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?