Experts & Expertise

• Cognition
• Communication
• Computer linguistics
• Emotions
• Speech technology

• Bridging the gap between psycholinguistics and computational linguistics: The case of Referring Expressions, Principal Investigator (PI), NWO-VICI, 2008-2012 [EUR 1,250,000].
• Detecting and Exploiting Semantic Overlap (Daeso), Stevin-EZ-NWO project, Principal Investigator (PI), with Erwin Marsi, 2006-2009 [EUR 500,000].
• Interactive Multimodal Output Generation (Imogen), ?small programme'' within Interactive Multimodal Information Extraction (IMIX) project (NWO), PI, with Mariët Theune, 2003 - 2007 [EUR 500,000].
• Towards a Unified Algorithm for the Generation of Referring Expressions (TUNA), EPSRC project (with Kees van Deemter, PI), 2003 - 2006. [EUR 280,000].
• Learning to communicate: The application of machine learning to dialogue strategies, PI with Antal van den Bosch, SOBU project, 2000-2004. [EUR 105,000].

I am an editorial board member of:

• Computational Linguistics (2003 - 2005)
• Semantics and Pragmatics (2007 - now)
• Speech Communication (Associate Editor, 2009 - now)
• Topics in Cognitive Science (Associate Editor, 2009 - now)

I have done ad hoc reviews for:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cognitive Science
• Computational Linguistics
• Computer Speech and Language
• Discourse Processes
• Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
• Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems
• Journal of Cognitive Systems Research
• Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition
• Journal of Human-Computer Studies
• Journal of Logic, Language and Information
• Journal of Multimodal User Interfaces
• Journal of Phonetics
• Journal of Research on Language and Computation
• Journal of Semantics
• Journal of Social Robotics
• Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research
• Language and Speech
• Language Resources and Evaluation
• Perception
• Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
• Semantics and Pragmatics
• Speech Communication
• Topics in Cognitive Science (TopiCS)

I was chair of the NWO Humanities Investment committee and have reviewed research proposals

• NWO-GW Open Competition,
• NWO Investments,
• NWO-VIDI,
• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, UK),
• National Science Foundation (NSF-US),
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC, Canada),
• Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS-France).

Our research was in the media:

• VPRO Noorderlicht radio (August 2005): interview with Pashiera Barkhuysen, Emiel Krahmer and Marc Swerts on measuring non-verbal behaviour.
• Psychology Magazine (April 2004): short report about research on facial expressions ("What we don't say with words.").
• VPRO Noorderlicht (November 2007): "Net-echte computerpersonages".
• NRC Handelsblad (November 2007): "Computerpersonages leren langzaam maar zeker non-verbaal communiceren" (interview with Emiel Krahmer and Marc Swerts)
• NRC Next (November 2007): "Geloofwaardige digitale wenkbrauwen" (interview with Emiel Krahmer and Marc Swerts).
• De Standaard (November 2007): "Computerpersonages leren langzaam maar zeker non-verbaal communiceren" (interview with Emiel Krahmer and Marc Swerts)
• De Automatiseringsgids (December 2007): "Wat gaat er om in een virtueel hoofd?"

I (co-)supervise(d) the following PhDs

• Sylvia Huwaë (2011 - now)
• Bart Joosten (2011 - now)
• Karin van Nispen (2011 - now)
• Constantijn Kaland (2009 - now)
• Jorrig Vogels (2009 - now)
• Ruud Koolen (2009 - now)
• Sander Wubben (2008 - now)
• Marieke Hoetjes (2008 - now)
• Martijn Balster (2008 - now)
• Suleman Shahid (2007 - 2012)
• Lisette Mol (2005 - 2011)
• Charlotte van Hooijdonk (2003 - 2008)
• Pashiera Barkhuysen (2003 - 2008)
• Ielka van der Sluis (2001 - 2005)
• Piroska Lendvai (2001 - 2004)
• Mariët Theune (1996 - 2000)

And worked with the following postdocs:

• Albert Gatt
• Jette Viethen
• Martijn Goudbeek
• Iris Hendrikckx
• Erwin Marsi

I was on the Programme Committee of the following conferences and workshops:

• Symposium on Influencing People with Information (SIPI 2012, Aberdeen, Schotland).
• 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2011, Nancy, France).
• ACL workshop on Monolingual Text-to-Text Generation (T2TW 2011, Portland, US).
• EMNLP workshop on Using Corpora for NLG (UCNLG+Eval 2011, Edinburgh, UK).
• 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011, Taipei, Taiwan).
• 9th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2011, Oxford, UK)
• 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2010, Dublin, Ireland).
• 3rd Multimodal Output Generation Workshop (MOG 2010, Dublin, Ireland).
• The 31st Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands).
• The 2nd International Conference on Human-Robot Personal Relationships (HRPR 2009, Tiburg, The Netherlands).
• Eighth International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS-8, Tilburg, The Netherlands)
• 2nd Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (AND 2008, Singapore)
• Symposium on Affective Language in Human and Machine (AISB 2008, University of Aberdeen).
• 2nd Symposium on Multimodal Output Generation (MOG 2008), Aberdeen.
• The 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2008, Columbus, Ohio. Area chair for ?Multimodal representations and processing (including speech & gesture)?).
• The Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2008, Hyderabad, India).
• Eleventh European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2007, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany).
• Eight SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2007, Antwerp, Belgium).
• Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (IJCAI 2007, Hyderabad, India).
• Sixth Discourse Anaphora en Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC 2007, Lagos, Portugal).
• Seventh International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2007, Tilburg, The Netherlands).
• Third Joint Conference of International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING-ACL 2006, Sydney, Area chair for ?Coreference, Discourse, Dialog, Prosody and Multi-modality?).
• Human Language Technology conference - North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting (HLT-NAACL 2006, New York).
• 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006, Hong Kong, China).
• Workshop on Modelling Coherence in Generation and Dialogue (ESSLLI 2006, Malaga, Spain).
• Sixth International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2005, Tilburg, The Netherlands).
• Tenth European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2005, Aberdeen, UK).
• Symposium on Dialogue Modelling and Generation, Annual meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse (TSD symposium 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands).
• Sixth International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2004, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.).
• Third International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2004, Brokenhurst. UK).
• Fifth Discourse Anaphora en Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC 2004, Lisbon, Portugal).
• Ninth Sinn und Bedeutung conference (SUB9 2004, Nijmegen, The Netherlands).
• Fifth International workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS 5, 2003, Tilburg, The Netherlands).
• The Computational Treatment of Anaphora (EACL workshop, 2003, Budapest, Hungary).
• Ninth European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2003, Budapest, Hungary).
• ISCA workshop on Error Handling in Spoken Dialogue Systems (2003, Chateau D'Oex, Sw

E.J. Krahmer teaches the following subjects:

• Cognitive Science (D) (822020) Further information

Visiting Professor at the Stan Ackermans Institute in the User System Interaction Programme (Eindhoven University of Technology.)

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