My current research lies in the intersection of Statistics and Computer Science. I am interested in Spoken Dialogue Systems and the use of Data Mining to improve the impact of business and education.

Education
PhD in Language Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009-current
Masters in Language Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009
IMBA in Technology Management, National Tsing-Hua University, 2007
BSc in Computer Science, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, 2003

Selected Publications

  1. •González-Brenes, J. P., Mostow, J. (2011). How to Classify Tutorial Dialogue?  Comparing Feature Vectors vs. Sequences. The 4th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2011).  Eindhoven, Netherlands

  2. •Mostow, J., González-Brenes, J. P., Hong, L. (2011). Learning Classifiers from a Relational Database of Tutor Logs. The 4th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2011).  Eindhoven, Netherlands

  3. •González-Brenes, J. P., Duan, W. Mostow, J. (2011). What System Differences Matter? Using L1/L2 Regularization to Compare Dialogue Systems. Proceedings of the 12th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. Oregon, WA

  4. •González-Brenes, J. P., Mostow, J. (In press). Classifying Dialogues in High-Dimensional Space. ACM Transactions of Speech and Language Processing

  5. •Mostow, J., Aist., G., Bey, J., Chen, W., Corbett, A., Duan, W., Duke, N., Duong, M., Gates, D., González- Brenes, J. P., Juarez, O., Kantorzyk, M., Li, Y., Liu, L., McKeown, M., Trotochaud, C., Valeri, J., Weinstein, A., Yen, D. (2010). A Better Reading Tutor That Listens. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS2010), Pittsburgh, PA

  6. • González-Brenes, J. P., Mostow, J. (2010). Predicting Task Completion from Rich but Scarce Data. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Educational Data Mining, Pittsburgh, PA

  7. •González-Brenes, J.P., Black, A. W., Eskenazi, M. (2009). Describing Spoken Dialogue Systems Differences. International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems. Irsee, Germany [Nominated for best paper award]

  8. •González-Brenes, J.P., Sherwani, J., Rose, C. P., Rosenfeld, R. (2009). Speech Interfaces in the Context of the HealthLine Project, CHI Workshop on Human-centered computing in International Development

  9. •González-Brenes, J.P. (2007). Mining the Web for Potential Cross-Lingual Plagiarism with a Bilingual Lexicon. Technical Report, National Tsing-Hua University. Taiwan, ROC

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José P. González-Brenes
Language Technologies Institute
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
joseg@cs.cmu.edu