Organized or co-chaired several conferences and workshops, including ESSLLI 2024 Workshop on Conversational Grounding in the Age of Large Language Models, IWSDS 2023 Conference Chair, ACL 2019 program committee cochair; served as past President and other offices for SIGDIAL (ACL and ISCA Special Interest group); Associate Editor for the Journal 'Dialogue And Discourse'; Advisory board member for Semdial Workshop Series; Senior Steering Committee member for IWSDS.
Research Experience
Played key roles in multiple projects such as ISO TC 37/SC 4 (Language Resources) WG 2: Annotation and representation schemes, Logic and Dialogue Systems at the University of Michigan, NL Generation for Machine Translation in UMIACS, CLIP Language Group, Discourse Resource Initiative, European Project on Task Oriented Instructional Dialogue (through Göteborg University Dept. of Linguistics and HCRC, University of Edinburgh), BOOTNAP: Social Grounding in Computer Supported Collaborative Problem Solving (U. Geneva), TecfaMOO (U. Geneva).
Education
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Background
Research interests include natural language dialogue systems, representation and understanding of discourse and dialogue. Specializes in computer science and artificial intelligence.
Miscellany
Teaches CSCI 644 Natural Language Dialogue Systems.