Dilek Hakkani-Tur
Professor
Studies conversational AI, including spoken dialogue systems, language understanding and large language models for dialogue.
Dilek Hakkani-Tur's lab at UIUC works on dialogue, generation & summarization, large language models and data management & big data. 70 papers since 2023. 14 PhD students and 2 master's students. 2 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 18/ year
- at T1 venues
- 0%
- PhD students
- 14
- MS students
- 2
- alumni listed
- 2
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 39 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 22 papers2025 · T1 0
- 9 papers2024 · T1 0
- 0 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOther
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Large language models36 papers
- Dialogue, generation & summarization12 papers
- dialogue6 papers
- Data management & big data4 papers
- dialogue systems3 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202639 papers
- Ishika Agarwal, Zhenlin He, Dhruva Patil, Dilek Hakkani-TürA Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: MTQE Rewards for Idioms Improve General Translation Quality
- Takyoung Kim*, Janvijay Singh*, Shuhaib Mehri*, Emre Can Acikgoz, Sagnik Mukherjee, Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Sumuk Shashidhar, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-TürAURA: A Diagnostic Framework for Tracking User Satisfaction of Interactive Planning Agents
- Shuhaib Mehri, Xiusi Chen, Heng Ji, Dilek Hakkani-TürBeyond Sample-Level Feedback: Using Reference-Level Feedback to Guide Data Synthesis
- Tarik Can Ozden, Sachidanand VS, Furkan Horoz, Ozgur Kara, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Junho Kim, James Matthew RehgConvDeck: Conversational Paper-to-Slide Generation via Stage-Specific User Feedback
- Cheng Qian, Emre Can Acikgoz, Bingxuan Li, Xiusi Chen, Yuji Zhang, Bingxiang He, Qinyu Luo, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Yunzhu Li, Heng JiCurrent Agents Fail to Leverage World Model as Tool for Foresight
- Parisa Rabbani, Priyam Sahoo, Ruben Mathew, Aishee Mondal, Harshita Ketharaman, Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Dilek Hakkani-TürDialDefer: A Framework for Detecting and Mitigating LLM Dialogic Deference
- Janvijay Singh, Dilek Hakkani-TürDo LLMs Encode Functional Importance of Reasoning Tokens?
- Sagnik Mukherjee, Lifan Yuan, Pavan Jayasinha, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Hao PengDo We Need Adam? Surprisingly Strong and Sparse Reinforcement Learning with SGD in LLMs
- Takyoung Kim, Kang-wook Kim, Sang Hoon Woo, Julia Hirschberg, Gunhee Kim, Dilek Hakkani-TürDuplexGen: Adaptive Synthesis of Human-AI Turn-Taking Dialogues
- Vardhan Dongre, Dilek Hakkani-TürEmbodied Multi-Agent Coordination by Aligning World Models Through Dialogue
- Pardis Sadat Zahraei, Janvijay Singh, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-TürEmergent Unfaithfulness: How Alignment Training Causes Language Models to Silently Override Task Faithfulness
- Yurii Halychanskyi, Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Volodymyr KindratenkoFew-Shot Synthetic Accented Speech for ASR Fine-Tuning: What Helps and When?
202522 papers
- Mert İnan, Anthony Sicilia, Suvodip Dey, Vardhan Dongre, Tejas Srinivasan, Jesse Thomason, Gökhan Tür, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Malihe AlikhaniBetter Slow than Sorry: Introducing Positive Friction for Reliable Dialogue Systems
- Emre Can Acikgoz, Jeremiah Greer, Akul Datta, Ze Yang, William Zeng, Oussama Elachqar, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan TurCan a Single Model Master Both Multi-turn Conversations and Tool Use? CoALM: A Unified Conversational Agentic Language Model
- Emre Can Acikgoz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan TurConversational Agents in the Era of Large Language Models [Perspectives]
- Ishika Agarwal, Krishnateja Killamsetty, Lucian Popa, Marina DanilevksyDELIFT: Data Efficient Language model Instruction Fine Tuning
- Jihyoung Jang*, Minwook Bae*, Minji Kim, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Hyounghun KimEnabling Chatbots with Eyes and Ears: An Immersive Multimodal Conversation System for Dynamic Interactions
- Revanth Gangi Reddy*, Sagnik Mukherjee*, Jeonghwan Kim*, Zhenhailong Wang*, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Heng JiInfogent: An Agent-based Framework for Web Information Aggregation
- Suvodip Dey, Yi-Jyun Sun, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-TürKnow Your Mistakes: Towards Preventing Overreliance on Task-Oriented Conversational AI Through Accountability Modeling
- Takyoung Kim, Kyungjae Lee, Young Rok Jang, Ji Yong Cho, Gangwoo Kim, Minseok Cho, Moontae LeeLearning to Explore and Select for Coverage-Conditioned Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- Vardhan Dongre*, Chi Gui*, Shubham Garg, Hooshang Nayyeri, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Vikram S. AdveMIRAGE: A Benchmark for Multimodal Information-Seeking and Reasoning in Agricultural Expert-Guided Conversations
- Ishika Agarwal, Dilek Hakkani-TürNeural Networks for Learnable and Scalable Influence Estimation of Instruction Fine-Tuning Data
- Ananth Hariharan, Vardhan Dongre, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan TurPlan Verification for LLM-Based Embodied Task Completion Agents
- Sagnik Mukherjee*, Abhinav Chinta*, Takyoung Kim, Tarun Anoop Sharma, Dilek Hakkani-TürPremise-Augmented Reasoning Chains Improve Error Identification in Math reasoning with LLMs
20249 papers
- Yi-Jyun Sun, Suvodip Dey, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan TurConfidence Estimation for LLM-Based Dialogue State Tracking
- Sagnik Mukherjee*, Muhammad Farid Adilazuarda*, Sunayana Sitaram, Kalika Bali, Alham Fikri Aji, Monojit ChoudhuryCultural Conditioning or Placebo? On the Effectiveness of Socio-Demographic Prompting
- Stuti Agrawal, Nishi Uppuluri, Pranav Pillai, Revanth Gangi Reddy, Zoey Li, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Heng JiDialog Flow Induction for Constrainable LLM-Based Chatbots
- Nalin Tiwary*, Vardhan Dongre*, Sanil Chawala, Ashwin Lamani, Dilek Hakkani-TürFrom Context to Action: Analysis of the Impact of State Representation and Context on Generalizability of Multi-Turn Web Navigation Agents
- Priyanka Karagupta*, Ishika Agarwal*, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Jiawei HanInstruct, Not Assist: LLM-based Multi-Turn Planning and Hierarchical Questioning for Socratic Code Debugging
- Taaha Kazi, Ruiliang Lyu, Sizhe Zhou, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan TurLarge Language Models as User Agents for Evaluating Task-Oriented-Dialogue Systems
- Daniel Phillipov, Vardhan Dongre, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-TürSimulating User Agents for Embodied Conversational AI
- Muhammad Farid Adilazuarda*, Sagnik Mukherjee*, Pradhyumna Lavania, Siddhant Singh, Alham Fikri Aji, Jacki O’Neill, Ashutosh Modi, Monojit ChoudhuryTowards Measuring and Modeling “Culture” in LLMs: A Survey
- Sumuk Shashidhar, Abhinav Chinta, Vaibhav Sahai, Dilek Hakkani-TürUnsupervised Human Preference Learning
Where alumni went2 listed
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