Publications

The publication list includes work conducted both at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the Research Studio Smart Agent Technologies.

For an updated list see here

Kees van Deemter, Brigitte Krenn, Paul Piwek, Martin Klesen, Marc Schröder, Stefan Baumann. Fully generated scripted dialogue for embodied agents. Artificial Intelligence Journal, Volume 172(10): 1219-1244, 2008.

Christian Eis, Marcin Skowron, Brigitte Krenn. Virtual Agent Modeling in the RASCALLI Platform. PerMIS'08 - Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, August 19-21, 2008.

Jörg Irran, Brigitte Krenn. Interaction Based Knowledge Acquisition and Exchange Using Grounded Symbols. IEEE 7th International Conference on Development and Learning, Monterey, CA, USA, August 9-12, 2008.

Marcin Skowron, Joerg Irran, Brigitte Krenn. "Computational Framework for and the Realization of Cognitive Agents Providing Intelligent Assistance Capabilities" accepted for a presentation at the Cognitive Robotics Workshop at 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Brigitte Krenn, Gregor Sieber. Functional Markup for Behaviour Planning: Theory and Practice. In Proceedings of the AAMAS 2008 Workshop FML: Functional Markup Language. Why Conversational Agents do what they do. May, 2008.

Brigitte Krenn, Christian Schollum. The RASCALLI Platform for a Flexible and Distributed Development of Virtual Systems Augmented with Cognition. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2008), University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, April 2 - 4, 2008.

Brigitte Krenn. RASCALLI. Responsive Artificial Situated Cognitive Agents Living and Learning on the Internet. Poster presented at CogSys 2008, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, April 2 - 4, 2008.

Brigitte Krenn. Description of evaluation resource -- German PP-verb data. In Proceedings of the LREC2008 Workshop Towards a Shared Task for Multiword Expressions (MWE 2008), Marrakech, Morocco, June 1, 2008.

Brigitte Krenn, Andreas Böhme, Alice Mitchell. Fastest First! and Crisis! Creating Innovative Mobile Learning Games on the Basis of Quiz Templates. In Proceedings of Serious Games on the Move International Conference. Cambridge, June 23-24, 2008

Krenn, Böhme, Mitchell. ‚Jetzt entscheiden! Aber schnell!’ Innovative Lernspiele für Handy und Web. Zeitschrift für e-learning, Special Issue Mobile Learning, 2. Jahrgang, 04/2007.

Kleedorfer, Harr, Krenn. Making large music collections accessible using enhanced metadata and lightweight visualizations. In Proceedings of AXMEDIS 2007.

Irran J., Sieber G., Skowron M., Krenn B., Acquisition and Exchange of Knowledge - From Real to Virtual Embodiement, Proceedings of the Symposium, Language and Robotics 2007, Aveiro, Portugal, p117-118.

Krenn, Gstrein. On Female and Male Avatars: Data from a Web-Based Flirting Community. In Proceedings of the AVI 2006 Workshop on Gender and Interaction. Real and Virtual women in a male world.

Gstrein, Krenn. Mobile Music Personalization at Work. In Proceedings of ECAI 2006 Workshop on Recommender Systems.

Kopp, Krenn, Marsella, Marshall, Pelachaud, Pirker, Thorrisson, Vilhjalmsson. Towards a common framework for multimodal generation in embodied conversational agents: The behavior markup language. In Proceedings of IVA 2006.

Krenn, Sieber, Petschar. Metadata Generation for Cultural Heritage: Creative Histories -- The Josefsplatz Experience. In Proceedings of EVA 2006. Full paper (282K - PDF)

Evert S., Krenn B. Using small random samples for the manual evaluation of statistical association measures. Computer Speech & Language [Special Issue on Multiword Expression], Volume 19, Issue 4, October 2005, p. 450-466.
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Krenn B., Evert S. Separating the wheat from the chaff -- Corpus-driven evaluation of statistical association measures for collocation extraction. In: Fisseni, Bernhard; Schmitz, Hans-Christian; Schröder, Bernhard u. a. (Hrsg.): Sprachtechnologie, mobile Kommunikation und linguistische Ressourcen. Beiträge zur GLDV-Tagung 2005 in Bonn. [Sprache, Sprechen und Computer Vol. 8.] Peter Lang 2005, p. 104-117. Full paper (105K - ps.gz)

Evert S., Krenn B. Exploratory Collocation Extraction. Presented at PHRASEOLOGY 2005 The many faces of Phraseology. Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), 13-15 October 2005. Abstract (202K - PDF)

Krenn B. Representational Lego for ECAs. Background paper for a presentation held at the FP6 NoE HUMAINE Workshop on Emotion and Interaction. Paris, 10-11 March 2005. Full paper (140K - PDF)

Krenn B., Neumayr B., Schmotzer Ch., Grice M.: What we can Learn from Avatar-driven Internet Communities. In Zs. Ruttkay Zs., Pelachaud C. (Eds.), From Brows to Trust: Evaluating Embodied Conversational Agents. Human-Computer Interaction Series, Volume 7. Kluwer, 2004, p. 323-352.

Krenn B., Neumayr B., Gstrein E. and Grice M. Lifelike Agents for the Internet: A Cross-Cultural Case Study. In Payr S., Trappl R. (eds). Agent Culture: Human-Agent Interaction in a Multicultural World. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, NJ, 2004, p.197-229.
For a pre-version see Full paper (393k - PDF)

Krenn B., Evert S., Zinsmeister H. Determining intercoder agreement for a collocation identification task. In Proceedings of Konvens'04, Vienna, Austria, 14.-17. September, 2004, p. 89-96.Full paper (84k - PDF)

Krenn B. Manual zur Identifikation von Funktionsverbgefügen und figurativen Ausdrücken in PP-Verb-Listen. 2004, OFAI. (117k - PDF)

Krenn B., Pirker H.: Defining the Gesticon: Language and Gesture Coordination for Interacting Embodied Agents, in Proceedings of the AISB-2004 Symposium on Language, Speech and Gesture for Expressive Characters, University of Leeds, UK, pp.107-115, 2004. Full paper (82k - PDF)

Krenn B., Neumayr B. Socialite in derSpittelberg: Incorporating animated conversation into a Web-based community-building tool To appear in: Proc. of the 4th International Working Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'03), Kloster Irsee, 2003, p. 18-22. Full paper (634k - PDF)

Krenn B.: The NECA Project: Net Environments for Embodied Emotional Conversational Agents Project Note. In Künstliche Intelligenz Themenheft Embodied Conversational Agents, Springer-Verlag, 2003, p. 30-33. Full paper (223k - PDF)

Krenn B.: The NECA Project: Net Environments for Embodied Emotional Conversational Agents, Proc. of Workshop on emotionally rich virtual worlds with emotion synthesis at the 8th International Conference on 3D Web Technology (Web3D), 10. March 2003, St.Malo,France. Full paper (17k - PDF)

Brigitte Krenn, Erich Gstrein, Barbara Neumayr, Martine Grice: What can we learn from users of avatars in net environments? Proceedings of the Workshop ``Embodied conversational agents - let's specify and evaluate them!'', held in conjunction with AAMAS-02, July 16 2002, Bologna, Italy. (pdf)

Brigitte Krenn, Martine Grice, Paul Piwek, Marc Schröder, Martin Klesen, Stefan Baumann, Hannes Pirker, Kees van Deemter, Erich Gstrein: Generation of Multi-modal Dialogue for Net Environments. Proceedings of KONVENS-02, 30 September - 2 October 2002, Saarbrücken, Germany. (pdf)

Paul Piwek, Brigitte Krenn, Marc Schröder, Martine Grice, Stefan Baumann, Hannes Pirker: RRL: A Rich Representation Language for the Description of Agent Behaviour in NECA. Proceedings of the Workshop ``Embodied conversational agents - let's specify and evaluate them!'', held in conjunction with AAMAS-02, July 16 2002, Bologna, Italy. (pdf)

Brigitte Krenn, Stefan Evert. 2001. Can we do better than frequency? A case study on extracting PP-verb collocations. Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Collocations Toulouse, France. (ps)

Stefan Evert, Brigitte Krenn. 2001. Methods for the Qualitative Evaluation of Lexical Association Measures. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Toulouse, France. (ps)

Brigitte Krenn. 2000. The Usual Suspects: Data-Oriented Models for Identification and Representation of Lexical Collocations. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and Saarland University Dissertations in Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, Volume 7. Saarbrücken, Germany, 2000. (http://www.dfki.de/lt/diss/diss_en.htm)

Brigitte Krenn. 2000. CDB -- A Database of Lexical Collocations. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation (LREC-2000). Athens, Greece. (ps)

Brigitte Krenn. 2000. Empirical Implications on Lexical Association Measures. Proceedings of The Ninth EURALEX International Congress. Stuttgart, Germany. (ps)

Brigitte Krenn. 2000. Collocation Mining: Exploiting Corpora for Collocation Identification and Representation. Proceedings of KONVENS 2000. Ilmenau, Deutschland.(ps)

Brigitte Krenn. 1998. Acquisition of Phraseological Units from Linguistically Interpreted Corpora. A Case Study on German PP-Verb Collocations. Proceedings of ISP-98. Stuttgart, Germany. (ps)

Brigitte Krenn. 1998. A Representation Scheme and Database for German Support-Verb Constructions. Proceedings of KONVENS-98. Bielefeld, Germany. (ps)

Hans Uszkoreit, Thorsten Brants, Denys Duchier, Brigitte Krenn, Lars Konieczny, Stephan Oepen, Wojciech Skut. 1998. Studien zur performanzorientierten Linguistik. Aspekte der Relativsatzextraposition im Deutschen. Kognitionswissenschaft 7(3). Springer, p. 129-133. (pdf)

W. Skut, B. Krenn, Th. Brants. 1997. An Annotation Scheme for Free Word Order Languages. Proceedings of ANLP-97. (ps)

Brigitte Krenn. 1997. Tagging Syllables. Proceedings of Eurospeech-97. (ps)

G. Erbach, B. Krenn. 1993. Idioms and Support Verb Constructions in HPSG. Claus-Report Nr. 28, Department of Computational Linguistics, Saarland University.(ps)

B. Krenn., G. Erbach. 1993. Idioms and Support Verb Constructions. In Nerbonne, Netter, Pollard (eds). 1993. German in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. CSLI Lecture Notes Nr. 46. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA.

B. Krenn, Ch. Samuelsson. 1997. The Linguist's Guide to Statistics. Don't Panic.(ps)