Daniel Ortega

2020

• D. Ortega, C.Y. Li and N.T. Vu. "Oh, Jeez! Or Uh-huh? A Listener-Aware Backchannel Predictor on ASR Transcriptions". In Proceedings of the 45th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2020.
• C.Y. Li, D. Ortega, D. Väth, F. Lux, L. Vanderlyn, M. Schmidt, M. Neumann, M. Völkel, P. Denisov, S. Jenne, Z. Kacarevic and N.T. Vu. "ADVISER: A Toolkit for Developing Multimodal, Multi-domain and Socially-engaged Conversational Agents". In Proceedings of ACL - Systems Demonstration, 2020.
• F. Heynen, T. Munz, M. Neumann, D. Ortega, N.T. Vu, D. Weiskopf, M. Sedlmair. "ClaVis: An Interactive Visual Comparison System for Classifiers". In Proceedings of the International Conference in Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), 2020.

2019

• D. Ortega, D. Väth, G. Weber, L. Vanderlyn, M. Schmidt, M. Völkel, Z. Karacevic and N.T. Vu. "ADVISER: A Dialog System Framework for Education & Research". In Proceedings of ACL - Systems Demonstration, 2019.
• D. Ortega, C.Y Li, G. Vallejo, P. Denisov, N.T. Vu. "Context-aware Neural-based Dialog Act Classification On Automatically Generated Transcriptions". In Proceedings of the 44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2019.

2018

• D. Ortega, N.T.Vu. "Lexico-acoustic Neural-based Models for Dialog Act Classification". In Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2018.

2017

• D. Ortega, N.T. Vu. "Neural-based Context Representation Learning for Dialog Act Classification". In Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), 2017.

As teaching assistant

SS 2020

• Spoken Dialog Systems

WS 2019/2020

• Dialog Modeling

SS 2019

• Spoken Language Processing

WS 2018/2019

• Deep Learning for Speech and Language Processing
• Dialog Modeling

SS 2018

• Computational Linguistics Team Laboratory: Phonetics

WS 2017/2018

• Deep Learning for Speech and Language Processing

SS 2017

• Dialog Modeling

WS 2016/2017

• Deep Learning for Speech and Language Processing

Since 10/2016:

PhD candidate in Spoken / Natural Language Understanding and Dialog Systems
University of Stuttgart, Institute for Natural Language Processing
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thang Vu

10/2014 - 09/2016:

MSc in Computational Linguistics
University of Stuttgart, Institute for Natural Language Processing
Thesis: Dialog-act Classification using Convolutional Neural Networks
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thang Vu

02/2014 - 07/2014:

Researcher, Web developer, Unix-Server-Support
Research Institute Dr. José María Luis Mora

03/2013 - 10/2013:

JICA Training Program – Information Science and Engineering
Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Supervisor: Professor, PhD Eng. Tadahiro Taniguchi

02/2010 - 12/2012:

Web Developer, Presales Engineer, Support Engineer, IP-Telephony System Designer, Technical Trainer.
Neocenter Corporativo

08/2005 - 06/2010:

B.Eng.Sc. Telematics Engineering
National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico

08/2002 - 06/2005:

Technical high school - Software Developer
National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico