Casey Kennington

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Dr. Casey R. Kennington is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Focusing on machine learning and human-robot interaction, his research specialty falls with dialogue systems in terms of computational linguistics and natural language processing. Dr. Kennington received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Universität Bielefeld in Germany, his M.S. in Cognitive Science from the Université Nancy 2 (now the Université de Lorraine) in France, and an M.S. in Computational Linguistics from the Universität des Saarlandes.

External positions

Research Intern, Honda Research Institute

1 Sep 2013 → 1 Dec 2013

Research Assistant, German Institute for Artificial Intelligence

1 Jan 2010 → 1 Jan 2011

Software Engineer, Missionary Training Center

1 Jan 2006 → 1 Jan 2016

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CC* Compute-Campus: Scaling Hardware for AI Research and Education (SHARE)
Nelson, L. (PI) & Kennington, C. (CoPI)
National Science Foundation
1/12/24 → 30/11/26
Project: Research
CAREER: Integrating Interaction, Embodiment, and Emotion to Transform Language Models
Kennington, C. (PI)
National Science Foundation
1/06/22 → 31/05/27
Project: Research
CIRC: Planning-C: Infrastructure for Natural Communication with Robots: Building the Retico Community
Kennington, C. (PI)
National Science Foundation
1/10/24 → 30/09/25
Project: Research
Collaborative Research: Conference: Dialogue and Robots
Kennington, C. (PI)
National Science Foundation
1/02/23 → 31/01/24
Project: Research
CHS: Medium: CAST: Child Adaptive Search Tool
Fails, J. A. (PI), Pera, M. S. (CoPI) & Kennington, C. (CoPI)
National Science Foundation
1/07/18 → 30/09/24
Project: Research

39 Conference contribution
22 Chapter
6 Article
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Editorial: Dialogue with robots: Constructive approaches for understanding communication
Kennington, C., Inoue, K., Gomez, R. & Ford-Dominey, P., 13 Nov 2025, In: Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 12, 1725162.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

Open Access
Prior Lessons of Incremental Dialogue and Robot Action Management for the Age of Language Models
Kennington, C., Lison, P. & Schlangen, D., 15 Dec 2025, In: Dialogue and Discourse. 16, 3, p. 96-130 35 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
1 Scopus citations
Recognizing and Generating Novel Emotional Behaviors on Two Robotic Platforms
Baral, R., Grenz, B. & Kennington, C., 2025, IROS 2025 - 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Conference Proceedings. Laugier, C., Renzaglia, A., Atanasov, N., Birchfield, S., Cielniak, G., De Mattos, L., Fiorini, L., Giguere, P., Hashimoto, K., Ibanez-Guzman, J., Kamegawa, T., Lee, J., Loianno, G., Luck, K., Maruyama, H., Martinet, P., Moradi, H., Nunes, U., Pettre, J., Pretto, A., Ranzani, T., Ronnau, A., Rossi, S., Rouse, E., Ruggiero, F., Simonin, O., Wang, D., Yang, M., Yoshida, E. & Zhao, H. (eds.). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 21503-21510 8 p. (IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
Retico: A Framework for Robot/IVA-ready Spoken Dialogue
Kennington, C. & Henry, C., 2025, HAI 2025 - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. Osawa, H., Lindgren, H., Steinfeld, A., Foster, M. E., Okada, S. & Zhu, H. (eds.). p. 575-576 2 p. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

Open Access
A Systematic Evaluation of Code-generating Chatbots for Use in Undergraduate Computer Science Education
Torek, A., Sorensen, E., Hahle, N. & Kennington, C., 2024, 2024 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2024 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., (Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

PentoRef: A Corpus of Spoken References in Task-Oriented Dialogues
Zarrieß, S. (Data Collector), Hough, J. (Data Collector), Kennington, C. (Data Collector), Manuvinakurike, R. (Data Collector), DeVault, D. (Data Collector), Fernández, R. (Data Collector) & Schlangen, D. (Data Collector), 1 Jan 2016
DOI: 10.4119/unibi/2901444
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CC* Compute-Campus: Scaling Hardware for AI Research and Education (SHARE)

CAREER: Integrating Interaction, Embodiment, and Emotion to Transform Language Models

CIRC: Planning-C: Infrastructure for Natural Communication with Robots: Building the Retico Community

Collaborative Research: Conference: Dialogue and Robots

CHS: Medium: CAST: Child Adaptive Search Tool

Editorial: Dialogue with robots: Constructive approaches for understanding communication

Prior Lessons of Incremental Dialogue and Robot Action Management for the Age of Language Models

Recognizing and Generating Novel Emotional Behaviors on Two Robotic Platforms

Retico: A Framework for Robot/IVA-ready Spoken Dialogue

A Systematic Evaluation of Code-generating Chatbots for Use in Undergraduate Computer Science Education

PentoRef: A Corpus of Spoken References in Task-Oriented Dialogues

Casey Kennington

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