Invited Speaker
Professor Robert Dale is author or editor of seven books and 120 papers in various aspects of natural language processing. His current research interests include low-cost approaches to intelligent text processing tasks; practical natural language generation; the engineering of habitable spoken language dialog systems; and computational, philosophical and linguistic issues in reference and anaphora. He is editor of Computational Linguistics, the field's most prestigious journal, and has been Program Chair for conferences of both the Association for Computational Linguistics and the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, the two premier events in the field; he was the Local Organising Committee Chair for the Coling/ACL 2006 conference, held in Sydney.