Ondřej Dušek

Main Research Interests

• Natural language generation
• Spoken dialogue systems and chatbots
• Machine learning
• Machine translation

Projects

Current

• NaMuDDiS – Natural Multi-domain Dialogue Systems (Charles University funded, 2019-2021)

Past

At Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh (2016-2018):

• DILiGENt – natural language generation
• MaDrIgAL – spoken dialogue systems
• Alexa Prize Challenge – chatbots (Alana – 2x finalist team, 2x 3rd place)

During my Ph.D. study (2011-2016):

• AdaNLG – adaptive natural language generator (2014-2016)
• Vystadial – statistical spoken dialogue system (2013-2016)
• QTLeap – semantic machine translation (2013-2016)
• Khresmoi – medical information retrieval (working on machine translation, 2013-2014)
• FAUST – improving machine translation fluency (2011-2013)

Teaching

List of classesNPFL123 Dialogue systems

Students

Students I co-supervise and co-supervised:

• Xinnuo Xu (Ph.D., CDT robotics, with Verena Rieser & Ioannis Konstas, since 2016)
• Shubham Agarwal (Ph.D. at Heriot-Watt, with Verena Rieser & Ioannis Konstas, since 2017)
• Vojtěch Hudeček (Ph.D. at Charles Uni, with Zdeněk Žabokrtský, since 2018)
• Patrícia Schmidtová (BSc. at Charles Uni, with Vojtěch Hudeček, since 2018)
• Zdeněk Kasner (about to start Ph.D. at Charles Uni in Fall 2019)
• Sourabrata Mukherjee (about to start Ph.D. at Charles Uni in Fall 2019)