Prof. Dr. David Schlangen

Short biography

David Schlangen is Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Potsdam, Germany. His main research interest is in language use and the interactive process of creating shared understanding through language use. He works both empirically on human/human dialogue, theoretically on formal modelling of the involved processes, and constructively on implementing language using agents in spoken dialogue systems and robots. David Schlangen works on the Speech and Language Technology research area at DFKI.

He is the author of over 150 peer reviewed articles, with best paper awards at venues such as INLG and SIGdial.