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We are facing a world where autonomous systems will change our daily life. In addition to self-driving vehicles and drones, an increasingly networked home, or the use of intelligent artificial agents as assistants, our belief is that innovative language-based companions offer a great potential, for example, for a language learning or for natural language-based conversations. We, hereby, follow Yorick Wilkes's idea to create artificial companions to be designed to help people and to "study conversational software-based artificial agents that will get to know their owners over a substantial period. These could be developed to advise, comfort and carry out a wide range of functions to support diverse personal and social needs, such as to be an ‘artificial companion’ for the elderly, helping their owners to learn, or assisting to sustain their owners’ fitness and health." (Source: M. Peltu, Y. Wilks: Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key Social, Psychological, Ethical and Design Issues. Oxford Internet Institute (2008).

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2017
2016
  • Sviatlana Höhn. Data-driven Repair Models for Text Chat with Language Learners. Doctoral thesis (2016).
2015
  • Sviatlana Höhn, Stephan Busemann, Charles Max, Christoph Schommer, Gudrun Ziegler. Interaction Profiles for an Artificial Conversational Companion.
  • Sviatlana Höhn. Corpus of long-term instant messaging based dialogues between advanced learners of German as a foreign language and German native speakers.
  • Sviatlana Höhn. Dealing with Trouble: A Data-Driven Model of a Repair Type for a Conversational Agent. In Proceedings International Symposium on Companion Technology. Ulm, Germany.
2013
  • Sviatlana Höhn. Artificial Conversational Companions. In Proceedings of the 27th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium. In Proceedings The 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  • Sviatlana Höhn, Stephan Busemann, Christoph Schommer, Gudrun Ziegler. Towards Computational Models for a Long-term Interaction with an Artificial Conversational Companion. In Proceedings 5th International Conference on Agents an Artificial Intelligence.
  • Sviatlana Danilava, Stephan Busemann, Christoph Schommer, Gudrun Ziegler. Why are you Silent? - Towards Responsiveness in Chatbots. in Avec le Temps! Time, Tempo, and Turns in Human-Computer Interaction. Workshop at CHI 2013, Paris, France.
2012
  • Sviatlana Danilova, Christoph Schommer, Gudrun Ziegler. Long-term Human-machine Interaction: Organisation and Adaptability of Talk-in-interaction. in CHIST-ERA Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • Sviatlana Danilava, Stephan Busemann, Christoph Schommer. Artificial Conversational Companions A Requirements Analysis.