Constructive Dialogue Modelling: Speech Interaction and Rational Agents

Kristiina Jokinen is a Docent of Interaction Technology at the University of Tampere, and Docent of Language Technology at the University of Helsinki. Her areas of expertise include AI-based spoken dialogue management, intelligent interactive systems, speech-based adaptive interfaces, human-computer communication, rational agents, and cooperative communication.
She has over 12 years' experience in initiating and leading academic and industrial research projects. She has worked in Japan (ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Laboratory in Kyoto), and in Europe (University of Manchester, Lernout and Hauspie Speech Products, and University of Helsinki). In the recent EU research project DUMAS she was the scientific coordinator on a project focused on the adaptation and user modelling in a mobile email application and machine learning methods.
During the academic year 2004-05 she was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge, working at the Computer Laboratory. She is the elected Secretary for 2004-2006 of SIGDial, the Special Interest Group for Discourse and Dialogue of ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) and ISCA (International Speech Communication Association).