Prof Ingrid Zukerman - Researcher Profile

Ingrid Zukerman

Address

Faculty of Information Technology
Monash University, Clayton

Contact Details

Tel: +61 3 990 55202

Email: Ingrid.Zukerman@monash.edu


Biography

Ingrid works in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University as a Professor.

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Research & Supervision Interests

Keywords

Artificial intelligence, Discourse planning, Multi-media interfaces, Natural language processing, Plan recognition, User modeling

Qualifications

COMPUTER SCIENCE
Institution: UCLA
Year awarded: 1986
OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Institution: Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology
Year awarded: 1979
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
Institution: Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology
Year awarded: 1976

Publications

Book Chapters

Zukerman, I., 2010, Arguing with a Bayesian Intelligence, in Heuristics, Probability and Causality: A Tribute to Judea Pearl, eds Rina Dechter, Hector Geffner and Joseph Y Halpern, College Publications, London UK, pp. 271-292.

Zukerman, I., 2009, Towards probabilistic argumentation, in Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence, eds Iyad Rahwan and Guillermo R Simari, Springer Science+Business Media, New York NY USA, pp. 443-462.

Journal Articles

Seroussi, Y., Smyth, R., Zukerman, I., 2011, Ghosts from the High Court's past: Evidence from computational linguistics for Dixon ghosting for McTiernan and Rich, University of New South Wales Law Journal [P], vol 34, issue 3, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 984-1005.

Elzer, S., Carberry, S., Zukerman, I., 2011, The automated understanding of simple bar charts, Artificial Intelligence [P], vol 175, issue 2, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 526-555.

Marom, Y., Zukerman, I., 2009, An empirical study of corpus-based response automation methods for an e-mail-based help-desk domain, Computational Linguistics [P], vol 35, issue 4, MIT Press, Cambridge MA USA, pp. 597-635.

Conference Proceedings

Seroussi, Y., Bohnert, F., Zukerman, I., 2012, Authorship attribution with author-aware topic models, 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the Conference, Volume 2: Short Papers, 8 July 2012 to 14 July 2012, Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg PA USA, pp. 264-269.

Cao, M.D., Zukerman, I., 2012, Experimental evaluation of lexicon-and corpus-based ensemble for multi-way sentiment analysis, Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2012, 4 December 2012 to 6 December 2012, Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg PA USA, pp. 52-60.

Bohnert, F., Zukerman, I., Laures, J., 2012, GECKOmmender: Personalised theme and tour recommendations for museums, User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization: 20th International Conference, Proceedings, 16 July 2012 to 20 July 2012, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 26-37.

Bohnert, F., Zukerman, I., Albrecht, D.W., 2012, Realistic simulation of museum visitors' movements as a tool for assessing sensor-based user models, User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization: 20th International Conference, Proceedings, 16 July 2012 to 20 July 2012, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 14-25.

Larizza, M., Zukerman, I., Bohnert, F., Russell, R.A., Busija, L., Albrecht, D.W., Rees, G., 2012, Studies to determine user requirements regarding in-home monitoring systems, User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization: 20th International Conference, Proceedings, 16 July 2012 to 20 July 2012, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 139-150.

Seroussi, Y., Zukerman, I., Bohnert, F., 2011, Authorship attribution with Latent Dirichlet Allocation, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 23 June 2011 to 24 June 2011, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Stroudsburg PA USA, pp. 181-189.

Baldwin, T., Ye, P., Bohnert, F., Zukerman, I., 2011, In situ text summarisation for museum visitors, Proceedings of the 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 16 December 2011 to 18 December 2011, Institute for Digital Enhancement of Cognitive Development, Waseda University, Tokyo Japan, pp. 372-381.

Bohnert, F., Zukerman, I., Albrecht, D.W., Baldwin, T., 2011, Modelling and predicting movements of museum visitors: A simulation framework for assessing the impact of sensor noise on model performance, Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization & Recommender Systems, 16 July 2011, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Aachen Germany, pp. 49-56.

Seroussi, Y., Bohnert, F., Zukerman, I., 2011, Personalised rating prediction for new users using latent factor models, Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, 6 June 2011 to 9 June 2011, ACM, New York NY USA, pp. 47-56.

Zukerman, I., Mani, A.P., Li, Z., Jarvis, R.A., 2011, Speaking and pointing - from simulations to the laboratory, The 7th IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems: Proceedings, 17 July 2011, AAAI Press, Palo Alto CA USA, pp. 64-70.

Bickerstaffe, A.C., Zukerman, I., 2010, A hierarchical classifier applied to multi-way sentiment detection, Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 23 August 2010 to 27 August 2010, Tsinghua University Press, Beijing China, pp. 62-70.

Bohnert, F., Zukerman, I., 2010, A user-and item-aware weighting scheme for combining predictive user models, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization, 20 June 2010 to 24 June 2010, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 99-110.

Seroussi, Y., Zukerman, I., Bohnert, F., 2010, Collaborative inference of sentiments from texts, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization, 20 June 2010 to 24 June 2010, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 195-206.

Kowadlo, G., Ye, P.J., Zukerman, I., 2010, Influence of gestural salience on the interpretation of spoken requests, Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 26 September 2010 to 30 September 2010, Causal Productions Pty Ltd, Adelaide SA Australia, pp. 2034-2037.

Zukerman, I., Kowadlo, G., Ye, P.J., 2010, Interpreting pointing gestures and spoken requests - A probabilistic, salience-based approach, Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Posters Volume, 23 August 2010 to 27 August 2010, Tsinghua University Press, Beijing China, pp. 1558-1566.

Bohnert, F., Zukerman, I., 2010, Personalised pathway prediction, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization, 20 June 2010 to 24 June 2010, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 363-368.

Bohnert, F., Zukerman, I., 2009, A computer-supported methodology for recording and visualising visitor behaviour in museums, Adjunct Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, 22 June 2009 to 26 June 2009, UM Inc, Trento Italy, pp. 1-6.

Schmidt, D.F., Zukerman, I., Albrecht, D.W., 2009, Assessing the impact of measurement uncertainty on user models in spatial domains, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2009), 22 June 2009 to 26 June 2009, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 210-222.

Zukerman, I., Makalic, E., Niemann, M.M., 2009, Interpreting two-utterance requests in a spoken dialogue system, Proceedings of the 6th IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, 12 July 2009, AAAI Press, Pasadena CA USA, pp. 19-27.

Bohnert, F., Zukerman, I., 2009, Non-intrusive personalisation of the museum experience, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2009), 22 June 2009 to 26 June 2009, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 197-209.

Bohnert, F., Schmidt, D.F., Zukerman, I., 2009, Spatial processes for recommender systems, Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2009), 11 July 2009 to 17 July 2009, AAAI Press and IJCAI, Menlo Park CA USA, pp. 2022-2027.

Ye, P.J., Zukerman, I., 2009, Towards interpreting task-oriented utterance sequences, Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Joint Conference AI 2009: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 1 December 2009 to 4 December 2009, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 607-616.

Zukerman, I., Ye, P.J., Gupta, K.K., Makalic, E., 2009, Towards the interpretation of utterance sequences in a dialogue system, Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference: The 10th Annual Meeting of Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 11 September 2009 to 12 September 2009, The Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg PA USA, pp. 46-53.

Bohnert, F., Zukerman, I., Schmidt, D.F., 2009, Using Gaussian spatial processes to model and predict interests in museum exhibits, Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization and Recommender Systems (ITWP 2009), 11 July 2009, M Jeusfeld, Aachen Germany, pp. 13-19.

Bohnert, F., Zukerman, I., 2009, Using keyword-based approaches to adaptively predict interest in museum exhibits, Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Joint Conference AI 2009: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 1 December 2009 to 4 December 2009, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 656-665.

Teaching Commitment

Professor Ingrid Zukerman is the Chief Examiner for the following units in the Faculty of IT;

  • FIT4009 - Advanced topics in intelligent systems
  • FIT9005 - Computer architecture and networks

Ingrid teaches the following units in the Faculty of IT;

  • FIT4009 - Advanced topics in intelligent systems
  • FIT9005 - Computer architecture and networks

Grants

Title:
1) to Chair the Natural Language Generation Session At Aaa197 - the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Rhode Island, Usa 2) Co-author of a Paper to Be Presented At the Ua197 -.
Investigators:
Zukerman, I
Funding:
(1997 - 1997). Monash University.
Title:
A Bayesian Approach to Deception Detection and Generation.
Investigators:
Zukerman, I
Funding:
(2000 - 2000). Australian Research Council (ARC).
Title:
A Minimum Message Length Approach for Discourse Interpretation.
Investigators:
Zukerman, I
Funding:
(2003 - 2009). Australian Research Council (ARC).
(2003 - 2009). Monash University.
Title:
A progressive study of user and sensor models for monitoring and assisting elderly people, focusing on the visually impaired.
Investigators:
Zukerman, I, Russell, R, Rees, G, Lamoureux, E, Alexandersson, J
Funding:
(2010 - 2014). Australian Research Council (ARC).
(2010 - 2014). Meticube, Lda.
(2010 - 2014). Monash University.
(2010 - 2014). Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth).
Title:
Automated Argument Generation and Understanding.
Investigators:
Zukerman, I, Korb, K
Funding:
(1999 - 2003). Australian Research Council (ARC).
Title:
Automatic Acquisition of Language Structure.
Investigators:
Zukerman, I, Oliver, J
Funding:
(1997 - 2001). Australian Telecommunications & Electronics Research Board.
Title:
Automatic generation of argumentation in technical domains.
Investigators:
Zukerman, I, Korb, K
Funding:
(1995 - 1999). Australian Research Council (ARC).
Title:
Centre of Research Excellence for Perceptive and Intelligent Machines in Complex Environments.
Investigators:
Jarvis, R, Kleeman, L, Russell, R, Suter, D, Morgan, D, Zukerman, I, Venkatesh, S, West, G, Srinivasan, M, Moffat, A, Sterling, L, Stuckey, P, Kotagiri, R, Shirai, Y, Shirazi, B, Wang, H, Christensen, H, Caelli, T, Kumar, M, Dillmann, R, Murphy, R, Croft, W
Funding:
(2003 - 2007). Australian Research Council (ARC).
Title:
Computer modeling to investigate the feasibility of low-cost devices for monitoring daily living in elderly and disabled people.
Investigators:
Zukerman, I, Rees, G, Russell, R, Lamoureux, E
Funding:
(2009 - 2013). Helen Macpherson Smith Trust.
Title:
Deja-Vu - A mechanism for constructing dialogue memory for resource-bounded agents.
Investigators:
Zukerman, I, Burg, B
Funding:
(2003 - 2007). Australian Research Council (ARC).
(2003 - 2007). Hewlett-Packard Australia Limited.
(2003 - 2007). Monash University.
(2006 - 2010). Australian Research Council (ARC).
(2006 - 2010). Hewlett-Packard Australia Limited.
(2008 - 2012). Australian Research Council (ARC).
Title:
Domain modelling for plan recognition in dynamic, complex domains.
Investigators:
Zukerman, I, Nicholson, A
Funding:
(1996 - ). Australian Research Council (ARC).
Title:
Dynamic user modelling and personalized content delivery in a museum.
Investigators:
Zukerman, I, Baldwin, T, Sonenberg, L
Funding:
(2009 - 2013). Monash University.
Title:
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence '99 and Workshops.
Investigators:
Zukerman, I
Funding:
(1999 - 1999). Monash University.
Title:
Media selection and coordination in the generation of multi-media explanations.
Investigators:
Zukerman, I
Funding:
(1994 - 1998). Australian Research Council (ARC).
Title:
Multi-sensory Fusion and Understanding in Robotic Assistive Technology Environments.
Investigators:
Jarvis, R, Zukerman, I, Alexandersson, J, Shirai, Y
Funding:
(2008 - 2012). Australian Research Council (ARC).
Title:
Query interpretation and response generation in large on-line resources.
Investigators:
Zukerman, I, Raskutti, B, Wen, Y
Funding:
(2002 - 2006). Telstra Corporation Ltd.
(2008 - 2012). Telstra Corporation Ltd.
Title:
Query interpretation and response generation in large on-line resources.
Investigators:
Zukerman, I, Raskutti, B
Funding:
(2002 - 2006). Australian Research Council (ARC).
Title:
Responding to requests and situations in assistive computer systems - A decision-theoretic approach.
Investigators:
Zukerman, I, Albrecht, D
Funding:
(2012 - 2016). Australian Research Council (ARC).
(2012 - 2016). Monash University.
Title:
Sentiment detection from opinion surveys -- the quest for customer and employee satisfaction.
Investigators:
Zukerman, I
Funding:
(2008 - 2012). Australian Research Council (ARC).
(2008 - 2012). GAPbuster Worldwide.
(2008 - 2012). Monash University.
Title:
To Present a Papers At the Aaai 98, the Cognitive Science Society Xx and the Inlg Ix, Wisconsin, Ontario.
Investigators:
Zukerman, I
Funding:
(1998 - 1998). Monash University.
Title:
Towards realistic verbal interactions between people and computers -- A probabilistic approach.
Investigators:
Zukerman, I
Funding:
(2011 - 2015). Australian Research Council (ARC).
(2011 - 2015). Monash University.
Title:
Dynamic personalisation fr assisted navigation of information rich, physical environments.
Investigators:
Zukerman, I, Baldwin, T, Sonenberg, E, Balbo, S, Bird, S
Funding:
(2007 - 2011). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Disambiguation and multilinguality enabled sentiment analysis.
Supervisors:
Zukerman, I (Joint-co).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Named Entities and Relations Extraction from Medical Records.
Supervisors:
Zukerman, I (Main).

Completed Supervision

Student:
Bohnert, F.
Program of Study:
Non-intrusive user modelling and behaviour prediction in museums. (PHD) 2010.
Supervisors:
Zukerman, I (Main).
Student:
Graetsch, U.
Program of Study:
AN ANALYSIS OF PERSONA INTERFACE AGENTS. 2000.
Supervisors:
Zukerman, I (Main).
Student:
Guttmann, C.
Program of Study:
Collective iterative allocation. (PHD) 2008.
Supervisors:
Georgeff, M (Main), Srinivasan, B (Associate), Zukerman, I (Associate).
Student:
Kao, S.
Program of Study:
Transformation of Free Form Text to Structural Text. (Masters) 2004.
Supervisors:
Hurst, A (Main), Zukerman, I (Associate).
Student:
Seroussi, Y.
Program of Study:
Text mining and rating prediction with topical user models. (PHD) 2012.
Supervisors:
Zukerman, I (Main), Bohnert, F (Associate).
Student:
Thomas, I.
Program of Study:
AN INFORMATION-THEORETIC APPROACH TO SPEECH RECOGNITION. (PHD) 2004.
Supervisors:
Zukerman, I (Main), Albrecht, D (Associate).