Professional Activities

Conference, Tutorial and Workshop Organization

3/2024

Organized the 35th conference on Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung at OTH Regensburg.

6/2020

Co-organized GermEval Shared Task on inferring Cognitive and Motivational style from text.

8/2017

Initiated Interspeech special session on Incrementality and Responsiveness. Chaired two sessions at Interspeech 2017.

8/2016

Summerschool: taught ESSLLI advanced course on Incremental Speech and Language Processing for Interactive Systems with A. Köhn, Bolzano, Italy.

8/2013

Taught Interspeech Tutorial on Recent Advances in Incremental Spoken Language Processing, with D. Schlangen, attended by more than 80 participants, Lyon, France.

10/2012

Initiated and organized the Workshop on Architectures for Conversationally Competent Spoken Dialogue Systems in Hamburg with 26 European and national participants.

6/2012

Co-organized the annual Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS 2012) in Seoul, Korea with 34 international participants.

Workshop and Committee Participation

reviewing

I am reviewing for most relevant conferences and journals in my area of research including *ACL, AAAI, CoLing, Interspeech, EADH, ACH, ICASSP, ASRU, SigDial, EMNLP, CoNLL, HRI, CHI, ICMI, and Computer Speech and Language, Language Resources and Evaluation, Natural Language Engineering, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, Knowledge-Based Systems, Dialogue & Discourse . . .

talks

I have repeatedly been invited to give talks and guest lectures in academic and industry settings. A list of these activities is available upon request.

advising

faculty advisor for the Young Researcher’s Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (multiple times). Student paper mentor for SigDial conference (2019). List of advised students available upon request.

1/2020

Invited participant to Dagstuhl meeting 20021 on Spoken Language Interaction with Virtual Agents and Robots.

2017–2019

Admittance committee for MSc/PhD programs in language technologies at CMU.

10/2017

Invited participant to Dagstuhl meeting 16442 on Vocalization in Humans, Animals and Robots.

2016

Appointment committee for a professorship (W2) at Universität Hamburg.

9/2015

Invited expert at the Interspeech Doctoral Consortium in Dresden.

8/2015

Invited participant to the NII Shonan Meeting on Synchronous Machine Translation.

5/2014

Participant in the EU-funded ROCKIT roadmapping workshop to outline the future of conversational interaction technologies.