Home Page of Michael McTear

Keywords:

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

Present Position:

Emeritus 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

Current Research

Spoken dialogue technology, multimodal dialogue systems

Curriculm Vitae: Michael McTear

Links to WWW sites for dialogue systems

Selected publications

Philip Hanna, Ian O'Neill, Craig Wootton, and Michael F McTear (2007) Promoting extension and reuse in a spoken dialog manager: An evaluation of the queen's communicator. ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP), Volume 4 Issue 3, July 2007

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