«Dialogue modeling in the Google wizard and possible applications in teaching»
Enrique AlfonsecaAbstract
In this conference, the researcher will describe how Google conversational search works, including the main challenges in transferring technologies originally developed for search on a screen with typed queries to the voice search paradigm, with or without visual support. It will pay special attention to the educational uses of the assistant, present a possible long-term vision of a teaching «assistant» and talk about the research challenges in making them a reality.
Bio
Enrique Alfonseca is a research manager at Google and leads a team working on «conversational search» for the Google search and wizard. He has held other positions in the same company since 2007, in the areas of Advertising Quality, Web Search Ranking and Natural Language Processing. He is the author of more than 75 publications in international conferences and magazines (see Google Scholar profile). He holds a PhD from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2003) in Natural Language Processing and a post-doc from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (2006).
