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

• Verbal and Non-Verbal Strategies for being Convincing and Interesting
• A Taxonomy of Dining Companions: Purposes and Research Questions of Existing Systems
• Natural Language Understanding (NLU) for Argumentative Dialogue Systems (e.g., What intents should be detected? How to implement the NLU?)
• The Relationship between Argumentation and …
  • … Information Retrieval
  • … Recommendation
  • … (you may choose an area)
• The Role of Multimodality in non-persuasive Argumentation
• Automatic Evaluation of Open-domain Argumentative Dialogue Systems

Topics for Theses and Projects

• Embodied Conversational Agents (for Argumentation)
  • Improving the Multimodal Capabilities of Embodied Conversational Agents displayed on ARCADE
  • Investigating Biases in Self-Selection of Agent Looks for Embodied Argumentative Dialogue Systems
• Argumentative Dialogue Systems
  • Natural Language Understanding (NLU) for Argumentative Dialogue Systems
• Computational Argumentation (in the context of Argumentative Dialogue Systems)
  • 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?

2026

Master's Student (German University in Cairo)
From Prompts to Plans: A Planning Framework with Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs
Master's thesis, 2026

Bachelor's Student (Ulm University)
(in progress)
Bachelor's thesis, 2026

Master's Student (Ulm University)
(in progress)
Project Work, 2026

Master's Student (Ulm University)
(in progress)
Project Work, 2026

Master's Student (Ulm University)
Context-aware Ad Hominem Detection in Online Discussions
Project Work, 2026

2025

Master's Student (German International University)
Facial Gestures for Reducing the Perceived Latency in Embodied Conversational Agents
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)
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