Talks & Posters


  • November 2011
    "Introduction to Statistical Relational Learning" (also: handout version),
    Presentation for INF9830 course, Oslo, Norway.

  • November 2011
    "Selected topics in Spoken Dialogue Processing" (also: handout version),
    Internal LT seminar @ IFI, Oslo, Norway.

  • June 2011
    "Multi-policy Dialogue Management"
    Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (selected as Best poster Award) and 12th SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, Portland, Oregon.

  • May 2011
    "Selected topics from cognitive science
    (and their relevance to language technology)
    " (also: handout version),
    Internal LT seminar @ IFI, Oslo, Norway.

  • March 2011
    "Dialogue management using a mixture of designed and learned policies"
    Poster session of the Interdisciplinary College (IK 2011),
    Gänne, Germany.

  • January 2011
    "Dialogue management for rich, open-ended domains" (also: handout version),
    Internal LT seminar @ IFI, Oslo, Norway.

  • July 2010
    "Towards relational POMDPs for adaptive dialogue management " (see also my short talk),
    Student Research Workshop of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Uppsala, Sweden.

  • January 2010
    "Dora the explorer: A mobile robot motivated by curiosity" (with Alper Aydemir, Michael Brenner, Moritz Göbelbecker, Marc Hanheide, Nick Hawes, Patric Jensfelt, Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, Kristoffer Sjoö, Jeremy Wyatt, Hendrik Zender, and Michael Zillich),
    4th International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2010), Poster Session, Zürich, Switzerland.

  • September 2009
    "Robust Processing of Spoken Situated Dialogue"
    (see also the accompanying poster)
    1st International Summer School of the Evolutionary Linguistics Association,
    Cortona, Italy.

  • July 2009
    "Efficient CCG parsing of Spoken Dialogue For Human-Robot Interaction"
    International Workshop on Parsing with Categorial Grammars.
    European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Bordeaux, France .

  • June 2009
    "A new design for the CogX binder"
    Integration camp for the DORA scenario.
    University of Stockholm, Sweden .

  • June 2009
    "Incremental Processing of Spoken Dialogue For Human-Robot Interaction"
    Workshop on Incrementality in Verbal Interaction.
    Universität Bielefeld, Germany .

  • March 2009
    "Robust Processing of Situated Spoken Dialogue"
    Semantic Representation of Spoken Language Workshop (SRSL'09).
    University of Athens, Greece .
    (NB: also presented in Saarbrücken for the "Forum Entwicklung
    und Anwendung von Sprach-Technologien
    " seminar)

  • March 2009
    "Vers la conception de robots conversationnels"
    Weekly research seminar of CENTAL.
    Centre de Traitement Automatique du Langage (CENTAL),
    Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

  • November 2008
    "Robust Processing of Situated Spoken Dialogue"
    Presentation of M.Sc. thesis.
    Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany.

  • August 2008
    "A salience-driven approach to speech
    recognition for human-robot interaction"

    (see also my short talk)
    13th ESSLLI Student Session. ( Best Paper Award, 2nd place )
    Universität Hamburg, Germany.

  • June 2008
    "Robust spoken dialogue comprehension
    for human robot interaction"

    18. Tagung der Computerlinguistik-Studierenden.
    Universität Potsdam, Germany.

  • June 2008
    "Robust spoken dialogue comprehension
    for human robot interaction"

    NaTAL workshop.
    Centre de recherche LORIA, Nancy, France.

  • May 2008
    "Robust spoken dialogue comprehension
    for human robot interaction"

    43. Studentische Tagung der Sprachwissenschaft.
    Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

  • March 2008
    "A salience-driven approach to speech recognition for human-robot interaction"
    Poster session of the Interdisciplinary College (IK 2008),
    Gänne, Germany.

  • January 2008
    "Segmented Discourse Representation Theory:
    Dynamic Semantics with Discourse Structure"

    Seminar on Computational Models of Discourse, WS 2007-2008.
    Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany.

  • October 2007
    "How to make talking robots"
    Student session of the M.Sc. preparatory course 2007.
    Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany.

  • May 2007
    "Action Sentence Compatibility Effect:
    Two experiments on motor resonance in language comprehension"

    Seminar on Language and Embodiment, SS 2007.
    Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany.

  • April 2007
    "Implémentation d'une Interface Sémantique-Syntaxe
    basée sur des Grammaires d'Unification Polarisées"

    Colloquium of the Doctoral School in Language Sciences .
    Université Paris 7, Paris, France.

  • February 2007
    "Bubble Trees: a Dependency Grammar Approach to Coordination "
    Seminar on Coordination, WS 2006-2007.
    Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany.

  • September 2006
    "Implémentation d'une Interface Sémantique-Syntaxe
    basée sur des Grammaires d'Unification Polarisées"

    Presentation of M.Sc. thesis.
    Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

  • February 2004
    "Paix et dialogue à l'Université"
    Official speech on the occasion of the conferment of Honoris Causa degrees.
    Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

  • University of Oslo           Department of Computer Science