Tim Paek


2025

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PrimeX: A Dataset of Worldview, Opinion, and Explanation
Rik Koncel-Kedziorski | Brihi Joshi | Tim Paek
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

As the adoption of language models advances, so does the need to better represent individual users to the model. Are there aspects of an individual’s belief system that a language model can utilize for improved alignment? Following prior research, we investigate this question in the domain of opinion prediction by developing PrimeX, a dataset of public opinion survey data from 858 US residents with two additional sources of belief information: written explanations from the respondents for why they hold specific opinions, and the Primal World Belief survey for assessing respondent worldview. We provide an extensive initial analysis of our data and show the value of belief explanations and worldview for personalizing language models. Our results demonstrate how the additional belief information in PrimeX can benefit both the NLP and psychological research communities, opening up avenues for further study.

2018

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Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations
Yang Liu | Tim Paek | Manasi Patwardhan
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations

2010

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Using Speech to Reply to SMS Messages While Driving: An In-Car Simulator User Study
Yun-Cheng Ju | Tim Paek
Proceedings of the ACL 2010 Conference Short Papers

2008

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Rapidly Deploying Grammar-Based Speech Applications with Active Learning and Back-off Grammars
Tim Paek | Sudeep Gandhe | Max Chickering
Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

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Proceedings of the ACL-08: HLT Workshop on Mobile Language Processing
Barbara Rosario | Tim Paek
Proceedings of the ACL-08: HLT Workshop on Mobile Language Processing

2007

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Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
Harry Bunt | Simon Keizer | Tim Paek
Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

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Toward Evaluation that Leads to Best Practices: Reconciling Dialog Evaluation in Research and Industry
Tim Paek
Proceedings of the Workshop on Bridging the Gap: Academic and Industrial Research in Dialog Technologies

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Handling Out-of-Grammar Commands in Mobile Speech Interaction Using Backoff Filler Models
Tim Paek | Sudeep Gandhe | Max Chickering | Yun Cheng Ju
Proceedings of the Workshop on Grammar-Based Approaches to Spoken Language Processing

2005

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The Markov Assumption in Spoken Dialogue Management
Tim Paek | David Maxwell Chickering
Proceedings of the 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

2004

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Optimizing Automated Call Routing by Integrating Spoken Dialog Models with Queuing Models
Tim Paek | Eric Horvitz
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: HLT-NAACL 2004

2001

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Empirical Methods for Evaluating Dialog Systems
Tim Paek
Proceedings of the ACL 2001 Workshop on Evaluation Methodologies for Language and Dialogue Systems

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Empirical Methods for Evaluating Dialog Systems
Tim Paek
Proceedings of the Second SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue