Helping readers browse through linked documents

Dr Cecile Paris (CSIRO ICT Centre)

COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMINAR iHcc: information and Human-centred computing

DATE: 2011-06-09
TIME: 11:00:00 - 12:00:00
LOCATION: CSIT Seminar Room, N101
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ABSTRACT:
With the continuous growth of information and its high connectivity, it is hard to browse through large interconnected information spaces to learn about a topic, knowing when to follow what links and not to get lost in hyperspace. Our aim is to support people who read documents in a highly connected information space, helping them remain on focus. Our contextually-aware in-browser text summarisation tool does this by capturing usersa current interests and providing users with contextualised summaries of linked documents, to help them decide whether the link is worth following. In this talk, I will present two prototype systems that illustrate this concept: IBES supports a user reading Wikipedia articles, and CSIBS supports researchers in their browsing scientific material.
BIO:
Dr CAcile Paris is the Science Leader for Human Computer Interaction at CSIRO ICT Centre, and the research leader for the team aSearch, Language and Social Mediaa. She is also an Adjunct Professor at ANU Research School of Computer Science.

CAcile received her PhD in Artificial Intelligence (Natural Language Processing & User Modelling) in 1987 from Columbia University. She joined the Information Sciences Institute (ISI), a research laboratory in Marina del Rey (Los Angeles, Ca), where she stayed until 1996, working on computational linguistics for knowledge based systems. She then moved to the UK (ITRI, at the University of Brighton, UK), where she worked on multilingual generation systems. She joined CSIRO late 1996.

Her main research interests lie in the areas of Language Technology, User Modelling and Human-Computer Interaction. She studies language and communication issues. In recent years, her work has included summarisation and the exploration of Web 2.0 technologies.

Dr Paris' thesis research represented the fist major work in user modelling and text generation, and her work on discourse planning for dialogue systems has been the basis for a number of other generation and multimodal presentation systems and research internationally.

Dr Paris has published widely and is very active in the research community in Australia and abroad. She is the current chair of the national professional organisation in human computer interaction, CHISIG, and the Programme Chair for OZCHI 2011.