Brigitte Krenn

[Research Interests, Previous Projects, Publications] [Education] [Coordinates] [Pictures]

I am ...

... a computational linguist by training, and received my PhD from the Computational Linguistics Department at Saarland University.

... head of the Interaction Technologies Group at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI). For many years I was a member of OFAI's Natural Language Technology Group with which I still closely collaborate.

... scientific advisor to the Studio Smart Agent Technologies (SAT) of the Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft (RSA). From March 2006 to March 2009 I was the scientific head of SAT.

... a member of the European Network of Excellence HUMAINE and the HUMAINE Association which are dedicated to the research on emotions and human-machine interaction.

... a member of euCognition and EUCogII, the European Networks for the advancement of artificial cognitive systems.

... coordinator and collaborator in a variety of European and national research and development projects.

My current research interests are

Companion systems, including Embodied Conversational Agents, cognitive agents, multimodal interactive systems
Semantic systems, including semantic profiling and semantic search
Ambient Assisted Living, in particular technologies to support active, self-determined and socially integrated ageing

Current projects with the Interaction Technologies Group.
More projects I was involved with.

When I have some spare time I am tempted to (co-)organise a workshop or conference, such as

5th International Conference on Cognitive Systems (22.-23.2.2012, TU Vienna Austria)
Symposium L: Companions, Virtual Butlers, Assistive Robots: Empirical and Theoretical Insights for Building Long-Term Social Relations
Symposium at the 20th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (8. April 2010, University of Vienna)
Towards a Shared Task for Multiword Expressions (MWE 2008) Online Proceedings
Workshop at the LREC 2008 Conference (1. June 2008, Marrakech, Morocco)
Gesticons for Expressive Embodied Conversational Characters
(12. December 2003, OFAI, Vienna)
Computational Approaches to Collocations Online Proceedings
(22./23. July 2002, University of Vienna)

Research Interests & Previous Projects

Publications

Education
	Korpusbasierte Sprachverarbeitung (Vorlesung + Übung, Sommersemester 2005) weitere Info (wird laufend aktualisiert!) B. Krenn, Ch. Samuelsson. 1997. The Linguist's Guide to Statistics. Don't Panic.(pdf)
Some places to study computational linguistics

Coordinates	Address:	Brigitte Krenn Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI) Freyung 6/3/1a A-1010 Vienna, Austria
	Phone:	+43/1/532-4621-2
	Fax:	+43/1/4277-9631
	Email:	brigitte[DOT]krenn(AT)ofai[DOT]at
	Directions:	How to get to OFAI

Pictures
	ÖFAI Flood 1, 13. May 2003
	ÖFAI Flood 2, 13. May 2003

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