People

• Alexandra Klein
  has studied Computational Linguistics as well as German and English Philology. She has worked at OFAI in various projects dealing with different applications of information extraction, knowledge-based systems and multilingual analysis and generation.
• Brigitte Krenn (head of unit)
  is a computational linguist who has worked on various areas of natural language analysis (including principled and corpus-based methods) and multimodal language and behaviour generation in embodied conversational characters. Her current focus of research lies on the development of companion technologies.
• Johannes Matiasek
  is a computer scientist who started his research and development activities in natural language processing in 1985. He is an expert in developing and implementing methods and tools for deep linguistic analysis as well as for the application of shallow statistics-based and machine learning methods to NLP tasks.
• Johann Petrak
  is a computer scientist working on data mining, machine learning and natural language processing. His current research interests are domain-specific knowledge extraction, semantic annotation and search in web and desktop resources. He is an active developer of plug-ins and software for GATE.
• Hannes Pirker
  is a computational linguist who works on speech synthesis, the generation of speech accompanying behaviours in embodied conversational agents, and on opinion mining and emotion classification from texts.
• Gregor Sieber
  is a computational linguist and computer scientist working on topics such as multi-modal dialog and artificial companion systems. His current research focuses on using elements of human-like memory - such as autobiographic episodic memory - to improve the dialog capabilities of artificial agents.
• Stephanie Schreitter
  has a Master in German Philology with a focus on Linguistics and a MSc in Cognitive Science. She is currently working on aspects of social evaluation of synthetic language varieties and self-awareness in the context of artificial companions.
• Marcin Skowron
  has a PhD in Information Science and Technology. He has a longstanding expertise in the development of question answering systems. Currently he is working on affect listeners, artificial systems for the acquisition of affective states from human users by means of natural language conversation.

We have close ties with OFAI's Language Technology and Intelligent Software Agents and New Media Groups. This is reflected in inter-group collaboration within selected projects.