Publications

2026

Felix Wippich, Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek and Timo Baumann (2026).
"Rhythmicalizer Revisited: Adapting Large Language Models for Rhythmic Classification of Free Verse Poetry".
in: Proceedings of Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum: Nicht nur Text, nicht nur Daten (DHd 2026). Vienna, Austria, pages 620-622.
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Christian Schuler, Raman Ahmad, Ānrán Wáng, Daniil Gurgurov, Timo Baumann, Simon Ostermann and Josef van Genabith (2026).
"Dialectal Filtering: Synthesizing Kurdish Corpora for Low-Resource Varieties by Utilizing "Noise" in Large Textual Data".
in: Proceedings of LREC. Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
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Sebastian Hofstetter and Timo Baumann (2026).
"Towards Privacy-Preserving Fine-Tuning: Anonymization of Aphasic Speech for Effective ASR".
in: Proceedings of LREC. Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
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2025

Sara Mühlhausen, Sarah Gomez, Norina Lauer and Timo Baumann (2025).
"Cross-lingual transfer learning does not improve aphasic speech recognition".
in: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2025. Dresden. (Sven Grawunder, Ed.) TUDpress, pages 77-84.
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Diana Marie Schenke and Timo Baumann (2025).
"Controlled Diversity: Length-optimized Natural Language Generation".
in: Proceedings of the ISCA/ITG Workshop on Diversity in Large Speech and Language Models. Berlin, Germany.
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Timo Baumann, Martin Pohl and Kai Selgrad (2025).
"Einführung und erste Evaluation des Selbstlern-Konzepts CodeClinic an der OTH Regensburg".
in: Tagungsband des 6. MINT Symposiums. Nuremberg, Germany.
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Ali Amanpour, Timo Baumann and Ulrich G. Hofmann (2025).
"Optimizing Neural Data Analysis: Determining Minimum Recording Length for Unambigous Signal Processing".
in: Proceedings of the 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2025). Copenhagen, Denmark.
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2024

Timo Baumann, Korbinian Eller and Natalia Gagarina (2024).
"BERT-based Annotation of Oral Texts Elicited via Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives".
in: Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Narrative Understanding (WNU). Miami, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Vinzent Penzkofer and Timo Baumann (2024).
"Evaluating and Fine-Tuning Retrieval-Augmented Language Models to Generate Text with Accurate Citations".
in: Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024). Vienna, Austria. (Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo, Andreas Baumann, Dagmar Gromann, Brigitte Krenn, Benjamin Roth and Michael Wiegand, Eds.) Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 57-64.
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Christian Schuler, Shravan Nayak, Debjoy Saha and Timo Baumann (2024).
"Can We See Your Response Before You Speak? Exploring Linguistic Information Found in Inter-Utterance Pauses".
in: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2024, Tagungsband der 35. Konferenz, Regensburg, 6.-8. M{\"a}rz 2024. (Timo Baumann, Ed.) Pages 165 - 172.
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Timo Baumann (Ed.) (2024).
"Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2024".
Dresden, TUDpress.
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Timo Baumann and Ingo Siegert (Eds.) (2024).
"Sprachassistenten: Anwendungen, Implikationen, Entwicklungen".
Regensburg, Germany, Informationstechnische Gesellschaft im VDE. 2. ITG-Workshop.
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2023

Timo Baumann and Christian Schuler (2023).
"Lip-Synched: Natural language processing with neural networks".
LINUX Magazine, 22(2):44-48. . issue 267.
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Timo Baumann, Hussein Hussein and Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek (2023).
"Free Verse Prosodies: Identifying and Classifying Spoken Poetry Using Literary and Computational Perspectives (Rhythmicalizer)".
in: Mixing Methods: Practical Insights from the Humanities in the Digital Age (Birgit Schneider, Beate L\"offler, Tino Mager and Carola Hein, Eds.). transcript Verlag.
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2022

Debjoy Saha, Shravan Nayak and Timo Baumann (2022).
"Merkel Podcast Corpus: A Multimodal Dataset Compiled from 16 Years of Angela Merkel's Weekly Video Podcasts".
in: Proceedings of LREC. Marseille, France.
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Anna Windb\"uhler, S\"ukr\"u Okkesim, Olaf Christ, Soheil Mottaghi, Shavika Rastogi, Michael Schmuker, Timo Baumann and Ulrich G. Hofmann (2022).
"Machine Learning Approaches to Classify Anatomical Regions in Rodent Brain from High Density Recordings".
in: Proceedings of the 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2022). Glasgow, UK.
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Shravan Nayak, Christian Schuler, Debjoy Saha and Timo Baumann (2022).
"A Deep Dive Into Neural Synchrony Evaluation for Audio-Visual Translation".
in: Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. New York, USA. Association for Computing Machinery, 642–647.
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Melzer, Matthias, Dünnweber, Jan and Baumann, Timo (2022).
"Towards Smart Home Data Interpretation Using Analogies to Natural Language Processing".
in: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT)., pages 65-71.
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2021

Benjamin Milde, Robert Geislinger, Irina Lindt and Timo Baumann (2021).
"Open Source Automatic Lecture Subtitling".
in: Proceedings of Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung (ESSV). Berlin, Germany.
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Norbert Krüger, Fischer, Kerstin, Manoonpong, Poramate, Palinko, Oskar, Bodenhagen, Leon, Baumann, Timo, Kjærum, Jens, Rano, Ignacio, Naik, Lakshadeep, Juel, William Kristian, Haarslev, Frederik, Ignasov, Jevgeni, Marchetti, Emanuela, Langedijk, Rosalyn Melissa, Kollakidou, Avgi, Jeppesen, Kasper Camillus, Heidtmann, Conny and Dalgaard, Lars (2021).
"The SMOOTH-Robot: A Modular, Interactive Service Robot".
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8:294. .
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Robert Geislinger, Benjamin Milde, Timo Baumann and Chris Biemann (2021).
"Live Subtitling for BigBlueButton with Open-Source Software".
in: Proceedings of Interspeech. Brno, Czechia, pages 3319-3320. Show & Tell Session.
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Kerstin Fischer, Lakshadeep Naik, Rosalyn M. Langedijk, Timo Baumann, Matou\vs Jel\'\inek and Oskar Palinko (2021).
"Initiating Human-Robot Interactions Using Incremental Speech Adaptation".
in: Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. New York, USA. Association for Computing Machinery, 421–425.
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Timo Baumann and Ashutosh Saboo (2021).
"Evaluating Heuristics for Audio-Visual Translation".
in: Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Humanities Research 2021. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (Maud Ehrmann, Folgert Karsdorp, Melvin Wevers, Tara Lee Andrews, Manuel Burghardt, Mike Kestemont, Enrique Manjavacas, Michael Piotrowski and Joris van Zundert, Eds.) Pages 171-180.
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Timo Baumann (2021).
"Ranking and Comparing Speakers Based on Crowdsourced Pairwise Listener Ratings".
in: Voice Attractiveness: Studies on Sexy, Likable, and Charismatic Speakers. (Benjamin Weiss, Jürgen Trouvain, Melissa Barkat-Defradas and John J. Ohala, Ed.). Singapore, Springer Singapore, pages 263-279.
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2020

Timo Baumann (2020).
"How a Listener Influences the Speaker".
in: Proceedings of Speech Prosody. Tokyo, Japan, pages 970-974.
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Hussein Hussein, Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek and Timo Baumann (2020).
"Free Verse and Beyond: How to Classify Post-modern Spoken Poetry".
in: Proceedings of Speech Prosody. Tokyo, Japan, pages 690-694.
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Timo Baumann and Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek (2020).
"Deep Learning meets Post-modern Poetry".
in: Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries: TwinTalks Workshop. Riga, Latvia, pages 30-36.
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Timo Baumann, Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek and Hussein Hussein (2020).
"How to Identify Speech When Translating Unpunctuated Poetry".
in: Proceedings of Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung (ESSV). Magdeburg, Germany, pages 165-172.
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Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek, Timo Baumann and Hussein Hussein (2020).
"Requirements on the Punctuation Reconstruction for the Translation of Post-modern Poetry".
in: Proceedings of Digital Humanities Deutschland 2020 (DHd 2020). Paderborn, Germany.
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Shravan Nayak, Timo Baumann, Supratik Bhattacharya, Alina Karakanta, Matteo Negri and Marco Turchi (2020).
"See me speaking? Differentiating on whether words are spoken on screen or off to optimize machine dubbing".
in: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Deep Video Understanding..
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Alina Karakanta, Supratik Bhattacharya, Shravan Nayak, Timo Baumann, Matteo Negri and Marco Turchi (2020).
"The Two Shades of Dubbing in Neural Machine Translation".
in: Proceedings of COLING 2020..
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Dirk Johannßen, Chris Biemann, Steffen Remus, Timo Baumann and David Scheffer (2020).
"GermEval 2020 Task 1 on the Classification and Regression of Cognitive and Motivational style from Text".
in: Proceedings of the 5th SwissText & 16th KONVENS Joint Conference 2020. Zurich, Switzerland, pages 1-10.
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Timo Baumann and Ingo Siegert (2020).
"Prosodic Addressee-Detection -- Ensuring Privacy in Always-On Spoken Dialog Systems".
in: Proceedings of Mensch und Computer. Magdeburg, Germany. ACM.
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Timo Baumann (2020).
"Ubiquity of Computing and SLIVAR".
in: Spoken Language Interaction with Virtual Agents and Robots (SLIVAR): Towards Effective and Ethical Interaction (Laurence Devillers, Tatsuya Kawahara, Roger K. Moore and Matthias Scheutz, Eds.), page 16. Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik.
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2019

Timo Baumann, Arne Köhn and Felix Hennig (2019).
"The Spoken Wikipedia Corpus Collection: Harvesting, Alignment and an Application to Hyperlistening".
Language Resources and Evaluation, 53(2):303–329. . Special Issue representing significant contributions of LREC 2016.
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Timo Baumann, Hussein Hussein, Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek and Jasper Elbeshausen (2019).
"A Tool for Human-in-the-Loop Analysis and Exploration of (not only) Prosodic Classifications for Post-modern Poetry".
in: Proceedings of INF-DH. Kassel, Germany. Gesellschaft für Informatik, pages 151-156.
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Ashutosh Saboo and Timo Baumann (2019).
"Integration of Dubbing Constraints into Machine Translation".
in: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 1: Research Papers). Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 94-101.
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Meyer-Sickendiek, Burkhard, Hussein, Hussein and Baumann, Timo (2019).
"From Fluency To Disfluency: Ranking Prosodic Features Of Poetry By Using Neural Networks".
in: Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Humanities (DH 2019). Utrecht, Netherlands. Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO).
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Hussein Hussein, Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek and Timo Baumann (2019).
"Identification of Concrete Poetry within a Modern-Poetry Corpus using Neural Networks".
in: Proceedings of the Quantitative Approaches to Versification Conference. Prague, Czech Republic.
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Hussein Hussein, Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek and Timo Baumann (2019).
"How to identify elliptical poems within a digital corpus of auditory poetry".
in: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung (ESSV). Dresden, Germany. (Peter Birkholz and Simon Stone, Eds.) TUDpress, Dresden, pages 247-254.
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Tsai, Vivian, Baumann, Timo, Pecune, Florian and Cassell, Justine (2019).
"Faster Responses Are Better Responses: Introducing Incrementality into Sociable Virtual Personal Assistants".
in: 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology. Singapore. (D'Haro, Luis Fernando, Banchs, Rafael E. and Li, Haizhou, Eds.) Springer Singapore, pages 111-118.
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2018

Timo Baumann, Hussein Hussein and Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek (2018).
"Analysing the Focus of a Hierarchical Attention Network: The Importance of Enjambments When Classifying Post-modern Poetry".
in: Proceedings of Interspeech. Hyderabad, India, pages 2162-2166.
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Arne Köhn, Timo Baumann and Oskar Dörfler (2018).
"An Empirical Analysis of the Correlation of Syntax and Prosody".
in: Proceedings of Interspeech. Hyderabad, India, pages 2157-2161.
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Alexander Koller, Timo Baumann and Arne Köhn (2018).
"DialogOS: Simple and extensible dialog modeling".
in: Proceedings of Interspeech,. Hyderabad, India.
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Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek, Hussein Hussein and Timo Baumann (2018).
"Analysis and Classification of Prosodic Styles in Post-modern Spoken Poetry".
in: INF-DH 2018 Workshopband. Berlin, Germany. (Manuel Burghardt and Claudia Müller-Birn, Eds.).
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Timo Baumann, Hussein Hussein and Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek (2018).
"Analysis of Rhythmic Phrasing: Feature Engineering vs. Representation Learning for Classifying Readout Poetry".
in: Proceedings of the Joint LaTeCH&CLfL Workshop. Santa Fe, USA, pages 44-49.
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Timo Baumann, Hussein Hussein and Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek (2018).
"Style Detection for Free Verse Poetry from Text and Speech".
in: Proceedings of COLING. Santa Fe, USA, pages 1929-1940.
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Meyer-Sickendiek, Burkhard, Hussein, Hussein and Baumann, Timo (2018).
"First Steps Towards the Creation of a Poetry Translation Mapping System".
in: European Conference on Data Analysis. Paderborn, Germany. Session on Textual Data Analysis and Digital Humanities.
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Hussein Hussein, Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek and Timo Baumann (2018).
"Tonality in Language: The "Generative Theory of Tonal Music" as a Framework for Prosodic Analysis of Poetry".
in: 6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Language (TAL). Berlin, Germany, pages 178-182.
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Hussein Hussein, Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek and Timo Baumann (2018).
"Automatic Detection of Enjambment in German Readout Poetry".
in: Proceedings of Speech Prosody. Poznán, Poland.
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Timo Baumann (2018).
"Learning to Determine Who is the Better Speaker".
in: Proceedings of Speech Prosody. Poznán, Poland.
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Vivian Tsai, Timo Baumann, Florian Pecune and Justine Cassell (2018).
"Faster Responses are Better Responses: Introducing Incrementality into Sociable Virtual Personal Assistants".
in: International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems 2018. Singapore.
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