Michael Niemann

B.Arts Honours (Melb)
B.Science (Melb)
ACL, ALTA

Melbourne, Australia
Email: [email protected]

Fields of Interest

Linguistics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, autonomous agents, cognitive sciences, human-computer interaction, technology for the hearing and sight impaired, information management, quality assurance, technical writing, project managment.

Education

Bachelor of Arts with Honours (H1A grade) in Linguistics at the University of Melbourne, Australia
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Melbourne, Australia
Management training in Leadership Skills for Managers, Time Management for Business, and Effective Negotiation Skills for Business at the C.A.E., Melbourne, Australia

Employment

2004	Computational Linguist at CSSE, Monash University, Australia Part of the User Modelling and Natural Language research group under Dr Ingrid Zukerman. Design and development of linguistic components for the BIAS-II reasoning system. Design and development of linguistic components for a Q&A system. Background research, design and development of a dialogue system, especially in speech recognition. * homepage at Monash
1999-2003	Computational Linguist at ToggleText, Sandringham, Australia Worked on the design, development and testing for the Kataku English-Indonesian/English-Malay machine translation system.
1998-1999	Computational Linguist at Adacel Technologies, Brighton, Australia Worked on the development, testing and management for the Memtah Indonesian->English machine translation system.
Jan/Feb 1997	Summer intern at the Language Technology section of the Macquarie Research Institute, Macquarie University, Australia
Dec 1996	Experimented on agent technologies as an assistant to Prof. Leon Sterling, Department Head of Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Summer 1995/96	Summer intern at the CASALA project in the Bionic Ear Institute, Melbourne, Australia

Publications

George, S., Zukerman, I., and Niemann, M. (2005), Modeling Suppositions in Users' Arguments. In UM05 Proceedings -- the Tenth International Conference on User Modeling, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Niemann, M., George, S., and Zukerman, I. (2005), Towards a Probabilistic, Multi-layered Spoken Language Interpretation System. In 4th IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, pp. 8-15, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Kowalczyk, P., Zukerman, I., and Niemann, M. (2004), Analyzing the Effect of Query Class on Document Retrieval Performance. In AI'04 Proceedings -- the 17th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 550-561, Cairns, Australia.

Zukerman, I., Niemann, M., and George, S. (2004), Improving the Presentation of Argument Interpretations Based on User Trials. In AI'04 Proceedings -- the 17th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 550-561, Cairns, Australia.

George, S., Zukerman, I., and Niemann, M. (2004), An Anytime Algorithm for Interpreting Arguments. In PRICAI04 Proceedings -- the Eighth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 311-321, Auckland, New Zealand.

Niemann, M. (1998). "Resolving Prepositional Phrase Attachment Ambiguity using Lexical Preference and Semantic Association". Postgraduate Workshop -- NLP Fortnight, the University of Melbourne, Australia. (pdf version, ps version)

Niemann, M. (1997). Resolving Prepositional Phrase Attachment Ambiguity using Lexical Preference and Semantic Association. Honours Thesis. The University of Melbourne, Australia. (Word97/2000)

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