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Marcin Skowron (Ph.D.)

Research Scientist at Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Language and Interaction Technologies Group

Research Interests:

    Affective Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Extraction, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing

Publications

[Google Scholar Profile] [ORCID]

Book Chapters:

  • A. Chmiel, J. Sienkiewicz, G. Paltoglou, K. Buckley, M. Skowron, M. Thelwall, A. Kappas, J. A Hołyst
    "Collective emotions online"
     In N. Agarwal, M. Lim, R.T. Wigand (eds.): Online Collective Action
    Lecture Notes in Social Networks, Springer-Verlag Wien, 2014

Journals:

  • A. Dobrosovestnova,M. Skowron, S. Payr, R. Trappl
    "Modeling Mentor-Mentee Dialogues in Film"
     Cybernetics and Systems (2019)
    |article|
  • S. Payr, M. Skowron, A. Dobrosovestnova, M. Trapp, R. Trappl
    "Strategic Talk in Film"
     Cybernetics and Systems, Volume: 48, Number: 8, (2017)
    |article|
  • M. Skowron, M. Trapp, S. Payr, R. Trappl
    "Automatic Identification of Character Types From Film Dialogs"
     Applied Artificial Intelligence, Volume: 30, Issue: 10, (2016)
    |article|
  • M. Skowron, S. Rank, A. Swiderska, D. Kuester, A. Kappas
    "Applying a Text-Based Affective Dialogue System in Psychological Research: Case Studies on the Effects of System Behavior, Interaction Context and Social Exclusion"
     Cognitive Computation, May (2014)
    |pre-print| |article|
  • B. Tadic, V. Gligorijevic, M. Skowron, M. Suvakov
    "The Dynamics of Emotional Chats with Bots: Experiment and Agent-Based Simulations"
     ScienceJet, 3:50, (2014)
    |abstract| |article|
  • S. Gobron, J. Ahn, D. Thalmann, M. Skowron, A. Kappas
    "Impact Study of Nonverbal Facial Cues on Spontaneous Chatting with Virtual Humans"
     Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting, 10 (2013)
    |article| |pdf| |video|
  • S. Rank, M. Skowron, D. Garcia
    "Dyads to groups: modeling interactions with affective dialog systems"
     International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research, Volume: 4, Issue: 1 (2013)
    |article|
  • J. Sienkiewicz, M. Skowron, G. Paltoglou, J. Holyst
    "Entropy growth in emotional online dialogues"
     Journal of Physics: Conference Series, IOP Publishing, Volume 410, Number 1, (2013)
  • V. Gligorijevic, M. Skowron, B. Tadic
    "Structure and stability of online chat networks built on emotion-carrying links"
     Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier (2012)
    |abstract and figures| |article| |data set|
  • J. Sienkiewicz, M. Skowron, G. Paltoglou, J. Holyst
    "Entropy-growth-based model of emotionally charged online dialogues"
     Advances in Complex Systems
    arXiv:1201.5477 (2012)
    |abstract| |article|
  • M. 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))
    |article|

Doctoral Dissertation:

  • Marcin Skowron
    "A Web Based Approach to Factoid and Commonsense Knowledge Retrieval"
     Doctoral Dissertation, Hokkaido University, 2005

Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings:

  • M.M. Mousa, M. Skowron and M. Schedl
    "Regressing Controversy of Music Artists from Microblogs"
     30th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence , ICTAI 2018.
  • D. Schabus, M. Skowron
    "Academic-Industrial Perspective on the Development and Deployment of a Moderation System for Newspaper Website"
     11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2018.
    |paper|
  • M. Schedl, F. Lemmerich, B. Ferwerda, M. Skowron, P. Knees
    "Indicators of Country Similarity in Terms of Music Taste, Cultural, and Socio-economic Factors"
     Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia - IEEE ISM 2017.
    |paper|
  • Z. Ahmadi, M. Skowron, A. Stier, S. Kramer
    "An In-Depth Experimental Comparison of RNTNs and CNNs for Sentence Modeling"
     The 20th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS2017.
    |paper|
  • D. Schabus, M. Skowron, M. Trapp
    "One Million Posts: A Data Set of German Online Discussions"
     The 40th International ACM SIGIR Conferenceon Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2017.
    |paper| |dataset|
  • M. Trapp, M. Skowron, D. Schabus
    "Retrieving Compositional Documents Using Position-Sensitive Word Mover’s Distance"
     The 3rd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2017.
  • Z. Ahmadi, A. Stier, M. Skowron, S. Kramer
    "To Parse or Not to Parse: An Experimental Comparison of RNTNs and CNNs for Sentiment Analysis"
     The 14th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2017.
  • M. Skowron, F. Lemmerich, B. Ferwerda, M. Schedl
    "Predicting Genre Preferences from Cultural and Socio-economic Factors for Music Retrieval"
     The 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2017.
    |paper|
  • M. Skowron, M. Tkalcic, B. Ferwerda, M. Schedl
    "Fusing Social Media Cues: Personality Prediction from Twitter and Instagram"
     25th International World Wide Web Conference, Poster Track. WWW 2016
    |paper|
  • A. Vall, M. Skowron, P. Knees, M. Schedl
    "Improving Music Recommendations with a Weighted Factorization of the Tagging Activity"
     16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2015
    |paper|
  • I. Mironica, B. Ionescu, M. Sjöberg, M. Schedl, M. Skowron
    "RFA at MediaEval 2015 Affective Impact of Movies Task: A Multimodal Approach"
     MediaEval 2015
    |paper|
  • V. Gligorijevic, M. Suvakov, M. Skowron, B. Tadic
    "Patterns of Online Chats with Emotional Bots: Data Analysis and Agent-Based Simulations"
     CyberEmotions Conference 2013.
  • B. Tadic, V. Gligorijevic, M. Skowron
    "Directed Networks of Online Chats: Content-Based Linking and Social Structure"
     8th International Conference on Signal-Image Technology and Internet-Based Systems, SITIS 2012.
    |paper|
  • M. Thelwall, K. Buckley, G. Paltoglou, M. Skowron, D. Garcia, S. Gobron, J. Holyst
    "Damping Sentiment Analysis in Online Communication: Discussions, Monologs and Dialogs"
     CICLing 2013, part II, LNCS 7817
    |paper|
  • V. Gligorijevic, M. Skowron, B. Tadic
    "Evolving Topology on the Network of Online Chats"
     Proceedings of European Conference on Complex Systems - ECCS 2012.
  • M. Skowron, S. Rank
    "Affect Listeners - From dyads to group interactions with affective dialog systems"
     AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 - Alan Turing 2012, Symposium on Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents - LaCATODA 2012
    |paper|
  • M. Skowron, S. Rank, M. Theunis, J. Sienkiewicz
    "The good, the bad and the neutral: affective profile in dialog system-user communication"
     Proceedings of the fourth bi-annual Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Conference - (ACII 2011), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 337-346 (2011).
    |paper|
  • M. Skowron, M. Theunis, S. Rank, A. Borowiec
    "Effect of affective profile on communication patterns and affective expressions in interactions with a dialog system"
     Proceedings of the fourth bi-annual Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Conference - (ACII 2011), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 347-356 (2011).
    |paper|
  • S. Gobron, J. Ahn, Q. Silvestre, D. Thalmann, S. Rank, M. Skowron, G. Paltoglou, Michael Thelwall
    "An Interdisciplinary VR-architecture for 3D chatting with non-verbal communication"
     Proceedings of Joint Virtual Reality Conference of EuroVR - EGVE 2011.
    |paper|
  • J. Sienkiewicz, M. Skowron, G. Paltoglou, J. Holyst
    "Model of emotional dialogues based on entropy model"
     Proceedings of European Conference on Complex Systems - ECCS 2011.
  • S. Gobron, J. Ahn, et al.
    "An Interdisciplinary VR-architecture for 3D Chatting with Non-verbal Communication"
     Proceedings of Joint Virtual Reality Conference of EGVE EuroVR 2011.
  • J. Ahn, A. Borowiec, K. Buckley, et al.
    "CYBEREMOTIONS - Collective Emotions in Cyberspace"
     Proceedings of the 2nd European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011 - FET 11, Procedia Computer Science (7), 2011.
    |article|
  • M. Skowron, H. Pirker, S. Rank, G. Paltoglou, J. Ahn, S. Gobron
    "No peanuts! Affective Cues for the Virtual Bartender"
     Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International FLAIRS Conference, AAAI Publications, pp. 117-122
    |paper|
  • A. Garas, D. Garcia, F. Schweitzer, M. Skowron
    "Emotional communication patterns in online chat communities"
     Cyberemotions: Emotions in Cyberspace - Models and Empirical Approaches at the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE) conference in Kyoto.
  • M. Skowron
    "Talking with affective dialog systems: Extending the analysis of affect in online communication"
     Getting to the heart of the digital: Automatic analysis of affect in online communication, International Communication Association's 61st Annual Conference.
  • G. Paltoglou, S. Gobron, M. Skowron, M. Thelwall and D. Thalmann
    "Sentiment analysis of informal textual communication in cyberspace"
     Proceedings of ENGAGE 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, State-of-the-Art Survey, pp.13-25, Springer, Heidelberg (2010)
    |paper|
  • M. 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)
    |paper|
  • B. Krenn, M. Skowron, Gregor Sieber , E. Gstrein, J. Irran
    "Adaptive Mind Agent"
     9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2009
  • M. Skowron, H. Pirker, S. 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
  • C. Eis, M. Skowron, B. Krenn
    "Virtual Agent Modeling in the RASCALLI Platform"
    Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop
    |paper| - available at the Rascalli publication page
  • M. Skowron, J. Irran, B. 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).
    |paper|
  • 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. 2007.
    |poster| |paper|
  • 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, 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)
    |paper|
  • 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.
    |paper|
    • 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
    (Award from International Information Science Foundation)
    |paper|
  • 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,
    |paper|
    • 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)
  • Marcin Skowron, Kenji Araki
    "New Features for the Question Classification Using Support Vector Machines"
     IPSJ SIG Technical Reports, pp.139-144, 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
  • 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
    |paper|
  • 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
    • The Winner of IEEE Sapporo Branch Student Paper Contest 2003  

Symposiums/Workshops:

  • M. Trapp, R. Peharz, M. Skowron, T. Madl, F. Pernkopf, R. Trappl
    "Structure Inference in Sum-Product Networks using Infinite Sum-Product Trees"
     Practical Bayesian Nonparametrics, NIPS 2016
    |paper|
  • C. Wu, M. Skowron, S. Payr, P. Petta
    "Identity in Dialogue: Using Semantic Role Labelling to Construct a Moral Framework"
     Interdisciplinary College, IK 2014
    |abstract|
  • M. Skowron, S. Rank
    "Interactive Dialogue Systems and Beyond - Interacting with Collective Emotions in E-communities"
     CyberEmotions - Final Conference
  • M. Skowron and G. Paltoglou
    "Affect Bartender - Affective Cues and Their Application in a Conversational Agent"
     Workshop on Affective Computational Intelligence, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2011
    |paper|
  • M. Skowron
    "Effect of an Affective Profile in Dialog System-User Conversations "
     CYBEREMOTIONSWORKSHOP: Emergent Emotions on the Web
  • B. Krenn, J. Irran, G. Sieber, M. Skowron
    "Virtual Butlers! A technology so close and so far! Insights from the RASCALLI project"
     Workshop on Virtual Butlers - 2008
  • J. Irran, G. Sieber, M. Skowron, B. Krenn
    "Acquisition and Exchange of Knowledge - From Real to Virtual Embodiment"
     In Proceedings of the Symposium on Language and Robots. 2007.
    |poster| |paper|

Selected Projects

  • SELP - `Advanced Knowledge Technologies: Grounding, Fusion, Applications`, FFG programe

Scientific Services

  • Reviewer:
  • Guest Editor:
  • Program Committee Member:
      • KONVENS 2021 - Conference on Natural Language Processing / Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache: special theme of this year's KONVENS is “Deep Linguistic Modeling”.
      • AFFCON2020 - The AAAI-20 Workshop on Affective Content Analysis: Interactive Affective Response.
      • LaCATODA 2019 - Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents Workshop, IJCAI 2019.
      • L2A2 - Symposium Exploring Grounded Language Learning Technology, AISB 2019.
      • AFFCON2019 - The AAAI-19 Workshop on Affective Content Analysis: Modeling Affect-in-Action.
      • ICTAI 2018 - 30th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence.
      • KONVENS 2018 - The Conference on Natural Language Processing / Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache.
      • SwissText 2018 - The Third Swiss Text Analytics Conference.
      • AffCon2018 - The AAAI-18 Workshop on Affective Content Analysis.
      • EDO 2017 - The Second Workshop on Processing Emotions, Decisions and Opinions, part of 2017 Language and Technology Conference.
      • LaCATODA 2017 - Symposium on Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents, IJCAI 2017.
      • ICIDS 2017 - 10th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling.
      • HUMANIZE 2017 - Theory-Informed User Modeling for Tailoring and Personalizing Interfaces, in conjunction with the 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.
      • ICIDS 2016 - 9th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling.
      • KONVENS 2016 - Conference on Natural Language Processing.
      • EDO 2015 - Workshop on Processing Emotions, Decisions and Opinions, part of 7th Language and Technology Conference.
      • SoMeRA 2015 - 2nd International Workshop on Social Media Retrieval and Analysis, in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2015).
      • Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems - KICSS 2014
      • 14th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents - IVA 2014
      • Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems - KICSS 2013
      • 2nd Workshop on Practice and Theory of Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis - PATHOS 2013
      • 13th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents - IVA 2013
      • AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 - Alan Turing 2012, Symposium on Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents LaCATODA 2012
      • COST 2102 International Training School - Cross Modal Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication
      • Summer School "ENGAGE" - Immersive and Engaging Interaction with VH on Internet.
      • COST 2102 International Conference on Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and Enactment: The Processing Issuess
      • The Thirty Sixth Annual Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour AISB 2010, Symposium on Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents LaCATODA 2010
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    Invited Talks and Lectures

    • Lecture: Neubarth, F. and Skowron, M. (2019). "Generating Verbal LEGO Instructions for the Blind and Seeing Impaired". Lecture Series Artificial Intelligence, Institute for Machine Learning and Institute of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz. |abstract|
    • Talk: Skowron M. (2013). "From Virtual to Robot Bartender: insights from the affective dialogue system" COST Workshop on Social Robotics: The Future Concept and Reality of Social Robotics: Challenges, Perception and Applications - Role of Social Robotics in Current and Future Society, Brussels 2013
    • Talk: Skowron, M., Rank, S., Theunis, M. (2012). "Affect Listeners @CyberEmotions", COSI-ICT: Action for the Science of Complex Systems and Socially Intelligent ICT, Brussels 2012.
    • Symposium: Kappas, A., Chung, C.K, Skowron, M., Thelwall, M., (2011). "Getting to the heart of the digital: Automatic analysis of affect in online communication" at the International Communication Association's 61st Annual Conference (ICA) in Boston.
    • Talk: Skowron, M., Rank, S., (2011). "CyberEmotions: the good, the bad, the neutral - effect of an affective profile in dialog system-user online conversations", Emotions in Cyberspace - Models and Empirical Approaches at the International Society for Research on Emotion conference in Kyoto.
    • Symposium: Kappas, A., Skowron, M., Thelwall, M., Holyst, J. (2009). Symposium together with with Agneta Fischer: "CYBEREMOTIONS: Collective emotions in cyberspace pose challenges to emotion research and theory" at the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE) conference in Leuven.

    Press Coverage


    Demonstrations, Exhibition


    Datasets

    The data are freely available for research purposes. If you make use of this dataset, please cite.

    • One Million Posts Corpus
      An annotated data set consisting of user comments posted to an Austrian newspaper website (in German language).
      This dataset is provided as Supplementary Information for the article:
      "One Million Posts: A Data Set of German Online Discussions" by D. Schabus, M. Skowron, M. Trapp . Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) pp. 1241-1244, 2017

    • EFNET IRC-20 Channels
      This dataset is provided as Supplementary Information for the article: "Emotional persistence in online chatting communities" by A. Garas, D. Garcia, M. Skowron, F. Schweitzer. Scientific Reports 2, 402 (2012)



    • Last update: 2021-7-6
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