Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová's Research

Research Interests

discourse and dialogue modelling: discourse semantics, discourse/dialogue structure, discourse relations&connectives, dialogue moves, text planning
natural language generation
anaphoric reference, its means and resolution, modelling of salience
information structure: Theme-Rheme (Topic-Focus) and Given-New partitioning(s), their realization through word order, intonation and syntax; interplay between IS and discourse structure
word order, esp. its variation as a means of IS realization

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COSY: Cognitive Systems for Cognitive Assistants (September 2004-August 2008)
TALK: Tools for Ambient Linguistic Knowledge --developing flexible, adaptive, multimodal dialogue systems (new EU-funded project, starts in January 2004)
DIALOG: Tutorial dialogue with a math-assistent system (SFB378) Website with more concrete details.
MULI: Multilingual Information Structure Annotation
SIRIDUS: Specification, Interaction and Reconfiguration in Dialogue Understanding Systems. Siridus was an EU-funded project, a follow-up to TRINDI. More details about the work carried out at Computational Linguistics, Saarland University, can be found at our local pages.
AGILE: Automatic generation of instruction texts in Czech, Bulgarian and Russian (EU-funded: INCO-COPERNICUS project PL961104)