Boris van Schooten's Homepage

My last postdoc project was the Multivis project (september 2007-march 2010). I worked at the Parlevink group, HMI subdepartment (formerly called TKI, formerly called SETI), faculty of EEMCS (formerly faculty of Computer Science), university of Twente.

I still have an office space in Zilverling 2090, tel. 3758. My email is: schooten@ewi.utwente.nl

You can find more information about my latest postdoc project here:

What follows is information about previous projects including a list of publications (and some unpublished material).

2005 and later: see also the vidiam homepage.

Trung H. Bui, Boris van Schooten, and Dennis Hofs. Practical dialogue manager development using POMDPs. In SIGDIAL 2007, pages 215-218, 2007.
Boris van Schooten, Sophie Rosset, Olivier Galibert, Aurélien Max, Rieks op den Akker, and Gabriel Illouz, Handling speech input in the Ritel QA dialogue system. In: Interspeech 2007.
Boris van Schooten and Rieks op den Akker, Follow-up utterances in QA dialogue. In: Traitement Automatique des Langues, 46(3), 2005 (Appeared in January 2007). Pages 181-206.
Boris van Schooten and Rieks op den Akker, Multimodal follow-up questions to multimodal answers in a QA system In: Tenth international symposium on social communication, Cuba. January 2007. Pages 469-474.
Mariet Theune, Emiel Krahmer, Boris van Schooten, Rieks op den Akker, Charlotte van Hooijdonk, Erwin Marsi, Wauter Bosma, Dennis Hofs and Anton Nijholt. Questions, Pictures, Answers: Introducing Pictures in Question-Answering Systems In: Tenth international symposium on social communication, Cuba, January 2007. Pages 450-463.
Rieks op den Akker and Boris van Schooten, Vervolguitingen in vraag-antwoorddialoogsystemen. In DIXIT, tijdschrift over toegepaste taal- en spraaktechnologie, 4(1), pages 10-11, June 2006.
Akker, R. o. d., Bunt, H., Keizer, S., and Schooten, B. v. (2005). From question answering to spoken dialogue: towards an information search assistant for interactive multimodal information extraction. In Interspeech 2005, pages 2793-2796.

1998-2004 (Ph.D study)

Paper presented at IADIS www-internet 2004 conference: A software toolkit for web-based virtual environments based on a shared database.
- paper, Word
- sheets + notes, PDF | sheets colour, PDF
Ph.D. thesis: Development and specification of virtual environments.
- Summary of thesis, PostScript
- Thesis PostScript, B5 size
- Thesis PDF, B5 size (A4 size coming soon).
- cover
- "10 stellingen", dutch and english
Paper presented at DSVIS 2002: Using declarative constraints to specify the data model of a multi-user application
- Paper HTML Postscript.
- Slides and notes of presentation Postscript, B/W, small
Slides and notes from my parlevink presentation on 10 april 2001. Postscript, B/W, Postscript, colour.
Paper presented at DSVIS 2001: Structuring distributed virtual environments using a relational database model
- Paper HTML Postscript.
- Slides and notes of presentation Postscript, B/W, small
TWLT17 paper `A Specification Technique for Building Interface Agents in a Web Environment'.
- Paper HTML Postscript
- Slides and notes Postscript, colour Postscript, B/W
Report `process and agent based modelling techniques for dialogue systems and virtual environments'. An overview of specification techniques for describing behaviour and interaction for GUIs, AI, and software engineering in general, and a proposal for a new agent system. Published as CTIT technical report 00-04 (ISSN 1381-3625). HTML, Postscript
Slides and notes from my parlepraatje on 8 november 1999. Postscript, small
TWLT15 workshop paper `Modelling Interaction in Virtual Environments using Process Algebra'.
- Paper Postscript HTML
- Slides and notes Postscript, full size, Postscript, small
Slides and notes from my parlevink presentation on 22 february 1999. GZIPped Postscript, small, GZipped Postscript, full size
Report `Building a framework for developing interaction models: Overview of current research on dialogue and interactive systems'. A general review of the fields of user interfaces and dialogue systems, including summaries of some of the books in my bibliography. Published as CTIT technical report 99-04 (ISSN 1381-3625). HTML, Postscript
About objective dialogue evaluation methods HTML, Postscript - This text reviews the evaluation methods PARADISE and Eckert et al's 'simulated user' method.

1995-1997 (student reports)

My master's thesis: 'Solving computational problems using coherent oscillation' (GZIPped PS) (50 pages)
Report cognitieve ergonomie (HTML)
Report "Binding en Constraint Satisfaction met recurrente neurale netwerken" (mei 1996) (GZIPped PS) (21 pages) *New* The infamous Windows-CTRL-D has been removed, so the file is printable at last!
Report Formele Analyse Natuurlijke Taal (HTML)
Report seminarium theoretische informatica (HTML)

Research-related software I've made

Research project details

Some other things I do.

Programming

I design educational material for gifted children.
I am a member of 13th monkey. My 13thmonkey homepage
A programming portfolio (Dutch)
JGame: a high-level 2D game programming library
PhotoPnMTools: improved photographic image processing
Some software projects: emulators and games (old)
Some scribblings

Visual arts

My photography page