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New SemDial publication

TTLab publishes its VR-based human–human directions dialogue corpus mediated by avatars.

Andy Lücking, Felix Voll, Daniel Rott, Alexander Henlein and Alexander Mehler. 2025. Head and Hand Movements During Turn Transitions: Data-Based Multimodal Analysis Using the Frankfurt VR Gesture–Speech Alignment Corpus (FraGA). Proceedings of the 29th Workshop on The Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue – Full Papers, 146–156.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Luecking:Voll:Rott:Henlein:Mehler:2025-fraga,
  title     = {Head and Hand Movements During Turn Transitions: Data-Based Multimodal
               Analysis Using the {Frankfurt VR Gesture--Speech Alignment Corpus}
               ({FraGA})},
  author    = {Lücking, Andy and Voll, Felix and Rott, Daniel and Henlein, Alexander
               and Mehler, Alexander},
  year      = {2025},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 29th Workshop on The Semantics and Pragmatics
               of Dialogue -- Full Papers},
  series    = {SemDial'25 -- Bialogue},
  publisher = {SEMDIAL},
  url       = {http://semdial.org/anthology/Z25-Luecking_semdial_3316.pdf},
  pages     = {146--156},
  keywords  = {gemdis}
}

ESSLLI advanced course on iconic gesture semantics!

The ViCom project GemDiS offers the ESSLLI 2025 advanced course on the semantics of iconic gestures. This is how the AI Mistral advertises the course:
“Unravel the mysteries of non-verbal communication in our upcoming advanced course on Spatial Gesture Semantics at ESSLLI 2025! Dive into the fascinating world of manual gestures and their interaction with speech meaning. Discover how spatial semantics and AI technologies are revolutionizing our understanding of gestures. Don’t miss out on this cutting-edge exploration from July 28 to August 1!”

Student tutors for the “Programming Practical Course (PPR)” (winter semester 25 / 26)

The Institute of Computer Science is recruiting tutors for the winter semester 2025 / 2026 to assist in various courses.

The chair of Computational Humanities / Text Technology is responsible for the basic course “Programming Practical Course (PPR)” and we are particularly looking for students who have already passed the programming practical course.

There are several tutor positions available and all additional information are noted on the announcement here.

The deadline for applications is July 31, 2025 and applications can be sent to .

We look forward to receiving your application.