Deborah A. Dahl
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Technical Interests
Spoken dialog systems, speech recognition, multimodal systems, standards, natural language processing, web technologies, assistive technologies
Education
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Post-doctoral study in Cognitive Science, 1983-1984
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Ph.D., Linguistics, 1984
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, M.A., Linguistics, 1980
University of Illinois, Urbana, B.S., Psychology, magna cum laude, 1975
Experience
- An independent consultant since 2002, assists clients in understanding the state of the art in speech, natural language, and multimodal technologies and in applying these technologies to innovative products.
- In 1993, initiated Unisys efforts to commercialize spoken language understanding technology. Led teams for developing natural language technology, tools for natural language processing, speech grammars, dialog systems, and text classification.
- Co-Principal Investigator on a DARPA-funded project which integrated Unisys natural language understanding technology with speech recognition (1989-1992).
- One of the key designers and implementers of Unisys natural language understanding technology, as part of a project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense. (1984-1989)
Awards
Alfred E. Sloan Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1983-84
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Linguistics, University of Minnesota, 1976-1979
Service
- Chair, World Wide Web Consortium Multimodal Interaction Working Group, 2002-.
- Co-Chair (with Kazuyuki Ashimura) “Workshop on W3C's Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces”, W3C/Keio University, Fujisawa, Japan, November 16-17, 2007.
- Member, DARPA Spoken Language Coordinating Committee(1990-1995)
Selected Publications and Presentations
Deborah A. Dahl. “Standards for Multimodal Interaction”. In Handbook of Research on Multimodal Human Computer Interaction and Pervasive Services: Evolutionary Techniques for Improving Accessibility. Patrizia Grifoni, ed. IGI Global, in press.
Deborah A. Dahl, Marcia C. Linebarger, and Rita S. Berndt. “Improving automatic speech recognition of aphasic speech through the use of a processing prosthesis”. Technology and Disability, in press.
Deborah A. Dahl, “Standards”. Bimonthly column for Speech Technology Magazine, 2008-
Deborah A. Dahl, “Tutorial on Natural Language Understanding”. SpeechTEK Conference, New York, August 18-21, 2008.
Deborah A. Dahl, "Using speech recognition in speech therapy: A multimodal application for users with aphasia". Presented at SpeechTEK Conference, New York, August 20-23, 2007.
Deborah A. Dahl, editor, Practical Spoken Dialog Systems. Springer-Verlag, 2005.
Deborah A. Dahl. Speech Technology and Aphasia Rehabilitation (with Marcia Linebarger, Psycholinguistic Technologies), Advanced Speech Symposium, SpeechTEK Fall Conference, September 13-17, 2004, New York City.
Deborah A. Dahl. “VoiceXML: Speech and Telephony Meet the Internet”. Annual Review of Communications, 2002.
Deborah A. Dahl, Lewis M. Norton, and K.W. Scholz. Commercialization of natural language processing technology. Communications of the ACM. ( electronic edition) November 2000.
Lewis M. Norton, Deborah A. Dahl, Li Li, and Katharine P. Beals. Integration of Large-Scale Linguistic Resources in a Natural Language Understanding System. Proceedings of COLING/ACL-98, Montreal, Quebec, 1998.
Suzanne Taylor, Deborah A. Dahl, Mark Lipshutz, Carl Weir, Lewis Norton, Roslyn Nilson, and Marcia Linebarger. Integrating natural language understanding with document structure analysis. Artificial Intelligence Review, 1995.
Deborah A. Dahl. Invited tutorial, Natural Language Processing Systems, University of Zurich, Switzerland. September, 1991.
Deborah A. Dahl and Catherine N. Ball. Reference resolution in Pundit. In P. Saint-Dizier and S. Szpakowicz, editors, Logic and logic grammars for language processing. Ellis Horwood Limited, 1990.
Marcia C. Linebarger, Deborah A. Dahl, Lynette Hirschman, and Rebecca J. Passonneau. Sentence fragments regular structures. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Buffalo, NY, June 1988
Deborah A. Dahl. Determiners, entities, and contexts. in Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing, Yorik Wilks, ed. January 1987.
Deborah A. Dahl, Martha S. Palmer, and Rebecca J. Passonneau. Nominalizations in PUNDIT. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, July 1987.
Martha S. Palmer, Deborah A. Dahl, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Lynette Hirschman, Marcia Linebarger, and John Dowding. Recovering implicit information. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Columbia University, New York, August 1986.
United States Patents
Lewis M. Norton, Deborah A. Dahl, and Marcia C. Linebarger "Task Oriented Dialog Manager and Model" U.S. Patent number 6,510,411, awarded January 21, 2003.
Daythal Kendall, Dennis Wadsworth, Ahmed Bouzid, Hua Hua, and Deborah Dahl “System and Method for Creating a Language Grammar using a Spreadsheet or table interface” U.S. Patent number 5,995,918, awarded November 30, 1999
Marcia C. Linebarger, Lewis M. Norton, and Deborah A. Dahl. “Robust Language Processor for Segmenting and Parsing Language Containing Multiple Instructions” U.S. Patent number 5,652,897, awarded July 29, 1997
Standards Contributions
VoiceXML 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml20/
Speech Recognition Grammar Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-grammar/
Extensible Multimodal Annotation: http://www.w3.org/TR/emma/
Multimodal Interaction Architecture and Interfaces: http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-arch/
Professional memberships
Applied Voice Input/Output Society
Association for Computational Linguistics
Association of Computing Machinery
Linguistic Society of America
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