Most of Jan Alexandersson's publications

Thesis

• Jan Alexandersson Abstract Interpretation of Logic Programs with External Functions - an Implementation Master thesis, Linköping University, Sweden, August 1993
• Jan Alexandersson Hybrid Discourse Modelling and Summarization for a Speech-to-Speech Translation System Phd thesis, Universtität des Saarlandes, Germany, December 2003

  Articles

• Norbert Pfleger and Jan Alexandersson Modeling Non-Verbal Behavior in Multimodal Conversational Systems In: it - Information Technology Special Issue on "Conversational User Interfaces", volume 46, issue 6, 2004, pp 341--345
• Jan Alexandersson i2home - Towards a Universal Home Environment for Elderly and Disabled In: KI Special issue on Cognition
• Kamel Boulos MN, Lou RC, Anastasiou A, Nugent CD, Alexandersson J, Zimmermann G, Cortes U, Casas R. Connectivity for healthcare and well-being management: examples from six European projects. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2009 Jul;6(7):1947-71.
• Ingo Zinnikus, Klaus Fischer, Jan Alexandersson and Unai Diaz. Bringing the Elderly Into the Mainstream of E-Society: The VITAL Project. IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet Vol. 7, No. 1/2010, pp. 118-135. ISSN: 1645-7641
• Christoph Stahl, Jochen Frey, Jan Alexandersson and Boris Brandherm. Synchronized Realities. In Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (JAISE) Volume 3, Number 1, January 2011
• Gorka Epelde, Eduardo Carrasco, Gottfried Zimmermann, Jan Alexandersson, Robert Neßelrath und Markus Dubielzig. Universal Remote Console-based next-generation accessible television Universal Access in the Information Society, pages 1--15, 2011
• Christopher Mayer, Gottfried Zimmermann, Andrej Grguric, Jan Alexandersson, Miroslav Sili and Christophe Strobbe. A comparative study of systems for the design of flexible user interfaces In Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (JAISE), Vol 8(2), pp 125 -- 148

  Book Chapters

• Jan Alexandersson, Ralf Engel, Michael Kipp, Stephan Koch, Uwe Küssner, Norbert Reithinger and Manfred Stede. (2000). Dialog Processing and Context Evaluation Modeling Negotiation Dialogs. In: W. Wahlster (ed.): Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-to-Speech Translation., (pp. 443--453). Berlin/Heidelberg/New York: Springer-Verlag.
• Michael Kipp, Jan Alexandersson, Ralf Engel and Norbert Reithinger. (2000). Dialog Processing. In: W. Wahlster (ed.): Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-to-Speech Translation., (pp. 454--467). Berlin/Heidelberg/New York: Springer-Verlag.
• Jan Alexandersson, Peter Poller and Michael Kipp Generating Multilingual Dialog Summaries and Minutes. In: W. Wahlster (Ed.): Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-to-Speech Translation., (pp. 509--520). Berlin/Heidelberg/New York: Springer, 2000.
• Jan Alexandersson and Norbert Pfleger. (2006). Discourse Modeling. In: W. Wahlster (Ed.): SmartKom - Foundations of Multimodal Dialogue Systems, (pp. 237--254), Berlin/Heidelberg/New York: Springer-Verlag.
• Jan Alexandersson, Tilman Becker and Norbert Pfleger. (2006). Overlay. In: W. Wahlster (Ed.): SmartKom - Foundations of Multimodal Dialogue Systems, (pp. 255--268), Berlin/Heidelberg/New York: Springer-Verlag.
• Jan Alexandersson and Tilman Becker. (2007). Efficient Computation of Overlay for Multiple Inheritance Hierarchies in Discourse Modeling (pdf). in Harry Bunt and Reinhard Muskens (Ed.): Computing Meaning, Vol. 3, (pp. 423--455). Dordrecht: Kluwer. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. (Abstract)
• Zimmermann, G.; Alexandersson, J.; Buiza, C.; Urdaneta, E.; Diaz, U.; Carrasco, E.; Klima, M. & Pfalzgraf, A. Meeting the Needs of Diverse User Groups: Benefits and Costs of Pluggable User Interfaces in Designing for Older People and People with Cognitive Impairments. To appear in: Soar, J. & Swindell, R.: Intelligent Technologies for the Aged - The Grey Digital Divide. IGI Global, 2010.
• Fagerberg, G., Kung, A., Wichert, R., Tazari, M.-R., Jean-Bart, Br., Bauer, G., Zimmermann, G., Furfari, F., Potortì, F., Chessa, S., Hellenschmidt, M., Gorman, J., Alexandersson, J., Bund, J., Carrasco, E., Epelde, G., Klíma, M., Urdaneta, E., Vanderheiden, G., & Zinnikus, I. (Nov. 2010). Platforms for AAL Applications. In: Lukowicz, P., Kunze, K., & Kortuem, G. (Eds.): Smart Sensing and Context. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 6446, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2010. ISSN: 0302-9743, ISBN-10: 3-642-16981-3, ISBN-13: 978-3-642-16981-6.
• Harry Bunt, Volha Petukhova, David Traum, and Jan Alexandersson. Dialogue act annotation with the iso 24617-2 standard. In D. A. Dahl, editor, Multimodal Interaction with W3C Standards: Toward Natural User Interfaces to Everything, pages 109--135. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2017.

  Conference Papers

• Jan Alexandersson, Elisabeth Maier and Norbert Reithinger. A Robust and Efficient Three-Layered Dialog Component for a Speech-to-Speech Translation System In: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL-95), Dublin, Ireland, March 1995. Also available as Verbmobil Report Nr. 50, DFKI GmbH, December 1994.
• Jan Alexandersson, Norbert Reithinger, Elisabeth Maier. Insights into the Dialogue Processing of VERBMOBIL. Verbmobil-Report 191. Also appearing in: Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing ANLP-97 (pp. 33--40), Washington DC, 1997
• Jan Alexandersson, Peter Poller, Michael Kipp and Ralf Engel. Multilingual Summary Generation in a Speech--To--Speech Translation System for Multilingual Dialogues In: Proceedings of the International Natural Language Generation Conference 2000 (INLG-2000) (pp. 148--155). Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, June 2000.
• Norbert Reithinger, Michael Kipp, Ralf Engel and Jan Alexandersson Summarizing Multilingual Spoken Negotiation Dialogues In: Proceedings of ACl-2000 (pp. 310--317). Hong Kong, October, 2000.
• Paul Buitelaar, Jan Alexandersson, Tilman Jaeger, Stephan Lesch, Norbert Pfleger, Diana Raileanu, Tanja von den Berg, Kerstin Klöckner, Holger Neis, Hubert Schlarb An Unsupervised Semantic Tagger Applied to German In: ``Proceedings of Recent Advances in NLP 2001 (RANLP) (pp. 52--57). Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, 5-7 September, 2001. Abstract, PDF
• Norbert Pfleger, Jan Alexandersson, and Tilman Becker. Scoring Functions for Overlay and their Application in Discourse Processing (pdf). In Proceedings of KONVENS 2002 (pp. 139--146), Saarbrücken, Germany, September 30 - October 2, 2002.
• Norbert Reithinger, Jan Alexandersson, Tilman Becker, Anselm Blocher, Ralf Engel, Markus Löckelt, Jochen Müller, Norbert Pfleger, Peter Poller, Michael Streit and Valentin Tschernomas SmartKom - Adaptive and Flexible Multimodal Access to Multiple Applications in Proceedings of ICMI 2003, Vancouver, B.C., November 5-7, 2003
• Jan Alexandersson, Tilman Becker and Norbert Pfleger. Scoring for Overlay based on Informational Distance. In Proceedings of KONVENS 2004 (pp. 1--4), Vienna, Austria, September 14 - 17, 2004.
• Jan Alexandersson, Kai Richter and Stephanie Becker. I2HOME: Benutzerzentrierte Entwicklung einer offenen standardbasierten Smart Home Plattform. In Proceedings of USEWARE 2006. (In German)
• Martin Klima, Miroslav Macik, Elena Urdaneta, Cristina Buiza, Eduardo Carrasco, Gorka Epelde and Jan Alexandersson. User Interfaces for the Digital Home on the basis of Open Industrial Standards In Proceedings of AMIF 2008, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, October, 15-16 2008.
• Robert Neßelrath, Christian Schulz, Jan Schehl, Alexander Pfalzgraph, Norbert Pfleger, Verena Stein and Jan Alexandersson: Homogeneous Multimodal Access to the Digital Home for People with Cognitive Disabilities. In Proceedings of Ambient Assisted Living - AAL. 2. Deutscher Kongress mit Ausstellung/Technologien - Anwendungen - Management, (pp. ) Berlin, Germany, 2009.
• Jan Alexandersson, Gottfried Zimmermann and Jürgen Bund. User Interfaces for AAL: How Can I Satisfy All Users?: In Proceedings of Ambient Assisted Living - AAL. 2. Deutscher Kongress mit Ausstellung/Technologien - Anwendungen - Management, (pp. 5--9) Berlin, Germany, 2009.
• Ingo Zinnikus, Klaus Fischer, Jan Alexandersson and Unai Diaz: Bringing the elderly into the mainstream of e-Society: the VITAL Project. IADI e-Society Conference, Barcelona, Spain 2009. (Outstanding paper award)
• Christian Schulz, Jan Alexandersson and Tilman Becker. Well-formed Unification in Non-deterministic Multiple Inheritance Hierarchies In: ``Proceedings of the Eigths International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS-8)'', Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2009, Pages XX--YY
• Gorka Epelde, Eduardo Carrasco, Gottfried Zimmermann, Juergen Bund, Markus Dubielzig and Jan Alexandersson: URC-Based Accessible TV. In: Proceedings of EUROITV2009, Leuven, Belgium, 2009.
• Harry Bunt, Jan Alexandersson, Jean Carletta, Jae-Woong Choe, Alex Chengyu Fang, Koiti Hasida, Kiyong Lee, Volha Petukhova, Andrei Popescu, Claudia Soria, and David Traum: Towards an ISO standard for dialogue act annotation. In: Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation - LREC 2010, Malta, May 19--21, 2010, Pages XX--YY
• Verena Stein, Robert Neßelrath and Jan Alexandersson: Improving Spelling Skills for blind language learners - Orthographic Feedback in an Auditory Vocabulary Trainer. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education. International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU-10), located at in conjunction with WEBIST 2010, April 7-10, Valencia, Spain. Pages XX--YY
• Jürgen Bund, Gregg Vanderheiden, Gottfried Zimmermann, Ingo Zinnikus, Jan Alexandersson, Martin Klima, Eduardo Carrasco, Gorka Epelde and Elena Urdaneta. openURC: standardisation towards "User Interfaces for Everyone, Everywhere, on Anything." In Proceedings of 1st International AEGIS Conference, University of Seville, Spain, 7-8 October 2010. pp. ???
• Jochen Frey, Christoph Stahl, Thomas Röfer, Bernd Krieg-Brückner and Jan Alexandersson. The DFKI Competence Center for Ambient Assisted Living. In Proceedings of First International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence November 10-12 2010, Malaga, Spain. pp. 310--314
• J. Alexandersson, I. Zinnikus, J. Bund, E. Carrasco, G. Epelde, M. Klima, E. Urdaneta, G. Vanderheiden, G. Zimmermann. OpenURC: Standardization towards User Interfaces for Everyone, Everywhere, on Anything. In Reiner Wichert and Birgid Eberhardt (Ed.): Ambient Assisted Living 4. AAL-Kongress 2011, Berlin, Germany, January 25-26, 2011
• Robert Neßelrath, Chensheng Lu, Christian H. Schulz, Jochen Frey and J. Alexandersson. A Gesture Based System for Context-Sensitive Interaction with Smart Homes. In Reiner Wichert and Birgid Eberhardt (Ed.): Ambient Assisted Living 4. AAL-Kongress 2011, Berlin, Germany, January 25-26, 2011
• Epelde, G., Carrasco, E., Rajasekharan, S., Zimmermann, G. Alexandersson, J., Bund, J., & Vanderheiden, G. (Jun. 2012). Open Standards Based Public Procurement Policy For Large Market Uptake And New Entrants Barrier Lowering. In: Proceedings of the AAL Summit 2012, June 27-29, 2012, Bilbao, Spain.
• Bunt H., Alexandersson J., Choe J.-W., Fang A.C., Hasida K., Petukhova V., Popescu-Belis A., Soria C. & Traum D. (2012) - ISO 24617-2: A Semantically-Based Standard for Dialogue Annotation. Proceedings of LREC 2012 (8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation), Istanbul, p.430-437.
• Daniel Bieber, Jan Alexandersson, and Kathleen Schwarz. Das Mobia-Projekt: Die Kombination von Dienstleistung und Technologie für den ÖPNV. In Proceedings of the 6th German AAL-Kongress with Exhibition: Lebensqualität im Wandel von Demografie und Technik, Berlin, Germany, Januar 2013. In German.
• Jochen Britz, Jochen Frey, and Jan Alexandersson. Bridging the Gap between Smart Home and Agents. In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE'14), July 2-4, Shanghai, China, 2014, p. X-Y
• Britz, J., Alexandersson, J., and Stephan, W. (2015). UCH goes EAL4 --- The foundation of an Eco System for Ambient Assisted Living: ISO/IEC 15408 Common Critera based Implementation of the ISO/IEC 24752 Uni- versal Control Hub Middleware. In 8. AAL Kongress, 29 -- 30 April 2015, Frankfurt/Main.
• Joy van Helvert, Peter van Rosmalen, Dirk Borner, Vohla Petukhova and Jan Alexandersson, Observing Coaching and Reflecting: A Multi-modal Natural Language-based Dialogue System in a Learning Context. Proceedings of the The 11th International Conference on Intelligent Environments - IE'15 Prague 13-14 July, IOS Press (2015)
• Kathleen Schwarz, Daniel Bieber, Johannes Tröger, Jan Alexandersson, Maurice Rekrut, and Jochen Britz. (2016). mobisaar --- Mit einer technologiegestützten Dienstleistung zu einer saarlandweiten Mobilitätslösung für Alle. In Proceedings of Zukunft Lebensräume. 2016, Frankfurt/Main. (in German)
• Johannes Tröger; Jan Alexandersson; Jochen Britz; Maurice Rekrut; Daniel Bieber and Kathleen Schwarz, Board Games and Regulars' Tables --- Extending User Centred Design in the Mobia Project In: Jia Zhou and Gavriel Salvendy Editors. Proceedings of Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design for Aging: Second International Conference, ITAP 2016, Held as Part of HCI International 2016, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 17--22, 2016, Proceedings, Part I. Pages 129--140, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 9754, ISBN 978-3-319-39943-0, Springer International Publishing, 6/2016.
• Johannes Tröger; Nicklas Linz; Jan Alexandersson; Alexandra König; Philippe Robert Automated Speech-based Screening for Alzheimer’s Disease in a Care Service Scenario. In: Proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare. International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (Pervasive Health-17), May 23-26, Barcelona, Spain, ACM Digital Library, 2017.
• Johannes Tröger., João Mariano, Sibila Marques, Joana Mendonça, Andrey Girenko, Jan Alexandersson, Bernard Stree, Michele Lamanna, Maurizio Lorenzatto, Louise Pierrel Mikkelsen and Bundgård-Jørgensen, U. (2017, July). Technology Experience Café—Enabling Technology-Driven Social Innovation for an Ageing Society. In International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population (pp. 199-210). Springer, Cham.
• Nicklas Linz; Johannes Tröger; Jan Alexandersson; Alexandra König Using Neural Word Embeddings in the Analysis of the Clinical Semantic Verbal Fluency Task. In: 12th International Conference on Computational Semantics. International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS-17), September 20-22, Montpellier, France, 2017.
• Nicklas Linz; Johannes Tröger; Jan Alexandersson; Maria Wolters; Alexandra König; Philippe Robert In: 2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW). Workshop on Data Mining for Ageing, Rehabilitation and Independent Assisted Living (ARIAL-17), located at 17th, November 18-21, New Orleans, LA, USA, IEEE Computer Society, 2017. (Best Paper Award)

  Workshop Papers

• Jan Alexandersson. Plan Recognition in Verbmobil, In: Proceedings of the IJCAI-95 Workshop ``The Next Generation of Plan Recognition Systems: Challenges for and Insight from Related Areas of AI'', Montreal, Canada, August 1995. Also available as Verbmobil Report Nr. 81, DFKI GmbH, April 1995.
• Norbert Reithinger, Elisabeth Maier and Jan Alexandersson. Treatment of Incomplete Dialogs in a Speech-to-Speech Translation System In: Proceedings of the ESCA Research Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, Vigs\o, Denmark, May 1995. Also available as Verbmobil Report Nr. 79, DFKI GmbH, April 1995.
• Jan Alexandersson and Norbert Reithinger. "Designing the Dialogue Component in a Speech Translation System -- a Corpus Based Approach" in Proceedings of the 9th Twente Workshop on Language Technology (Corpus Based Approaches to Dialogue Modelling, Twente, Holland, 1995
• Jan Alexandersson. Some ideas for the automatic aquisition of Dialogue Structure In: Anton Nijholt, Harry Bunt, Susann LuperFoy, Gert Veldhuijzen van Zanten, and Jan Schaake (eds.), Proceedings of the Eleventh Twente Workshop on Language Technology, TWLT, Dialogue Management in Natural Language Systems, June 19-21, 1996.
• Joachim Quantz and Jan Alexandersson: Word-Lattice Parsing Based on Heterogeneous Information Sources in Proceedings of the ECAI-96 Workshop ``Corpus_Oriented Semantic Analysis'' Budapest, Hungary, August 1996
• Elisabeth Maier, Norbert Reithinger and Jan Alexandersson: Clarification Dialogues as Measure to Increase Robustness in a Spoken Dialogue System in Proceedings of the ACL-97 Workshop ``Interactive Spoken Dialog Systems: Bringing Speech and NLP Together in Real Applications'', Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia Madrid, Spain, July 11 and 12th, 1997.
• Jan Alexandersson and Peter Poller. Towards Multilingual Protocol Generation For Spontaneous Speech Dialogues In: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Natural Language Generation 1998 (INLG-98) (pp. 198--207), Niagara-On-The-Lake, Canada, August 1998.
• Michael Kipp, Jan Alexandersson and Norbert Reithinger. Understanding Spontaneous Negotiation Dialogue In: Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop ``Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, Stockholm, Sweden, August 1999.

• Mark Seligman, Jan Alexandersson and Kristiina Jokinen. Tracking Morphological and Semantic Co-occurrences in Spontaneous Dialogues In: Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop ``Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, Stockholm, Sweden, August 1999.
• Jan Alexandersson and Paul Heisterkamp. Some Notes on the Complexity of Dialogues (ps) (pdf) In: Laila Dybkjaer, Koiti Hasida and David Traum (eds.), Proceedings of the ACL 2000 Workshop ``1st SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue'', Hong Kong, October 2000.
• Jan Alexandersson and Tilman Becker. Overlay as the Basic Operation for Discourse Processing in a Multimodal Dialogue System In: Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop ``Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, Seattle, 2001, Pages 8-14.
• Markus Loeckelt, Tilman Becker, Norbert Pfleger and Jan Alexandersson Making Sense of Partial (PDF) (ps) In: Bos, Foster & Matheson (eds): ``Proceedings of the sixth workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue (EDILOG 2002)'', Edinburgh, UK, Pages 101-107.
• Jan Alexandersson, and Tilman Becker. The Formal Foundations Underlying Overlay. In ``Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-5)'', Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2003, Pages 22-36.
• Iryna Gurevych, Robert Porzel, Elena Slinko, Norbert Pfleger, Jan Alexandersson, and Stefan Merten. Less is More: Using a Single Knowledge Representation in Dialogue Systems In ``Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL WS on Text Meaning'', Edmonton, Canada, May 31, 2003, p. 14-21
• Norbert Pfleger, Jan Alexandersson and Tilman Becker A Robust and Generic Discourse Model for Multimodal Dialogue In ``Workshop Notes of the IJCAI-03 Workshop on ``Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems'', Acapulco, Mexico, August, 2003
• Porzel, R., Pfleger N., Merten, S., Loeckelt M., Gurevych, I., Engel, R. and Alexandersson, J. More on Less: Further Applications of Ontologies in Multi-Modal Dialogue Systems. In ``Workshop Notes of the IJCAI-03 Workshop on ``Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems'', Acapulco, Mexico, August, 2003
• Norbert Pfleger, Ralf Engel and Jan Alexandersson Robust Multimodal Discourse Processing In ``Proceedings of Diabruck: 7th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue'', Wallerfangen, Germany, September, 4-6 , 2003, p. 107-114
• Jan Alexandersson, Tilman Becker, Ralf Engel, Markus Löckelt, Elsa Pecourt, Peter Poller, Norbert Pfleger Norbert Reithinger. Ends-based Dialogue Processing. (PDF) in ``Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding (ScaNaLu)'', Boston, MA, May 6, 2004, pp. X-Y
• Christian H. Schulz, Dmitri Rubinstein, Dimitris Diamantakos, Michael Kaisser, Jan Schehl, Massimo Romanelli, Thomas Kleinbauer, Andreas Klüter, Dietrich Klakow, Tilman Becker and Jan Alexandersson. A Spoken Language Front-end for a Multilingual Music Data Base in ''Proceedings of Dialog Systems based on XML Technologies'', Berlin, Germany, October, 13, 2004, pp. X-Y
• Massimo Romanelli, Tilman Becker and Jan Alexandersson. On Plurals for Overlay in ''Proceedings of 9th Workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue (Dialor) Nancy, June 9-11 2005
• Stephan Lesch, Thomas Kleinbauer and Jan Alexandersson. Towards a Decent Recognition Rate for the Automatic Classification of a Multidimensional Dialogue Act Tagset in ''Workshop notes of 4th IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, Edinburgh, August 1 2005, pp 46--53
• Norbert Pfleger and Jan Alexandersson. Towards Resolving Referring Expression by Implicitly Activated Referents in Practical Dialogue Systems in ''the Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - BRANDIAL06, Potsdam, Germany, September, 11--13 2006, pp 2--9
• Jana Besser and Jan Alexandersson. A Comprehensive Disfluency Model for Multi-Party Interaction In: Simon Keizer, Harry Bunt and Tim Paek (eds.), Proceedings of the ''8st SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue'', Antwerp, Belgium, September 2008, pp 182--189
• Robert Neßelrath and Jan Alexandersson. A 3D Gesture Recognition System for Multimodal Dialog Systems In: Proceedings of the sixth IJCAI Workshop ``Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, Pasadena, CA, July, 2009. pp 46--51

• Ane Murua, Xabier Valencia, Eduardo Carrasco, Gottfried Zimmermann, Jürgen Bund, Bruno Rosa, Jan Alexandersson and Unai Díaz. Universally Accessible Task-Based User Interfaces. First International Workshop on AAL SERVICE PLATFORMS (WASP 2010) A one-day workshop to be held at IEEE Healthcom 2010 Lyon, France, July 2, 2010
• Jochen Frey, Thomas Gard and Jan Alexandersson. User-Centred Tool Support - Developing User Interfaces for Persons with Special Needs In Proceedings of the Workshop on Tool-Support for Mobile and Pervasive Application Development (TSMPAD-2010), September 7th, Lisboa, Portugal, 2010.

  Posters

• Stephan Lesch, Thomas Kleinbauer and Jan Alexandersson. A New Metric for the Evaluation of Dialog Act Classification in ''Proceedings of 9th Workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue (Dialor) Nancy, June 9-11 2005
• Christoph Lauer, Jochen Frey, Benjamin Lang, Tilman Becker, Thomas Kleinbauer and Jan Alexandersson. AmiGram---a General-Purpose Tool for Multimodal Corpus Annotation in ''Proceedings of 2nd Joint Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms (MLMI05) Edinburgh, July 11-13 2005
• Harald Lochert, Jan Alexandersson, Tilman Becker and Thomas Kleinbauer OntoMatters---Ontology-Based Representation of Multi-modal Multi-party Interaction in ''Proceedings of 2nd Joint Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms (MLMI05) Edinburgh, July 11-13 2005
• Jochen Frey, Christian Schulz, Robert Neßelrath, Verena Stein, and Jan Alexandersson. Towards Pluggable User Interfaces for People with Cognitive Disabilities In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF 2010), January, 2010.
• Jochen Frey, Robert Neßelrath, Christian Schulz and Jan Alexandersson. SensHome: Towards A Corpus for Everyday Activities in Smart Homes. In Proceedings of "Multimodal Corpora: Advances in Capturing, Coding and Analyzing Multimodality", A WS at 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation - LREC 2010, Malta, May 19--21, 2010, Pages XX--YY (Forthcoming)
• C. H. Schulz, I. Zinnikus, P. Kapahnke, J. Frey, R. Neßelrath and J. Alexandersson. Universally Accessible Interactive Services on TV: A Case Study on the Provisioning of Internet Serivces to Elderly People. In Reiner Wichert and Birgid Eberhardt (Ed.): Ambient Assisted Living 4. AAL-Kongress 2011, Berlin, Germany, January 25-26, 2011
• Verena Stein, Robert Neßelrath, Jan Alexandersson, Johannes Tröger Designing with and for the visually impaired: vocabulary, spelling and the screen reader Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU-11), Pages 462-467, Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands, SciTePress, May, 6-8, 2011
• Alvaro Gauterin, Jan Alexandersson, Robert Neßelrath, Christian H. Schulz, Jochen Frey, Achim Schmidt, Mario Hoffmann, Clemens Hauser Georg Kühn, and Michael Kugler. Accessible elevator. In Ambient Assisted Living, 5. German AAL-Kongress 2011, Berlin, Germany, January 2012
• Jan Alexandersson, Maria Aretoulaki, Nick Campbell, Michael Gardner, Andrey Girenko, Dietrich Klakow, Dimitris Koryzis, Volha Petukhova, Marcus Specht, Dimitris Spiliotopoulos, Alexander Stricker, Niels Taatgen. Metalogue: a multiperspective multimodal dialogue system with metacognitive abilities for highly adaptive and flexible dialogue management. In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE'14), July 2-4, Shanghai, China, 2014, p. 365-368
• Kathleen Schwarz, Daniel Bieber, Johannes Tröger, Jan Alexandersson, Maurice Rekrut and Jochen Alexander Britz. MobiSaar - Mit einer technologiegestützten Dienstleistung zu einer saarlandweiten Mobilitätslösung für Alle. In: Zukunft Lebensräume Kongress 2016, Frankfurt, Germany, April 2016
• Jan Alexandersson, Jochen Britz, Andrey Girenko, Maurice Rekrut, Jürgen Vogelgesang, Steven Vogelgesang, Johan Plomp, Salla Muuraiskangas, Teppo Veijonen and Timo Urhemaa. PRAF - ein mobiles Selbstmangement-System zur Prävention kardiovaskulärer Erkrankungen einschließlich Vorhofflimmern. In Proceedings of Zukunft Lebensräume, Frankfurt, April 20-21, 2016.
• Nicklas Linz, Johannes Tröger, Jan Alexandersson, Alexandra König, Phillipe Robert, and Maria Wolters. (2017). Predicting Dementia Screening and Staging Scores From Semantic Verbal Fluency Performance. In International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)-Workshop on Data Mining for Aging, Rehabilitation and Independent Assisted Living, New Orleans, LA, November 18-21, 2017 (Best paper award)

  Reports and Memos

• Jan Alexandersson, Bianka Buschbeck-Wolf, Tsutomu Fujinami, Michael Kipp, Stefan Koch, Elisabeth Maier, Norbert Reithinger, Birte Schmitz, Melanie Siegel. Dialogue Acts in Verbmobil-2 -- Second Edition (gzipped, 254 Kb, 106 pages) Verbmobil-Report Nr.226, DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, 1998.
• For more reports, see also The VerbMobil Project

  Standards

• ISO (2012). Language resource management - Semantic annotation framework - Part 2: Dialogue acts. ISO DIS 24617-2. ISO Central Secretariat, Geneva.

  Demonstrations

• Jochen Frey, Simon Bergweiler, Jan Alexandersson, Ehsan Gholamsaghaee, Norbert Reithinger, and Christoph Stahl. SmartCase: A Smart Home Environment in a Suitcase. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE), July 25-28, Nottingham, UK, 2011. (Best Demo Award)

  Editorials

• Jan Alexandersson, Lars Ahrenberg, Kristiina Jokinen and Arne Jönsson: (ed.) (1999): Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems Systems. Proceedings of the International Joint conference of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-99) Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Jan Alexandersson, Lars Ahrenberg, Kristiina Jokinen and Arne Jönsson: Special issue on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems Systems, The Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (ETAI), Vol. 3 (1999), section D.
• Arne Jönsson, Jan Alexandersson, Kristiina Jokinen, Tilman Becker and Magnus Merkel (ed.) (2003): Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-03) Workshop, Acapulco, Mexico.
• Ingrid Zukerman, Arne Jönsson and Jan Alexandersson (ed.) (2005): Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-05) Workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• James Allen, Jan Alexandersson, Jerome Feldman and Robert Porzel (ed.) (2006) ScaNaLU '06: Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics, New York, USA
• Jan Alexandersson and Alistair Knott (eds): Proceedings of the 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue held in conjunction with the 21st Internation Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - COLING/ACL 2006.
• David Traum, Jan Alexandersson, Arne Jönsson and Ingrid Zukerman (ed.) (2007): Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07) Workshop, Hyderabad, India.
• Arne Jönsson, Jan Alexandersson, David Traum and Ingrid Zukerman (ed.) (2009): Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09) Workshop, Pasadena, CA.
• Jan Alexandersson, Arne Jönsson, David Traum and Ingrid Zukerman (ed.) (2011): Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11) Workshop, Barcelona, Spain.
• Jan Alexandersson, Peter Ljunglöf, Kathy McCoy, Brian Roark, and Annalu Waller, editors (2012). Third Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Montreal, Canada.
• Jan Alexandersson, Peter Ljunglöf, Kathleen F. McCoy, François Portet, Brian Roark, Frank Rudzicz and Michel Vacher, editors (2013). Fourth Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Grenoble, France.
• Jan Alexandersson, Dimitra Anastasiou, Cui Jian, Ani Nenkova, Rupal Patel, Frank Rudzicz, Annalu Waller, Desislava Zhekova, editors (2014). Fifth Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Some (older) papers from the DFKI VerbMobil group may be found here

Invited Talks etc

• SCANALU 2002, Experiences from Large NLP Projects ( Scalable Natural Language Understanding) (Invited Talk)
• The 24th Edition of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2008), Madrid, September 10-12, 2008 (Keynote speaker)
• 1. Saarländischer Fachkongress Ambient Assisted Living, 7. November 2008, Messegelände, Saarbrücken, Germany (Invited Talk)
• Trend Seminar Ambient Assisted Living: IT-Unterstützung für ein Selbstbestimmtes Altern (IT support for ageing well), Fraunhofer IAO, Stuttgart, March 10th, 2009 (Panel Member)
• Aktivitäten und Visionen im Kompetenzzentrum AAL am Deutschen Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz - DFKI GmbH a talk at ConLife 2010, Die Leitveranstaltung für Heimvernetzung und -automatisierung, Cologne, May 20, 2010
• Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC-2010) October 28-29, 2010, Linköping University, Sweden (Plenary Speaker)
• CEBiT 2013: From Smart Home to Smart Everywhere, BITKOM Smart Home Forum @ CeBIT, March 9th, 2013
• 6th Conference on Aspects of European Consumer Law: Artificial Intelligence in everyday laife – Dangerous or gimme more?, Luxenburg, October 3rd, 2017
• Euskampus Day: Some R&D Methodologies for Applied, Multidisciplinary Research and Innovations Projects involving Different Users, Bilbao/Spain, November 28th, 2017

Service on External Thesis Committees

• External Examiner on Karolina Eliasson's Lic Thesis, "The Use of Case-Based Reasoning in a Human-Robot Dialog System", Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden, 2006
• External Examiner on Jerome Geertzen's Ph.D Thesis "Dialogue act recognition and prediction", Computation Linguistics Department, Tilburg University, 2009i
• External Examiner on Martin Klima's, Ph.D Thesis, "Collaborative Work in Mobile Environment", Faculty of Electrical Engineering, CTU, Prague, 2009
• External Examiner on Olga Petukhova, Ph.D Thesis, "Multidimensional Dialogue Modelling", Tilburg, 2011

Miscellaneous

• Interview in magazine Wohn!Design on the i2home project, issue 1, 2008, Jan/Feb. (In German)
• Interview -- --by DDP on -- --i2home, June, 2009. (In German)