Most of Jan Alexandersson's publications
Thesis
- Jan Alexandersson Abstract
Interpretation of Logic Programs with External Functions - an
Implementation Master thesis, Linköping University, Sweden, August 1993
- Jan Alexandersson Hybrid Discourse
Modelling and Summarization for a Speech-to-Speech Translation
System Phd thesis, Universtität des Saarlandes, Germany, December 2003
Articles
- Norbert Pfleger and Jan Alexandersson Modeling Non-Verbal
Behavior in Multimodal Conversational Systems In: it - Information Technology
Special Issue on "Conversational User Interfaces", volume 46, issue 6,
2004, pp 341--345
- Jan Alexandersson i2home
- Towards a Universal Home Environment for Elderly and Disabled
In: KI
Special issue on Cognition
- Kamel Boulos MN, Lou RC, Anastasiou A, Nugent CD, Alexandersson J,
Zimmermann G, Cortes U, Casas
R. Connectivity
for healthcare and well-being management: examples from six European
projects. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public
Health. 2009 Jul;6(7):1947-71.
- Ingo Zinnikus, Klaus Fischer, Jan Alexandersson and Unai
Diaz. Bringing the Elderly Into the
Mainstream of E-Society: The VITAL Project. IADIS International Journal
on WWW/Internet Vol. 7, No. 1/2010, pp. 118-135. ISSN: 1645-7641
- Christoph Stahl, Jochen Frey, Jan Alexandersson and Boris
Brandherm. Synchronized
Realities.
In Journal
of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (JAISE) Volume 3, Number
1, January 2011
- Gorka Epelde, Eduardo Carrasco, Gottfried Zimmermann, Jan
Alexandersson, Robert Neßelrath und Markus
Dubielzig. Universal Remote Console-based next-generation
accessible television Universal Access in the Information Society,
pages 1--15, 2011
- Christopher Mayer, Gottfried Zimmermann, Andrej Grguric, Jan
Alexandersson, Miroslav Sili and Christophe Strobbe. A
comparative study of systems for the design of flexible user interfaces
In Ambient Intelligence and
Smart Environments (JAISE), Vol 8(2), pp 125 -- 148
Book Chapters
- Jan Alexandersson, Ralf Engel, Michael Kipp, Stephan Koch,
Uwe Küssner, Norbert Reithinger and Manfred Stede. (2000). Dialog Processing and Context
Evaluation Modeling Negotiation Dialogs. In:
W. Wahlster (ed.): Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-to-Speech
Translation., (pp. 443--453). Berlin/Heidelberg/New York:
Springer-Verlag.
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Michael Kipp, Jan Alexandersson, Ralf Engel and Norbert
Reithinger. (2000). Dialog Processing.
In: W. Wahlster (ed.): Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-to-Speech
Translation., (pp. 454--467). Berlin/Heidelberg/New York:
Springer-Verlag.
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Jan Alexandersson, Peter Poller and Michael Kipp Generating Multilingual Dialog
Summaries and Minutes. In: W. Wahlster (Ed.): Verbmobil:
Foundations of Speech-to-Speech Translation., (pp. 509--520).
Berlin/Heidelberg/New York: Springer, 2000.
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Jan Alexandersson and Norbert Pfleger. (2006). Discourse Modeling. In: W. Wahlster
(Ed.): SmartKom - Foundations of Multimodal Dialogue Systems,
(pp. 237--254), Berlin/Heidelberg/New York: Springer-Verlag.
- Jan Alexandersson, Tilman Becker and Norbert
Pfleger. (2006). Overlay. In:
W. Wahlster (Ed.):
SmartKom - Foundations of Multimodal Dialogue Systems,
(pp. 255--268), Berlin/Heidelberg/New York: Springer-Verlag.
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Jan Alexandersson and Tilman Becker. (2007). Efficient Computation of Overlay for
Multiple Inheritance Hierarchies in Discourse Modeling (pdf). in Harry Bunt and Reinhard
Muskens (Ed.): Computing Meaning, Vol. 3,
(pp. 423--455). Dordrecht: Kluwer. Studies in Linguistics and
Philosophy. (Abstract)
- Zimmermann, G.; Alexandersson, J.; Buiza, C.; Urdaneta, E.; Diaz,
U.; Carrasco, E.; Klima, M. & Pfalzgraf, A. Meeting the Needs of Diverse User
Groups: Benefits and Costs of Pluggable User Interfaces in Designing for
Older People and People with Cognitive Impairments. To appear in: Soar, J. &
Swindell,
R.: Intelligent
Technologies for the Aged - The Grey Digital Divide. IGI Global, 2010.
- Fagerberg, G., Kung, A., Wichert, R., Tazari, M.-R., Jean-Bart, Br.,
Bauer, G., Zimmermann, G., Furfari, F., Potortì, F., Chessa, S., Hellenschmidt,
M., Gorman, J., Alexandersson, J., Bund, J., Carrasco, E., Epelde, G.,
Klíma, M., Urdaneta, E., Vanderheiden, G., & Zinnikus,
I. (Nov. 2010). Platforms
for AAL Applications. In: Lukowicz, P., Kunze, K., & Kortuem, G. (Eds.):
Smart Sensing and Context. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 6446,
Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2010. ISSN: 0302-9743, ISBN-10: 3-642-16981-3,
ISBN-13: 978-3-642-16981-6.
- Harry Bunt, Volha Petukhova, David Traum, and Jan Alexandersson.
Dialogue act annotation
with the iso 24617-2 standard. In D. A. Dahl, editor, Multimodal
Interaction with W3C Standards: Toward Natural User Interfaces to Everything,
pages 109--135. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2017.
Conference Papers
- Jan Alexandersson, Elisabeth Maier and Norbert Reithinger.
A Robust and Efficient Three-Layered Dialog Component for a
Speech-to-Speech Translation System
In: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the European Chapter of
the ACL (EACL-95), Dublin, Ireland, March 1995.
Also available as Verbmobil Report Nr. 50, DFKI GmbH, December 1994.
- Jan Alexandersson, Norbert Reithinger, Elisabeth Maier.
Insights into the Dialogue Processing of VERBMOBIL. Verbmobil-Report
191. Also appearing in: Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Applied
Natural Language Processing ANLP-97
(pp. 33--40), Washington DC, 1997
- Jan Alexandersson, Peter Poller, Michael Kipp and Ralf Engel.
Multilingual Summary Generation in a Speech--To--Speech Translation System for
Multilingual Dialogues
In: Proceedings of the International Natural Language Generation Conference
2000 (INLG-2000) (pp. 148--155). Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, June 2000.
- Norbert Reithinger, Michael Kipp, Ralf Engel and Jan Alexandersson
Summarizing
Multilingual Spoken Negotiation Dialogues In: Proceedings of
ACl-2000 (pp. 310--317). Hong Kong, October, 2000.
- Paul Buitelaar, Jan Alexandersson, Tilman Jaeger, Stephan Lesch,
Norbert Pfleger, Diana Raileanu, Tanja von den Berg, Kerstin Klöckner, Holger
Neis, Hubert Schlarb An
Unsupervised Semantic Tagger Applied to German In: ``Proceedings of
Recent Advances in NLP 2001 (RANLP) (pp. 52--57). Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, 5-7
September, 2001.
Abstract,
PDF
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Norbert Pfleger, Jan Alexandersson, and Tilman Becker. Scoring Functions
for Overlay and their Application in Discourse Processing (pdf). In
Proceedings of KONVENS 2002 (pp. 139--146), Saarbrücken, Germany,
September 30 - October 2, 2002.
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Norbert Reithinger, Jan Alexandersson, Tilman Becker, Anselm Blocher, Ralf
Engel, Markus Löckelt, Jochen Müller, Norbert Pfleger, Peter
Poller, Michael Streit and Valentin Tschernomas SmartKom - Adaptive and
Flexible Multimodal Access to Multiple Applications in Proceedings of
ICMI 2003, Vancouver, B.C., November 5-7, 2003
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Jan Alexandersson, Tilman Becker and Norbert Pfleger. Scoring for
Overlay based on Informational Distance. In Proceedings of KONVENS
2004 (pp. 1--4), Vienna, Austria, September 14 - 17, 2004.
- Jan Alexandersson, Kai Richter and Stephanie
Becker. I2HOME:
Benutzerzentrierte Entwicklung einer offenen standardbasierten Smart Home
Plattform. In Proceedings
of USEWARE 2006. (In German)
- Martin Klima, Miroslav Macik, Elena Urdaneta, Cristina Buiza,
Eduardo Carrasco, Gorka Epelde and Jan Alexandersson. User
Interfaces for the Digital Home on the basis of Open Industrial
Standards In Proceedings of AMIF
2008, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, October, 15-16 2008.
- Robert Neßelrath, Christian Schulz, Jan Schehl, Alexander
Pfalzgraph, Norbert Pfleger, Verena Stein and Jan
Alexandersson: Homogeneous
Multimodal Access to the Digital Home for People with Cognitive
Disabilities. In Proceedings
of Ambient Assisted Living - AAL. 2. Deutscher Kongress mit
Ausstellung/Technologien - Anwendungen - Management, (pp. )
Berlin, Germany, 2009.
- Jan Alexandersson, Gottfried Zimmermann and Jürgen
Bund. User
Interfaces for AAL: How Can I Satisfy All Users?: In Proceedings of Ambient Assisted
Living - AAL. 2. Deutscher Kongress mit Ausstellung/Technologien -
Anwendungen - Management, (pp. 5--9) Berlin, Germany, 2009.
- Ingo Zinnikus, Klaus Fischer, Jan Alexandersson and Unai
Diaz: Bringing the elderly into the mainstream of e-Society: the VITAL
Project. IADI e-Society Conference, Barcelona, Spain 2009. (Outstanding paper award)
- Christian Schulz, Jan Alexandersson and Tilman Becker. Well-formed Unification in Non-deterministic Multiple
Inheritance Hierarchies In: ``Proceedings of the Eigths
International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS-8)'',
Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2009, Pages XX--YY
- Gorka Epelde, Eduardo Carrasco, Gottfried Zimmermann, Juergen
Bund, Markus Dubielzig and Jan Alexandersson: URC-Based
Accessible TV. In: Proceedings of EUROITV2009, Leuven, Belgium, 2009.
- Harry Bunt, Jan Alexandersson, Jean Carletta, Jae-Woong Choe, Alex
Chengyu Fang, Koiti Hasida, Kiyong Lee, Volha Petukhova, Andrei Popescu,
Claudia Soria, and David Traum: Towards an ISO standard for dialogue
act annotation. In: Proceedings of 7th International Conference
on Language Resources and Evaluation - LREC 2010, Malta, May 19--21, 2010,
Pages XX--YY
- Verena Stein, Robert Neßelrath and Jan Alexandersson: Improving
Spelling Skills for blind language learners - Orthographic Feedback in an
Auditory Vocabulary Trainer. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International
Conference on Computer Supported Education. International Conference on
Computer Supported Education (CSEDU-10), located at in conjunction with
WEBIST 2010, April 7-10, Valencia, Spain. Pages XX--YY
- Jürgen Bund, Gregg Vanderheiden, Gottfried Zimmermann, Ingo Zinnikus,
Jan Alexandersson, Martin Klima, Eduardo Carrasco, Gorka Epelde and
Elena Urdaneta. openURC: standardisation towards "User
Interfaces for Everyone, Everywhere, on Anything." In Proceedings of
1st International AEGIS Conference, University of Seville, Spain, 7-8
October 2010. pp. ???
- Jochen Frey, Christoph Stahl, Thomas Röfer, Bernd Krieg-Brückner
and Jan Alexandersson. The DFKI Competence Center for
Ambient Assisted Living. In Proceedings of First International Joint
Conference on Ambient Intelligence November 10-12 2010, Malaga,
Spain. pp. 310--314
- J. Alexandersson, I. Zinnikus, J. Bund, E. Carrasco, G. Epelde,
M. Klima, E. Urdaneta, G. Vanderheiden, G. Zimmermann. OpenURC:
Standardization towards User Interfaces for Everyone, Everywhere, on
Anything. In Reiner Wichert and Birgid Eberhardt (Ed.): Ambient
Assisted Living 4. AAL-Kongress 2011, Berlin, Germany, January
25-26, 2011
- Robert Neßelrath, Chensheng Lu, Christian H. Schulz, Jochen Frey
and J. Alexandersson. A Gesture Based System for Context-Sensitive
Interaction with Smart Homes. In Reiner Wichert and Birgid Eberhardt
(Ed.): Ambient Assisted Living 4. AAL-Kongress 2011, Berlin,
Germany, January 25-26, 2011
- Epelde, G., Carrasco, E., Rajasekharan, S., Zimmermann,
G. Alexandersson, J., Bund, J., & Vanderheiden,
G. (Jun. 2012). Open Standards Based Public Procurement Policy For Large
Market Uptake And New Entrants Barrier Lowering. In: Proceedings of
the AAL
Summit 2012, June 27-29, 2012, Bilbao, Spain.
- Bunt H., Alexandersson J., Choe J.-W., Fang A.C., Hasida K.,
Petukhova V., Popescu-Belis A., Soria C. & Traum D. (2012) - ISO 24617-2: A
Semantically-Based Standard for Dialogue Annotation. Proceedings
of LREC 2012 (8th International Conference on Language Resources and
Evaluation), Istanbul, p.430-437.
- Daniel Bieber, Jan Alexandersson, and Kathleen
Schwarz. Das
Mobia-Projekt: Die Kombination von Dienstleistung und Technologie für den
ÖPNV. In Proceedings of the 6th German AAL-Kongress with
Exhibition: Lebensqualität im Wandel von Demografie und Technik,
Berlin, Germany, Januar 2013. In German.
- Jochen Britz, Jochen Frey, and Jan
Alexandersson. Bridging the Gap between Smart Home and
Agents. In: Proceedings of the
10th International
Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE'14), July 2-4, Shanghai,
China, 2014, p. X-Y
- Britz, J., Alexandersson, J., and Stephan, W. (2015). UCH goes EAL4
--- The foundation of an Eco System for Ambient Assisted Living: ISO/IEC
15408 Common Critera based Implementation of the ISO/IEC 24752 Uni- versal
Control Hub Middleware. In 8. AAL Kongress, 29 -- 30 April 2015,
Frankfurt/Main.
- Joy van Helvert, Peter van Rosmalen, Dirk Borner, Vohla Petukhova and
Jan Alexandersson, Observing Coaching and Reflecting: A
Multi-modal Natural Language-based Dialogue System in a Learning
Context. Proceedings of the The 11th
International Conference on Intelligent Environments - IE'15 Prague
13-14 July, IOS Press (2015)
- Kathleen Schwarz, Daniel Bieber, Johannes Tröger, Jan Alexandersson,
Maurice Rekrut, and Jochen Britz. (2016). mobisaar --- Mit einer
technologiegestützten Dienstleistung zu einer saarlandweiten
Mobilitätslösung für Alle. In Proceedings of Zukunft
Lebensräume. 2016, Frankfurt/Main. (in German)
- Johannes Tröger; Jan Alexandersson; Jochen Britz; Maurice Rekrut;
Daniel Bieber and Kathleen Schwarz, Board Games and Regulars'
Tables --- Extending User Centred Design in the Mobia Project In: Jia
Zhou and Gavriel Salvendy Editors. Proceedings
of Human Aspects
of IT for the Aged Population. Design for Aging: Second International
Conference, ITAP 2016, Held as Part of HCI International 2016, Toronto,
ON, Canada, July 17--22, 2016, Proceedings, Part I. Pages 129--140,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 9754, ISBN
978-3-319-39943-0, Springer International Publishing, 6/2016.
- Johannes Tröger; Nicklas Linz; Jan Alexandersson;
Alexandra König; Philippe Robert Automated Speech-based Screening
for Alzheimer’s Disease in a Care Service Scenario.
In: Proceedings of the 11th EAI International
Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for
Healthcare. International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing
Technologies for Healthcare (Pervasive Health-17), May 23-26,
Barcelona, Spain, ACM Digital Library, 2017.
- Johannes Tröger., João Mariano, Sibila Marques, Joana
Mendonça, Andrey Girenko,
Jan Alexandersson, Bernard Stree, Michele Lamanna, Maurizio
Lorenzatto, Louise Pierrel Mikkelsen and
Bundgård-Jørgensen, U. (2017, July). Technology
Experience Café—Enabling Technology-Driven Social
Innovation for an Ageing Society. In International Conference on
Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population
(pp. 199-210). Springer, Cham.
- Nicklas Linz; Johannes Tröger; Jan Alexandersson;
Alexandra König Using Neural Word Embeddings in the Analysis of
the Clinical Semantic Verbal Fluency Task. In: 12th
International Conference on Computational
Semantics. International Conference on Computational Semantics
(IWCS-17), September 20-22, Montpellier, France, 2017.
- Nicklas Linz; Johannes Tröger; Jan Alexandersson; Maria Wolters;
Alexandra König; Philippe Robert In: 2017 IEEE 17th International
Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW). Workshop on Data Mining for
Ageing, Rehabilitation and Independent Assisted Living (ARIAL-17), located
at 17th, November 18-21, New Orleans, LA, USA, IEEE Computer Society,
2017. (Best Paper Award)
Workshop Papers
- Jan Alexandersson.
Plan Recognition in Verbmobil,
In: Proceedings of the IJCAI-95 Workshop ``The Next Generation of Plan Recognition Systems: Challenges for and Insight from Related Areas of AI'', Montreal, Canada, August 1995.
Also available as Verbmobil Report Nr. 81, DFKI GmbH, April 1995.
- Norbert Reithinger, Elisabeth Maier and Jan Alexandersson.
Treatment of Incomplete Dialogs in a Speech-to-Speech
Translation System
In: Proceedings of the ESCA Research Workshop
on Spoken Dialogue Systems, Vigs\o, Denmark, May 1995.
Also available as Verbmobil Report Nr. 79, DFKI GmbH, April 1995.
- Jan Alexandersson and Norbert Reithinger.
"Designing the Dialogue Component in a Speech
Translation System -- a Corpus Based Approach" in Proceedings of the 9th Twente Workshop on
Language Technology (Corpus Based Approaches to
Dialogue Modelling, Twente, Holland, 1995
- Jan Alexandersson. Some ideas for the
automatic aquisition of Dialogue Structure In: Anton Nijholt, Harry Bunt,
Susann LuperFoy, Gert Veldhuijzen van Zanten, and Jan Schaake (eds.),
Proceedings of the Eleventh Twente Workshop on Language Technology, TWLT,
Dialogue Management in Natural Language Systems, June 19-21, 1996.
- Joachim Quantz and Jan Alexandersson: Word-Lattice Parsing Based on Heterogeneous
Information Sources in Proceedings of the ECAI-96 Workshop
``Corpus_Oriented Semantic Analysis'' Budapest, Hungary, August 1996
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Elisabeth Maier, Norbert Reithinger and Jan Alexandersson: Clarification Dialogues as Measure to Increase Robustness in a Spoken
Dialogue System in Proceedings of the ACL-97 Workshop ``Interactive
Spoken Dialog Systems: Bringing Speech and NLP Together in Real
Applications'', Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia Madrid,
Spain, July 11 and 12th, 1997.
- Jan Alexandersson and Peter Poller.
Towards Multilingual Protocol Generation For Spontaneous Speech Dialogues
In: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Natural Language Generation
1998 (INLG-98) (pp. 198--207), Niagara-On-The-Lake, Canada, August 1998.
- Michael Kipp, Jan Alexandersson and Norbert Reithinger.
Understanding Spontaneous Negotiation Dialogue
In: Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop ``Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical
Dialogue Systems, Stockholm, Sweden, August 1999.
- Mark Seligman, Jan Alexandersson and Kristiina Jokinen.
Tracking Morphological and Semantic Co-occurrences in Spontaneous Dialogues
In: Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop ``Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical
Dialogue Systems, Stockholm, Sweden, August 1999.
- Jan Alexandersson and Paul Heisterkamp.
Some Notes on the Complexity of Dialogues (ps) (pdf) In:
Laila Dybkjaer, Koiti Hasida and David Traum (eds.), Proceedings of the ACL
2000 Workshop ``1st SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue'', Hong
Kong, October 2000.
- Jan Alexandersson and Tilman Becker. Overlay as the
Basic Operation for Discourse Processing in a Multimodal Dialogue System
In: Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop ``Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical
Dialogue Systems, Seattle, 2001, Pages 8-14.
- Markus Loeckelt, Tilman Becker, Norbert Pfleger and Jan
Alexandersson Making Sense of
Partial (PDF) (ps) In: Bos,
Foster & Matheson (eds): ``Proceedings of the sixth workshop on the
semantics and pragmatics of dialogue (EDILOG 2002)'', Edinburgh, UK, Pages
101-107.
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Jan Alexandersson, and Tilman Becker. The Formal Foundations Underlying
Overlay. In ``Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on
Computational Semantics (IWCS-5)'', Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2003, Pages 22-36.
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Iryna Gurevych, Robert Porzel, Elena Slinko, Norbert Pfleger, Jan
Alexandersson, and Stefan Merten. Less is
More: Using a Single Knowledge Representation in Dialogue Systems In
``Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL WS on Text Meaning'',
Edmonton, Canada, May 31, 2003, p. 14-21
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Norbert Pfleger, Jan Alexandersson and Tilman Becker
A
Robust and Generic Discourse Model for Multimodal Dialogue In
``Workshop Notes of the IJCAI-03 Workshop on ``Knowledge and Reasoning in
Practical Dialogue Systems'', Acapulco, Mexico, August, 2003
-
Porzel, R., Pfleger N., Merten, S., Loeckelt M., Gurevych, I., Engel, R. and
Alexandersson, J. More
on Less: Further Applications of Ontologies in Multi-Modal Dialogue
Systems. In ``Workshop Notes of the IJCAI-03 Workshop on ``Knowledge and Reasoning in
Practical Dialogue Systems'', Acapulco, Mexico, August, 2003
- Norbert Pfleger, Ralf Engel and Jan Alexandersson Robust Multimodal Discourse Processing In ``Proceedings of
Diabruck: 7th Workshop on the
Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue'', Wallerfangen, Germany,
September, 4-6 , 2003, p. 107-114
- Jan Alexandersson, Tilman Becker, Ralf Engel, Markus Löckelt, Elsa
Pecourt, Peter Poller, Norbert Pfleger Norbert Reithinger. Ends-based Dialogue
Processing. (PDF) in
``Proceedings of the 2nd
Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding (ScaNaLu)'',
Boston, MA, May 6, 2004, pp. X-Y
- Christian H. Schulz, Dmitri Rubinstein, Dimitris Diamantakos, Michael
Kaisser, Jan Schehl, Massimo Romanelli, Thomas Kleinbauer, Andreas Klüter,
Dietrich Klakow, Tilman Becker and Jan Alexandersson. A Spoken Language Front-end for a Multilingual
Music Data Base in ''Proceedings of Dialog Systems based
on XML Technologies'', Berlin, Germany, October, 13, 2004, pp. X-Y
- Massimo Romanelli, Tilman Becker and Jan Alexandersson. On Plurals for Overlay in ''Proceedings of 9th Workshop on the semantics and pragmatics
of dialogue (Dialor) Nancy, June 9-11 2005
- Stephan Lesch, Thomas Kleinbauer and Jan Alexandersson. Towards a Decent Recognition Rate for the Automatic Classification of a
Multidimensional Dialogue Act Tagset in ''Workshop notes
of 4th IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in
Practical Dialogue Systems, Edinburgh, August 1 2005, pp 46--53
- Norbert Pfleger and Jan Alexandersson. Towards Resolving Referring Expression by
Implicitly Activated Referents in Practical Dialogue Systems in ''the Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on the
Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - BRANDIAL06, Potsdam, Germany,
September, 11--13 2006, pp 2--9
- Jana Besser and Jan Alexandersson.
A Comprehensive Disfluency Model for Multi-Party Interaction In:
Simon Keizer, Harry Bunt and Tim Paek (eds.), Proceedings of the ''8st SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue'', Antwerp, Belgium, September 2008, pp 182--189
- Robert Neßelrath and Jan Alexandersson. A 3D Gesture Recognition System
for Multimodal Dialog Systems In:
Proceedings of the sixth IJCAI Workshop ``Knowledge and Reasoning
in Practical Dialogue Systems, Pasadena, CA, July, 2009. pp
46--51
- Ane Murua, Xabier Valencia, Eduardo Carrasco, Gottfried Zimmermann, Jürgen
Bund, Bruno Rosa, Jan Alexandersson and Unai
Díaz. Universally
Accessible Task-Based User Interfaces. First International Workshop on
AAL SERVICE PLATFORMS (WASP 2010) A one-day workshop to be held at IEEE
Healthcom 2010 Lyon, France, July 2, 2010
- Jochen Frey, Thomas Gard and Jan
Alexandersson. User-Centred Tool Support - Developing User
Interfaces for Persons with Special Needs In Proceedings of the Workshop on
Tool-Support for Mobile and Pervasive Application Development (TSMPAD-2010),
September 7th, Lisboa, Portugal, 2010.
Posters
- Stephan Lesch, Thomas Kleinbauer and Jan Alexandersson. A New
Metric for the Evaluation of Dialog Act Classification in ''Proceedings
of 9th Workshop on the semantics and
pragmatics of dialogue (Dialor) Nancy, June 9-11 2005
- Christoph Lauer, Jochen Frey, Benjamin Lang, Tilman Becker, Thomas
Kleinbauer and Jan
Alexandersson. AmiGram---a General-Purpose
Tool for Multimodal Corpus Annotation in ''Proceedings
of 2nd Joint Workshop on Multimodal
Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms (MLMI05)
Edinburgh, July 11-13 2005
- Harald Lochert, Jan Alexandersson, Tilman Becker and Thomas Kleinbauer OntoMatters---Ontology-Based Representation
of Multi-modal Multi-party Interaction in ''Proceedings
of 2nd Joint Workshop on Multimodal
Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms (MLMI05)
Edinburgh, July 11-13 2005
- Jochen Frey, Christian Schulz, Robert Neßelrath, Verena Stein, and Jan
Alexandersson. Towards Pluggable User Interfaces for People
with Cognitive Disabilities
In Proceedings of the 3rd
International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF 2010),
January, 2010.
- Jochen Frey, Robert Neßelrath, Christian Schulz and Jan
Alexandersson. SensHome: Towards A Corpus for Everyday Activities in
Smart Homes. In Proceedings of "Multimodal Corpora: Advances in Capturing,
Coding and Analyzing Multimodality", A WS at 7th International
Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation - LREC 2010, Malta,
May 19--21, 2010, Pages XX--YY (Forthcoming)
- C. H. Schulz, I. Zinnikus, P. Kapahnke, J. Frey, R. Neßelrath
and J. Alexandersson. Universally Accessible Interactive Services
on TV: A Case Study on the Provisioning of Internet Serivces to Elderly
People. In Reiner Wichert and Birgid Eberhardt (Ed.): Ambient Assisted
Living 4. AAL-Kongress 2011, Berlin, Germany, January 25-26,
2011
- Verena Stein, Robert Neßelrath, Jan Alexandersson, Johannes Tröger
Designing with and for the visually impaired: vocabulary, spelling and the
screen reader Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer
Supported Education (CSEDU-11), Pages 462-467, Noordwijkerhout,
Netherlands, SciTePress, May, 6-8, 2011
- Alvaro Gauterin, Jan Alexandersson, Robert Neßelrath, Christian
H. Schulz, Jochen Frey, Achim Schmidt, Mario Hoffmann, Clemens Hauser
Georg Kühn, and Michael Kugler. Accessible elevator. In Ambient
Assisted Living, 5. German AAL-Kongress 2011, Berlin, Germany, January
2012
- Jan Alexandersson, Maria Aretoulaki, Nick Campbell, Michael Gardner,
Andrey Girenko, Dietrich Klakow, Dimitris Koryzis, Volha Petukhova, Marcus
Specht, Dimitris Spiliotopoulos, Alexander Stricker, Niels
Taatgen. Metalogue: a multiperspective multimodal dialogue
system with metacognitive abilities for highly adaptive and flexible
dialogue management. In: Proceedings of the
10th International
Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE'14), July 2-4, Shanghai,
China, 2014, p. 365-368
- Kathleen Schwarz, Daniel Bieber, Johannes Tröger, Jan
Alexandersson, Maurice Rekrut and Jochen Alexander
Britz. MobiSaar
- Mit einer technologiegestützten Dienstleistung zu einer
saarlandweiten Mobilitätslösung für Alle. In: Zukunft
Lebensräume Kongress 2016, Frankfurt, Germany, April 2016
- Jan Alexandersson, Jochen Britz, Andrey Girenko, Maurice Rekrut,
Jürgen Vogelgesang, Steven Vogelgesang, Johan Plomp, Salla
Muuraiskangas, Teppo Veijonen and Timo Urhemaa. PRAF - ein
mobiles Selbstmangement-System zur Prävention kardiovaskulärer
Erkrankungen einschließlich Vorhofflimmern. In Proceedings of
Zukunft Lebensräume, Frankfurt, April 20-21, 2016.
- Nicklas Linz, Johannes Tröger, Jan Alexandersson, Alexandra
König, Phillipe Robert, and Maria Wolters. (2017). Predicting
Dementia Screening and Staging Scores From Semantic Verbal Fluency
Performance. In International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)-Workshop
on Data Mining for Aging, Rehabilitation and Independent Assisted
Living, New Orleans, LA, November 18-21, 2017 (Best paper award)
Reports and Memos
- Jan Alexandersson, Bianka
Buschbeck-Wolf, Tsutomu Fujinami, Michael Kipp, Stefan Koch,
Elisabeth Maier, Norbert Reithinger, Birte Schmitz, Melanie
Siegel. Dialogue Acts in
Verbmobil-2 -- Second Edition (gzipped, 254 Kb, 106
pages) Verbmobil-Report Nr.226, DFKI
GmbH, Saarbrücken, 1998.
- For more reports, see also The
VerbMobil Project
Standards
- ISO (2012). Language resource management - Semantic annotation framework
- Part 2: Dialogue acts. ISO DIS 24617-2. ISO Central Secretariat, Geneva.
Demonstrations
- Jochen Frey, Simon Bergweiler, Jan Alexandersson, Ehsan
Gholamsaghaee, Norbert Reithinger, and Christoph Stahl. SmartCase:
A Smart Home Environment in a Suitcase. In: Proceedings of
the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments
(IE), July 25-28, Nottingham, UK, 2011. (Best Demo Award)
Editorials
- Jan Alexandersson, Lars Ahrenberg, Kristiina Jokinen and
Arne Jönsson: (ed.) (1999): Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical
Dialogue Systems Systems. Proceedings of the International Joint
conference of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-99) Workshop, Stockholm,
Sweden.
- Jan Alexandersson, Lars
Ahrenberg, Kristiina Jokinen and Arne
Jönsson: Special issue on Knowledge and
Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems Systems, The Electronic
Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (ETAI), Vol. 3 (1999), section D.
- Arne Jönsson, Jan Alexandersson, Kristiina Jokinen,
Tilman Becker and Magnus Merkel (ed.) (2003): Knowledge and Reasoning
in Practical Dialogue Systems. Proceedings of the International Joint
Conference of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-03) Workshop, Acapulco,
Mexico.
- Ingrid Zukerman, Arne Jönsson and Jan Alexandersson (ed.)
(2005): Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference of Artificial
Intelligence (IJCAI-05) Workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland.
- James Allen, Jan Alexandersson, Jerome Feldman and Robert Porzel
(ed.) (2006) ScaNaLU '06: Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Scalable
Natural Language Understanding Publisher: Association for Computational
Linguistics, New York, USA
- Jan Alexandersson and Alistair Knott (eds): Proceedings of the 7th SIGdial Workshop
on Discourse and Dialogue held in conjunction with the 21st Internation
Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics - COLING/ACL 2006.
- David Traum, Jan Alexandersson, Arne Jönsson and
Ingrid Zukerman (ed.) (2007): Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical
Dialogue Systems. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference
of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07) Workshop, Hyderabad, India.
- Arne Jönsson, Jan Alexandersson, David Traum and Ingrid
Zukerman (ed.) (2009): Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence
(IJCAI-09) Workshop, Pasadena, CA.
- Jan Alexandersson, Arne Jönsson, David Traum and Ingrid
Zukerman (ed.) (2011): Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence
(IJCAI-11) Workshop, Barcelona, Spain.
- Jan Alexandersson, Peter Ljunglöf, Kathy McCoy, Brian Roark,
and Annalu Waller, editors (2012). Third Workshop on Speech and Language
Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT). Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL), Montreal, Canada.
- Jan Alexandersson, Peter Ljunglöf, Kathleen F. McCoy,
François Portet, Brian Roark, Frank Rudzicz and Michel Vacher, editors
(2013). Fourth Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive
Technologies (SLPAT). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL),
Grenoble, France.
- Jan Alexandersson, Dimitra Anastasiou, Cui Jian, Ani Nenkova, Rupal
Patel, Frank Rudzicz, Annalu Waller, Desislava Zhekova, editors (2014). Fifth
Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
(SLPAT). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Some (older) papers from the DFKI VerbMobil group may be
found here
Invited Talks etc
- SCANALU 2002, Experiences
from Large NLP Projects (
Scalable Natural Language Understanding) (Invited Talk)
- The 24th
Edition of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing
(SEPLN 2008), Madrid, September 10-12, 2008 (Keynote speaker)
- 1. Saarländischer Fachkongress Ambient Assisted
Living, 7. November 2008, Messegelände, Saarbrücken,
Germany (Invited Talk)
- Trend Seminar Ambient Assisted Living:
IT-Unterstützung für ein Selbstbestimmtes Altern (IT support
for ageing well), Fraunhofer IAO, Stuttgart, March 10th, 2009
(Panel Member)
- Aktivitäten und Visionen im Kompetenzzentrum AAL am
Deutschen Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz - DFKI GmbH a
talk at ConLife 2010, Die
Leitveranstaltung für Heimvernetzung und -automatisierung, Cologne, May 20,
2010
- Swedish Language
Technology Conference (SLTC-2010) October 28-29,
2010, Linköping University, Sweden (Plenary Speaker)
- CEBiT 2013: From Smart Home to Smart Everywhere, BITKOM Smart
Home Forum @ CeBIT, March 9th, 2013
- 6th Conference on Aspects of European Consumer Law:
Artificial Intelligence in everyday laife – Dangerous or gimme more?,
Luxenburg, October 3rd, 2017
- Euskampus Day: Some R&D Methodologies for Applied,
Multidisciplinary Research and Innovations Projects involving Different
Users, Bilbao/Spain, November 28th, 2017
Service on External Thesis Committees
- External Examiner on Karolina Eliasson's Lic Thesis, "The Use of Case-Based
Reasoning in a Human-Robot Dialog System", Department of Computer and
Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden, 2006
- External Examiner on Jerome Geertzen's Ph.D Thesis "Dialogue act
recognition and prediction", Computation
Linguistics Department, Tilburg University, 2009i
- External Examiner on Martin Klima's, Ph.D Thesis, "Collaborative
Work in Mobile Environment", Faculty of Electrical Engineering, CTU, Prague, 2009
- External Examiner on Olga Petukhova, Ph.D Thesis,
"Multidimensional Dialogue Modelling", Tilburg, 2011
Miscellaneous
Jan Alexandersson