The following lists are exemplary and as such intended to be illustrative rather than exhaustive. Therefore, even if you did not find a matching topic, please, do not hesitate to contact me.

Topics for Seminars

• The Role of Multimodality in non-persuasive Argumentation
• Natural Language Understanding (NLU) for Argumentative Dialogue Systems: What intents should be detected? How to implement the NLU?
• The Relationship between Argumentation and Recommendation, Information Retrieval, … (you may choose an area)
• Automatic Evaluation of Open-domain Argumentative Dialogue Systems

Topics for Theses and Projects

• Implementation of a Modular Software-Framework for Symmetric Multimodal Interaction with Embodied Conversational Agents (Unreal Engine, Meta Human)
• Improving the Multimodal Capabilities of Embodied Conversational Agents displayed on ARCADE
• Natural Language Understanding (NLU) for Argumentative Dialogue Systems
• Shared Embeddings for Different Computational Argumentation Tasks
• Validation of User-generated Arguments in Realtime: Fact-checking, ... (you may choose one kind of validation)
• Identification and Naming of Overlapping, Topic-specific Frames: Combining Inductive and Deductive Approaches, Zero/k-shot Frame Detection
• Hierarchical Identification and Naming of Frames: How many Frames and at which Level?

2025

Master's Student (German International University)
(in progress)
Master's thesis, 2025

Master's Student (German University in Cairo)
(in progress)
Master's thesis, 2025

Master's Student (Kyushu University)
Design and Preliminary Evaluation of a Health Visualization and Avatar System to Improve Presenteeism
Master's thesis, 2025

Master's Student (Ulm University)
(in progress)
Project Work, 2025

Master's Student (Ulm University)
(in progress)
Project Work, 2025

Master's Student (Ulm University)
Searching For Truth: Optimizing Classification Models For Enhancing Real-Time Claim-Verification Performance
Project Work, 2025

Master's Student (Ulm University)
Ethics and Biases in Embodied Argumentative Dialogue Systems
Seminar Work, 2025

Master's Student (Ulm University)
The Relationship between Argumentation and Question Answering
Seminar Work, 2025

Master's Student (Ulm University)
The Relationship between Argumentation and Social XAI
Seminar Work, 2025

Master's Student (Ulm University)
Enhancing Recommendation Systems through Argumentation Structures
Seminar Work, 2025

Bachelor's Student (Ulm University)
The Role of Multimodality in Persuasive Argumentation
Seminar Work, 2025

2024

Master's Student (Ulm University)
Knowledge-grounded Natural Language Generation: From Wikipedia to the Argumentative Domain
Project Work, 2024

Master's Student (Ulm University)
Natural Language Generation for Knowledge-grounded Dialogue Systems
Seminar Work, 2024