Amanda Stent

Rank/Position Title:

Assistant Professor

Home Page:

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~stent

Date of original appointment to this faculty, followed by dates and ranks of advancement:

Original appointment: 15 January 2002

Degrees:

Conferences, workshops, and professional development:

• Ethics symposium, Stony Brook University, 2002
• 2003 ACL 2002 workshop on effective tools and methodologies for teaching NLP and CL, 2002
• Faculty co-advisor, HLT/NAACL 2004 student session
• Speaker at ACM JETT (Java Engagement for Teacher Training) workshop, Stony Brook, April 2004

Research conferences:

• EuroIMSA, 2005
• Association for Computational Linguistics, 2004, 2002, 2000, 1998
• International Natural Language Generation Conference, 2002, 2000
• International Conference on Speech and Language Processing, 2002
• Intelligent User Interfaces, 2000
• SIGDial, 2002

Other related computing experience:

• SPIR project, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. May 2003-April 2004, Supervise two undergraduates and one graduate student in industry-related development of machine translation prototype.
• Intern, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY. June-December 2000 research on information extraction.
• Intern, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, May-August 1998, research and development on spoken dialog systems.
• Panelist, NSF, Washington DC, 2003, reviewed research proposals.
• See also consulting.

Department, college, and/or university committee membership:

• Graduate admissions committee, 2002
• Undergraduate recruiting committee, 2003-2004
• Ethics coordinator, 2003
• Committee on commercialization setup committee, 2003
• CEWIT building committee, 2003-2004
• HCI hiring committee, 2002-2003
• University: Library committee, 2002

Principal publications of the last five years.

• I. Ramakrishnan, A. Stent and G. Yang, "HearSay: Enabling Audio Browsing on Hypertext Content", in Proceedings of WWW 2004, to appear.
• M. Walker, R. Prasad and A. Stent, "A trainable generator for recommendations in multimodal dialogue," in Proceedings of Eurospeech 2003, September 2003.
• A. Stent, "A conversation acts model for generating spoken dialogue contributions", Computer Speech and Language, Special Issue on Spoken Language Generation, September 2002.
• A. Stent, M. Walker, S. Whittaker and P. Maloor, "User-tailored generation for spoken dialogue: An experiment," in Proceedings of ICSLP 2002, September 2002.
• M. Johnston, S. Bangalore, G. Vasireddy, A. Stent, P. Ehlen, M. Walker, S. Whittaker and P. Maloor, "MATCH: An architecture for multimodal dialogue systems," in Proceedings of ACL 2002, July 2002.
• M. Walker, S. Whittaker, A. Stent and P. Maloor, "Generating evaluative responses in spoken dialogue," in Proceedings of INLG 2002, July 2002.
• A. Stent and A. Loui, "Using event segmentation to improve indexing of consumer photographs," in Proceedings of SIGIR 2001, September 2001.
• J. Allen, D. Byron, M. Dzikovska, G. Ferguson, L. Galescu and A. Stent, "Towards conversational human-computer interaction," AI Magazine, 2001.
• J. Allen, D. Byron, M. Dzikovska, G. Ferguson, L. Galescu and A. Stent, "An architecture for a generic dialogue shell", Natural Language Engineering special issue on Best Practices in Spoken Language Dialogue Systems Engineering, 6(3), December, 2000.
• A. Stent, J. Dowding, J.M. Gawron, E. Owen Bratt and R. Moore, "The CommandTalk spoken dialogue system", in Proceedings of ACL 1999, May 1999.

Other scholarly activity: grants, sabbaticals, software development, etc.:

• SPIR, Stony Brook University, "DI Systems Translation Product Prototype"
• NSF ITR, "Adaptive Spoken Dialog with Human and Computer Partners"
• SRI subcontract to DARPA, "An Enduring Personal Cognitive Assistant"
• Co-advisor, Stony Brook Robot Team
• Work with Stony Brook WISE Program: taught a WISE section of USB101 (First year orientation), fall 2003 guest speaker to WISE, spring 2003, spring 2004 taught a part of WISE187 (First year research seminar), spring 2004 participate in WISE academic advising
• Participant in NSF-funded project "Think Again -- Girls Can!", http://www.girlscan.org.

Scientific, professional, and honor societies of which you are a member:

ACM, ACL, SIGCHI, SIGCSE

Honor societies: Pi Kappa Lambda (National Music Honor Society)

Honors and awards:

Courses taught this and last academic year term-by-term

Academic advising:

• Undergraduates supervised in research in 2003-2004: 7
• 2 on SPIR project
• 3 on DARPA project
• 1 honors thesis
• 1 URECA (Stony Brook scholarship) scholar
• M.S. students supervised in 2003-2004: 8
• Ph.D. students supervised in 2003-2004: 3
• Assigned advisor for 18 undergraduate students during 2004/2005 academic year.

Brief description of major research and scholarly activities:

• Research on natural language and multimodal generation for dialog systems Includes NSF ITR project, DARPA CALO project, Audio browsing of the web.

Teaching:

• Developing a teaching and research program in natural language processing includes development of two graduate courses, CSE507 and CSE542. Participation in graduate and undergraduate seminars, including CSE393, CSE656 and CSE646. Supervising research.

Service:

• Department and university committees as mentioned above Member editorial board, Computational Linguistics journal Reviewer for ACL 2000 student session, SIGDial 2002, IJCAI 2003, HLT/NAACL 2004 and ACL 2004 workshops.