Nathalie Colineau
Senior Research Scientist
Contact
CSIRO ICT Centre
Cnr Vimiera & Pembroke Roads
MARSFIELD NSW 2122
Australia
Mail: PO Box 76, Epping NSW 1710, Australia
Tel: +61 2 9372 4701
Fax: +61 2 9372 4490
Email
Biography
I’ve always been interested in Linguistics. My interest started when I began University with optional courses in Linguistics, and eventually, I decided to continue in this field of study giving up my original discipline Literature.
Leaving my little town, I spent several years in Paris where I studied Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. It was at that time, that my interest in Spoken Language and Human-Computer Interaction grew. After a training period at France Telecom R&D (Lannion, France), analysing a spoken dialogue corpus, and at Thomson-CSF (Bagneux, France), working on human - computer interfaces in the Air Traffic Control framework, I decided to do a Ph.D. in Spoken Dialogue Systems, which I did in Grenoble.
In Grenoble, I studied Cognitive Sciences and worked at the Institute of Speech Communication (ICP). Then, I did a Ph.D. at the CLIPS laboratory (Lab. specialised in human-computer interaction). I worked in the GEOD group (group working on speech and dialogue) and studied discourse cues in spoken dialogues. During my Ph.D., I had the wonderful opportunity to go to Quebec for a-six month collaboration at Laval University in the Cognitive Informatics Laboratory.
Three years later I became a member of the Human Computer Interaction Group at Thales Research and Technology (TRT Lab). Between April 1998 and June 2000, I have been involved in several projects concerned with designing more flexible and natural spoken interfaces. In particular, I worked on Speech Understanding and Dialogue Modelling, primarily in the context of two projects: (1) the THISL project (THematic Indexing of Spoken Language - European Esprit project), to process spoken queries for a spoken document retrieval system; and (2), the SETHIVoice project, in its initial phases, in the framework of the ThomSpeaker platform development (an authoring multimodal spoken language system).
Since November 2000, I’m a Research Scientist at CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), in Sydney, Australia. I am in the Information Engineering Lab of the CSIRO ICT Centre.
I am still interested in Speech Understanding and Discourse Analysis. But I have now broadened my interest to Text Generation and Discourse Planning to design Intelligent Information Systems. I am looking into delivering information customised for the users taking into account their tasks and their environment. In particular, I am interested to study how notions of coherence and dialogue can be applied to media other than the textual medium, and how they can support natural and appropriate interactions. I have also been involved in evaluating some of our applications, in particular in designing and conducting experiments to evaluate the approach underpinning our technology.
Academic Qualifications
| 1997 | PhD. in Cognitive Science with distinction. Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France |
| 1994 | DEA in Cognitive Science. Grenoble Institute of Technology, France (equivalent of a Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Science). Second Class Honours. Electives: Spoken Communication, Memory and Learning, Knowledge Representation |
| 1993 | DESS in Artificial Intelligence, Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris 6), France (equivalent of Graduate Diploma in AI). Second Class Honours. Elective: Natural Language Processing |
| 1992 | Maîtrise in Linguistics, Denis Diderot University (Paris 7), France. (equivalent to a Bachelors of Arts in Linguistics, First Class Honours) |
| 1992 | Maîtrise in Computational Linguistics, Denis Diderot University (Paris 7), France. (equivalent to a Bachelors of Arts in Computational Linguistics, Honours) |
Recent Professional Experience
| 2003–Present | Senior Research Scientist at the CSIRO ICT Centre. |
| 2000-2003 | Research Scientist initially working at the CSIRO Mathematical and Information Science (CMIS) division, and then, moving to the ICT Centre when it was created in 2003. |
| 1998–2000 | Research Scientist at Thales Research and Technology (previously Thomson-CSF, Corporate Research Laboratory) in Orsay, France. I was in the Human-Computer Interaction group in the Computer Science Department. |
| 1994–1997 | PhD at the CLIPS–IMAG Laboratory (Grenoble, France), in the Speech and Dialogue Research Group. |
| 1996 | Visitor at Laval University (Quebec, Canada), in the Computer Science Department (6 months) |
Student Supervision
| 2009-2010 | See So Wing, vacation Student for 2 months -- jointly supervised with C Paris. |
| 2008-2009 | Melody Wang, vacation Student for 2 months -- jointly supervised with C Paris. |
| 2007 | Meriem Raji (Polytech’Montpellier, France), intern for 3 months -- jointly supervised with C Paris. |
| 2006-2007 | Romain Chanu (Compiegne University, France), intern for 12 months -- jointly supervised with C Paris. |
| 2006 | Yann Driutti (Polytech’Montpellier, France), intern for 5 months -- jointly supervised with C Paris. |
| 2004-2005 | Julien Phalip (ENAC, France), intern for 5 months, and then, junior software engineer for 6 months on the Boeing-DFDMSA project -- jointly supervised with A. Lampert. |
| 2004 | Ardrian Hardjono (UNSW, Sydney) vacation Student for 2 months -- jointly supervised with A. Lampert. |
| 2002 | Abhishek Kapur (India), intern for 5 months. |
| 2001-2002 | Mary Gardiner (Sydney University), vacation student for 2 months. |
Science Citizenship
| Associations | |
| 2009-present | ACM Member (Association for Computing Machinery) |
| 2008-present | member of SIGCHI (Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction) |
| 2006-Present | member of ACL (Association in Computational Linguistics) |
| 2003-Present | member of ALTA (Australasian Language Technology Association) |
| 2001-Present | member of SIGGEN (Special Interest Group on Generation) |
| Reviewing | |
| 2009-2010 | PC member of TALN (French annual conference on Language Technology) |
| 2008-2009 | Reviewer for CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative work) |
| 2007-2009 | Reviewer for CHI (Computer Human Interaction Conference) |
| 2004-2009 | PC member of ALTA (Australasian Language Technology Association) |
| 2010 | Reviewer for the TAL Journal, a French Journal on Natural Language Processing |
| Reviewer for the Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2010 | |
| Reviewer for the Conference on Supporting Work Group (GROUP 2010) | |
| 2009 | Reviewer for Interact (Conference in Human-Computer Interaction) |
| PC member of OZCHI Workshop on "Designing for Healthy Living" | |
| 2008 | PC member of the International Natural Language Generation Conference |
| Review paper for I3 (Information – Interaction – Intelligence), a French Journal in Information Engineering Sciences (http://www.revue-i3.org/) | |
| 2007-2008 | PC member of the MMIES workshop (Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization) |
| 2007 | Programme Co-chair (with Mark Dras from Macquarie University) of the ALTA workshop (Australasian Language Technology Association) held in Melbourne. |
| Reviewer for UM (User Modelling Conference) and for selection of Best Student Paper | |
| 2006 | Programme co-chair (other chairs: C. Paris, S. Wan and R. Dale - Macquarie Uni), of the International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2006) held in conjunction with the COLING/ACL Conference. |
| PC member of a Special Issue (on Computational Approaches to Discourse and Document Processing) of the French Journal TAL, a Journal on Computational Linguistics | |
| 2005 | PC member of EWNLG (European Workshop on Natural Language Generation) |
| PC member of IUI (Intelligent User Interfaces Conference) | |
| 2004 | Guest Editor with Cécile Paris of a Special Issue of RIA (“Artificial Intelligence Review”) on Tailored Information Delivery, including both Tailored Virtual Documents and Tailored Displays. |
| Reviewer for ACL (Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics) | |
| 2003 | PC member of TALN (French annual conference on Language Technology) |