Resume of Deborah A. Dahl

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EDUCATION:

University of Illinois, Urbana, B.S., Psychology, 1975
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, M.A., Linguistics, 1980
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Ph.D., Linguistics, 1984

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:

NSF Graduate Fellow, Linguistics, University of Minnesota (1976-1979)
Sloan postdoctoral fellowship, Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania (1983-1984)

POSITIONS HELD:

Principal, Conversational Technologies, 2002-
Senior Solutions Specialist, Unisys Corporation, 2001-2002
Manager, Advanced Technology, Unisys Corporation, 1998-2001
Director, Core Product Engineering, Unisys Corporation, 1995-1998
Manager, Symbolic Processing and Analysis, Unisys Corporation, 1993-1995
Senior Staff Research Scientist, 1987-1993
Staff Research Scientist, Unisys Corporation, 1984-1987

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

Applied Voice Input/Output Society
Association for Computational Linguistics
Association of Computing Machinery
Linguistic Society of America

SERVICE

Chair, World Wide Web Consortium Multimodal Interaction Working Group, 2002-.

Member, World Wide Web Consortium Voice Browser Working Group, 1999-.

Chair, Sponsorships and Exhibits, and member of the organizing committee, 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Philadelphia, PA, 2002.

Faculty Advisor, Student Research Workshop, North American Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, 2001.

Member, DARPA Spoken Language Coordinating Committee (oversaw Department of Defense sponsored activities in speech recognition and natural language understanding) (1990-1995)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

Deborah A. Dahl, editor, Practical Spoken Dialog Systems. Springer, 2005.

Deborah A. Dahl  and Luc Gagnon. "Tutorial on Natural Language Processing". Presented at SpeechTek 2003, New York, September 29-October 2, 2003.

Deborah A. Dahl  "W3C Activities in Multimodal Interaction". Presented at SpeechTek 2003, New York , September 29-October 2, 2003.

Deborah A. Dahl. "Standards for Multimodal Interaction". Presented at the Telephony Voice User Interface Conference, San Diego, February, 2003.

Deborah A. Dahl. "Choosing Tools for Spoken Dialog Application Development". Presented at SpeechTek 2002, New York , October 29-November 1, 2002.

Deborah A. Dahl "W3C Activities in Multimodal Interaction". Presented at SpeechTek 2002, New York , October 29- November 1, 2002.

Deborah A. Dahl  and Peter Stubley. "Tutorial on Natural Language Processing". Presented at SpeechTek 2002, New York, October 29-November 1, 2002 .

Deborah A. Dahl. "VoiceXML: Speech and Telephony Meet the Internet". Annual Review of Communications , 2002.

Deborah A. Dahl. "The World Wide Web Consortium's Activities in Multimodal Interaction". VoiceXML Review , June 2002 (http://www.voicexmlreview.org/Jun2002/features/w3cnatural.html)

Deborah A. Dahl. "Natural Language Semantics Markup Language". VoiceXML Review , April, 2002. (http://www.voicexmlreview.org/Apr2002/features/natural.html)

Deborah A. Dahl "Linguistics and Speech Technology", SpeechTek, New York , October, 2001.

Deborah A. Dahl, Lewis M. Norton, and K.W. Scholz. Commercialization of natural language  processing technology. Communications of the ACM . ( electronic edition) November 2000.

Li Li, Deborah A. Dahl, Lewis M. Norton, Marcia C. Linebarger and Dongdong Chen. A Test Environment for Natural Language Understanding Systems. Proceedings of COLING/ACL-98 , Montreal, Quebec, 1998.

Lewis M. Norton, Deborah A. Dahl, Li Li, and Katharine P. Beals. Integration of Large-Scale Linguistic Resources in a Natural Language Understanding System. Proceedings of COLING/ACL-98, Montreal, Quebec, 1998.

Lewis M. Norton, Carl E. Weir, K.W. Scholz, Deborah A. Dahl and Ahmed Bouzid. A methodology  for application development for spoken language systems. Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing , Philadelphia, 1996.

Deborah A. Dahl, Lewis M. Norton, Carl E. Weir, and Marcia C. Linebarger. Weakly supervised training for spoken language understanding systems. Proceedings of the Spoken Language Systems Technology Workshop . Morgan Kaufmann, 1995.

Suzanne Taylor, Deborah A. Dahl, Mark Lipshutz, Carl Weir, Lewis Norton, Roslyn Nilson, and Marcia Linebarger.  Integrating natural language understanding with document structure analysis.  Artificial Intelligence Review , 1995.

Deborah A. Dahl.  Hypothesizing case frames for unknown verbs.  In A Festschrift for Gerald Sanders . Edited by Gregory Iverson and Mushira Eid. John Benjamins, 1993.

Marcia C. Linebarger, Lewis M. Norton, and Deborah A. Dahl.  A portable approach to last resort parsing and interpretation. In the proceedings of the ARPA Human Language Technology Workshop, Princeton, NJ, March 1993.

Deborah A. Dahl. Pundit - natural language interfaces. In G. Comyn, N.E. Fuchs, and M.J. Ratcliffe, editors , Logic programming in action , Heidelberg, Germany, September 1992. Springer-Verlag.

Deborah A. Dahl. Invited tutorial, "Natural Language Processing Systems", University of Zurich , Switzerland. September, 1991.

Lewis M. Norton, Marcia C. Linebarger, Deborah A. Dahl, and Nghi Nguyen. Augmented role filling capabilities for semantic interpretation of natural language. In Proceedings of the DARPA Speech and Language Workshop, Pacific Grove, CA, February 1991.

Marcia C. Linebarger, Deborah A. Dahl, Lynette Hirschman, and Rebecca J. Passonneau. Sentence fragments regular structures. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Buffalo , NY, June 1988

Deborah A. Dahl. Determiners, entities, and contexts.  in Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing ,  Yorik Wilks, ed. January 1987.

Deborah A. Dahl, Martha S. Palmer, and Rebecca J. Passonneau. Nominalizations in PUNDIT.  In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics , Stanford University, Stanford , CA, July 1987.

Martha S. Palmer, Deborah A. Dahl, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Lynette Hirschman, Marcia Linebarger, and John Dowding. Recovering implicit information. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics , Columbia University, New York, August 1986