Peter Heeman

Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Oregon Graduate Institute

Education

Sep 91-Jan 97	Ph.D. Computer Science Department of Computer Science University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Thesis: Speech Repairs, intonational boundaries and discourse markers: Modeling speakers' utterances in spoken dialog Advisor: James F. Allen
Sep 89-Aug 91	M.S. Computer Science Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Thesis: A computation model of collaboration on referring expressions Advisor: Graeme Hirst
Sep 82-May 97	B. Math - Pure Math and Computer Science Faculty of Math, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Employment

Sep 97	-	present	Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
Nov 98	-	Jan 00	Co-Director Center for Spoken Language Understanding Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
Jan 97	-	Jul 97	Postdoctoral Fellow Centre National d'Etudes Télécommuncations France Télécom Advisor: David Sadek
Sep 95	-	Jan 96	Student Researcher ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Laboratory, Japan Advisor: K.H. Loken-Kim

Professional Activities

Scientific Committee. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding. Arden House, Harriman NY, October 2001.
Scientific Committee. 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech): Discourse and Dialogue subcommittee. Aalborg, Denmark, September 2001.
Scientific Committee. Disfluencies in Spontaneous Speech: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop, Edinburgh, August 2001.
Program Committee. 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Lingustics (ACL). July 2001, Toulouse, France.
Program Committee. 2nd Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). Pittsburgh, June 2001.
Program Committee. NAACL: the 1st Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics subcommittee. April 2000, Seattle Washington.
Organizer. Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech. Satellite Meeting. 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. July 1999.
Program Committee. ACL'99: the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Robust Sentence Level Interpretation Session. June 1999, College Park, Maryland.
Scientific Review Committee. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. December 1998, Sydney, Australia.
3rd International Discourse Tagging Workshop. May 1998, Chiba, Japan.
Editorial Board. Workshop on The Use of Herbert H. Clark's Models of Language use of the Design of Cooperative Systems, COOP'98, May, 1998, Cannes, France.
Program Committee. Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. July 1998, Madison, Wisconsin.
Program Committee. Applying Machine Learning to Discourse Processing: AAAI-98 Spring Symposia Series. March 1998, Stanford, California.
Dagstuhl Workshop on Standards for Dialogue Coding in Natural Language Processing. Second Annual Discourse Resource Initiative Workshop. February 1997, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany.
Member. Association for Computation Linguistics. 1991 to present.
Member. Special Interest Group in Dialog (SIGdial). 1998 to present.
Have reviewed funding proposals for National Science Foundation and National Science and Engineering Reseearch Council (Canada).