Foundation of Computational Linguistics

We use computational methods to investigate communication --- the process of making something that was in one head be in more than one head. More specifically, we are interested in multimodal dialogue, where language is the central interaction device, but the body of the participants can be a communication resource as well, and the physical environment can become a topic. We study the complex interplay of intra- and inter-agent processes that makes real-time, situated dialogue possible. We are interested both in basic research on the types of knowledge, the resources and the processes involved in multimodal dialogue (and how to represent them formally and computationally, and how to acquire them from data), as well as in applications of models thereof to human/computer interaction. http://clp.ling.uni-potsdam.de

Collaborative Research Centre 1287 Limits of Variability in Language: Cognitive, Computational, and Grammatical Aspects

• B06: Predicting the limits of variability in discourse using neural models

An overview of further projects can be found here.