M.Sc. Niklas Rach

C. Schindler, D. Mayumi, Y. Matsuda, N. Rach, K. Yasumoto and W. Minker
ARCADE: An Augmented Reality Display Environment for Multimodal Interaction with Conversational Agents
CoRR (pre-print), Vol. abs/2408.06222, 2024
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C. Schindler, D. Mayumi, Y. Matsuda, N. Rach, K. Yasumoto and W. Minker
ARCADE: An Augmented Reality Display Environment for Multimodal Interaction with Conversational Agents
Companion Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Association for Computing Machinery, San Jose, Costa Rica, Series: ICMI Companion '24, 2024
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I. Feustel, N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Towards interactive explanations of machine learning methods through dialogue systems
In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS '23), Springer, 2023
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W. Abro, A. Aicher, N. Rach, S. Ultes, W. Minker and G. Qi
Natural Language Understanding for Argumentative Dialogue Systems in the Opinion Building Domain
Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol. 242, pp. 108318, 2022
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N. Rach, Y. Matsuda, S. Ultes, W. Minker and K. Yasumoto
Estimating Subjective Argument Quality Aspects from Social Signals in Argumentative Dialogue Systems
IEEE Access, Vol. 9, pp. 11610-11621, 2021
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N. Rach, K. Weber, Y. Yang, S. Ultes, E. André and W. Minker
EVA 2.0: Emotional and Rational Multimodal Argumentation between Virtual Agents
it - Information Technology, Vol. 63, Num. 1, pp. 17--30, 2021
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N. Rach, C. Schindler, I. Feustel, J. Daxenberger, W. Minker and S. Ultes
From Argument Search to Argumentative Dialogue: A Topic-independent Approach to Argument Acquisition for Dialogue Systems
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, ACL, Singapore, 2021
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W. Abro, A. Aicher, N. Rach, S. Ultes, W. Minker and G. Qi
Natural Language Understanding for Argumentative Dialogue Systems in the Opinion Building Domain
arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.02691, 2021
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A. Aicher, N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Opinion Building based on the Argumentative Dialogue System BEA
Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction: 10th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, Springer Singapore, Siracusa (Sicily, Italy), pp. 307--318, 2021
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K. Weber, N. Rach, W. Minker and E. André
How to Win Arguments - Empowering Virtual Agents to Improve Their Persuasiveness
Datenbank Spektrum, June 2020
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N. Rach, Y. Matsuda, J. Daxenberger, S. Ultes, K. Yasumoto and W. Minker
Evaluation of Argument Search Approaches in the Context of Argumentative Dialogue Systems
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Marseille, France, 2020
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N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Increasing the Naturalness of an Argumentative Dialogue System through Argument Chains
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument, 2020
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K. Weber, K. Janowski, N. Rach, K. Weitz, W. Minker, S. Ultes and E. André
Predicting Persuasive Effectiveness for Multimodal Behavior Adaptation using Bipolar Weighted Argument Graphs
Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Auckland, New Zealand, 2020
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N. Rach, K. Weber, A. Aicher, F. Lingenfelser, E. André and W. Minker
Emotion Recognition Based Preference Modelling in Argumentative Dialogue Systems
In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops), Kyoto, Japan, 2019
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N. Wagner, M. Kraus, N. Rach and W. Minker
How to address humans: System barge-in in multi-user HRI
Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems Technology (IWSDS 2019), Siracusa (Sicily, Italy), 2019
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N. Rach, K. Weber, L. Pragst, E. André, W. Minker and S. Ultes
EVA: A Multimodal Argumentative Dialogue System
Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Boulder, Colorado, October 2018
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N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Markov Games for Persuasive Dialogue
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument, Warsaw, September 2018
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N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Handling Unknown User Arguments in Argumentative Dialogue Systems
Proceedings of the 32nd British Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI), Belfast, UK, July 2018
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L. Pragst, N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
On the Vector Representation of Utterances in Dialogue Context
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Paris, France, Miyazaki, Japan, May 2018
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N. Rach, S. Langhammer, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Utilizing Argument Mining Techniques for Argumentative Dialogue Systems
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop On Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), Singapore, May 2018
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N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Interaction Quality Estimation Using Long Short-Term Memories
Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Association for Computational Linguistics, Saarbrücken, Germany, pp. 164--169, August 2017
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N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
Towards an Argumentative Dialogue System
Proceedings of 17th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA'17), London, UK, June 2017
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N. Rach, S. Montangero and M. Paternostro
Optimal control of many-body non-equilibrium quantum thermodynamics
arXiv:1605.07476, 2016
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N. Rach, M. Müller, T. Calarco and S. Montangero
Dressing the chopped-random-basis optimization: A bandwidth-limited access to the trap-free landscape
Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 2015
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Bachelor Thesis
Argumentative Relation Classification for Argumentative Dialogue Systems
2020

Master Thesis
Multi-Agent Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning for Argumentative Dialogue Systems
2019

Master Thesis
Natural Language Understanding in Argumentative Dialogue Systems
2019

Bachelor Thesis
A debating ontology for Argumentative Dialogue Systems
2017
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