Evgeny A. Stepanov

Evgeny A. Stepanov

Lead Research Scientist

office:	Trento, Italy
email:	eas@vui.com

Public Profiles

Research Interests

Discourse Parsing
Spoken Dialog Systems
Summarization
Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining
Statistical Machine Translation
Machine Learning

Involved Research Projects

LUNA	Spoken Language Understanding In Multilingual Communication Systems	EU FP6-IST	2006-2009
PortDial	Language Resources for Portable Multilingual Spoken Dialogue Systems	EU FP7-ICT	2012-2014
SENSEI	Making Sense of Human-Human Conversation Data	EU FP7-ICT	2013-2016

Publications

[2019] [2018] [2017] [2016] [...]

2019

Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Morena Danieli, Giuseppe Riccardi. Automatic Classification of Speech Overlaps: Feature Representation and Algorithms. Computer Speech & Language, 55, pp. 145-167. 2019. ScienceDirect.

2018

Evgeny A. Stepanov, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ali Orkan Bayer, Arindam Ghosh, Ioannis Klasinas, Marcos Calvo, Emilio Sanchis, Giuseppe Riccardi. Cross-Language Transfer of Semantic Annotation via Targeted Crowdsourcing: Task Design and Evaluation. Language Resources and Evaluation, 52 (1), pp. 341-364. 2018. Springer.
DOI 10.1007/s10579-017-9396-5
Juan Manuel Mayor Torres, Tessa Clarkson, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Christian C. Luhmann, Matthew D. Lerner, Giuseppe Riccardi. Enhanced Error Decoding from Error-Related Potentials using Convolutional Neural Networks. 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Honolulu, HI, USA, July 2018. IEEE.
Stefano Mezza, Alessandra Cervone, Giuliano Tortoreto, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Giuseppe Riccardi. ISO-Standard Domain-Independent Dialogue Act Tagging for Conversational Agents. The 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), pp. 3539-3551, Santa Fe, New-Mexico, USA, August 2018. ACL.
Alessandra Cervone, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Giuseppe Riccardi. Coherence Models for Dialogue. Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pp. 1011-1015, Hyderabad, India, September 2018. ISCA.
Arindam Ghosh, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Juan Manuel Mayor Torres, Morena Danieli, Giuseppe Riccardi. HEAL: A Health Analytics Intelligent Agent Platform for the Acquisition and Analysis of Physiological Signals. IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), Ostrava, Czech Republic, September 2018. IEEE.
Evgeny A. Stepanov, Stephane Lathuiliere, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Arindam Ghosh, Radu-Laurentiu Vieriu, Nicu Sebe, Giuseppe Riccardi. Depression Severity Estimation from Multiple Modalities. IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), Ostrava, Czech Republic, September 2018. IEEE. [Excellent Paper Award]
Jacopo Gobbi, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Giuseppe Riccardi. Concept Tagging for Natural Language Understanding: Two Decadelong Algorithm Development. Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it), Turin, Italy, December 2018. AILC.
Alessandra Cervone, Enrico Gambi, Giuliano Tortoreto, Evgeny A. Stepanov and Giuseppe Riccardi. Automatically Predicting User Ratings for Conversational Systems. Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it), Turin, Italy, December 2018. AILC.

2017

Alessandra Cervone, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Fabio Celli, and Giuseppe Riccardi. Irony Detection: from the Twittersphere to the News Space. Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it), pp. 89-94, Rome, Italy, December 2017. AILC.
Arindam Ghosh, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Morena Danieli, and Giuseppe Riccardi. Are You Stressed? Detecting High Stress from User Diaries. 8th International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), pp. 265-270, Debrecen, Hungary, September 2017. IEEE.
Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Morena Danieli, and Giuseppe Riccardi. Functions of Silences towards Information Flow in Spoken Conversation. Workshop on Speech-Centric Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'17 Workshop), pp. 1-9, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2017. ACL.
Karan Singla, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Ali Orkan Bayer, Giuseppe Carenini, and Giuseppe Riccardi. Automatic Community Creation for Abstractive Spoken Conversations Summarization. Workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization (EMNLP'17 Workshop), pp. 43-47, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2017. ACL.
Juan Manuel Mayor Torres and Evgeny A. Stepanov. Enhanced Face/Audio Emotion Recognition: Video and Instance Level Classification using ConvNets and Restricted Boltzmann Machines. 1st International Workshop on Affective Computing and Emotion Recognition (ACER) (IEEE/WIC/ACM WI'17 Workshop), pp. 939-946, Leipzig, Germany, August 2017. ACM.
Ali Orkan Bayer, Evgeny A. Stepanov, and Giuseppe Riccardi. Towards End-to-End Spoken Dialogue Systems with Turn Embeddings. Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pp. 2516-2520, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2017. ISCA.
Giuliano Tortoreto, Arindam Ghosh, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Morena Danieli, and Giuseppe Riccardi. “Affective Behaviour Analysis of User Interactions in Support Web Group.” European Congress of Psychology, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2017. [poster]

2016

Firoj Alam, Fabio Celli, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Arindam Ghosh, and Giuseppe Riccardi. The social mood of news: Self-reported annotations to design automatic mood detection systems. Computational Modeling of Peoples's Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media (PEOPLES) (COLING'16 Workshop), pp. 143-152, Osaka, Japan, December 2016. ACL.
Fabio Celli, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Massimo Poesio, and Giuseppe Riccardi. Predicting Brexit: Classifying agreement is better than sentiment and pollsters. Computational Modeling of Peoples's Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media (PEOPLES) (COLING'16 Workshop), pp. 110-118, Osaka, Japan, December 2016. ACL.
Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Evgeny A. Stepanov, and Giuseppe Riccardi. Predicting user satisfaction from turn-taking in spoken conversations. Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pp. 2910-2914, San Francisco, CA, USA, September 2016. ISCA.
Juan Manuel Mayor Torres, Arindam Ghosh, Evgeny A. Stepanov, and Giuseppe Riccardi. HEAL-T: An efficient PPG-based heart-rate and IBI estimation method during physical exercise. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 1438-1442, Budapest, Hungary, August - September 2016. IEEE.
Niko Schenk, Christian Chiarcos, Kathrin Donandt, Samuel Ronnqvist, Evgeny A. Stepanov, and Giuseppe Riccardi. Do we really need all those rich linguistic features? A neural network-based approach to implicit sense labeling. The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) - Shared Task, pp. 41-49, Berlin, Germany, August 2016. ACL.
Evgeny A. Stepanov and Giuseppe Riccardi. UniTN end-to-end discourse parser for CoNLL 2016 Shared Task. The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) - Shared Task, pp. 85-91, Berlin, Germany, August 2016. ACL. [ranked 3rd]
Fabio Celli, Evgeny A. Stepanov, and Giuseppe Riccardi. Tell me who you are, I’ll tell whether you agree or disagree: Prediction of agreement/disagreement in news blogs. Natural Language Processing meets Journalism (IJCAI'16 Workshop), pp. 12-15, New York, USA, July 2016.
Morena Danieli, Balamurali A R, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Benoit Favre, Frederic Bechet, and Giuseppe Riccardi. Summarizing behaviours: An experiment on the annotation of call-centre conversations. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), pp. 4430-4433, Portoroz, Slovenia, May 2016. ELRA.
Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Evgeny A. Stepanov, and Giuseppe Riccardi. Transfer of corpus-specific dialogue act annotation to ISO standard: Is it worth it? Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), pp. 132-135, Portoroz, Slovenia, May 2016. ELRA.
Juan Manuel Mayor Torres, Evgeny A. Stepanov, and Giuseppe Riccardi. “EEG Semantic Decoding using Deep Neural Networks.” Rovereto Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects (CAOS), Rovereto, Italy, May 2016. [poster]
Giuseppe Riccardi, Evgeny A. Stepanov, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury. Discourse connective detection in spoken conversations. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 6095-6099, Shanghai, China, March 2016. IEEE.

Earlier

Evgeny A. Stepanov, Benoit Favre, Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Karan Singla, Jeremy Trione, Frederic Bechet, and Giuseppe Riccardi. Automatic summarization of call-center conversations. IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) - Demo Papers, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, December 2015. IEEE.
Evgeny A. Stepanov and Giuseppe Riccardi. Sentiment polarity classification with low-level discourse-based features. Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it), pp. 269-273, Trento, Italy, December 2015. AILC.
Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Marcos Calvo, Arindam Ghosh, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Ali Orkan Bayer, Giuseppe Riccardi, Fernando Garcia, and Emilio Sanchis. Selection and aggregation techniques for crowdsourced semantic annotation task. Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pp. 2779-2783, Dresden, Germany, September 2015. ISCA.
Benoit Favre, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Jeremy Trione, Frederic Bechet, and Giuseppe Riccardi. Call centre conversation summarization: A pilot task at MultiLing 2015. Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), pp. 232-236, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2015. ACL.
Evgeny A. Stepanov, Giuseppe Riccardi, and Ali Orkan Bayer. The UniTN discourse parser in CoNLL 2015 Shared Task: Token-level sequence labeling with argument-specific models. The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) - Shared Task, pp. 25-31, Beijing, China, July 2015. ACL. [ranked 2nd]
Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Arindam Ghosh, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Ali Orkan Bayer, Giuseppe Riccardi, and Ioannis Klasinas. Cross-language transfer of semantic annotation via targeted crowdsourcing. Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pp. 2108-2112, Singapore, September 2014. ISCA.
Evgeny A. Stepanov, Giuseppe Riccardi, and Ali Orkan Bayer. The development of the multilingual LUNA corpus for spoken language system porting. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), pp. 2675-2678, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2014. ELRA.
Evgeny A. Stepanov and Giuseppe Riccardi. Towards cross-domain PDTB-style discourse parsing. International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (Louhi) (EACL'14 Workshop), pp. 30-37, Gothenburg, Sweden, April 2014. ACL.
Evgeny A. Stepanov, Ilya Kashkarev, Ali Orkan Bayer, Giuseppe Riccardi, and Arindam Ghosh. Language style and domain adaptation for cross-language SLU porting. IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), pp. 144-149, Olomouc, Czech Republic, December 2013. IEEE.
Evgeny A. Stepanov and Giuseppe Riccardi. Comparative evaluation of argument extraction algorithms in discourse relation parsing. International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT), pp. 36-44, Nara, Japan, November 2013. ACL.
Firoj Alam, Evgeny A. Stepanov, and Giuseppe Riccardi. Personality traits recognition on social network-Facebook. Workshop on Computational Personality Recognition - Shared Task (WCPR) (ACMMM'13 Workshop), Cambridge, MA, USA, July 2013. AAAI.
Evgeny A. Stepanov and Giuseppe Riccardi. Detecting general opinions from customer surveys. IEEE ICDM Workshop on Sentiment Elicitation from Natural Text for Information Retrieval and Extraction (SENTIRE), pp. 115-122, Vancouver, BC, December 2011. IEEE.
Alexei V. Ivanov, Giuseppe Riccardi, Sucheta Ghosh, Sara Tonelli, and Evgeny A. Stepanov. Acoustic correlates of meaning structure in conversational speech. Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pp. 1129-1132, Makuhari, Chiba, Japan, September 2010. ISCA.
Marco Dinarelli, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Sebastian Varges, and Giuseppe Riccardi. The LUNA spoken dialogue system: Beyond utterance classification. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 5366-5369, Dallas, TX, USA, March 2010. IEEE.
Yashar Mehdad, Vitalie Scurtu, and Evgeny A. Stepanov. Italian named entity recognizer participation in NER task @Evalita 09. Evaluation of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian (EVALITA), Reggio Emilia, Italy, December 2009. AILC. [ranked 3rd]
Stefan Rigo, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Pierluigi Roberti, Silvia Quarteroni, and Giuseppe Riccardi. The 2009 UNITN EVALITA Italian spoken dialogue system. Evaluation of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian (EVALITA), Reggio Emilia, Italy, December 2009. AILC.