Ondřej Dušek

Main Research Interests

• Natural language generation
  • PhD thesis on NLG in spoken dialogue systems
• Spoken dialogue systems and chatbots
• Machine translation
• Machine learning
• Syntax and valency

Projects

Current

I am currently a post-doc in the Interaction Lab at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. I am working on the following projects:

• DILiGENt – natural language generation
• MaDrIgAL – spoken dialogue systems
• Alexa Prize Challenge – chatbots

Past

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