Botond Pakucs
I work as research engineer at the CTT, Centre for Speech Technology at the KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) in Stockholm, Sweden. I am a Ph.D. student at the Swedish Graduate School of Language Technology, GSLT. My current research activities include speech interfaces and spoken dialogue systems with focus on dialogue management and human computer interaction in mobile and ubiquitous computing environments. Other research interests include human-computer interaction, intelligent agents, spoken document retrieval, knowledge representations and cognitive science in general. Current Projects: Butler is an effort to develop a generic speech interface, which will model characteristics of individual users in ubiquitous and mobile environments for a multitude of applications. SesaME is the central part of the Butler project with the aim to develop a generic and task-oriented dialogue manager, which supports personalization, dynamic plug&play, adaptive interaction methods and user modeling. PER The main goal of the Per project is to build an automated entrance receptionist, PER (Prototype Entrance Receptionist). The system operates in the central entrance to CTT. The purpose is to create and experiment with alternative speech-based means of controlling access to the premises. DUMAS (Dynamic Universal Mobility for Adaptive Speech Interfaces) is a R&D project supported by the European Union IST Programme. The main ambitious goal in the DUMAS project is to furnish electronic systems with intelligent spoken interaction capabilities. Especially, we will investigate intelligent and ambient interaction management and adaptive multilingual interaction techniques. Publications: Butler: A Universal Speech Interface for Mobile Environments Botond Pakucs 2004. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3160 - Mobile Human-Computer Interaction - MobileHCI 2004 (6th International Symposium on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services). Ed.: Stepehen Brewster, Mark Dunlop. Springer-Verlag. pp.399-403. Glasgow, UK, September 2004. Developing Speech Interfaces for Frequent Users: the DUMAS Calendar Prototype Botond Pakucs and Sanna Huhta 2004. Proc. of COLING 2004 Workshop on Robust and Adaptive Information Processing for Mobile Speech Interfaces. pp. 65-68. Geneva, Switzerland, August 2004. Employing Context of Use in Dialogue Processing Botond Pakucs. 2004. Proc. of CATALOG 04 (The 8th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue), pp.162-163. Barcelona, Spain, July 2004. Towards Dynamic Multi-Domain Dialogue Processing Botond Pakucs. 2003. Proc. of the Eurospeech-03, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2003. SesaME: A Framework for Personalized and Adaptive Speech Interfaces Botond Pakucs. 2003. Proc. of the EACL-03 Workshop on Dialogue Systems: interaction, adaptation and styles of management. p. 95-102. Budapest, Hunagry, April 2003. VoiceXML-based Dynamic Plug and Play Dialogue Management for Mobile Environments. Botond Pakucs. 2002. Proc of the ISCA Workshop Multi-Modal Dialogue in Mobile Environments. Kloster Irsee, Germany, June 2002. A Human Centered Approach to Speech Interfaces in Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Environments. Botond Pakucs. 2002. DRAFT, To be published in QPRS vol. 45. PER: A Speech Based Automated Entrance Receptionist. Botond Pakucs and Håkan Melin. 2001. Presented at the 13th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics, NoDaLiDa'01 Uppsala University, Uppsala, Maj. Designing a System for Swedish Spoken Document Retrieval. Botond Pakucs and Björn Gambäck. 2000. In Proceedings of the 12th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics, pp. 162-173, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, December. Modular System Design for Multimedial Information Handling. Botond Pakucs, Björn Gambäck, and Preben Hansen. 1999. In Proceedings of the 10th DELOS Workshop on Audio-Visual Digital Libraries, Santorini, Greece, June. ERCIM.