Short bio
I was born in Belgium in 1982, and lived there until 2006. I studied engineering at the University of Louvain, and graduated from there with a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science & Engineering ("ingénieur civil en informatique") in 2006. In parallel to my engineering studies, I also attended several courses in linguistics and earned a minor in this field, also in 2006.
Becoming more and more interested by the intersection between computer science, linguistics and cognitive science, I decided to move to Saarbrücken (Germany) to specialise myself in Computational Linguistics and enrolled in the M.Sc. program in Language Science & Technology organised there. During that time, I also worked as a research assistant at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), working together with Geert-Jan M. Kruijff on the development of spoken dialogue systems for human-robot interaction. I graduated in 2008 and continued to work at the DFKI as a researcher for two more years, where I was involved in two large EU-funded projects: CogX and ALIZ-E.
In January 2011, I relocated to Oslo to work as a PhD Research Fellow in Stephan Oepen's language technology group. The goal of my PhD work is to develop a new, hybrid approach to dialogue management, which combines statistical models & machine learning techniques with more linguistic/pragmatic insights pertaining to dialogue structure and interpretation.
Contact details
Email:
Office: Ole-Johan Dahls hus (IFI2), 7th floor
Mail address:
Institutt for informatikk
Postboks 1080 Blindern
0316 Oslo
Phone: +47.967.998.12
Skype : plison2
For more details on my academic background, please also have a look at my Curriculum Vitae:
(last update: November 2011).
