DANIEL ROUSSEAU

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Personality of Synthetic Agents in Virtual Worlds
  
• Simulation of Human Behaviors, especially Conversations
  
• Human-Computer Interaction
  
• Natural Language Processing
  
• Reasoning on Mental States
  

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Montreal, 1995
  Dissertation: Modeling and Simulating Conversations in a Multi-Agent Universe (French)
  
• M.Sc. Computer Science, Laval University, 1988
  Dissertation: Planners Simulating Characters in Narrative Texts (French)
  
• B.Sc. Computer Science and Management, Laval University, 1985
  

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Research Scholar, Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, September 1995 - 1997
  • Currently working on the Virtual Theater project supervised by Barbara Hayes-Roth
  • Using C++, implemented a personality model for synthetic actors receiving directions and improvising their behavior in multimedia environments
  • Organized weekly meetings of the research team (15 members)
    
• International Fellow, AI Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, January - April 1994
  • Worked on Phil Cohen's speech act theory and on his Open Agent Architecture project
  • Modified agents able to recognize natural language (speech and text) in a multi-agent system providing services such as phone and email management
    
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science and Operational Research, University of Montreal, September - December 1992
  • Responsible of an undergraduate course in computer science on Data Structures
    
• Research Assistant, Department of Philosophy, UQTR, Trois-Rivières, January - July 1991
  • Proposed an approach to use Daniel Vanderveken's speech act theory and John Sowa's conceptual graphs in a computer system to simulate conversations
    
• Research Associate, AI Research Laboratory, Laval University, February 1988 - August 1991
  • Using Prolog, implemented a deontic knowledge acquisition system for analyzing French regulation texts, a graphical user interface (GUI), a graphical editor to design computer systems, and a metacompiler based on a grammar of BNF grammars
  • Supervised undergraduate and graduate students
    
• Teaching / Research Assistant, Computer Science Department, Laval University, September 1985 - April 1987
  • Assisted undergraduate students and evaluated assignments and exams for courses on Software Engineering and Algorithms
  • Wrote a technical report on natural language understanding systems
    

AWARDS AND HONORS

Received Fellowships or Scholarships from the following organizations:

• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
  • Postdoctoral (1995-1997), Ph.D. (1991-1993)
    
• "Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l'Aide à la Recherche au Québec" (FCAR)
  • Ph.D. (1993-1994), Master's (1986-1987)
    
• University of Montreal
  • Ph.D. (1991-1994)
    

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence)
• ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)
• APIIQ (Association Professionnelle des Informaticiens et Informaticiennes du Québec)
  

OTHER INFORMATION

• Coded extensively in Prolog, C++, Pascal, Basic, and Fortran
• Familiar with Lisp, C, and HTML
• Used Unix, MacOS, and Windows 95
  

LIST OF DANIEL ROUSSEAU'S PUBLICATIONS

Contribution to a Collective Book

Moulin B., Rousseau D. (1996).  "An Approach for Modelling and Simulating Conversations."  Essays in Speech Act Theory, D. Vanderveken and D. Kubo eds, John Benjamins Publishing Company. Also Technical Report DIUL-RR-9402, Laval University, Computer Science Department, May 1994.

Refereed Papers in Journals

Rousseau D., Moulin B., Lapalme G. (1997).  "Interpreting Communicative Acts and Building a Conversation Model." To be published in Journal on Natural Language Engineering.

Rousseau D., Hayes-Roth B. (1997).  "La personnalité dans les acteurs synthétiques."  To be published in Analyse de Systèmes. Also Technical Report KSL-96-28, Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, 1996.

Moulin B., Rousseau D. (1994).  "SACD: a System for Acquiring Knowledge from Regulatory Texts."  In International Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering, Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 131-149.

Rousseau D. (1993).  "Un mécanisme de coopération entre agents: le dialogue."  In Analyse de Systèmes, Vol. 19, Nos. 1-2, March-June 1993, pp. 93-119.

Moulin B., Rousseau D. (1992).  "Automated Knowledge Acquisition from Regulatory Texts."  In IEEE Expert Intelligent Systems & their Applications, Vol. 7, No. 5, October 1992, pp. 27-35.

Moulin B., Rousseau D. (1990).  "Designing Deontic Knowledge Bases from Regulation Texts."  In Knowledge-Based Systems Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2, June 1990, pp. 108-120.

Moulin B., Rousseau D. (1990).  "Un outil pour l'acquisition des connaissances à partir de textes prescriptifs."  In Magazine ICO Québec, Vol. 2, No. 6, February 1990, pp. 27-42.

Refereed Papers in Conferences

Rousseau D., Moulin B. (1996).  "Une approche multi-agent pour la modélisation et la simulation de conversations."  Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Science and Natural Language ILN'96, Université de Nantes, France, October 1996, pp. 531-558.

Moulin B, Rousseau D., Lapalme G. (1994).  "A Multi-Agent Approach for Modelling Conversations."  Proceedings of the International Avignon Conference AI 94, Natural Language Processing Sub-Conference, Paris, France, June 1994, pp. 35-50.

Rousseau D., Moulin B., Lapalme G. (1994).  "Une approche multi-agent pour modéliser les conversations."  Proceedings of the Second French Days on Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Multi-agent Systems, Voiron, France, May 1994, pp. 3-14.

Rousseau D., Moulin B., Lapalme G. (1993).  "Modélisation des conversations basée sur une perspective de systèmes multi-agents."  Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Science and Natural Language ILN'93, Université de Nantes, France, December 1993, pp. 129-150.

Moulin B., Rousseau D. (1992).  "Traitement des renvois dans les textes prescriptifs pour l'élaboration des connaissances déontiques."  Proceedings of the International Conference on Expert Systems and their Applications, Avignon, France, June 1992.

Moulin B., Rousseau D. (1991).  "Structuration d'une base de connaissances à partir des connaissances extraites de textes prescriptifs."  Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Science and Natural Language ILN'91, Université de Nantes, France, December January 1991, pp. 129-150.

Moulin B., Rousseau D. (1990).  "Knowledge Acquisition from Prescriptive Texts."  Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems IEA/AI/-90, Charleston, July 1990.

Moulin B., Rousseau D. (1990).  "Structuration d'une base de connaissances déontiques à partir du contenu de textes prescriptifs."  Proceedings of the International Conference on Expert Systems and their Applications, Avignon, France, May 1990.

Moulin B., Rousseau D. (1989).  "Analyse de textes prescriptifs pour la génération de bases de connaissances déontiques."  Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Computer Science in Organizations ICO'89, L'interdisciplinaire, Quebec City, Canada, June 1989.

Moulin B., Rousseau D. (1989).  "Conception de bases de connaissances déontiques pour la consultation de textes de règlement."  Proceedings of the International Conference on Expert Systems and their Applications, Avignon, France, May 1989.

Boulet M.-M., Moulin B., Pierre R., Rousseau D., Simian G. (1988).  "Logiciel d'aide à la conception de bases de connaissances déontiques à partir de l'analyse de textes de règlement."  Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Language Description in Computer Applications, Research center on bilinguism, Quebec City, Canada, December 1988.

Workshops and Symposia

Rousseau D., Moulin B. (1997).  "Mixed Initiative in Interactions between Software Agents."  Proceedings of the 1997 Spring Symposium on Computer Models for Mixed Initiative Interaction, AAAI Press, Portland, Oregon, March 1997.

Rousseau D. (1996).  "Personality in Computer Characters."  Proceedings of the 1996 AAAI Workshop on Entertainment and AI / A-Life, AAAI Press, Portland, Oregon, August 1996, pp. 38-43.

Rousseau D., Moulin B., Lapalme G. (1994).  "Representation and Simulation of Conversations."  Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Natural Language Understanding in Integrated Systems, Stanford University, California, March 1994.

Rousseau D., Moulin B., Lapalme G. (1994).  "Believable Agents in Conversations."  Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Believable Agents, Stanford University, California, March 1994, pp. 73-77.

Rousseau D., Lapalme G., Moulin B. (1993).  "A Model of Speech Act Planner Adapted to Multi-Agent Universes."  Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Intentionality and Structure in Discourse Relations, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, June 1993, pp. 110-113.

Moulin B., Rousseau D. (1991).  "Extracting Logical Knowledge from Prescriptive Texts in order to Build Deontic Knowledge Bases."  Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems, Banff, Canada, November 1991.

Moulin B., Rousseau D., Vanderveken D. (1991).  "Speech Acts in a Connected Discourse: a Semantic Representation based on the Conceptual Graph Theory."  Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Workshop on Conceptual Graphs, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York, July 1991, pp. 269-281.

Moulin B., Rousseau D. (1990).  "A Knowledge Acquisition System for Analyzing Prescriptive Texts."  Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems, Banff, Canada, November 1990.

Technical Reports

Rousseau D., Hayes-Roth B. (1996).  Personality in Synthetic Agents.  Technical Report KSL 96-21, Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University.

Rousseau D. (1995).  Modélisation et simulation de conversations dans un univers multi-agent.  Ph.D. dissertation and Technical Report # 993, Department of Computer Science and Operational Research, University of Montreal.

Moulin B., Rousseau D. (1990).  A Knowledge Acquisition System for Analyzing Prescriptive Texts.  Technical Report DIUL-RR-9012, Laval University, Computer Science Department.

Moulin B., Rousseau D. (1990).  SACD: un système d'acquisition de connaissances déontiques.  Technical Report accepted by CEFRIO, Laval University.

Côté D., Rousseau D., Moulin B. (1989).  METACOMP2: un métacompilateur pour la génération de compilateurs de grammaires sans contexte.  Technical Report DIUL-RR-8901, Laval University, Computer Science Department.

Moulin B., Rousseau D. (1989).  Un système d'acquisition des connaissances pour le traitement de textes prescriptifs.  Technical report accepted by CEFRIO, Laval University.

Moulin B., Rousseau D. (1988).  Utilisation d'un métacompilateur à base d'arbres infinis en prolog II.  Technical Report DIUL-RR-8803, Laval University, Computer Science Department.