Gabriel Skantze

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Lindstedtsv. 24
100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
Work: +46 (8) 790 7874
Fax: +46 (8) 790 7854
Email: gabriel@speech.kth.se

KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
TMH - Dept of Speech, Music and Hearing

I am a researcher in speech communication and technology at the Department of Speech Music and Hearing at KTH in Stockholm. My main area of interest is to develop conversational systems and to study how people interact with such systems. There are two research areas that I am specifically interested in: Incremental processing and Face-to-face interaction. Incremental processing allows conversational agents and robots to listen and "think" simulatenously, which means that they may give feedback while the user is speaking and handle turn-taking better. It also allows them to speak and "think" at the same time, which means that they may start to speak before knowing exactly what to say. For this line of research, I have recently received a 4 year funding from the Swedish Research Council for a project called Incremental processing in multimodal conversational systems.

Me talking to our robot head Furhat at the London Science Museum festival Robotville.

Current research projects

• IURO: Interactive Urban Robot (EU)
• Situated Audio-Visual Interaction with Robots (KTH)

Awards

• I received the Best Paper Award at SIGdial 2010 together with Anna Hjalmarsson for the paper Towards Incremental Speech Generation in Spoken Dialogue Systems.

Reviewer (2011)

• Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
• Workshop Series on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial)
• International Workshop Series on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS)
• Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
• Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
• International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE)

Workshop organisation

• Organiser (with Jens Edlund, Joakim Gustafson and Anna Hjalmarsson):
  DiaHolmia: The 13th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue
  Stockholm, Sweden, Jun. 2009
• Organiser (with Rolf Carlson, Julia Hirschberg and Marc Swerts):
  ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Error Handling in Spoken Dialogue Systems
  Chateau-d'Oex, Switzerland, Aug. 2003