Introduction

Amanda J. Stent is currently a computational linguistics researcher at AT&T Labs - Research in Florham Park, NJ. Previously, she was an associate professor at Stony Brook University. She holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Rochester.

Brief CV

Research Interests

Multimodal and spoken dialog systems, natural language generation, computational theories of discourse.

Education

University of Rochester, NY PhD, computer science 1996-2001
Houghton College, NY BA, mathematics and music 1992-1996

Professional Experience

AT&T Labs - Research, NJ Principal Member Technical Staff 2007-present
Computer Science Dept., Stony Brook University, NY


(secondary appt. in Psychology)
Associate Professor

Assistant Professor
2008-2009

2002-2008
AT&T Labs - Research, NJ Consultant/Post-doctoral Researcher 2001-2002
Eastman Kodak, NY Intern 2000
SRI International Intern 1998
University of Rochester, NY Research Assistant 1996-2001

Selected Publications

  • Stent, A., Dowding, J., Gawron, J.-M., Bratt, E. O. & Moore, R. (1999). The CommandTalk spoken dialogue system. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
  • Allen, J., Ferguson, G. & Stent, A. (2001). An Architecture for More Realistic Conversational Systems. In Proceedings of the Intelligent User Interfaces Conference (IUI).
  • Johnston, M., Bangalore, S., Vasireddy, G., Stent, A., Ehlen, P., Walker, M. et al. (2002). MATCH: An architecture for multimodal dialogue systems. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
  • Stent, A. (2002). A conversation acts model for generating spoken dialogue contributions. Computer Speech and Language special issue on Spoken Language Generation, 16(3-4), 313-352.
  • Walker, M., Stent, A., Mairesse, F. & Prasad, R. (2007). Individual and domain adaptation in sentence planning for dialogue. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 30, 413-456.
  • Stent, A., Huffman, M. & Brennan, S. (2008). Adapting speaking after evidence of misrecognition: Local and global hyperarticulation. Speech Communication, 50(3), 163-178.
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