Cecile Paris

Science Leader

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CSIRO ICT Centre
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Australia



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Science Area

• Human Information Interaction

Biography

Dr Cécile Paris received her PhD in Artificial Intelligence (Natural Language Processing) in 1987 from Columbia University. She joined the Information Sciences Institute (ISI), a research laboratory in Marina del Rey (Los Angeles, Ca), where she stayed until 1996, working on computational linguistics for knowledge based systems. She then moved to the UK (ITRI, at the University of Brighton, UK), where she worked on multilingual generation systems. She joined CSIRO late 1996.

Her main research interests lie in the areas of Language Technology, User Modeling and Human-Computer Interaction. She is particularly interested in flexible and tailored information delivery, automatically generating coherent presentations or briefs that are optimally informative for their intended users. To this end, she studies language and communication issues and design information delivery systems that tailor their output to users and situations and are able to adapt their behaviour based on feedback from the user. In recent years, her work has included summarisation and the exploration of Web 2.0 technologies, and has looked at the intersection of Natural Language and Information Retrieval.

Dr Paris' thesis research represented the fist major work in user modeling and text generation, and her work on discourse planning for dialogue systems has been the basis for a number of other generation and multimodal presentation systems and research internationally.

An important focus of Dr Paris' research addresses the practicality of information delivery systems, by looking for ways to automate the acquisition of the various resources that a system requires. More generally, she is interested both in facilitating communication with computers and in understanding how people communicate.

Other the past few years, she has been studying issues related to contextualised information delivery, summarisation, and, more recently, she has been exploring the use of social media technologies and issues related to CSCW (Computer Supported Collaborative Work). The application domains for her work currently include electronic business and government applications, knowledge management and e-Research.

Academic Qualifications

1987	PhD Columbia University, New York (USA), Computer Science/Computational Linguistics
1982	MSc Columbia University, New York (USA), Computer Science
1980	BA (Hons) University of California at Berkeley (USA), Computer Science

Recent Professional Experience

2005–present	Science Leader; CSIRO ICT Centre.
2005-2006	Project Leader, ICT Centre.
1996-2005	Senior Principle Research Scientist and Group/Project Leader, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences.
1994-1997	Principal Research Fellow, Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI), University of Brighton, UK.
1990-1994	Research Group Leader and Assistant Research Professor, USC/ISI -- joint appointment with ISI and USC’s Computer Science Department, USA.
1987-1990	Research Scientist, USC/ISI: Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California (USC), USA.
1981-1987	Graduate Research Assistance, Columbia University, Computer Science Department, New York USA.

Achievements & Awards

2006-present	Adjunct Professor, Macquarie University, Sydney.
2006	Best Paper Award, the Annual Meeting of the Australasian Language Technology Association.
2006	CSIRO ICT Centre Award for Partnership Excellence.
2005	Best Poster Award CSIRO ICT Centre Science and Engineering Conference.
2005	CSIRO Award for our work with The Boeing Corporation.
2004	Recognised as a Distinguished Alumnus of Columbia University (New York, USA), at the 25th anniversary of the Computer Science Department of Columbia University.
2003	CSIRO Mathematical Information Sciences Business Excellence Award.
2000	Nominated for the Telstra Woman of the Year Award.
1999	CSIRO Award for our work with CISRA on the User Interface Card.
1999	CISRA Award for the User Interface Card project Team.
1997-present	Member of the Center for Language Technology, Division of Information and Communication Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney.
1997-2006	Honorary Associate in the Division of Information and Communication Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney.
1997-present	Honorary Associate at the School of Information Technologies (Formerly the Basser Department of Computer Science), Sydney University, Sydney.
	Member of the American Honorary Societies: Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi
1979	Recipient of an International Student Scholarship, UC Berkeley

Other Highlights

2009	Invited Speaker at the INEX Conference, Brisbane, December 2009
2008	Invited speaker at the UTS:CMOS Symposium on Unconventional Projects
2006	Invited speaker at the e-Health Symposium (“e-Health in clinical services and research”), Adelaide.
2006	Invited Speaker at the Coling/ACL workshop on Computational Linguistics and Information Retrieval.
2004-present	Member of the Executive Board of HCSNet, the ARC Network for Human Communication Science.
2004–2005	(december 2004 - january 2005): Visiting Professor, University of Bremen, Germany.
2004	Guest Researcher at Fraunhofer/IPSI and Guest lecturer at the University of Bari, Italy.
2003	Invited speaker at AusITSummit 2003 (Australian IT Directors Summit 2003), Cairns, Queensland.
2002-present	Member of the Advisory Board of ICAN (Innovative Collaborations Alliances Networks), a Key Research Centre at UTS, Sydney.
2002	Invited Panelist at TechnoFuture 2002 at the 2002 Annual Conference of the Australian Artifical Intelligence Conference.
2002	My PhD student, Einat Amitay, receives the “Best PhD thesis in Computer Science Award” for her work on summarization.
2001	The CISRA project on which we worked, the User Interface Card (http://www.uicard.com/) won a design award: the Australian Design Award of the Year.
1998	Keynote speaker at the 1998 Australian National Conference in Human-Computer Interaction (OzChi’98, Adelaide, November 1998).
1997	Guest lecturer at the University of Bari, Italy
1997-present	Honorary Associate in the Division of Information and Communication Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
1995	Guest Researcher at LAFORIA (Institut Blaise Pascal, associated with CNRS, the National Research Center in France), Paris, France.
1994-present	On the Advisory Committee of User Modelling Inc.
1992	Guest Researcher at IPSI-GMD (The Gesellschaft fur Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung), Darmstadt, Germany.
1989	Guest researcher at The Institut für Angewandte Informationsforschung in Saarbrucken, in the Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Saarland, Saarbrucken, and at DFKI, Germany.
	Member of User Modelling Inc (UM Inc) since its inception
1981	Member of the American Honorary Societies: Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi.

Science Citizenship

2010	Programme Committee Member for the 2010 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2010). IUI is the annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. IUI is supported by ACM (Association for Computing Machinary). http://www.iuiconf.org
2010	Programme Committee Member of AUIC 2010 (The Australian User Interface Conference).
2009	Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Personalization in e-Health of the International Journal on User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction. See http://www.ict.csiro.au/staff/Cecile.Paris/umuai-e-Health.htm
2009	Programme Committee member of UMAP 2009 (User Modeling, Adaptivity and Personalisation), Trento, Italy. This is the first Conference joining the International Conference on User Modeling Conference (UM) and the International Conference on Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia (AH).
2009	Programme Committee Member for the 2009 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2009).
2008	Tutorials and Workshops co-chair for the 2008 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2008).
2008	Programme Committee member of the Eighth Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC 2007)
2007	Programme Committee member of the Eighth Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC 2007)
2007	Programme Committee member of INTERACT 2007
2007	Programme Committee member of the 2007 International Conference on User Modelling (UM 2007)
2007	Programme Committee member of PACLING
2007	Programme Committee member of the IR related track of ENC 2007 in Morelia, MX (September 2007)
2007	Programme Committee member of the workshop on "Multi-source Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization" to be held in conjunction with RANLP 2007 (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
2007	Programme Committee member (and co-organiser) of the Workshop on health to take place at UM2007: “2nd Workshop on Personalisation for e-Health”
2007-present	Member of the Executive Committee of ALTA, the Australasian Language Technology Association (position: ex-president); (http://www.alta.asn.au)
2006	PhD examiner for phd thesis at Sydney University and QUT
2006	Programme Co-chair of IUI 2006 (Intelligent User Interfaces), Sydney, January 2006
2006	co-chair of the 2006 International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG) - held in conjunction with Coling/ACL 2006
2006	Co-Chair of ACL/Coling 2006, Sydney, July 2006. ACL and Coling are the best conferences in the field of Computational Linguistics http://www.coling2006.org or http://www.acl2006.org
2005-present	Member of Editorial Board of Computational Linguistics
2004-2006	President of ALTA, the Australasian Language Technology Association (http://www.alta.asn.au)
2005	Member of the Organising Committee of the Workshop on Personalisation in eHealth, held in conjunction with the International Conference on User Modeling (UM’05), Edinburgh, Scotland, June 2005
2005	Programme Committee member of the European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
2005	Programme Committee member of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education
2004-present	Member of the Executive Board of HCSNet, the ARC Network for Human Communication Science
2002-2004	Member of the executive board of ALTA, the Australasian Language Technology Association
2004	Programme Committee member of the European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
2004	Co-programme chair of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW) 2004, Macquarie University, Sydney
2004	Tutorial Co-Chair for CHI 2004 (the major international conference for work in Computer Human Interaction)
2004-present	Regular reviewer for the Natural Language Engineering Journal
2004	Guest Editor (with N. Colineau) of a Special Issue on Tailored Information Delivery for RIA (Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle, the main journal for Artificial Intelligence in France)
2003-2006	Member of programme committee for the Student Session for the Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
2003	Advisor to OzCHI 2003, the National Human Computer Interaction Conference
2002-2004	Programme Committee member of the International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 1988)
2002-present	Member of Editorial Board of The French Journal for Artificial Intelligence (Revue d’Intelligence Artificielle – RIA)
2002-present	Programme Committee member of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)
2002-present	Member of the Advisory Board of ICAN (Innovative Collaborations Alliances Networks), a Key Research Center at UTS, Sydney
2002	Reviewer for ACL 2002, the Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics
2002	Reviewer for Human Factors 2002. (Human Factors 2002 is a Joint Conference of the Ergonomics Society of Australia (ESA) and the Computer Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG’s OZCHI Conference)
2002	Reviewer for COLING 2002, the Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics
2001	Reviewer for ACL 2001, the Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics
2001-present	Chair of CHISIG: the Special Interest Group on HCI, a special interest group of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia. This is the national society for Human-Computer Interaction (http://www.chisig.org)
2001	Reviewer for OZCHI 2001, the Australian Conference for Human Computer Interaction
2000-2003	Programme Committee Member for The Annual International Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Documentation (SIGDOC)
2000	Programme Committee member for the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
2000	Programme Committee member for ANLP-NAACL track on Generation and Summarization track (ANLP: Applied Natural Language Processing; NAACL: North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics- these 2 conferences are amongst the main fora for Language Technology)
2000	Programme Committee member for the international Natural Language Generation workshop on “Impacts in Language Generation, which took place at Coling 2000. (Coling (COmputational LINguistics) is another main international forum for Language Technology)
2000	General chair for OzCHI 2000, the National Human Computer Interaction Conference, Sydney, December 2000
2000	Reviewer for COLING 2000, the Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics
1999	Chair for the Generation and the Machine Translation track for ACL'99 (Association for Computational Linguistics – the main forum for the area of language technology), Maryland, June 1999
1999	Theme Co-Chair for ACL'99, the Annual Conference for Computational Linguistics, June 1999. Theme title: Design, Implementation and Uses of Controlled Languages
1999	Programme Committee member for the Thematic session on “Corpus-based Approaches to Discourse and Dialogue” as part of the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’99)
1999	Programme Committee member of the European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
1998	Programme Committee member of the European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
1998	Programme Committee member of the International Workshop on Natural Language Generation (INLG 1998)
1998	Reviewer for the Australian Conference for Human Computer Interaction (OzCHI'98)
1998	Reviewer for the Third Australian Document Symposium (ADCS'98)
1998	Reviewer for Coling/ACL'98: the conference which combined the annual meeting of the International Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING) with the annual meeting for the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
1998	Reviewer for the Journal: The Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 1998 special issue on 'adaptivity and user modeling in hypertext/hypermedia systems' and 'hypermedia for museums and cultural heritage'
1997-2001	Programme Committee member of The French annual Conference on Language Technology (TALN).
1997-1999	Programme Committee member of the International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modelling and Using Context: CONTEXT-99; CONTEXT-97
1997-present	Programme Committee member of the annual meeting of the Language Technology community in Australasia (now called the ALTA workshop)
1997-present	Co-organiser of one of the longest running regular seminar series in Sydney: the HAIL seminars (Human computer interaction, Artificial Intelligence and Language, CSIRO, Macquarie University Campus, North Ryde
1997	Founder of the HAIL seminars
1997	Programme Co-Chair for the Sixth International Conference on User Modeling (UM-97), Chia Laguna, Sardinia, Italy
1997	Workshop co-organiser: PhD Workshop on Natural Language Generation, held in conjunction with ESSLLI'97 (The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Computation), August 11-22, 1997, Aix-en-Provence, France
1996	Programme Committee member of SBIA-96 (Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence), Brazil.
1996	Programme Committee member of ACL-96 (The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistic), Santa Cruz, California.
1996	Programme Committee member of ICTAI'96: the 8th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Toulouse, November 1996.
1996	Programme Committee member of ECAI-96 (European Conference on Artificial Intelligence), Budapest, Hungary.
1996	Member of the organizing and reviewing committee for The ECAI-96 Workshop on Argumentation
1996	Programme Committee member of ``Les Journées de L'Explication'96'', Sophia-Antipolis, France.
1996	Programme Committee member of the International Workshop on Natural Language Generation (INLG 1996)
1995	Programme Committee member of The 1995 International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE).
1995	Member of the organizing and reviewing committee for the Workshop on Context in Knowledge and Reasoning Modelling and the Workshop on Comprehensibility, both held at IJCAI-95 (Montreal, Canada)
1995	Reviewer for the 1995 International Joint Conference On Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Montreal, Canada, August 1995, for tracks: AI and Education; Natural Language
1995	Reviewer for the 1995 European Workshop on Natural Language Generation; Leiden, The Netherlands, May 1995
1994	Programme Committee member of the International Workshop on Natural Language Generation (INLG 1994)
1993	Student Programme Committee, 1993 Annual Meeting of Computational Linguistics Association
1993	Member of organizing and reviewing committee for the workshop on `Text Summarization for Intelligent Communication', December 1993, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany
1993	Reviewer for the 1993 World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AI-Ed'93)
1992	Member of organizing and reviewing committee for the AAAI symposium on Cooperative explanations, March 1992, Palo Alto California
1991	Tutorial Chair for ACL-91 (Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics)
1991	Member of organizing and reviewing committee for the ECAI-91 Workshop on `Improving the Use of Knowledge-Based Systems with Explanations'
1991	Member of the organizing and reviewing committee for the Workshop on Decision Making throughout the Generation Process, the Workshop on Agent Modelling for Intelligent Interaction and the Workshop on Explanation generation for knowledge-based systems: what do users need and want in practice?, all held at IJCAI-91 (Sydney, Australia)
1990-1994	Reviewer for COLING (the meetings of the International Association for COmputational LINGuistics)
1990	Technical Program Associate Chair: AAAI-90 (Annual Meeting of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence)
1990	Reviewer for the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
1990	Reviewer for the IEEE AI Applications Conference
1989-present	Programme Committee Member of the International Conference on User Modelling (2005; 2003; 2001; 1999; 1996; 1995; 1994; 1993; 1992; 1991; 1990; 1989. Usually Member of the programme committee for both the main conference and the PhD consortium)
1989-1996	Member of editorial board: User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: an International Journal, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers
1988	Programme Committee member of the International Workshop on Natural Language Generation (INLG 1988)
1987	Reviewer for the Tenth International Joint Conference On Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Milan (Italy)
1987	Reviewer for the `Use of AI Techniques in Software Design and Implementation' Program at the 21st Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences
1986	Local arrangements co-chairperson for the 24th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), held at Columbia University, 1986
	Regular reviewer for the following journals: Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education; The International Journal of Human Computer Studies (former IJMMS: International Journal of Man-Machine Studies); Computational Intelligence; Computational Linguistics (prior to being on the board); The Cognitive Science journal
	Reviewer for the Journal Information Processing and Management: Special issues on Text Summarisation
	Reviewer for the followig Grant Giving Bodies: The National Science Foundation, USA; The ARC Australian Research Council; The Canadian Research Council
	Member of User Modelling Inc (UM Inc) since its inception

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