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Conversational Solutions Architect, Conversational Systems, Natural Language Understanding, Speech Industry Expert

Profile Summary

With over twenty-five years of experience in the speech and natural language processing industry, I am a frequent industry speaker, and I have published over fifty technical papers and three books. I have extensive experience in technical management and development as well as in transitioning speech/language technologies from the laboratory to the marketplace. I have helped many organizations bring their speech and natural language processing ideas from vision to reality. My customers range from early stage startups to established speech industry companies to large government organizations.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Natural Language Processing
• ☆ Artificial Intelligence

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Writing Technical Writing, Copywriting

Research Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis

Product Development Formulation

Work Experience

Principal

Conversational Technologies

September 2002 - Present

Principal

Conversational Technologies

September 2002 - Present

Visiting Scientist

University Science Research Associates

August 2016 - April 2020

Director, Core Product Engineering

Unisys Corporation

September 1984 - September 2002

Education

Post-Doctoral Fellow in Cognitive Science (Linguistics)

University of Pennsylvania

September 1983 - September 1984

Ph.D. (Linguistics)

University of Minnesota

October 1976 - May 1984

PhD in Linguistics

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

October 1976 - May 1984

B.S. (Psychology)

University of Illinois

August 1971 - May 1975

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

BOOK CHAPTER

Lowry, Michael and Pressburger, Thomas and Dahl, Deborah and Dalal, Michael(2019). Towards Autonomous Piloting: Communicating with Air Traffic Control . AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Lowry, Michael and Bajwa, Anupa R. and Pressburger, Thomas and Sweet, Adam and Dalal, Michael and Fry, Chuck and Schumann, Johann and Dahl, Deborah and Karsa, Gabor and Mahadevan, Nagabhushan(2018). Design Considerations for a Variable Autonomy Exeuctive for UAS in the NAS . 2018 AIAA Information Systems-AIAA Infotech @ Aerospace. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Dahl, Deborah A.(2018). Just Like Talking to a Person? Next Steps in Natural Language Understanding. Ubiquitous Voice: Essays from the Field. Lisa Falkson

Dahl, Deborah A.(2017). A Standard Portal for Intelligent Services. Multimodal Interaction with W3C Standards: Toward Natural User Interfaces to Everything. Springer

Dahl, Deborah A. and Dooner, Brian(2017). Audio Alignment for Multimedia Language Learning: Applications of SRGS and EMMA in Colibro Publishing. Multimodal Interaction with W3C Standards: Toward Natural User Interfaces to Everything. Springer

Dahl, Deborah A.(2016). Integrating Natural Language Resources in Mobile Applications. A Synergetic Approach to the Design of Multimodal Mobile Interfaces. De Gruyter

Dahl, Deborah A.(2013). Natural Language Processing: Past, Present and Future . Mobile Speech and Advanced Natural Language Solutions. p. 49-73. Springer New York

Dahl, Deborah A.(2013). Natural Language Processing: Past, Present and Future. Mobile Speech and Advanced Natural Language Solutions. Springer

Dahl, Deborah A. and Coin, Emmett and Greene, Michael and Mandelbaum, Paulette(2011). A Conversational Personal Assistant for Senior Users. Conversational Agents and Natural Language Interaction: Techniques and Effective Practices. p. 282-301. IGI Global

Dahl, Deborah A.(2009). Standards for Multimodal Interaction. Handbook of Research on Multimodal Human Computer Interaction and Pervasive Services: Evolutionary Techniques for Improving Accessibility. IGI Press

Dahl, Deborah A.(2005). Visualization Tools for Designing Spoken Dialogs. Practical Spoken Dialog Systems. Springer

Dahl, Deborah A.(2002). VoiceXML: Speech and Telephony Meet the Internet. Annual Review of Communications. 55. International Engineering Consortium

Engdahl, Elisabet and Vallduv\'\i, Enric(1994). Information packaging and grammar architecture: a constraint-based approach. Integrating information structure into constraint-based and categorial approaches. CLLI

Dahl, Deborah A.(1993). Hypothesizing case frames for new verbs. Principles and Prediction: The Analysis of Natural Language. p. 175-186. John Benjamins

Dahl, Deborah A.(1992). Pundit: Natural Language Interfaces. Logic Programming in Action. p. 176-185. Springer-Verlag

Dahl, Deborah A. and Ball, Catherine N.(1990). Reference Resolution in Pundit. Logic and Logic Grammars for Language Processing. Ellis Horwood, Limited

Dahl, Deborah A.(1987). Determiners, Entities, and Contexts. Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing. p. 153-156. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Standardized Representations and Markup Languages for Multimodal Interaction @inbook{RN8652, author= {Tumuluri, Raj and Dahl, Deborah and Paterno, Fabio and Zancanaro, Massimo}, title= {Standardized Representations and Markup Languages for Multimodal Interaction}, booktitle= {Handbook of Multi-Modal Multisensor Interfaces}, editor= {Oviatt, Sharon and Schuller, Bjorn and Cohen, Philip R. and Sonntag, Daniel and Potamianos, Gerasimos and Kruger, Antonio}, publisher= {Morgan and Claypool}, address= {New York}, volume= {3}, chapter= {10}, year= {in press}, type= {Book Section}}. Handbook of Multi-Modal Multisensor Interfaces.

BOOK

Dahl, Deborah A.(2017). Multimodal Interaction with W3C Standards: Towards Natural User Interfaces to Everything. Springer

Dahl, Deborah(2016). Multimodal Interaction with W3C Standards: Towards Natural User Interfaces to Everything. Springer

Dahl, Deborah A.(2005). Practical Spoken Dialog Systems. 26Springer

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Dahl, Deborah A.(2013). The W3C multimodal architecture and interfaces standard . Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces. 7. (3). p. 171-182.

Dahl, D.A., Linebarger, M.C., and Berndt, R.S. (2008). Improving automatic recognition of aphasic speech through the use of a processing prosthesis. Technology and Disability. 20. p. 283-294.

Dahl, Deborah A. and Linebarger, Marcia C. and Bernt, Rita S.(2008). Improving automatic speech recognition of aphasic speech through the use of a processing prosthesis. Technology and Disability. 20. (4). p. 283-294.

Dahl, Deborah A.(2006). Natural Language Processing: The next steps. Speech Technology Magazine. 11. (5).

Dahl, Deborah A.(2004). Is Natural Language Real?. Speech Technology Magazine. 9. (3). p. 34-36.

Dahl, Deborah A.(2003). The Role of Speech in Multimodal Applications . Speech Technology Magazine. 8. (3). p. 6-8.

Dahl, Deborah A.(2001). Richard F. E. Sutcliffe, Heinze-Detlev Koch, Annette McElligott, <i>Industrial Parsing of Software Manuals</i>. Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1996. ISBN 90-420-0102X $28.00 . Nat. Lang. Eng. 7. (1). p. 87-97.

Dahl, Deborah A. and Norton, Lewis M. and Scholz, K.W.(2000). Commercialization of natural language processing technology. Communications of the ACM (electronic edition). 43. (11).

Dahl, Deborah A.(1999). Ronnie W. Smith and D. Richard Hipp, <i>Spoken Natural Dialog Systems: A Practical Approach</i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Price £45.00 ISBN 0-19-509187-6 . Nat. Lang. Eng. 5. (3). p. 301-307.

Taylor, Suzanne and Dahl, Deborah A. and Lipshutz, Mark and Weir, Carl E. and Norton, Lewis M. and Nilson, Roslyn and Linebarger, Marcia C.(1994). Integrating natural language understanding with document structure analysis. Artificial Intelligence Review. 8. (2-3). p. 255-276.

Taylor, Suzanne Liebowitz and Dahl, Deborah A. and Lipshutz, Mark and Weir, Carl and Norton, Lewis M. and Nilson, Roslyn Weidner and Linebarger, Marcia C.(1994). Integrating Natural Language Understanding with Document Structure Analysis . Artif. Intell. Rev. 8. (2-3). p. 255-276.

CONFERENCE PAPER

Linebarger, Marcia C. and Norton, Lewis M. and Dahl, Deborah A.A portable approach to last resort parsing and interpretation. ARPA Human Language Technology Workshop. p. 31-36.

Li, Li and Dahl, Deborah A. and Norton, Lewis M. and Linebarger, Marcia C. and Chen, DongdongA Test Environment for Natural Language Understanding Systems. COLING/ACL-98. II. p. 763-767. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers

Dahl, Deborah A. and Norton, Lewis M. and Nguyen, NghiAir Traffic Control Instruction Monitoring using Spoken Language Understanding. Proceedings of the 36th Air Traffic Control Association Meeting.

Ball, Catherine N. and Dahl, Deborah A. and Norton, Lewis M. and Hirschman, Lynette and Weir, Carl E. and Linebarger, M.C.Answers and Questions: Processing Messages and Queries. Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Norton, Lewis M. and Linebarger, Marcia C. and Dahl, Deborah A. and Nguyen, NghiAugmented role filling capabilities for semantic interpretation of natural language. Proceedings of the DARPA Speech and Language Workshop.

Dahl, Deborah A."Using speech recognition in speech therapy: A multimodal application for users with aphasia". SpeechTEK.

Dahl, Deborah A. and Bates, Madeline and Brown, Michael and Hunicke-Smith, Kate and Pallett, Dave and Pao, Christine and Rudnicky, Alex and Shriberg, LizExpanding the scope of the ATIS task: the ATIS-3 corpus. ARPA Human Language Technology Workshop. Morgan Kaufmann

Norton, Lewis M. and Nguyen, Nghi and Linebarger, M.C. and Dahl, Deborah A.Integrating Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding to Process Air Traffic Control Instructions. 3rd Annual 1993 IEEE Mohawk Valley Section Dual-use Technologies and Applications Conference. p. 102-107.

Linebarger, Marcia C. and Dahl, Deborah A. and Hirschman, Lynette and Passonneau, RebeccaSentence Fragments Regular Structure. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics

Hirschman, Lynette and Bates, Madeline and Dahl, Deborah A. and Fisher, William and Garofolo, John and Hunicke-Smith, Kate and Pallett, Dave and Pao, Christine and Rudnicky, AlexMulti-site data collection for a spoken language corpus. Proceedings of the 1992 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing.

Dahl, Deborah A. and Hirschman, Lynette and Norton, Lewis M. and Linebarger, Marcia C. and Magerman, David and Ball, Catherine N.Training and evaluation of a spoken language understanding system. Proceedings of the DARPA Speech and Language Workshop.

Norton, Lewis M. and Dahl, Deborah A. and Li, Li and Beals, Katharine P.Integration of large-scale linguistic resources in a natural language understanding system. COLING/ACL-98. II. p. 980-984. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers

Dahl, Deborah A.Choosing Tools for Spoken Dialog Application Development. SpeechTek.

Dahl, Deborah A.W3C Activities in Multimodal Interaction. SpeechTek.

Dahl, Deborah A. and Norton, Lewis M. and Weir, Carl E. and Linebarger, Marcia C.Weakly supervised training for spoken language understanding systems. Spoken Language Systems Technology Workshop. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers

Dahl, Deborah A. and Stubley, PeterTutorial on Natural Language Processing. SpeechTek 2002.

Dahl, Deborah A.Focusing and Reference Resolution in Pundit. Proceedings of the 5th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. p. 1083-88. Morgan Kaufmann

Dahl, Deborah A.Linguistics and Speech Technology. SpeechTek.

Norton, Lewis M. and Weir, Carl E. and Scholz, K.W. and Dahl, Deborah A. and Bouzid, AhmedMethodology for application development for spoken language systems. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. p. 662-664.

Fink, Ruth B. and Schwartz, Myrna and Dahl, Deborah A.Using Speech Recognition for Speech Therapy: MossTalkWords 2.0. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Dahl, Deborah A.Standards for Multimodal Interaction. Telephony Voice Users Conference.

Dahl, Deborah A. W3C Multimodal Interaction Activities . SpeechTEK.

Dahl, Deborah A. and Palmer, Martha and Passonneau, RebeccaNominalizations in Pundit. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

Norton, Lewis M. and Dahl, Deborah A. and McKay, Donald P. and Hirschman, Lynette and Linebarger, M.C. and Magerman, David and Ball, Catherine N.Management and evaluation of interactive dialog in the air travel domain. Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Hidden Valley, Pennsylvania. Morgan Freeman

Norton, Lewis M. and Dahl, Deborah A. and Linebarger, Marcia C.Recent improvements and benchmark results for the Paramax ATIS system. Proceedings of the DARPA Speech and Language Workshop.

Palmer, Martha and Dahl, Deborah A. and Passonneau, Rebecca and Hirschman, Lynette and Linebarger, Marcia C. and Dowding, JohnRecovering implicit information. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics