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EuropassCurriculum VitaeJoana P. PardalPersonal informationSurname(s) / First name(s)Address(es)Joana Maria Ferrer Lúcio Paulo Leitão PardalRua Cláudio de Oliveira Basto, n. 19 - 4 B2795 Linda-a-Velha, Oeiras, PortugalTelephone(s) +351 213 100 351 Mobile: +351 919 040 229Fax(es) +351 213 145 843Email(s)joana.paulo.pardal@ist.utl.ptDate of birth December 6 th , 1978GenderMarital StateFemaleMarriedRésuméJoana Paulo Pardal graduated in Informatics and Computer Science Engineering (a 5 year full-timedegree) in 2001 from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. Shereceived an MSc degree in 2004 also from IST. Both with Nuno J. Mamede as advisor.In 2006 she started her PhD work at IST on Dynamic Integration of Ontologies in Generic SpokenDialogue Systems, with Nuno J. Mamede, and James F. Allen as advisors.She has been a Lecturer at IST since 2002, teaching object-oriented programming and designpatterns, knowledge representation, artificial intelligence, autonomous agents and multi-agent systems,distributed systems, and software engineering.She has been a researcher at the Spoken Language Systems Laboratory, L 2 F INESC-ID since 2001.Her research interests include knowledge representation; design, use (and reuse) of ontologies;semantic web and semantic web services; spoken dialogue systems; integration of ontologies inspoken dialogue systems; written natural language processing.She has participated in several projects and has over 20 international publications.Ph.D Student, since 2005IST Technical University of LisbonAdvisers: Nuno J. Mamede, and James F. Allen.Lecturer, since 2004Computer Science and Engineering DepartmentTécnico Lisboa, Technical University of LisbonJunior Researcher, since 2001Spoken Language Systems Laboratory (L 2 F)INESC-ID LisboaProfessional MembershipsAssociation for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial)International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)Page 1 / 12 - Curriculum vitæ ofJoana P. Pardal

Professional Activitiessince 2004Position held Lecturer at the Computer Science and Engineering DepartmentName of employer Instituto Superior TécnicoAddress of employer Av. Rovisco Pais, 11049-001 Lisboa, PortugalType of business and sector University, Educationsince 2001Position held Junior Researcher at the Spoken Language Systems Laboratory (L 2 F)Name of employer INESC-ID LisboaAddress of employer R. Alves Redol, 91000-029 Lisboa, PortugalType of business or sector Research InstitutePosition heldName of sponsorResearch GroupPosition heldProjectName of sponsorResearch GroupPosition heldName of employerPosition heldName of sponsorProjectType of business or sectorPosition heldName of employerFall 2006Visiting Ph.D StudentJames F. AllenConversational Interaction and Spoken DialogueDepartment of Computer ScienceUniversity of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USAJuly 2004Visiting Junior ResearcherPASMOGabriel G. BèsGroupe de Recherche dans les Industries de la Langue, GRILUniversité Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand, France2002–2004Trainee Lecturer at the Computer Science Engineering DepartmentInstituto Superior Técnico2001–2003Junior Researcher at ATA Automatic Term AcquisitionPortuguese National Science FoundationPLUS/1999/LIN/15150Project in collaboration with ILTEC and TermiNáutica – Nautical TerminologyResearch2001-2002Teaching Assistant at the Computer Science Engineering DepartmentInstituto Superior TécnicoPage 2 / 12 - Curriculum vitæ ofJoana P. Pardal

Scholarships,Honours & Awards2009 Top 5 in the ISCA’s 10 th Anniversary Poster design contest (out of 72)June 2008 ISCA fellowship to attend ‘the Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems’April 2007 ACL fellowship to attend Doctoral Consortium at NAACL-HLTOctober 2006 – August 2011 Portuguese National Science Foundation Ph.D grant SFRH/BD/30791/2006September 2001 – September 2002 Portuguese National Science Foundation M.Sc grant PLUS/1999/LIN/15150University Positionssince 2004 Representative of the Lecturers of the Department at the Department’s Council2005/06 Representative of the University’s Lecturers at the Pedagogical Council Assembly and CoordinationCommission.Teaching Activities1 st semester, 2012/13 Programação com Objectos (LEIC-A, LMAC, MEIC-A, MMA)2 nd semester, 2011/12 Engenharia de Software (LEIC-A, LEIC-T, LERC, MEIC-A)1 st semester, 2011/12 Programação com Objectos (LEIC-A, LMAC, MEIC-A)2010/11 — Licença Sem Vencimento1 st semester, 2009/10 Programação com Objectos (LEIC-A, LEIC-T, LERC, MEIC-A, MEE)2006/09 — Dispensa de Serviço Docente1 st semester, 2005/06 Programação com Objectos (LEIC-pB, LEIC-TagusPark-pB, LCI-pB, LERCI-pB)2 nd semester, 2004/05 Agentes Autónomos e Sistemas Multi-Agente (LEIC-pB, LEIC-TagusPark-pB, MEIC-pB)Representação do Conhecimento(LEIC-pB, LCI-pB)1 st semester, 2004/05 Programação com Objectos (LEIC-pB, LEIC-TagusPark-pB, LCI-pB, LERCI-pB)2 nd semester, 2003/04 Sistemas Distribuídos (LEIC-pB, LEIC-TagusPark-pB, LERCI-pB)1 st semester, 2003/04 Programação com Objectos (LEIC-pB, LCI-pB, MEIC-pB)2 nd semester, 2002/03 Inteligência Artificial (LEIC-TagusPark-pB)2 nd semester, 2001/02 Representação do Conhecimento (LEIC-pB, LCI-pB)Pedagogical Guides2012 João Pereira, Joana P. Pardal, and David Ferreira.Guia de Laboratório da cadeira de Engenharia de Software.Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DEI).Instituto Superior Técnico (IST),Technical University of Lisbon (UTL).2005 Joana L. Paulo, Celso Melo, Guilherme Raimundo, Rui Prada, H. Sofia Pinto, and Ana Paiva.Guia de Laboratório da cadeira de Agentes Autómatos e Sistemas Multiagente.DEI IST UTL.2004 Miguel Pardal, Nuno Santos, Joana L. Paulo, et al.Guia de Laboratório da cadeira de Sistemas Distribuídos.DEI IST UTL.2003 Nuno J. Mamede, João Dias Pereira, and Joana L. Paulo.Guia de Laboratório da cadeira de Programação com Objectos.DEI IST UTL.[G04][G03][G02][G01]Page 3 / 12 - Curriculum vitæ ofJoana P. Pardal

Education and trainingQualificationSchoolCourseAreaDissertationAdviserssince 2005 (Expected: 2013)Ph.D studentInstituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of LisbonInformation Systems and Computer EngineeringArtificial Intelligence“Dynamic use of Ontologies in Dialogue Systems”Nuno J. Mamede, and James F. Allen2006Qualification Advanced Specialization DiplomaFinal average 5/5School Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of LisbonCourse Information Systems and Computer EngineeringArea Artificial Intelligence2001–2004Qualification Master (M.Sc)Final average 15/20School Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of LisbonCourse Information Systems and Computer EngineeringArea Artificial IntelligenceDissertation “(Semi) automatic terms acquisition”Advisor Nuno J. Mamede1996–2001Qualification ‘Licenciatura’ pre-Bologna (a 5 year full-time degree)Final average 15/20School Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of LisbonCourse Information Systems and Computer Engineering – AlamedaArea Artificial IntelligenceDissertation “PAsMo - a Post Morphological Analyser”Advisor Nuno J. Mamede1993–1996Qualification High SchoolFinal average 16/20School Escola Secundária da Rainha Dona Amélia, LisboaArea Science and TechnologyPage 4 / 12 - Curriculum vitæ ofJoana P. Pardal

General QualificationsDatesCourseInstructorOrganizationDatesCourseInstructorOrganization2011weekly, February 10 th – March 3 rd , 2011 [10h]Workshop “Voice as a Work Tool”Prof. Teresa Lima, ACT for All, acting schoolTutoring Support Office, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon2009March 4 th , 2009 [2h]Workshop “Techniques in Oral Communication and Public Presentation”Maria Júlia GuerraTutoring Support Office, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon2010Dates July 15 th – 16 th , 2010 [12h]Course European First Aid CourseSchool First Aid School, Portuguese Red CrossExpiration July 15 th , 20132006Dates weekly, March 6 th – April 10 th , 2006Course “The History of Science in Portugal and the Scientific Revolution”Instructor Prof. Henrique Leitão (Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia,at the University of Lisbon (CIUHCT-UL))2005Dates weekly, March 7 th – April 11 th , 2005Course “The Origins of Modern Physics”, Science HistoryInstructor Prof. Henrique LeitãoDatesCourseSchoolInstructors2002weekly, March 22 nd to June 7 th , 2002 [20h]“Terminology in the Spring”Institut of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics (ILTEC)Terminological Information Association (AiT)Mercè Lorente (IULA, Pompeu Fabra Univ.), Maria Helena Mira Mateus (Lisbon Univ./ILTEC/AiT),Fernanda Bacelar do Nascimento (CLUL), Ana Rebello de Andrade (ILTEC/AiT),Margarita Correia (Lisbon Univ./ILTEC/AiT), Rute Costa (NOVA Lisbon Univ./Termip),Manuel Célio Conceição (Algarve Univ./Termip),Libânia Ângelo (Biblioteca da Assembleia da República), and Ester Franquesa (TermCat).Page 5 / 12 - Curriculum vitæ ofJoana P. Pardal

Research Interests– Use of Ontologies in Spoken Dialogue Systems– Tutoring and Coaching Conversational Systems– Knowledge Representation and Ontologies– Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services– Spoken Dialogue Systems– Natural Language Processing– Software Engineering and MaintenanceScientific ActivitiesOngoing Projects2012/13 AVOZ – Models for automatic speech recognition for elderly (PTDC/EEA-PLP/121111/2010, IP02035)– Thomas Aurelien Pellegrinisince 2012 COOKCOACH v2.0 – an ontology-based coaching dialogue system2009/12 COOKCOACH v1.0 – a coaching dialogue system in the CMU’s Olympus FrameworkFinished Projects2009/12 PT-STAR – Speech Translation Advanced Research to and from Portuguese (IP02027)– Luísa Coheur2008/12 LIREC – LIving with Robots and InteractivE Companions (IP02024)– Luís Caldas de Oliveira2010 VIDI-VIDEO – Interactive semantic video search with a large thesaurus of machine learned audio-visualconcepts (IP02022)– Isabel Trancoso2004/08 DIGA – Dialog Interface for Global Access (IP02012)– Nuno Mamede2008 Golden collection of parallel multi-language word alignments2005/07 RUDRICO – RUle DRIven COnverter2006/07 STRING – STatistical and Rule-Based Natural LanGuage Processing Chain for Portuguese2005/06 ONTOCHEF.PT – a Portuguese Cooking Ontology2004/05 PASMO ++in colaboration with Gabriel G. Bès, Lionel Lamadon, and Ioana Milutinovici, from GRIL2004 PORTO EDITORA – definition of a strategical plan for the development of their natural language processingarchitecture (IP02015)– Nuno Mamede2003/05 FENIX4DEI – an on-line system to deliver and test student assignments2001/03 ATA – Automatic Term Acquisition (IP0204)– Nuno Mamede99/2001 PASMO – Pós Analisador Morfológico (Post Morphological Analyser)2000/01 POETA – a pedagogical agent to help children aged from 7 to 12 years to write poetryServicesOrganizing Committee2009 YRRSDS – Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems2007/08 Internal Seminars of L 2 F INESC-ID LisboaProgram Committee2010 CLA – Computational Linguistics Applications2009 CLA – Computational Linguistics ApplicationsAdvisory Committee2010 YRRSDS – Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue SystemsPage 6 / 12 - Curriculum vitæ ofJoana P. Pardal

Reviewer2009 NAACL HLT Student Research Workshop2006 FinTAL – 5 th International Conference on Natural Language Processing— STAIRS – 3 rd European Starting AI Researcher Symposium— TIL – 4 th Workshop in Information and Human Language TechnologyStudent Volunteer Work2005 INTERSPEECH’s Students Volunteers – Orange TeamInvited Talks2010 November 22 nd , 2010Spoken Dialogue Systems — an Introduction.Invited class on the MSc Natural Language course.IST Technical University of Lisbon, Tagus Park campus, Oeiras, Portugal.Host: Luísa Coheur– October 15 th , 2010PC maintenance and Windows XP installation.Invited class on the Education and Training Course (CEF).Colégio de São Tomás, Quinta das Conchas, Lisboa.Host: Inês Gomes– April 21 st , 2010Scratch programming language.Invited class on the Education and Training Course (CEF).Colégio de São Tomás, Quinta das Conchas, Lisboa.Host: Inês Vilas-Boas2009 December 7 th , 2009Cooking an ontology-based spoken dialogue system: a proposal.Research Colloquium, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-Labs), Berlin, Germany.Host: Dmitry Butenkov2008 June 13 th , 2008Reengineering a domain-independent framework for spoken dialogue systems.Dialogs on Dialogs, CMU reading group (via Skype).2007 December 3 rd and 5 th , 2007Spoken Dialogue Systems — an Introduction.Invited class on the MSc Natural Language course.IST Technical University of Lisbon, Tagus Park campus, Oeiras, Portugal.Host: Luísa Coheur2006 February 9 th , 2006“Spatial Reasoner” – Fall 2006 @ University of Rochester: Term Report.L 2 F INESC-ID Seminars, Lisboa, Portugal.– December 15 th , 2006Dynamic Integration of Ontologies in Generic Spoken Dialogue Systems.Big Picture Talk Series, Computer Science Department, University of Rochester, NY, USA.Host: James F. Allen– April 27 th , 2006Building an Ontology: Cooking domain.Invited class on the BSc Knowledge Representation course.IST Technical University of Lisbon, Tagus Park campus, Oeiras, Portugal.Host: H. Sofia Pinto– February 17 th , 2006Integrated Tools and Ontologies.L 2 F Day, Academia Militar, Lisboa, Portugal.2005 May 12 nd , 2005Automatic Terms AcquisitionInvited class on the Terminology course.Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH), Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.Host: Margarita Correia[T14][T13][T12][T11][T10][T09][T08][T07][T06][T05][T04]Page 7 / 12 - Curriculum vitæ ofJoana P. Pardal

2001 April 20 th , 2001Master thesis work: Automatic word selection.L 2 F INESC-ID Seminars, Lisboa, Portugal.– June 29 th , 2001Aplicação de Técnicas de Língua Natural a Interfaces Multimodais Inteligentes.Presentation for the course of Intelligent Multimodal Interfaces.Host: Joaquim Jorge– April 2001Agentes Pedagógicos.Presentation for the course of Autonomous AgentsHost: Ana Paiva[T03][T02][T01]PublicationsBook Chapters2004 Joana L. Paulo, David Martins de Matos, and Nuno J. Mamede.Terminology Mining with ATA and Galinha, chapter 2.Edições Colibri, Lisbon, Portugal, 2004International Journals2008 Miguel Pardal, Sérgio Fernandes, Jorge Baptista Martins, and Joana P. Pardal.Customizing Web Services with Extensions in the STEP Framework.International Journal of Web Services Practices - IJWSP, 3(1):1–12, 2008Edited Proceedings2009 Joana Paulo Pardal, Ricardo Ribeiro, Milica Gašić, François Mairesse, Matthew Marge, David DíazPardo de Vera, Christine Howes and Arash Eshghi and Gregory Mills (editors).Proceedings of the 5 th Annual Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems.London, UK, September 2009.[E01]International Conferences2012 Miguel L. Pardal, Joana Paulo Pardal and José Alves Marques.Improving Web Services performance, one STEP at a time.In Proceedings of the 2 nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER2012, Porto, Portugal, April 18th–22nd, 2012. [P19]2011 Joana Paulo Pardal and Nuno J. Mamede.Starting to Cook a Coaching Dialogue System in the Olympus framework.In Ramón López-Cózar Delgado and Tetsunori Kobayashi, editors, Proceedings of the Paralinguistic Informationand its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems Workshop, International Workshop on SpokenDialogue Systems (IWSDS), pages 255–267, Granada, Spain, August 2011. Springer New York [P18]2009 Joana P. Pardal.Position paper on Ontology-based Spoken Dialogue Systems.In Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems, YRRoSDS, 2009[P17]2008 Filipe M. Martins, Joana P. Pardal, Luís Franqueira, Pedro Arez, and Nuno J. Mamede.Starting to Cook a Tutoring Dialogue System.In Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT, pages 145–148. IEEE, December 2008[P16]– Filipe M. Martins, Ana C. Mendes, Joana P. Pardal, Nuno J. Mamede, and João Paulo Neto.Using system expectations to manage user interactions.In A. Joaquim da Silva Teixeira, Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima, Luís Caldas de Oliveira, and PauloQuaresma, editors, 8th International Conference on the Computational Processing of the PortugueseLanguage, PROPOR, volume 5190 of LNCS, LNAI, Aveiro, Portugal, 2008. Springer Berlin [P15]– Joana P. Pardal.Position paper on Ontology-based Spoken Dialogue Systems.In Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems, YRRoSDS, 2008[P14]– Filipe M. Martins, Ana C. Mendes, Márcio Viveiros, Joana P. Pardal, Pedro Arez, Nuno J. Mamede, andJoão Paulo Neto.Reengineering a domain-independent framework for Spoken Dialogue Systems.In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Software Engineering, Testing, and Quality Assurance for NaturalLanguage Processing, SETQA-NLP, pages 68–76, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, June 2008. ACL, Associationfor Computational Linguistics[P13][C01][J01]Page 8 / 12 - Curriculum vitæ ofJoana P. Pardal

– João Graça, Joana P. Pardal, Luísa Coheur, and Diamantino Caseiro.Building a golden collection of parallel Multi-Language Word Alignment.In The 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008, 2008 [P12]2007 Carlos Gómez Gallo, Gregory Aist, James F. Allen, William De Beaumont, Sergio Coria, Whitney Gegg-Harrison, Joana P. Pardal, and Mary Swift.Annotating Continuous Understanding in a Multimodal Dialogue Corpus.In SEMDIAL 2007 - DECALOG, 2007[P11]– Joana P. Pardal.Dynamic use of ontologies in dialogue systems.In Proc. NAACL-HLT 2007 DC, 2007[P10]2006 Celso Melo, Rui Prada, Guilherme Raimundo, Joana P. Pardal, H. Sofia Pinto, and Ana Paiva.Mainstream Games in the Multi-agent Classroom.In IAT 2006, pages 757–761. IEEE Computer Society, 2006[P09]– Ricardo Ribeiro, Fernando Batista, Joana P. Pardal, Nuno J. Mamede, and H. Sofia Pinto.Cooking an Ontology, volume 4183 of LNCS, pages 213–221.Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, September 2006[P08]2004 Joana L. Paulo and Nuno J. Mamede.Terms Spotting with Linguistics and Statistics, pages 298–304.IBERAMIA, 2004[P07]2003 Gabriel G. Bès, Veronica Dahl, Daniel Guillot, Lionel Lamadon, Ioana Milutinovici, and Joana L. Paulo.A parsing system for balanced parentheses in NL texts.In Proceedings of the Lorraine/Saarland Workshop on Prospects and Recent Advances in the Syntax-Semantics Interface, CLIN, Nancy, France, October 2003.[P06]– Joana L. Paulo, David Martins de Matos, Nuno J. Mamede.Easy automatic Terms acquisition with ATA and Galinha.In Proceedings of the Workshop on Tagging and Shallow Processing of Portuguese, TASHA, pp. 29-30,Science College at University of Lisbon, Portugal, October 2003.[P05]– Luísa Coheur, Fernando Batista, and Joana L. Paulo.JAVALI!: understanding real questions.In Student Workshop on Applied Natural Language Processing – possible applications for the SemanticWeb, held as part of the EUROLAN, Springer-Verlag, pp. 19-25, Bucharest, Romania, July 28th – August8th, 2003.[P04]– David Martins de Matos, Joana Lúcio Paulo, and Nuno J. Mamede.Managing Linguistic Resources and Tools.In Nuno J. Mamede, Jorge Baptista, Isabel Trancoso, and Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes, editors, ComputationalProcessing of the Portuguese Language, 6th International Workshop, PROPOR 2003, Faro,Portugal, June 26-27, 2003. Proceedings, volume 2721 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages135–142. Springer, 2003 [P03]2002 Joana Lúcio Paulo, Margarita Correia, Nuno J. Mamede, and Caroline Hagège.Using Morphological, Syntactical and Statistical Information for Automatic Term Acquisition.In Elisabete Ranchod and Nuno J. Mamede, editors, Advances in Natural Language Processing, ThirdInternational Conference, PorTAL 2002, Faro, Portugal, June 23-26, 2002, Proceedings, volume 2389 ofLecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 219–228. Springer, 2002[P02]2001 Joana L. Paulo and Nuno J. Mamede.ATA – Automatic Term Acquisition.In Proceedings of the Workshop on Extraction of Knowledge from Databases, Encontro Português deInteligência Artificial, EPIA 2001, pp. 51-54, Porto, Portugal, December 2001.[P01]National Conferences2000 Ana Pacheco, Joana L. Paulo, and Nuno Ferreira.POETA – Poetry teaching agent.In Proceedings of the Workshop of Introduction to Autonomous Agents, WIAA, Lisboa, Portugal, December2000.[N01]Technical Reports &Project Deliverables2008 João Graça, Joana P. Pardal, Luísa Coheur, and Diamantino Caseiro.Multi-Language Word Alignments Annotation Guidelines.Technical Report 38, INESC-ID, 2008[R04]Page 9 / 12 - Curriculum vitæ ofJoana P. Pardal

– David Martins de Matos, Ricardo Ribeiro, Sérgio Paulo, Fernando Batista, Luísa Coheur, and Joana P.Pardal.Natural Language Engineering on a Computational Grid (NLE-GRID) T2 - Encapsulation of ReusableComponents.Technical Report 31, INESC-ID, 2008[R03]2006 Joana L. Paulo and David Martins de Matos.PASMO – Pós Analisador Morfológico.Technical Report 40, INESC-ID, June 2006.[R02]– Fernando Batista, Joana P. Pardal, Nuno J. Mamede, Paula C. Vaz, and Ricardo Ribeiro.Ontology construction: cooking domain.Technical Report 28, INESC-ID, 2006[R01]Masters Theses2004 July 26th, 2004Joana L. Paulo.Aquisição Semi Automática de Termos.MSc thesis, IST Technical University of Lisbon.Graduation Theses2001 July 13th, 2001Joana L. Paulo.PASMO – Pós analisador morfológico.Graduation thesis, IST Technical University of Lisbon.Final grade: 17/20Other Publications2009 David Pardo de Vera, Milica Gašić, Joana P. Pardal, Ricardo Ribeiro, Matthew Marge, François Mairesse.Young researchers face-to-face on human-machine dialogue.IEEE Signal Processing Society, Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee’s,SLTC NewsLetter, October 2009.[L01]Attended Conferences &Seminarssince 2001 Internal Seminars.L 2 F INESC-ID, Lisbon.– regular presentations on Speech and Language Processing topics.since 2006 Dialogs on Dialogs, reading group.Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (via Skype).– a student reading group focused on research in the areas of spoken dialogue systems / conversational agents.2011 September 1 st to 3 rd , 20113 rd International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems TechnologyParalinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems.Saray Hotel, Granada, Spain.– an international forum for the presentation of research and applications.2009 September 13 th to 14 th , 2009The Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems.Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom.– an annual workshop designed for students, post docs, and junior researchers of spoken dialogue systems.– September 11 th to 12 th , 2009SIGDIAL – 10 th annual meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (ACL & ISCA)Queen Mary University of London, UK.– a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in discourse and dialogue.– September 6 th to 10 th , 2009INTERSPEECH – 10 th annual International Conference on Speech Communication and TechnologySpeech and Intelligence.The Brighton Centre, Brighton, United Kingdom.– the world’s largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on speech and language processing.– September 6 th , 2009INTERSPEECH Tutorial on Statistical approaches to dialogue systems.Presented by Jason Williams, Steve Young, and Blaise Thomson.The Brighton Centre, Brighton, United Kingdom.– recent work that explored applying statistical techniques to spoken dialogue systems.[MSc][TFC]Page 10 / 12 - Curriculum vitæ ofJoana P. Pardal

Personal skillsand competences2008 June 21 st and 22 nd , 2008The Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems.The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.– June 20 th , 2008Workshop on Software Engineering, Testing, and Quality Assurance for Natural Language Processing(SETQA-NLP), workshop of the ACL.Hyatt Regency Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, USA.– raising awareness of the need for good software engineering practices in NLP.– June 19 th and 20 th , 2008SIGDIAL – Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue.Hyatt Regency Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, USA.– June 16 th to 18 th , 2008Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)and the Human Language Technology Conference (HLT) of the North American Chapter of the ACL.Hyatt Regency Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, USA.– a broad spectrum of disciplines working towards enabling intelligent systems to interact with humans using naturallanguage.– June 15 th , 2008ACL Tutorial on Building Practical Spoken Dialog Systems.Presented by Antoine Raux, Brian Langner, Maxine Eskenazi, and Alan BlackHyatt Regency Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, USA.– a practical description of the free software Carnegie Mellon OLYMPUS 2 Spoken Dialogue Framework.– June 15 th , 2008ACL Tutorial on Speech Technology from Research to Industry.Presented by Roberto Pieraccini.Hyatt Regency Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, USA.– the evolution of speech technology from research to a mature industry.2007 April 22 nd , 2008Doctoral Consortium at NAACL-HLT.Rochester, NY, USA.– an opportunity to discuss and explore research and career objectives with a panel of established researchers.2006 Fall 2006Big Picture Talk Series.Computer Science Department, University of Rochester, NY, USA.– weekly series focuses on topics in AI, NLP, KR, CL and many related areas.– February 9 th and 10 th , 2006XATA: XML – Aplicações e Tecnologias AssociadasEscola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Portalegre (ESTGP)Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, Portugal.– national conference about XML, its usage and related technologies.2005 September 4 th to 8 th , 2005INTERSPEECH – 6 th annual International Conference on Speech Communication and TechnologyEUROSPEECH – 9 th biennial European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology.Ubiquitous Speech Processing.Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal.2003 October 3 rd , 2003TASHA: Workshop on Tagging and Shallow Processing of Portuguese.University of Lisbon, Portugal.– review the current state of the art in the field in what concerns the Portuguese language.2002 June 23 rd to 26 th , 2002PorTAL: Portugal for Natural Language ProcessingAlgarve University, Faro, Portugal.– all aspects of natural language processing related areas.2001 December 17 th to 20 th , 2001Workshop on Extraction of Knowledge from Databases, of the 10 th Portuguese Conference on ArtificialIntelligence (EPIA)Porto, Portugal.Mother tongue(s)PortuguesePage 11 / 12 - Curriculum vitæ ofJoana P. Pardal

Other languagesSelf-assessmentEuropean level (*) Understanding Speaking WritingListening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken productionEnglish C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient userFrenchB1IndependentuserB1IndependentuserB1IndependentuserB1IndependentuserB1IndependentuserItalianB2IndependentuserB2IndependentuserB2IndependentuserB2IndependentuserB2IndependentuserSpanishB2IndependentuserB2IndependentuserB2IndependentuserB2IndependentuserB2Independentuser(*)Common European Framework of Reference (CEF) levelAcademic Activities97/2001 Students representative (delegada) during the 5 years of the course.99/2000 Senior student mentor of Computer Science and Engineering 1 st year undergraduate students.99/2000 Students Representative at the University’s Senate.99/2000 Student Member of the University’s Representation Assembly.1994/95 Director, editor and reporter of the High School monthly newspaper “Victrix”1994/95 Co-Founder of the Science Club of the Queen Amélia High School.Page 12 / 12 - Curriculum vitæ ofJoana P. Pardal