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 | |
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Computer Science Dept., Stony Brook University, NY (secondary appt. in Psychology) |
Associate Professor Assistant Professor |
2008-2009 2002-2008 |
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| 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.
