Friday, September 25, 2015 - 10:30am

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Amanda Stent works on natural language processing and its applications, in particular topics related to discourse, dialog, natural language generation, and applications to assistive technology and privacy/security.  She is currently a Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo.  Previously, she was a Principal Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs -- Research in NJ, and before that an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, NY.  She holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Rochester.  She has authored over 70 papers on natural language processing and holds several patents.  She is president of the ACL/ISCA Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialog and one of the rotating editors of the journal Dialogue & Discourse.

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