S r i n i   J a n a r t h a n a m


"ayam atma bramha" - The Upanishads





Research Associate
Interaction Lab,
Schools of Mathematical and Computer Sciences (MACS),
Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh, UK.

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NEWS: ACL Demo paper accepted!

Current work

I work on EU FP7 projects: SPACEBOOK and Help4Mood. In these projects, we develop interactive dialogue systems to study issues in pedestrian navigation and helping moderate depression patients.


Research Interests (or keywords to describe my current/past work)

Spoken Dialogue Systems (aka conversational agents and voice user interfaces), User Modelling and dialogue behaviour simulation, Dialogue management, Natural Language Generation, Referring Expression Generation, Reinforcement Learning. 

I currently work on dialogue systems for Healthcare (HELP4MOOD), Pedestrian navigation and Tourist information (SPACEBOOK), Technical support and Troubleshooting (CLASSiC), Appointment Scheduling System (CLASSiC). 

I am also interested in Intelligent Tutoring Systems, AI & NLP in Education and Question Answering. I have earlier worked on Machine Translation, NLP for Tamil and other Indian Languages.

More on my work and publications  My CV GRUVE 


Affiliations
Interaction Lab, HW University SIGDial SIGGen


Other interests

Science & religion, Hinduism, Advaita vedantha, travel, politics, photography, art & architecture


Blogs

Talking Machines 

Hinduism - culture and religion

Advaita vedanta Vedanthic Bookshelf

My travel blogs