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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