Daniel Patrick Loehr
The MITRE Corporation
7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA 22102
703-983-6765, loehr@mitre.org
Education
Ph.D.
Computational Linguistics, Georgetown University, 2004.
Dissertation defended with distinction.
Oral examination passed with distinction.
4.0 GPA.
M.S.
Computational Linguistics, Georgetown University, 1997.
4.0 GPA.
B.A.
Computer Science, Cornell University, 1984.
Dean's List.
Publications
Journal Articles
Loehr, D. (2012) Temporal, structural, and pragmatic synchrony between intonation and gesture. Laboratory Phonology
3(1).
Loehr, D. (2007). Aspects of rhythm in gesture and speech. Gesture 7(2).
Rohlfing, K., Loehr, D., Duncan, S., Brown, A., Franklin, A., Kimbara, I., et al. (2006). Comparison of multimodal
annotation tools: Workshop report. Gesprächsforschung 7.
Loehr, D. & Harper, L. (2003). Commonplace tools for studying commonplace interactions: Practitioners' notes on entrylevel video analysis. Visual Communication 2(2).
Damianos, L., Loehr, D., Burke, C., Hansen, S., & Viszmeg, M. (2003). The MSIIA Experiment: Using Speech to
Enhance Human Performance on a Cognitive Task. International Journal of Speech Technology 6(2).
Book Chapters
Russell, K., Lawandow, A., Dix, A., King, E., Lipmann, F., Parvaz, D., Levow, G.-A., Loehr, D. (in preparation)
Developing a corpus of Iraqi Arabic to study multimodal communication. McEnery, T., Hardie, A., Younis, N. (eds.)
Arabic Corpus Linguistics. Edinburgh University Press
Loehr, D. (in submission) Gesture and Prosody. Müller, C., A. Cienki, E. Fricke, D. McNeill (eds.) Handbook "BodyLanguage-Communication". Berlin, New York: Mouton De Gruyter.
Duncan, S., Rohlfing, K., Loehr, D. (in submission) Multimodal Annotation Tools. Müller, C., A. Cienki, E. Fricke, D.
McNeill (eds.) Handbook "Body-Language-Communication". Berlin, New York: Mouton De Gruyter.
Cole, J., Frisch, S., Hasegawa-Johnson, M., Loehr, D., Reetz, H., Van Guilder, L. (2011). Corpora, database, and internet
resources. Cohn, A., Fougeron, C., Huffman, M. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology. Oxford
University Press.
Dissertation
Loehr, D. (2004). Gesture and Intonation. Doctoral Dissertation, Georgetown University.
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Conference Papers
Russell, K., Lawandow, A., Dix, A., King, E., Lipmann, F., Parvaz, D., Levow, G.-A., Loehr, D. (2011). Getting Flexible:
Developing a corpus of Iraqi Arabic to study multimodal communication. Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics
Lancaster University, UK, April 2011.
Dix, A., Duncan, S., Loehr, D., Burgoon, J. (2011). Evolution of Interaction Patterns in a Game of Strategy Involving
Deception. Proceedings, Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences, 21st Annual International
Conference, Orange, CA, August 2011.
Russell, K., Lawandow, A., Dix, A., King, A., Lipmann, F., Parvaz, D., Levow, G., Loehr, D. (2011). Getting Flexible:
Developing a Corpus of Iraqi Arabic to Study Multimodal Communication. Proceedings, Workshop on Arabic
Corpus Linguistics, Lancaster, UK, April 2011.
Schmidt, S., Duncan, S, Ehmer, O., Hoyt, J., Kipp, M., Loehr, D., Magnusson, M., Rose, T., Sloetjes, H. (2008). An
exchange format for multimodal annotations. Proceedings, Sixth international conference on Language Resources
and Evaluation, LREC 2008.
Duncan, S., Parrill, F., Loehr, D. (2005). Discourse factors in gesture and speech prosody. 2nd Conference of the
International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS), Lyon, France.
Burke, C., Doran, C., Gertner, A., Gregorowicz, A., Harper, L., Korb, J., & Loehr, D. (2003). Dialogue complexity with
portability? Research directions for the Information State approach. Proceedings, Research Directions in Dialogue
Processing Workshop, HLT-NAACL/NSF Human Language Technology Conference, Edmonton, Canada.
Loehr, D., Damianos, L., Harper, L., Burke, C., Hansen, S., & Viszmeg, M. (2003). Speech Re-Cognition? Investigating
Speech as a Cognition-Augmenting Modality. Proceedings, Augmented Cognition and Human-Robot Interaction
Track, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-36).
Burke, C., Harper, L., & Loehr, D. (2002). A Flexible Architecture for a Multimodal Robot Control Interface.
Proceedings, Intelligent Situation-Aware Media and Presentations (ISAMP) Workshop at the Eighteenth National
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '02), Edmonton, Canada.
Burke, C., Harper, L., & Loehr, D. (2002). A Dialogue Architecture for Multimodal Control of Robots. Proceedings,
International CLASS Workshop on Natural, Intelligent and Effective Interaction in Multimodal Dialogue Systems,
Copenhagen.
Loehr, D. (2002). Intonation, Gesture, and Discourse Structure. Gesture, The Living Medium: First Congress of the
International Society for Gesture Studies, Austin.
Bigbee, A., Loehr, D., & Harper, L. (2002). Multimodal Annotation and Analysis Tools. Georgetown University Round
Table on Languages and Linguistics.
Bigbee, A., Loehr, D., & Harper, L. (2001). Emerging Requirements for Multi-Modal Annotation and Analysis Tools.
Proceedings, Eurospeech Special Event: "Existing and Future Corpora Acoustic, Linguistic and Multi-modal
Requirements", Aalborg, Denmark.
Loehr, D. (2001). Intonation, Gesture, and Discourse. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and
Linguistics.
Harper, L., Loehr, D., & Bigbee, A. (2000). Gesture is not just pointing. Proceedings, International Conference on
Natural Language Generation, Israel.
Loehr, D. (2000). Swedish Word Accents: What, Where, How. Proceedings, 18th Scandinavian Conference of
Linguistics, Lund, Sweden.
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Aberdeen, J., Bayer, S., Caskey, S., Damianos, L., Goldschen, A., Hirschman, L., Loehr, D., & Trappe, H. (1999).
Implementing Practical Dialogue Systems with the DARPA Communicator Architecture. Proceedings, International
Joint Conference in Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue
Systems, Stockholm.
Goldschen, A., & Loehr, D. (1999). The Role of the DARPA Communicator Architecture as a Human Computer
Interface for Distributed Simulations. Proceedings, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO)
Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop (SIW), Orlando, Florida.
Reeder, F., & Loehr, D. (1998). Finding the Right Words: An Analysis of Not-Translated Words in Machine Translation.
Proceedings, Association for Machine Translation in the Americas Annual Conference, Langhorne, Pennsylvania.
Loehr, D. (1998). Can Simultaneous Interpretation Help Machine Translation? Proceedings, Association for Machine
Translation in the Americas Annual Conference, Langhorne, Pennsylvania.
LuperFoy, S., Duff, D., Loehr, D., Harper, L., Miller, K., & Reeder, F. (1998). An Architecture for Dialogue
Management, Context Tracking, and Pragmatic Adaptation in Spoken Dialogue Systems. Proceedings, Association
for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting, Montreal.
LuperFoy, S., & Loehr, D. (1997). Run-Time Discourse Processing To Supplement Incomplete ASR. Proceedings, IEEE
Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Santa Barbara, California.
Loehr, D. (1997). Hypertext and Deixis. Proceedings, SIGMEDIA (Special Interest Group on Multimedia in Language
Processing) Workshop on Referring Phenomena in a Multimedia Context and Their Computational Treatment,
Madrid, Spain.
Loehr, D. (1996). An Attempt at Natural Humor from a Natural Language Robot. Proceedings, International Workshop
on Computational Humor, Enschede, The Netherlands.
Loehr, D. (1996). An Integration of a Pun Generator with a Natural Language Robot. Proceedings, Colloque
Linguistique-Informatique de Montreal.
Technical Reports
Loehr, D., Duncan, S., Levow, G-A. (2009). A Sequence of Tools for Multimodal Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal
Behaviors Related to Interactional Rapport. MITRE Technical Report.
Bayer, S., Burke, C., Condon, S., Doran, C., Gertner, A., Gregorowicz, A., Harper, L., Hitzeman, J., Loehr, D., Tepper, P.
(2005). Core Dialogue Research Final Report. MITRE Technical Report.
Loehr, D., Burke, C. (2005). Midiki User’s Manual. MITRE Technical Report.
Doran, C., Gertner, A., Harper, L., & Loehr, D. (2002). The State of Dialogue Research at MITRE, circa Spring 2002.
MITRE Technical Report.
Peet, M., Varma, P., & Loehr, D. (1997). Strategies for Effective Human Computer Interaction: The Voice Input-Output
Testbed. MITRE Working Note.
Other Publications
Cochran M., Good, J., Loehr, D., Miller, S.A., Stephens, S., Williams, B. & Udoh, I. (2007). Report from TILR (Towards
Interoperability of Language Resources) Working Group 1: Tools interoperability and input/output formats.
http://tilr.mseag.org/wiki/index.php?title=Working_Group_1
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Aberdeen, J., Bayer, S., Caskey, S., Damianos, L., Goldschen, A., Hirschman, L., Loehr, D., & Trappe, H. (1999).
DARPA Communicator Program Tackles Conversational Interface Challenges. The Edge, December 1999.
Loehr, D. (1999). An Overview of the DARPA Communicator Program. Poster presented at the SIGdial (Special Interest
Group on Dialogue) Annual Meeting in conjunction with the Association for Computational Linguistics Annual
Meeting, College Park, Maryland.
Research Grants
Loehr, D., Friedland, L. (2008-2010) Collaborative Research—Dyadic rapport within and across cultures: Multimodal
assessment of human-human and human-computer interaction, NSF Human and Social Dynamics, as subcontractor
to University of Chicago (Gina-Anne Levow, PI), teaming with University of Southern California’s Institute for
Creative Technologies.
Loehr, D., Friedland, L. (2006-2008) Understanding (Arabic) Nonverbal Behavior, MITRE Technology Program.
Doran, C., Loehr, D. (2003-2006) Core Dialogue Research, MITRE Technology Program.
Loehr, D., Harper, L. (2000-2003) Reference Resolution in Multimodal User Interfaces to Map-Based Applications,
MITRE Technology Program.
Workshops Organized
Organizer, Behavioral Markup Language Workshop, June 2-3 2008, Bedford MA.
Co-organizer, with Susan Duncan, Katharina Rohlfing, and Travis Rose, of the workshops Annotation Interchange
between Multimodal Annotation Tools, and Choosing among tools for annotation & analysis of multimodal language,
both at the Third Congress of the International Society for Gesture Studies, June 18-21 2007, Northwestern
University, Evanston.
Organizer, Technical Exchange Meeting on Evaluation of Document Exploitation Technologies, March 2006, McLean
VA.
Co-organizer, with Susan Duncan and Katharina Rohlfing, of the workshop Comparison of Multimodal Annotation Tools,
and the discussion panel How Analysis Shapes Phenomena, both at the Second Congress of the International Society
for Gesture Studies, June 15-18 2005, Universite Lyon 2, France.
Co-organizer, with Christy Doran, of the MITRE Dialogue Workshop, October 27-28 2003, Bedford, MA.
Editor / Reviewer / Program Committee / Panelist
Scientific Committee, International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS 5), July 2012, Lund, Sweden.
Advisory Board, Gesture in Speech and Interaction (GESPIN 2011), September 2011, Bielefeld, Germany.
Reviewer, Language and Speech, 2011.
Program Committee, 12th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, July 2010, University of New Mexico.
Program Committee, Workshop on Multimodal Corpora: Advances in Capturing, Coding and Analyzing Multimodality,
at Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, May 2010, Valetta, Malta.
Panelist, Georgetown Linguistics Society Conference, Workshop on Phonetics/Phonology Interface: Tone at the
interface: From phonetic data to underlying representation, February 2010, Georgetown University
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Program Committee, Workshop on Multimodal Corpora, at Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, May 2008,
Marrakesh, Morocco.
Guest co-editor (with Craig Martell), special issue of The International Journal of Semantic Computing on “Gesture in
Multimodal Systems”, 2008.
Reviewer, Journal of Language Resources and Evaluation, special issue on "Multimodal Corpora For Modeling Human
Multimodal Behavior", 2007
Member, Working Group on Multimodal Communication, NSF Project on Cyberinfrastructure for Collaborative
Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2006-2007
Program Committee, International workshop on multimodal corpora: From multimodal behaviour theories to usable
models, May 2006, Genoa, Italy.
Reviewer, Georgetown Working Papers in Linguistics, Spring 2006.
Organizer, Arabic script study group, The MITRE Corporation, 2005-2006.
Panelist, First ACM Hardcopy Document Processing Workshop, November 2004, Washington, DC
Reviewer, Association for Computational Linguistics Student Session, 1999, College Park, MD.
Dissertation Reader
Sondermann, Kerstin (expected 2013) Bilingual gestures: The “manual” way of informing the notion of ‘balanced
bilinguals’. Doctoral Dissertation, Georgetown University.
Teague, Kimberly (2011) The interaction of lexical and discourse-level categories in second language phonetics:
Evidence from Mandarin-English pitch. Doctoral Dissertation, Georgetown University.
Van Guilder, Linda (2007) Cross-language perception in foreign name transcription. Doctoral Dissertation, Georgetown
University.
Oral Examination Committee Member
Sondermann, Kerstin (2010) Applied Linguistics, Georgetown University.
Teague, Kimberly (2009) Theoretical Linguistics, Georgetown University.
Gruber, James (2008) Theoretical Linguistics, Georgetown University.
Van Guilder, Linda (2006) Computational Linguistics, Georgetown University.
Invited Talks
Gesture Analysis. MLC (Master’s in Language and Communication) Workshop, Georgetown University, 3/25/2011.
Intonation and Gesture. 12th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, July 2010, University of New Mexico, 7/9/2010.
Inferring the categorical from the continuous in intonation (but not in gesture). Georgetown Linguistics Society
Conference, Workshop on Phonetics/Phonology Interface: Tone at the interface: From phonetic data to underlying
representation, 2/12/2010.
Non-verbal communication. George Washington Law School, 1/28/05, Georgetown Law School, 6/25/05, 6/2/06, 6/8/07.
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Anvil/Praat for gesture/speech analysis. University of Chicago, 2/25/04.
Multimodal annotation & analysis tools. Georgetown University, 11/18/03, 11/16/04.
Intonation, gesture, and discourse. Georgetown University, 11/13/01.
Careers in computational linguistics. Georgetown University Panel on “What to do with a linguistics major”, 2/26/08.
Multimodal annotation: Capturing more of language than words. Georgetown University Language and Technology
Panel, 4/4/08.
Work Experience
2006-2010: Adjunct Lecturer, Georgetown University Department of Linguistics
I have taught four graduate courses: “Tone and Intonation” (Spring 2006), “Gesture and Language” (Spring 2007),
“Multimodal Dialogue Systems” (Fall 2008, with Linda Van Guilder), and “Computational Corpus Linguistics (Fall
2010, with Linda Van Guilder).
2007-2009: Adjunct Lecturer, George Mason University Department of Linguistics
I have taught an introductory graduate course in Descriptive Linguistics (Fall 2007, Spring 2009).
1997-present: Principal Artificial Intelligence Engineer, The MITRE Corporation, McLean VA
I am currently manager of a department of 50 engineers working in various aspects of artificial intelligence. Prior to
that, I directed research and development in computational linguistics, and managed a group of twenty computational
linguists. I’ve served as PI or co-PI on multiple research projects with budgets totaling several million dollars. I’m
currently directing research in technology for annotating and analyzing nonverbal behavior across cultures. My most
recent research project investigated multi-modal human-computer dialogue systems, with a focus on intonation, gaze
and gesture. I also support numerous government agencies with language technology needs.
1993-1997: Lead Engineer, Hughes Information Technology Systems, Reston VA
I conducted research, development, and implementation of a variety of software, ranging from efficient inexact string
searches of large text repositories, to improvements of neural-network optical character recognition.
1991-1993: Director of Training and Support, Edunetics Corporation, Arlington VA
I directed the training and technical support department for an educational software company. I conducted classroom
training sessions for high school teachers nationwide.
1990-1991: Software Engineer, Metron Corporation, Reston VA
I developed software for automatic optical pattern recognition.
1990: Instructor, National Learning Center, Washington DC
I taught math to at-risk middle-school DC public school students.
1987-1989: Director of Academic Computing, Proctor Academy, Andover NH
I taught college-level computer science, and managed an academic computer center.
1985-1987: Instructor, Outward Bound, Rockland ME
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I led wilderness rehabilitation courses for at-risk youth.
1984-1985: Software Engineer, Auto-trol Corporation, Denver CO
I developed peripheral driver software for a computer-aided-design system manufacturer.
Awards and Fellowships
MITRE Division Award for Impact on State of the Art, 2007
MITRE Department Award for Outstanding Technical Support, 2006
MITRE Program Recognition Award for Government Foreign Language Technology Support, 2005
MITRE Director’s Award for Government Foreign Language Technology Support, 2003
MITRE Advanced Graduate Degree Program, 2000-2004
Competitive graduate fellowship
National Infrastructure Protection Center Award for Foreign Language Technology Support, 2002
MITRE Program Recognition Award for DARPA Communicator (Dialogue System) Program, 2000
MITRE Division Award for Innovation, Collaboration, and Excellence, 1999
Hughes Electronics Fellow, 1995-1997
Competitive graduate fellowship
Hughes Electronics Corporate Superior Performer, 1994
Employee of the year, selected out of 3000 employees after first year with Hughes
Foreign Languages
Proficient in Swedish.
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