Marcin Skowron (Ph.D.)
Researcher at the
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence,
Interaction Technologies Group
- Office:
- Freyung 6/3/1a
A-1010 Wien, Austria
- Tel:
- (+43-1)532 46 21-6
- Fax:
- (+43-1)532 46 21-9
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Information
Retrieval, Question-Answering, Knowledge Acquisition, Commonsense Knowledge
Previous
- RASCALLI - [overview] [project website] - European Commission Cognitive Systems Programme
- SELP - national FFG programme `Advanced Knowledge Technologies: Grounding, Fusion, Applications`
- Question Answering - Web Based QA, Interactive QA
- KnowY - Knowledge Retrieval System
- Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents (LaCATODA 2010) - LaCATODA 2010
- Marcin Skowron
"Affect Listeners. Acquisition of Affective States by means of Conversational Systems"
Development of Multimodal Interfaces - Active Listening and Synchrony,
COST 2102 Int. Training School 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5967, pp. 169--181. Springer, Heidelberg (2010)
(Dublin, Ireland, March 23-27, 2009)
- Brigitte Krenn, Marcin Skowron, Gregor Sieber , Erich Gstrein, Joerg Irran
"Adaptive Mind Agent"
9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2009
(Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 14-16, 2009)
- Christian Eis, Marcin Skowron, Brigitte Krenn
"Virtual Agent Modeling in the RASCALLI Platform"
Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop (PerMIS08, USA, August 19-21, 2008)
|paper| - available at the Rascalli publication page
- Marcin Skowron, Joerg Irran, Brigitte Krenn
"Computational Framework for and the Realization of Cognitive Agents Providing Intelligent Assistance Capabilities"
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI2008), The 6th International Cognitive Robotics Workshop, pp 88-96 (2008).
(Patras, Greece, July 21-2, 2008)
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- Joerg Irran, Gregor Sieber, Marcin Skowron, Brigitte Krenn
"Acquisition and Exchange of Knowledge - From Real to Virtual Embodiment"
In Proceedings of the Symposium on Language and Robots. 10-12 December 2007, Universidade de Avairo, Portugal
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- Marcin SKOWRON, Kenji ARAKI
"Effectiveness of Combined Features for Machine Learning Based Question Classification"
Special Issue on Question Answering and Text Summarization
Journal of Natural Language Processing, Vol. 6, pp. 63-83, 2005
Information Processing Society of Japan
(Work partially supported by Grant from Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Programme (SCOPE))
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- Marcin SKOWRON
"A Web Based Approach to Factoid and Commonsense Knowledge Retrieval"
Doctoral Dissertation, Hokkaido University, 2005
- Marcin SKOWRON, Kenji ARAKI
"Voluntary Contributions of Unaware Internet Users? On Automatic Knowledge Retrieval from the WWW"
AAAI 2005 Spring Symposium, Knowledge Collection from Volunteer Contributors (KCVC05)
(Palo Alto, California, March 21-23, 2005)
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- Marcin SKOWRON, Kenji ARAKI
"Can I also have a question, please? On Perspectives of Interactive Clustering-driven Question-Answering"
2005 Joint Convention Record, The Hokkaido Chapters of the Institutes
of Electrical and Information Engineering.
(Sapporo, Japan)
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The Winner of IEEE Sapporo Branch Student Paper Contest 2005
- Marcin SKOWRON, Kenji ARAKI
"Automatic Knowledge Retrieval from the Web"
Intelligent Information Systems 2005. New Trends in Intelligent
Information Processing and Web Mining
(Gdansk, Poland, June 13-16, 2005)
(Award from International Information Science Foundation)
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- Marcin SKOWRON, Kenji ARAKI
"Learning the Query Generation Patterns"
International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics CICLing-2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
(Mexico City, Mexico, February 13-19, 2005)
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Best Poster Award(3rd Place)
- Marcin SKOWRON, Kenji ARAKI
"Evaluation of the New Feature Types for Question Classification with Support Vector Machines"
Proceedings of International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies 2004 (ISCIT 2004)
(Sapporo, Japan, October 26-29, 2004)
- Marcin SKOWRON, Kenji ARAKI
"Basic Idea of the Knowledge Retrieval System"
2004 Joint Convention Record, The Hokkaido Chapters of the Institutes
of Electrical and Information Engineering
(Hakodate, Japan, October 24, 2004)
- Marcin SKOWRON, Kenji ARAKI
"What Can Be Learned from Previously Answered Questions? A
Corpus-Based Approach to Question Answering"
Intelligent Information Systems 2004. New Trends in Intelligent
Information Processing and Web Mining, Institute of Computer Science of
the Polish Academy of Sciences, pp.379-387
(Zakopane, Poland, May 17-20, 2004)
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- Marcin SKOWRON, Kenji ARAKI
"Basic Idea of Corpus-Supported Approach to Question-Answering"
2003 Joint Convention Record, The Hokkaido Chapters of the Institutes
of Electrical and Information Engineering, pp. 296-297
(Sapporo, Japan, October 18-19, 2003)
The Winner of IEEE Sapporo Branch Student Paper Contest 2003
Technical Reports/Symposiums:
- Marcin Skowron, Hannes Pirker, Stefan Rank
"CYBEREMOTIONS: Interactive computer tools for acquiring data on individual and collective emotions of online communities"
Symposium "CYBEREMOTIONS: Collective emotions in cyberspace pose challenges to emotion research and theory" at ISRE 2009
(Leuven, Belgium, August 6-8, 2009)
- Brigitte Krenn, Joerg Irran, Gregor Sieber, Marcin Skowron
"Virtual Butlers! A technology so close and so far! Insights from the RASCALLI project"
Workshop on Virtual Butlers - 2008
(Vienna, Austria, 26.-27. Sept. 2008)
- Marcin SKOWRON, Kenji ARAKI
"What is Hidden on the Web? On Perspectives of the Statistically Based Estimation of the Web Content"
Language Processing Conference, NLP2006
(Yokohama, Japan, March 14-17, 2006)
- Yatsumoto KIMURA, Kenji ISHIDA, Hirotaka IMAOKA, Fumito MASUI, Marcin SKOWRON, Rafal RZEPKA, Kenji ARAKI
"Three Systems and One Verifier - HOKUM's Participation in QAC3 of NTCIR-5"
Proceedings of NTCIR-5 Workshop Meeting, pp. 402-408
(Tokyo, Japan, December 6-9, 2005)
- Marcin SKOWRON, Kenji ARAKI
"New Features for the Question Classification Using Support Vector Machines"
IPSJ SIG Technical Reports, pp.139-144
(Sapporo, Japan, July 15-16, 2004)
To Appear:
- Journals providing free online access to high-quality publications: Journal of AI Research, Public Library of Science (Computer Science).
- Website providing free online access to lectures on computer science, natural language processing, intelligent agents, and machine learning.
- Computational Linguistics Conferences, CiteSeerx, WikiCFP
