Home Page of Michael McTear

Keywords:

Dialogue Modelling, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, User Modelling

Present Position:

Professor

Qualifications:

BA with Upper Second Class Honours in German Language and Literature, 1965
MA in Applied Linguistics, 1975
PhD in Linguistics (Development of Conversational Competence), 1981

Graduate Students and other researchers:

Craig Wootton

Current Research

Spoken dialogue technology, multimodal dialogue systems

Curriculm Vitae: Michael McTear

Links to WWW sites for dialogue systems

SCRIBE Project

Video of UTV (Ulster Television) recording of SCRIBE launch on 15 September 1999

Selected publications

Michael F McTear (2004) Spoken dialogue technology: toward the conversational user interface. Springer Verlag: London.

Michael F McTear (2002) Spoken dialogue technology: enabling the conversational interface. ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 34 , Issue 1 (March 2002), pp. 90 - 169.

Ian M. O’Neill and Michael F. McTear (2000) Object-Oriented Modelling of Spoken Language Dialogue Systems Natural Language Engineering, Best Practice in Spoken Language Dialogue System Engineering, Special Issue, Volume 6 Part 3 October 2000.

McTear, M., Allen, S., Clatworthy, L., Ellison, N., Lavelle, C. and McCaffery, H. (2000) Integrating Flexibility into a Structured Dialogue Model: Some Design Considerations. Proc 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Oct 2000, Beijing, China, Vol. 1, 110-113

Previous Research, Grants, etc

Leisure Activities

Web page for book:
http://www.infj.ulst.ac.uk/sdt