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Employment (10)

MONASH UNIVERSITY: Clayton, AU

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Monash University

Monash University: Melbourne, Victoria, AU

2023-04-01 to present | Assistant Lecturer (Faculty of Information Technology)
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann

Monash University: Melbourne, Victoria, AU

2022-01-01 to 2023-03-31 | Teaching Associate (Faculty of Information Technology)
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann

University of Queensland: Brisbane, QLD, AU

2022-03-22 to 2023-03-21 | Language Data Scientist (School of Languages and Culture)
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann

Monash University: Clayton, VIC, AU

2019-03-25 to 2021-12-31 | Lecturer (Faculty of Information Technology)
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann

Monash University: Clayton, VIC, AU

2010-01-01 to 2019-03-24 | Teaching associate (Faculty of Information Technology)
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann

Deakin University: Burwood, VIC, AU

2017-07-01 to 2018-12-31 | Research Fellow in Digital Media Informatics (School of Communication & Creative Arts)
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann

Deakin University: Burwood, VIC, AU

2015-10-02 to 2017-06-31 | Research assistant (School of Communication and Creative Arts)
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann

Deakin University: Burwood, VIC, AU

2015-05-01 to 2017-06-31 | Data Analysis Tools Developer
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann

Swinburne University of Technology: Hawthorn, VIC, AU

2015-04-01 to 2016-12-31 | Data Analysis Tools Developer
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann

Education and qualifications (3)

Monash University: Clayton, VIC, AU

2015-10 | Doctor of Philosophy (Faculty of Information Technology)
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann

University of Melbourne: Melbourne, AU

1992-02-01 to 1997-12-31 | Bachelor of Science (Faculty of Science)
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann

University of Melbourne: Melbourne, AU

1992-02-01 to 1997-12-31 | Bachelor of Arts (Honours: Linguistics) (Faculty of Arts)
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann

Works (31)

Reflections on Teaching 'Data Exploration and Visualisation' in Multiple Modes

EduVis: Workshop on Visualization Education, Literacy, and Activities at IEEE VIS2023
2023-10-23 | Conference paper | Writing - review & editing, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology
Contributors: Michael MacGillivray Niemann; Sarah Goodwin; Kim Marriott
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann

Geolocating Australian Historical Resources - Finding placenames and locations with gazetteers

2022 ASA National Annual Conference for the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA)
2022-10-20 | Conference paper
Contributors: Fiannuala Morgan; Michael Niemann; Simon Musgrave
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann

Political communication Modi style: A case study of the demonetization campaign on Twitter

International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics
2019-09-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Usha M. Rodrigues; Michael Niemann
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Interpreting the elements of personas in social media behaviour

International Persona Studies Conference
2019-06 | Conference paper
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann

Normality vs independence: The social media behaviour of Australian political maverick personas

International Persona Studies Conference
2019-06 | Conference paper
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann

Representation of news related to culturally diverse population in Australian media

Journalism
2019-05-31 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1464-8849
Part of ISSN: 1741-3001
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann

Social Media as a Platform for Incessant Political Communication: A Case Study of Modi's "Clean India" Campaign

International Journal of Communication
2017-08 | Journal article
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann

The duality of expertise: identifying expertise claims and community opinions within online forum dialogue

2015 | Dissertation or Thesis
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann

Finding expertise using online community dialogue and the Duality of Expertise

Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2014
2014 | Conference paper
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann

Balancing conflicting factors in argument interpretation

Proceedings of the 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
2009 | Conference paper
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann
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Interpreting two-utterance requests in a spoken dialogue system

Proceedings of the 6th IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, Pasadena, California
2009 | Journal article
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann
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A probabilistic approach to the interpretation of spoken utterances

Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
2008 | Conference paper
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann
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A probabilistic model for understanding composite spoken descriptions

Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
2008 | Conference paper
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A spoken language interpretation component for a robot dialogue system

Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (was Eurospeech) 2008, Brisbane, Australia, 22/09/08
2008 | Conference paper | Author
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Contributors: Janet Fletcher; Enes Makalic; Deborah Loakes; Ingrid Zukerman; Roland Gocke; Michael MacGillivray Niemann; Denis Burnham; Michael Wagner
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Monash University

A spoken language interpretation component for a robot dialogue system.

Interspeech
2008 | Conference paper
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann

Combining probabilistic reference resolution with simulated vision

Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing, 2008. ISSNIP 2008. International Conference on
2008 | Conference paper
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann
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Using probabilistic feature matching to understand spoken descriptions

Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
2008 | Conference paper
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann
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Considering multiple options when interpreting spoken utterances

Proceedings of the Fifth IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, Hyderabad, India
2007 | Journal article
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann
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Hypothesis generation and maintenance in the interpretation of spoken utterances

Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
2007 | Conference paper
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann
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Inferences, suppositions and explanatory extensions in argument interpretation

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
2007 | Journal article
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann
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Probabilistic, multi-staged interpretation of spoken utterances

2006 International Conference on Computational Inteligence for Modelling Control and Automation and International Conference on Intelligent Agents Web Technologies and International Commerce (CIMCA'06)
2006 | Conference paper
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann
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Probablistic, multi-staged interpretation of spoken utterances

Proceedings of the 19th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI 2006)
2006 | Conference paper | Author
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Contributors: Ingrid Zukerman; Michael MacGillivray Niemann; Sarah Louise George; Yuval Marom
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Monash University

Modeling suppositions in users' arguments

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on User Modeling (UM 2005)
2005 | Conference paper | Author
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Contributors: Sarah Louise George; Ingrid Zukerman; Michael MacGillivray Niemann
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Monash University

Modeling suppositions in users’ arguments

International Conference on User Modeling
2005 | Conference paper
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann

Supervised machine learning techniques for question answering

Proceedings of Knowledge and Reasoning for Answering Questions (KRAQ)
2005 | Journal article
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann
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Towards a probabilistic, multi-layered spoken language interpretation system

Proc. of 4th IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems
2005 | Journal article
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann
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An anytime algorithm for interpreting arguments

Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
2004 | Conference paper
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann
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Analyzing the effect of query class on document retrieval performance

Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
2004 | Conference paper
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann
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Improving the presentation of argument interpretations based on user trials

Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
2004 | Conference paper
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann
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Determining PP attachment through semantic associations and preferences

ANLP Post Graduate Workshop
1998 | Journal article
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann

Determining Prepositional Phrase Attachment by Semantic Association and Preferences

1997 | Dissertation or Thesis
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Michael MacGillivray Niemann

Peer review (2 reviews for 1 publication/grant)

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