Leo Ferres' Home Page
Research
- iGraph-Lite, an accessibility tool for statistical graphs for blind
and visually-impaired people,
- Formal representation and querying of graphical representations of
statistical data,
- Algorithms for Natural Language Generation.
Teaching
Other activities
(in reverse chronological order)
- [ 2010 ] Chair, First Workshop on Semantic Representation and
Querying of Visual Objects, WWW2010, Raleigh, NC, April 2010.
- [ 2010 ] Program Committee, Speech And Language Processing For
Assistive Technologies, (Website to appear.)
- [ 2010 ] Program Committee, 2nd International UIMA workshop
(Website to appear.)
- [ 2010 ] Program Committee, ASSETS 2010.
- [ 2010 ] Co-Chair, JCCC 2010 (with John Atkinson, Website to appear)
- [ 2010 ] Reviewer, CHI 2010
- [ 2010 ] Program Co-Chair (with Cynthia Shelly, Microsoft, USA),
W4A 2010, Raleigh, NC, co-located with WWW2010.
- [ 2009 ] Program Committee member, ENLG 2009, and Chair of the
Special Track on Vague Language Generation.
- [ 2009 ] Chair, Accessibility Challenge at the W4A 2009 Conference in
Madrid, collocated with the WWW 2009.
- [ 2008 ] Reviewer and Guest Editor for Taylor & Francis Special Issue on Web
Accessibility in the Journal
New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (appeared 2008, see here).
Contact information
I currently commute between
Office 305,
Department of Computer Science,
Faculty of Engineering,
University of Concepcion,
Edmundo Larenas 215,
Concepcion, Octava Region,
Chile.
Email: leo [at] inf [dot] udec [dot] cl.
Tel.: +56 (41) 220-3573
Fax: +56 (41) 222-1770
and
Office 4-210 SSRB,
Human-Oriented Technology Laboratory,
Carleton University,
1125 Colonel By Dr.,
Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6,
Canada.
Email: lferres [at] ccs [dot] carleton [dot] ca.
Tel.: +1 (613) 520-2600 extension 8428.
Some notes and resources
- [2008.03.28] Some LaTeX2html installation notes for the Windows
platform can be found here. I have since moved back to Ubuntu.