M.Sc. M.Sc. Annalena Aicher

Research

PhD Thesis

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Towards Engaging Opinion Building in Cooperative Argumentative Dialogues

Research Interests

  • Cooperative Dialogue Systems
  • Computational Argumentation
  • Machine Learning

Projects

How to Win Arguments - Empowering Virtual Agents to Improve their Persuasiveness (EVA), as part of the Priority Program DFG SPP 1999: Robust Argumentation Machines (RATIO)

BEA - Building Engaging Argumentation, as part of the Priority Program DFG SPP 1999: Robust Argumentation Machines (RATIO) (Phase 2)

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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2021

A. Aicher, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Determination of Reflective User Engagement in Argumentative Dialogue Systems
Series: CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2021
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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
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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
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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
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Ich betreue gerne Bachelor und Master Arbeiten aus dem Bereich meines Promotionsthemas. Bei Interesse, schreibe mir gerne eine E-Mail, wenn du Interesse hast.

I am pleased to supervise Bachelor's or Master's theses within my PhD Topic. If you are interested, please feel free to reach out to me via email, and we can explore potential topics.

In Progress / Completed

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Master Thesis
Multimodal Sentiment Analysis in Argumentative Dialogue Systems
October 2023

Master Thesis
Overlapping Aspect-based Argument Cluster Analysis including Cluster Labelling for Opinion Formation with Argumentative Dialogue Systems
August 2023

2021

Master Thesis
Adaptive Argumentative Dialogue Modelling using User Interest Estimation
December 2021

Master Thesis
Assessment of the mood of users by voice in argumentative dialogue systems (Euler Program)
2021

2020

Master Thesis
Automatic assessment of the quality of arguments based on vector representations of words and semantic relations (Euler Program)
2020

Master Thesis
Exploring data augmentation for evaluating semantic similarity (Euler Program)
2020

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