--- title: "Oliver Lemon — author profile and papers · Dialogue systems" description: "Oliver Lemon, Heriot-Watt University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2004–2013), h-index 40 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oliver-lemon/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oliver-lemon/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Oliver Lemon # Oliver Lemon Oliver Lemon has 2 papers in our library, in 2004–2013, most of them on [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/), [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/). 2 papers in our library · 2004–2013 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5010949145) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9497-4743) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59590472) · [**h-index 40**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5010949145) · [341 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5010949145) · [5,710 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5010949145&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oliver-lemon/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 69 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oliver-lemon/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5211](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/53/#star-5211) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Oliver+Lemon) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Oliver+Lemon) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Oliver+Lemon) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Oliver+Lemon) ## Affiliations [🎓**Heriot-Watt University** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 2009–2026 · 162 papersEmployment since 2009*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/heriot-watt-university/) · [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 2003–2023 · 46 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2000–2005 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🎓**University of Manchester** Manchester · United Kingdom 1996–1999 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-manchester/) · [🎓**Trinity College Dublin** Dublin · Ireland 1999 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/trinity-college-dublin/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech & spoken language · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Speech act theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2013** 1 paper Impact of ASR N-Best Information on Bayesian Dialogue Act Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cuayahuitl-2013-impact-asr-n-best-information/) ### 2000s [**2004** 1 paper Combining Acoustic and Pragmatic Features to Predict Recognition Performance in Spoken Dialogue Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gabsdil-2004-combining-acoustic-pragmatic-features-predict/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Combining Acoustic and Pragmatic Features to Predict Recognition Performance in Spoken Dialogue Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gabsdil-2004-combining-acoustic-pragmatic-features-predict/)** *(2004 · 74 citations)* Spoken dialogue systems must decide whether to accept, reject, or ignore each incoming recognition hypothesis, and sometimes whether to ask for clarification. 2. **[Impact of ASR N-Best Information on Bayesian Dialogue Act Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cuayahuitl-2013-impact-asr-n-best-information/)** *(2013 · 3 citations)* The paper addresses mapping noisy spoken input to the correct user dialogue act in a slot-filling system. Instead of building a new recogniser, the authors add a re-ranking step after an existing one, the Let's Go parser. The re-ranker rescores the parser's hypotheses of the form DialogueActType(attribute-value… ## All works 5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Hybrid Reinforcement/Supervised Learning of Dialogue Policies from Fixed Data Sets](https://aclanthology.org/J08-4002/) Computational Linguistics · original ↗ · no summary yet**James Henderson, Oliver Lemon, Kallirroi Georgila*2008 · 151 citations* 2. **[Combining Acoustic and Pragmatic Features to Predict Recognition Performance in Spoken Dialogue Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gabsdil-2004-combining-acoustic-pragmatic-features-predict/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Malte Gabsdil, Oliver Lemon*2004 · 74 citations* 3. **[Cluster-based Prediction of User Ratings for Stylistic Surface Realisation](https://aclanthology.org/E14-1074/) Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · original ↗ · no summary yet**Nina Dethlefs et al.*2014 · 37 citations* 4. **[Conditional Random Fields for Responsive Surface Realisation using Global Features](https://aclanthology.org/P13-1123/) Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · original ↗ · no summary yet**Nina Dethlefs et al.*2013 · 35 citations* 5. **[Impact of ASR N-Best Information on Bayesian Dialogue Act Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cuayahuitl-2013-impact-asr-n-best-information/) [SIGDIAL Conference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial-conference/)**Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Nina Dethlefs, Helen Hastie, et al.*2013 · 3 citations* ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ×2: [ACL 2004](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2004/) - [SIGDIAL Conference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial-conference/): [SIGDIAL Conference 2013](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial-conference/2013/) - Computational Linguistics - Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 69 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [7 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oliver-lemon/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026