
2010-2013Ĭo-Principal Investigator, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA), Persuasion in Online Forums and Debates (with PI Pranav Anand, Assistant Professor, UCSC Linguistics Dept.) 2010-2011 National Science Foundation, Pilot: Expressing Dramatic Character in Dialogue: A Toolkit for Creative Exploration of Linguistic Style Fox Tree, UCSC and Michael Neff, UC Davis). National Science Foundation, HCC: Small: Collaborative Research: Gestural and Linguistic Expressivity and Entrainment in Dialogue (with PI Jean E. $498,000, Co-Principal Investigator, U.S. Supplement to HCC: Gestural and Linguistic Expressivity and Entrainment in Dialogue. $16,000, Co-Principal Investigator, Research Experience for Undergraduates.Supplement to RI: Processing Opinion Sharing Dialog in Social Media. $8,000, Principal Investigator, Research Experience for Undergraduates.$213,000, Principal Investigator, Nuance Foundation: Learning Generation Dictionaries for Dialogue Interaction. Collaborative grant with Craig Martell, Naval Postgraduate School. Principal Investigator, US National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research: RI: Processing Opinion Sharing Dialog in Social Media. Semi-Finalist team selected from over 100 teams who applied to compete. Gift from Amazon associated with the Amazon Alexa Prize Competition. Co-Principal Investigator with Leila Takayama, UCSC Psychology Department. Grounded Interaction and Engagement in Dialogue. Sponsored Research Project, Hitachi Corporation. \$300,000 with Co-PIs Neff and Solari at UC Davis. Principal Investigator, US National Science Foundation,EAGER: Collaborative Research: Interactive Dialog Agents for Social Language Development and Listening Comprehension. Personality Modeling from Language, Dialogue in Interactive Stories RESEARCH INTERESTS: Natural Language Processing,Ĭonversational Agents, Dialogue Systems, Machine Learning Methods forĭialogue, Modeling Narrative Structure, Natural Language Generation,Īrgument Mining, Stance Classification, Sentiment Classification, Computer and Information Science, With Honors, University of Computer Science, Stanford University, 1988.ī.A.

Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, 1993. Computer and Information Science, University of Researcher, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, Ca. Human Computer Interaction Department: 1988-1989 Researcher, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, England,

Laboratory, Tsukuba City, Japan: Summer 1991 Researcher, Dialogue Modeling Department, Electrotechnical
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Principal Research Staff Member, ATT Labs - Research,įlorham Park, N.J., Speech Processing Software and Technology Research, 1996 to 2003Įlectric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, Ma., Interactive Learning and Entertainment, 1993 to 1996Ĭonsultant, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, England, onĭialogue systems, speech technology, and personal information Head of Cognitive Systems Group, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England, 2003 to 2009 Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab, University of Natural Language and Dialogue Systems corpora and downloads University of California Santa Cruz - Marilyn A.
