Marilyn Walker
Professor, Computer Science
Baskin School of Engineering
1156 High St
Mail Stop SOE3
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Phone Number: 831-459-1058
Department: Computer Science
Office Location: Engineering 2, Room 267
Office Hours: Tuesday 2-4PM
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Degrees
- Ph.D. Computer and Information Science, 1993 University of Pennsylvania.
- M.S. Computer Science, 1987, Stanford University
- B.A. Computer and Information Science, University of California Santa Cruz
Research Areas
Dialogue Systems, Natural Language Processing, Computer games, Human-Computer Interaction, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Selected Publications
- Controlling User Perceptions of Linguistic Style: Trainable Generation of Personality Traits. François Mairesse and Marilyn Walker. Computational Linguistics, 2011.
- An Application of Reinforcement Learning to Dialogue Strategy Selection in a Spoken Dialogue System for Email. Marilyn Walker. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, JAIR, Vol 12., pp. 387-416, 2000.
- Towards Personality-Based User Adaptation: Psychologically Informed Stylistic Language Generation. François Mairesse and Marilyn Walker. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 20:3, pages 227-278, 2010.
- An Unsupervised Method for Learning Generation Dictionaries for Spoken Dialogue Systems by Mining User Reviews. Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Marilyn Walker and Rashmi Prasad. Journal of ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, 2007.
- Learning Content Selection Rules for Generating Object Descriptions in Dialogue. Pam Jordan and Marilyn Walker. In Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Vol 24, pp. 157-194, 2005.
Current and Future Classes
Winter 2012
- CMPS 10: Introduction to Computer Science
- CMPS 280Z: Seminar in Natural Language Processing and Dialogue
Spring 2012
- CMPS 245: Computational Models of Discourse and Dialogue
- CMPS 280Z: Seminar in Natural Language Processing and Dialogue
Fall 2012
Winter 2013
- CMPS 10: Introduction to Computer Science
- CMPS 280Z: Seminar in Natural Language Processing and Dialogue
Spring 2013
Students & Researchers
- Robert Abbott (Graduate)
- Jason Aumiller (Graduate)
- Petar Bojinov (Undergraduate)
- Michael Buell (Undergraduate)
- Jason Erickson (Graduate)
- Gabrielle Manya Halberg (Graduate)
- Zhichao Hu (Graduate)
- Grace I. Lin (Graduate)
- Stephanie Marie Lukin (Graduate)
- Michael Minor (Undergraduate)
- Ranjana Rajendran (Graduate)
- Reid Weber (Undergraduate)
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