Talks & Posters
"Introduction to Statistical Relational Learning" (also: handout version),
Presentation for INF9830 course, Oslo, Norway.
"Selected topics in Spoken Dialogue Processing" (also: handout version),
Internal LT seminar @ IFI, Oslo, Norway.
"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.
"Selected topics from cognitive science
(and their relevance to language technology)" (also: handout version),
Internal LT seminar @ IFI, Oslo, Norway.
"Dialogue management using a mixture of designed and learned policies"
Poster session of the Interdisciplinary College (IK 2011),
Gänne, Germany.
"Dialogue management for rich, open-ended domains" (also: handout version),
Internal LT seminar @ IFI, Oslo, Norway.
"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.
"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.
"Robust Processing of Spoken Situated Dialogue"
(see also the accompanying poster)
1st International Summer School of the Evolutionary Linguistics Association,
Cortona, Italy.
"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 .
"A new design for the CogX binder"
Integration camp for the DORA scenario.
University of Stockholm, Sweden .
"Incremental Processing of Spoken Dialogue For Human-Robot Interaction"
Workshop on Incrementality in Verbal Interaction.
Universität Bielefeld, Germany .
"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)
"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.
"Robust Processing of Situated Spoken Dialogue"
Presentation of M.Sc. thesis.
Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany.
"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.
"Robust spoken dialogue comprehension
for human robot interaction"
18. Tagung der Computerlinguistik-Studierenden.
Universität Potsdam, Germany.
"Robust spoken dialogue comprehension
for human robot interaction"
NaTAL workshop.
Centre de recherche LORIA, Nancy, France.
"Robust spoken dialogue comprehension
for human robot interaction"
43. Studentische Tagung der Sprachwissenschaft.
Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
"A salience-driven approach to speech recognition for human-robot interaction"
Poster session of the Interdisciplinary College (IK 2008),
Gänne, Germany.
"Segmented Discourse Representation Theory:
Dynamic Semantics with Discourse Structure"
Seminar on Computational Models of Discourse, WS 2007-2008.
Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany.
"How to make talking robots"
Student session of the M.Sc. preparatory course 2007.
Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany.
"Action Sentence Compatibility Effect:
Two experiments on motor resonance in language comprehension"
Seminar on Language and Embodiment, SS 2007.
Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany.
"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.
"Bubble Trees: a Dependency Grammar Approach to Coordination "
Seminar on Coordination, WS 2006-2007.
Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany.
"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.
"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.
