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2024

C. Luna Jiménez, J. Jostschulte, W. Minker, D. Griol and Z. Callejas
Applying Transfer-Learning on Embeddings of Language Models for Negative Thoughts Classification
Proc. IberSPEECH 2024, Aveiro, Portugal, pp. 46-50, November 2024

C. Schindler, D. Mayumi, Y. Matsuda, N. Rach, K. Yasumoto and W. Minker
ARCADE: An Augmented Reality Display Environment for Multimodal Interaction with Conversational Agents
Companion Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Association for Computing Machinery, San Jose, Costa Rica, Series: ICMI Companion '24, 2024

E. Ryumina, M. Markitantov, D. Ryumin and A. Karpov
Gated Siamese Fusion Network based on multimodal deep and hand-crafted features for personality traits assessment
Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 185, pp. 45-51, 2024

D. Dresvyanskiy, M. Markitantov, J. Yu, H. Kaya and A. Karpov
Multi-modal Arousal and Valence Estimation under Noisy Conditions
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2024, 2024

E. Ryumina, M. Markitantov, D. Ryumin and A. Karpov
OCEAN-AI framework with EmoFormer cross-hemiface attention approach for personality traits assessment
Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 239, pp. 122441, 2024

C. Schindler
Overlapping Aspect-based Argument Cluster Analysis including Cluster Labelling for Opinion Formation with Argumentative Dialogue Systems
Master's thesis, 2024

D. Dresvyanskiy, M. Markitantov, J. Yu, P. Li, H. Kaya and A. Karpov
SUN Team's Contribution to ABAW 2024 Competition: Audio-visual Valence-Arousal Estimation and Expression Recognition
arXiv:2403.12609, 2024

E. Ryumina, M. Markitantov, D. Ryumin, H. Kaya and A. Karpov
Zero-Shot Audio-Visual Compound Expression Recognition Method based on Emotion Probability Fusion
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), pp. 4773-4783, 2024

2023

N. Wagner, M. Kraus, N. Lindemann and W. Minker
Comparing Multi-User Interaction Strategies in Human-Robot Teamwork
In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS '23), Springer, 2023

A. Aicher, S. Hillmann, T. Michael, S. Möller, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Evaluating a Spoken Argumentative Dialogue System
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2023

A. Aicher, S. Hillmann, S. Möller, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Exploring mobile Usability of ADS for Opinion Building
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2023

A. Aicher, S. Hillmann, I. Feustel, T. Michael, S. Möller and W. Minker
Factors in Crowdsourcing for Evaluation of Complex Dialogue Systems
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS '23), Springer, 2023

K. Weber, A. Aicher, S. Ultes, W. Minker and E. André
Fostering User Engagement in the Critical Reflection of Arguments
In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS '23), Springer, 2023

E. Ryumina, M. Markitantov and A. Karpov
Multi-Corpus Learning for Audio-Visual Emotions and Sentiment Recognition
Mathematics, Vol. 11, Num. 16, pp. 1–22, 2023

E. Ryumina, D. Ryumin, M. Markitantov, H. Kaya and A. Karpov
Multimodal personality traits assessment (MuPTA) corpus: the impact of spontaneous and read speech
INTERSPEECH, pp. 4049-4053, 2023

A. Aicher, D. Kornmüller, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Self-imposed Filter Bubble Model for Argumentative Dialogues
Association for Computing Machinery, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Series: CUI '23: Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 2023

Y. Liu, S. Ultes, W. Minker and W. Maier
System-Initiated Transitions from Chit-Chat to Ask-Oriented Dialogues with Translation Info Extractor and Transition Sentence Generator
Proceedings of the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference, 2023

D. Dresvyanskiy, A. Karpov and W. Minker
The Importance of Data Diversity for Engagement Recognition Systems: a Cross-cultural Study
THe Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS 2023), 2023

A. Aicher, K. Weber, E. André, W. Minker and S. Ultes
The Influence of Avatar Interfaces on Argumentative Dialogues
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA’23), 2023

A. Aicher, D. Kornmüller, Y. Matsuda, S. Ultes, W. Minker and K. Yasumoto
Towards Breaking the Self-imposed Filter Bubble in Argumentative Dialogues
Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL’23), Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czechia, pp. 593–604, 2023

I. Feustel, N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Towards interactive explanations of machine learning methods through dialogue systems
In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS '23), Springer, 2023

A. Aicher, M. Fuchs, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Towards Modelling Elaborateness in Argumentative Dialogue Systems
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2023

Y. Liu, S. Ultes, W. Minker and W. Maier
Unified Conversational Models with Sytem-Initiated Transitions between Chit-Chat and Task-Oriented Dialogues
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 2023

2022

A. Aicher, W. Minker and S. Ultes
An Approach to Model Self-imposed Filter Bubbles
SEMDIAL, Dublin, Ireland, Vol. Proceedings of the 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Poster Abstracts, August 2022

A. Aicher, S. Hillmann, T. Michael, S. Möller, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Evaluation of a Spoken Argumentative Dialogue System for Opinion-Building
SEMDIAL, Dublin, Ireland, Vol. Proceedings of the 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Poster Abstracts, August 2022

A. Aicher, N. Gerstenlauer, I. Feustel, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Towards Building a Spoken Dialogue System for Argument Exploration
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, European Language Resources Association, Marseilles, France, pp. 1234–1241, June 2022

A. Aicher, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Towards Modelling Self-imposed Filter Bubbles in Argumentative Dialogue Systems
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, European Language Resources Association, pp. 4126–4134, June 2022

J. Miehle, W. Minker and S. Ultes
When to Say What and How: Adapting the Elaborateness and Indirectness of Spoken Dialogue Systems
Dialogue & Discourse, Vol. 13(1), pp. 1--40, April 2022

E. Ryumina, D. Ryumin, M. Markitantov and A. Karpov
A method for generating training data for a protective face mask detection system
Computer Optics, Vol. 46(4), pp. 11, 2022

A. Dvoynikova, M. Markitantov, E. Ryumina, M. Uzdyaev, A. Velichko, D. Ryumin, E. Lyakso and A. Karpov
An analysis of automatic techniques for recognizing human's affective states by speech and multimodal data
24th International Congress on Acoustics ICA-2022, pp. 22-33, 2022

A. Dvoynikova, M. Markitantov, E. Ryumina, M. Uzdyaev, A. Velichko, D. Ryumin, E. Lyakso and A. Karpov
Analysis of infoware and software for human affective states recognition
Informatics and Automation, Vol. 21, Num. 6, pp. 1097-1144, 2022

M. Letenkov, R. Iakovlev, M. Markitantov, D. Ryumin and A. Karpov
Application of training data synthesis methods for recognition of partially hidden faces in images
Journal of Instrument Engineering, Vol. 64, Num. 11, pp. 842-850, 2022

M. Markitantov, E. Ryumina, D. Ryumin and A. Karpov
Biometric Russian Audio-Visual Extended MASKS (BRAVE-MASKS) Corpus: Multimodal Mask Type Recognition Task
INTERSPEECH, pp. 1756-1760, 2022

N. Wagner, M. Kraus, T. Tonn and W. Minker
Comparing Moderation Strategies in Group Chats with Multi-User Chatbots
In Proceedings of the fourth ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI ’22), ACM, 2022

A. Velichko, M. Markitantov, H. Kaya and A. Karpov
Complex Paralinguistic Analysis of Speech: Predicting Gender, Emotions and Deception in a Hierarchical Framework
INTERSPEECH, pp. 4735-4739, 2022

Y. Liu, W. Maier, W. Minker and S. Ultes
ConceptNet infused DialoGPT for Underlying Commonsense Understanding and Reasoning in Dialogue Response Generation
Proceedings of the 26th Workshop on Semantics and Pragmatics, Series: of Dialogue - Poster Abstracts, 2022

D. Dresvyanskiy, Y. Sinha, M. Busch, I. Siegert, A. Karpov and W. Minker
DyCoDa: A Multi-modal Data Collection of Multi-user Remote Survival Game Recordings
Speech and Computer, Springer International Publishing, pp. 163--177, 2022

Y. Liu, W. Maier, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Empathetic Dialogue Generation with Pre-trained RoBERTa-GPT2 and External Knowledge
Conversational Ai for Natural Human-Centric Interaction, Springer Nature Singapore, pp. 67--81, 2022

D. Dresvyanskiy, E. Ryumina, H. Kaya, M. Markitantov, A. Karpov and W. Minker
End-to-End Modeling and Transfer Learning for Audiovisual Emotion Recognition in-the-Wild
Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, Vol. 6, Num. 2, pp. 11, 2022

M. Lee, J. Sin, G. Laban, M. Kraus, L. Clark, M. Porcheron, B. Cowan, A. Folstad, C. Munteanu and H. Candello
Ethics of Conversational User Interfaces
Extended abstracts of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022), ACM, 2022

E. Ryumina, D. Dresvyanskiy and A. Karpov
In search of a robust facial expressions recognition model: A large-scale visual cross-corpus study
Neurocomputing, Vol. 514, pp. 435-450, 2022


M. Kraus, N. Wagner, N. Untereiner and W. Minker
Including Social Expectations for Trustworthy Proactive Human-Robot Dialogue
In Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP ’22), ACM, 2022

W. Abro, G. Qi, M. Aamir and Z. Ali
Joint intent detection and slot filling using weighted finite state transducer and BERT
Applied Intelligence, pp. 1-15, 2022

M. Kraus, N. Wagner, W. Minker, A. Agrawal, A. Schmidt, P. Prasad and W. Ertel
KURT: A Household Assistance Robot Capable of Proactive Dialogue
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2022), ACM/IEEE, 2022

M. Letenkov, R. Iakovlev, M. Markitantov, D. Ryumin, A. Saveliev and A. Karpov
Method for Generating Synthetic Images of Masked Human Faces
Scientific Visualization, Vol. 14, Num. 2, pp. 1-17, 2022

W. Abro, A. Aicher, N. Rach, S. Ultes, W. Minker and G. Qi
Natural Language Understanding for Argumentative Dialogue Systems in the Opinion Building Domain
Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol. 242, pp. 108318, 2022

Y. Liu, Y. Young-Ching, W. Minker and W. Maier
On System-Initiated Transitions in a Unified Natural Language Generation Model for Dialogue Systems
Proceedings of the 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Poster Abstracts, 2022

M. Kraus, N. Wagner and W. Minker
ProDial – An Annotated Proactive Dialogue Act Corpus for Conversational Assistants using Crowdsourcing
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022), ELRA, 2022

M. Kraus, V. Dettenhofer and W. Minker
Responsible Interactive Personalisation for Human-Robot Cooperation
In Adjunct Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP ’22 Adjunct), ACM, 2022

A. Aicher, A. Gazizullina, A. Gusev, Y. Matveev and W. Minker
Towards Speech-only Opinion-level Sentiment Analysis
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, European Language Resources Association, pp. 2000-2006, 2022

A. Aicher, N. Gerstenlauer, W. Minker and S. Ultes
User Interest Modelling in Argumentative Dialogue Systems
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, European Language Resources Association, pp. 127-136, 2022

J. Miehle, W. Minker and S. Ultes
When to Say What and How: Adapting the Elaborateness and Indirectness of Spoken Dialogue Systems
Dialogue and Discourse, Vol. 13, Num. 1, pp. 1-40, 2022

2021

S. Kawanaka, J. Miehle, Y. Matsuda, H. Suwa, K. Yasumoto and W. Minker
Task allocation interface design and personalization in gamified participatory sensing for tourism
arXiv:2105.12032, May 2021

J. Miehle, S. Wieluch, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Decide or Delegate: How Script Knowledge Based Conversational Assistants Should Act in Inconclusive Situations
Adjunct Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2021), Association for Computing Machinery, Nara, Japan, pp. 69--73, January 2021

O. Verkholyak, A. Dvoynikova and A. Karpov
A bimodal approach for speech emotion recognition using audio and text
Journal of Internet Services and Information Security, Vol. 11, Num. 1, pp. 80-96, 2021

J. Miehle, I. Feustel, W. Minker and S. Ultes
A Script Knowledge Based Dialogue System for Indoor Navigation
Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade, Springer Singapore, Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 704, pp. 379--385, 2021

Z. Callejas, B. Lugrin, J. Martin, M. McTear and J. Miehle
Adaptive Systems for Multicultural and Ageing Societies
Multimodal Agents for Ageing and Multicultural Societies: Communications of NII Shonan Meetings, Springer Singapore, Singapore, pp. 1--20, 2021

A. Miyaji, T. Matsui, Z. Zhang, H. Choi, M. Fujimoto and K. Yasumoto
Analysis on Nursing Care Activity Related Stress Level for Reduction of Caregiving Workload
50th International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshop, pp. 1--8, 2021

A. Dvoynikova, M. Markitantov, E. Ryumina, D. Ryumin and A. Karpov
Analytical review of audiovisual systems for determining personal protective equipment on a person's face
Informatics and Automation, Vol. 20(5), pp. 1-39, 2021

E. Ryumina, O. Verkholyak and A. Karpov
Annotation confidence vs. training sample size: Trade-off solution for partially-continuous categorical emotion recognition
Proceedings of INTERSPEECH, pp. 3690-3694, 2021


M. Kraus, B. Ludwig, W. Minker and N. Wagner
Assistenzsysteme
Handbuch der Künstlichen Intelligenz, De Gruyter, In: G. Görz, U. Schmid and T. Braun (Eds.) 6, Chapter 20, pp. 859-906, 2021

Y. Liu, W. Maier, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Context Matters in Semantically Controlled Language Generation for Task-orienteded Dialogue Systems
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2021

J. Miehle, N. Wagner, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Culture-Aware Dialogue Management for Conversational Assistants
Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade, Springer Singapore, Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 704, pp. 103--115, 2021

D. Dresvyanskiy, W. Minker and A. Karpov
Deep Learning Based Engagement Recognition in Highly Imbalanced Data
Springer, International Conference on Speech and Computer, pp. 166-178, 2021

A. Aicher, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Determination of Reflective User Engagement in Argumentative Dialogue Systems
Series: CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2021

P. Bercher, G. Behnke, M. Kraus, M. Schiller, D. Manstettten, M. Dambier, M. Dorna, W. Minker, B. Glimm and S. Biundo
Do It Yourself, but Not Alone: Companion-Technology for Home Improvement—Bringing a Planning-Based Interactive DIY Assistant to Life
KI-Kunstliche Intelligenz, pp. 1-9, 2021

D. Dresvyanskiy, I. Siegert, A. Karpov and W. Minker
Engagement Recognition Using Audio Channel Only
1st AI-Debate Workshop, 2021

O. Verkholyak, D. Dresvyanskiy, A. Dvoynikova, D. Kotov, E. Ryumina, A. Velichko, D. Mamontov, W. Minker and A. Karpov
Ensemble-within-ensemble classification for escalation prediction from speech
INTERSPEECH, pp. 481-485, 2021


N. Rach, Y. Matsuda, S. Ultes, W. Minker and K. Yasumoto
Estimating Subjective Argument Quality Aspects from Social Signals in Argumentative Dialogue Systems
IEEE Access, Vol. 9, pp. 11610-11621, 2021


N. Rach, K. Weber, Y. Yang, S. Ultes, E. André and W. Minker
EVA 2.0: Emotional and Rational Multimodal Argumentation between Virtual Agents
it - Information Technology, Vol. 63, Num. 1, pp. 17--30, 2021

Z. Zhang, J. Miehle, Y. Matsuda, M. Fujimoto, Y. Arakawa, K. Yasumoto and W. Minker
Exploring the Impacts of Elaborateness and Indirectness in a Behavior Change Support System
IEEE Access, Vol. 9, pp. 74778-74788, 2021

N. Rach, C. Schindler, I. Feustel, J. Daxenberger, W. Minker and S. Ultes
From Argument Search to Argumentative Dialogue: A Topic-independent Approach to Argument Acquisition for Dialogue Systems
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, ACL, Singapore, 2021

M. Kraus, N. Wagner and W. Minker
Modelling and Predicting Trust for Developing Proactive DialogueStrategies in Mixed-Initiative Interaction
International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2021

J. Miehle, W. Minker, E. André and K. Yoshino (Eds.)
Multimodal Agents for Ageing and Multicultural Societies: Communications of NII Shonan Meetings
Springer Singapore, Singapore, 2021

W. Abro, A. Aicher, N. Rach, S. Ultes, W. Minker and G. Qi
Natural Language Understanding for Argumentative Dialogue Systems in the Opinion Building Domain
arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.02691, 2021

Y. Liu, W. Maier, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Naturalness Évaluation of Natural Language Generation in Ask-oriented Dialogues Using BERT
Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, 2021

A. Aicher, N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Opinion Building based on the Argumentative Dialogue System BEA
Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction: 10th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, Springer Singapore, Siracusa (Sicily, Italy), pp. 307--318, 2021

F. Babel, J. Kraus, L. Miller, M. Kraus, N. Wagner, W. Minker and M. Baumann
Small talk with a robot? The impact of dialog content, talk initiative, and gaze behavior of a social robot on trust, acceptance, and proximity
International Journal of Social Robotics, 2021

M. Kraus, N. Wagner, Z. Callejas and W. Minker
The Role of Trust in Proactive Conversational Assistants
IEEE Access, 2021

Z. Callejas, D. Griol, K. Benghazi, M. Noguera, M. Torres, R. Justo, A. Esposito, G. Cordasco, R. Bond, M. Mulvenna, E. Ennis, S. O'Neal, H. Zheng, M. Kraus, N. Wagner, W. Minker, G. McConvey, M. Hemmje, M. Fuchs, N. Glackin and G. Chollet
Towards conversational technology to promote, monitor and protect mental health
IberSpeech, 2021

M. Kraus, P. Seldschopf and W. Minker
Towards the Development of a Trustworthy Chatbot for Mental Health Applications
In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM 2021), 2021

2020

S. Kawanaka, J. Miehle, Y. Matsuda, H. Suwa, K. Yasumoto and W. Minker
Design and Evaluation on Task Allocation Interfaces in Gamified Participatory Sensing for Tourism
MobiQuitous 2020 - 17th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, pp. 458--463, December 2020

D. Stier, U. Heid and W. Minker
Adapting In-Vehicle Voice Output: A User- and Situation-Adaptive Approach
12th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, New York, NY, USA, Virtual Event, Series: AutomotiveUI ’20 Adjunct, pp. 6, September 2020


D. Stier, U. Heid, P. Kittel, M. Schmidt and W. Minker
The Influence of Syntax on the Perception of In-Vehicle Prompts and Driving Performance
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems Technology, Madrid, Spain, Series: IWSDS '20, September 2020

D. Stier, K. Munro, U. Heid and W. Minker
Personality Traits, Speech and Adaptive In-Vehicle Voice Output
Adjunct Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, New York, NY, USA, Genoa, Italy, Series: UMAP '20 Adjunct, pp. 6, July 2020


D. Stier, W. Minker and U. Heid
Towards Situation- and User-Adaptive Voice Output: Classifying Driver Personality in Context
SEMDIAL, London, UK, July 2020

D. Stier, K. Munro, U. Heid and W. Minker
Towards Situation-Adaptive In-Vehicle Voice Output
2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, New York, NY, USA, Bilbao, Spain, Series: CUI '20, pp. 7, July 2020


K. Weber, N. Rach, W. Minker and E. André
How to Win Arguments - Empowering Virtual Agents to Improve Their Persuasiveness
Datenbank Spektrum, June 2020

L. Pragst, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Comparative Study of Sentence Embeddings for Contextual Paraphrasing
Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, European Language Resources Association, Marseille, France, pp. 6843-6853, May 2020

J. Miehle, I. Feustel, J. Hornauer, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Estimating User Communication Styles for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Marseille, France, pp. 533--541, May 2020

O. Akhtiamov, I. Siegert, A. Karpov and W. Minker
Using Complexity-Identical Human-and Machine-Directed Utterances to Investigate Addressee Detection for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Sensors, Vol. 20, Num. 9, pp. 2740, May 2020


D. Dresvyanskiy, T. Karaseva, V. Makogin, S. Mitrofanov, C. Redenbach and E. Spodarev

Statistics and Computing, Vol. 30, Num. 4, pp. 817-837, 2020

M. Kraus, M. Schiller, G. Behnke, P. Bercher, M. Dorna, M. Dambier, B. Glimm, S. Biundo and W. Minker
"Was that successful?" On Integrating Proactive Meta-Dialogue in a DIY-Assistant using Multimodal Cues
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2020), ACM, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2020

J. Landesberger, U. Ehrlich and W. Minker
"What is it?" How to Collect Urgent Utterances using a Gamification Approach
12th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, pp. 19--22, 2020

M. Kraus, F. Fischbach, P. Jansen and W. Minker
A Comparison of Explicit and Implicit Proactive Dialogue Strategies for Conversational Recommendation
Proceedings of the Twelve International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), Marseille, France, 2020

M. Markitantov
An analytical review of audiovisual speech corpora for automatic speaker’s age recognition
Almanac of scientific works of young scientists of the University ITMO, Vol. 3, pp. 124-128, 2020

D. Dresvyanskiy, E. Ryumina, H. Kaya, M. Markitantov, A. Karpov and W. Minker
An audio-video deep and transfer learning framework for multimodal emotion recognition in the wild
arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.03692, 2020

D. Ivanko, D. Ryumin and A. Karpov
An Experimental Analysis of Different Approaches to Audio-Visual Speech Recognition and Lip-Reading
15th International Conference on Electromechanics and Robotics, ERZR 2020, Springer, Series: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, pp. 1-12, 2020

A. Dvoynikova, O. Verkholyak and A. Karpov
Analytical review of methods for identifying emotions in text data
Proceedings of International Conference on Language Engineering and Applied Linguistics (PRLEAL), pp. 8-21, 2020

C. Schindler
Argumentative Relation Classification for Argumentative Dialogue Systems
Bachelor's thesis, 2020

M. Markitantov and A. Karpov
Automatic human age and gender recognition using time-delay neural networks based on acoustic features
All-Russian Acoustic Conference, pp. 374-380, 2020

M. Schmidt, O. Bhandare, A. Prabhune, W. Minker and S. Werner
Classifying Cognitive Load for a Proactive In-car Voice Assistant
2020 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications (BigDataService), pp. 9--16, 2020

A. Benitez-Guijarro, R. Bond, F. Booth, Z. Callejas, E. Ennis, A. Esposito, M. Kraus, G. McConvey, M. McTear, M. Mulvenna, C. Potts, L. Pragst, R. Turkington, N. Wagner and H. Zheng
Co-creating requirements and assessing end-user acceptability of a voice-based chatbot to support mental health: A thematic analysis of a living lab workshop
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology, Madrid, Spain, 2020

H. Kaya, O. Verkholyak, M. Markitantov and A. Karpov
Combining clustering and functionals based acoustic feature representations for classification of baby sounds
Companion Publication of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI’20 Companion), pp. 509-513, 2020


D. Dresvyanskiy, O. Semenkina and P. Evgeny
Cooperative ant colony optimization for a hierarchical scheduling problem
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 734, Num. 1, 2020

J. Landesberger and U. Ehrlich
Detecting Urgency in Speech with Personalised Acoustic Features
Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (WatchDial), Waltham, USA, 2020

J. Landesberger, U. Ehrlich and W. Minker
Do the Urgent Things first!-Detecting Urgency in Spoken Utterances based on Acoustic Features
Adjunct Publication of the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, pp. 53--58, 2020

M. Kraus, N. Wagner and W. Minker
Effects of Proactive Dialogue Strategies on Human-Computer Trust
Proceedings of the 28th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2020), Genoa, Italy, 2020


Z. Zhang, Y. Matsuda, M. Fujimoto, Y. Arakawa and K. Yasumoto
Embedding Additional Behaviors into Users' Daily Routines for Improving Users' Awareness of Self-health Condition
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS, Vol. 2662, 2020

A. Dvoynikova, O. Verkholyak and A. Karpov
Emotion recognition and sentiment analysis of extemporaneous speech transcriptions in Russian
Proceedings of International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), pp. 136-144, 2020


M. Markitantov, D. Dresvyanskiy, D. Mamontov, H. Kaya, W. Minker and A. Karpov
Ensembling end-to-end deep models for computational paralinguistics tasks: ComParE 2020 Mask and Breathing Sub-challenges
pp. 2072-2076, 2020

N. Rach, Y. Matsuda, J. Daxenberger, S. Ultes, K. Yasumoto and W. Minker
Evaluation of Argument Search Approaches in the Context of Argumentative Dialogue Systems
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Marseille, France, 2020

M. Schmidt, W. Minker and S. Werner
How Users React to Proactive Voice Assistant Behavior While Driving
Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pp. 485--490, 2020

H. Wada, Z. Zhang, M. Fujimoto, Y. Arakawa and K. Yasumoto
Implementation and Field Evaluation of Location-based Nursing Record System QuickCareRecord
2020 14th International Symposium on Medical Information Communication Technology (ISMICT), pp. 1--6, 2020

N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Increasing the Naturalness of an Argumentative Dialogue System through Argument Chains
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument, 2020

G. Sogancioglu, O. Verkholyak, H. Kaya, D. Fedotov, T. Cadee, A. Ali Salah and A. Karpov
Is everything fine, grandma? Acoustic and linguistic modeling for robust elderly speech emotion recognition
Proceedings of INTERSPEECH, pp. 2097-2101, 2020


E. Kamateri, G. Meditskos, S. Symeonidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris and W. Minker
Knowledge-based Intelligence and Strategy Learning for Personalised Virtual Assistance in the Healthcare Domain
Semantic Technologies for Healthcare and Accessibility Applications (SyMpATHY), Series: special session in the 13th International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO), 2020

R. Erbach, S. Maurer, G. Meixner, M. Koller, J. Landesberger, U. Ehrlich, M. Woide, M. Walch, M. Weber, M. Baumann, P. Grimm, T. Keber and others
KoFFI—The New Driving Experience: How to Cooperate with Automated Driving Vehicles
Smart Automotive Mobility, Springer, pp. 155--211, 2020

W. Abro, G. Qi, Z. Ali, Y. Feng and M. Aamir
Multi-turn intent determination and slot filling with neural networks and regular expressions
Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol. 208, pp. 106428, 2020

I. Lashkov, A. Kashevnik, A. Axyonov, D. Ivanko, D. Ryumin, A. Kolchin and A. Karpov
Multimodal Corpus Creation for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition in Driver Monitoring Systems
MDPI Sensors, pp. 1-24, 2020

G. Behnke, P. Bercher, M. Kraus, M. Schiller, K. Mickeleit, T. Häge, M. Dorna, M. Dambier, D. Manstettten, W. Minker, B. Glimm and S. Biundo
New Developments for ROBERT–Assisting Novice Users Even Better in DIY Projects
Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2020), Nancy, France, 2020

K. Weber, K. Janowski, N. Rach, K. Weitz, W. Minker, S. Ultes and E. André
Predicting Persuasive Effectiveness for Multimodal Behavior Adaptation using Bipolar Weighted Argument Graphs
Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Auckland, New Zealand, 2020

I. Kagirov, D. Ivanko, D. Ryumin, A. Axyonov and A. Karpov
TheRuSLan: Database of Russian Sign Language
Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), pp. 6079–6085, 2020

M. Markitantov
Transfer Learning in Speaker’s Age and Gender Recognition
Speech and Computer: 22nd International Conference, SPECOM, 2020

M. Schmidt, W. Minker and S. Werner
User Acceptance of Proactive Voice Assistant Behavior
Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2020, TUDpress, Dresden, pp. 18--25, 2020

D. Ryumin, D. Ivanko, I. Kagirov, A. Axyonov and A. Karpov
Vision-Based Assistive Systems for Deaf and Hearing Impaired People
Computer Vision in Advanced Control Systems, Springer, Series: Intelligent Systems Reference Library, Vol. 175, pp. 197-223, 2020


O. Verkholyak and A. Karpov
“Automatic speech emotion recognition,” in Voice Portrait of a Child with Typical and Atypical Development
Saint-Petersburg: Izdatel’sko-Poligraficheskaya Assotsiatsiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedeniy, Chapter 4, 2020

2019

J. Miehle, L. Pragst, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Enabling Dialogue Management with Dynamically Created Dialogue Actions
arXiv:1907.00684, July 2019

D. Stier and E. Sigloch
Linguistic Design of In-Vehicle Prompts in Adaptive Dialog Systems: An Analysis of Potential Factors Involved in the Perception of Naturalness
Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, New York, NY, USA, Larnaca, Cyprus, Series: UMAP '19, pp. 191--195, June 2019


D. Dresvyanskiy, T. Karaseva, S. Mitrofanov, C. Redenbach, S. Schwaar, V. Makogin and E. Spodarev
Аpplication of clustering methods to anomaly detection in fibrous media
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 537, pp. 7, June 2019


G. Behnke, M. Schiller, M. Kraus, P. Bercher, M. Schmautz, M. Dorna, M. Dambier, W. Minker, B. Glimm and S. Biundo
Alice in DIY wonderland or: Instructing novice users on how to use tools in DIY projects
AI Communications, pp. 1-27, January 2019

O. Akhtiamov, D. Fedotov and W. Minker
A Comparative Study of Classical and Deep Classifiers for Textual Addressee Detection in Human-Human-Machine Conversations
International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), Springer, pp. 20-30, 2019

M. Fujimoto, H. Wada and Z. Zhang
A Proposal of Care Planning Infrastructure Platform for Reducing Burden on Caretakers in Nursing Homes
Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Parallel Processing: Workshops, pp. 1--4, 2019

J. Miehle, I. Bagci, W. Minker and S. Ultes
A Social Companion and Conversational Partner for the Elderly
Advanced Social Interaction with Agents, Springer International Publishing, Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 510, pp. 103--109, 2019

E. Kamateri, T. Tsikrika, S. Symeonidis, S. Vrochidis, W. Minker and I. Kompatsiaris
A test collection for passage retrieval evaluation of spanish health-related resources
European Conference on Information Retrieval, 2019

M. Schmidt, D. Helbig, O. Bhandare, D. Stier, W. Minker and S. Werner
Assessing Objective Indicators of Users' Cognitive Load During Proactive In-Car Dialogs
27th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Adjunct, June 9--12, 2019, Larnaca, Cyprus, 2019

D. Ryumin, I. Kagirov, D. Ivanko, A. Axyonov and A. Karpov
Automatic detection and recognition of 3D manual gestures for human-machine interaction
International Workshop on “Photogrammetric and Computer Vision Techniques for Video Surveillance, Biometrics and Biomedicine", Vol. XLII-2/W12, pp. 179-183, 2019


D. Ivanko, D. Ryumin and A. Karpov
Automatic lip-reading of hearing impaired people
International Workshop on “Photogrammetric and Computer Vision Techniques for Video Surveillance, Biometrics and Biomedicine”, Vol. XLII-2/W12, pp. 97-101, 2019


M. Markitantov and A. Karpov
Automatic recognition of age and gender by voice based on deep neural networks
Information-measuring and control systems, Vol. 17, Num. 5, pp. 76 - 83, 2019

M. Markitantov and O. Verkholyak
Automatic Recognition of Speaker Age and Gender Based on Deep Neural Networks
Speech and Computer: 21st International Conference, SPECOM, pp. 327-336, 2019

D. Fedotov, O. Verkholyak and A. Karpov
Context time-continuous speech emotion recognition in Russian based on recurrent neural networks
Analysis of Spoken Russian Lanuguage [Analiz razgovornoy russkoy rechi], pp. 96-99, 2019

O. Akhtiamov, I. Siegert, A. Karpov and W. Minker
Cross-Corpus Data Augmentation for Acoustic Addressee Detection
20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, ACL, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 274–283, 2019

Z. Zhang, Y. Arakawa and H. Oinas-Kukkonen
Design of behavior change environment with interactive signage having active talk function
2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops), pp. 796--801, 2019

N. Rach, K. Weber, A. Aicher, F. Lingenfelser, E. André and W. Minker
Emotion Recognition Based Preference Modelling in Argumentative Dialogue Systems
In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops), Kyoto, Japan, 2019

M. Schmidt, D. Stier, S. Werner and W. Minker
Exploration and Assessment of Proactive Use Cases for an In-Car Voice Assistant
Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2019, TUDpress, Dresden, pp. 148--155, 2019

L. Pragst, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Exploring the Applicability of Elaborateness and Indirectness in Dialogue Management
Advanced Social Interaction with Agents : 8th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 189--198, 2019


M. Dittrich and S. Zepf
Exploring the Validity of Methods to Track Emotions Behind the Wheel
International Conference on Persuasive Technology, pp. 115--127, 2019

J. Landesberger and U. Ehrlich
Finding a Meta-Dialogue Strategy for Multi-Intent Spoken Dialogue Systems
CHIRA, pp. 171--176, 2019

D. Fedotov, Y. Matsuda and W. Minker
From Smart to Personal Environment: Integrating Emotion Recognition into Smart Houses
2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, pp. 943-948, 2019


O. Verkholyak, D. Fedotov, H. Kaya, Y. Zhang and A. Karpov
Hierarchical Two-level Modelling of Emotional States in Spoken Dialog Systems
2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 6700-6704, 2019


N. Wagner, M. Kraus, N. Rach and W. Minker
How to address humans: System barge-in in multi-user HRI
Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems Technology (IWSDS 2019), Siracusa (Sicily, Italy), 2019

D. Ivanko, D. Ryumin, A. Axyonov, I. Kagirov, A. Karpov and M. Zelezny
Human-robot interaction with smart shopping trolley using sign language: data collection
2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops), IEEE, pp. 949-954, 2019


Z. Zhang, Y. Takahashi, M. Fujimoto, Y. Arakawa and K. Yasumoto
Investigating effects of interactive signage–based stimulation for promoting behavior change
Computational Intelligence, Vol. 35, Num. 3, pp. 643-668, 2019


D. Ivanko, D. Ryumin, A. Axyonov, I. Kipyatkova and A. Karpov
Lip-reading using pixel-based and geometry-based features for multimodal human-robot interfaces
Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Electromechanics and Robotics (ZR), Springer, pp. 477-486, 2019


D. Ivanko, D. Ryumin, A. Karpov and M. Zelezny
Measuring the effect of high-speed video data on the audio-visual speech recognition accuracy
Information and Control Systems, Vol. 2019, Num. 2, pp. 26-34, 2019


O. Verkholyak, H. Kaya and A. Karpov
Modeling short-term and long-term dependencies of the speech signal for paralinguistic emotion classification
SPIIRAS Proceedings, Vol. 18, Num. 1, pp. 30-56, 2019


W. Abro, G. Qi, H. Gao, M. Khan and Z. Ali
Multi-turn intent determination for goal-oriented dialogue systems
2019 international joint conference on neural networks (IJCNN), IEEE, pp. 1-8, 2019

S. Ultes, J. Miehle and W. Minker
On the Applicability of a User Satisfaction-Based Reward for Dialogue Policy Learning
Advanced Social Interaction with Agents, Springer International Publishing, Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 510, pp. 211--217, 2019

H. Kaya, D. Fedotov, D. Dresvyanskiy, M. Doyran, D. Mamontov, M. Markitantov, A. Salah, E. Kavcar, A. Karpov and A. Ali Salah
Predicting depression and emotions in the cross-roads of cultures, para-linguistics, and non-linguistics
2019


H. Wada, Z. Zhang, M. Fujimoto, Y. Arakawa and K. Yasumoto
Quickcarerecord: Efficient care recording application with location-based automatic view transition and information complement
2019 13th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT), pp. 1--6, 2019

I. Medennikov, Y. Khokhlov, A. Romanenko, I. Sorokin, A. Mitrofanov, V. Bataev, A. Andrusenko, T. Prisyach, M. Korenevskaya, O. Petrov and A. Zatvornitskiy
The STC ASR System for the VOiCES from a Distance Challenge 2019
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Vol. 2019-September, pp. 2453-2457, 2019


S. Zepf, M. Dittrich, J. Hernandez and A. Schmitt
Towards Empathetic Car Interfaces: Emotional Triggers while Driving
Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. LBW0129, 2019

J. Landesberger and U. Ehrlich
Towards Finding Appropriate Responses to Multi-Intents-SPM: Sequential Prioritisation Model
Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (LondonLogue), London, United Kingdom, 2019

D. Fedotov, Y. Matsuda, Y. Takahashi, Y. Arakawa and W. Minker
Towards Real-Time Contextual Touristic Emotion and Satisfaction Estimation with Wearable Devices
2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, pp. 358-360, 2019


2018

D. Ivanko, A. Karpov, D. Fedotov, I. Kipyatkova, D. Ryumin, D. Ivanko, W. Minker and M. Zelezny
Multimodal speech recognition: increasing accuracy using high speed video data
Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, Vol. 12, Num. 4, pp. 319--328, December 2018


Y. Matsuda, D. Fedotov, Y. Takahashi, Y. Arakawa, K. Yasumoto and W. Minker
EmoTour: Estimating Emotion and Satisfaction of Users Based on Behavioral Cues and Audiovisual Data
Sensors, Vol. 18, Num. 11, November 2018


N. Rach, K. Weber, L. Pragst, E. André, W. Minker and S. Ultes
EVA: A Multimodal Argumentative Dialogue System
Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Boulder, Colorado, October 2018

N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Markov Games for Persuasive Dialogue
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument, Warsaw, September 2018

L. Pragst and S. Ultes
Changing the Level of Directness in Dialogue using Dialogue Vector Models and Recurrent Neural Networks
Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Association for Computational Linguistics, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 11-19, July 2018

J. Miehle, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Exploring the Impact of Elaborateness and Indirectness on User Satisfaction in a Spoken Dialogue System
Adjunct Publication of the 26th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), ACM, Singapore, pp. 165--172, July 2018

N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Handling Unknown User Arguments in Argumentative Dialogue Systems
Proceedings of the 32nd British Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI), Belfast, UK, July 2018

M. Kraus, G. Behnke, P. Bercher, M. Schiller, S. Biundo, B. Glimm and W. Minker
A Multimodal Dialogue Framework for Cloud-Based Companion Systems
Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems Technology (IWSDS 2018), Singapore, Singapore, May 2018

J. Miehle, N. Gerstenlauer, D. Ostler, H. Feußner, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Expert Evaluation of a Spoken Dialogue System in a Clinical Operating Room
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Miyazaki, Japan, May 2018

L. Pragst, N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
On the Vector Representation of Utterances in Dialogue Context
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Paris, France, Miyazaki, Japan, May 2018

N. Rach, S. Langhammer, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Utilizing Argument Mining Techniques for Argumentative Dialogue Systems
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop On Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), Singapore, May 2018

J. Miehle, W. Minker and S. Ultes
What Causes the Differences in Communication Styles? A Multicultural Study on Directness and Elaborateness
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Miyazaki, Japan, May 2018

M. Schmidt and P. Braunger
A Survey on Different Means of Personalized Dialog Output for an Adaptive Personal Assistant
Adjunct Publication of the 26th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, pp. 75--81, 2018

D. Ivanko, D. Fedotov and A. Karpov
Accuracy increase for automatic visual Russian speech recognition: viseme classes optimization
Scientific and Technical Journal of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Vol. 18, Num. 2, pp. 346-349, 2018


I. Medennikov, Y. Khokhlov, A. Romanenko, D. Popov, N. Tomashenko, I. Sorokin and A. Zatvornitskiy
An investigation of mixup training strategies for acoustic models in ASR
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Vol. 2018-September, pp. 2903-2907, 2018


Y. Takahashi, Y. Matsuda, D. Fedotov, Y. Arakawa, W. Minker and K. Yasumoto
Analysis of Tourist's Unconscious Gesture Toward Inner State Estimation During Sightseeing
IEICE, Technical Committee on Human Probes (HPB), 2018

O. Verkholyak
Analytical review of datasets for sentiment analysis in Russian
Proceedings of Information Technologies in Control [Informatsionnye technologii v upravlenii], pp. 548-553, 2018

B. Kryuchkov, V. Usov, D. Ivanko and I. Kagirov
Cognitive components of human activity in the process of monitoring a heterogeneous group of autonomous mobile robots on the lunar surface
3rd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics, ICR 2018, Springer, Series: Lecture Notes in Artficial Intelligence, Vol. 11097, pp. 148-158, 2018


D. Fedotov, H. Kaya and A. Karpov
Context Modeling for Cross-corpus Dimensional Acoustic Emotion Recognition: Challenges and Mixup
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2018, 2018

D. Fedotov, D. Ivanko, M. Sidorov and W. Minker
Contextual Dependencies in Time-Continuous Multidimensional Affect Recognition
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), 2018

D. Ivanko, D. Ryumin, A. Axyonov and M. Zelezny
Designing advanced geometric features for automatic Russian visual speech recognition.
Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2018, Springer, Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 11096, pp. 245-255, 2018


M. Kraus, J. Kraus, M. Baumann and W. Minker
Effects of Gender Stereotypes on Trust and Likability in Spoken Human-Robot Interaction
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Miyazaki, Japan, 2018

Y. Matsuda, D. Fedotov, Y. Takahashi, Y. Arakawa, K. Yasumoto and W. Minker
EmoTour: Multimodal Emotion Recognition using Physiological and Audio-Visual Features
Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference and 2018 International Symposium on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Wearable Computers, pp. 946-951, 2018

Y. Matsuda, D. Fedotov, Y. Takahashi, Y. Arakawa, K. Yasumoto and W. Minker
Estimating User Satisfaction Impact in Cities using Physical Reaction Sensing and Multimodal Dialogue System
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop On Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), 2018

M. Schiller, G. Behnke, P. Bercher, M. Kraus, M. Dorna, F. Richter, S. Biundo, B. Glimm and W. Minker
Evaluating Knowledge-Based Assistance for DIY
Mensch und Computer 2018, 2018

J. Landesberger, D. Kornmüller and U. Ehrlich
Explorative Untersuchung von Multi-Intents in Sprachdialogsystemen
Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2018, TUDpress, Dresden, pp. 121--126, 2018

A. Romanenko
Feature combination for the task of neural network acoustic model learning
Scientific and Technical Journal of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Vol. 18, Num. 2, pp. 350–352, 2018

O. Akhtiamov and V. Palkov
Gaze, Prosody and Semantics. Relevance of Various Multimodal Signals to Addressee Detection in Human-Human-Computer Conversations
20th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2018), Springer, Leipzig, Germany, 2018

G. Behnke, M. Schiller, M. Kraus, P. Bercher, M. Schmautz, M. Dorna, W. Minker, B. Glimm and S. Biundo
Instructing Novice Users on How to Use Tools in DIY Projects
IJCAI, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018

J. Landesberger and U. Ehrlich
Investigating Strategies for Resolving Misunderstood Utterances with Multiple Intents
Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (AixDial), Aix-en-Provence, France, 2018

Z. Zhang, Y. Takahashi, M. Fujimoto, Y. Arakawa and K. Yasumoto
Investigating user reactions to interactive-signage-based stimulation toward behavior change
2018 Eleventh International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Network (ICMU), pp. 1--6, 2018

A. Romanenko, Y. Matveev and W. Minker
Knowledge transfer for Russian conversational telephone automatic speech recognition
Scientific and Technical Journal of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics,, Vol. 18, Num. 2, pp. 236–242, 2018


H. Kaya, D. Fedotov, A. Yesilkanat, O. Verkholyak, Y. Zhang and A. Karpov
LSTM based Cross-corpus and Cross-task Acoustic Emotion Recognition
Proc. Interspeech 2018, pp. 521-525, 2018


D. Fedotov, O. Perepelkina, E. Kazimirova, M. Konstantinova and W. Minker
Multimodal approach to engagement and disengagement detection with highly imbalanced in-the-wild data
Proceedings of the Workshop on Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data, ACM, Boulder, Colorado, Series: MCPMD '18, 2018


I. Medennikov, I. Sorokin, A. Romanenko, D. Popov, Y. Khokhlov, T. Prisyach, N. Malkovskii, V. Bataev, S. Astapov, M. Korenevsky and A. Zatvornitskiy
The STC System for the CHiME 2018 Challenge
Proceedings of the CHiME 2018 Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments, pp. 1-5, 2018


P. Braunger, W. Maier and M. Schmidt
Towards a Categorization of Natural Language Variability in Data for Spoken Dialog Systems
In Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial), 2018

M. Schmidt and P. Braunger
Towards a Speaking Style-Adaptive Assistant for Task-Oriented Applications
Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2018, TUDpress, Dresden, pp. 143--150, 2018

P. Braunger, W. Maier, J. Wessling and M. Schmidt
Towards an Automatic Assessment of Crowdsourced Data for NLU
In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), 2018

D. Fedotov, Y. Matsuda, Y. Takahashi, Y. Arakawa, K. Yasumoto and W. Minker
Towards Estimating Emotions and Satisfaction Level of Tourist based on Eye Gaze and Head Movement
Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), 2018 IEEE International Conference on, 2018

2017

L. Wanner, E. André, J. Blat, S. Dasiopoulou, M. Farrús, T. Fraga, E. Kamateri, F. Lingenfelser, G. Llorach, O. Martinez, G. Meditskos, S. Mille, W. Minker, L. Pragst, D. Schiller, A. Stam, L. Stellingwerff, F. Sukno, B. Vieru and S. Vrochidis
Design of knowledge-based agent as a social companion
Proceedings of the International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies (HCist), Barcelona, Catalonia, November 2017

A. Spirina, O. Vaskovskaia, T. Karaseva, A. Skorokhod, I. Polonskaia and M. Sidorov
Analysis of Interaction Parameter Levels in Interaction Quality modelling for Human-Human Conversation
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), Hatfield, UK, September 2017

A. Spirina, O. Vaskovskaia and M. Sidorov
Analysis of Overlapping Speech and Emotions for Interaction Quality Estimation
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), Hatfield, UK, September 2017

J. Miehle, N. Gerstenlauer, D. Ostler, H. Feußner, W. Minker and S. Ultes
An Intelligent Digital Assistant for Clinical Operating Rooms
Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL), Saarbrücken, Germany, pp. 164--165, August 2017

A. Spirina, W. Minker and M. Sidorov
Could Emotions Be Beneficial for Interaction Quality Modelling in Human-Human Conversations?
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD), Prague, Czechia, August 2017

N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Interaction Quality Estimation Using Long Short-Term Memories
Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Association for Computational Linguistics, Saarbrücken, Germany, pp. 164--169, August 2017

A. Spirina, A. Skorokhod, T. Karaseva, I. Polonskaia and M. Sidorov
Significance of Interaction Parameter Levels in Interaction Quality Modelling for Human-Human Conversation
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD), Prague, Czechia, August 2017

L. Wanner, E. André, J. Blat, S. Dasiopoulou, M. Farrús, T. Fraga, E. Kamateri, F. Lingenfelser, G. Llorach, O. Martinez, G. Meditskos, S. Mille, W. Minker, L. Pragst, D. Schiller, A. Stam, L. Stellingwerff, F. Sukno, B. Vieru and S. Vrochidis
KRISTINA: A Knowledge-Based Virtual Conversation Agent
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS'17), Porto, Portugal, June 2017

N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Towards an Argumentative Dialogue System
Proceedings of 17th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA'17), London, UK, June 2017

M. Schiller, G. Behnke, M. Schmautz, P. Bercher, M. Kraus, W. Minker, B. Glimm and S. Biundo
A Paradigm for Coupling Procedural and Conceptual Knowledge in Companion Systems
ICCT, 2017

I. Medennikov, A. Romanenko, A. Prudnikov, V. Mendelev, Y. Khokhlov, M. Korenevsky, N. Tomashenko and A. Zatvornitskiy
Acoustic Modeling in the STC Keyword Search System for OpenKWS 2016 Evaluation
Springer, pp. 76-86, 2017

L. Pragst, K. Yoshino, W. Minker, S. Nakamura and S. Ultes
Acquisition and Assessment of Semantic Content for the Generation of Elaborateness and Indirectness in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), Vol. 1, pp. 915-925, 2017

S. Ultes, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
Analysis of Temporal Features for Interaction Quality Estimation
Dialogues with Social Robots: Enablements, Analyses, and Evaluation, Springer Singapore, Singapore, pp. 367--379, 2017


O. Akhtiamov, D. Ubskii, E. Feldina, A. Pugachev, A. Karpov and W. Minker
Are You Addressing Me? Multimodal Addressee Detection in Human-Human-Computer Conversations
19th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2017), Springer, Hatfield, UK, 2017

L. Pragst, J. Miehle, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Challenges for adaptive dialogue management in the KRISTINA project
ISIAA 2017: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI International Workshop on Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents, ACM, New York, NY, USA, Glasgow, UK, pp. 11-14, 2017

O. Verkholyak and A. Karpov
Combined feature representation for emotion classification from Russian speech
Proceedings of Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language (AINL), pp. 68-73, 2017


D. Fedotov, M. Sidorov and W. Minker
Context-Awared Models in Time-Continuous Multidimensional Affect Recognition
International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics, 2017

A. Pugachev, O. Akhtiamov, A. Karpov and W. Minker
Deep Learning for Acoustic Addressee Detection in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language (AINL 2017), Springer, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2017

Y. Khokhlov, N. Tomashenko, I. Medennikov and A. Romanenko
Fast and accurate OOV decoder on high-level features
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Vol. 2017-August, pp. 2884-2888, 2017


M. Kraus
Mixed-initiative intent recognition using cloud-based cognitive services
University Ulm, Universität Ulm, 2017

P. Braunger, W. Maier, J. Wessling and S. Werner
Natural Language Input for In-Car Spoken Dialog Systems: How Natural is Natural?
Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), 2017

A. Romanenko
OOV tokens search quality improvement
Collection of Abstracts of the Congress of Young Scientists, ITMO University, 2017

L. Pragst, S. Ultes and W. Minker
Recurrent Neural Network Interaction Quality Estimation
Dialogues with Social Robots: Enablements, Analyses, and Evaluation, Springer Singapore, Singapore, pp. 381--393, 2017


M. Sidorov, K. Brester, S. Ultes and A. Schmitt
Salient Cross-lingual Acoustic and Prosodic Features for English and German Emotion Recognition
Dialogues with Social Robots: Enablements, Analyses, and Evaluation, Springer Singapore, Singapore, pp. 159--169, 2017


G. Behnke, F. Nielsen, M. Schiller, P. Bercher, M. Kraus, W. Minker, B. Glimm and S. Biundo
SLOTH--the Interactive Workout Planner
ICCT, 2017

O. Akhtiamov, M. Sidorov, A. Karpov and W. Minker
Speech and Text Analysis for Multimodal Addressee Detection in Human-Human-Computer Interaction
Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2017), Stockholm, Sweden, 2017

A. Romanenko
Sub-word units for the improvement of OOV words search
Almanac of scientific works of young scientists of ITMO University, ITMO University, Vol. 3, pp. 161-163, 2017

J. Miehle, D. Ostler, N. Gerstenlauer and W. Minker
The next step: intelligent digital assistance for clinical operating rooms
Innovative Surgical Sciences, Vol. 2, Num. 3, pp. 159--161, 2017

Y. Khokhlov, I. Medennikov, A. Romanenko, V. Mendelev, M. Korenevsky, A. Prudnikov, N. Tomashenko and A. Zatvornitskiy
The STC keyword search system for OpenKWS 2016 evaluation
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Vol. 2017-August, pp. 3602-3606, 2017


M. Schmidt, J. Niehues and A. Waibel
Towards an Open-Domain Social Dialog System
Dialogues with Social Robots: Enablements, Analyses, and Evaluation, Springer Singapore, Singapore, pp. 271--278, 2017


D. Ivanko, A. Karpov, D. Ryumin, I. Kipyatkova, A. Saveliev, V. Budkov, D. Ivanko and M. Zelezny
Using a high-speed video camera for robust audio-visual speech recognition in acoustically noisy conditions
Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2017, Springer, Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 10458, pp. 756-766, 2017


B. Kryuchkov, L. Syrkin, V. Usov, D. Ivanko and D. Ivanko
Using augmentative and alternative communication for human-robot interaction during maintaining habitability of a lunar base
2nd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics, ICR 2017, Springer, Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 10459, pp. 95-105, 2017


2016

L. Bechberger, M. Schmidt, A. Waibel and M. Federico
Personalized News Event Retrieval for Small Talk in Social Dialog Systems
Speech Communication; 12. ITG Symposium, pp. 120-124, October 2016

A. Andonov, M. Schmidt, J. Niehues and A. Waibel
Using Tweets as "Ice-Breaking" Sentences in a Social Dialog System
Speech Communication; 12. ITG Symposium, pp. 1-5, October 2016

L. Pragst, J. Miehle, S. Ultes and W. Minker
Automatic Modification of Communication Style in Dialogue Management
Proceedings of the INLG 2016 Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation, Association for Computational Linguistics, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 36--40, September 2016

J. Miehle, K. Yoshino, L. Pragst, S. Ultes, S. Nakamura and W. Minker
Cultural Communication Idiosyncrasies in Human-Computer Interaction
Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Association for Computational Linguistics, Los Angeles, USA, pp. 74--79, September 2016

A. Spirina, O. Vaskovskaia, M. Sidorov and A. Schmitt
Interaction Quality as a Human-Human Task-Oriented Conversation Performance
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2016), Budapest, Hungary, August 2016

O. Akhtiamov, R. Sergienko and W. Minker
An Approach to off-Talk Detection based on Text Classification within an Automatic Spoken Dialogue System
13th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2016), Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 2, pp. 288-293, July 2016

A. Spirina, M. Sidorov, R. Sergienko and A. Schmitt
First Experiments on Interaction Quality Modelling for Human-Human Conversation
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2016), Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 2, pp. 374-380, July 2016

R. Sergienko, I. Kamshilova, E. Semenkin and A. Schmitt
Weighted Voting of Different Term Weighting Methods for Natural Language Call Routing
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2016), Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 38-46, July 2016

R. Sergienko, M. Shan, W. Minker and E. Semenkin
Topic Categorization Based on Collectives of Term Weighting Methods for Natural Language Call Routing
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Mathematics & Physics, Num. 2, pp. 235-245, June 2016

R. Sergienko, M. Shan and W. Minker
A Comparative Study of Text Preprocessing Approaches for Topic Detection of User Utterances
Proceedings of the 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2016), Portorož (Slovenia), pp. 1826-1831, May 2016

M. Sidorov, A. Schmitt, E. Semenkin and W. Minker
Could Speaker, Gender or Age Awareness be beneficial in Speech-based Emotion Recognition?
Proceedings of the 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2016), Portorož (Slovenia), May 2016

A. Spirina, M. Sidorov, R. Sergienko, E. Semenkin and W. Minker
Human-Human Task-oriented Conversations Corpus for Interaction Quality Modeling
Bulletin of Siberian State Aerospace University, Vol. 17, Num. 1, pp. 84-90, March 2016

K. Brester, O. Semenkina and M. Sidorov
Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithms as an Effective Tool for Feature Selection in the Speech-Based Emotion Recognition Problem
Bulletin of Siberian State Aerospace University, Vol. 17, Num. 1, pp. 27-35, March 2016

R. Sergienko, M. Shan and A. Schmitt
A Comparative Study of Text Preprocessing Techniques for Natural Language Call Routing
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop On Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), January 2016

R. Sergienko, T. Gasanova, E. Semenkin and W. Minker
Collectives of Term Weighting Methods for Natural Language Call Routing
Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, pp. 99-110, January 2016

F. Nothdurft, P. Bercher, G. Behnke and W. Minker
User Involvement in Collaborative Decision-Making Dialog Systems
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop On Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), Saariselkä, Finland, January 2016

P. Braunger, H. Hofmann, S. Werner and M. Schmidt
A Comparative Analysis of Crowdsourced Natural Language Corpora for Spoken Dialog Systems
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Portoro\v{z}, Slovenia, 2016

F. Sukno, M. Domínguez, A. Ruiz, D. Schiller, F. Lingenfelser, L. Pragst, E. Kamateri and S. Vrochidis
A Multimodal Annotation Schema for Non-Verbal Affective Analysis in the Health-Care Domain
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval for Multimodal Interaction, pp. 9--14, 2016

D. Ivanko and A. Karpov
An analysis of perspectives for using high-speed cameras in processing dynamic video information
Trudy SPIIRAN, Vol. 44, pp. 98–113, 2016


D. Ivanko, I. Kipyatkova, A. Ronzhin and A. Karpov
Analysis of multimodal fusion techniques for audio-visual speech recognition
Scientific and Technical Journal of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Vol. 16, Num. 3, pp. 387-401, 2016


A. Romanenko
Development of automated speech recognition system for Egyptian Arabic phone conversations
Scientific and Technical Journal of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Vol. 16, Num. 4, pp. 703-709, 2016

J. Landesberger, U. Ehrlich and A. Berton
Evaluierung von lexikalischer Adaption bei Sprachdialogen im Fahrzeug
Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2016, TUDpress, Dresden, pp. 77--84, 2016

M. Korenevsky and A. Romanenko
Feature space VTS with phase term modeling
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Springer, Vol. 9811 LNCS, pp. 312-320, 2016


V. Verkhodanova, A. Ronzhin, I. Kipyatkova, D. Ivanko, A. Karpov and M. Zelezny
HAVRUS corpus: high-speed recordings of audio-visual Russian speech
Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2016, Springer, Budapest, Hungary, Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 9811, pp. 338-345, 2016


J. Kraus, F. Nothdurft, P. Hock, D. Scholz, W. Minker and M. Baumann
Human After All: Effects of Mere Presence and Social Interaction of a Humanoid Robot as a Co-Driver in Automated Driving
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications Adjunct, pp. 129--134, 2016

K. Brester, E. Semenkin and M. Sidorov
Multi-objective heuristic feature selection for speech-based multilingual emotion recognition
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Research, 2016

S. Ultes, F. Nothdurft, T. Heinroth and W. Minker (Eds.)
Next Generation Intelligent Environments: Ambient Adaptive Systems
Springer International Publishing, In: S. Ultes, F. Nothdurft, T. Heinroth and W. Minker (Eds.) 2nd Edition, 2016


N. Rach, S. Montangero and M. Paternostro
Optimal control of many-body non-equilibrium quantum thermodynamics
arXiv:1605.07476, 2016
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A. Romanenko
Recognition of Arabic spontaneous speech in telephone channel
Collection of Abstracts of the Congress of Young Scientists, ITMO University, pp. -, 2016

A. Romanenko
Recognition of Arabic spontaneous telephone speech
Almanac of scientific works of young scientists of ITMO University, ITMO University, Vol. 4, pp. 227-229, 2016

A. Romanenko and V. Mendelev
Speaker-dependent bottleneck features for egyptian arabic speech recognition
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Springer, Vol. 9811 LNCS, pp. 620-626, 2016


M. Sidorov, W. Minker and E. Semenkin
Speech-based Emotion Recognition and Speaker Identification: Static vs. Dynamic Mode of Speech Representation
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Mathematics & Physics, 2016

L. Wanner, J. Blat, S. Dasiopoulou, M. Domínguez, G. Llorach, S. Mille, F. Sukno, E. Kamateri, I. Kompatsiaris, S. Vrochidis, E. André, F. Lingenfels, G. Mehlmann, A. Stam, L. Stellingwerff, L. Lamel, B. Vieru, W. Minker, L. Pragst and S. Ultes
Towards a Multimedia Knowledge-Based Agent with Social Competence and Human Interaction Capabilities
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval for Multimodal Interaction, pp. 21--26, 2016

G. Meditskos, S. Dasiopoulou, L. Pragst, S. Ultes, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris and L. Wanner
Towards an Ontology-Driven Adaptive Dialogue Framework
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval for Multimodal Interaction, pp. 15--20, 2016

G. Pruvost, T. Heinroth, Y. Bellik and W. Minker
User Interaction Adaptation Within Ambient Environments
Next Generation Intelligent Environments, Springer, pp. 221--263, 2016

F. Nothdurft, S. Ultes and W. Minker
User-Centred Spoken Dialogue Management
Next Generation Intelligent Environments, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 265--294, 2016

S. Ultes, H. Dikme and W. Minker
Dialogue Management for User-Centered Adaptive Dialogue
Situated Dialog in Speech-Based Human-Computer Interaction, Springer, Cham, pp. 51--61, 2016


F. Nothdurft, F. Honold and W. Minker
Temporal and Spatial Design of Explanations in a Multimodal System
HCI International 2016, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Toronto, Canada, Series: Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2016

2015

A. Schmitt and S. Ultes
Interaction Quality: Assessing the Quality of Ongoing Spoken Dialog Interaction by Experts---And How It Relates to User Satisfaction
Speech Communication, Vol. 74, pp. 12--36, November 2015


M. Sidorov, K. Brester and A. Schmitt
Contemporary Stochastic Feature Selection Algorithms for Speech-based Emotion Recognition
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), Dresden, Germany, September 2015

S. Ultes, M. Kraus, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
Quality-adaptive Spoken Dialogue Initiative Selection And Implications On Reward Modelling
Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), ACL, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 374--383, September 2015

S. Zablotskiy and W. Minker
Sub-word language modeling for Russian LVCSR
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference, SPECOM, Athens, Greece, September 2015

R. Sergienko and A. Schmitt
Verbal Intelligence Identification Based on Text Classification
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), Dresden, Germany, pp. 2524-2528, September 2015

L. Pragst, S. Ultes, M. Kraus and W. Minker
Adaptive Dialogue Management in the KRISTINA Project for Multicultural Health Care Applications
Proceedings of the 19thWorkshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL), Gothenburg, Sweden, pp. 202--203, August 2015

R. Sergienko, O. Akhtiamov, E. Semenkin and A. Schmitt
A novel approach to neural network design for natural language call routing
12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2015), Colmar, France, Vol. 01, pp. 102 - 109, July 2015

M. Sidorov, E. Sopov, I. Ivanov and W. Minker
Feature and Decision Level Audio-Visual Data Fusion in Emotion Recognition Problem
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Colmar, France, July 2015

K. Brester, E. Semenkin, M. Sidorov and O. Semenkina
Multicriteria Neural Network Design in the Speech-Based Emotion Recognition Problem
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Colmar, France, July 2015

M. Sidorov, E. Semenkin and W. Minker
Unconstrained Global Optimization: A Benchmark Comparison of Population-based Algorithms
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Colmar, France, July 2015

K. Brester, E. Semenkin, M. Sidorov, I. Kovalev and P. Zelenkov
Evolutionary Feature Selection for Emotion Recognition in Multilingual Speech Analysis
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Sendai, Japan, pp. 2406–2411, May 2015

A. Spirina, A. Schmitt, E. Semenkin and W. Minker
Interaction Quality in Human-Human Conversations: Problems and Possible Solutions
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Mathematics & Physics., Vol. 8, Num. 2, pp. 217-223, May 2015

P. Bercher, F. Richter, T. Hoernle, T. Geier, D. Höller, G. Behnke, F. Nothdurft, F. Honold, W. Minker, M. Weber and S. Biundo
A Planning-based Assistance System for Setting Up a Home Theater
Proceedings of the 29th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2015), {AAAI Press}, 2015

G. Behnke, M. Schiller, D. Ponomaryov, F. Nothdurft, P. Bercher, W. Minker, B. Glimm and S. Biundo
A Unified Knowledge Base for Companion-Systems - A Case Study in Mixed-Initiative Planning
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Companion Technology (ISCT 2015), 2015
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S. Ultes, M. Platero Sánchez, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
Analysis of an Extended Interaction Quality Corpus
Natural Language Dialog Systems and Intelligent Assistants, Springer International Publishing, pp. 41-52, 2015

M. Sidorov, A. Schmitt and E. Semenkin
Automated Recognition of Paralinguistic Signals in Spoken Dialogue Systems: Ways of Improvement
Journal of Siberian Federal University, Mathematics and Physics, Vol. 8, Num. 2, pp. 208-216, 2015

G. Behnke, D. Ponomaryov, M. Schiller, P. Bercher, F. Nothdurft, B. Glimm and S. Biundo
Coherence Across Components in Cognitive Systems - One Ontology to Rule Them All
Proceedings of the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2015), AAAI Press, 2015
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N. Rach, M. Müller, T. Calarco and S. Montangero
Dressing the chopped-random-basis optimization: A bandwidth-limited access to the trap-free landscape
Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 2015

M. Schmidt, M. Müller, M. Wagner, S. Stüker, A. Waibel, H. Hofmann and S. Werner
Evaluation of Crowdsourced User Input Data for Spoken Dialog Systems
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2015 Conference, The 16th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2-4 September 2015, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 427--431, 2015

H. Hofmann, V. Tobisch, U. Ehrlich and A. Berton
Evaluation of Speech-based HMI Concepts for Information Exchange Tasks: a Driving Simulator Study
Computer Speech and Language, Vol. 33, Num. 1, pp. 109 - 135, 2015

R. Sergienko, M. Shan, A. Khan, T. Gasanova and W. Minker
Feature selection for text classification based on constraints for term weights
Bulletin of Siberian State Aerospace University, Vol. 16, Num. 1, pp. 119-123, 2015

F. Nothdurft, S. Ultes and W. Minker
Finding Appropriate Interaction Strategies for Proactive Dialogue Systems---An Open Quest
Proc. of the 2nd European and the 5th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication 2014, LiU Electronic Press, Tartu, Estonia, pp. 73--80, 2015

M. Glodek, F. Honold, T. Geier, G. Krell, F. Nothdurft, S. Reuter, F. Schüssel, T. Hoernle, K. Dietmayer, W. Minker, S. Biundo, M. Weber, G. Palm and F. Schwenker
Fusion paradigms in cognitive technical systems for human–computer interaction
Neurocomputing, Vol. 161, pp. 17-37, 2015


P. Braunger, H. Hofmann, S. Werner and B. Larochelle
Requirements and Challenges of In-Vehicle Spoken Dialog Systems Specification from an Industrial Viewpoint
Proceedings of the EICS Workshop on Engineering Interactive Systems with SCXML, 2015

K. Brester, O. Semenkina and M. Sidorov
Robust and Reliable Techniques for Speech-based Emotion Recognition
Bulletin of Siberian State Aerospace University named after academician M.F. Reshetnev, Vol. 57, Num. 1, pp. 28-34, 2015

F. Nothdurft and W. Minker
User Involvement in Mixed-initiative Planning
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Companion Technology (ISCT 2015), pp. 37-43, 2015

M. Müller, D. Leuschner, L. Briem, M. Schmidt, K. Kilgour, S. Stüker and A. Waibel
Using Neural Networks for Data-Driven Backchannel Prediction: A Survey on Input Features and Training Techniques
International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 329--340, 2015

F. Nothdurft, G. Behnke, P. Bercher, S. Biundo and W. Minker
The Interplay of User-Centered Dialog Systems and AI Planning
Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 344–353, 2015

2014

K. Brester, M. Sidorov and E. Semenkin
Speech-based emotion recognition: Application of collective decision making concepts
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (ICCSAI), Wuhan, China, pp. 216-220, December 2014

M. Sidorov, S. Ultes and A. Schmitt
Automatic Recognition of Personality Traits: A Multimodal Approach
Proceedings of the 2014 Workshop on Mapping Personality Traits Challenge and Workshop (MAPTRAITS), Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 11-15, November 2014

M. Sidorov and W. Minker
Emotion Recognition and Depression Diagnosis by Acoustic and Visual Features: A Multimodal Approach
Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge (AVEC), Orlando, Florida, USA, pp. 81-86, November 2014

M. Sidorov and W. Minker
Emotion Recognition in Real-world Conditions with Acoustic and Visual Features
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 521-524, November 2014

W. Minker, E. Semenkin, R. Sergienko, R. Lüker and A. Voroshilova
Scientific cooperation between ҹ̽ and Siberian State Aerospace University
Reshetnev's Readings, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation, Vol. 2, pp. 489-491, November 2014

K. Brester, M. Sidorov and E. Semenkin
Acoustic Emotion Recognition - Two Ways of Features Selection based on Self-Adaptive Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Vienna, Austria, Vol. 2, pp. 851-855, September 2014

S. Akhmedova, E. Semenkin and R. Sergienko
Automatically Generated Classifiers for Opinion Mining with Different Term Weighting Schemes
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - ICINCO 2014, Vienna, Austria, Vol. 2, pp. 845-850, September 2014

T. Gasanova, R. Sergienko, E. Semenkin and W. Minker
Dimension Reduction with Coevolutionary Genetic Algorithm for Text Classification
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Vienna University of Technology, Austria, Vol. 1, pp. 215-222, September 2014

M. Sidorov, E. Semenkin and W. Minker
Multi-agent Cooperative Algorithms of Global Optimization
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Vienna, Austria, Vol. 1, pp. 259-265, September 2014

S. Zablotskiy and M. Sidorov
Russian Sub-Word Based Speech Recognition Using Pocketsphinx Engine
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Vienna, Austria, Vol. 2, pp. 840-844, September 2014

M. Sidorov, K. Brester, E. Semenkin and W. Minker
Speaker State Recognition with Neural Network-based Classification and Self-adaptive Heuristic Feature Selection
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Vienna, Austria, Vol. 1, pp. 699-703, September 2014

R. Sergienko, T. Gasanova, E. Semenkin and W. Minker
Text Categorization Methods Application for Natural Language Call Routing
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - ICINCO 2014, Vienna, Austria, Vol. 2, pp. 827-831, September 2014

S. Ultes and W. Minker
Managing adaptive spoken dialogue for Intelligent Environments
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, Vol. 6, Num. 5, pp. 523--539, August 2014

F. Nothdurft, F. Honold, K. Zablotskaya, D. Amr and W. Minker
Application of Verbal Intelligence in Dialog Systems for Multimodal Interaction
Series: 10th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, July 2014

S. Akhmedova, E. Semenkin, T. Gasanova and W. Minker
Co-operation of biology related algorithms for support vector machine automated design
International Conference on Engineering and Applied Sciences Optimization (OPT-i), Kos Island, Greece, June 2014

S. Ultes and W. Minker
Interaction Quality Estimation in Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Hybrid-HMMs
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Association for Computational Linguistics, Philadelphia, PA, USA, pp. 208--217, June 2014

T. Gasanova, R. Sergienko, S. Akhmedova, E. Semenkin and W. Minker
Opinion Mining and Topic Categorization with Novel Term Weighting
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, Association for Computational Linguistics, Baltimore, Maryland, USA., pp. 84–89, June 2014

K. Brester, E. Semenkin, M. Sidorov and W. Minker
Self-adaptive Multi-objective Genetic Algorithms for Feature Selection
International Conference on Engineering and Applied Sciences Optimization (OPT-i), Kos Island, Greece, June 2014

M. Sidorov, S. Ultes and A. Schmitt
Comparison of Gender- and Speaker-adaptive Emotion Recognition
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Reykjavik, Iceland, pp. 3476-3480, May 2014

M. Sidorov, S. Ultes and A. Schmitt
Emotions Are A Personal Thing: Towards Speaker-Adaptive Emotion Recognition
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Florence, Italy, pp. 4836-4840, May 2014

S. Ultes, H. Dikme and W. Minker
First Insight into Quality-Adaptive Dialogue
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Reykjavik, Iceland, pp. 246--251, May 2014

M. Sidorov, K. Brester, W. Minker and E. Semenkin
Speech-Based Emotion Recognition: Feature Selection by Self-Adaptive Multi-Criteria Genetic Algorithm
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Reykjavik, Iceland, pp. 3481-3485, May 2014

F. Nothdurft and W. Minker
Justification and Transparency Explanations in Dialogue Systems to Maintain Human-Computer Trust
Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop On Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), Springer, Napa, California, USA, January 2014

S. Ultes, R. ElChabb and W. Minker
Application and Evaluation of a Conditioned Hidden Markov Model for Estimating Interaction Quality of Spoken Dialogue Systems
Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones: Putting Spoken Dialog Systems into Practice, Springer New York, New York, NY, pp. 303--312, 2014

F. Honold, P. Bercher, F. Richter, F. Nothdurft, T. Geier, R. Barth, T. Hoernle, F. Schüssel, S. Reuter, M. Rau, G. Bertrand, B. Seegebarth, P. Kurzok, B. Schattenberg, W. Minker, M. Weber and S. Biundo
Companion-Technology: Towards User- and Situation-Adaptive Functionality of Technical Systems
10th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 2014), IEEE, pp. 378--381, 2014


H. Hofmann, V. Tobisch, U. Ehrlich, A. Berton and A. Mahr
Comparison of Speech-based In-car HMI Concepts in a Driving Simulation Study
Proceedings of Intelligent User Interfaces 2014, Haifa, Israel, 2014

H. Hofmann, M. Hermanutz, V. Tobisch, U. Ehrlich, A. Berton and W. Minker
Evaluation of In-Car SDS Notification Concepts for Incoming Proactive Events
International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems 2014, Napa, USA, 2014

C. Mosch, B. Boegel and H. Lang
Hochleistungsrechnen in Baden-Württemberg – Ausgewählte Aktivitäten im bwGRiD 2012: Beiträge zu Anwenderprojekten und Infrastruktur im bwGRiD im Jahr 2012
KIT Scientific Publishing, Chapter Das bwGRiD Wissenschaftsportal, pp. 177–202, 2014

P. Bercher, S. Biundo, T. Geier, T. Hoernle, F. Nothdurft and B. Schattenberg
Plan, Repair, Execute, Explain - How Planning Helps to Assemble your Home Theater.
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2014), 2014

H. Hofmann, U. Ehrlich and A. Berton
Proactivity in Spoken Dialog Systems
Proceedings of IUI 2014 Workshop on Interacting with Smart Objects, Haifa, Israel, 2014

F. Nothdurft, F. Richter and W. Minker
Probabilistic Human-Computer Trust Handling
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Association for Computational Linguistics, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A., pp. 51--59, 2014

2013

T. Gasanova, R. Sergienko, W. Minker, E. Semenkin and E. Zhukov
A Semi-supervised Approach for Natural Language Call Routing
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, pp. 344-348, August 2013

H. Hofmann, U. Ehrlich, A. Berton, A. Mahr, R. Math and C. Müller
Evaluation of Speech Dialog Strategies for Internet Applications in the Car
Proceedings of 14th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, Metz, France, August 2013

S. Ultes and W. Minker
Improving Interaction Quality Recognition Using Error Correction
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, Association for Computational Linguistics, Metz, France, pp. 122--126, August 2013

F. Honold, F. Schüssel, M. Weber, F. Nothdurft, G. Bertrand and W. Minker
Context Models for Adaptive Dialogs and Multimodal Interaction
Series: Intelligent Environments, July 2013

S. Ultes and W. Minker
HIS-OwlSpeak: A Model-driven Dialogue Manager With Multiple Control Modes
Intelligent Environments (IE), 2013 9th International Conference on, pp. 108--115, July 2013

R. Sergienko and E. Semenkin
Multistep fuzzy classifier design with self-tuning coevolutionary algorithm
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference in Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2013), Vol. 1, pp. 113-120, July 2013

M. Sidorov, A. Schmitt, S. Zablotskiy and W. Minker
Survey of Automated Speaker Identification Methods
Proceedings of the Intelligent Environments Conference (IE), Athens, Greece, pp. 236-239, July 2013

S. Ultes, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
On Quality Ratings for Spoken Dialogue Systems -- Experts vs. Users
Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Association for Computational Linguistics, Atlanta, Georgia, pp. 569--578, June 2013

S. Ultes, R. ElChabb, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
JaCHMM: A Java-Based Conditioned Hidden Markov Model Library
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2013, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada, pp. 3213--3217, May 2013

R. Sergienko, W. Minker, E. Semenkin and T. Gasanova
Call Routing Problem Solving Method Based on a New Term Relevance Estimation
Program Products and Systems, Num. 1, pp. 90-93, March 2013

T. Gasanova, R. Sergienko, W. Minker and E. Zhukov
A New Method for Natural Language Call Routing Problem Solving
Bulletin of Siberian State Aerospace University named after academician M.F. Reshetnev, Num. 4, 2013

H. Lang, M. Klepsch, F. Nothdurft, T. Seufert and W. Minker
Are Computers Still Social Actors?
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paris, France, Series: CHI EA '13, pp. 859–864, 2013

F. Nothdurft, H. Lang, M. Klepsch and W. Minker
Bases of human-computer trust and explanations
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paris, France, Series: CHI EA '13, pp. 1737--1742, 2013

H. Hofmann, U. Ehrlich, S. Reichel and A. Berton
Development of a Conversational Speech Interface Using Linguistic Grammars
5th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, Adjunct Proceedings, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2013

M. Sidorov, S. Zablotskiy, W. Minker and E. Semenkin
Emotion recognition and speaker identification from speech
Bulletin of Siberian State Aerospace University named after academician M.F. Reshetnev, Vol. 4, Num. 50, pp. 139-144, 2013

M. Schmidt, S. Werner and T. Heinroth
Herausforderungen der kombinierten Verwendung von On-Board- und Off-Board- Sprachdialogsystemen in Telematikeinheiten im Automobil
Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2013., TUDpress, Dresden, pp. 28--35, 2013

H. Lang, T. Dolpp and F. Nothdurft
How Do Users Solve Software Problems?
HCI International 2013 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts, Springer, Las Vegas, USA, pp. 134–138, 2013

S. Ultes and W. Minker
Interaction Quality: A Review
Bulletin of Siberian State Aerospace University named after academician M.F. Reshetnev, Num. 4, pp. 153--156, 2013

R. Sergienko and E. Semenkin
Michigan and Pittsburgh methods combination for fuzzy classifier design with coevolutionary algorithm
Proc. of 2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Cancun, Mexico, June 2013, pp. 3252-3259, 2013

T. Gasanova, R. Sergienko, W. Minker and E. Semenkin
Text Categorization by Coevolutionary Genetic Algorithm
Bulletin of Siberian State Aerospace University named after academician M.F. Reshetnev, Num. 4, pp. 104-108, 2013

F. Nothdurft, T. Heinroth and W. Minker
The Impact of Explanation Dialogues on Human-Computer Trust
Human-Computer Interaction. Users and Contexts of Use, Springer, pp. 59--67, 2013

A. Spirina, S. Zablotskiy and M. Sidorov
Two-steps system in searching similar words for fast and reliable automatic concatenation of Russian sub-word units
Bulletin of Siberian State Aerospace University named after academician M.F. Reshetnev, Vol. 4, Num. 50, pp. 144-148, 2013

D. Vásquez, R. Gruhn and W. Minker
Hierarchical Neural Network Structures for Modeling Inter and Intra Phonetic Information for Phoneme Recognition
Springer Verlag, Heidelberg (Germany), 2013

T. Heinroth and W. Minker
Introducing Spoken Dialogue Systems into Intelligent Environments
Springer, Boston (USA), 2013

A. Schmitt and W. Minker
Towards Adaptive Spoken Dialog Systems
Springer, Boston (USA), 2013

2012

H. Hofmann, A. Silberstein, U. Ehrlich, A. Berton and A. Mahr
Development of Speech-based In-car HMI Concepts for Information Exchange Internet Apps
Proceedings of International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, Springer New York, Paris, France, November 2012

H. Hofmann, A. Silberstein, U. Ehrlich, A. Berton, A. Naumann and S. Möller
Entwicklung von Dialogstrategien zur Sprachbedienung von Web Transactions im Fahrzeug
Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung, Cottbus, August 2012

H. Hofmann, S. Sakti, C. Hori, H. Kashioka, S. Nakamura and W. Minker
Sequence-based Pronunciation Variation Modeling for Spontaneous ASR Using a Noisy Channel Approach
The Journal of The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Vol. E95-D, Num. 8, August 2012

G. Bertrand, F. Nothdurft and W. Minker
"What Do You Want to Do Next?" Providing the User with More Freedom in Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Systems
Intelligent Environments (IE), 2012 8th International Conference on, pp. 290 - 296, June 2012

F. Nothdurft, G. Bertrand, H. Lang and W. Minker
Adaptive Explanation Architecture for Maintaining Human-Computer Trust
36th Annual IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference, Izmir, Series: COMPSAC, June 2012

C. Rico García and O. Tonguz
Increasing safety and efficienty of railway
IEEE ICC 2012 Workshop on Intelligent Vehicular Networking: V2V/V2I Communications and Applications., Ottawa, June 2012

T. Herbig, F. Gerl and W. Minker
Self-Learning Speaker Identification for Enhanced Speech Recognition
Computer Speech and Language, Vol. 26, Num. 3, pp. 210-227, June 2012

H. Hofmann, U. Ehrlich, A. Berton and W. Minker
Speech Interaction with the Internet - A User Study
Intelligent Environments, Guanajuato, Mexico, June 2012

S. Ultes, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
Towards Quality-Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Management
NAACL-HLT Workshop on Future directions and needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data (SDCTD 2012), Association for Computational Linguistics, Montreal, Canada, pp. 49--52, June 2012

A. Schmitt, S. Ultes and W. Minker
A Parameterized and Annotated Spoken Dialog Corpus of the CMU Let's Go Bus Information System
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 3369--3373, May 2012

A. Lehner, C. Rico García and T. Strang
On the Performance of TETRA DMO Short Data Service in Railway VANETs
Wireless Personal Communications, Springer Netherlands, May 2012

S. Zablotskiy, A. Shvets, M. Sidorov, E. Semenkin and W. Minker
Speech and Language Resources for LVCSR of Russian
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 3374-3377, May 2012

H. Lang and W. Minker
A Collaborative Web-based Help-System
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics, ACM, New York, NY, USA, Craiova, Romania, Series: WIMS '12, pp. 60:1--60:5, 2012

H. Hofmann, U. Ehrlich, K. Bader, I. Nothelfer and A. Berton
A Natural In-Car Speech Interface to Internet Services Using Hybrid ASR
Proceedings of Interspeech, Portland, USA, 2012

T. Heinroth, M. Grotz, F. Nothdurft and W. Minker
Adaptive Speech Recognition for Intuitive Model-based Spoken Dialogues
Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), 2012

H. Lang and F. Nothdurft
An avatar-based help system for a grid computing web portal
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Multimodal interaction, 2012

F. Honold, F. Schüssel, F. Nothdurft and P. Kurzok
Companion technology for multimodal interaction
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Multimodal interaction, 2012

K. Zablotskaya, F. Fernández-Martínez and W. Minker
Estimating Adaptation of Dialogue Partners with Different Verbal Intelligence
13th annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 2012

M. Sidorov, S. Zablotskiy, E. Semenkin and W. Minker
Evolutionary Design of Neural Networks for Forecasting of Financial Time Series
Bulletin of Siberian State Aerospace University named after academician M.F. Reshetnev, Vol. 4, Num. 44, pp. 106-110, 2012

R. Sergienko
Fuzzy Classifier Design with Coevolutionary Algorithms Applying for Speaker Identification
Bulletin of Siberian State Aerospace University named after academician M.F. Reshetnev, Num. 4, pp. 98-104, 2012

K. Zablotskaya, F. Fernández-Martínez and W. Minker
Investigating Verbal Intelligence using the TF-IDF Approach
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), 2012

K. Zablotskaya, S. Zablotskiy, F. Fernández-Martínez and W. Minker
Language Style Matching and Verbal Intelligence
Bulletin of Siberian State Aerospace University named after academician M.F. Reshetnev. In Press, 2012

T. Gasanova and Smeshko
Modification of fuzzy C-means algorithm with automatic selection of the number of clusters for speech utterance categorization
Bulletin of Siberian State Aerospace University named after academician M.F. Reshetnev, Num. 4, pp. 110-114, 2012

R. Sergienko and E. Semenkin
Multistep Fuzzy Classifier Forming with Cooperative-Competitive Coevolutionary Algorithm
Advances in Swarm Intelligence. Third International Conference, ICSI 2012, Shenzhen, China, June 17-20, 2012 Proceedings, Part I, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 7331, 2012


K. Zablotskaya, U. Rahim, F. Fernández-Martínez and W. Minker
Relating Dominance of Dialogue Participants with their Verbal Intelligence Scores
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), 2012

S. Ultes, A. Schmitt, R. ElChabb and W. Minker
Statistical Modeling of Interaction Quality in Spoken Dialogue Systems: A Comparison of (Conditioned) Hidden-Markov-Model-based Classifiers vs. Support Vector Machines
Bulletin of Siberian State Aerospace University named after academician M.F. Reshetnev, 2012

H. Hagras, C. Wagner, A. Kameas, C. Goumopoulos, A. Meliones, L. Seremeti, Y. Bellik, G. Pruvost, T. Heinroth and W. Minker
Symbiotic Ecologies in Next Generation Ambient Intelligent Environments
International Journal of Next-Generation Computing, Vol. 3, Num. 1, 2012

F. Fernández-Martínez, K. Zablotskaya and W. Minker
Text Categorization Methods for Automatic Estimation of Verbal Intelligence
Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 39, Num. 10, pp. 9807-9820, 2012

H. Lang, M. Klepsch, F. Nothdurft, T. Seufert and W. Minker
The Influence of Proactivity on Interactive Help Agents
SouthCHI 2013, Springer, Maribor, Slovenia, Series: Human Factors in Computing and Informatics, pp. 748--767, 2012

F. Nothdurft, F. Honold and P. Kurzok
Using explanations for runtime dialogue adaptation
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Multimodal interaction, 2012

F. Nothdurft and W. Minker
Using Multimodal Resources for Explanation Approaches in Technical Systems
Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), 2012

M. Elmahdy, R. Gruhn and W. Minker
Novel Techniques for Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition
Springer, Boston (USA), 2012

2011

A. Lehner, T. Strang and C. Rico García
A multi-broadcast communication system for high dynamic vehicular ad-hoc networks
International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communication Systems (IJVICS), Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., Vol. 2, Num. 3/4, pp. 286--302, December 2011


F. Nothdurft and W. Minker
Explanation Architecture for Companion Systems
2011 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT 2011), Amman, Jordan, December 2011

M. Elmahdy, M. Hasegawa-Johnson, E. Mustafawi, R. Duwairi and W. Minker
Challenges and Techniques for Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition and Machine Translation
Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum, Doha, Qatar, November 2011

A. Albalate, W. Minker and D. Suendermann
On Cluster Validation for Detecting the number of Clusters in a Dataset
International Journal on Artificial Intelligent Tools (IJAIT), Vol. 20, Num. 5, pp. 13, October 2011

G. Bertrand, F. Nothdurft, W. Minker, S. Walter and H. Traue
Adapting Dialogue to User Emotion - A Wizard-of-Oz study for adaptation strategies
Proceedings of the Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems Workshop, Springer, Granada (Spain), September 2011

T. Herbig, F. Gerl, W. Minker and R. Haeb-Umbach
Adaptive Systems for Unsupervised Speaker Tracking and Speech Recognition
Evolving Systems, Vol. 2, Num. 3, pp. 199-214, August 2011

S. Ultes, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
Attention, Sobriety Checkpoint! Can Humans Determine by Means of Voice, if Someone is Drunk... and can Automatic Classifiers Compete?
Proc. of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Florence, Italy, pp. 3221--3224, August 2011

T. Heinroth, S. Koleva and W. Minker
Topic Switching Strategies for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Proc. of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Florence (Italy), August 2011

A. Schmitt, A. Zgorzelski and W. Minker
Tackling a Shilly-Shally Classifier for Predicting Task Success in Spoken Dialogue Interaction
Proc. of the International Conference on Speech and Language Processing (ICSLP), Florence (Italy), August 2011

A. Albalate, W. Minker and A. Suchindranath
An Approach to Semi-Supervised Classification using the Hungarian Algorithm
3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), Rome. Italy, July 2011

G. Bertrand, F. Nothdurft, F. Honold and F. Schüssel
CALIGRAPHI -- Creation of Adaptive diaLogues usIng a GRAPHical Interface
35th Annual IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference, CPS, IEEE, Munich, Series: COMPSAC, pp. 393-400, June 2011

T. Strang, A. Lehner, O. Heirich, A. Grosch and C. Rico García
Cooperative Situation Awareness for a Railway Collision Avoidance System (RCAS)
Adjunct Proceedings, 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2011), June 2011

M. Elmahdy, R. Gruhn, S. Abdennadher and W. Minker
Rapid Phonetic Transcription using Everyday Life Natural Chat Alphabet Orthography for Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011

T. Herbig, F. Gerl and W. Minker
Evolution of an Adaptive Unsupervised Speech Controlled System
IEEE Workshop on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems, EAIS-2011, Paris (France), April 2011

T. Heinroth, D. Denich and W. Minker
A Multitasking Approach to Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Management
Proceedings of the HCI International 2011, 2011

K. Zablotskaya, S. Zablotskiy, S. Walter and W. Minker
A Simple One-Way Analysis of Variance as a Way to Determine More Informative Features for Speech-Based User's Verbal Intelligence Estimation
14th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM2011), 2011

S. Ultes, T. Heinroth, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
A Theoretical Framework for a User-Centered Spoken Dialog Manager
Proceedings of the Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems Workshop, Springer New York, New York, NY, Granada, Spain, pp. 241--246, 2011

H. Hofmann, A. Eberhardt and U. Ehrlich
Accessing Web Resources in Different Languages Using a Multilingual Speech Dialog System
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, Springer New York, pp. 9-15, 2011

H. Lang, C. Mosch, B. Boegel, D. Benoit and W. Minker
An Avatar-Based Help System for Web-Portals
14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 537-546, 2011

S. Zablotskiy, K. Zablotskaya and W. Minker
Automatic Pre-processing of the Russian Text Corpora for Language Modeling
14th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM2011), 2011

S. Zablotskiy, E. Semenkin and A. Shvets
Coevolutionary asymptotic genetic algorithm for syllable model based identification of sentences in automatic recognition of continuous speech (in Russian, abstract in English)
Bulletin of Siberian State Aerospace University named after academician M.F. Reshetnev, Vol. 3(36), pp. 20-25, 2011

K. Zablotskaya, U. Rahim, S. Zablotskiy, S. Walter and W. Minker
Conversation Peculiarities of People with Different Verbal Intelligence
IWSDS 2011: Workshop on Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems, 2011

F. Honold, F. Schüssel, M. Weber, F. Nothdurft, G. Bertrand and W. Minker
Ein Goal-basierter Ansatz für adaptive multimodale Systeme
Mensch und Computer, 2011

R. Sergienko, E. Semenkin and V. Bukhtoyarov
Evolutionary Approach for Automatic Design of Neural Networks Ensembles for Modeling and Time Series Forecasting
Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Intelligent Systems and Agents 2011, pp. 93-96, 2011

S. Zablotskiy, T. Pitakrat, K. Zablotskaya and W. Minker
GMM Parameters Estimation by Means of EM and Genetic Algorithm
14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2011

R. Sergienko, E. Semenkin and V. Bukhtoyarov
Hybrid Fuzzy Classifier Design with Coevolutionary Genetic Algorithm
Proceedings of the IADIS International Conferences Informatics 2011, pp. 35-42, 2011

H. Hofmann, A. Eberhardt and U. Ehrlich
Information Extraction from the World Wide Web Using a Speech Interface
3rd International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, Adjunct Proceedings, Salzburg, Austria, 2011

A. Lehner, C. Rico García, T. Strang and O. Heirich
Measurement and Analysis of the Direct Train to Train Propagation Channel in the 70 cm UHF-Band
Communication Technologies for Vehicles, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6596, pp. 45--57, 2011

K. Zablotskaya, M. Abbas, S. Zablotskiy, S. Walter and W. Minker
Measuring Verbal Intelligence using Linguistic Analysis
The 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, 2011

S. Zablotskiy, T. Pitakrat, K. Zablotskaya and W. Minker
Optimal Operators of Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for GMM Parameter Estimation
Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE'11), Nottingham, UK, pp. 61-65, 2011

S. Zablotskiy, A. Shvets, E. Semenkin and W. Minker
Recognized Russian Syllables Concatenation by means of Co-Evolutionary Asymptotic Algorithm
14th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM2011), 2011

G. Pruvost, T. Heinroth, Y. Bellik and W. Minker
User Interaction Adaptation within Ambient Environments
Springer, Boston (USA), In: Next Generation Intelligent Environments: Ambient Adaptive Systems, Chapter 5, pp. 153-194, 2011

M. Bezold and W. Minker
Adaptive Multimodal Interactive Systems
Springer, Boston (USA), 2011

D. Bühler and W. Minker
Domain-Level Reasoning for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Springer, Boston (USA), 2011

T. Heinroth, A. Kameas, G. Pruvost, L. Seremeti, Y. Bellik and W. Minker
Human-Computer Interaction in Next Generation Ambient Intelligent Environments
Intelligent Decision Technologies - Special Issue on Knowledge-based environments and services in HCI, Vol. 5, Num. 1, pp. 31--46, 2011

T. Heinroth and W. Minker (Eds.)
Next Generation Intelligent Environments: Ambient Adaptive Systems
Springer, Boston (USA), 2011


T. Herbig, F. Gerl and W. Minker
Self-Learning Speaker Identification - A System for Enhanced Speech Recognition
Springer Verlag, Heidelberg (Germany), 2011

A. Albalate and W. Minker
Semi-Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning
ISTE/Wiley, London (United Kingdom), 2011

W. Minker, G. Lee, J. Mariani and S. Nakamura (Eds.)
Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology and Design
Springer, Boston (USA), 2011

T. Heinroth and D. Denich
Spoken Interaction within the Computed World: Evaluation of a Multitasking Adaptive Spoken Dialogue System
35th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2011), IEEE, 2011

R. Gruhn, W. Minker and S. Nakamura
Statistical Pronunciation Modeling for Non-Native Speech Processing
Springer Verlag, Heidelberg (Germany), 2011

A. Schmitt, B. Schatz and W. Minker
Modeling and Predicting Quality in Spoken Human-Computer Interaction
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference, Association for Computational Linguistics, Portland, Oregon, USA, pp. 173--184, 2011

2010

K. Zablotskaya, S. Walter, S. Zablotskiy and W. Minker
Determination of Variables Significance Using Esimations of the First-Oder Partial Derivative
Scientific Journal of Siberian State Aerospace University named after academician M.F. Reshetnev, Vol. 5(31), pp. 30-33, December 2010

S. Zablotskiy, T. Müller and W. Minker
Estimation of Radio Signal Quality Degradation by Means of Neural Network and Non-Parametric Regression Model
Scientific Journal of Siberian State Aerospace University named after academician M.F. Reshetnev, Vol. 5(31), pp. 33-36, December 2010

T. Herbig, F. Gerl and W. Minker
Simultaneous Speech Recognition and Speaker Identification
IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT-2010, Berkeley, (California, U.S.A.), December 2010

C. Rico García, A. Lehner, P. Robertson and T. Strang
Performance of MAC protocols in beaconing Mobile Adhoc Multibroadcast Networks
Multiple Access Communiations, Springer, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Num. 6235, pp. 263-274, September 2010

A. Albalate, D. Suendermann, A. Suchindranath and W. Minker
A Semi-Supervised Cluster-and-Label Approach for Utterance Classification
International Conference on Speech and Language Processing (Interspeech), Makuhari, Japan., September 2010

M. Elmahdy, R. Gruhn, W. Minker and S. Abdennadher
Cross-Lingual Acoustic Modeling for Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition
International Conference on Speech and Language Processing (Interspeech), Makuhari, Japan, September 2010

A. Schmitt, M. Scholz, W. Minker, J. Liscombe and D. Suendermann
Is it Possible to Predict Task Completion in Automated Troubleshooters?
Proc. of the International Conference on Speech and Language Processing (ICSLP), Makuhari (Japan), September 2010

A. Zgorzelski, A. Schmitt, T. Heinroth and W. Minker
Repair Strategies on Trial: Which Error Recovery Do Users Like Best?
Proc. of the International Conference on Speech and Language Processing (ICSLP), Makuhari (Japan), September 2010

T. Herbig, F. Gerl and W. Minker
Speaker Tracking in an Unsupervised Speech Controlled System
Proc. of the International Conference on Speech and Language Processing, ICSLP-2010, Makuhari (Japan), September 2010

T. Polzehl, A. Schmitt and F. Metze
Salient Features for Anger Recognition in German and English IVR Portals
Springer, Boston, USA, In: Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology and Design, Chapter 4, pp. 83-105, August 2010

A. Albalate, W. Minker and A. Suchindranath
A Semi-supervised Algorithm for Utterance Classification
International Workshop of on Human Computer Interaction and Ambient Intelligence (HCIAmI 2010), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 2010

W. Minker and T. Heinroth
Advanced Spoken Dialogue Management in Adaptive and Trusted Ambient Ecologies
Keynote at the 5th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence (AITAmI'10), July 2010

T. Herbig, F. Gerl and W. Minker
Fast Adaptation of Speech and Speaker Characteristics for Enhanced Speech Recognition in Adverse Intelligent Environments
6th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IE-2010, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), July 2010

F. Nothdurft, G. Bertrand, T. Heinroth and W. Minker
GEEDI - Guards for Emotional and Explanatory DIalogues
6th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE'10), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), July 2010

A. Schmitt, U. Tschaffon, T. Heinroth and W. Minker
Inter-Labeler Agreement for Anger Detection in Interactive Voice Response Systems
6th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE'10), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), July 2010

T. Polzehl, A. Schmitt and F. Metze
Approaching Multilingual Emotion Recognition from Speech - On Language Dependency of Acoustic/Prosodic Features for Anger Detection
Proc. of the Fifth International Conference on Speech Prosody, 2010. Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago, U.S.A., May 2010

G. Bertrand, F. Nothdurft, S. Walter, A. Scheck and H. Kessler
Towards investigating effective affective dialogue strategies
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Valetta, Malta, May 2010

T. Heinroth, D. Denich, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
Efficient Spoken Dialogue Domain Representation and Interpretation
Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Valetta, Malta, May 2010

A. Schmitt, T. Polzehl and W. Minker
Modeling A-Priori Likelihoods for Angry User Turns with Hidden Markov Models
Proc. of the Fifth International Conference on Speech Prosody, 2010. Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago, U.S.A., May 2010

K. Zablotskaya, S. Walter and W. Minker
Speech Data Corpus for Verbal Intelligence Estimation
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), May 2010

A. Schmitt, T. Polzehl, J. Liscombe and W. Minker
The Influence of the Utterance Length on the Recognition of Aged Voices
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Valetta, Malta, May 2010

A. Schmitt, G. Bertrand, T. Heinroth, J. Liscombe and W. Minker
WITcHCRafT: A Workbench for Intelligent exploraTion of Human ComputeR conversaTions
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Valetta, Malta, May 2010

T. Heinroth, D. Denich and A. Schmitt
OwlSpeak - Adaptive Spoken Dialogue within Intelligent Environments
8th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops), Mannheim (Germany), pp. 666 - 671, March 2010


J. Bidot, S. Biundo, T. Heinroth, W. Minker, F. Nothdurft and B. Schattenberg
Verbal Plan Explanations for Hybrid Planning
24th MKWI related PuK-Workshop: Planung/Scheduling und Konfigurieren/Entwerfen, Göttingen, February 2010

A. Albalate
On Ambiguity Detection and Postprocessing schemes using Cluster Ensembles
International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), January 2010

A. Albalate
A Non-Parameterised Hierarchical Pole Based Clustering Algorithm (HPoBC)
International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), January 2010

B. Kloiber, C. Rico García, T. Strang, F. Ponte-Mueller and M. Röckl
An Approach for Performance Analysis of ETSI ITS-G5A MAC for Safety Applications
ITST 2010, 2010

T. Polzehl, A. Schmitt, F. Metze and M. Wagner
Anger Recognition in Speech Using Acoustic and Linguistic Cues
Speech Communication, Vol. Special Issue: Sensing Emotion and Affect - Facing Realism in Speech Processing, 2010


R. Sergienko and E. Semenkin
Competitive Cooperation for Strategy Adaptation in Coevolutionary Genetic Algorithm for Constrained Optimization
Proc. of 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pp. 1626-1631, 2010


T. Polzehl, F. Metze and A. Schmitt
Factors for Linguistic and Prosodic Emotion Recognition
36. Jahrestagung für Akustik (DAGA), DEGA e.V., 2010

R. Sergienko
Fuzzy classifier forming method with self-tuning coevolutionary algorithms
Artificial intelligence and decision-making, Num. 3, pp. 98-106, 2010

H. Hofmann, S. Sakti, R. Isotani, H. Kawai, S. Nakamura and W. Minker
Sequence-Based Pronunciation Modeling Using a Noisy-Channel Approach
Spoken Dialogue Systems for Ambient Environments, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6392, pp. 156-162, 2010


A. Schmitt, R. Pieraccini and T. Polzehl
"For Heaven's Sake, Gimme a Live Person!" Designing Emotion-Detection Customer Care Voice Applications in Automated Call Centers
Advances in Speech Recognition, Springer US, pp. 191-219, 2010

M. Bezold and W. Minker
A Framework for Adapting Interactive Systems to User Behavior
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, Vol. 2, Num. 4, pp. 369--387, 2010

T. Herbig, F. Gerl and W. Minker
Detection of Unknown Speakers in an Unsupervised Speech Controlled System
Spoken Dialogue Systems for Ambient Environments, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6392, pp. 25-35, 2010


J. Pittermann, A. Pittermann and W. Minker
Emotion Recognition and Adaptation in Spoken Dialogue Systems
International Journal of Speech Technology, Vol. 13, Num. 1, pp. 49--60, 2010


T. Herbig, F. Gerl and W. Minker
Evaluation of two Approaches for Speaker Specific Speech Recognition
Spoken Dialogue Systems for Ambient Environments, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6392, pp. 36-47, 2010


A. Schmitt, T. Polzehl and W. Minker
Facing Reality: Simulating Deployment of Anger Recognition in IVR Systems
Spoken Dialogue Systems for Ambient Environments, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6392, pp. 122-131, 2010

J. Pittermann, A. Pittermann and W. Minker
Handling Emotions in Human-Computer Dialogues
Springer, Dordrecht (The Netherlands), 2010

H. Hofmann, S. Sakti, R. Isotani, H. Kawai, S. Nakamura and W. Minker
Improving Spontaneous English ASR Using a Joint-sequence Pronunciation Model
4th International Universal Communication Symposium (IUCS) 2010, Bejing, China, 2010

K. Zablotskaya, M. Ahmed, S. Zablotskiy and W. Minker
Non-parametric Regression and Random Balance Method Modification for Determination of the Most Informative Features
The 6th International Conference on Intelligent Environments - IE'10, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2010

P. Strauss and W. Minker
Proactive Spoken Dialogue Interaction in Multi-Party Environments
Springer, Boston (USA), 2010

S. Zablotskiy, K. Zablotskaya and W. Minker
Some Approaches for Russian Speech Recognition
The 6th International Conference on Intelligent Environments - IE'10, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2010

G. Lee, J. Mariani, W. Minker and S. Nakamura
Spoken Dialogue Systems for Ambient Environments
Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6392, 2010

A. Schmitt, W. Minker and N. Sharaf
Advances in the Witchcraft Workbench Project
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference, Association for Computational Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 261--264, 2010

2009

T. Polzehl, A. Schmitt and F. Metze
Comparing Features for Acoustic Anger Classification in German and English IVR Portals
First International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), Kloster Irsee (Germany), December 2009

T. Heinroth, D. Denich and G. Bertrand
Ontology-based Spoken Dialogue Modelling
First International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), Kloster Irsee (Germany), December 2009

D. Vásquez, G. Aradilla, R. Gruhn and W. Minker
A Hierarchical Structure for Modeling Inter and Intra Phonetic Information for Phoneme Recognition
IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), Merano, Italy, December 2009

A. Kameas, C. Goumopoulos, H. Hagras, M. Gardner, T. Heinroth, W. Minker, A. Meliones, D. Economou, Y. Bellik and G. Pruvost
A Pervasive System Architecture that supports Adaptation using Agents and Ontologies
The 10th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms and Networks (I-SPAN), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, pp. 148-153, December 2009


D. Vásquez, G. Aradilla, R. Gruhn and W. Minker
Isolated Word Recognition Based on Inter and Intra Phonetic Classifiers
First International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), Kloster Irsee, Germany, December 2009

Y. Bellik, A. Kameas, C. Goumopoulos, H. Hagras, T. Heinroth, G. Pruvost, A. Meliones, D. Economou, W. Minker and M. Gardner
Multidimensional Pervasive Adaptation into Ambient Intelligent Environments
DASC '09: Proceedings of the 2009 Eighth IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 303-308, December 2009


D. Vásquez, G. Aradilla, R. Gruhn and W. Minker
On Speeding Phoneme Recognition in a Hierarchical MLP Structure
IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), Merano, Italy, December 2009

G. Pruvost, A. Kameas, T. Heinroth, L. Seremeti and W. Minker
Combining agents and ontologies to support task-centred interoperability in Ambient Intelligent Environments
Proceedings of the 2009 Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA), IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 55-60, November 2009


A. Lehner, C. Rico García, E. Wige and T. Strang
A Multi-Broadcast Communication System for High Dynamic Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks
IEEE International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles (Nets4Cars) at the International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications (ICUMT 2009), October 2009

A. Lehner, C. Rico García, E. Wige and T. Strang
A Multi-Broadcast Communication System for High Dynamic Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks
Proceedings of IEEE VNC 2009, October 2009

R. Römer and T. Herbig
Konzeptionelle Beschreibung des Corticalen Algorithmus und seine Verwendung in der automatischen Sprachverarbeitung
20. Konferenz Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung (ESSV), Dresden (Germany), September 2009

A. Lehner, F. Ponte, T. Strang and C. Rico García
Reliable vehicle-autarkic collision detection for railbound transportation
Proceedings of ITS World Congress 2009, September 2009

S. Mowafey, A. Schmitt, H. Hagras and W. Minker
Creating an Ambient Intelligent Environment with an Emotion-Aware System
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IOS Press, Barcelona (Spain), September 2009

M. Elmahdy, R. Gruhn, W. Minker and S. Abdennadher
Effect of Gaussian Densities and Amount of Training Data on Grapheme-Based Acoustic Modeling for Arabic
IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE NLP-KE), Dalian, China, September 2009

A. Albalate and D. Suendermann
A combination approach to cluster validation using statistical quantiles
International Joint Conference on Computational Biological Systems (IJCBS), Shanghai, China, August 2009

M. Bezold
A Semantic Framework for Adapting Interactive Systems in Intelligent Environments
5th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE'09), IOS Press, Barcelona, Spain, Series: Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, Vol. 2, pp. 204-211, July 2009

T. Heinroth, A. Schmitt and G. Bertrand
Enhancing Speech Dialogue Technologies for Ambient Intelligent Environments
5th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE'09), IOS Press, Barcelona (Spain), Series: Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, Vol. 2, pp. 42-49, July 2009


A. Schmitt, T. Heinroth and G. Bertrand
Towards Emotion, Age- and Gender-Aware VoiceXML Applications
5th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE’09), IOS Press, Barcelona (Spain), Series: Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, Vol. 2, pp. 34-41, July 2009


M. Bezold
User Modeling from Basic Events in Interactive Systems for Intelligent Environments
5th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE’09), IOS Press, Barcelona, Spain, Series: Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, Vol. 2, pp. 319-326, July 2009

M. Bezold
Describing User Interactions in Adaptive Interactive Systems
First and Seventeenth International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP), Springer, Trento, Italy, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5535, pp. 150-161, June 2009

D. Vásquez, G. Aradilla, R. Gruhn and W. Minker
On Expanding Context by Temporal Decomposition for Improving Phoneme Recognition
International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), St. Petersburg, Russia, June 2009

T. Heinroth, A. Kameas, H. Hagras and Y. Bellik
Semi-tacit Adaptation of Intelligent Environments
5th IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications & Innovations (AIAI 2009), Thessaloniki (Greece), April 2009


T. Heinroth, A. Kameas, C. Wagner and Y. Bellik
A Proposal for Realizing Adaptive Ambient Ecologies through an ontology-based Multi-Agent System
2009 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Agents, Nashville (USA), March 2009


T. Herbig and F. Gerl
Joint Speaker Identification and Speech Recognition for Speech Controlled Applications in an Automotive Environment
International Conference on Acoustics (NAG-DAGA), Rotterdam (The Netherlands), March 2009

M. Elmahdy, R. Gruhn, W. Minker and S. Abdennadher
Survey on common Arabic language forms from a speech recognition point of view
International Conference on Acoustics (NAG-DAGA), Rotterdam, Netherlands, March 2009

T. Cincarek, R. Gruhn, C. Hacker, E. Nöth and S. Nakamura
Automatic Pronunciation Scoring of Words and Sentences Independent from the Non-native's First Language
Computer Speech and Language, Vol. 23, Num. 1, pp. 65-88, January 2009

T. Strang, A. Lehner and C. Rico García
Building a 2nd line of defence for safer rail
EURAILmag Business & Technology, Issue 19, BLUE LINE & Bro, Paris, France, Pages 92-95, January 2009

G. Bertrand, T. Heinroth and A. Schmitt
CHAD - Constraint Handling Architecture for Dialoguemanagement
5th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE'09), IOS Press, Barcelona (Spain), Series: Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, Vol. 2, pp. 50-56, 2009


Z. Kayikci, D. Zaykovskiy, H. Markert, W. Minker and G. Palm
Distributed Architecture for Speech Controlled Systems Based on Associative Memories
Wiley-VCH, Weinheim (Germany), In: Mathematical Analysis of Evolution, Information, and Complexity, pp. 197-217, 2009

K. Zablotskaya
Genetic Programming Application for User Capabilities Determination
4th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence (AITAmI'09), Barcelona (Spain), Vol. 4, 2009


W. Minker and M. Weber
Introduction
Springer, Boston (USA), In: Advanced Intelligent Environments, Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Chapter 1, 2009

M. Raab, O. Schreiner, T. Herbig, R. Gruhn and E. Nöth
Optimal Projections between Gaussian Mixture Feature Spaces for Multilingual Speech Recognition
International Conference on Acoustics (NAG-DAGA), Rotterdam (The Netherlands), 2009

M. Bezold
Towards Formalized Adaptation Patterns for Adaptive Interactive Systems
14th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (EuroPLoP), Kloster Irsee, Germany, 2009

W. Minker, M. Weber, H. Hagras, V. Callaghan and A. Kameas (Eds.)
Advanced Intelligent Environments
Springer, Boston (USA), 2009

A. Kameas, C. Goumopoulos, H. Hagras, T. Heinroth, M. Weber and V. Callaghan
An architecture that supports task centered adaptation in Intelligent Environments
Springer, Boston (USA), In: Advanced Intelligent Environments, Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, pp. 41-70, 2009


W. Minker, J. Pittermann, A. Pittermann, P. Strauss and D. Bühler
Challenges in Speech-Based Human-Computer Interfaces
International Journal of Speech Technology, Vol. 10, Num. 2, pp. 109-119, 2009


H. Lang, M. Raab, R. Gruhn and W. Minker
Comparing Acoustic Model Adaption Methods for Non-Native Speech Recognition
International Conference on Acoustics (NAG-DAGA), 2009

A. Albalate, W. Minker, R. Pieraccini and D. Suendermann
Current Applications of Unsupervised Machine Learning
Wiley-VCH, Weinheim (Germany), In: Mathematical Analysis of Evolution, Information, and Complexity, pp. 219-241, 2009

D. Vásquez, G. Aradilla, R. Gruhn and W. Minker
Improving Context Modeling for Phoneme Recognition
International Conference on Acoustics (NAG-DAGA), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 419--422, 2009

S. Sakti, K. Markov, S. Nakamura and W. Minker
Incorporating Knowledge into Statistical Acoustic Models for Spoken Language Dialog Systems
Springer, Boston (USA), Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 42, 2009

W. Minker, T. Heinroth, P. Strauss and D. Zaykovskiy
Interaction in intelligent environments
Elsevier, In: Human-Centric Interfaces for Ambient Intelligence, Chapter 18, 2009

M. Elmahdy, R. Gruhn, W. Minker and S. Abdennadher
Modern Standard Arabic Based Multilingual Approach for Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition
The Eighth International Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SNLP), Bangkok, Thailand, 2009

S. Zablotskiy, T. Müller and W. Minker
Perceptual Evaluation of Radio Signal Quality Degradation
5th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE'09), Barcelona (Spain), 2009


F. Néel and W. Minker
Speech in Human-Machine Communication
Wiley ISTE (USA), In: Spoken Language Processing, 2009

A. Schmitt, D. Zaykovskiy and W. Minker
Speech Recognition for Mobile Devices
International Journal of Speech Technology, Vol. 11, Num. 2, pp. 63--72, 2009


W. Minker, R. López-Cózar Delgado and M. McTear
The role of spoken language dialogue interaction in intelligent environments
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, Vol. 1, Num. 1, pp. 31-36, 2009


J. Bourgeois and W. Minker
Time-domain Beamforming and Convolutive Blind Source Separation
Springer, Boston (USA), Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 2009

A. Schmitt, T. Heinroth and J. Liscombe
On NoMatchs, NoInputs and BargeIns: Do Non-Acoustic Features Support Anger Detection?
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference, Association for Computational Linguistics, London, UK, pp. 128--131, 2009

2008

C. Rico García, A. Lehner and T. Strang
COMB: Cell based Orientation aware MANET Broadcast MAC layer
Global Communication Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM), New Orleans, USA, December 2008

A. Lehner, T. Strang and C. Rico García
A Reliable Surveillance Strategy for an Autonomous Rail Collision Avoidance System
15th Worl Congress on ITS, New York, USA, November 2008

C. Goumopoulos, A. Kameas, H. Hagras, V. Callaghan, M. Gardner, W. Minker, M. Weber, Y. Bellik and A. Meliones
ATRACO: Adaptive and Trusted Ambient Ecologies
Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), Workshop on Pervasive Adaptation (PERADA), Venice (Italy), October 2008

C. Rico García, T. Strang and A. Lehner
A location-based MAC protocol for safety-of-life vehicle-to-vehicle communication
Eleventh International Conference on Computer System Design and Operation in the Railway and Other Transit Systems (COMPRAIL), Toledo (Spain), September 2008

M. Raab, T. Herbig, R. Brueckner, R. Gruhn and E. Nöth
Adaptation of Frequency Band Influence for Non-native Speech Recognition
19. Konferenz Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung (ESSV), Frankfurt a.M. (Germany), September 2008

O. Herm, A. Schmitt and J. Liscombe
When Calls Go Wrong: How to Detect Problematic Calls Based on Log-Files and Emotions?
Proc. of the International Conference on Speech and Language Processing (ICSLP), Brisbane, Australia, September 2008

T. Heinroth and D. Bühler
ArriGator - Evaluation of a Speech-based Pedestrian Navigation System
4th IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Seattle (USA), July 2008


J. Pittermann and A. Schmitt
Integrating Linguistic Cues Into Speech-Based Emotion Recognition
4th IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Seattle (USA), July 2008

C. Rico García, T. Strang and A. Lehner
A Broadcast Vehicle to Vehicle Communication System in Railway Environments
International Symposium on Vehicular Computing Systems (ISVCS), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), July 2008

C. Rico García, T. Strang and A. Lehner
A Reliable MAC Protocol for Broadcast VANETs
4th Workshop on Vehicle to Vehicle Communications (V2VCOM 2008), Eindhoven (The Netherlands), July 2008

J. Pittermann, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
Comparing Evaluation Criteria for (Automatic) Emotion Recognition
4th IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Seattle (USA), pp. 1-4, July 2008

D. Zaykovskiy and A. Schmitt
Java vs. Symbian: A Comparison of Software-based DSR Implementations on Mobile Phones
4th IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Seattle (USA), July 2008

A. Albalate and D. Suendermann
Speech Utterance Categorisation given One Training Utterance per Category
4th IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Seattle (USA), July 2008

D. Zaykovskiy and A. Schmitt
Deploying DSR Technology on Today's Mobile Phones: A Feasibility Study
4th IEEE Tutorial and Research Workshop Perception and Interactive Technologies for Speech-Based Systems, Irsee (Germany), June 2008

A. Schmitt, C. Hank and J. Liscombe
Detecting Problematic Calls With Automated Agents
4th IEEE Tutorial and Research Workshop Perception and Interactive Technologies for Speech-Based Systems, Irsee (Germany), June 2008

M. Pfeil, D. Bühler, R. Gruhn and W. Minker
Evaluating Text Normalization for Speech-Based Media Selection
Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Tutorial and Research Workshop Perception and Interactive Technology for Speech-Based Systems (PIT08), Kloster Irsee (Germany), June 2008

A. Albalate and D. Suendermann
Hard vs. Fuzzy Clustering for Speech Utterance Categorization
4th IEEE Tutorial and Research Workshop Perception and Interactive Technologies for Speech-Based Systems, Irsee (Germany), June 2008

S. Scherer, H. Hofmann, M. Lampmann, M. Pfeil, S. Rhinow, F. Schwenker and G. Palm
Emotion recognition from speech: Stress experiment
Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008

C. Rico García, T. Strang, A. Lehner and K. Frank
Channel Model for Train to Train Communication using the 400 MHz Band
67th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2008-Spring), Marina Bay (Singapore), May 2008

T. Herbig, O. Gaupp and F. Gerl
Modellbasierte Sprachsegmentierung
34. Jahrestagung für Akustik (DAGA), Dresden (Germany), March 2008

M. Bezold
An Ontology-based Adaptation Framework for Multimodal Interactive Systems
TAMODIA/HCSE, Springer, Pisa, Italy, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5247, pp. 205-212, 2008


H. Wesseling, M. Bezold and N. Beringer
Automatic Evaluation Tool for Multimodal Dialogue Systems
PIT, Springer, Kloster Irsee, Germany, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5078, pp. 297-305, 2008


M. Raab, R. Gruhn and E. Nöth
Codebook Design for Speech Guided Car Infotainment Systems
Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Tutorial and Research Workshop Perception and Interactive Technology for Speech-Based Systems (PIT08), pp. 44-51, 2008

D. Vásquez, R. Gruhn, R. Brueckner and W. Minker
Comparing Linear Feature Space Transformations for Correlated Features
Springer, In: Perception in Multimodal Dialogue Systems, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5078, pp. 176-187, 2008

M. Bezold
Describing User Actions in Adaptive Interfaces with Probabilistic Acceptors
LWA/ABIS, Würzburg, Germany, pp. 10-13, 2008

W. Minker, J. Pittermann, A. Pittermann, P. Strauss and D. Bühler
Intelligent and Empathic Speech Interfaces
Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Hauppauge, NY (USA), In: Speech Communication at the Leading Edge, pp. 71-105, 2008

M. Raab, R. Gruhn and E. Nöth
Multilingual Weighted Codebooks
ICASSP, pp. 4257-4260, 2008

M. Raab, R. Gruhn and E. Nöth
Multilingual Weighted Codebooks for Non-native Speech Recognition
Proc. TSD, pp. 485-492, 2008

L. Dybkjær and W. Minker
Preface
Springer, Dordrecht (The Netherlands), In: Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue, Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology, Vol. 39, pp. ix-x, 2008

E. André, L. Dybkjær, W. Minker, H. Neumann, R. Pieraccini and M. Weber
Preface
Springer Verlag, Heidelberg (Germany), In: Perception in Multimodal Dialogue Systems, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5078, pp. v, 2008

S. Scherer and P. Strauss
A Flexible Wizard of Oz Environment for Rapid Prototyping
International Conference on Language Resources and Evalution (LREC), Marrakech (Morocco), 2008

B. Iser, G. Schmidt and W. Minker
Bandwidth Extension of Speech Signals
Springer, Boston (USA), Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 13, 2008

S. Sakti, E. Kelana, H. Riza, K. Markov and S. Nakamura
Development of Indonesian Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition System within A-STAR Project
Workshop on Technologies and Corpora for Asia-Pacific Speech Translation, Hyderabad (India), 2008

P. Strauss, S. Friedmann and T. Heinroth
Discourse Motivated Constraint Prioritisation For Task-Oriented Multi-Party Dialogue Systems
12th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Londial), London (United Kingdom), 2008

E. André, L. Dybkjær, W. Minker, H. Neumann, R. Pieraccini and M. Weber (Eds.)
Perception in Multimodal Dialogue Systems
Springer Verlag, Heidelberg (Germany), Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5078, 2008

L. Dybkjær and W. Minker (Eds.)
Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue
Springer, Dordrecht (The Netherlands), Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology, Vol. 39, 2008

P. Strauss, H. Hoffmann, W. Minker, H. Neumann, G. Palm, S. Scherer, H. Traue and U. Weidenbacher
The PIT Corpus Of German Multi-Party Dialogues
International Conference on Language Resources and Evalution (LREC), Marrakech (Morocco), 2008

L. Dybkjær and W. Minker
Trends and Challenges in Discourse and Dialogue
Springer, Dordrecht (The Netherlands), In: Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue, Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology, Vol. 39, pp. xvii-xxxi, 2008

2007

H. Meng, J. Pittermann, A. Pittermann and W. Minker
Combined Speech-Emotion Recognition for Spoken Human-Computer Interfaces
IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, Dubai (United Emirates), pp. 1179-1182, December 2007

J. Pittermann, A. Pittermann and W. Minker
Design and Implementation of Adaptive Dialogue Strategies for Speech-based Interfaces
Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence, Vol. 1, Num. 2, pp. 145-152, December 2007

M. Raab, R. Gruhn and E. Nöth
Non-Native Speech Databases
2007 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), Kyoto (Japan), December 2007

U. Weidenbacher, G. Layher, P. Strauss and H. Neumann
A Comprehensive Head Pose And Gaze Database
3rd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Ulm (Germany), September 2007

M. Aly, J. Pittermann, D. Bühler and W. Minker
A Semi-Automatic Tool for Emotion Corpora Annotation
3rd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments, (Germany), pp. 251-254, September 2007

P. Strauss, H. Hoffmann and S. Scherer
Evaluation and User Acceptance of a Dialogue System Using Wizard-of-Oz Recordings
3rd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Ulm (Germany), September 2007

A. Albalate and D. Dimitrov
Extraction of similar Terms for Unsupervised Utterance Categorization in Technical Support Automated Agents
3rd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Ulm (Germany), September 2007

D. Bühler and W. Minker
HMM-Based Semantic Analysis for the ESST and MEDIA Tasks
3rd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments, (Germany), pp. 131-134, September 2007

D. Zaykovskiy, A. Schmitt and M. Lutz
New Use of Mobile Phones: Towards Multimodal Information Access Systems
3rd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Ulm (Germany), September 2007

J. Pittermann, W. Minker, A. Pittermann and D. Bühler
PROBLEMO - Problem Solving and Emotion Awareness in Spoken Dialogue Systems
3rd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments, (Germany), pp. 447-450, September 2007

J. Pittermann, A. Pittermann, H. Meng and W. Minker
Towards an Emotion-Sensitive Spoken Dialogue System - Classification and Dialogue Modeling
3rd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments, (Germany), pp. 239-246, September 2007

S. Sakti, K. Markov and S. Nakamura
An HMM Acoustic Model Incorporating Various Additional Knowledge Sources
European Conference on Speech and Language Processing (EUROSPEECH), Antwerp (Belgium), August 2007

S. Abdennadher, M. Aly, D. Bühler, W. Minker and J. Pittermann
BECAM Tool -- A Semi-automatic Tool for Bootstrapping Emotion Corpus Annotation and Management
European Conference on Speech and Language Processing (EUROSPEECH), Antwerp (Belgium), pp. 946-949, August 2007

A. Albalate, D. Dimitrov and R. Pieraccini
Unsupervised Categorization Approaches for Technical Support Automated Agents
European Conference on Speech and Language Processing (EUROSPEECH), Antwerp (Belgium), August 2007

C. Rico García, A. Lehner, T. Strang and M. Röckl
Comparison of Collision Avoidance Systems and Applicability to Rail Transport
7th International Conference on Inteligent Transportation Systems Telecommunication (ITST), Sophia Antipolis (France), June 2007

D. Zaykovskiy and A. Schmitt
Java to Micro Edition Front-End for Distributed Speech Recognition Systems
The 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (UCI'07), Niagara Falls (Canada), May 2007

J. Pittermann and A. Pittermann
A Data-Oriented Approach to Integrate Emotions in Adaptive Dialogue Management
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Honolulu (USA), January 2007

P. Strauss and M. Jahn
Using Frame Semantics on a Domain Dependent Corpus
IJCAI Workshop on Modeling and Representation in Computational Semantics (MRCS), Hyderabad (India), January 2007

A. Hamdy, M. Elmahdy and M. Elsabrouty
Face Detection using PCA and Skin Tone Extraction for Drowsy Driver Application
ITI 5th International Conference on Information & Communications Technology (ICICT2007), 2007

L. Dybkjær, H. Hemsen and W. Minker
Introduction
Springer, Dordrecht (The Netherlands), In: Evaluation of Text and Speech Systems, Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology, Vol. 37, pp. vi-xxiii, 2007

L. Dybkjær, H. Hemsen and W. Minker
Preface
Springer, Dordrecht (The Netherlands), In: Evaluation of Text and Speech Systems, Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology, Vol. 37, pp. ix-x, 2007

N. Bernsen, L. Dybkjær and W. Minker
Spoken Dialogue Systems Evaluation
Springer, Dordrecht (The Netherlands), In: Evaluation of Text and Speech Systems, Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology, pp. 187-219, 2007

S. Sakti, K. Markov and S. Nakamura
A method to Integrate Additional Knowledge Sources Into HMM Based on Junction Tree Decomposition
European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Poznan (Poland), 2007

L. Dybkjær, H. Hemsen and W. Minker
Evaluation of Text and Speech Systems
Springer, Dordrecht (The Netherlands), Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology, Vol. 37, 2007

S. Sakti, K. Markov and S. Nakamura
Incorporating Knowledge Sources into a Statistical Acoustic Model for Spoken Language Communication Systems
IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2007

S. Sakti, E. Kelana, H. Riza and S. Nakamura
Large Vocabulary ASR for Indonesian Language in the A-STAR Project
ASJ Autumn Meeting, Yamanashi (Japan), 2007

W. Minker, M. Weber, H. Hagras, V. Callaghan and A. Kameas (Eds.)
Proceedings of the 3rd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments
Institute of Electrical Engineering (IET), 2007

S. Sakti, K. Markov and S. Nakamura
Utilizing Junction Tree Decomposition for Incorporating Accent, Gender, and Wide-Context Dependency Information
ASJ Spring Meeting, Tokio (Japan), 2007

2006

W. Minker, A. Albalate, D. Bühler, A. Pittermann, J. Pittermann, P. Strauss and D. Zaykovskiy
Recent Trends in Spoken Language Dialogue Systems
ITI 4th International Conference on Information and Communications Technology (ICICT 2006), Cairo (Egypt), pp. 1-2, December 2006

J. Pittermann and A. Pittermann
A Post-Processing Approach to Improve Emotion Recognition Rates
8th International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP), Guilin (China), November 2006

J. Pittermann and A. Pittermann
An 'Emo-Statistical' Model for Flexible Dialogue Management
8th International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP), Guilin (China), November 2006

A. Pittermann and J. Pittermann
Getting Bored with HTK? Using HMMs for Emotion Recognition
8th International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP), Guilin (China), November 2006

A. Albalate, W. Nogueira, B. Edler and A. Büchner
Signal Analysis by using Adaptive Filterbanks in Cochlear Implants
IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BIOCAS 2006), London, G.B, November 2006

P. Strauss
A SLDS for Perception and Interaction in Multi-User Environments
2nd IEE International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Athens (Greece), July 2006

J. Pittermann and A. Pittermann
Integrating Emotion Recognition into an Adaptive Spoken Language Dialogue System
2nd IEE International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Athens (Greece), pp. 213-219, July 2006

W. Minker, J. Pittermann, A. Pittermann, P. Strauss and D. Bühler
Next-Generation Human-Computer Interfaces - Towards Intelligent, Adaptive and Proactive Spoken Language Dialogue Systems
2nd IEE International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Athens (Greece), July 2006

D. Zaykovskiy
Survey of the Speech Recognition Techniques for Mobile Devices
11th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), St. Petersburg (Russia), June 2006

B. Iser and G. Schmidt
Bewertung verschiedener Methoden zur Erzeugung des Anregungssignals innerhalb eines Algorithmus zur Bandbreitenerweiterung
7. ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation, Kiel (Germany), April 2006

M. Tress, O. Schreiner and G. Palm
Optimierung eines silbenbasierten Spracherkenners
32. Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik (DAGA), Braunschweig (Germany), March 2006

E. André, L. Dybkjær, W. Minker and M. Weber
Preface
Springer Verlag, Heidelberg (Germany), In: Perception and Interactive Technologies, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4021, pp. v-vi, 2006

A. Berton, D. Bühler and W. Minker
SmartKom-Mobile Car: User Interaction with Mobile Services in a Car Environment
Springer Verlag, Heidelberg (Germany), In: SmartKom: Foundations of Multi-Modal Dialogue Systems, Series: Cognitive Technologies, pp. 523-541, 2006

A. Berton, U. Haiber, A. Kaltenmeier and O. Schreiner
SmartKom: Foundations of Multi-modal Dialogue Systems
Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Chapter Speech Recognition, 2006

S. Sakti, K. Markov and S. Nakamura
A Hybrid HMM/BN Acoustic Model Utilizing Pentaphone-Context Dependency
IEICE Trans. Inf. & Syst., 2006

S. Sakti, K. Markov and S. Nakamura
A Hybrid Pentaphone HMM/BN Acoustic Model
ASJ Spring Meeting, Tokyo (Japan), 2006

C. Rico García, O. Schreiner and W. Minker
A Scalable Syllable Speech Recognizer
International Conference on Acoustics (NAG-DAGA), Braunschweig (Germany), 2006

Y. Sun, D. Willett, R. Brueckner, R. Gruhn and D. Bühler
Experiments on Chinese Speech Recognition with Tonal Models and Pitch Estimation using the Mandarin SPEECON Data
International Conference on Speech and Language Processing (ICSLP), Pittsburgh (USA), 2006

S. Sakti, S. Nakamura and K. Markov
Improving Acoustic Model Precision by Incorporating a Wide Phonetic Context Based on a Bayesian Framework
IEICE Trans. Inf. & Syst., 2006

S. Sakti, K. Markov and S. Nakamura
Incorporation of Pentaphone-Context Dependency Based on Hybrid HMM/BN Acoustic Modeling Framework
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Toulouse (France), 2006

L. Dybkjær and W. Minker
Introduction to Special Issue on Data Resources, Evaluation, and Dialogue Interaction
Language Resources and Evaluation, Special Issue, Springer, Dordrecht (The Netherlands), Vol. 40, Num. 1, pp. 1-4, 2006

E. André, L. Dybkjær, W. Minker, H. Neumann and M. Weber (Eds.)
Perception and Interactive Technologies
Springer Verlag, Heidelberg (Germany), Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4021, 2006

L. Dybkjær and W. Minker (Eds.)
Statistical Methods and Evaluation in Discourse and Dialogue
Springer, Dordrecht (The Netherlands), Series: Language Resources and Evaluation, Special Issue, Vol. 40, Num. 1, 2006

D. Bühler and W. Minker
Stochastic Spoken Natural Language Parsing in the Framework of the French MEDIA Evaluation Campaign
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Genoa (Italy), 2006

S. Sakti, K. Markov and S. Nakamura
The Use of Bayesian Network for Incorporating Accent, Gender and Wide-Context Dependency Information
International Conference on Speech and Language Processing (ICSLP), Pittsburgh (USA), 2006

S. Sakti, K. Markov and S. Nakamura
Utilizing Bayesian Network and Junction Tree Decomposition for Incorporating Additional Knowledge Sources into a Statistical Acoustic Model
8th IEICE Speech Processing Symposium, Nagoya (Japan), 2006

P. Strauss, H. Hoffmann, W. Minker, H. Neumann, G. Palm, S. Scherer, F. Schwenker, H. Traue, W. Walter and U. Weidenbacher
Wizard-of-Oz Data Collection for Perception and Interaction in Multi-User Environments
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Genoa (Italy), 2006

2005

D. Zaykovskiy and B. Iser
Comparison of Neural Networks and Linear Mapping in an Application for Bandwidth Extension
10th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), Patras (Greece), October 2005

S. Hamerich and D. Bühler
Converging Dialogue Descriptions for Embedded and Server Platforms
10th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), Patras (Greece), October 2005

D. Bühler and M. Riegler
Integrating Dialogue Management and Domain Reasoning
10th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), Patras (Greece), October 2005

S. Sakti, K. Markov and S. Nakamura
Modeling Quasi-Pentaphone Units with the Hybrid HMM/BN Acoustic Model
10th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), Patras (Greece), October 2005

L. Kahsay, F. Schwenker and G. Palm
Comparision of Multiclass SVM Decomposition Schemes for Visual Object Recognition
27th Annual meeting of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM), Vienna (Austria), September 2005

S. Sakti, S. Nakamura and K. Markov
Composing a Wide Phonetic Context Unit based on Bayesian Framework
Autumn Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ), Sendai (Japan), September 2005

J. Bourgeois, J. Freudenberger and G. Lathoud
Implicit Control of Noise Canceller for Speech Enhancement
European Conference on Speech and Language Processing (EUROSPEECH), Lisbon (Portugal), September 2005

S. Sakti, S. Nakamura and K. Markov
Incorporating a Bayesian Wide Phonetic Context Model for Acoustic Rescoring
European Conference on Speech and Language Processing (EUROSPEECH), Lisbon (Portugal), September 2005

D. Bühler and S. Hamerich
Towards VoiceXML Compilation for Portable Embedded Applications in Ubiquitous Environments
European Conference on Speech and Language Processing (EUROSPEECH), Lisbon (Portugal), September 2005

D. Bühler, W. Minker and A. Elciyanti
Using Language Modelling to Integrate Speech Recognition with a Flat Semantic Analysis
6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Lisbon (Portugal), September 2005

J. Bourgeois
An LMS Viewpoint on the Local Stability of Second Order Blind Source Separation
IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, Bordeaux (France), July 2005

D. Bühler, J. Hernández and W. Minker
Connecting Spoken Language Dialogue Systems to the Internet
The IEE International Workshop on Intelligent Environments, Colchester (United Kingdom), pp. 304-310, June 2005

J. Pittermann, A. Rittinger and W. Minker
Flexible Dialogue Management in Intelligent Human-Machine Interfaces
The IEE International Workshop on Intelligent Environments, Colchester (United Kingdom), pp. 298-303, June 2005

C. Beuschel, W. Minker and D. Bühler
Stochastically-Based Spoken Natural Language Parsing - Design and Evaluation of Flexible Learning and Decoding Methods
The IEE International Workshop on Intelligent Environments, Colchester (United Kingdom), pp. 283-290, June 2005

G. Lathoud, J. Bourgeois and J. Freudenberger
Multichannel speech enhancement in cars: explicit vs. implicit adaptation control
Joint Workshop for Hands-Free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA), Piscataway (USA), March 2005

A. Berton, O. Schreiner and A. Hagen
How To Speed Up Voice Activated Destination Entry
16. Conference on Electronic Speech Signal Processing (ESSP / ESSV), TUDpress (Dresden, Germany), Prague (Czech Republic), Series: Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation, Vol. 36, 2005

W. Minker, D. Bühler and L. Dybkjær
Introduction
Springer, Dordrecht (The Netherlands), In: Spoken Multimodal Human-Computer Dialogue in Mobile Environments, Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology, Vol. 28, pp. xxi-xxviii, 2005

W. Minker, D. Bühler and L. Dybkjær
Preface
Springer, Dordrecht (The Netherlands), In: Spoken Multimodal Human-Computer Dialogue in Mobile Environments, Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology, Vol. 28, pp. xi-xii, 2005

C. Hacker, T. Cincarek, R. Gruhn, S. Steidl, E. Nöth and H. Niemann
Pronunciation Feature Extraction
Proc. DAGM-Symposium, pp. 141-148, 2005

L. Dybkjær and W. Minker (Eds.)
6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
Omnipress, Madison, Wisconsin (USA), 2005

D. Bühler and W. Minker
A Reasoning Component for Information-Seeking and Planning Dialogues
Springer, Dordrecht (The Netherlands), In: Spoken Multimodal Human-Computer Dialogue in Mobile Environments, Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology, Vol. 28, pp. 77-91, 2005

B. Iser and G. Schmidt
Bandwidth Extension of Telephony Speech
EURASIP Newsletter, Vol. 16, Num. 2, 2005

W. Minker, U. Haiber, P. Heisterkamp and S. Scheible
Design, Implementation and Evaluation of the SENECA Spoken Language Dialogue System
Springer, Dordrecht (The Netherlands), In: Spoken Multimodal Human-Computer Dialogue in Mobile Environments, Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology, Vol. 28, pp. 287-310, 2005

C. Beuschel, W. Minker and D. Bühler
Hidden Markov Modeling for Semantic Analysis - On the Combination of Different Decoding Strategies
International Journal of Speech Technology, Vol. 8, pp. 295-305, 2005

D. Bühler and W. Minker
Mobile Multimodality - Design and Development of the SmartKom Companion
International Journal of Speech Technology, Vol. 8, Num. 2, pp. 193-202, 2005

J. Pittermann, M. Lentmaier and K. Zigangirov
On coded modulation using LDPC convolutional codes
International Journal of Electronics and Communications, 2005

L. Dybkjær, N. Bernsen and W. Minker
Overview on Multi-Modal Spoken Dialogue Systems Evaluation
Springer, Dordrecht (The Netherlands), In: Spoken Multimodal Human-Computer Dialogue in Mobile Environments, Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology, Vol. 28, pp. 221-246, 2005

S. Sakti, K. Markov and S. Nakamura
Rapid Development of Initial Indonesia Phoneme-Based Speech Recognition Using Cross-Language Approach
O-COCOSDA, Jakarta (Indonesia), 2005

G. Lathoud, J. Bourgeois and J. Freudenberger
Sector-Based Detection for Hands-Free Speech Enhancements in Cars
Journal of Acoustical Signal Processing, 2005

W. Minker, D. Bühler and L. Dybkjær (Eds.)
Spoken Multimodal Human-Computer Dialogue in Mobile Environments
Springer, Dordrecht (The Netherlands), Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology, Vol. 28, 2005

D. Bühler and W. Minker
The SmartKom Mobile Car Prototype System for Flexible Human-Machine Communication
Springer, Dordrecht (The Netherlands), In: Spoken Multimodal Human-Computer Dialogue in Mobile Environments, Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology, Vol. 28, pp. 185-202, 2005

2004

D. Bühler
Enhancing Existing Form-Based Dialogue Managers with Reasoning Capabilities
International Conference on Speech and Language Processing (ICSLP), Jeju Island (Korea), pp. 3077-3080, October 2004

L. Dybkjær, N. Bernsen and W. Minker
New Challenges in Usability Evaluation - Beyond Task-Oriented Spoken Dialogue Systems
International Conference on Speech and Language Processing (ICSLP), Jeju Island (Korea), pp. 2261-2264, October 2004

C. Beuschel, W. Minker and D. Bühler
Strategies for Optimizing a Stochastic Spoken Natural Language Parser
International Conference on Speech and Language Processing (ICSLP), Jeju Island (Korea), pp. 2177-2180, October 2004

D. Bühler and S. Hamerich
Towards Embedding VoiceXML Applications through Compilation
Workshop Dialogsysteme mit XML-Technologien, Berliner XML Tage, Berlin (Germany), October 2004

R. Gruhn, T. Cincarek and S. Nakamura
A Multi-Accent Non-Native English Database
Proc. Acoust. Soc. Japan, pp. 195-196, September 2004

J. Bourgeois and K. Linhard
Frequency-Domain Multichannel Signal Enhancement: Minimum Variance vs. Minimum Correlation
European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Vienna (Austria), September 2004

E. André, M. Rehm, W. Minker and D. Bühler
Endowing Spoken Language Dialogue Systems with Emotional Intelligence
Tutorial and Research Workshop Affective Dialogue Systems, Irsee (Germany), pp. 178-187, June 2004

W. Minker
Comparative Evaluation of a Stochastic Parser on Semantic and Syntactic-Semantic Labels
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Lisbon (Portugal), pp. 515-554, May 2004

L. Dybkjær, N. Bernsen and W. Minker
Usability Evaluation of Multimodal and Domain-Oriented Spoken Language Dialogue Systems
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Lisbon (Portugal), pp. 1695-1698, May 2004

R. Gruhn and S. Nakamura
A statistical lexicon based on HMMs
Proc. Information Processing Society of Japan, Vol. 2, pp. 37f, 2004

R. Gruhn, K. Markov and S. Nakamura
A statistical lexicon for non-native speech recognition
Proc. Interspeech, pp. 1497-1500, 2004

W. Svojanovsky, R. Gruhn and S. Nakamura
Classification of Nonverbal Utterances in Japanese Spontaneous Speech
Proc. Information Processing Society of Japan, Vol. 2, pp. 277-278, 2004

A. Berton and O. Schreiner
Detektion unbekannter Wörter in der automatischen Erkennung spontaner Sprache
15. Konferenz Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung (ESSV), w.e.b. Universitätsverlag, Cottbus, Series: Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation, Vol. 30, 2004

R. Gruhn, K. Markov and S. Nakamura
Discrete HMMs for statistical pronunciation modeling
SLP 52 / HI 109, Series: Speech and Language Processing Workshop, pp. 123-128, 2004

E. André, L. Dybkjær, P. Heisterkamp and W. Minker
Preface
Springer Verlag, Heidelberg (Germany), In: Affective Dialogue Systems, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3068, pp. v-vi, 2004

E. André, L. Dybkjær, W. Minker and P. Heisterkamp (Eds.)
Affective Dialogue Systems
Springer Verlag, Heidelberg (Germany), Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3068, 2004

L. Dybkjær, N. Bernsen and W. Minker
Evaluation and Usability of Multimodal Spoken Language Dialogue Systems
Speech Communication, Vol. 43, Num. 1--2, pp. 33-54, 2004

W. Minker
Introducing Syntax Information in a Stochastically-Based Case Grammar Parser
International Journal of Speech Technology, Vol. 7, pp. 45-54, 2004

W. Minker and S. Bennacef
Speech and Human-Machine Dialog
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston (USA), Series: The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 2004

W. Minker, U. Haiber, P. Heisterkamp and S. Scheible
The Seneca Spoken Language Dialogue System
Speech Communication, Vol. 43, Num. 1--2, pp. 89-102, 2004

T. Cincarek, R. Gruhn and S. Nakamura
Pronunciation scoring and extraction of mispronounced words for non-native speech
Proc. Acoustic Society of Japan, pp. 165-166, 2004

2003

J. Bourgeois
A Clustering Approach to On-line Audio Source Separation
European Conference on Speech and Language Processing (EUROSPEECH), Geneva (Switzerland), pp. 1745-1748, September 2003

B. Iser and G. Schmidt
Neural Networks versus Codebooks in an Application for Bandwidth Extension of Speech Signals
European Conference on Speech and Language Processing (EUROSPEECH), Geneva (Switzerland), pp. 565-568, September 2003

J. Pittermann, M. Lentmaier and K. Zigangirov
On Bandwidth-Efficient Convolutional LDPC Codes
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Yokohama (Japan), July 2003

K. Markov, T. Matsui, R. Gruhn, J. Zhang and S. Nakamura
Noise and Channel Distortion Rubust ASR System for DARPA SPINE2 Task
IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. E86-D, Num. 3, pp. 497-504, March 2003

W. Minker, U. Haiber, P. Heisterkamp and S. Scheible
Intelligent Dialog Overcomes Speech Technology Limitations: The SENECA Example
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Miami (USA), pp. 267-269, January 2003

D. Bühler, S. Vignier, P. Heisterkamp and W. Minker
Safety and Operating Issues for Mobile Human-Machine Interfaces
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Miami (USA), pp. 227-229, January 2003

A. Badawi, M. Elmahdy and E. Aly
4D-Echocardiographic System for Wall Motion and Cardiac Parameters Quantification
46th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), 2003

O. Schreiner
Modulation Spectrum for Pitch and Speech Pause Detection
8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH / INTERSPEECH), Geneva (Switzerland), 2003

A. Badawi and M. Elmahdy
Path Planning Simulation for 3D Ultrasound Guided Needle Biopsy System
46th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), 2003

H. Kriegel, P. Kunath, M. Pfeifle, M. Pötke, M. Renz and P. Strauss
Stochastic Driven Relational R-Tree.
Anais GeoInfo 2003, V Simposio Brasileiro de Geoinformatica, Campos do Jordao, SP (Brazil), 2003