Scholar
Simon Keizer
Google Scholar ID: jOwqNi8AAAAJ
NLP Research Scientist
Citations & Impact
Citations
870
H-index
16
i10-index
22
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- He has been a program committee member of various conferences including SIGdial, ACL, and Interspeech. His PhD thesis: Reasoning under uncertainty in natural language dialogue using Bayesian networks [pdf].
Research Experience
- Since obtaining his PhD, Simon has been active in the area of spoken dialogue systems and multimodal interaction for nearly 16 years. He has held positions at Tilburg University (NL), University of Cambridge (UK), Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK), and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), and has been involved in several national and international collaborative research projects. Currently, he is a research engineer in the Speech Technology Group, Cambridge Research Lab, Toshiba Europe Ltd.
Education
- BSc/MSc in Applied Mathematics (University of Twente, NL), PhD in Computer Science (University of Twente, NL)
Background
- A research scientist in natural language processing and machine learning, specialized in spoken dialogue systems. Main research interests include dialogue management, user modeling/simulation, and the use of machine learning techniques in this context.
Miscellany
- His current main research interest is developing domain adaptation techniques for dialogue systems.
Co-authors