Carlos A. Gómez Gallo
Ph.D. Candidate
Departments of Computer Science and Linguistics
 
 




- Ph.D. Candidate Computer Science and Linguistics, University of Rochester. USA. 
- M.S. in Computer Science, University of Rochester, USA, 2005.
- Visiting Student, University of Sheffield, UK 2003.  
- B.A. with Honors, in Industrial Engineering. New Mexico State University, 2001. 
- Visiting Student, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, 2000. 





- Brain and Cognitive Science Department. 
- Center for Language Studies
- Conversational Interaction and Spoken Dialogue Research Group
- Center for Computation and Brain
 




I am currently TA’ing LIN220 Experimental Syntax. Check BlackBoard for Syllabus. 



I have taught courses to high school students at Rochester Scholars Outreach Program, as well as help students from minority groups apply to graduate studies through the McNair Program. I also perform Cuban Salsa called ‘Rueda’ at benefit concerts locally. 




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I am a fifth year Ph.D. student at the University of Rochester. My research interests lay in the area of natural language processing, both understanding and production. I have done research in areas such as dialogue modeling, intention recognition and fragment understanding. My advisor is James Allen with whom I am working on understanding non sentential utterances within a continuous understanding framework.
 
Raised in Colombia, I started my university studies in sciences at Universidad de Los Andes. Three years after transferring to New Mexico State University I obtained a B.S. with Honors in Industrial Engineering and minor in Mathematics. Involved with the Computing Research Laboratory, I worked under the supervision of Dr. Ron Zacharzki. My interests in dialogue modeling and human-computer interaction started with a project called MARINA, a language tutor agent which guides students into a series of tasks in the learning of foreign languages.

At this point, I continued my studies on computational linguistics at the University of Sheffield where I worked on the european project FASiL. There, under the supervision of Prof. Yorick Wilks, I was concerned with the development a multi-modal Virtual Personal Assistant which would ultimately manage a user's personal information such as email, daily planner, and contacts. In this project, one of our goals was to provide an email summarization, particularly in the case of threaded email interaction.

I am also interested in experimental linguistics, psycholinguists, and how we can model language abilities by using automated dialogue agents.
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