Dr. David R Traum

Postal Address:	USC Institute for Creative Technologies 12015 Waterfront Drive Playa Vista, CA 90094
Telephone Number	+1 (310) 574-5729
Fax	+1 (310) 574-5725
Email	traum@ict.usc.edu

Professional Activities:

• Publications
• Slides from some Talks
• ICT Natural Language Dialogue Group
  • Projects
  • Research Efforts
• Other Professional Activities
  • SIGDIAL (ACL and ISCA Special Interest group on Discourse and Dialogue - past President and other offices)
  • Dialogue And Discourse Journal (Associate Editor)
  • Semdial Workshop Series (Advisory board)
  • IWSDS: International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology) (Senior Steering Committee)
• Previous Projects & Organizations:
  • ISO TC 37/SC 4 (Language Resources) WG 2: Annotation and representation schemes
  • Logic and Dialogue Systems in the U of M Active Logic Group
  • NL Generation for Machine Translation in the UMIACS CLIP Language Group
  • Discourse Resource Initiative
  • European Project on Task Oriented Instructional Dialogue (through Göteborg University Dept. of Linguisticsand HCRC, University of Edinburgh)
  • BOOTNAP: Social Grounding in Computer Supported Collaborative Problem Solving (U. Geneva)
  • TecfaMOO(U. Geneva)
  • Task Force 5 (Collaborative Learning) of the program on Learning in Humans and Machines of the European Science Foundation (ESF)
  • The TRAINS Project (University of Rochester)
• Events that I've (co-)Chaired
  • ESSLLI 2024 Workshop on Conversational Grounding in the Age of Large Language Models
  • IWSDS 2023 Conference Chair
  • ACL 2019 program committee cochair
  • IVA 2016
  • ICT Workshop on Formalizing Dialogue Genres for Efficient Virtual Character Creation (Sept 2014)
  • Real Dialogue Challenge Workshop (June 2014)
  • NSF Workshop on Signing Creatures (November 2013)
  • STINT Collaboration Workshop, University of Stockholm (June 2013),
  • STINT Collaboration Workshop, ICT (May 2013),
  • Workshop on Real-time Conversations with Virtual Agents (RCVA) Santa Cruz, CA, September 15, 2012
  • NAACL 2012 Workshop on Future directions and needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data June 2012
  • SIGdial Conference (12th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue) June 2011
  • ICT Workshop on Overlap in Human-Computer Dialogue September 2011
  • 7th IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems July 2011
  • 14th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue: Los Angelogue September 2011
  • ICT Workshop On Human-Agent Social Interaction In Open Online Virtual Worlds February 2011
  • NAACL 2010 Workshops June 2010
  • ICT FML Workshop May 2010
  • 6th Workshop on KNOWLEDGE AND REASONING IN PRACTICAL DIALOGUE SYSTEMS Pasadena, 2009
  • AAMAS 2009 Workshop:Towards a Standard Markup Language for Embodied Dialogue Acts
  • ICT Workshop on Multimodal Grounding in Virtual Humans and Robots (2008)
  • ICT Workshop on Dialogue Research (2008)
  • 5th Workshop on KNOWLEDGE AND REASONING IN PRACTICAL DIALOGUE SYSTEMS Hyderabad, 2007
  • ICT Workshop on Cross-cultural and Culture-specific Aspects of Conversational Backchannels and Feedback 2006
  • IUI 2006 Workshop on Effective Multimodal Dialogue Interfaces (2006)
  • ICT Workshop on Multiparty Dialogue (2005),
  • CHI 2005 Workshop on the virtuality continuum revisited
  • 1st SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue Hong Kong, 2000
  • Götalog 2000 Workshop on Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Gothenburg Sweeden
  • ANLP-NAACL 2000 Workshop on Conversational Systems
  • AAAI Fall 1999 Symposium on Psychological Models of Communication in Collaborative Systems
  • Demo Sessions of ACL 99 Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting
  • Discourse Resource Initiative Group on Discourse Structure in Dialogue May 1998
  • AAAI Fall 1997 Symposium on Communicative Action in Humans and Machines
  • IJCAI'97 Workshop on COLLABORATION, COOPERATION AND CONFLICT IN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS
  • ACL Student Session, 1992.
• Teaching:
  • CSCI 644 Natural Language Dialogue Systems Spring 2024
  • ESSLLI 2022 Course on Computational Models of Grounding in Dialogue
  • NASSLLI 2022 @ USC Course on Multiparty and Multi-floor dialogue structure
  • CSCI 644 Natural Language Dialogue Systems Fall 2018
  • ESSLLI 2015 Course on Computational Models of Grounding in Dialogue
  • CSCI 599 Natural Language Dialogue Systems Spring 2013 (with David DeVault)
  • 2012 International Winter School In Language And Speech Technologies (WSLST 2012), Tarragona, Spain, Approaches to Dialogue Systems and Dialogue Management Winter 2012
  • ESSLLI 2008 Approaches to Dialogue Systems and Dialogue Management Summer 2008
  • USC CS 599 - Computational Approaches to Natural Language Dialogue Modelling Fall 2005
  • ESSLLI 2005 Computational pragmatics for face-to-face dialogue (with Matthew Stone and Justine Cassell)
  • USC CS 599 - Computational Approaches to Natural Language Dialogue Modelling Spring 2004
  • ESSLLI 2001 The Information State Approach to Dialogue Management: Theory and Implementation (with Robin Cooper and Staffan Larsson)
  • University of Maryland CMSC 420 - Data Structures Spring 1997