Chat Disentanglement: Identifying Semantic Reply Relationships with Random Forests and Recurrent Neural Networks. - Shikib Mehri; Giuseppe Carenini (IJCNLP(1), 2017)

Middle-Out Decoding. - Shikib Mehri; Leonid Sigal (NeurIPS, 2018)

Pretraining Methods for Dialog Context Representation Learning. - Shikib Mehri; Evgeniia Razumovskaia; Tiancheng Zhao; Maxine Eskénazi (ACL (1), 2019)

Multi-Granularity Representations of Dialog. - Shikib Mehri; Maxine Eskénazi (EMNLP/IJCNLP (1), 2019)

Investigating Evaluation of Open-Domain Dialogue Systems With Human Generated Multiple References. - Prakhar Gupta; Shikib Mehri; Tiancheng Zhao; Amy Pavel; Maxine Eskénazi; Jeffrey P. Bigham (SIGdial, 2019)

Structured Fusion Networks for Dialog. - Shikib Mehri; Tejas Srinivasan; Maxine Eskénazi (SIGdial, 2019)

Beyond Turing: Intelligent Agents Centered on the User. - Maxine Eskénazi; Shikib Mehri; Evgeniia Razumovskaia; Tiancheng Zhao (CoRR, 2019)

CMU GetGoing: An Understandable and Memorable Dialog System for Seniors. - Shikib Mehri; Alan W. Black; Maxine Eskénazi (CoRR, 2019)

"None of the Above": Measure Uncertainty in Dialog Response Retrieval. - Yulan Feng; Shikib Mehri; Maxine Eskénazi; Tiancheng Zhao (ACL, 2020)

USR: An Unsupervised and Reference Free Evaluation Metric for Dialog Generation. - Shikib Mehri; Maxine Eskénazi (ACL, 2020)

Unsupervised Evaluation of Interactive Dialog with DialoGPT. - Shikib Mehri; Maxine Eskénazi (SIGdial, 2020)

DialoGLUE: A Natural Language Understanding Benchmark for Task-Oriented Dialogue. - Shikib Mehri; Mihail Eric; Dilek Hakkani-Tür (CoRR, 2020)

Example-Driven Intent Prediction with Observers. - Shikib Mehri; Mihail Eric; Dilek Hakkani-Tür (CoRR, 2020)

STAR: A Schema-Guided Dialog Dataset for Transfer Learning. - Johannes E. M. Mosig; Shikib Mehri; Thomas Kober 001 (CoRR, 2020)

Reasoning Over History: Context Aware Visual Dialog. - Muhammad A. Shah; Shikib Mehri; Tejas Srinivasan (CoRR, 2020)

Example-Driven Intent Prediction with Observers. - Shikib Mehri; Mihail Eric (NAACL-HLT, 2021)

GenSF: Simultaneous Adaptation of Generative Pre-trained Models and Slot Filling. - Shikib Mehri; Maxine Eskénazi (SIGDIAL, 2021)

Schema-Guided Paradigm for Zero-Shot Dialog. - Shikib Mehri; Maxine Eskénazi (SIGDIAL, 2021)

A Comprehensive Assessment of Dialog Evaluation Metrics. - Yi-Ting Yeh; Maxine Eskénazi; Shikib Mehri (CoRR, 2021)

InstructDial: Improving Zero and Few-shot Generalization in Dialogue through Instruction Tuning. - Prakhar Gupta; Cathy Jiao; Yi-Ting Yeh; Shikib Mehri; Maxine Eskénazi; Jeffrey P. Bigham (EMNLP, 2022)

Interactive Evaluation of Dialog Track at DSTC9. - Shikib Mehri; Yulan Feng; Carla Gordon; Seyed Hossein Alavi; David R. Traum; Maxine Eskénazi (LREC, 2022)

The DialPort tools. - Jessica Huynh; Shikib Mehri; Cathy Jiao; Maxine Eskénazi (SIGDIAL, 2022)

LAD: Language Models as Data for Zero-Shot Dialog. - Shikib Mehri; Yasemin Altun; Maxine Eskénazi (SIGDIAL, 2022)

Report from the NSF Future Directions Workshop on Automatic Evaluation of Dialog: Research Directions and Challenges. - Shikib Mehri; Jinho Choi; Luis Fernando D'Haro; Jan Deriu; Maxine Eskénazi; Milica Gasic; Kallirroi Georgila; Dilek Hakkani-Tur; Zekang Li; Verena Rieser; Samira Shaikh; David R. Traum; et al. (CoRR, 2022)

Improving Zero and Few-shot Generalization in Dialogue through Instruction Tuning. - Prakhar Gupta; Cathy Jiao; Yi-Ting Yeh; Shikib Mehri; Maxine Eskénazi; Jeffrey P. Bigham (CoRR, 2022)

CESAR: Automatic Induction of Compositional Instructions for Multi-turn Dialogs. - Taha Aksu; Devamanyu Hazarika; Shikib Mehri; Seokhwan Kim; Dilek Hakkani-Tur; Yang Liu 004; Mahdi Namazifar (EMNLP, 2023)

Understanding the Effectiveness of Very Large Language Models on Dialog Evaluation. - Jessica Huynh; Cathy Jiao; Prakhar Gupta; Shikib Mehri; Payal Bajaj; Vishrav Chaudhary; Maxine Eskénazi (CoRR, 2023)

Data-Efficient Alignment of Large Language Models with Human Feedback Through Natural Language. - Di Jin; Shikib Mehri; Devamanyu Hazarika; Aishwarya Padmakumar; Sungjin Lee; Yang Liu; Mahdi Namazifar (CoRR, 2023)

LMUnit: Fine-grained Evaluation with Natural Language Unit Tests. - Jon Saad-Falcon; Rajan Vivek; William Berrios; Nandita Shankar Naik; Matija Franklin; Bertie Vidgen; Amanpreet Singh; Douwe Kiela; Shikib Mehri (CoRR, 2024)

Overview of the Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge: DSTC9. - R. Chulaka Gunasekara; Seokhwan Kim; Luis Fernando D'Haro; Abhinav Rastogi; Yun-Nung Chen; Mihail Eric; Behnam Hedayatnia; Karthik Gopalakrishnan 001; Yang Liu 004; Chao-Wei Huang; Dilek Hakkani-Tür; Jinchao Li; et al. (IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2024)

Anchored Preference Optimization and Contrastive Revisions: Addressing Underspecification in Alignment. - Karel D'Oosterlinck; Winnie Xu; Chris Develder; Thomas Demeester; Amanpreet Singh; Christopher Potts; Douwe Kiela; Shikib Mehri (Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2025)

Goal Alignment in LLM-Based User Simulators for Conversational AI. - Shuhaib Mehri; Xiaocheng Yang; Takyoung Kim; Gokhan Tur; Shikib Mehri; Dilek Hakkani-Tür (CoRR, 2025)