Projects

SEMAINE – Sustained Emotionally coloured Machine-human Interaction using Nonverbal Expression

The aim of the SEMAINE project is to build a Sensitive Artificial Listener – a multimodal dialogue system with the social interaction skills needed …

ConQA – Controlled Semantic-based Question Answering

ConQA is an extension of the international project QALL-ME that is funded by the EC in its 6th framework. Whereas the EU-project QALL-ME mainly …

Checkpoint – Checkpoint - Hybride Grammatik- und Stilprüfung

Ziel des Vorhabens „Checkpoint“ ist die anwendungsorientierte Grundlagenforschung in einem Teilbereich der Computerlinguistik und Sprachtechnologie, …

Förderprogramm THESEUS_MED_LT – Support Program Theseus Medico Use Case

The vision of the application scenario MEDICO is: Establishing of image syntax and semantics based on image vocabularies to build an intelligent …

IDEX – IDEX

Interactive Dynamic Information Extraction This project performs basic research in information extraction (IE), a highly innovative sub-field of AI. …

IDEAS4GAMES – Intelligent dialogue control and expressive speech synthesis for computer games

This project addresses novel interaction paradigms and technologies for enhancing the flexibility of interaction and dialogue management in computer …

QALL-ME – Question Answering Learning technologies in a multilingual and Multimodal Environment

"Where can I eat paella this evening?". Answering this kind of question has recently become a concrete business opportunity, with a large array of …

PAVOQUE – PArametrisation of prosody and VOice QUality for concatenative speech synthesis in view of Emotion expression

A major obstacle for the acceptability of speech synthesis is its lack of expressivity. In order to convey emotions or other expressions …

SProUT – Shallow Processing with Unification and Typed Feature Structures

SProUT is a system for partial analysis of texts. It is used in particular – though not exclusively – for named entity recognition (NER) and opinion …

MESH – Multimedia Semantic Syndication for Enhanced News Services

MESH will apply multimedia analysis and reasoning tools, network agents and content management techniques to extract, compare and combine meaning from …