Activities (updated spring 2009):

• Employment
  • I'm currently a researcher and lecturer at the department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science.
    My current research is oriented towards coordination in dialogue between humans and machines, multimodal and multilingual dialogue systems, pragmatics and meaning-as-use, language technology, discourse analysis, and posthumanism in relation to language technology. I'm also continuing work on TrindiKit and GoDiS as part of DICO and other projects.
  
  
• Current projects and activities
• Semantic Coordination in Dialogue (Riksbankens Jumbileumsfond P2007/0717); Researcher, PI
• DICO (Vinnova project P28536-1); Researcher  
• TAP: Posthumanist perspectives on language technologies (currently not funded); Steering Committee member, organiser
• Dialogue Systems Lab (Convener)
• Member of the editorial board of the Journal Dialogue and Discourse
 
• Upcoming conferences:
  
  • EACL 2009
  • DiaHolmia
  
  
• Current teaching:
  
  • Pragmatics. spring 2009
  
  
• Current software development
  
  • TRINDIKIT
  • GoDiS
  
  
• Travel plans:
  
  none at present
  
  
• Miscellaneous (not updated):
  
  • Research areas and interests
  • Readings
  
  

Previous activities:

• Previous employment
  
  • Researcher and lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Göteborg University (January 1, 2007 -- present )
  • Assistant Professor (Forskarassistent), Department of Linguistics, Göteborg University (January 1, 2003 -- December 31, 2006 )
  • Researcher, Department of Linguistics, Göteborg University (September 1, 2002 -- December 31, 2002 )
  • Doctoral Student (doktorandtjänst), Department of Linguistics, Göteborg University (January, 1999 -- September, 2001)
    • My thesis
    • My courses
  • Research Assistant, Department of Linguistics, Göteborg University (September 1, 1996 -- )
  
  
• Previous projects
  
  • Embodied Communicative Feedback (The Swedish Research Council / Vetenskapsrådet project 2006-1635); Researcher
  • TALK - Talk and Look, Tools for Ambient Linguistic Knowledge (EC project IST-507802; Reseacher
  • SIRIDUS (EC project IST-1999-10516) (September 1, 2000 -- June 2002): research assistant; (July 2002-December 2002): researcher
  • D'Homme (Dialogues in the Home Environment) (EC project IST-2000-26280) (occasionally during 2001): research assistant
  • ILT (Interactive Language Technology) (Vinnova Language Technology Programme Project nr P20018-2A, January 1, 2001 -- December 31, 2002)
  • Records, types and computational dialogue semantics (Vetenskapsrådet project 2002-4879)
  • TRINDI (EC project LE4-8314) (January 1, 1998 -- August 31, 2000 ): research assistant
  • S-DIME (Nutek/HSFR project F1472/1997) (August 1, 1997 -- December 31, 1998): research assistant
  • INDI (Information exchange in dialogue) (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond 1997-0134) (July 1, 1997 -- July 31, 1997): research assistant
  • Spoken Language and Social Activity, (The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation project(June 1, 1996 -- June 30, 1997): research assistant
  
  
• Previous invited talks
  
  • Coordination in GoDiS. Dialogue Matters Workshop 4: Incrementality and Clarification in Dialogue, King's College, London, 14-15 February 2007
  • Formalizing the Dynamics of Semantic Systems in Dialogue. Dialogue Matters Workshop 3: Language Change and Evolution, King's College, London, 15-16 December 2006
  • Commentary on Thomason, Stone and DeVault: "Enlightened Update - A Computational Architecture for Presupposition and Other Pragmatic Phenomena". Invited talk given at Workshop on Presupposition Accommodation, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio USA, October 13th - October 15th, 2006
  • Semantic plasticity through feedback and accommmodation in dialogue. Invited talk given at Miscommunication Workshop, Department of Computer Science, QMUL, 26th and 27th of January 2006
  • Feedback, Accommodation, and Semantic Plasticity. Invited talk, Status-colloquium on Theories of Dialogue, Universität Bielefeld, 17. - 19. November 2005
  • Modeling background and meaning-as-use. Dialogue Matters Workshop 1, Edinburgh, August 2005
  
  
• Previous Conferences and Workshops ("*" means I presented or contributed to a paper or poster):
  
  • Interspeech 2008*
  • Londial*
  • NordCHI*
  • GoTAL*
  • SLTC 2008*
  • Decalog*
  • IPRA 2007*
  • SALC*
  • M3*
  • IWCS-7*: 7th International Workshop on Computational Semantics, 10-12 January 2007, Tilburg, Holland
  • LCM II: Language, Culture and Mind*, Paris, July 2006
  • BranDial 2006*: The 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, University of Potsdam, Germany; September 11th-13th 2006
  • E-CAP 2005*: Computers and Philosophy
  • DIALOR*: NINTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE (SEMDIAL); LORIA, Nancy, France, June 9-11 2005
  • 9th International Pragmatics Conference*, 2005
  • ALLC/ACH 2004* - Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Göteborg University, June 11 - 16, 2004.
  • Catalog: 8th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, Sept 4th-6th 2004, Barcelona.
  • AAAI Spring Symposium on Natural Language Generation in Spoken and Written Dialogue*, March 24-26, 2003, Palo Alto, CA
  • DiaBruck*: 7th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue*, Sept 4th-6th 2003, Saarbruecken
  • ACL 2002*, Philadelphia, 2002
  • Third SigDial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue*, Philadelphia, 2002
  • EDILOG Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue*, Edinburgh, 2002
  • OFTI 20, 2002*, Göteborg, 2002
  • SIRIDUS Project Presentation at European Research 2002*, Brussels, 12 November 2002
  • NoDaLiDa '01*, Uppsala, 2001
  • IJCAI '01 Workshop on knowledge and reasoning in practical dialogue systems*, Seattle, 2001
  • Bi-Dialog 2001*, Bielefeld 2001
  • ESSLLII'01*, Helsinki, 2001
  • ANLP-NAACL 2000 Workshop on Conversational Systems*, Seattle, May 4, 2000
  • LREC 2000* Workshop, Athens, May 29, 2000
  • Götalog 2000*, Göteborg, June 15-17, 2000
  • Third Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation*, Bellagio, Italy, 3-4 July, 2000
  • Vetenskapsfestivalen 2000*, Göteborg
  • 1st SigDial Workshop*, ACL 2000, Hong Kong.
  • IWCS3*, Tilburg, 1999
  • Amstelogue '99*, Amsterdam, 1999
  • ACL '99*, Washington D.C., USA, 1999
  • IJCAI-99 Workshop on knowledge and reasoning in practical dialogue systems*, Stockholm, Sweden, 1999
  • Vetenskapsfestivalen 1999*, Göteborg
  • TwenDial '98*, Twente, Holland, 1998
  • Workshop on Communication and Attitudes, Amsterdam, 1998
  • ESSLLI-98 workshop on Pragmatics and Logic*, Saarbrucken, 1998
  
  
• Previous Program Committee participation and reviewing assignments:
  
  • IPrA 2007 panel on Dialogue and Computational Pragmatics; panel organiser (with Robin Cooper)
  • ACL 07, Discourse and Dialogue track; program committee member
  • DECALOG 2007; program committee member
  • Special issue of the Journal of Logic, Language and Information (JoLLI), on "Coherence in dialogue and generation"; reviewer
  • NAACL HLT 2007; reviewer (Discourse and Dialogue)
  • AAAI 2006 workshop on "Statistical and Empirical Approaches for Spoken Dialogue Systems; Technical Committee member
  • SigDial '06; CP member
  • E-CAP 2005: Computers and Philosophy; hosting the Track on Computational Linguistics
  • The 4th Workshop on KNOWLEDGE AND REASONING IN PRACTICAL DIALOGUE SYSTEMS, IJCAI-05, Edinburgh, 2005; CP member
  • Special issue of journal of Research on Language and Computation, 2005; CP member
  • CATALOG 2004: 7th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, Barcelona, 2004
  • ACL04, Special Track on Discourse and Dialogue, 2004
  • ICSLP 2004 Special session: Emerging Research: Human Factors in Speech and Communication Systems, 2004
  • The Third SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, ACL-02, Philadelphia, 2002
  • EDILOG 2002: 6th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, Edinburgh, 2002
  • The 2nd Workshop on KNOWLEDGE AND REASONING IN PRACTICAL DIALOGUE SYSTEMS, IJCAI-01, Seattle, 2001
  
  
• Previous MA thesis supervision (exjobbshandledning)
  
  • Mikael Sandin (2006): Exploring search-oriented dialogue with GoDiS [pdf]
  • Christina Nienhardt (2005): Dialogsystem i andraspråksinlärning - GoDiS-applikationer i protoyper för webbaserad CALL [pdf]
  • Anna Olsson, Jessica Villing (2005): Dico -- a dialogue system for a cell phone (joint supervision with Nina Åberg) [pdf]
  • Thomas Larsson (2004): Dialogteori i VoiceXML - En jämförelse av verktyg och dialogfenomen (in Swedish) [pdf]
  • Andreas Wallentin (2004): DiaView -- A Dialogue System for Video Conferencing. [pdf]
  • Helene Porsander (2004): Taligenkänning för andraspråkstalare -- går det att förbättra? (in Swedish) [pdf]
  • Ida Lindouf, Lisa Eriksson (2003): BioGoDiS -- Prototyp av en ett planbaserat dialogsystem för bokning av biobiljetter, baserat på Gothenburg Dialogue System (GoDiS). (In Swedish) [pdf, abs]
  • Daniel Grönlund (2003): Bilar. (In Swedish) [pdf, ps] (joint supervision with Robin Cooper)
  • Arkan Shefran (2001): Kör&Sök - Röststyrning i bil för informationssökning på internet. (In Swedish) [pdf] (joint supervision with Robin Cooper, Leif Grönqvist and Nina Karlsson)
  • Rebecca Jonson (2000): Agenda Talk - a talking filofax developed with the TrindiKit toolkit. (joint supervision with Robin Cooper)
  • Nada Abdul-Hak (2000): Implementering av ett taldialogsystem - NTA. (In Swedish) [pdf] (joint supervision with Robin Cooper)
  • Stefan Eekenulv, Henrik Larsson (2000): Multimodal Virtual Palm. (joint supervision with Robin Cooper and Peter Ljunglöf)
  
  
• Previous teaching:
  
  • Discourse Analysis (2007) (PhD course)
  • Communication and Communication Technology (2007)
  • Pragmatics: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 (spring)
  • Classics of linguistics (graduate course): 2005
  • Methods of Computational Linguistics (graduate course) 2005
  • Dialogue Systems: 2001, 2004 (undergraduate), 2003 (graduate),
  • C and D level term paper seminars: 2003, 2004
  • Logic Programming: 2002
  • Formal Semantics: 2003
  • Nordtalk research course on the use of spoken language corpora, autumn 2002
  • The Information State Approach to Dialogue Management: Theory and Implementation, ESSLLI'01, Helsinki, summer 2001
  • Logic and semantics: 1997
  
  
• Previous software development:
  • TRACTOR, a Transcription Coding Tool.