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Hi!

Welcome to my personal research website. Since January 2011, I'm working as a PhD research fellow at the Department of Informatics of the University of Oslo, where I'm pursuing a PhD in Computational Linguistics under the joint supervision of Stephan Oepen, Erik Velldal and Geert-Jan M. Kruijff. Before coming to Oslo, I worked for 2 years as a researcher at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Saarbrücken, where I was involved in several EU-funded research projects.

My general research interest lies in the development of rich statistical models of dialogue. My PhD concentrates on structured probabilistic modelling for dialogue management in complex, open-ended interactions. The goal is to provide a new hybrid approach to dialogue management which combines fine-grained linguistic knowledge (pragmatic rules, dialogue structure) with statistical models and planning under uncertainty into a single, unified framework. The application domain is human-robot interaction, and I conduct my experiments using a Nao robot as experimental platform.

If you're interested in my research and would like to know more, feel free to drop me an email!

News:

[21/05/2013]	My paper on model-based Bayesian reinforcement learning for dialogue management has been accepted for the upcoming Interspeech conference (see the "Publications" section). I have also updated the media section with new material.
[16/11/2012]	Some research updates: I've presented a short paper in Lund last month about dialogue management in relational domains (cf. the "Publications" section). I've also held a few presentations on my research and related topics (cf. the "talks & posters" section for details). In particular, the video of my SIGDIAL talk is now available.
[19/09/2012]	Please come to the Forsker Grand Prix show at the Sentrum Scene on Tuesday 25/09/2012... and vote for me, of course ;-)

[22/06/2012]	Yet another paper in the bag: my paper entitled "Declarative Design of Spoken Dialogue Systems with Probabilistic Rules" (see publications page) has been accepted for Semdial 2012 (SeineDial).
[8/05/2012]	My paper on "Probabilistic Dialogue Models with Prior Domain Knowledge" (see publications page) has been accepted as a full talk to SIGDIAL 2012, which is going to take place on July 5-6 in Seoul, South Korea.
[3/05/2012]	If you are a young researcher working in the field of spoken dialogue systems, please consider participating to the Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems, which is organised just before SIGDial.
[25/04/2012]	The proceedings of the EACL Student Research Workshop 2012 (which I have had the pleasure of co-chairing along with Mattias Nilsson and Marta Recasens) are now fully available online in the ACL anthology.
[12/04/2012]	I was invited last week to give a lecture for a general (usually young) audience at the Norwegian computer party The Gathering, on the topic of "social robotics". The video of the talk is available here.
[20/02/2012]	We just received our Nao robot, a small humanoid robot (manufactured by Aldebaran Robotics) which will be used as research platform for my work on spoken dialogue systems and human-robot interaction. See a few pictures of the robot: [1, 2, 3, 4].
[16/01/2012]	I will serve as teaching assistant for the INF3800 Søketeknologi course this spring semester.
[30/11/2011]	The slides for my talk on "Statistical Relational Learning" for the INF9830 course are available online (see Talks & Posters section).
[20/11/2011]	Don't forget to submit your paper to the EACL Student Research Workshop! The (extended) submission deadline is November 25th.
[18/11/2011]	The slides for my seminar talk on "Selected Topics in Spoken Dialogue Processing" are available online (see Talks & Posters section).
[27/10/2011]	I'll take over the organization of the group seminar for the next spring semester.
[25/06/2011]	Back from Portland (Oregon) where I presented my paper on "Multi-policy Dialogue Management (see publications page).

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PhD Research Fellow
Language Technology Group
Department of Informatics (IFI)
University of Oslo

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Tel: +47.967.998.12

Pierre Lison

PhD Research Fellow in Computational Linguistics University of Oslo.

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PhD Research Fellow in Computational Linguistics
University of Oslo.