Dr Ian O'Neill holds an honours degree in modern languages from Queen's University Belfast and a masters degree in computing and information systems from the University of Ulster at Jordanstown.

He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Ulster at Jordanstown for his research into object-based natural language dialogue modelling.

Object-oriented dialogue management and emotion-enabled dialogue systems.

Member Senior Management Group ECIT
Member External Relations Committee Computer Science

Participant in HUMAINE - EU emotion research network

1. Philip Hanna, Ian O'Neill, Xingkun Liu, Michael McTear ,
   Developing Extensible and Reusable Spoken Dialogue Components: An Examination of the Queen’s Communicator,
   Proceedings of Interspeech 2005, 1865-1868, Lisbon, Portugal, 4-8 September 2005
   
   
2. Shiu-Wah Chu, Ian O'Neill, Philip Hanna, Mike McTear,
   A multi-strategy approach to Dialogue Management,
   Proceedings of Interspeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal, 4-8 September 2005.
   
   
3. Ian O'Neill, Philip Hanna, Xingkun Liu, Des Greer, Michael McTear,
   Implementing advanced spoken dialogue management in Java,
   Science of Computer Programming, pp. 99-124 ,Volume 54, Issue 1, 2005
   
   
4. Michael McTear, Ian O'Neill, Philip Hanna and Xingkun Liu,
   Handling errors and determining confirmation strategies - An object-based approach,
   Speech Communication, pp. 249-269, Volume 45, Issue 3, 2005
   
   
5. Ian O'Neill, Philip Hanna, Xingkun Liu and Michael McTear,
   The Queen’s Agents: Using Collaborating Object-Based Dialogue Agents in the Queen’s Communicator,
   Proceedings of Coling 2004, pp. 127-133, Geneva, Switzerland, August, 2004.