Communications

Dr. Sophie Rosset is a CNRS Senior Researcher (DR2) at LIMSI (Orsay, France), where she is responsible for the research activities "Robust analysis of spoken language and dialog systems" in the Spoken Language Processing group. Her graduate and post-graduate research focus on spoken language dialog systems, interactive spoken question-answering and information extraction and management from large-scale textual and noisy data. She is the author or co-authopr of original methods and tools to manage dialog and extract information in an error-prone environment. She has also co-designed methods to acquire, develop, annotate and validate corpora for various natural language processing. In the past few years, she has been prime contributor to the LIMSI participation in Question Answering on Speech Transcript evaluations (QA@CLEF) where the LIMSI systems obtained the best results in 2008 and 2009 (French, English, Spanish), she led the first project on dialog system in open-domain for which she designed original methods to represent semantic and technical information conveyed by the user-system interaction. She was responsible of the Named Entity activities within the Quaero program (on both technological and resources creation sides) and the French Edylex project. She is responsible for the Conversational Agent workpackage within the Patient Genesys project. She is the author or co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications.

Torsten Möller is a professor at the University of Vienna, Austria, since 2013. Between 1999 and 2012 he served as a Computing Science faculty member at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He received his PhD in Computer and Information Science from Ohio State University in 1999 and a Vordiplom (BSc) in mathematical computer science from Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. He is a senior member of IEEE and ACM, and a member of Eurographics. His research interests include algorithms and tools for analyzing and displaying data with principles rooted in computer graphics, human-computer interaction, image processing, machine learning and visualization.

He heads the research group on Visualization and Data Analysis. He served as the appointed Vice Chair for Publications of the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) between 2003 and 2012. He has served on a number of program committees and has been papers co-chair for IEEE Visualization, EuroVis, Graphics Interface, and the Workshop on Volume Graphics as well as the Visualization track of the 2007 International Symposium on Visual Computing. He has also co-organized the 2004 Workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Scientific Visualization, Computer Graphics, and Massive Data Exploration as well as the 2010 Workshop on Sampling and Reconstruction: Applications and Advances at the Banff International Research Station, Canada. He is a co-founding chair of the Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis). In 2010, he was the recipient of the NSERC DAS award. He received best paper awards from IEEE Conference on Visualization (1997), Symposium on Geometry Processing (2008), and EuroVis (2010), as well as two second best paper awards from EuroVis (2009, 2012). In 2016 he received the Teaching Award from the University of Vienna.