NEWS!
My PhD thesis got awarded with the Dr-Eduard-Martin Preis for outstanding doctoral dissertations from Saarland University in 2008.
Course material for the EACL09 tutorial can be downloaded here
Contact
Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems
Informatics Forum,
10 Crichton Street,
Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK
building: IF, office:4.38
phone: +44 (0) 131 650 8286
email: vrieser at inf.ed.ac.uk
Research Summary
I am a PostDoc the CLASSiC project
at the School of Informatics
,
Edinburgh University where I am working under the supervison of Oliver Lemon.
I am also collaborating with the Interaction Lab at Heriot Watt University.
My general interest lies in the area of Spoken Dialogue Systems and statistical Machine Learning techniques, such as Reinforcement Learning. We apply those techniques to different aspects of Spoken Dialogue Systems, such as dialogue policy learning ("What to say") and Natural Language Generation ("How to say it").
A research statement can be found here.
I received a PhD from Saarland University in June 2008, where I was a member of the
International Research Training Group for Language Technology and Cognitive Systems. My work was closely affiliated with the TALK project.
Before I took a MSc in Language Engineering at University of Edinburgh. I also have a MA in Information Science from Regensburg University.
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