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I am Adjunct Professor of Language
Technology at the University of Helsinki where my recent teaching and research
has dealt with
Spoken Dialogue Management, Non-verbal communication,
and
Multimodality.
I am Principal Investigator and Project Director of the research group
3I
(Intelligent Interactive Information Systems).
I am also Visiting Professor of Intelligent User Interfaces in the
Department of Computer Science
at the
University of Tartu,
and give regular lectures there on dialogue systems, interaction
management, corpus annotation and non-verbal communication analysis.
I am Adjunct Professor of Interaction Technology at the
University of Tampere
where I give lectures on multimodal interaction and cooperate with
TAUCHI
(Tampere Unit for Computer Human Interaction)
on projects focussing on interactive systems.
I am a member of the Management Committee for the EU COST Action 2102
Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Non-verbal Communication,
and a partner in the Nordic collaboration project called
NOMCO
(Multimodal Corpus Analysis in the Nordic Countries).
I collaborate with many colleagues in Japan, especially with
ATR/NICT (Kyoto),
Doshisha Universtity (Kyoto),
Nara Institute of Science and Technology,
and
Tokyo University.
I am (elected) Secretary of
SIGDial (2004-),
and also co-chaired the
3rd SIGDial workshop in 2002 in Philadelphia, together with Susan McRoy.
I was the programme chair for the 17th Nordic Conference on
Computational Linguistics
NODALIDA-2009,
held in Odense, Denmark.
Together with Mike McTear and Jim Larson I co-chaired the Satellite Event
Dialogues
on Dialogues - Multidisciplinary Evaluation of Advanced Speech-based
Interactive Systems at the Interspeech 2006 conference. The
workshop discussions will continue on a special wiki-page
dialoguetalk - please
join in and contribute to the discussions!
At the University of Art and Design, I led the research group IDIS, Intelligent Dialogue
Systems Group, focussing on innovative and adaptive human-computer
interfaces. My past research projects are
Interact, and the
EU IST-project
DUMAS
(Dynamic Universal Mobility for Adaptive Speech Interfaces),
which I coordinated together with Björn Gambäck.
I chaired
the DUMAS
final workshop at COLING 2004. I have also initiated and co-chaired the
series of workshops on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical
Dialogue Systems, held at
IJCAI-1999,
IJCAI-2001, and
IJCAI-2003.
Within the Nordic countries I have collaborated with
colleagues from CST (Copenhagen), KTH (Stockholm) and University of
Göteborg on the NorFA supported
MUMIN
(Multimodal Interfaces) network, and on a new project
NOMCO
(Multimodal Corpus Analysis in the Nordic Countries).
As for my background, I did my first degree in
physics and mathematics at the University of Helsinki. I received my
PhD in computational linguistics at UMIST (University of Manchester
Institute of Science and Technology) while working in the ESPRIT
project PLUS (Pragmatic Language Understanding System). In my thesis,
Response Planning in
Information-Seeking Dialogues, I developed the Constructive
Dialogue Model (CDM) which integrates the
central concepts of cooperation and rational interaction into a
working dialogue system.
I was awarded a
Japanese Government JSPS Fellowship and worked in Prof. Matsumoto's
Lab at the Nara Institute of Science and
Technology, Japan (1994-96), and I was Invited Researcher at ATR
Interpreting Telecommunications Laboratory in Kyoto (1997-98), doing
research and development on speech processing and dialogue systems.
I moved back to Europe to set up
the research lab CELE (Centre for Evolutionary Language
Engineering), at SAIL Trust NPO in
Flanders Language Valley, Belgium,
related to the speech technology
company Lernout and Hauspie (1999-2000).
For family reasons I came back to Finland in the beginning of 2001.
In the past years I have continued collaboration with my colleagues in
Japan on non-verbal communication, interaction modelling, data collection,
and eye-tracking experiments. I visited ATR/NICT in Kyoto thanks to the
Academy of Finland support, and was the NICT Visiting Scholar for a
whole year at the Doshisha University, Kyoto.
Here is a more comprehensive biography.
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