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Prof. Dr. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Minker

Curriculum Vitae

Education

1986Graduation from Humboldt Gymnasium Ulm, Germany.
1987 - 1993Student of Electronics Systems Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
1991 - 1992Specialisation in Signal Processing and Robotics within the European Exchange Program ERASMUS at the Grande Ecole Superieure d'Electrotechnique et d'Electronique (ESIEE), Paris, France.
1992 - 1993Diplomarbeit on Image Processing for Visual Communication at the University of Essex, England.
1993Diploma Degree in Engineering Science, University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
1993Equivalence DEA (Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies) in Computer Science, Université Paris-Sud, France.
1997Doctorate in Engineering Science, University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
1998Doctorate in Computer Science, Université Paris-Sud, France.

Professional Experience 

1993 - 2000Teaching and Research Assistant at LIMSI-CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, France.    
2000 - 2003Senior Researcher at the Dialogue Systems Group of DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology, Ulm, Germany.    
2003 - 2011Professor of Engineering Science, Institute of Information Technology, ҹ̽.    
2005 - 2010Member of the Committee of Study Affairs, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Sciences, ҹ̽.    
2006 - 2008Dean of Studies, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Sciences, ҹ̽.    
2008 - 2023Member of the Admission Board for Study Programmes, Faculty of Engineering, Computer Sciences and Psychology, ҹ̽.    
2009 - 2010Member of the Examination Board of the joint B.Sc./M.Sc. Study Programme “Information Engineering”, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Sciences, ҹ̽.    
2006 - presentDirector of the Interns' Office, Faculty of Engineering, Computer Sciences and Psychology, ҹ̽.    
2011 - presentProfessor of Engineering Science, Faculty of Engineering, Computer Sciences and Psychology, ҹ̽.    
2017 - 2022Co-Director of the International Research Laboratory Multimodal Biometric and Speech Systems at ITMO University St. Petersburg (Russia).    
2019 - 2024Member of the Habilitation Committee, Faculty of Engineering, Computer Sciences and Psychology, ҹ̽.    
2020 - 2024Ombudsperson for PhD Programmes, Faculty of Engineering, Computer Sciences and Psychology, ҹ̽.    
2022 - 2026Member of the Examination Board of the joint B.Sc./M.Sc. Study Programme “Information Systems Technology”, Faculty of Engineering, Computer Sciences and Psychology, ҹ̽.    
2024- 2026ERSAMUS Educational Coordinator, Faculty of Engineering, Computer Sciences and Psychology, ҹ̽.    
2024- 2026Member of the Examination Board of the B.Sc./M.Sc. Study Programmes "Engineering Sciences", Faculty of Engineering, Computer Sciences and Psychology, ҹ̽.    

  • Spoken Dialogue Interaction in Ambient Intelligent Environments
  • Assistive, Adaptive and Proactive Spoken Language Dialogue Interaction
  • Semantic Analysis and Dialogue Modelling
  • Quality Assessment of Spoken Language Dialogue Systems

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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

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


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

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

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 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

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

2010

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

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

2009

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2000

W. Minker and S. Bennacef
Parole et Dialogue Homme-Machine
CNRS Éditions & Éditions Eyrolles, Paris (France), 2000

1999

W. Minker
Compréhension automatique de la parole spontanée
Édition L'Harmattan, Paris (France), 1999

W. Minker, A. Waibel and J. Mariani
Stochastically-Based Semantic Analysis
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston (USA), Series: The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, Vol. 514, 1999

1998

W. Minker
Speech Understanding for Spoken Language Systems - Portability Across Domains and Languages
Hänsel-Hohenhausen, Frankfurt/Main (Germany), Series: Deutsche Hochschulschriften, Num. 2569, 1998

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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

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

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

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


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

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


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


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

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


2015

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

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

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

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2002

F. Néel and W. Minker
Parole et Communication Homme-Machine
Hermès, Paris (France), In: Traitement Automatique du Langage Parlé, pp. 181-216, 2002

2001

G. Lazzari, R. Frederking and W. Minker
Speaker/Language Identification, Speech Translation
Instituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, Pisa (Italy), In: Multilingual Information Management: Current Levels and Future Abilities, Chapter 7, 2001

2000

W. Minker
Beiträge zu Lexikon der Neurowissenschaft
Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg (Germany), In: Contribution to Lexical Entries, 2000

1999

F. Néel and W. Minker
Multimodal Interactive Speech Systems
Springer Verlag, Heidelberg (Germany), In: Computational Models of Speech Pattern Processing, Series: NATO ASI Series F, Vol. 169, pp. 404-430, 1999

1998

F. Néel, G. Chollet, L. Lamel, W. Minker and A. Constantinescu
Reconnaissance et Compréhension de la Parole: Évaluation et Applications
AUPELF-UREF, Paris (France), In: Fondements et perspectives en traitement automatique de la parole, pp. 331-367, 1998

G. Lazzari, R. Frederking and W. Minker
Speaker/Language Identification, Speech Translation
National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (USA)- European Commission's Language Engineering Office, In: Multilingual Information Management: Current Levels and Future Abilities, Chapter 7, 1998

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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

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

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

2005

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

2002

E. André, L. Dybkjær, P. Heisterkamp and W. Minker (Eds.)
ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop (ITRW) on Multi-Modal Dialogue in Mobile Environments
ISCA-SIGDIAL, Irsee (Germany), 2002

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, 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

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

2019

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

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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


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


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

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

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

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

2002

W. Minker and F. Néel
Développement des technologies vocales
Le Travail Humain, Vol. 65, Num. 3, pp. 261-288, 2002

W. Minker and F. Néel
Handling knowledge sources in human-machine interaction
International Journal of Speech Technology, Vol. 5, Num. 2, pp. 171-188, 2002

W. Minker and P. Regel-Brietzmann
SmartKom - Intuitive Multimodal Human-Machine Communication
ElsNews, Vol. 11, Num. 3, pp. 8, 2002

2001

W. Minker
Problèmes d'évaluation dans le domaine de la communication orale homme-machine
Technique et Science Informatiques, Vol. 15, Num. 1, 2001

W. Minker
Robustness and Portability Issues in Multilingual Speech Processing
Machine Translation, Vol. 16, Num. 2, pp. 109-126, 2001

2000

L. Lamel, W. Minker and P. Paroubek
Towards Best Practice in the Development and Evaluation of Speech Recognition Components of a Spoken Language Dialogue System
Natural Language Engineering, Vol. 6, Num. 3-4, pp. 305-322, 2000

1999

W. Minker
Design Considerations for Knowledge Source Representations of a Stochastically-based Natural Language Understanding Component
Speech Communication, Vol. 28, Num. 2, pp. 141-154, 1999

W. Minker
Stochastically-based semantic analysis for ARISE - Automatic Railway Information Systems for Europe
Grammars, Vol. 2, Num. 2, pp. 127-147, 1999

W. Minker, M. Gavaldà and A. Waibel
Stochastically-based Semantic Analysis for Machine Translation
Computer Speech and Language, Vol. 13, Num. 1, pp. 177-194, 1999

W. Minker
The Role of Evaluation in the Development of Spoken Language Systems
International Journal of Speech Technology, Vol. 3, Num. 1, pp. 5-14, 1999

1998

W. Minker
Compréhension de la parole spontanée: grammaire robuste et analyse portable
Cahier d'etudes et de recherches francophones, Vol. 1, Num. 2, pp. 142-150, 1998

W. Minker
Compréhension vocale - une technologie pour demain
OFIL - La tribune des industries de la langue et de l'information electronique, Num. 27--28, 1998

W. Minker
Stochastic versus Rule-based Speech Understanding for Information Retrieval
Speech Communication, Vol. 25, Num. 4, pp. 223-247, 1998

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, 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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
Link to Document

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


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

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

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

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

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

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. 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

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

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, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, 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

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 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

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

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

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

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. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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

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

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

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

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. 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

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

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

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

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

2002

D. Bühler, W. Minker, J. Häussler and S. Krüger
Flexible Multimodal Human-Machine Interaction in Mobile Environments
International Conference on Speech and Language Processing (ICSLP), Denver (USA), pp. 167-172, September 2002

W. Minker
Overview on Recent Activities in Speech Understanding and Dialogue Systems Evaluation
International Conference on Speech and Language Processing (ICSLP), Denver (USA), pp. 265-268, September 2002

D. Bühler, W. Minker, J. Häussler and S. Krüger
Flexible Multimodal Human-Machine Interaction in Mobile Environments
ECAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Mobile System (AIMS), Lyon (France), pp. 66-70, July 2002

D. Bühler and W. Minker
An Architecture for a Logic-Based Human-Machine Dialogue
ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop (ITRW) on Multi-Modal Dialogue in Mobile Environments, Irsee (Germany), June 2002

W. Minker, U. Haiber, P. Heisterkamp and S. Scheible
Intelligent Dialogue Strategy for Accessing Infotainment Applications in Mobile Environments
ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop (ITRW) on Multi-Modal Dialogue in Mobile Environments, Irsee (Germany), June 2002

D. Bühler, W. Minker, J. Häussler and S. Krüger
The SmartKom Mobile Multi-Modal Dialogue System
ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop (ITRW) on Multi-Modal Dialogue in Mobile Environments, Irsee (Germany), June 2002

1999

W. Minker, M. Gavaldà and A. Waibel
Hidden Understanding Models for Machine Translation
ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop (ETRW) on Interactive Dialogue in Multi-Modal Systems, Irsee (Germany), pp. 57-60, June 1999

1998

W. Minker and L. Chase
Evaluating Parses for Spoken Language Dialogue Systems
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) - Workshop on The Evaluation of Parsing Systems, Granada (Spain), May 1998

W. Minker
Evaluation Methodologies for Interactive Speech Systems
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Granada (Spain), pp. 199-206, May 1998

W. Minker
Semantic Analysis for Automatic Spoken Language Translation and Information Retrieval
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) - Workshop on Multilingual Information Management: Current Levels and Future Abilities, Granada (Spain), May 1998

1997

W. Minker
Stochastically-Based Natural Language Understanding Across Tasks and Languages
European Conference on Speech and Language Processing (EUROSPEECH), Rhodes (Greece), pp. 1423-1426, September 1997

1996

W. Minker, S. Bennacef and J. Gauvain
A Stochastic Case Frame Approach for Natural Language Understanding
International Conference on Speech and Language Processing (ICSLP), Philadelphia (USA), pp. 1013-1016, October 1996

W. Minker and S. Bennacef
Compréhension et évaluation dans le domaine ATIS
21mes Journées d'études sur la parole (JEP), Avignon (France), pp. 417-421, June 1996

1994

S. Bennacef, H. Bonneau-Maynard, J. Gauvain, L. Lamel and W. Minker
A Spoken Language System for Information Retrieval
International Conference on Speech and Language Processing (ICSLP), Yokohama (Japan), pp. 1271-1274, September 1994

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2022

Y. Liu, W. Maier, W. Minker and S. Ultes
ConceptNet infused DialogueGPT for Underlying Commonse
arXiv reprint arXiv:2209.15109, arxiv, 2022

2018

L. Wanner, M. Farrús, S. Mille, S. Dasiopoulou, M. Domínguez, O. Martinez, F. Sukno, J. Blat, G. Llorach, H. Plass, S. Vrochidis, G. Meditskos, E. Kamateri, I. Kompatsiaris, E. André, F. Lingenfelser, D. Schiller, A. Stam, L. Stellingwerff, B. Vieru, G. Eschweiler, J. Mohr, M. Brachthäuser, L. Pragst, W. Minker, J. Miehle, C. Baudracco, T. Sánchez and B. Schäfer
D1.5 - Public Final Activity Report
Deliverable, The KRISTINA Project (H2020-645012), March 2018

2016

L. Pragst, W. Minker and L. Wanner
D2.4 - Basic Version of the KRISTINA Generic Adaptive Dialogue Manager
Deliverable, The KRISTINA Project (H2020-645012), August 2016

G. Mehlmann, D. Schiller, F. Lingenfelser, E. André, E. Kamateri, G. Meditskos, S. Dasiopoulou, F. Sukno, L. Pragst, J. Miehle, W. Minker and A. Mulder
D2.3 - Fusing Vocal, Facial and Gestural Communication Modalities
Deliverable, The KRISTINA Project (H2020-645012), April 2016

L. Pragst, G. Mehlmann, S. Dasiopoulou, E. Kamateri, G. Meditskos, S. Ultes, L. Stellingwerff, W. Minker and L. Wanner
D2.2 - Integration of the OwlSpeak Platform into the KRISTINA Architecture
Deliverable, The KRISTINA Project (H2020-645012), February 2016

2015

S. Ultes, L. Pragst and W. Minker
D2.1 - Requirements for Dialogue Management in adaptive Human-Machine-Communication
Public Deliverable, The KRISTINA Project (H2020-645012), August 2015

2010

W. Minker, T. Heinroth, H. Hagras, A. Kameas, Y. Bellik, J. Helvert, C. Goumopoulos, B. Könings and A. Meliones
D03 - Third Technical Report
Confidential Deliverable, The ATRACO Project (FP7/2007-2013 grant agreement no 216837), 2010

W. Minker, T. Heinroth, A. Kameas, H. Hagras, J. Helvert, Y. Bellik, C. Goumopoulos and A. Meliones
D04 - Third Management Report
Confidential Deliverable, The ATRACO Project (FP7/2007-2013 grant agreement no 216837), 2010

W. Minker, T. Heinroth, A. Kameas, H. Hagras, J. Helvert, Y. Bellik, C. Goumopoulos and A. Meliones
D05 - Project Final Report
Public Deliverable, The ATRACO Project (FP7/2007-2013 grant agreement no 216837), 2010

H. Hagras, C. Wagner, A. Bilgin, C. Goumopoulos, A. Kameas, Y. Bellik, J. Martin, G. Pruvost, N. Tan, A. Meliones, D. Economou, N. Papadopoulos, W. Minker and T. Heinroth
D13 - Research results on adaptation & evolution
Public Deliverable, The ATRACO Project (FP7/2007-2013 grant agreement no 216837), 2010

Y. Bellik, G. Pruvost, J. Martin, N. Tan, W. Minker and T. Heinroth
D16 - User Interaction Adaptation Component
Confidential Deliverable, The ATRACO Project (FP7/2007-2013 grant agreement no 216837), 2010

T. Heinroth and W. Minker
D22 - Adaptive Dialogue Manager
Confidential Deliverable, The ATRACO Project (FP7/2007-2013 grant agreement no 216837), 2010

2009

W. Minker, T. Heinroth, H. Hagras, A. Kameas, Y. Bellik, J. Helvert, C. Goumopoulos, B. Könings, J. Bidot and A. Meliones
D03 - Second Technical Report
Confidential Deliverable, The ATRACO Project (FP7/2007-2013 grant agreement no 216837), 2009

W. Minker, T. Heinroth, A. Kameas, H. Hagras, J. Helvert, Y. Bellik, C. Goumopoulos and A. Meliones
D04 - Second Management Report
Confidential Deliverable, The ATRACO Project (FP7/2007-2013 grant agreement no 216837), 2009

H. Hagras, C. Wagner, C. Goumopoulos, A. Kameas, Y. Bellik, J. Martin, G. Pruvost, N. Tan, A. Meliones, D. Economou, N. Papadopoulos, W. Minker and T. Heinroth
D13 - Research results on adaptation & evolution
Public Deliverable, The ATRACO Project (FP7/2007-2013 grant agreement no 216837), 2009

Y. Bellik, G. Pruvost, J. Martin, N. Tan, W. Minker and T. Heinroth
D16 - User Interaction Adaptation Component
Confidential Deliverable, The ATRACO Project (FP7/2007-2013 grant agreement no 216837), 2009

Y. Bellik, G. Pruvost, J. Martin, N. Tan, W. Minker and T. Heinroth
D19 - User Interaction Specification and Tools
Public Deliverable, The ATRACO Project (FP7/2007-2013 grant agreement no 216837), 2009

2008

W. Minker and T. Heinroth
D01 - Detailed Activity Plan
Confidential Deliverable, The ATRACO Project (FP7/2007-2013 grant agreement no 216837), 2008

W. Minker and T. Heinroth
D02 - Website and Groupware Description
Restricted Deliverable, The ATRACO Project (FP7/2007-2013 grant agreement no 216837), 2008

W. Minker and T. Heinroth
D03 - First Technical Report
Confidential Deliverable, The ATRACO Project (FP7/2007-2013 grant agreement no 216837), 2008

W. Minker, T. Heinroth, A. Kameas, H. Hagras, M. Gardner, Y. Bellik, C. Goumopoulos and A. Meliones
D04 - First Management Report
Confidential Deliverable, The ATRACO Project (FP7/2007-2013 grant agreement no 216837), 2008

W. Minker, T. Heinroth, A. Kameas, J. Bidot, C. Goumopoulos, L. Seremeti, Y. Bellik, H. Hagras, M. Gardner and A. Meliones
D11 - Requirements Analysis
Public Deliverable, The ATRACO Project (FP7/2007-2013 grant agreement no 216837), 2008

W. Minker, T. Heinroth, B. Wiedersheim and J. Bidot
D12 - Basic Components
Public Deliverable, The ATRACO Project (FP7/2007-2013 grant agreement no 216837), 2008

H. Hagras, C. Wagner, C. Goumopoulos, A. Kameas, Y. Bellik, J. Martin, G. Pruvost, N. Tan, W. Minker, T. Heinroth and A. Meliones
D13 - Research Results on Adaptation & Evolution
Public Deliverable, The ATRACO Project (FP7/2007-2013 grant agreement no 216837), 2008

Y. Bellik, G. Pruvost, J. Martin, N. Tan, W. Minker and T. Heinroth
D19 - User Interaction Specification and Tools
Public Deliverable, The ATRACO Project (FP7/2007-2013 grant agreement no 216837), 2008

2002

J. Häussler, S. Krüger, W. Minker and D. Bühler
Spezifikation Mobilszenario 2002
Project Report, BMBF-Project SmartKom, 2002

2001

F. Hanisch, B. Straub, P. Regel-Brietzmann and W. Minker
Benutzerstudie SmartKom Mobil
Technical {Report}, BMBF-Project SmartKom, 2001

U. Haiber, W. Minker and S. Scheible
Multilingual Dialogue Descriptions
Project Report, {ESPRIT Project SENECA 26 981, Deliverable D.10}, 2001

1997

L. Lamel, J. Gauvain, S. Bennacef, S. Rosset, W. Minker, B. Prouts and M. Garnier-Rizet
Evaluation of natural language system components - Contribution to the Home Evaluation Plan
Project Report, LIMSI-CNRS, Num. {TIDE Project HOME-AOM DE-3003}, May 1997

L. Lamel, W. Minker and J. Gauvain
Report on Speech Technology Assessment: State-of-the-art for Spoken Language Systems - Contribution to the Deliverable D2.1
Project Report, LIMSI-CNRS, Num. {TIDE Project HOME DE-3003}, March 1997

J. Gauvain, G. Adda, M. Adda-Decker, M. Jardino, L. Lamel, R. Lejeune, W. Minker, H. Schwenk, M. Garnier-Rizet and B. Prouts
Speech Recognition: component development and performance results for various types of data
Project Report, LIMSI-CNRS, Num. {LE4-8364 Project OLIVE}, 1997

1996

W. Minker
Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion - an Approach based on Hidden Markov Models
Technical Report, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay (France), Num. 9604, 1996

C. Corredor, G. Adda, M. Adda-Decker, S. Foukia, J. Gangolf, J. Gauvain, S. Kay, L. Lamel and W. Minker
Identification automatique de la langue à travers le réseau téléphonique - IDEAL
Technical Report, LIMSI-CNRS, Num. {Contrat CNET no. 94 1B089}, 1996

1995

W. Minker
An English version of the LIMSI L'ATIS system
Technical Report, LIMSI-CNRS, Num. {LRE Project 62-056 Relator, deliverable 1.2 Catalog}, 1995

W. Minker
An English Version of the LIMSI L'ATIS System
Technical Report, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay (France), Num. 9512, 1995

1994

G. Adda, C. d'Allessandro, S. Bennacef, H. Bonneau-Maynard, J. Gangolf, J. Gauvain, L. Lamel, W. Minker and S. Rosset
Status Report on the Spoken Language System Components for the MASK Kiosk
Technical Report, LIMSI-CNRS, Num. {9075, Contrat ESPRIT}, 1994

Prof. Dr. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Minker

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