Kristiina Jokinen (2023)
To err is robotic; to earn trust, divine: Comparing ChatGPT and knowledge graphs for HRI
32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2023), Busan, Korea.

Graham Wilcock  (2023)
Bilingual Japanese/English robot dialogues with knowledge graphs and conversational AI
37th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI 2023), Kumamoto, Japan.

Graham Wilcock  and Kristiina Jokinen (2022)
Should robots indicate the trustworthiness of information from knowledge graphs?
10th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2022), Nara, Japan.

Graham Wilcock  and Kristiina Jokinen (2022)
Cooperative and uncooperative behaviour in task-oriented dialogues with social robots
31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022), Napoli, Italy.

Graham Wilcock  (2022)
Generating more intelligent responses and explanations with conversational AI and knowledge graphs
36th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI 2022), Kyoto, Japan.

Graham Wilcock  and Kristiina Jokinen (2022)
Conversational AI and knowledge graphs for social robot interaction
17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2022), Sapporo, Japan.

Graham Wilcock  (2021)
Recognising flexible intents and multiple domains in extended human-robot dialogues
35th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI 2021), online, Japan.
Revised in Y. Takama et al. (eds), Advances in Artificial Intelligence - Selected Papers from the Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI 2021), Springer, 2022.

Graham Wilcock and Kristiina Jokinen  (2020)
WikiTalk and WikiListen: Towards listening robots that can join in conversations with topically relevant contributions
24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Graham Wilcock and Kristiina Jokinen  (2019)
Towards increasing naturalness and flexibility in human-robot dialogue systems
10th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS 2019), Siracusa, Italy.
Revised in E. Marchi et al. (eds.), Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction, Springer, 2021.

Divesh Lala, Graham Wilcock, Kristiina Jokinen and Tatsuya Kawahara  (2019)
ERICA and WikiTalk
28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019), Macao, China.

Graham Wilcock  (2018)
CityTalk: Robots that talk to tourists and can switch domains during the dialogue
9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS 2018), Singapore.
Revised in L. D’Haro et al. (eds.), 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology, Springer, 2019.

Graham Wilcock  (2018)
Using a deep learning dialogue research toolkit in a multilingual multidomain practical application
27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2018), Stockholm, Sweden.

Graham Wilcock  (2017)
The evolution of text annotation frameworks
Handbook of Linguistic Annotation, Nancy Ide and James Pustejovsky (editors), Springer.

Kristiina Jokinen and Graham Wilcock (editors)  (2017)
Dialogues with Social Robots
Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Volume 427, Springer.

Niklas Laxström, Graham Wilcock and Kristiina Jokinen  (2016)
Internationalisation and localisation of spoken dialogue systems
7th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS 2016), Saariselkä, Finland.
Revised in K. Jokinen and G. Wilcock (eds.), Dialogues with Social Robots, Springer, 2017.

Graham Wilcock, Kristiina Jokinen and Seiichi Yamamoto  (2016)
What topic do you want to hear about? A bilingual talking robot using English and Japanese Wikipedias
26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2016), Osaka, Japan.

Graham Wilcock and Kristiina Jokinen  (2015)
Multilingual WikiTalk: Wikipedia-based talking robots that switch languages
16th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2015), Prague, Czechia.

Niklas Laxström, Kristiina Jokinen and Graham Wilcock  (2014)
Situated interaction in a multilingual spoken information access framework
5th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS 2014), Napa, California, USA.
Revised in A. Rudnicky et al. (eds.), Situated Dialog in Speech-Based Human-Computer Interaction, Springer, 2016.

Graham Wilcock and Kristiina Jokinen  (2014)
Advances in Wikipedia-based interaction with robots
ICMI 2014 Workshop on Multimodal, Multi-Party, Real-World Human-Robot Interaction
16th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2014), Istanbul, Turkey.

Dimitra Anastasiou, Kristiina Jokinen and Graham Wilcock  (2013)
Evaluation of WikiTalk - User studies of human-robot interaction
15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2013), Las Vegas, USA.

Graham Wilcock  (2012)
WikiTalk: A spoken Wikipedia-based open-domain knowledge access system
COLING 2012 Workshop on Question Answering for Complex Domains
24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012), Mumbai, India.

Adam Csapo, Emer Gilmartin, Jonathan Grizou, JingGuang Han, Raveesh Meena, Dimitra Anastasiou, Kristiina Jokinen, and Graham Wilcock  (2012)
Multimodal conversational interaction with a humanoid robot
3rd IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom 2012), Kosice, Slovakia.

Kristiina Jokinen and Graham Wilcock  (2012)
Constructive interaction for talking about interesting topics
8th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2012), Istanbul, Turkey.

Kristiina Jokinen and Graham Wilcock  (2011)
Emergent verbal behaviour in human-robot interaction
2nd International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom 2011), Budapest, Hungary.