Joana Paulo Pardal

L2F - INESC-ID

Joana Paulo Pardal in 2001 from IST, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. She received an MSc degree in 2004 also from IST. In 2006 she started her PhD work also at IST on Dynamic Integration of Ontologies in Generic Spoken Dialogue Systems, with Nuno J. Mamede, H. Sofia Pinto and James F. Allen as advisors. She has been a Lecturer at IST since 2002 and a researcher at the Spoken Language Systems Laboratory (L²F) of INESC-ID since 2001. She participates on «Dialogs on Dialogs» Reading Group at CMU. In 2004 she was at GRIL, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand, France. In 2006 she spent the Fall in the University of Rochester, NY, USA. In 2008 she spent the Fall and Winter in Cambridge, MA, USA where her husband worked and the Auto-ID Lab at MIT. During that time she visited Rochester, NY once in a while. She is a member of ISCA (International Speech Communication Association), ACL (The Association for Computational Linguistics) and AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence).