Cécile Paris' Research Interests

My main research interests lie in the areas of Language Technology, User Modeling and Human-Computer Interactions. I am particularly interested in automatically generating coherent texts (both multi-sentential texts and in the context of dialogues) that are optimally informative for their intended users, given the users' level of domain knowledge, their goals for using the system,  their native language, etc. To this end, I am looking into designing (potentially  multilingual) language systems that tailor their output to users and situations and are able to adapt their behavior based on feedback from the user. An important focus of my research addresses the practicality of generation systems, by looking for ways to automate the acquisition of the various resources required for generation..  Other the past few years, I have been interested in issues related to  Controlled Natural Languages, multilinguality, and internationalisation of software. The application domains for my work  currently include automatic documentation,  electronic business applications and virtual museums. 

More generally, I am interested both in facilitating communication with computers and in understanding how people communicate.

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