traum

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Participant details

	Network Member	David Traum
	Organisation/Institution	University of Southern California
	Department/Centre	Institute for Creative Technologies & Computer Science Department
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	Research area	Natural Language Processing
	Research keywords	Dialogue, virtual humans, pragmatic meaning in dialogue, dialogue systems, multimodal dialogue behavior, culture-specific aspects of dialogue, group dialogue, different genres of interaction

Research Interests

David Traum, PhD, is a research scientist at the Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), and a research assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, both at the University of Southern California. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Rochester in 1994. His research focuses on collaboration and dialogue communication between human and artificial agents. He has engaged in theoretical, implementational, and empirical approaches to the problem, studying human-human natural language and multi-modal dialogue, as well as building a number of dialogue systems to communicate with human users. Dr Traum leads the natural language dialogue group at ICT, which collaborates with other groups on research and development of virtual humans. Dr. Traum is author of over 150 technical articles, has served on many conference program committees, and is currently the president emeritus of SIGDIAL, the international special interest group in discourse and dialogue.

Representative Publications

Publications page: http://people.ict.usc.edu/~traum/Papers/papers.html

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