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MERL Cambridge Research. Collaborative interface agents, task modeling, COLLAGEN, intelligent tutoring.

USC Instititue for Creative Technology. Discourse structure. Grounding in discourse. Dialog and virtual reality agents.

University of Edinburgh. Computational modeling of tutorial dialogue, multimedia explanation, integrated techniques for interpretation and generation, patient education.

University of Illinois at Chicago. Interpretation and generation of instructional text, computational models of tutorial dialogue, modeling collaboration in human-human and computer-human dialogues, referential expressions.

MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. Phonological modelling, auditory modelling, computer speech recognition, statistical language modelling, natural language understanding and generation, discourse and dialogue modelling, and prosodic analysis.

University of Pittsburgh. Spoken dialogue for intelligent tutoring systems, reinforcement learning for optimizing spoken dialogue agents, prosodic analysis of misrecognitions and corrections, plan recognition.

University of Texas at El Paso. Department of Computer Science Chair. Spoken dialog models, mediated communication, user interface development methodologies.

University of Texas at El Paso. Acknowledgments in human-computer interaction, multimodal interfaces, speech acts.

University of California at Berkeley. Data mining, information retrieval, user interfaces, web search.

Microsoft Research. Decision theory, reasoning systems, user modeling, reasoning under uncertainty.

Carnegie Mellon University. Speech recognition, CMU Communicator, dialog systems, speech agents.

Rutgers. Planning under uncertainty, markov decision processes, reinforcement learning, latent semantic indexing, text retrieval.

University of Pennsylvania. Logic programming, computational lexical semantics, crosslinguistic verb classes, machine translation, multilingual information processing.

University of Sheffield. Computational pragmatics, belief modeling, lexicons, information extraction.

MIT Media Lab. Gesture and narrative language, animated agents, intonation, facial expression, computer vision.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D. student. Genetic algorithms, competent GAs and efficiency-enhancement techniques with application in material sciences.