Laura Spillner

Laura Spillner is a doctoral researcher at the Digital Media Lab. She studied media science and digital media and then completed a master's degree in computer science at the University of Bremen, with a focus on artificial intelligence, cognition and robotics. Her master's thesis focused on natural language processing and conversational agents.
Laura is working in the European Project "MUHAI: Meaning and understanding in Human-centered artificial intelligence". 
In this project and in her PhD thesis she is researching natural language understanding, and the development of explainable algorithms AI and hybrid AI in the field of language processing.

Research Interests and Thesis Topics:

• Natural language understanding: e.g. instruction parsing, topic modelling, understanding different points of view and political narratives in social media texts
• Visualization for NLU: e.g. interactive topic networks or narrative graphs, visualizing meaning in word embeddings
• Human-AI-Interaction: e.g. explaining AI predictions or agent behaviour, teaching intelligent agents new knowledge, natural language interaction
• Conversational agents: e.g. conversational user interfaces, linguistic and paralinguistic features and their impact on user interactions