Defence
Science and Technology Organisation
I joined the Human Systems Integration Group at DSTO in 2002 as a Senior
Research Scientist, to lead a range of research projects in Interface
Technology, and especially the use of language technologies. In 2004, I established SARINA (Smart and
Rapid INformation Access for C2), in which we looked particularly at
multi-modality in dialogue systems (Andrews et al. 2006) and multi-lingual
language processing (Estival, 2005).
Previous projects included FOCAL, a semi-immersive
virtual environment, in which I was directly responsible for the NLP part of
the project, developing a spoken dialogue system with virtual characters
(Estival et al., 2003; Estival et al., 20004; Paris et al. 2004).
Under the Speech
Technology umbrella, I managed the Language Translation project (Estival and
Biggs 2002, 2003), in which we carried out the successful trial of the
“Language Translation Interface” in a multi-national military training exercise
(2004). This led to my being invited as
plenary speaker at the European Association for Machine Translation (2005).
Another project, in collaboration with Marilyn Cross, was the
"Intelligent Listener" (Cross et al., 2004; Cross and Estival, 2004),
following the successful trial of speech recognition technology in a complex
real-life military training environment.
FOCAL:
Future Operations Centre Analysis Laboratory
Presentations & Publications
·
Todd
Andrews, Michael Broughton and Dominique Estival. 2006. “Implementing an
Intelligent Multimedia Presentation Planner using an Agent Based Architecture”.
Workshop on Effective Multimodal Dialogue Interfaces. IUI Conference.
·
Dominique
Estival. 2005. “The Language Translation Interface”. Invited presentation at the meeting of the European Association for Machine Translation,
·
Cécile
Paris, Nathalie Colineau and Dominique Estival.
2004. "Intelligent Multi Media Presentation of information in a
semi-immersive Command and Control environment". Australasian Language
Technology Workshop,
·
Marilyn Cross and Dominique Estival. 2004. "The
"Intelligent Listener" in Collaborative Planning". 9th
International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium,
·
Dominique Estival, Chris
Nowak, Andrew Zschorn. 2004. "Towards Ontology-based Natural Language
Processing". RDF/RDFS and OWL in Language Technology: 4th Workshop on
NLP and XML (NLPXML-2004), ACL 2004,
·
Dominique Estival, Marilyn
Cross, Ahmad Hashemi-Sakhtsari. 2004. "Intelligent Listener - experimentation
in a live Headquarters". Defence Experimentation Symposium - 2004,
DSTO,
·
Oliver Carr and Dominique Estival. 2003. “Document Classification in Structured Military
Messages", Australasian Language
Technology Workshop.
·
Dominique Estival, Michael
Broughton, Andrew Zschorn, Elizabeth Pronger. 2003. "Spoken Dialogue
for Virtual Advisers in a semi-immersive Command and Control environment".
SIGdial Workshop, pp.125-134,
·
Dominique Estival and
Jennifer Biggs. 2003. “The Language Translation Interface and automated
language translation tools for the
·
Dominique Estival and Oliver
Carr. 2002. “Classification of Formatted Document”, 5th Australasian Natural
Language Processing Workshop,
·
Michael Broughton, Oliver
Carr, Paul Taplin, Dominique Estival, Steven Wark, Dale Lambert. 2002.
"Conversing with Franco, FOCAL’s Virtual Adviser". Human Factors
2002,
·
Jennifer
Biggs and Dominique Estival. 2002. “Language Translation Interface”. Defence
Human Factors SIG. Human Factors 2002,
·
Dominique
Estival. 2002. “Spoken Language Interfaces: from automated telephone systems to
virtual advisers”. Dept. of Computer Science,
Back to Main Page.