Aciel Eshky

I am a PhD candidate at the Institute for Language, Cognition, and Computation (ILCC), at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. I work on inducing useful probabilistic models of interlocutors from large amounts of task-oriented dialog data. I am supervised by Mark Steedman, and have worked closely with Ben Allison.

I am a member of the Probabilistic Models of Language group (ProbModels), and presently co-organise the Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing group (Ml-for-NLP).

Aciel Eshky, Ben Allison, and Mark Steedman. 'Generative Goal-Driven User Simulation for Dialog Management'. Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, pages 71–81, Jeju Island, Korea, 12–14 July 2012. [ bib | slides ]

In 2009, I completed an MSc in Artificial Intelligence, also at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, with a focus on NLP and ML. For my masters project, I used Gaussian Processes to model human sentence processing of the Arabic text in Edinburgh 5 Language Project (E5LP) eye-tracking corpus. I was supervised by Amos Storkey.

In 2007, I completed a BSc in Computer and Information Sciences, at the College of Computer and Information Sciences at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

If you are not a stalker nor a spammer, then you can find me at 3.39 Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh UK, EH8 9AB, and can reach me at a.eshky [at] sms.ed.ac.uk