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

• Convincingness and Interestingness of Arguments
  • Detect / Predict / Determine the Convincingness and Interestingness
  • Strategies for being Convincing and Interesting
• Dining Companions
  • Behavior Change: Design Guidelines for Embodiment and Dialogue
  • Purpose and Taxonomy: Existing Systems and Research Questions addressed
• 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)
  • 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
  • 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?