Ron ArtsteinRon Artstein received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Rutgers University in 2002, held positions at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and the University of Essex, and is presently a research scientist at the Institute for Creative Techologies, University of Southern California. His current research focuses on the collection, annotation, and management of linguistic data for human-machine interaction, analysis of corpora, and the evaluation of implemented dialogue systems; he has published work on theoretical and computational linguistics, conversational dialogue systems, and human-agent and human-robot interaction. Read More Read Less