Michael F. McTear

Michael McTear is Emeritus Professor of Knowledge Engineering at theUniversity of Ulster with a special research interest in spoken language technologies.He graduated in German Language and Literature from Queens University Belfastin 1965, was awarded MA in Linguistics at University of Essex in 1975, and a PhD atthe University of Ulster in 1981. He has been Visiting Professor at the University ofHawaii (1986-87), the University of Koblenz, Germany (1994-95), and University ofGranada, Spain (2006- 2010). He has been researching in the fi eld of spoken dialoguesystems for more than 15 years and is the author of the widely used text book SpokenDialogue Technology: Toward the Conversational User Interface (Springer Verlag, 2004). Healso is a co-author of the book Spoken Dialogue Systems (Morgan and Claypool, 2010).Michael has delivered keynote addresses at many conferences and workshops,including the EU funded DUMAS Workshop, Geneva, 2004, the SIGDial workshop,Lisbon, 2005, the Spanish Conference on Natural Language Processing (SEPLN),Granada, 2005, and has delivered invited tutorials at IEEE/ACL Conference onSpoken Language Technologies, Aruba, 2006, and ACL 2007, Prague. He haspresented on several occasions at SpeechTEK, a conference for speech technologyprofessionals, in New York and London. He is a certifi ed VoiceXML developer andhas taught VoiceXML at training courses to professionals from companies includingGenesys, Oracle, Orange, 3, Fujitsu, and Santander. He was the main developer ofthe VoiceXML-based home monitoring system for patients with type-2 diabetes,currently in use at the Ulster Hospital, Northern Ireland.