Dr. habil. Andy Lücking

My research interests are centred around linguistic and philosophical theories of meaning and interaction. One focus is on the interplay of speech and gesture in communication: multimodal grammar. My favourite semantic framework is Type Theory with Records (TTR), which is also used to spell out Referential Transparency Theory (RTT), an alternative to Generalized Quantifier Theory. Furthermore, I contribute to investigations of language use in specialized media and resources (e.g., educational learning or biodiversity). Given the need of memory structures to explain dialogue phenomena and data, one of my recent research directions is to ground semantics in neurocognitive terms. In my work, I usually combine theoretical modelling, use of digital resources and/or experimental methods. This includes the building of several corpora which are used in linguistics and digital humanities research. I am concerned with topics such as the following (see list of publications):

• syntax and semantics of spoken German and English
• cognitive dialogue modelling
• (deferred) reference
• quantification
• alignment
• iconicity and perception
• corpus annotation

ORCID ID: Andy Lücking at ORCID
ResearchGate: Andy Lücking at RG

Total: 87

2023 (5)

• S. Larsson, R. Cooper, J. Ginzburg, and A. Lücking, “TTR at the SPA: Relating type-theoretical semantics to neural semantic pointers,” in Proceedings of Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning IV, 2023.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Larsson:Cooper:Ginzburg:Luecking:2023-ttr-spa,
    author =     {Larsson, Staffan and Cooper, Robin and Ginzburg,
                    Jonathan and Lücking, Andy},
    title =     {{TTR} at the {SPA}: {Relating} type-theoretical
                    semantics to neural semantic pointers},
    booktitle =     {Proceedings of Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning
                    IV},
    series =     {NALOMA'23},
    location =     {Nancy, France, hosted with IWCS 2023},
    year =     2023
  }

• A. Lücking, “Towards Referential Transparent Annotations of Quantified Noun Phrases,” in Proceedings of the 2023 Joint ACL–ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, 2023, pp. 47-55.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Luecking:2023-rtt-annotation,
    author =     {Lücking, Andy},
    title =     {Towards Referential Transparent Annotations of
                    Quantified Noun Phrases},
    booktitle =     {Proceedings of the 2023 Joint ACL--ISO Workshop on
                    Interoperable Semantic Annotation},
    series =     {ISA-19},
    pages =     {47-55},
    location =     {Nancy, France, hosted with IWCS 2023},
    year =     2023,
    url =         {https://sigsem.uvt.nl/isa19/ISA-19-proceedings.pdf}
  }

• J. Ginzburg and A. Lücking, “Referential Transparency and Inquisitivity,” in Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Inquisitiveness Below and Beyond the Sentence Boundary, 2023, pp. 11-20.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Ginzburg:Luecking:2023-wh,
    author =     {Ginzburg, Jonathan and Lücking, Andy},
    title =     {Referential Transparency and Inquisitivity},
    booktitle =     {Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Inquisitiveness
                    Below and Beyond the Sentence Boundary},
    series =     {InqBnB4'23},
    pages =     {11-20},
    location =     {Nancy, France, hosted with IWCS 2023},
    year =     2023,
    url =
                    {https://iwcs2023.loria.fr/files/2023/06/inqbnb4_proceedings.pdf}
  }

• A. Henlein, A. Lücking, M. Bagci, and A. Mehler, “Towards grounding multimodal semantics in interaction data with Va.Si.Li-Lab,” in Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN), 2023. accepted
  [BibTeX]

  @inproceedings{Henlein:et:al:2023c,
    title     = {Towards grounding multimodal semantics in interaction data with Va.Si.Li-Lab},
    author    = {Henlein, Alexander and Lücking, Andy and Bagci, Mevlüt and Mehler, Alexander},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN)},
    location  = {Nijmegen, Netherlands},
    year      = {2023},
    note      = {accepted}
  }

• A. Mehler, M. Bagci, A. Henlein, G. Abrami, C. Spiekermann, P. Schrottenbacher, M. Konca, A. Lücking, J. Engel, M. Quintino, J. Schreiber, K. Saukel, and O. Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, “A Multimodal Data Model for Simulation-Based Learning with Va.Si.Li-Lab,” in Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management, Cham, 2023, pp. 539-565.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  Simulation-based learning is a method in which learners learn to master real-life scenarios and tasks from simulated application contexts. It is particularly suitable for the use of VR technologies, as these allow immersive experiences of the targeted scenarios. VR methods are also relevant for studies on online learning, especially in groups, as they provide access to a variety of multimodal learning and interaction data. However, VR leads to a trade-off between technological conditions of the observability of such data and the openness of learner behavior. We present Va.Si.Li-Lab, a VR-L ab for Simulation-based Learn ing developed to address this trade-off. Va.Si.Li-Lab uses a graph-theoretical model based on hypergraphs to represent the data diversity of multimodal learning and interaction. We develop this data model in relation to mono- and multimodal, intra- and interpersonal data and interleave it with ISO-Space to describe distributed multiple documents from the perspective of their interactive generation. The paper adds three use cases to motivate the broad applicability of Va.Si.Li-Lab and its data model.

  @inproceedings{Mehler:et:al:2023:a,
    abstract = {Simulation-based learning is a method in which learners learn to master real-life scenarios and tasks from simulated application contexts. It is particularly suitable for the use of VR technologies, as these allow immersive experiences of the targeted scenarios. VR methods are also relevant for studies on online learning, especially in groups, as they provide access to a variety of multimodal learning and interaction data. However, VR leads to a trade-off between technological conditions of the observability of such data and the openness of learner behavior. We present Va.Si.Li-Lab, a VR-L ab for Simulation-based Learn ing developed to address this trade-off. Va.Si.Li-Lab uses a graph-theoretical model based on hypergraphs to represent the data diversity of multimodal learning and interaction. We develop this data model in relation to mono- and multimodal, intra- and interpersonal data and interleave it with ISO-Space to describe distributed multiple documents from the perspective of their interactive generation. The paper adds three use cases to motivate the broad applicability of Va.Si.Li-Lab and its data model.},
    address = {Cham},
    author = {Mehler, Alexander and Bagci, Mevl{\"u}t and Henlein, Alexander and Abrami, Giuseppe and Spiekermann, Christian and Schrottenbacher, Patrick and Konca, Maxim and L{\"u}cking, Andy and Engel, Juliane and Quintino, Marc and Schreiber, Jakob and Saukel, Kevin and Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga},
    booktitle = {Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management},
    editor = {Duffy, Vincent G.},
    isbn = {978-3-031-35741-1},
    pages = {539--565},
    publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
    title = {A Multimodal Data Model for Simulation-Based Learning with Va.Si.Li-Lab},
    year = {2023}
  }

2022 (8)

• C. Ebert, A. Lücking, and A. Mehler, “Introduction to the 2nd Edition of “Semantic, Artificial and Computational Interaction Studies”,” in HCI International 2022 – Late Breaking Papers. Multimodality in Advanced Interaction Environments, Cham, 2022, pp. 36-47.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  ``Behavioromics'' is a term that has been invented to cover the study of multimodal interaction from various disciplines and points of view. These disciplines and points of view, however, lack a platform for exchange. The workshop session on ``Semantic, artificial and computational interaction studies'' provides such a platform. We motivate behavioromics, sketch its historical background, and summarize this year's contributions.

  @inproceedings{Ebert:et:al:2022,
    abstract = "``Behavioromics'' is a term that has been invented to cover the study of multimodal interaction from various disciplines and points of view. These disciplines and points of view, however, lack a platform for exchange. The workshop session on ``Semantic, artificial and computational interaction studies'' provides such a platform. We motivate behavioromics, sketch its historical background, and summarize this year's contributions.",
    address = "Cham",
    author = "Ebert, Cornelia and L{\"u}cking, Andy and Mehler, Alexander",
    booktitle = "HCI International 2022 - Late Breaking Papers. Multimodality in Advanced Interaction Environments",
    editor = "Kurosu, Masaaki and Yamamoto, Sakae and Mori, Hirohiko and Schmorrow, Dylan D. and Fidopiastis, Cali M. and Streitz, Norbert A. and Konomi, Shin'ichi",
    isbn = "978-3-031-17618-0",
    pages = "36--47",
    publisher = "Springer Nature Switzerland",
    title = "Introduction to the 2nd Edition of ``Semantic, Artificial and Computational Interaction Studies''",
    doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17618-0_3},
    year = "2022"
  }

• J. Ginzburg and A. Lücking, “The Integrated Model of Memory: A Dialogical Perspective,” in Proceedings of SemDial 2022, 2022, pp. 6-17.
  [BibTeX]

  @inproceedings{Ginzburg:Luecking:2022:a,
    author = {Ginzburg, Jonathan and L{\"u}cking, Andy},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of SemDial 2022},
    editor = {Gregoromichelaki, Eleni and Hough, Julian and Kelleher, John D.},
    location = {Dublin, Ireland},
    pages = {6--17},
    pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Ginzburg_Luecking-IMM-Dialogue.pdf},
    series = {SemDial 2022 -- DubDial},
    title = {The Integrated Model of Memory: {A} Dialogical Perspective},
    year = 2022
  }

• A. Lücking and J. Ginzburg, “Leading voices: Dialogue semantics, cognitive science, and the polyphonic structure of multimodal interaction,” Language and Cognition, 2022.
  [BibTeX]

  @Article{Luecking:Ginzburg:2022:b,
    title =     {Leading voices: {Dialogue} semantics, cognitive
                    science, and the polyphonic structure of multimodal
                    interaction},
    author =     {L{\"u}cking, Andy and Ginzburg, Jonathan},
    journal =     {Language and Cognition},
    year =     2022,
    doi =         {10.1017/langcog.2022.30},
  }

• A. Lücking and J. Ginzburg, “How to repair a slip of the tongue?,” in Proceedings of SemDial 2022, 2022, pp. 35-46.
  [BibTeX]

  @inproceedings{Luecking:Ginzburg:2022:a,
    author = {L{\"u}cking, Andy and Ginzburg, Jonathan},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of SemDial 2022},
    editor = {Gregoromichelaki, Eleni and Hough, Julian and Kelleher, John D.},
    location = {Dublin, Ireland},
    pages = {35--46},
    pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Luecking_Ginzburg-SoT.pdf},
    series = {SemDial 2022 -- DubDial},
    title = {How to repair a slip of the tongue?},
    year = 2022
  }

• M. Konca, A. Lücking, A. Mehler, M. Nagel, and O. Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Computational educational linguistics for `Critical Online Reasoning’ among young professionals in medicine, law and teaching, 2022.
  [BibTeX]

  @misc{Konca:et:al:2022,
    author = {Konca, Maxim and L{\"u}cking, Andy and Mehler, Alexander and Nagel, Marie-Theres and Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga},
    howpublished = {Presentation given at the AERA annual meeting, 21.-26.04. 2022, WERA symposium},
    month = 04,
    title = {Computational educational linguistics for `Critical Online Reasoning' among young professionals in medicine, law and teaching},
    year = 2022,
    pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/BRIDGE_WERA_AERA-2022_reduce.pdf}
  }

• A. Lücking and J. Ginzburg, “Referential transparency as the proper treatment of quantification,” Semantics and Pragmatics, vol. 15, 2022.
  [BibTeX]

  @Article{Luecking:Ginzburg:2022,
    author =     {L{\"u}cking, Andy and Ginzburg, Jonathan},
    title =     {Referential transparency as the proper treatment of
                    quantification},
    journal =     {Semantics and Pragmatics},
    year =     2022,
    volume =     15,
    eid =         4,
    doi =         {10.3765/sp.15.4}
  }

• A. Mehler, M. Konca, M. Nagel, A. Lücking, and O. Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, On latent domain-specific textual preferences in solving Internet-based generic tasks among graduates/young professionals from three domains, 2022.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  Although Critical Online Reasoning (COR) is often viewed as a general competency (e.g. Alexander et al. 2016), studies have found evidence supporting their domain-specificity (Toplak et al. 2002). To investigate this assumption, we focus on commonalities and differences in textual preferences in solving COR-related tasks between graduates/young professionals from three domains. For this reason, we collected data by requiring participants to solve domain-specific (DOM-COR) and generic (GEN-COR) tasks in an authentic Internet-based COR performance assessment (CORA), allowing us to disentangle the assumed components of COR abilities. Here, we focus on GEN-COR to distinguish between different groups of graduates from the three disciplines in the context of generic COR tasks. We present a computational model for educationally relevant texts that combines features at multiple levels (lexical, syntactic, semantic). We use machine learning to predict domain-specific group membership based on documents consulted during task solving. A major contribution of our analyses is a multi-part text classification system that contrasts human annotation and rating of the documents used with a semi-automatic classification to predict the document type of web pages. That is, we work with competing classifications to support our findings. In this way, we develop a computational linguistic model that correlates GEN-COR abilities with properties of documents consulted for solving the GEN-COR tasks. Results show that participants from different domains indeed inquire different sets of online sources for the same task. Machine learning-based classifications show that the distributional differences can be reproduced by computational linguistic models.

  @misc{Mehler:et:al:2022,
  author = {Mehler, Alexander and Konca, Maxim and Nagel, Marie-Theres and L\"{u}cking, Andy and Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga},
  year = {2022},
  month = {03},
  howpublished = {Presentation at BEBF 2022},
  title = {On latent domain-specific textual preferences in solving Internet-based generic tasks among graduates/young professionals from three domains},
  abstract={Although Critical Online Reasoning (COR) is often viewed as a general competency (e.g. Alexander et al. 2016), studies have found evidence supporting their domain-specificity (Toplak et al. 2002). To investigate this assumption, we focus on commonalities and differences in textual preferences in solving COR-related tasks between graduates/young professionals from three domains. For this reason, we collected data by requiring participants to solve domain-specific (DOM-COR) and generic (GEN-COR) tasks in an authentic Internet-based COR performance assessment (CORA), allowing us to disentangle the assumed components of COR abilities. Here, we focus on GEN-COR to distinguish between different groups of graduates from the three disciplines in the context of generic COR tasks. We present a computational model for educationally relevant texts that combines features at multiple levels (lexical, syntactic, semantic). We use machine learning to predict domain-specific group membership based on documents consulted during task solving. A major contribution of our analyses is a multi-part text classification system that contrasts human annotation and rating of the documents used with a semi-automatic classification to predict the document type of web pages. That is, we work with competing classifications to support our findings. In this way, we develop a computational linguistic model that correlates GEN-COR abilities with properties of documents consulted for solving the GEN-COR tasks. Results show that participants from different domains indeed inquire different sets of online sources for the same task. Machine learning-based classifications show that the distributional differences can be reproduced by computational linguistic models.},
  pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/On_latent_domain-specific_textual_preferences_in_solving_Internet-based_generic_tasks_among_graduates__young_professionals_from_three_domains.pdf}
  }

• A. Lücking, M. Stoeckel, G. Abrami, and A. Mehler, “I still have Time(s): Extending HeidelTime for German Texts,” in Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marseille, France, 2022, pp. 4723-4728.
  [Abstract] [Poster][BibTeX]

  HeidelTime is one of the most widespread and successful tools for detecting temporal expressions in texts. Since HeidelTime’s pattern matching system is based on regular expression, it can be extended in a convenient way. We present such an extension for the German resources of HeidelTime: HeidelTimeExt. The extension has been brought about by means of observing false negatives within real world texts and various time banks. The gain in coverage is 2.7 \% or 8.5 \%, depending on the admitted degree of potential overgeneralization. We describe the development of HeidelTimeExt, its evaluation on text samples from various genres, and share some linguistic observations. HeidelTimeExt can be obtained from https://github.com/texttechnologylab/heideltime.

  @InProceedings{Luecking:Stoeckel:Abrami:Mehler:2022,
    Author         = {L\"{u}cking, Andy and Stoeckel, Manuel and Abrami, Giuseppe and Mehler, Alexander},
    title     = {I still have Time(s): Extending HeidelTime for German Texts},
    booktitle      = {Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
    month          = {June},
    year           = {2022},
    address        = {Marseille, France},
    publisher      = {European Language Resources Association},
    pages     = {4723--4728},
    abstract  = {HeidelTime is one of the most widespread and successful tools for detecting temporal expressions in texts. Since HeidelTime’s pattern matching system is based on regular expression, it can be extended in a convenient way. We present such an extension for the German resources of HeidelTime: HeidelTimeExt. The extension has been brought about by means of observing false negatives within real world texts and various time banks. The gain in coverage is 2.7 \% or 8.5 \%, depending on the admitted degree of potential overgeneralization. We describe the development of HeidelTimeExt, its evaluation on text samples from various genres, and share some linguistic observations. HeidelTimeExt can be obtained from https://github.com/texttechnologylab/heideltime.},
    poster   = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/HeidelTimeExt_LREC_2022.pdf},
    pdf    = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2022/pdf/2022.lrec-1.505.pdf}
  }

2021 (8)

• A. Lücking, J. Ginzburg, and R. Cooper, “Grammar in dialogue,” in Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: The handbook, S. Müller, A. Abeillé, R. D. Borsley, and J. Koenig, Eds., Berlin: Language Science Press, 2021, pp. 1155-1199.
  [BibTeX]

  @InCollection{Luecking:Ginzburg:Cooper:2021,
    author =     {L\"{u}cking, Andy and Ginzburg, Jonathan and Cooper,
                    Robin},
    year =     2021,
    title =     {Grammar in dialogue},
    chapter =     {26},
    pages =     {1155-1199},
    url =         {https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/259},
    editor =     {M{\"u}ller, Stefan and Abeill{\'e}, Anne and Borsley, Robert
                    D. and Koenig, Jean-Pierre},
    booktitle =     {{Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: The handbook}},
    year =     2021,
    series =     {Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and
                    Syntax},
    number =     9,
    address =     {Berlin},
    publisher =     {Language Science Press},
    doi =         {10.5281/zenodo.5543318}
  }

• A. Lücking, “Gesture,” in Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: The handbook, S. Müller, A. Abeillé, R. D. Borsley, and J. Koenig, Eds., Berlin: Language Science Press, 2021, pp. 1201-1250.
  [BibTeX]

  @InCollection{Luecking:2021,
    author =     {L\"{u}cking, Andy},
    title =     {Gesture},
    pages =     {1201-1250},
    chapter =     {27},
    url =         {https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/259},
    editor =     {M{\"u}ller, Stefan and Abeill{\'e}, Anne and Borsley, Robert
                    D. and Koenig, Jean-Pierre},
    booktitle =     {{Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: The handbook}},
    year =     2021,
    series =     {Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and
                    Syntax},
    number =     9,
    address =     {Berlin},
    publisher =     {Language Science Press},
    doi =         {10.5281/zenodo.5543318}
  }

• A. Lücking and J. Ginzburg, “Saying and shaking `No’,” in Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Online (Frankfurt/Main), Frankfurt/Main, 2021, pp. 283-299.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Luecking:Ginzburg:2021:a,
    author =     {L{\"u}cking, Andy and Ginzburg, Jonathan},
    title =     {Saying and shaking `No'},
    booktitle =     {{Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on
                    Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Online
                    (Frankfurt/Main)}},
    editor =     {M{\"u}ller, Stefan and Melnik, Nurit},
    issn =     {1535-1793},
    doi =         {10.21248/hpsg.2021.15},
    publisher =     {University Library},
    address =     {Frankfurt/Main},
    pages =     {283--299},
    year =     2021,
  }

• J. Ginzburg and A. Lücking, “Requesting clarifications with speech and gestures,” in Beyond Language: Multimodal Semantic Representations, 2021.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Ginzburg:Luecking:2021:a,
    title =     {Requesting clarifications with speech and gestures},
    author =     {Ginzburg, Jonathan and L{\"u}cking, Andy},
    booktitle =     {Beyond Language: Multimodal Semantic
                    Representations},
    series =     {MMSR I},
    year =     2021,
    location =     {Virtually at the University of Groningen, held in
                    conjuction with IWCS 2021},
    url =
                    {https://iwcs2021.github.io/proceedings/mmsr/pdf/2021.mmsr-1.3.pdf}
  }

• J. Ginzburg and A. Lücking, “I thought pointing is rude: A dialogue-semantic analysis of pointing at the addressee,” in Proceedings of \textitSinn und Bedeutung 25, 2021, pp. 276-291. Special Session: Gestures and Natural Language Semantics
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Ginzburg:Luecking:2021:b,
    author =     {Ginzburg, Jonathan and L{\"u}cking, Andy},
    title =     {I thought pointing is rude: {A} dialogue-semantic
                    analysis of pointing at the addressee},
    booktitle =     {Proceedings of \textit{Sinn und Bedeutung 25}},
    series =     {SuB 25},
    year =     2021,
    pages =     {276-291},
    editor =     {Grosz, Patrick and Mart{\'i}, Luisa and Pearson,
                    Hazel and Sudo, Yasutada and Zobel, Sarah},
    note =     {Special Session: Gestures and Natural Language
                    Semantics},
    location =     {University College London (Online)},
    url =
                    {https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/937}
  }

• A. Lücking, C. Driller, M. Stoeckel, G. Abrami, A. Pachzelt, and A. Mehler, “Multiple Annotation for Biodiversity: Developing an annotation framework among biology, linguistics and text technology,” Language Resources and Evaluation, 2021.
  [BibTeX]

  @Article{Luecking:et:al:2021,
    author =     {Andy Lücking and Christine Driller and Manuel
                    Stoeckel and Giuseppe Abrami and Adrian Pachzelt and
                    Alexander Mehler},
    year =     {2021},
    journal = {Language Resources and Evaluation},
    title =     {Multiple Annotation for Biodiversity: Developing an annotation framework among biology,
  linguistics and text technology},
    editor =     {Nancy Ide and Nicoletta Calzolari},
    doi = {10.1007/s10579-021-09553-5},
    pdf = {https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10579-021-09553-5.pdf}
  }

• G. Abrami, A. Henlein, A. Lücking, A. Kett, P. Adeberg, and A. Mehler, “Unleashing annotations with TextAnnotator: Multimedia, multi-perspective document views for ubiquitous annotation,” in Proceedings of the Seventeenth Joint ACL – ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-17), 2021.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Abrami:et:al:2021,
    Author         = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Henlein, Alexander and Lücking, Andy and Kett, Attila and Adeberg, Pascal and Mehler, Alexander},
    Title          = {Unleashing annotations with {TextAnnotator}: Multimedia, multi-perspective document views for ubiquitous annotation},
    BookTitle      = {Proceedings of the Seventeenth Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-17)},
    Series         = {ISA-17},
    location       = {Groningen, Netherlands},
    month     = {June},
    year           = {2021},
    pdf     = {https://iwcs2021.github.io/proceedings/isa/pdf/2021.isa-1.7.pdf}
  }

• A. Lücking, S. Brückner, G. Abrami, T. Uslu, and A. Mehler, “Computational linguistic assessment of textbooks and online texts by means of threshold concepts in economics,” Frontiers in Education, 2021.
  [BibTeX]

  @article{Luecking:Brueckner:Abrami:Uslu:Mehler:2021,
    journal =     {Frontiers in Education},
    doi =         {10.3389/feduc.2020.578475},
    title =     {Computational linguistic assessment of textbooks and 
                    online texts by means of threshold concepts in
                    economics},
    author =     {L{\"u}cking, Andy and Br{\"u}ckner, Sebastian and
                    Abrami, Giuseppe and Uslu, Tolga and Mehler,
                    Alexander},
    eid =         {578475},
    url =
                    {https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2020.578475/},
    year = {2021}
  }

2020 (4)

• A. Lücking, S. Brückner, G. Abrami, T. Uslu, and A. Mehler, “Computational linguistic assessment of textbook and online learning media by means of threshold concepts in business education,” CoRR, vol. abs/2008.02096, 2020.
  [BibTeX]

  @article{Luecking:et:al:2020,
    author    = {Andy L{\"{u}}cking and
                 Sebastian Br{\"{u}}ckner and
                 Giuseppe Abrami and
                 Tolga Uslu and
                 Alexander Mehler},
    title     = {Computational linguistic assessment of textbook and online learning
                 media by means of threshold concepts in business education},
    journal   = {CoRR},
    volume    = {abs/2008.02096},
    year      = {2020},
    url       = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02096},
    archivePrefix = {arXiv},
    eprint    = {2008.02096},
    timestamp = {Fri, 07 Aug 2020 15:07:21 +0200},
    biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/corr/abs-2008-02096.bib},
    bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
  }

• C. Driller, M. Koch, G. Abrami, W. Hemati, A. Lücking, A. Mehler, A. Pachzelt, and G. Kasperek, “Fast and Easy Access to Central European Biodiversity Data with BIOfid,” Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, vol. 4, p. e59157, 2020.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  The storage of data in public repositories such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) or the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is nowadays stipulated in the policies of many publishers in order to facilitate data replication or proliferation. Species occurrence records contained in legacy printed literature are no exception to this. The extent of their digital and machine-readable availability, however, is still far from matching the existing data volume (Thessen and Parr 2014). But precisely these data are becoming more and more relevant to the investigation of ongoing loss of biodiversity. In order to extract species occurrence records at a larger scale from available publications, one has to apply specialised text mining tools. However, such tools are in short supply especially for scientific literature in the German language.The Specialised Information Service Biodiversity Research*1 BIOfid (Koch et al. 2017) aims at reducing this desideratum, inter alia, by preparing a searchable text corpus semantically enriched by a new kind of multi-label annotation. For this purpose, we feed manual annotations into automatic, machine-learning annotators. This mixture of automatic and manual methods is needed, because BIOfid approaches a new application area with respect to language (mainly German of the 19th century), text type (biological reports), and linguistic focus (technical and everyday language).We will present current results of the performance of BIOfid’s semantic search engine and the application of independent natural language processing (NLP) tools. Most of these are freely available online, such as TextImager  (Hemati et al. 2016). We will show how TextImager is tied into the BIOfid pipeline and how it is made scalable (e.g. extendible by further modules) and usable on different systems (docker containers).Further, we will provide a short introduction to generating machine-learning training data using  TextAnnotator  (Abrami et al. 2019) for multi-label annotation. Annotation reproducibility can be assessed by the implementation of inter-annotator agreement methods (Abrami et al. 2020). Beyond taxon recognition and entity linking, we place particular emphasis on location and time information. For this purpose, our annotation tag-set combines general categories and biology-specific categories (including taxonomic names) with location and time ontologies. The application of the annotation categories is regimented by annotation guidelines (Lücking et al. 2020). Within the next years, our work deliverable will be a semantically accessible and data-extractable text corpus of around two million pages. In this way, BIOfid is creating a new valuable resource that expands our knowledge of biodiversity and its determinants.

  @article{Driller:et:al:2020,
    author = {Christine Driller and Markus Koch and Giuseppe Abrami and Wahed Hemati and Andy Lücking and Alexander Mehler and Adrian Pachzelt and Gerwin Kasperek},
    title = {Fast and Easy Access to Central European Biodiversity Data with BIOfid},
    volume = {4},
    number = {},
    year = {2020},
    doi = {10.3897/biss.4.59157},
    publisher = {Pensoft Publishers},
    abstract = {The storage of data in public repositories such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) or the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is nowadays stipulated in the policies of many publishers in order to facilitate data replication or proliferation. Species occurrence records contained in legacy printed literature are no exception to this. The extent of their digital and machine-readable availability, however, is still far from matching the existing data volume (Thessen and Parr 2014). But precisely these data are becoming more and more relevant to the investigation of ongoing loss of biodiversity. In order to extract species occurrence records at a larger scale from available publications, one has to apply specialised text mining tools. However, such tools are in short supply especially for scientific literature in the German language.The Specialised Information Service Biodiversity Research*1 BIOfid (Koch et al. 2017) aims at reducing this desideratum, inter alia, by preparing a searchable text corpus semantically enriched by a new kind of multi-label annotation. For this purpose, we feed manual annotations into automatic, machine-learning annotators. This mixture of automatic and manual methods is needed, because BIOfid approaches a new application area with respect to language (mainly German of the 19th century), text type (biological reports), and linguistic focus (technical and everyday language).We will present current results of the performance of BIOfid’s semantic search engine and the application of independent natural language processing (NLP) tools. Most of these are freely available online, such as TextImager  (Hemati et al. 2016). We will show how TextImager is tied into the BIOfid pipeline and how it is made scalable (e.g. extendible by further modules) and usable on different systems (docker containers).Further, we will provide a short introduction to generating machine-learning training data using  TextAnnotator  (Abrami et al. 2019) for multi-label annotation. Annotation reproducibility can be assessed by the implementation of inter-annotator agreement methods (Abrami et al. 2020). Beyond taxon recognition and entity linking, we place particular emphasis on location and time information. For this purpose, our annotation tag-set combines general categories and biology-specific categories (including taxonomic names) with location and time ontologies. The application of the annotation categories is regimented by annotation guidelines (Lücking et al. 2020). Within the next years, our work deliverable will be a semantically accessible and data-extractable text corpus of around two million pages. In this way, BIOfid is creating a new valuable resource that expands our knowledge of biodiversity and its determinants.},
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    pages = {e59157},
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    eprint = {https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.4.59157},
    journal = {Biodiversity Information Science and Standards}
  }

• J. Ginzburg and A. Lücking, “On Laughter and Forgetting and Reconversing: A neurologically-inspired model of conversational context,” in Proceedings of The 24th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 2020.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Ginzburg:Luecking:2020:a,
    author =     {Ginzburg, Jonathan and L{\"u}cking, Andy},
    title =     {On Laughter and Forgetting and Reconversing: A neurologically-inspired model of conversational context},
    booktitle =     {Proceedings of The 24th Workshop on the Semantics
                    and Pragmatics of Dialogue},
    series =     {SemDial/WatchDial},
    year =     2020,
    location =     {Brandeis University, Waltham (Watch City), MA},
    pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/dia-with-mem-semdial20.pdf}
  }

• A. Lücking and J. Ginzburg, “Towards the score of communication,” in Proceedings of The 24th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 2020.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Luecking:Ginzburg:2020,
    author =     {L{\"u}cking, Andy and Ginzburg, Jonathan},
    title =     {Towards the score of communication},
    booktitle =     {Proceedings of The 24th Workshop on the Semantics
                    and Pragmatics of Dialogue},
    series =     {SemDial/WatchDial},
    year =     2020,
    location =     {Brandeis University, Waltham (Watch City), MA},
    pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/comm-scores-semdial20.pdf}
  }

2019 (7)

• A. Lücking, “Dialogue semantics: From cognitive structures to positive and negative learning,” in Frontiers and Advances in Positive Learning in the Age of InformaTiOn (PLATO), O. Zlatkin-Troitschankskaia, Ed., Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019, pp. 197-205.
  [BibTeX]

  @InCollection{Luecking:2019:a,
    author =       {L\"{u}cking, Andy},
    title =        {Dialogue semantics: {From} cognitive structures to
                    positive and negative learning},
    year =         2019,
    pages =        {197-205},
    publisher =    {Springer Nature Switzerland AG},
    address =      {Cham, Switzerland},
    editor =       {Zlatkin-Troitschankskaia, Olga},
    booktitle =    {Frontiers and Advances in Positive Learning in the
                    Age of InformaTiOn (PLATO)},
    doi =          {10.1007/978-3-030-26578-6},
    url =
                    {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-26578-6_15}
  }

• A. Lücking and J. Ginzburg, “Not few but all quantifiers can be negated: towards a referentially transparent semantics of quantified noun phrases,” in Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium 2019, 2019, pp. 269-278.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Luecking:Ginzburg:2019,
    author =       {L{\"u}cking, Andy and Ginzburg, Jonathan},
    title =        {Not few but all quantifiers can be negated: towards
                    a referentially transparent semantics of quantified
                    noun phrases},
    booktitle =    {Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium 2019},
    series =       {AC'19},
    location =     {University of Amsterdam},
    year =         2019,
    pages =        {269-278},
    url =          {http://events.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2019/},
    pdf =
                    {http://events.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2019/uploaded_files/inlineitem/L_cking_and_Ginzburg_Not_few_but_all_quantifiers_ca.pdf}
  }

• A. Lücking, “Gesture,” in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: The handbook, S. Müller, A. Abeillé, R. D. Borsley, and J. Koenig, Eds., Berlin: Language Science Press, 2019.
  [BibTeX]

  @InCollection{Luecking:2019:b,
    keywords =     {own,bookchapter},
    author+an =    {1=highlight},
    author =       {L\"{u}cking, Andy},
    year =         2019,
    title =        {Gesture},
    editor =       {M\"{u}ller, Stefan and Abeill\'{e}, Anne and
                    Borsley, Robert D. and Koenig, Jean-Pierre},
    booktitle =    {{Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar}: {The}
                    handbook},
    address =      {Berlin},
    publisher =    {Language Science Press},
    pdf =
                    {https://hpsg.hu-berlin.de/Projects/HPSG-handbook/PDFs/gesture.pdf},
    url =          {https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/259}
  }

• A. Lücking, J. Ginzburg, and R. Cooper, “Grammar in dialogue,” in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: The handbook, S. Müller, A. Abeillé, R. D. Borsley, and J. Koenig, Eds., Berlin: Language Science Press, 2019.
  [BibTeX]

  @InCollection{Luecking:Ginzburg:Cooper:2019,
    keywords =     {own,bookchapter},
    author+an =    {1=highlight},
    author =       {L\"{u}cking, Andy and Ginzburg, Jonathan and Cooper,
                    Robin},
    year =         2019,
    title =        {Grammar in dialogue},
    editor =       {M\"{u}ller, Stefan and Abeill\'{e}, Anne and
                    Borsley, Robert D. and Koenig, Jean-Pierre},
    booktitle =    {{Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar}: {The}
                    handbook},
    address =      {Berlin},
    publisher =    {Language Science Press},
    pdf =
                    {https://hpsg.hu-berlin.de/Projects/HPSG-handbook/PDFs/dialogue.pdf},
    url =          {https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/259}
  }

• A. Lücking, R. Cooper, S. Larsson, and J. Ginzburg, “Distribution is not enough — Going Firther,” in Proceedings of Natural Language and Computer Science, 2019.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Luecking:Cooper:Larsson:Ginzburg:2019,
    author =     {Lücking, Andy and Cooper, Robin and Larsson, Staffan and Ginzburg, Jonathan},
    title =     {Distribution is not enough -- Going {Firther}},
    booktitle =     {Proceedings of Natural Language and Computer Science},
    maintitle =     {The 13th International Conference on Computational
                    Semantics (IWCS 2019)},
    series =     {NLCS 6},
    location =     {Gothenburg, Sweden},
    month =     {May},
    year =     2019,
   pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Distribution_is_not_enough.pdf}
  }

• G. Abrami, A. Mehler, A. Lücking, E. Rieb, and P. Helfrich, “TextAnnotator: A flexible framework for semantic annotations,” in Proceedings of the Fifteenth Joint ACL – ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, (ISA-15), 2019.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  Modern annotation tools should meet at least the following general requirements: they can handle diverse data and annotation levels within one tool, and they support the annotation process with automatic (pre-)processing outcomes as much as possible. We developed a framework that meets these general requirements and that enables versatile and browser-based annotations of texts, the TextAnnotator. It combines NLP methods of pre-processing with methods of flexible post-processing. Infact, machine learning (ML) requires a lot of training and test data, but is usually far from achieving perfect results. Producing high-level annotations for ML and post-correcting its results are therefore necessary. This is the purpose of TextAnnotator, which is entirely implemented in ExtJS and provides a range of interactive visualizations of annotations. In addition, it allows for flexibly integrating knowledge resources, e.g. in the course of post-processing named entity recognition. The paper describes TextAnnotator’s architecture together with three use cases: annotating temporal structures, argument structures and named entity linking.

  @InProceedings{Abrami:et:al:2019,
    Author         = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Mehler, Alexander and Lücking, Andy and Rieb, Elias and Helfrich, Philipp},
    Title          = {{TextAnnotator}: A flexible framework for semantic annotations},
    BookTitle      = {Proceedings of the Fifteenth Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, (ISA-15)},
    Series         = {ISA-15},
    location       = {Gothenburg, Sweden},
    month     = {May},
    pdf      = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/TextAnnotator_IWCS_Göteborg.pdf},
    year           = 2019,
    abstract   ="Modern annotation tools should meet at least the following general requirements: they can handle diverse data and annotation levels within one tool, and they support the annotation process with automatic (pre-)processing outcomes as much as possible. We developed a framework that meets these general requirements and that enables versatile and browser-based annotations of texts, the TextAnnotator. It combines NLP methods of pre-processing with methods of flexible post-processing. Infact, machine learning (ML) requires a lot of training and test data, but is usually far from achieving perfect results. Producing high-level annotations for ML and post-correcting its results are therefore necessary. This is the purpose of TextAnnotator, which is entirely implemented in ExtJS and provides a range of interactive visualizations of annotations. In addition, it allows for flexibly integrating knowledge resources, e.g. in the course of post-processing named entity recognition. The paper describes TextAnnotator’s architecture together with three use cases: annotating temporal structures, argument structures and named entity linking."
  }

• R. Gleim, S. Eger, A. Mehler, T. Uslu, W. Hemati, A. Lücking, A. Henlein, S. Kahlsdorf, and A. Hoenen, “A practitioner’s view: a survey and comparison of lemmatization and morphological tagging in German and Latin,” Journal of Language Modeling, 2019.
  [BibTeX]

  @article{Gleim:Eger:Mehler:2019,
    author    = {Gleim, R\"{u}diger and Eger, Steffen and Mehler, Alexander and Uslu, Tolga and Hemati, Wahed and L\"{u}cking, Andy and Henlein, Alexander and Kahlsdorf, Sven and Hoenen, Armin},
    title     = {A practitioner's view: a survey and comparison of lemmatization and morphological tagging in German and Latin},
    journal   = {Journal of Language Modeling},
    year      = {2019},
    pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/jlm-tagging.pdf},
    doi = {10.15398/jlm.v7i1.205},
    url = {http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/205} 
  }

2018 (6)

• A. Lücking, “Witness-loaded and Witness-free Demonstratives,” in Atypical Demonstratives, M. Coniglio, A. Murphy, E. Schlachter, and T. Veenstra, Eds., De Gruyter, 2018.
  [BibTeX]

  @InCollection{Luecking:2018:a,
    author =     {Andy L\"{u}cking},
    title =     {Witness-loaded and Witness-free Demonstratives},
    booktitle =     {Atypical Demonstratives},
    publisher =     {De Gruyter},
    year =     2018,
    editor =     {Marco Coniglio and Andrew Murphy and Eva Schlachter
                    and Tonjes Veenstra},
    isbn =     {978-3-11-056029-9},
   url={https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/495228},
    pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Luecking-witness-loading-rg.pdf}
  
  }

• A. Lücking and J. Ginzburg, “`Most people but not Bill’: integrating sets, individuals and negation into a cognitively plausible account of noun phrase interpretation,” in Proceedings of Cognitive Structures: Linguistic, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives, 2018.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Luecking:Ginzburg:2018,
    title =        {`Most people but not {Bill}': integrating sets,
                    individuals and negation into a cognitively
                    plausible account of noun phrase interpretation},
    booktitle =    {Proceedings of Cognitive Structures: Linguistic,
                    Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives},
    series =       {CoSt'18},
    author =       {L\"{u}cking, Andy and Ginzburg, Jonathan},
    year =         2018
  }

• A. Mehler, W. Hemati, T. Uslu, and A. Lücking, “A Multidimensional Model of Syntactic Dependency Trees for Authorship Attribution,” in Quantitative analysis of dependency structures, J. Jiang and H. Liu, Eds., Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2018.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  Abstract: In this chapter we introduce a multidimensional model of syntactic dependency trees. Our ultimate goal is to generate fingerprints of such trees to predict the author of the underlying sentences. The chapter makes a first attempt to create such fingerprints for sentence categorization via the detour of text categorization. We show that at text level, aggregated dependency structures actually provide information about authorship. At the same time, we show that this does not hold for topic detection. We evaluate our model using a quarter of a million sentences collected in two corpora: the first is sampled from literary texts, the second from Wikipedia articles. As a second finding of our approach, we show that quantitative models of dependency structure do not yet allow for detecting syntactic alignment in written communication. We conclude that this is mainly due to effects of lexical alignment on syntactic alignment.

  @InCollection{Mehler:Hemati:Uslu:Luecking:2018,
    Author         = {Alexander Mehler and Wahed Hemati and Tolga Uslu and
                     Andy Lücking},
    Title          = {A Multidimensional Model of Syntactic Dependency Trees
                     for Authorship Attribution},
    BookTitle      = {Quantitative analysis of dependency structures},
    Publisher      = {De Gruyter},
    Editor         = {Jingyang Jiang and Haitao Liu},
    Address        = {Berlin/New York},
    abstract       = {Abstract: In this chapter we introduce a
  multidimensional model of syntactic dependency trees.
  Our ultimate goal is to generate fingerprints of such
  trees to predict the author of the underlying
  sentences. The chapter makes a first attempt to create
  such fingerprints for sentence categorization via the
  detour of text categorization. We show that at text
  level, aggregated dependency structures actually
  provide information about authorship. At the same time,
  we show that this does not hold for topic detection. We
  evaluate our model using a quarter of a million
  sentences collected in two corpora: the first is
  sampled from literary texts, the second from Wikipedia
  articles. As a second finding of our approach, we show
  that quantitative models of dependency structure do not
  yet allow for detecting syntactic alignment in written
  communication. We conclude that this is mainly due to
  effects of lexical alignment on syntactic alignment.},
    keywords       = {Dependency structure, Authorship attribution, Text
                     categorization, Syntactic Alignment},
    year           = 2018
  }

• A. Mehler, R. Gleim, A. Lücking, T. Uslu, and C. Stegbauer, “On the Self-similarity of Wikipedia Talks: a Combined Discourse-analytical and Quantitative Approach,” Glottometrics, vol. 40, pp. 1-44, 2018.
  [BibTeX]

  @Article{Mehler:Gleim:Luecking:Uslu:Stegbauer:2018,
    Author         = {Alexander Mehler and Rüdiger Gleim and Andy Lücking
                     and Tolga Uslu and Christian Stegbauer},
    Title          = {On the Self-similarity of {Wikipedia} Talks: a
                     Combined Discourse-analytical and Quantitative Approach},
    Journal        = {Glottometrics},
    Volume         = {40},
    Pages          = {1-44},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Glottometrics-Mehler.pdf},
    year           = 2018
  }

• P. Helfrich, E. Rieb, G. Abrami, A. Lücking, and A. Mehler, “TreeAnnotator: Versatile Visual Annotation of Hierarchical Text Relations,” in Proceedings of the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, May 7 – 12, Miyazaki, Japan, 2018.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Helfrich:et:al:2018,
    Author         = {Philipp Helfrich and Elias Rieb and Giuseppe Abrami
                     and Andy L{\"u}cking and Alexander Mehler},
    Title          = {TreeAnnotator: Versatile Visual Annotation of
                     Hierarchical Text Relations},
    BookTitle      = {Proceedings of the 11th edition of the Language
                     Resources and Evaluation Conference, May 7 - 12},
    Series         = {LREC 2018},
    Address        = {Miyazaki, Japan},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/TreeAnnotator.pdf},
    year           = 2018
  }

• A. Mehler, O. Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, W. Hemati, D. Molerov, A. Lücking, and S. Schmidt, “Integrating Computational Linguistic Analysis of Multilingual Learning Data and Educational Measurement Approaches to Explore Learning in Higher Education,” in Positive Learning in the Age of Information: A Blessing or a Curse?, O. Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, G. Wittum, and A. Dengel, Eds., Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2018, pp. 145-193.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  This chapter develops a computational linguistic model for analyzing and comparing multilingual data as well as its application to a large body of standardized assessment data from higher education. The approach employs both an automatic and a manual annotation of the data on several linguistic layers (including parts of speech, text structure and content). Quantitative features of the textual data are explored that are related to both the students' (domain-specific knowledge) test results and their level of academic experience. The respective analysis involves statistics of distance correlation, text categorization with respect to text types (questions and response options) as well as languages (English and German), and network analysis to assess dependencies between features. The correlation between correct test results of students and linguistic features of the verbal presentations of tests indicate to what extent language influences higher education test performance. It has also been found that this influence relates to specialized language. Thus, this integrative modeling approach contributes a test basis for a large-scale analysis of learning data and points to a number of subsequent, more detailed research questions.

  @inbook{Mehler:et:al:2018,
    abstract = "This chapter develops a computational linguistic model for analyzing and comparing multilingual data as well as its application to a large body of standardized assessment data from higher education. The approach employs both an automatic and a manual annotation of the data on several linguistic layers (including parts of speech, text structure and content). Quantitative features of the textual data are explored that are related to both the students' (domain-specific knowledge) test results and their level of academic experience. The respective analysis involves statistics of distance correlation, text categorization with respect to text types (questions and response options) as well as languages (English and German), and network analysis to assess dependencies between features. The correlation between correct test results of students and linguistic features of the verbal presentations of tests indicate to what extent language influences higher education test performance. It has also been found that this influence relates to specialized language. Thus, this integrative modeling approach contributes a test basis for a large-scale analysis of learning data and points to a number of subsequent, more detailed research questions.",
    address = "Wiesbaden",
    author = "Mehler, Alexander and Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga and Hemati, Wahed and Molerov, Dimitri and L{\"u}cking, Andy and Schmidt, Susanne",
    booktitle = "Positive Learning in the Age of Information: A Blessing or a Curse?",
    doi = "10.1007/978-3-658-19567-0_10",
    editor = "Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga and Wittum, Gabriel and Dengel, Andreas",
    isbn = "978-3-658-19567-0",
    pages = "145--193",
    publisher = "Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden",
    title = "Integrating Computational Linguistic Analysis of Multilingual Learning Data and Educational Measurement Approaches to Explore Learning in Higher Education",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19567-0_10",
    year = "2018"
  }

2017 (2)

• A. Mehler and A. Lücking, “Modelle sozialer Netzwerke und Natural Language Processing: eine methodologische Randnotiz,” Soziologie, vol. 46, iss. 1, pp. 43-47, 2017.
  [BibTeX]

  @Article{Mehler:Luecking:2017,
    Author         = {Alexander Mehler and Andy Lücking},
    Title          = {Modelle sozialer Netzwerke und Natural Language
                     Processing: eine methodologische Randnotiz},
    Journal        = {Soziologie},
    Volume         = {46},
    Number         = {1},
    Pages          = {43-47},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Soziologe-NetzwerkeundNLP.pdf},
    year           = 2017
  }

• A. Lücking, “Indexicals as Weak Descriptors,” in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Semantics, Montpellier (France), 2017.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Luecking:2017:c,
    Author         = {L\"{u}cking, Andy},
    Title          = {Indexicals as Weak Descriptors},
    BookTitle      = {Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on
                     Computational Semantics},
    Series         = {IWCS 2017},
    Address        = {Montpellier (France)},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/descriptive-indexicals_rev.pdf},
    year           = 2017
  }

2016 (3)

• A. Lücking, “Modeling Co-Verbal Gesture Perception in Type Theory with Records,” in Proceedings of the 2016 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, Gdansk, Poland, 2016, pp. 383-392. Best Paper Award
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Luecking:2016:b,
    Author         = {L\"{u}cking, Andy},
    Title          = {Modeling Co-Verbal Gesture Perception in Type Theory
                     with Records},
    BookTitle      = {Proceedings of the 2016 Federated Conference on
                     Computer Science and Information Systems},
    Editor         = {M. Ganzha and L. Maciaszek and M. Paprzycki},
    Volume         = {8},
    Series         = {Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems},
    Pages          = {383-392},
    Address        = {Gdansk, Poland},
    Publisher      = {IEEE},
    Note           = {Best Paper Award},
    doi            = {10.15439/2016F83},
    pdf            = {http://annals-csis.org/Volume_8/pliks/83.pdf},
    url            = {http://annals-csis.org/Volume_8/drp/83.html},
    year           = 2016
  }

• A. Lücking, A. Mehler, D. Walther, M. Mauri, and D. Kurfürst, “Finding Recurrent Features of Image Schema Gestures: the FIGURE corpus,” in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2016.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Luecking:Mehler:Walther:Mauri:Kurfuerst:2016,
    Author         = {L\"{u}cking, Andy and Mehler, Alexander and Walther,
                     D\'{e}sir\'{e}e and Mauri, Marcel and Kurf\"{u}rst,
                     Dennis},
    Title          = {Finding Recurrent Features of Image Schema Gestures:
                     the {FIGURE} corpus},
    BookTitle      = {Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on
                     Language Resources and Evaluation},
    Series         = {LREC 2016},
    location       = {Portoro\v{z} (Slovenia)},
    pdf            = {http://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/lrec2016-gesture-study-final-version-short.pdf},
    year           = 2016
  }

• A. Lücking, A. Hoenen, and A. Mehler, “TGermaCorp — A (Digital) Humanities Resource for (Computational) Linguistics,” in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2016.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Luecking:Hoenen:Mehler:2016,
    Author         = {L\"{u}cking, Andy and Hoenen, Armin and Mehler,
                     Alexander},
    Title          = {{TGermaCorp} -- A (Digital) Humanities Resource for
                     (Computational) Linguistics},
    BookTitle      = {Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on
                     Language Resources and Evaluation},
    Series         = {LREC 2016},
    islrn          = {536-382-801-278-5},
    location       = {Portoro\v{z} (Slovenia)},
    pdf            = {http://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/lrec2016-ttgermacorp-final.pdf},
    year           = 2016
  }

2015 (1)

• A. Lücking, T. Pfeiffer, and H. Rieser, “Pointing and Reference Reconsidered,” Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 77, pp. 56-79, 2015.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  Current semantic theory on indexical expressions claims that demonstratively used indexicals such as this lack a referent-determining meaning but instead rely on an accompanying demonstration act like a pointing gesture. While this view allows to set up a sound logic of demonstratives, the direct-referential role assigned to pointing gestures has never been scrutinized thoroughly in semantics or pragmatics. We investigate the semantics and pragmatics of co-verbal pointing from a foundational perspective combining experiments, statistical investigation, computer simulation and theoretical modeling techniques in a novel manner. We evaluate various referential hypotheses with a corpus of object identification games set up in experiments in which body movement tracking techniques have been extensively used to generate precise pointing measurements. Statistical investigation and computer simulations show that especially distal areas in the pointing domain falsify the semantic direct-referential hypotheses concerning pointing gestures. As an alternative, we propose that reference involving pointing rests on a default inference which we specify using the empirical data. These results raise numerous problems for classical semantics–pragmatics interfaces: we argue for pre-semantic pragmatics in order to account for inferential reference in addition to classical post-semantic Gricean pragmatics.

  @Article{Luecking:Pfeiffer:Rieser:2015,
    Author         = {Lücking, Andy and Pfeiffer, Thies and Rieser, Hannes},
    Title          = {Pointing and Reference Reconsidered},
    Journal        = {Journal of Pragmatics},
    Volume         = {77},
    Pages          = {56-79},
    abstract       = {Current semantic theory on indexical expressions
  claims that demonstratively used indexicals such as
  this lack a referent-determining meaning but instead
  rely on an accompanying demonstration act like a
  pointing gesture. While this view allows to set up a
  sound logic of demonstratives, the direct-referential
  role assigned to pointing gestures has never been
  scrutinized thoroughly in semantics or pragmatics. We
  investigate the semantics and pragmatics of co-verbal
  pointing from a foundational perspective combining
  experiments, statistical investigation, computer
  simulation and theoretical modeling techniques in a
  novel manner. We evaluate various referential
  hypotheses with a corpus of object identification games
  set up in experiments in which body movement tracking
  techniques have been extensively used to generate
  precise pointing measurements. Statistical
  investigation and computer simulations show that
  especially distal areas in the pointing domain falsify
  the semantic direct-referential hypotheses concerning
  pointing gestures. As an alternative, we propose that
  reference involving pointing rests on a default
  inference which we specify using the empirical data.
  These results raise numerous problems for classical
  semantics–pragmatics interfaces: we argue for
  pre-semantic pragmatics in order to account for
  inferential reference in addition to classical
  post-semantic Gricean pragmatics.},
    doi            = {10.1016/j.pragma.2014.12.013},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Luecking_Pfeiffer_Rieser_Pointing_and_Reference_Reconsiderd.pdf},
    website        = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037821661500003X},
    year           = 2015
  }

2014 (2)

• A. Mehler, T. vor der Brück, and A. Lücking, “Comparing Hand Gesture Vocabularies for HCI,” in Proceedings of HCI International 2014, 22 – 27 June 2014, Heraklion, Greece, Berlin/New York: Springer, 2014.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  HCI systems are often equipped with gestural interfaces drawing on a predefined set of admitted gestures. We provide an assessment of the fitness of such gesture vocabularies in terms of their learnability and naturalness. This is done by example of rivaling gesture vocabularies of the museum information system WikiNect. In this way, we do not only provide a procedure for evaluating gesture vocabularies, but additionally contribute to design criteria to be followed by the gestures.

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    Author         = {Mehler, Alexander and vor der Brück, Tim and
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    Title          = {Comparing Hand Gesture Vocabularies for HCI},
    BookTitle      = {Proceedings of HCI International 2014, 22 - 27 June
                     2014, Heraklion, Greece},
    Publisher      = {Springer},
    Address        = {Berlin/New York},
    abstract       = {HCI systems are often equipped with gestural
  interfaces drawing on a predefined set of admitted
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  such gesture vocabularies in terms of their
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  of rivaling gesture vocabularies of the museum
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  only provide a procedure for evaluating gesture
  vocabularies, but additionally contribute to design
  criteria to be followed by the gestures.},
    keywords       = {wikinect},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Comparing-Gesture-Vocabularies-1_1.pdf},
    website        = {{http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-07230-2_8#page-1}},
    year           = 2014
  }

• A. Mehler, A. Lücking, and G. Abrami, “WikiNect: Image Schemata as a Basis of Gestural Writing for Kinetic Museum Wikis,” Universal Access in the Information Society, pp. 1-17, 2014.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  This paper provides a theoretical assessment of gestures in the context of authoring image-related hypertexts by example of the museum information system WikiNect. To this end, a first implementation of gestural writing based on image schemata is provided (Lakoff in Women, fire, and dangerous things: what categories reveal about the mind. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1987). Gestural writing is defined as a sort of coding in which propositions are only expressed by means of gestures. In this respect, it is shown that image schemata allow for bridging between natural language predicates and gestural manifestations. Further, it is demonstrated that gestural writing primarily focuses on the perceptual level of image descriptions (Hollink et al. in Int J Hum Comput Stud 61(5):601–626, 2004). By exploring the metaphorical potential of image schemata, it is finally illustrated how to extend the expressiveness of gestural writing in order to reach the conceptual level of image descriptions. In this context, the paper paves the way for implementing museum information systems like WikiNect as systems of kinetic hypertext authoring based on full-fledged gestural writing.

  @Article{Mehler:Luecking:Abrami:2014,
    Author         = {Mehler, Alexander and Lücking, Andy and Abrami,
                     Giuseppe},
    Title          = {{WikiNect}: Image Schemata as a Basis of Gestural
                     Writing for Kinetic Museum Wikis},
    Journal        = {Universal Access in the Information Society},
    Pages          = {1-17},
    abstract       = {This paper provides a theoretical assessment of
  gestures in the context of authoring image-related
  hypertexts by example of the museum information system
  WikiNect. To this end, a first implementation of
  gestural writing based on image schemata is provided
  (Lakoff in Women, fire, and dangerous things: what
  categories reveal about the mind. University of Chicago
  Press, Chicago, 1987). Gestural writing is defined as a
  sort of coding in which propositions are only expressed
  by means of gestures. In this respect, it is shown that
  image schemata allow for bridging between natural
  language predicates and gestural manifestations.
  Further, it is demonstrated that gestural writing
  primarily focuses on the perceptual level of image
  descriptions (Hollink et al. in Int J Hum Comput Stud
  61(5):601–626, 2004). By exploring the metaphorical
  potential of image schemata, it is finally illustrated
  how to extend the expressiveness of gestural writing in
  order to reach the conceptual level of image
  descriptions. In this context, the paper paves the way
  for implementing museum information systems like
  WikiNect as systems of kinetic hypertext authoring
  based on full-fledged gestural writing.},
    doi            = {10.1007/s10209-014-0386-8},
    issn           = {1615-5289},
    keywords       = {wikinect},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/art_10.1007_s10209-014-0386-8.pdf},
    website        = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10209-014-0386-8},
    year           = 2014
  }

2013 (8)

• A. Mehler, A. Lücking, T. vor der Brück, and G. Abrami, WikiNect – A Kinetic Artwork Wiki for Exhibition Visitors, 2013.
  [Poster][BibTeX]

  @Misc{Mehler:Luecking:vor:der:Brueck:2013:a,
    Author         = {Mehler, Alexander and Lücking, Andy and vor der
                     Brück, Tim and Abrami, Giuseppe},
    Title          = {WikiNect - A Kinetic Artwork Wiki for Exhibition
                     Visitors},
    HowPublished   = {Poster Presentation at the Scientific Computing and
                     Cultural Heritage 2013 Conference, Heidelberg},
    keywords       = {wikinect},
    month          = {11},
    poster         = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SCCHPoster2013.pdf},
    url            = {http://scch2013.wordpress.com/},
    year           = 2013
  }

• A. Lücking, Theoretische Bausteine für einen semiotischen Ansatz zum Einsatz von Gestik in der Aphasietherapie, 2013.
  [BibTeX]

  @Misc{Luecking:2013:c,
    Author         = {Lücking, Andy},
    Title          = {Theoretische Bausteine für einen semiotischen Ansatz
                     zum Einsatz von Gestik in der Aphasietherapie},
    HowPublished   = {Talk at the BKL workshop 2013, Bochum},
    month          = {05},
    url            = {http://www.bkl-ev.de/bkl_workshop/archiv/workshop13_programm.php},
    year           = 2013
  }

• A. Lücking, Eclectic Semantics for Non-Verbal Signs, 2013.
  [BibTeX]

  @Misc{Luecking:2013:d,
    Author         = {Lücking, Andy},
    Title          = {Eclectic Semantics for Non-Verbal Signs},
    HowPublished   = {Talk at the Conference on Investigating semantics:
                     Empirical and philosophical approaches, Bochum},
    month          = {10},
    url            = {http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/investigating/index.html},
    year           = 2013
  }

• A. Lücking, “Multimodal Propositions? From Semiotic to Semantic Considerations in the Case of Gestural Deictics,” in Poster Abstracts of the Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Amsterdam, 2013, pp. 221-223.
  [Poster][BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Luecking:2013:e,
    Author         = {Lücking, Andy},
    Title          = {Multimodal Propositions? From Semiotic to Semantic
                     Considerations in the Case of Gestural Deictics},
    BookTitle      = {Poster Abstracts of the Proceedings of the 17th
                     Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue},
    Editor         = {Fernandez, Raquel and Isard, Amy},
    Series         = {SemDial 2013},
    Pages          = {221-223},
    Address        = {Amsterdam},
    month          = {12},
    poster         = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/dialdam2013.pdf},
    year           = 2013
  }

• A. Lücking and A. Mehler, “On Three Notions of Grounding of Artificial Dialog Companions,” Science, Technology & Innovation Studies, vol. 10, iss. 1, pp. 31-36, 2013.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  We provide a new, theoretically motivated evaluation                    grid for assessing the conversational achievements of                    Artificial Dialog Companions (ADCs). The grid is                    spanned along three grounding problems. Firstly, it is                    argued that symbol grounding in general has to be                    instrinsic. Current approaches in this context,                    however, are limited to a certain kind of expression                    that can be grounded in this way. Secondly, we identify                    three requirements for conversational grounding, the                    process leading to mutual understanding. Finally, we                    sketch a test case for symbol grounding in the form of                    the philosophical grounding problem that involves the                    use of modal language. Together, the three grounding                    problems provide a grid that allows us to assess                    ADCs’ dialogical performances and to pinpoint future                    developments on these grounds.

  @Article{Luecking:Mehler:2013:a,
    Author         = {Lücking, Andy and Mehler, Alexander},
    Title          = {On Three Notions of Grounding of Artificial Dialog
                     Companions},
    Journal        = {Science, Technology \& Innovation Studies},
    Volume         = {10},
    Number         = {1},
    Pages          = {31-36},
    abstract       = {We provide a new, theoretically motivated evaluation
                     grid for assessing the conversational achievements of
                     Artificial Dialog Companions (ADCs). The grid is
                     spanned along three grounding problems. Firstly, it is
                     argued that symbol grounding in general has to be
                     instrinsic. Current approaches in this context,
                     however, are limited to a certain kind of expression
                     that can be grounded in this way. Secondly, we identify
                     three requirements for conversational grounding, the
                     process leading to mutual understanding. Finally, we
                     sketch a test case for symbol grounding in the form of
                     the philosophical grounding problem that involves the
                     use of modal language. Together, the three grounding
                     problems provide a grid that allows us to assess
                     ADCs’ dialogical performances and to pinpoint future
                     developments on these grounds.},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/STI-final-badge.pdf},
    website        = {http://www.sti-studies.de/ojs/index.php/sti/article/view/143},
    year           = 2013
  }

• A. Lücking, “Interfacing Speech and Co-Verbal Gesture: Exemplification,” in Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society, Potsdam, Germany, 2013, pp. 284-286.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Luecking:2013:b,
    Author         = {Lücking, Andy},
    Title          = {Interfacing Speech and Co-Verbal Gesture:
                     Exemplification},
    BookTitle      = {Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the
                     German Linguistic Society},
    Series         = {DGfS 2013},
    Pages          = {284-286},
    Address        = {Potsdam, Germany},
    year           = 2013
  }

• A. Lücking, Ikonische Gesten. Grundzüge einer linguistischen Theorie, Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2013. Zugl. Diss. Univ. Bielefeld (2011)
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  Nicht-verbale Zeichen, insbesondere sprachbegleitende                    Gesten, spielen eine herausragende Rolle in der                    menschlichen Kommunikation. Um eine Analyse von Gestik                    innerhalb derjenigen Disziplinen, die sich mit der                    Erforschung und Modellierung von Dialogen                    beschäftigen, zu ermöglichen, bedarf es einer                    entsprechenden linguistischen Rahmentheorie.                    „Ikonische Gesten“ bietet einen ersten zeichen- und                    wahrnehmungstheoretisch motivierten Rahmen an, in dem                    eine grammatische Analyse der Integration von Sprache                    und Gestik möglich ist. Ausgehend von einem Abriss                    semiotischer Zugänge zu ikonischen Zeichen wird der                    vorherrschende Ähnlichkeitsansatz unter Rückgriff                    auf Wahrnehmungstheorien zugunsten eines                    Exemplifikationsansatzes verworfen. Exemplifikation                    wird im Rahmen einer unifikationsbasierten Grammatik                    umgesetzt. Dort werden u.a. multimodale                    Wohlgeformtheit, Synchronie und multimodale                    Subkategorisierung als neue Gegenstände                    linguistischer Forschung eingeführt und im Rahmen                    einer integrativen Analyse von Sprache und Gestik                    modelliert.

  @Book{Luecking:2013,
    Author         = {Lücking, Andy},
    Title          = {Ikonische Gesten. Grundzüge einer linguistischen
                     Theorie},
    Publisher      = {De Gruyter},
    Address        = {Berlin and Boston},
    Note           = {Zugl. Diss. Univ. Bielefeld (2011)},
    abstract       = {Nicht-verbale Zeichen, insbesondere sprachbegleitende
                     Gesten, spielen eine herausragende Rolle in der
                     menschlichen Kommunikation. Um eine Analyse von Gestik
                     innerhalb derjenigen Disziplinen, die sich mit der
                     Erforschung und Modellierung von Dialogen
                     besch{\"a}ftigen, zu ermöglichen, bedarf es einer
                     entsprechenden linguistischen Rahmentheorie.
                     „Ikonische Gesten“ bietet einen ersten zeichen- und
                     wahrnehmungstheoretisch motivierten Rahmen an, in dem
                     eine grammatische Analyse der Integration von Sprache
                     und Gestik möglich ist. Ausgehend von einem Abriss
                     semiotischer Zug{\"a}nge zu ikonischen Zeichen wird der
                     vorherrschende {\"A}hnlichkeitsansatz unter Rückgriff
                     auf Wahrnehmungstheorien zugunsten eines
                     Exemplifikationsansatzes verworfen. Exemplifikation
                     wird im Rahmen einer unifikationsbasierten Grammatik
                     umgesetzt. Dort werden u.a. multimodale
                     Wohlgeformtheit, Synchronie und multimodale
                     Subkategorisierung als neue Gegenst{\"a}nde
                     linguistischer Forschung eingeführt und im Rahmen
                     einer integrativen Analyse von Sprache und Gestik
                     modelliert.},
    image          = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ikonischeGesten.jpg},
    year           = 2013
  }

• A. Lücking, K. Bergman, F. Hahn, S. Kopp, and H. Rieser, “Data-based Analysis of Speech and Gesture: The Bielefeld Speech and Gesture Alignment Corpus (SaGA) and its Applications,” Journal of Multimodal User Interfaces, vol. 7, iss. 1-2, pp. 5-18, 2013.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  Communicating face-to-face, interlocutors frequently                    produce multimodal meaning packages consisting of                    speech and accompanying gestures. We discuss a                    systematically annotated speech and gesture corpus                    consisting of 25 route-and-landmark-description                    dialogues, the Bielefeld Speech and Gesture Alignment                    corpus (SaGA), collected in experimental face-to-face                    settings. We first describe the primary and secondary                    data of the corpus and its reliability assessment. Then                    we go into some of the projects carried out using SaGA                    demonstrating the wide range of its usability: on the                    empirical side, there is work on gesture typology,                    individual and contextual parameters influencing                    gesture production and gestures’ functions for                    dialogue structure. Speech-gesture interfaces have been                    established extending unification-based grammars. In                    addition, the development of a computational model of                    speech-gesture alignment and its implementation                    constitutes a research line we focus on.

  @Article{Luecking:Bergmann:Hahn:Kopp:Rieser:2012,
    Author         = {Lücking, Andy and Bergman, Kirsten and Hahn, Florian
                     and Kopp, Stefan and Rieser, Hannes},
    Title          = {Data-based Analysis of Speech and Gesture: The
                     Bielefeld Speech and Gesture Alignment Corpus (SaGA)
                     and its Applications},
    Journal        = {Journal of Multimodal User Interfaces},
    Volume         = {7},
    Number         = {1-2},
    Pages          = {5-18},
    abstract       = {Communicating face-to-face, interlocutors frequently
                     produce multimodal meaning packages consisting of
                     speech and accompanying gestures. We discuss a
                     systematically annotated speech and gesture corpus
                     consisting of 25 route-and-landmark-description
                     dialogues, the Bielefeld Speech and Gesture Alignment
                     corpus (SaGA), collected in experimental face-to-face
                     settings. We first describe the primary and secondary
                     data of the corpus and its reliability assessment. Then
                     we go into some of the projects carried out using SaGA
                     demonstrating the wide range of its usability: on the
                     empirical side, there is work on gesture typology,
                     individual and contextual parameters influencing
                     gesture production and gestures’ functions for
                     dialogue structure. Speech-gesture interfaces have been
                     established extending unification-based grammars. In
                     addition, the development of a computational model of
                     speech-gesture alignment and its implementation
                     constitutes a research line we focus on.},
    doi            = {10.1007/s12193-012-0106-8},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/MMUI-SaGA-revision2.pdf},
    website        = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/a547448u86h3116x/?MUD=MP},
    year           = 2013
  }

2012 (8)

• A. Mehler and A. Lücking, “Pathways of Alignment between Gesture and Speech: Assessing Information Transmission in Multimodal Ensembles,” in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Formal and Computational Approaches to Multimodal Communication under the auspices of ESSLLI 2012, Opole, Poland, 6-10 August, 2012.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  We present an empirical account of multimodal                    ensembles based on Hjelmslev’s notion of selection.                    This is done to get measurable evidence for the                    existence of speech-and-gesture ensembles. Utilizing                    information theory, we show that there is an                    information transmission that makes a gestures’                    representation technique predictable when merely                    knowing its lexical affiliate – in line with the                    notion of the primacy of language. Thus, there is                    evidence for a one-way coupling – going from words to                    gestures – that leads to speech-and-gesture alignment                    and underlies the constitution of multimodal ensembles.

  @InProceedings{Mehler:Luecking:2012:d,
    Author         = {Mehler, Alexander and Lücking, Andy},
    Title          = {Pathways of Alignment between Gesture and Speech:
                     Assessing Information Transmission in Multimodal
                     Ensembles},
    BookTitle      = {Proceedings of the International Workshop on Formal
                     and Computational Approaches to Multimodal
                     Communication under the auspices of ESSLLI 2012, Opole,
                     Poland, 6-10 August},
    Editor         = {Gianluca Giorgolo and Katya Alahverdzhieva},
    abstract       = {We present an empirical account of multimodal
                     ensembles based on Hjelmslev’s notion of selection.
                     This is done to get measurable evidence for the
                     existence of speech-and-gesture ensembles. Utilizing
                     information theory, we show that there is an
                     information transmission that makes a gestures’
                     representation technique predictable when merely
                     knowing its lexical affiliate – in line with the
                     notion of the primacy of language. Thus, there is
                     evidence for a one-way coupling – going from words to
                     gestures – that leads to speech-and-gesture alignment
                     and underlies the constitution of multimodal ensembles.},
    keywords       = {wikinect},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Mehler_Luecking_FoCoMC2012-2.pdf},
    website        = {http://www.researchgate.net/publication/268368670_Pathways_of_Alignment_between_Gesture_and_Speech_Assessing_Information_Transmission_in_Multimodal_Ensembles},
    year           = 2012
  }

• A. Lücking, “Towards a Conceptual, Unification-based Speech-Gesture Interface,” in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Formal and Computational Approaches to Multimodal Communication under the auspices of ESSLLI 2012, Opole, Poland, 6-10 August, 2012.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  A framework for grounding the semantics of co-verbal                    iconic gestures is presented. A resemblance account to                    iconicity is discarded in favor of an exemplification                    approach. It is sketched how exemplification can be                    captured within a unification-based grammar that                    provides a conceptual interface. Gestures modeled as                    vector sequences are the exemplificational base. Some                    hypotheses that follow from the general account are                    pointed at and remaining challenges are discussed.

  @InProceedings{Luecking:2012,
    Author         = {Lücking, Andy},
    Title          = {Towards a Conceptual, Unification-based Speech-Gesture
                     Interface},
    BookTitle      = {Proceedings of the International Workshop on Formal
                     and Computational Approaches to Multimodal
                     Communication under the auspices of ESSLLI 2012, Opole,
                     Poland, 6-10 August},
    Editor         = {Gianluca Giorgolo and Katya Alahverdzhieva},
    abstract       = {A framework for grounding the semantics of co-verbal
                     iconic gestures is presented. A resemblance account to
                     iconicity is discarded in favor of an exemplification
                     approach. It is sketched how exemplification can be
                     captured within a unification-based grammar that
                     provides a conceptual interface. Gestures modeled as
                     vector sequences are the exemplificational base. Some
                     hypotheses that follow from the general account are
                     pointed at and remaining challenges are discussed.},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/FoCoMoC2012-1.pdf},
    year           = 2012
  }

• A. Mehler and A. Lücking, “WikiNect: Towards a Gestural Writing System for Kinetic Museum Wikis,” in Proceedings of the International Workshop On User Experience in e-Learning and Augmented Technologies in Education (UXeLATE 2012) in Conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2012, 29 October- 2 November, Nara, Japan, 2012, pp. 7-12.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  We introduce WikiNect as a kinetic museum information                    system that allows museum visitors to give on-site                    feedback about exhibitions. To this end, WikiNect                    integrates three approaches to Human-Computer                    Interaction (HCI): games with a purpose, wiki-based                    collaborative writing and kinetic text-technologies.                    Our aim is to develop kinetic technologies as a new                    paradigm of HCI. They dispense with classical                    interfaces (e.g., keyboards) in that they build on                    non-contact modes of communication like gestures or                    facial expressions as input displays. In this paper, we                    introduce the notion of gestural writing as a kinetic                    text-technology that underlies WikiNect to enable                    museum visitors to communicate their feedback. The                    basic idea is to explore sequences of gestures that                    share the semantic expressivity of verbally manifested                    speech acts. Our task is to identify such gestures that                    are learnable on-site in the usage scenario of                    WikiNect. This is done by referring to so-called                    transient gestures as part of multimodal ensembles,                    which are candidate gestures of the desired                    functionality. 

  @InProceedings{Mehler:Luecking:2012:c,
    Author         = {Mehler, Alexander and Lücking, Andy},
    Title          = {WikiNect: Towards a Gestural Writing System for
                     Kinetic Museum Wikis},
    BookTitle      = {Proceedings of the International Workshop On User
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                     Education (UXeLATE 2012) in Conjunction with ACM
                     Multimedia 2012, 29 October- 2 November, Nara, Japan},
    Pages          = {7-12},
    abstract       = {We introduce WikiNect as a kinetic museum information
                     system that allows museum visitors to give on-site
                     feedback about exhibitions. To this end, WikiNect
                     integrates three approaches to Human-Computer
                     Interaction (HCI): games with a purpose, wiki-based
                     collaborative writing and kinetic text-technologies.
                     Our aim is to develop kinetic technologies as a new
                     paradigm of HCI. They dispense with classical
                     interfaces (e.g., keyboards) in that they build on
                     non-contact modes of communication like gestures or
                     facial expressions as input displays. In this paper, we
                     introduce the notion of gestural writing as a kinetic
                     text-technology that underlies WikiNect to enable
                     museum visitors to communicate their feedback. The
                     basic idea is to explore sequences of gestures that
                     share the semantic expressivity of verbally manifested
                     speech acts. Our task is to identify such gestures that
                     are learnable on-site in the usage scenario of
                     WikiNect. This is done by referring to so-called
                     transient gestures as part of multimodal ensembles,
                     which are candidate gestures of the desired
                     functionality. },
    keywords       = {wikinect},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/UXeLATE2012-copyright.pdf},
    website        = {http://www.researchgate.net/publication/262319200_WikiNect_towards_a_gestural_writing_system_for_kinetic_museum_wikis},
    year           = 2012
  }

• A. Lücking, S. Ptock, and K. Bergmann, “Assessing Agreement on Segmentations by Means of Staccato, the Segmentation Agreement Calculator according to Thomann,” in Gesture and Sign Language in Human-Computer Interaction and Embodied Communication, E. Efthimiou, G. Kouroupetroglou, and S. Fotina, Eds., Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer, 2012, vol. 7206, pp. 129-138.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  Staccato, the Segmentation Agreement Calculator                    According to Thomann , is a software tool for assessing                    the degree of agreement of multiple segmentations of                    some time-related data (e.g., gesture phases or sign                    language constituents). The software implements an                    assessment procedure developed by Bruno Thomann and                    will be made publicly available. The article discusses                    the rationale of the agreement assessment procedure and                    points at future extensions of Staccato.

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                     points at future extensions of Staccato.},
    booksubtitle   = {9th International Gesture Workshop, GW 2011, Athens,
                     Greece, May 2011, Revised Selected Papers},
    website        = {http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-34182-3_12},
    year           = 2012
  }

• A. Mehler, A. Lücking, and P. Menke, “Assessing Cognitive Alignment in Different Types of Dialog by means of a Network Model,” Neural Networks, vol. 32, pp. 159-164, 2012.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  We present a network model of dialog lexica, called                    TiTAN (Two-layer Time-Aligned Network) series. TiTAN                    series capture the formation and structure of dialog                    lexica in terms of serialized graph representations.                    The dynamic update of TiTAN series is driven by the                    dialog-inherent timing of turn-taking. The model                    provides a link between neural, connectionist                    underpinnings of dialog lexica on the one hand and                    observable symbolic behavior on the other. On the                    neural side, priming and spreading activation are                    modeled in terms of TiTAN networking. On the symbolic                    side, TiTAN series account for cognitive alignment in                    terms of the structural coupling of the linguistic                    representations of dialog partners. This structural                    stance allows us to apply TiTAN in machine learning of                    data of dialogical alignment. In previous studies, it                    has been shown that aligned dialogs can be                    distinguished from non-aligned ones by means of TiTAN                    -based modeling. Now, we simultaneously apply this                    model to two types of dialog: task-oriented,                    experimentally controlled dialogs on the one hand and                    more spontaneous, direction giving dialogs on the                    other. We ask whether it is possible to separate                    aligned dialogs from non-aligned ones in a                    type-crossing way. Starting from a recent experiment                    (Mehler, Lücking, & Menke, 2011a), we show that such                    a type-crossing classification is indeed possible. This                    hints at a structural fingerprint left by alignment in                    networks of linguistic items that are routinely                    co-activated during conversation.

  @Article{Mehler:Luecking:Menke:2012,
    Author         = {Mehler, Alexander and Lücking, Andy and Menke, Peter},
    Title          = {Assessing Cognitive Alignment in Different Types of
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    Journal        = {Neural Networks},
    Volume         = {32},
    Pages          = {159-164},
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                     other. We ask whether it is possible to separate
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                     hints at a structural fingerprint left by alignment in
                     networks of linguistic items that are routinely
                     co-activated during conversation.},
    doi            = {10.1016/j.neunet.2012.02.013},
    website        = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0893608012000421},
    year           = 2012
  }

• A. Lücking and T. Pfeiffer, “Framing Multimodal Technical Communication. With Focal Points in Speech-Gesture-Integration and Gaze Recognition,” in Handbook of Technical Communication, A. Mehler, L. Romary, and D. Gibbon, Eds., De Gruyter Mouton, 2012, vol. 8, pp. 591-644.
  [BibTeX]

  @InCollection{Luecking:Pfeiffer:2012,
    Author         = {Lücking, Andy and Pfeiffer, Thies},
    Title          = {Framing Multimodal Technical Communication. With Focal
                     Points in Speech-Gesture-Integration and Gaze
                     Recognition},
    BookTitle      = {Handbook of Technical Communication},
    Publisher      = {De Gruyter Mouton},
    Editor         = {Alexander Mehler and Laurent Romary and Dafydd Gibbon},
    Volume         = {8},
    Series         = {Handbooks of Applied Linguistics},
    Chapter        = {18},
    Pages          = {591-644},
    website        = {http://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9783110224948/9783110224948.591/9783110224948.591.xml},
    year           = 2012
  }

• P. Kubina, O. Abramov, and A. Lücking, “Barrier-free Communication,” in Handbook of Technical Communication, A. Mehler and L. Romary, Eds., Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2012, vol. 8, pp. 645-706.
  [BibTeX]

  @InCollection{Kubina:Abramov:Luecking:2012,
    Author         = {Kubina, Petra and Abramov, Olga and Lücking, Andy},
    Title          = {Barrier-free Communication},
    BookTitle      = {Handbook of Technical Communication},
    Publisher      = {De Gruyter Mouton},
    Editor         = {Alexander Mehler and Laurent Romary},
    Volume         = {8},
    Series         = {Handbooks of Applied Linguistics},
    Chapter        = {19},
    Pages          = {645-706},
    Address        = {Berlin and Boston},
    editora        = {Dafydd Gibbon},
    editoratype    = {collaborator},
    website        = {http://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9783110224948/9783110224948.645/9783110224948.645.xml},
    year           = 2012
  }

• A. Lücking and A. Mehler, “What’s the Scope of the Naming Game? Constraints on Semantic Categorization,” in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Kyoto, Japan, 2012, pp. 196-203.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  The Naming Game (NG) has become a vivid research                    paradigm for simulation studies on language evolution                    and the establishment of naming conventions. Recently,                    NGs were used for reconstructing the creation of                    linguistic categories, most notably for color terms. We                    recap the functional principle of NGs and the latter                    Categorization Games (CGs) and evaluate them in the                    light of semantic data of linguistic categorization                    outside the domain of colors. This comparison reveals                    two specifics of the CG paradigm: Firstly, the emerging                    categories draw basically on the predefined topology of                    the learning domain. Secondly, the kind of categories                    that can be learnt in CGs is bound to                    context-independent intersective categories. This                    suggests that the NG and the CG focus on a special                    aspect of natural language categorization, which                    disregards context-sensitive categories used in a                    non-compositional manner.

  @InProceedings{Luecking:Mehler:2012,
    Author         = {Lücking, Andy and Mehler, Alexander},
    Title          = {What's the Scope of the Naming Game? Constraints on
                     Semantic Categorization},
    BookTitle      = {Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the
                     Evolution of Language},
    Pages          = {196-203},
    Address        = {Kyoto, Japan},
    abstract       = {The Naming Game (NG) has become a vivid research
                     paradigm for simulation studies on language evolution
                     and the establishment of naming conventions. Recently,
                     NGs were used for reconstructing the creation of
                     linguistic categories, most notably for color terms. We
                     recap the functional principle of NGs and the latter
                     Categorization Games (CGs) and evaluate them in the
                     light of semantic data of linguistic categorization
                     outside the domain of colors. This comparison reveals
                     two specifics of the CG paradigm: Firstly, the emerging
                     categories draw basically on the predefined topology of
                     the learning domain. Secondly, the kind of categories
                     that can be learnt in CGs is bound to
                     context-independent intersective categories. This
                     suggests that the NG and the CG focus on a special
                     aspect of natural language categorization, which
                     disregards context-sensitive categories used in a
                     non-compositional manner.},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Evolang2012-AL_AM.pdf},
    url            = {http://kyoto.evolang.org/},
    website        = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267858061_WHAT'S_THE_SCOPE_OF_THE_NAMING_GAME_CONSTRAINTS_ON_SEMANTIC_CATEGORIZATION},
    year           = 2012
  }

2011 (6)

• A. Lücking and A. Mehler, “A Model of Complexity Levels of Meaning Constitution in Simulation Models of Language Evolution,” International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems, vol. 1, iss. 1, pp. 18-38, 2011.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  Currently, some simulative accounts exist within                    dynamic or evolutionary frameworks that are concerned                    with the development of linguistic categories within a                    population of language users. Although these studies                    mostly emphasize that their models are abstract, the                    paradigm categorization domain is preferably that of                    colors. In this paper, the authors argue that color                    adjectives are special predicates in both linguistic                    and metaphysical terms: semantically, they are                    intersective predicates, metaphysically, color                    properties can be empirically reduced onto purely                    physical properties. The restriction of categorization                    simulations to the color paradigm systematically leads                    to ignoring two ubiquitous features of natural language                    predicates, namely relativity and context-dependency.                    Therefore, the models for simulation models of                    linguistic categories are not able to capture the                    formation of categories like perspective-dependent                    predicates ‘left’ and ‘right’, subsective                    predicates like ‘small’ and ‘big’, or                    predicates that make reference to abstract objects like                    ‘I prefer this kind of situation’. The authors                    develop a three-dimensional grid of ascending                    complexity that is partitioned according to the                    semiotic triangle. They also develop a conceptual model                    in the form of a decision grid by means of which the                    complexity level of simulation models of linguistic                    categorization can be assessed in linguistic terms.

  @Article{Luecking:Mehler:2011,
    Author         = {Lücking, Andy and Mehler, Alexander},
    Title          = {A Model of Complexity Levels of Meaning Constitution
                     in Simulation Models of Language Evolution},
    Journal        = {International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems},
    Volume         = {1},
    Number         = {1},
    Pages          = {18-38},
    abstract       = {Currently, some simulative accounts exist within
                     dynamic or evolutionary frameworks that are concerned
                     with the development of linguistic categories within a
                     population of language users. Although these studies
                     mostly emphasize that their models are abstract, the
                     paradigm categorization domain is preferably that of
                     colors. In this paper, the authors argue that color
                     adjectives are special predicates in both linguistic
                     and metaphysical terms: semantically, they are
                     intersective predicates, metaphysically, color
                     properties can be empirically reduced onto purely
                     physical properties. The restriction of categorization
                     simulations to the color paradigm systematically leads
                     to ignoring two ubiquitous features of natural language
                     predicates, namely relativity and context-dependency.
                     Therefore, the models for simulation models of
                     linguistic categories are not able to capture the
                     formation of categories like perspective-dependent
                     predicates ‘left’ and ‘right’, subsective
                     predicates like ‘small’ and ‘big’, or
                     predicates that make reference to abstract objects like
                     ‘I prefer this kind of situation’. The authors
                     develop a three-dimensional grid of ascending
                     complexity that is partitioned according to the
                     semiotic triangle. They also develop a conceptual model
                     in the form of a decision grid by means of which the
                     complexity level of simulation models of linguistic
                     categorization can be assessed in linguistic terms.},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/luecking_mehler_article_IJSSS.pdf},
    year           = 2011
  }

• A. Lücking, S. Ptock, and K. Bergmann, “Staccato: Segmentation Agreement Calculator,” in Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human-Computer Interaction. Proceedings of the 9th International Gesture Workshop, Athens, Greece, 2011, pp. 50-53.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Luecking:Ptock:Bergmann:2011,
    Author         = {Lücking, Andy and Ptock, Sebastian and Bergmann,
                     Kirsten},
    Title          = {Staccato: Segmentation Agreement Calculator},
    BookTitle      = {Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human-Computer
                     Interaction. Proceedings of the 9th International
                     Gesture Workshop},
    Editor         = {Eleni Efthimiou and Georgios Kouroupetroglou},
    Series         = {GW 2011},
    Pages          = {50--53},
    Address        = {Athens, Greece},
    Publisher      = {National and Kapodistrian University of Athens},
    month          = {5},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/LueckingEA_final.pdf},
    year           = 2011
  }

• A. Mehler and A. Lücking, “A Graph Model of Alignment in Multilog,” in Proceedings of IEEE Africon 2011, Zambia, 2011.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Mehler:Luecking:2011,
    Author         = {Mehler, Alexander and Lücking, Andy},
    Title          = {A Graph Model of Alignment in Multilog},
    BookTitle      = {Proceedings of IEEE Africon 2011},
    Series         = {IEEE Africon},
    Address        = {Zambia},
    Organization   = {IEEE},
    month          = {9},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/africon2011-paper-Alexander_Mehler_Andy_Luecking.pdf},
    website        = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267941012_A_Graph_Model_of_Alignment_in_Multilog},
    year           = 2011
  }

• A. Mehler, A. Lücking, and P. Menke, “From Neural Activation to Symbolic Alignment: A Network-Based Approach to the Formation of Dialogue Lexica,” in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2011), San Jose, California, July 31 — August 5, 2011.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Mehler:Luecking:Menke:2011,
    Author         = {Mehler, Alexander and Lücking, Andy and Menke, Peter},
    Title          = {From Neural Activation to Symbolic Alignment: A
                     Network-Based Approach to the Formation of Dialogue
                     Lexica},
    BookTitle      = {Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on
                     Neural Networks (IJCNN 2011), San Jose, California,
                     July 31 -- August 5},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/neural-align-final.pdf},
    website        = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2011.6033266}},
    year           = 2011
  }

• A. Lücking, O. Abramov, A. Mehler, and P. Menke, “The Bielefeld Jigsaw Map Game (JMG) Corpus,” in Abstracts of the Corpus Linguistics Conference 2011, Birmingham, 2011.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Luecking:Abramov:Mehler:Menke:2011,
    Author         = {Lücking, Andy and Abramov, Olga and Mehler, Alexander
                     and Menke, Peter},
    Title          = {The Bielefeld Jigsaw Map Game (JMG) Corpus},
    BookTitle      = {Abstracts of the Corpus Linguistics Conference 2011},
    Series         = {CL2011},
    Address        = {Birmingham},
    pdf            = {http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/documents/college-artslaw/corpus/conference-archives/2011/Paper-137.pdf},
    website        = {http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/publications/conference-archives/2011-birmingham.aspx},
    year           = 2011
  }

• A. Mehler, A. Lücking, and P. Menke, “Assessing Lexical Alignment in Spontaneous Direction Dialogue Data by Means of a Lexicon Network Model,” in Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing), February 20–26, Tokyo, Berlin/New York, 2011, pp. 368-379.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Mehler:Luecking:Menke:2011:a,
    Author         = {Mehler, Alexander and Lücking, Andy and Menke, Peter},
    Title          = {Assessing Lexical Alignment in Spontaneous Direction
                     Dialogue Data by Means of a Lexicon Network Model},
    BookTitle      = {Proceedings of 12th International Conference on
                     Intelligent Text Processing and Computational
                     Linguistics (CICLing), February 20--26, Tokyo},
    Series         = {CICLing'11},
    Pages          = {368-379},
    Address        = {Berlin/New York},
    Publisher      = {Springer},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/titan-cicling-camera-ready.pdf},
    website        = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/g7p2250025u20010/},
    year           = 2011
  }

2010 (5)

• A. Mehler, A. Lücking, and P. Weiß, “A Network Model of Interpersonal Alignment,” Entropy, vol. 12, iss. 6, pp. 1440-1483, 2010.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  In dyadic communication, both interlocutors adapt to                    each other linguistically, that is, they align                    interpersonally. In this article, we develop a                    framework for modeling interpersonal alignment in terms                    of the structural similarity of the interlocutors’                    dialog lexica. This is done by means of so-called                    two-layer time-aligned network series, that is, a                    time-adjusted graph model. The graph model is                    partitioned into two layers, so that the                    interlocutors’ lexica are captured as subgraphs of an                    encompassing dialog graph. Each constituent network of                    the series is updated utterance-wise. Thus, both the                    inherent bipartition of dyadic conversations and their                    gradual development are modeled. The notion of                    alignment is then operationalized within a quantitative                    model of structure formation based on the mutual                    information of the subgraphs that represent the                    interlocutor’s dialog lexica. By adapting and further                    developing several models of complex network theory, we                    show that dialog lexica evolve as a novel class of                    graphs that have not been considered before in the area                    of complex (linguistic) networks. Additionally, we show                    that our framework allows for classifying dialogs                    according to their alignment status. To the best of our                    knowledge, this is the first approach to measuring                    alignment in communication that explores the                    similarities of graph-like cognitive representations.

  @Article{Mehler:Weiss:Luecking:2010:a,
    Author         = {Mehler, Alexander and Lücking, Andy and Wei{\ss},
                     Petra},
    Title          = {A Network Model of Interpersonal Alignment},
    Journal        = {Entropy},
    Volume         = {12},
    Number         = {6},
    Pages          = {1440-1483},
    abstract       = {In dyadic communication, both interlocutors adapt to
                     each other linguistically, that is, they align
                     interpersonally. In this article, we develop a
                     framework for modeling interpersonal alignment in terms
                     of the structural similarity of the interlocutors’
                     dialog lexica. This is done by means of so-called
                     two-layer time-aligned network series, that is, a
                     time-adjusted graph model. The graph model is
                     partitioned into two layers, so that the
                     interlocutors’ lexica are captured as subgraphs of an
                     encompassing dialog graph. Each constituent network of
                     the series is updated utterance-wise. Thus, both the
                     inherent bipartition of dyadic conversations and their
                     gradual development are modeled. The notion of
                     alignment is then operationalized within a quantitative
                     model of structure formation based on the mutual
                     information of the subgraphs that represent the
                     interlocutor’s dialog lexica. By adapting and further
                     developing several models of complex network theory, we
                     show that dialog lexica evolve as a novel class of
                     graphs that have not been considered before in the area
                     of complex (linguistic) networks. Additionally, we show
                     that our framework allows for classifying dialogs
                     according to their alignment status. To the best of our
                     knowledge, this is the first approach to measuring
                     alignment in communication that explores the
                     similarities of graph-like cognitive representations.},
    doi            = {10.3390/e12061440},
    pdf            = {http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/12/6/1440/pdf},
    website        = {http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/12/6/1440/},
    year           = 2010
  }

• A. Lücking and K. Bergmann, Introducing the Bielefeld SaGA CorpusEuropa Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder: , 2010.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  People communicate multimodally. Most prominently,                    they co-produce speech and gesture. How do they do                    that? Studying the interplay of both modalities has to                    be informed by empirically observed communication                    behavior. We present a corpus built of speech and                    gesture data gained in a controlled study. We describe                    1) the setting underlying the data; 2) annotation of                    the data; 3) reliability evalution methods and results;                    and 4) applications of the corpus in the research                    domain of speech and gesture alignment.

  @Misc{Luecking:Bergmann:2010,
    Author         = {Andy L\"{u}cking and Kirsten Bergmann},
    Title          = {Introducing the {B}ielefeld {SaGA} Corpus},
    HowPublished   = {Talk given at \textit{Gesture: Evolution, Brain, and
                     Linguistic Structures.} 4th Conference of the
                     International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS).
                     Europa Universit\"{a}t Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder},
    abstract       = {People communicate multimodally. Most prominently,
                     they co-produce speech and gesture. How do they do
                     that? Studying the interplay of both modalities has to
                     be informed by empirically observed communication
                     behavior. We present a corpus built of speech and
                     gesture data gained in a controlled study. We describe
                     1) the setting underlying the data; 2) annotation of
                     the data; 3) reliability evalution methods and results;
                     and 4) applications of the corpus in the research
                     domain of speech and gesture alignment.},
    address        = {Europa Universit{\"a}t Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder},
    day            = {28},
    month          = {07},
    year           = 2010
  }

• A. Lücking, “A Semantic Account for Iconic Gestures,” in Gesture: Evolution, Brain, and Linguistic Structures, Europa Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder, 2010, p. 210.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Luecking:2010,
    Author         = {Lücking, Andy},
    Title          = {A Semantic Account for Iconic Gestures},
    BookTitle      = {Gesture: Evolution, Brain, and Linguistic Structures},
    Pages          = {210},
    Address        = {Europa Universit{\"a}t Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder},
    Organization   = {4th Conference of the International Society for
                     Gesture Studies (ISGS)},
    keywords       = {own},
    month          = {7},
    pdf            = {https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/download/2318565/2319962},
    website        = {http://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/publication/2318565},
    year           = 2010
  }

• A. Lücking, K. Bergmann, F. Hahn, S. Kopp, and H. Rieser, “The Bielefeld Speech and Gesture Alignment Corpus (SaGA),” in Multimodal Corpora: Advances in Capturing, Coding and Analyzing Multimodality, Malta, 2010, pp. 92-98.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  People communicate multimodally. Most prominently,                    they co-produce speech and gesture. How do they do                    that? Studying the interplay of both modalities has to                    be informed by empirically observed communication                    behavior. We present a corpus built of speech and                    gesture data gained in a controlled study. We describe                    1) the setting underlying the data; 2) annotation of                    the data; 3) reliability evalution methods and results;                    and 4) applications of the corpus in the research                    domain of speech and gesture alignment.

  @InProceedings{Luecking:et:al:2010,
    Author         = {Lücking, Andy and Bergmann, Kirsten and Hahn, Florian
                     and Kopp, Stefan and Rieser, Hannes},
    Title          = {The Bielefeld Speech and Gesture Alignment Corpus
                     (SaGA)},
    BookTitle      = {Multimodal Corpora: Advances in Capturing, Coding and
                     Analyzing Multimodality},
    Pages          = {92--98},
    Address        = {Malta},
    Organization   = {7th International Conference for Language Resources
                     and Evaluation (LREC 2010)},
    abstract       = {People communicate multimodally. Most prominently,
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                     that? Studying the interplay of both modalities has to
                     be informed by empirically observed communication
                     behavior. We present a corpus built of speech and
                     gesture data gained in a controlled study. We describe
                     1) the setting underlying the data; 2) annotation of
                     the data; 3) reliability evalution methods and results;
                     and 4) applications of the corpus in the research
                     domain of speech and gesture alignment.},
    keywords       = {own},
    month          = {5},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/saga-corpus.pdf},
    website        = {http://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/publication/2001935},
    year           = 2010
  }

• A. Mehler, P. Weiß, P. Menke, and A. Lücking, “Towards a Simulation Model of Dialogical Alignment,” in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang8), 14-17 April 2010, Utrecht, 2010, pp. 238-245.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Mehler:Weiss:Menke:Luecking:2010,
    Author         = {Mehler, Alexander and Wei{\ss}, Petra and Menke, Peter
                     and Lücking, Andy},
    Title          = {Towards a Simulation Model of Dialogical Alignment},
    BookTitle      = {Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the
                     Evolution of Language (Evolang8), 14-17 April 2010,
                     Utrecht},
    Pages          = {238-245},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Alexander_Mehler_Petra_Weiss_Peter_Menke_Andy_Luecking.pdf},
    website        = {http://www.let.uu.nl/evolang2010.nl/},
    year           = 2010
  }

2009 (1)

• A. Mehler and A. Lücking, “A Structural Model of Semiotic Alignment: The Classification of Multimodal Ensembles as a Novel Machine Learning Task,” in Proceedings of IEEE Africon 2009, September 23-25, Nairobi, Kenya, 2009.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  In addition to the well-known linguistic alignment                    processes in dyadic communication – e.g., phonetic,                    syntactic, semantic alignment – we provide evidence                    for a genuine multimodal alignment process, namely                    semiotic alignment. Communicative elements from                    different modalities 'routinize into' cross-modal                    'super-signs', which we call multimodal ensembles.                    Computational models of human communication are in need                    of expressive models of multimodal ensembles. In this                    paper, we exemplify semiotic alignment by means of                    empirical examples of the building of multimodal                    ensembles. We then propose a graph model of multimodal                    dialogue that is expressive enough to capture                    multimodal ensembles. In line with this model, we                    define a novel task in machine learning with the aim of                    training classifiers that can detect semiotic alignment                    in dialogue. This model is in support of approaches                    which need to gain insights into realistic                    human-machine communication.

  @InProceedings{Mehler:Luecking:2009,
    Author         = {Mehler, Alexander and Lücking, Andy},
    Title          = {A Structural Model of Semiotic Alignment: The
                     Classification of Multimodal Ensembles as a Novel
                     Machine Learning Task},
    BookTitle      = {Proceedings of IEEE Africon 2009, September 23-25,
                     Nairobi, Kenya},
    Publisher      = {IEEE},
    abstract       = {In addition to the well-known linguistic alignment
                     processes in dyadic communication – e.g., phonetic,
                     syntactic, semantic alignment – we provide evidence
                     for a genuine multimodal alignment process, namely
                     semiotic alignment. Communicative elements from
                     different modalities 'routinize into' cross-modal
                     'super-signs', which we call multimodal ensembles.
                     Computational models of human communication are in need
                     of expressive models of multimodal ensembles. In this
                     paper, we exemplify semiotic alignment by means of
                     empirical examples of the building of multimodal
                     ensembles. We then propose a graph model of multimodal
                     dialogue that is expressive enough to capture
                     multimodal ensembles. In line with this model, we
                     define a novel task in machine learning with the aim of
                     training classifiers that can detect semiotic alignment
                     in dialogue. This model is in support of approaches
                     which need to gain insights into realistic
                     human-machine communication.},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/mehler_luecking_2009.pdf},
    website        = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=5308098},
    year           = 2009
  }

2008 (1)

• A. Lücking, A. Mehler, and P. Menke, “Taking Fingerprints of Speech-and-Gesture Ensembles: Approaching Empirical Evidence of Intrapersonal Alignment in Multimodal Communication,” in LONDIAL 2008: Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL), King’s College London, 2008, p. 157–164.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Luecking:Mehler:Menke:2008,
    Author         = {Lücking, Andy and Mehler, Alexander and Menke, Peter},
    Title          = {Taking Fingerprints of Speech-and-Gesture Ensembles:
                     Approaching Empirical Evidence of Intrapersonal
                     Alignment in Multimodal Communication},
    BookTitle      = {LONDIAL 2008: Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on the
                     Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL)},
    Pages          = {157–164},
    Address        = {King's College London},
    month          = {June 2–4},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/luecking_mehler_menke_2008.pdf},
    website        = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237305375_Taking_Fingerprints_of_Speech-and-Gesture_Ensembles_Approaching_Empirical_Evidence_of_Intrapersonal_Alignment_in_Multimodal_Communication},
    year           = 2008
  }

2007 (2)

• C. Borr, M. Hielscher-Fastabend, and A. Lücking, “Reliability and Validity of Cervical Auscultation,” Dysphagia, vol. 22, pp. 225-234, 2007.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  We conducted a two-part study that contributes to the                    discussion about cervical auscultation (CA) as a                    scientifically justifiable and medically useful tool to                    identify patients with a high risk of                    aspiration/penetration. We sought to determine (1)                    acoustic features that mark a deglutition act as                    dysphagic; (2) acoustic changes in healthy older                    deglutition profiles compared with those of younger                    adults; (3) the correctness and concordance of rater                    judgments based on CA; and (4) if education in CA                    improves individual reliability. The first part of the                    study focused on a comparison of the swallow morphology                    of dysphagic as opposed to healthy subjects�                    deglutition in terms of structure properties of the                    pharyngeal phase of deglutition. We obtained the                    following results. The duration of deglutition apnea is                    significantly higher in the older group than in the                    younger one. Comparing the younger group and the                    dysphagic group we found significant differences in                    duration of deglutition apnea, onset time, and number                    of gulps. Just one parameter, number of gulps,                    distinguishes significantly between the older and the                    dysphagic groups. The second part of the study aimed at                    evaluating the reliability of CA in detecting dysphagia                    measured as the concordance and the correctness of CA                    experts in classifying swallowing sounds. The                    interrater reliability coefficient AC1 resulted in a                    value of 0.46, which is to be interpreted as fair                    agreement. Furthermore, we found that comparison with                    radiologically defined aspiration/penetration for the                    group of experts (speech and language therapists)                    yielded 70% specificity and 94% sensitivity. We                    conclude that the swallowing sounds contain audible                    cues that should, in principle, permit reliable                    classification and view CA as an early warning system                    for identifying patients with a high risk of                    aspiration/penetration; however, it is not appropriate                    as a stand-alone tool.

  @Article{Borr:Luecking:Hierlscher:2007,
    Author         = {Borr, Christiane and Hielscher-Fastabend, Martina and
                     Lücking, Andy},
    Title          = {Reliability and Validity of Cervical Auscultation},
    Journal        = {Dysphagia},
    Volume         = {22},
    Pages          = {225--234},
    abstract       = {We conducted a two-part study that contributes to the
                     discussion about cervical auscultation (CA) as a
                     scientifically justifiable and medically useful tool to
                     identify patients with a high risk of
                     aspiration/penetration. We sought to determine (1)
                     acoustic features that mark a deglutition act as
                     dysphagic; (2) acoustic changes in healthy older
                     deglutition profiles compared with those of younger
                     adults; (3) the correctness and concordance of rater
                     judgments based on CA; and (4) if education in CA
                     improves individual reliability. The first part of the
                     study focused on a comparison of the swallow morphology
                     of dysphagic as opposed to healthy subjects�
                     deglutition in terms of structure properties of the
                     pharyngeal phase of deglutition. We obtained the
                     following results. The duration of deglutition apnea is
                     significantly higher in the older group than in the
                     younger one. Comparing the younger group and the
                     dysphagic group we found significant differences in
                     duration of deglutition apnea, onset time, and number
                     of gulps. Just one parameter, number of gulps,
                     distinguishes significantly between the older and the
                     dysphagic groups. The second part of the study aimed at
                     evaluating the reliability of CA in detecting dysphagia
                     measured as the concordance and the correctness of CA
                     experts in classifying swallowing sounds. The
                     interrater reliability coefficient AC1 resulted in a
                     value of 0.46, which is to be interpreted as fair
                     agreement. Furthermore, we found that comparison with
                     radiologically defined aspiration/penetration for the
                     group of experts (speech and language therapists)
                     yielded 70% specificity and 94% sensitivity. We
                     conclude that the swallowing sounds contain audible
                     cues that should, in principle, permit reliable
                     classification and view CA as an early warning system
                     for identifying patients with a high risk of
                     aspiration/penetration; however, it is not appropriate
                     as a stand-alone tool.},
    doi            = {10.1007/s00455-007-9078-3},
    issue          = {3},
    pdf            = {http://www.shkim.eu/cborr/ca5manuscript.pdf},
    publisher      = {Springer New York},
    url            = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00455-007-9078-3},
    website        = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/c45578u74r38m4v7/},
    year           = 2007
  }

• A. Kranstedt, A. Lücking, T. Pfeiffer, H. Rieser, and M. Staudacher, Locating Objects by Pointing, 2007.
  [BibTeX]

  @Misc{Kranstedt:et:al:2007,
    Author         = {Kranstedt, Alfred and Lücking, Andy and Pfeiffer,
                     Thies and Rieser, Hannes and Staudacher, Marc},
    Title          = {Locating Objects by Pointing},
    HowPublished   = {3rd International Conference of the International
                     Society for Gesture Studies. Evanston, IL, USA},
    keywords       = {own},
    month          = {6},
    year           = 2007
  }

2006 (6)

• A. Kranstedt, A. Lücking, T. Pfeiffer, H. Rieser, and M. Staudacher, “Measuring and Reconstructing Pointing in Visual Contexts,” in brandial ’06 — Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Potsdam, 2006, pp. 82-89.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  We describe an experiment to gather original data on                    geometrical aspects of pointing. In particular, we are                    focusing upon the concept of the pointing cone, a                    geometrical model of a pointing’s extension. In our                    setting we employed methodological and technical                    procedures of a new type to integrate data from                    annotations as well as from tracker recordings. We                    combined exact information on position and orientation                    with rater’s classifications. Our first results seem                    to challenge classical linguistic and philosophical                    theories of demonstration in that they advise to                    separate pointings from reference.

  @InProceedings{Kranstedt:et:al:2006:c,
    Author         = {Kranstedt, Alfred and Lücking, Andy and Pfeiffer,
                     Thies and Rieser, Hannes and Staudacher, Marc},
    Title          = {Measuring and Reconstructing Pointing in Visual
                     Contexts},
    BookTitle      = {brandial '06 -- Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on
                     the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue},
    Editor         = {David Schlangen and Raquel Fernández},
    Pages          = {82--89},
    Address        = {Potsdam},
    Publisher      = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
    abstract       = {We describe an experiment to gather original data on
                     geometrical aspects of pointing. In particular, we are
                     focusing upon the concept of the pointing cone, a
                     geometrical model of a pointing’s extension. In our
                     setting we employed methodological and technical
                     procedures of a new type to integrate data from
                     annotations as well as from tracker recordings. We
                     combined exact information on position and orientation
                     with rater’s classifications. Our first results seem
                     to challenge classical linguistic and philosophical
                     theories of demonstration in that they advise to
                     separate pointings from reference.},
    keywords       = {own},
    month          = {9},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/measure.pdf},
    website        = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.144.8472},
    year           = 2006
  }

• A. Lücking, H. Rieser, and M. Staudacher, “Multi-modal Integration for Gesture and Speech,” in brandial ’06 — Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Potsdam, 2006, pp. 106-113.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  Demonstratives, in particular gestures that 'only'                    accompany speech, are not a big issue in current                    theories of grammar. If we deal with gestures, fixing                    their function is one big problem, the other one is how                    to integrate the representations originating from                    different channels and, ultimately, how to determine                    their composite meanings. The growing interest in                    multi-modal settings, computer simulations,                    human-machine interfaces and VR-applications increases                    the need for theories of multi-modal structures and                    events. In our workshop-contribution we focus on the                    integration of multi-modal contents and investigate                    different approaches dealing with this problem such as                    Johnston et al. (1997) and Johnston (1998), Johnston                    and Bangalore (2000), Chierchia (1995), Asher (2005),                    and Rieser (2005).

  @InProceedings{Luecking:Rieser:Staudacher:2006:a,
    Author         = {Lücking, Andy and Rieser, Hannes and Staudacher, Marc},
    Title          = {Multi-modal Integration for Gesture and Speech},
    BookTitle      = {brandial '06 -- Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on
                     the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue},
    Editor         = {David Schlangen and Raquel Fernández},
    Pages          = {106--113},
    Address        = {Potsdam},
    Publisher      = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
    abstract       = {Demonstratives, in particular gestures that 'only'
                     accompany speech, are not a big issue in current
                     theories of grammar. If we deal with gestures, fixing
                     their function is one big problem, the other one is how
                     to integrate the representations originating from
                     different channels and, ultimately, how to determine
                     their composite meanings. The growing interest in
                     multi-modal settings, computer simulations,
                     human-machine interfaces and VR-applications increases
                     the need for theories of multi-modal structures and
                     events. In our workshop-contribution we focus on the
                     integration of multi-modal contents and investigate
                     different approaches dealing with this problem such as
                     Johnston et al. (1997) and Johnston (1998), Johnston
                     and Bangalore (2000), Chierchia (1995), Asher (2005),
                     and Rieser (2005).},
    keywords       = {own},
    month          = {9},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/mm-int-brandial-final.pdf},
    year           = 2006
  }

• A. Kranstedt, A. Lücking, T. Pfeiffer, H. Rieser, and I. Wachsmuth, “Deictic Object Reference in Task-oriented Dialogue,” in Situated Communication, G. Rickheit and I. Wachsmuth, Eds., Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2006, pp. 155-207.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  This chapter presents an original approach towards a                    detailed understanding of the usage of pointing                    gestures accompanying referring expressions. This                    effort is undertaken in the context of human-machine                    interaction integrating empirical studies, theory of                    grammar and logics, and simulation techniques. In                    particular, we take steps to classify the role of                    pointing in deictic expressions and to model the                    focussed area of pointing gestures, the so-called                    pointing cone. This pointing cone serves as a central                    concept in a formal account of multi-modal integration                    at the linguistic speech-gesture interface as well as                    in a computational model of processing multi-modal                    deictic expressions.

  @InCollection{Kranstedt:et:al:2006:b,
    Author         = {Kranstedt, Alfred and Lücking, Andy and Pfeiffer,
                     Thies and Rieser, Hannes and Wachsmuth, Ipke},
    Title          = {Deictic Object Reference in Task-oriented Dialogue},
    BookTitle      = {Situated Communication},
    Publisher      = {De Gruyter Mouton},
    Editor         = {Gert Rickheit and Ipke Wachsmuth},
    Pages          = {155--207},
    Address        = {Berlin},
    abstract       = {This chapter presents an original approach towards a
                     detailed understanding of the usage of pointing
                     gestures accompanying referring expressions. This
                     effort is undertaken in the context of human-machine
                     interaction integrating empirical studies, theory of
                     grammar and logics, and simulation techniques. In
                     particular, we take steps to classify the role of
                     pointing in deictic expressions and to model the
                     focussed area of pointing gestures, the so-called
                     pointing cone. This pointing cone serves as a central
                     concept in a formal account of multi-modal integration
                     at the linguistic speech-gesture interface as well as
                     in a computational model of processing multi-modal
                     deictic expressions.},
    keywords       = {own},
    website        = {http://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/publication/1894485},
    year           = 2006
  }

• A. Kranstedt, A. Lücking, T. Pfeiffer, H. Rieser, and I. Wachsmuth, “Deixis: How to Determine Demonstrated Objects Using a Pointing Cone,” in Gesture in Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation, S. Gibet, N. Courty, and J. Kamp, Eds., Berlin: Springer, 2006, pp. 300-311.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  We present a collaborative approach towards a detailed                    understanding of the usage of pointing gestures                    accompanying referring expressions. This effort is                    undertaken in the context of human-machine interaction                    integrating empirical studies, theory of grammar and                    logics, and simulation techniques. In particular, we                    attempt to measure the precision of the focussed area                    of a pointing gesture, the so-called pointing cone. The                    pointing cone serves as a central concept in a formal                    account of multi-modal integration at the linguistic                    speech-gesture interface as well as in a computational                    model of processing multi-modal deictic expressions.

  @InCollection{Kranstedt:et:al:2006:a,
    Author         = {Kranstedt, Alfred and Lücking, Andy and Pfeiffer,
                     Thies and Rieser, Hannes and Wachsmuth, Ipke},
    Title          = {Deixis: How to Determine Demonstrated Objects Using a
                     Pointing Cone},
    BookTitle      = {Gesture in Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation},
    Publisher      = {Springer},
    Editor         = {Sylvie Gibet and Nicolas Courty and Jean-Francois Kamp},
    Pages          = {300--311},
    Address        = {Berlin},
    abstract       = {We present a collaborative approach towards a detailed
                     understanding of the usage of pointing gestures
                     accompanying referring expressions. This effort is
                     undertaken in the context of human-machine interaction
                     integrating empirical studies, theory of grammar and
                     logics, and simulation techniques. In particular, we
                     attempt to measure the precision of the focussed area
                     of a pointing gesture, the so-called pointing cone. The
                     pointing cone serves as a central concept in a formal
                     account of multi-modal integration at the linguistic
                     speech-gesture interface as well as in a computational
                     model of processing multi-modal deictic expressions.},
    anote          = {6th International Gesture Workshop, Berder Island,
                     France, 2005, Revised Selected Papers},
    keywords       = {own},
    website        = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/712036hp5v2q8408/},
    year           = 2006
  }

• T. Pfeiffer, A. Kranstedt, and A. Lücking, “Sprach-Gestik Experimente mit IADE, dem Interactive Augmented Data Explorer,” in Proceedings: Dritter Workshop Virtuelle und Erweiterte Realität der GI-Fachgruppe VR/AR, Koblenz, 2006.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  Für die empirische Erforschung natürlicher                    menschlicher Kommunikation sind wir auf die Akquise und                    Auswertung umfangreicher Daten angewiesen. Die                    Modalitäten, über die sich Menschen ausdrücken                    können, sind sehr unterschiedlich - und genauso                    verschieden sind die Repräsentationen, mit denen                    sie für die Empirie verfügbar gemacht werden können.                    Für eine Untersuchung des Zeigeverhaltens bei der                    Referenzierung von Objekten haben wir mit IADE ein                    Framework für die Aufzeichnung, Analyse und                    Resimulation von Sprach-Gestik Daten entwickelt. Mit                    dessen Hilfe können wir für unsere Forschung                    entscheidende Fortschritte in der linguistischen                    Experimentalmethodik machen.

  @InProceedings{Pfeiffer:Kranstedt:Luecking:2006,
    Author         = {Pfeiffer, Thies and Kranstedt, Alfred and Lücking,
                     Andy},
    Title          = {Sprach-Gestik Experimente mit IADE, dem Interactive
                     Augmented Data Explorer},
    BookTitle      = {Proceedings: Dritter Workshop Virtuelle und Erweiterte
                     Realit{\"a}t der GI-Fachgruppe VR/AR},
    Address        = {Koblenz},
    abstract       = {Für die empirische Erforschung natürlicher
                     menschlicher Kommunikation sind wir auf die Akquise und
                     Auswertung umfangreicher Daten angewiesen. Die
                     Modalit{\"a}ten, über die sich Menschen ausdrücken
                     können, sind sehr unterschiedlich - und genauso
                     verschieden sind die Repr{\"a}sentationen, mit denen
                     sie für die Empirie verfügbar gemacht werden können.
                     Für eine Untersuchung des Zeigeverhaltens bei der
                     Referenzierung von Objekten haben wir mit IADE ein
                     Framework für die Aufzeichnung, Analyse und
                     Resimulation von Sprach-Gestik Daten entwickelt. Mit
                     dessen Hilfe können wir für unsere Forschung
                     entscheidende Fortschritte in der linguistischen
                     Experimentalmethodik machen.},
    keywords       = {own},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Pfeiffer-Kranstedt-Luecking-IADE.pdf},
    website        = {http://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/publication/2426853},
    year           = 2006
  }

• A. Lücking, H. Rieser, and M. Staudacher, “SDRT and Multi-modal Situated Communication,” in brandial ’06 — Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 2006, pp. 72-79.
  [BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Luecking:Rieser:Stauchdacher:2006:b,
    Author         = {Lücking, Andy and Rieser, Hannes and Staudacher, Marc},
    Title          = {SDRT and Multi-modal Situated Communication},
    BookTitle      = {brandial '06 -- Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on
                     the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue},
    Editor         = {David Schlangen and Raquel Fernández},
    Pages          = {72--79},
    Publisher      = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
    keywords       = {own},
    month          = {9},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/sdrt-sitcomm-brandial-final.pdf},
    year           = 2006
  }

2005 (2)

• A. Lücking and J. Stegmann, “Assessing Reliability on Annotations (2): Statistical Results for the \textscDeiKon Scheme,” SFB 360, Universität Bielefeld, 3, 2005.
  [BibTeX]

  @TechReport{Luecking:Stegmann:2005,
    author =       {Andy L\"{u}cking and Jens Stegmann},
    title =        {Assessing Reliability on Annotations (2):
                    Statistical Results for the \textsc{DeiKon} Scheme},
    institution =  {SFB 360},
    year =         2005,
    number =       3,
    address =      {Universit\"{a}t Bielefeld},
    url =
                    {http://www.sfb360.uni-bielefeld.de/reports/2005/2005-03.html}
  }

• J. Stegmann and A. Lücking, “Assessing Reliability on Annotations (1): Theoretical Considerations,” SFB 360, Universität Bielefeld, 2, 2005.
  [BibTeX]

  @TechReport{Stegmann:Luecking:2005,
    author =       {Jens Stegmann and Andy L\"{u}cking},
    title =        {Assessing Reliability on Annotations (1):
                    Theoretical Considerations},
    institution =  {SFB 360},
    year =         2005,
    number =       2,
    address =      {Universit\"{a}t Bielefeld},
    url =
                    {http://www.sfb360.uni-bielefeld.de/reports/2005/2005-02.html}
  }

2004 (1)

• A. Lücking, H. Rieser, and J. Stegmann, “Statistical Support for the Study of Structures in Multi-Modal Dialogue: Inter-Rater Agreement and Synchronization,” in Catalog ’04—Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Barcelona, 2004, pp. 56-63.
  [Abstract] [BibTeX]

  We present a statistical approach to assess relations                    that hold among speech and pointing gestures in and                    between turns in task-oriented dialogue. The units                    quantified over are the time-stamps of the XML-based                    annotation of the digital video data. It was found                    that, on average, gesture strokes do not exceed, but                    are freely distributed over the time span of their                    linguistic affiliates. Further, the onset of the                    affiliate was observed to occur earlier than gesture                    initiation. Moreover, we found that gestures do obey                    certain appropriateness conditions and contribute                    semantic content ('gestures save words') as well.                    Gestures also seem to play a functional role wrt                    dialogue structure: There is evidence that gestures can                    contribute to the bundle of features making up a                    turn-taking signal. Some statistical results support a                    partitioning of the domain, which is also reflected in                    certain rating difficulties. However, our evaluation of                    the applied annotation scheme generally resulted in                    very good agreement

  @InProceedings{Luecking:Rieser:Stegmann:2004,
    Author         = {Lücking, Andy and Rieser, Hannes and Stegmann, Jens},
    Title          = {Statistical Support for the Study of Structures in
                     Multi-Modal Dialogue: Inter-Rater Agreement and
                     Synchronization},
    BookTitle      = {Catalog '04---Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on
                     the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue},
    Editor         = {Jonathan Ginzburg and Enric Vallduví},
    Pages          = {56--63},
    Address        = {Barcelona},
    Organization   = {Department of Translation and Philology, Universitat
                     Pompeu Fabra},
    abstract       = {We present a statistical approach to assess relations
                     that hold among speech and pointing gestures in and
                     between turns in task-oriented dialogue. The units
                     quantified over are the time-stamps of the XML-based
                     annotation of the digital video data. It was found
                     that, on average, gesture strokes do not exceed, but
                     are freely distributed over the time span of their
                     linguistic affiliates. Further, the onset of the
                     affiliate was observed to occur earlier than gesture
                     initiation. Moreover, we found that gestures do obey
                     certain appropriateness conditions and contribute
                     semantic content ('gestures save words') as well.
                     Gestures also seem to play a functional role wrt
                     dialogue structure: There is evidence that gestures can
                     contribute to the bundle of features making up a
                     turn-taking signal. Some statistical results support a
                     partitioning of the domain, which is also reflected in
                     certain rating difficulties. However, our evaluation of
                     the applied annotation scheme generally resulted in
                     very good agreement},
    keywords       = {own},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/08-lucking-etal.pdf},
    year           = 2004
  }

• V. Ries and A. Lücking, ,” in Multilingual Resources and Multilingual Applications: Proceedings of the German Society for Computational Linguistics 2011, , pp. 207-210.
  [Poster][BibTeX]

  @InProceedings{Ries:Luecking:2011,
    Author         = {Ries, Veronika and Lücking, Andy},
    BookTitle      = {Multilingual Resources and Multilingual Applications:
                     Proceedings of the German Society for Computational
                     Linguistics 2011},
    Pages          = {207--210},
    pdf            = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Ries_Luecking.pdf},
    poster         = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SoSaBiEC-poster.pdf}
  }