I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Natural Language Generation Group at The Open University. I work with Dr. Paul Piwek on the CODA project
Research Interests
My research interests lie in the field of dialogue, both human-human and human-computer. I am interested in studying how spoken language can enhance human-computer communication and open doors to new types of intelligent systems that seamlessly integrate in our daily environment. I am also interested in applications of language technology for education.
While people communicate effortlessly with each other, automatic human-computer dialogue is a challenge currently addressed by many researchers. I am interested in analysing human-human dialogue and applying some of its models to human-computer spoken interaction.
My current work focuses on automatic generation of dialogues from text analysed with rhetorical and semantic relations. Constructing a parallel corpora, we automatically derive rules for translating monologue text to dialogue. Our goal is to automatically generate fluent and coherent dialogues that presents the same information as the input text. Computer-generated dialogues will be automatically animated using a tool developed by our collaborators at NII laboratory. The product of this research may be applied in an education tool or gaming environment.
In my past research I have built automatic spoken dialogue systems, studied the effect of the system on the user's lexical and syntactic choices. I have analysed adaptation (speakers changing their behaviour) in human-human dialogues. I have studied how dialogue context can help spoken dialogue systems in speech recognitions.
Contact info:
Dr Svetlana Stoyanchev
Computing Department
Centre for Research in Computing
The Open University
Walton Hall
MK7 6AA
Milton Keynes
United Kingdom
Phone: 00 44 (0) 1908 65 99 47
Fax: 00 44 (0) 1908 65 21 40
Email: s.stoyanchev at open.ac.uk