Publications

Conferences & Workshops:

KI 2011:
Peter Adolphs, Anton Benz, Nuria Bertomeu, Xiwen Cheng, Tina Klüwer, Manfred Krifka, Alexandra Strekalova, Hans Uszkoreit, Feiyu Xu. "Conversational Agents in a Virtual World". Proceedings of the 34th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Berlin, Germany, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 10/2011.

KI 2011:
Peter Adolphs, Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit, Hong Li "Dependency Graphs as a Generic Interface between Parsers and Relation Extraction Rule Learning". Proceedings of the 34th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Berlin, Germany, Springer, 10/2011

IVA 2011:
Tina Klüwer "I like your shirt - Dialogue Acts for Enabling Social Talk in Conversational Agents" Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Reykjavik, Iceland, Springer, 2011

SemDial 2011:
Anton Benz, Nuria Bertomeu and Alexandra Strekalova. "A decision-theoretic approach to finding optimal responses to over-constrained queries in a conceptual search space". Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2011), Los Angeles, California, September 2011.

IEEE-ICSC 2011:
Peter Adolphs, Martin Theobald, Ulrich Schäfer, Hans Uszkoreit, Gerhard Weikum "YAGO-QA: Answering Questions by Structured Knowledge Queries". Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE-ICSC 2011), Palo Alto, California, United States, IEEE, IEEE, 9/2011

IWSDS 2011:
Tina Klüwer, Peter Adolphs, Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit "A Dialogue System for Conversational NPCs". Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems, Granada, Spain, Springer, 2011

ACL 2010 System Demonstrations:
Tina Klüwer, Peter Adolphs, Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit and Xiwen Cheng. "Talking NPCs in a Virtual Game World". Proceedings of the ACL 2010 System Demonstrations, Uppsala, Sweden, Association for Computational Linguistics, 7/2010.

LREC 2010:
Peter Adolphs, Xiwen Cheng, Tina Klüwer, Hans Uszkoreit and Feiyu Xu. "Question Answering Biographic Information and Social Network Powered by the Semantic Web" In Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias (eds.): Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Valletta, Malta, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 5/2010.

EACL 2009 System Demonstrations:
Xiwen Cheng, Peter Adolphs, Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit and Hong Li. "Gossip Galore: A Self-Learning Agent for Exchanging Pop Trivia". In Jörn Kreutel (ed.): Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session at EACL 2009, Athens, Greece, Association for Computational Linguistics, 3/2009

ICAART 2009 - First International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence:
Feiyu Xu, Peter Adolphs, Hans Uszkoreit, Xiwen Cheng, and Hong Li. 2009. "Gossip Galore: A Conversational Web Agent for Collecting and Sharing Pop Trivia" In: Joaquim Filipe, Ana Fred, and Bernadette Sharp (eds). Proceedings of ICAART 2009 -- First International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence. Porto, Portugal, 19-21 Jan 2009.

CILC-09 1st International Conference on Corpus Linguistics:
Nuria Bertomeu and Anton Benz. "Annotation of Joint Projects and Information States in Human-NPC Dialogues". Proceedings of the First International Conference on Corpus Linguistics, Murcia, Spain, May 2009.

DiaHolmia 2009 Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue:
Nuria Bertomeu and Anton Benz. "Ontology Based Information States for Artificial Sales Agent". Short paper in: Jens Edlund, Joakim Gustafson, Anna Hjalmarsson and Gabriel Skantze (Eds.), Proceedings of DiaHolmia 2009 - Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2009.

Book Chapters:

Tina Klüwer, "From Chatbots to Dialogue Systems" in: Diana Perez-Marton, Ismael Pascual-Nieto (eds.): Conversational Agents and Natural Language Interaction: Techniques and Effective Practices, Pages 1-22, IGI Global Publishing Group, 7/2011

Anton Benz. "How to Set Up Normal Optimal Answer Models". In: Anton Benz, Christian Ebert, Gerhard Jäger, Robert van Rooij (eds.): Language, Games, and Evolution. 2011.

Technical Reports:

Nuria Bertomeu. Annotation guidelines for a corpus of dialogues with an NPC in a room furnishing scenario. Technischer Report, ZAS, 2008.

Constatin Freitag. Abschlussbericht – Die ABs Topikerkennung und Fokusmarkierung des KomParse-Projekts. Technischer Report, ZAS, 2010.