Invited Talks, Plenary Presentations and Demonstrations

Please see below for conference and workshop presentations as well as software demonstrations.

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2020

  1. Wegener, R. Invited Speaker and co-organizer: 'Multimodality and Interaction in Virtual Spaces' (postponed due to Covid-19 pandemic). From Sydney to Salzburg: UNSW and Salzburg University Virtual Conference on Multimodality, 2020. BibTeX
  2. Wegener, R. Invited Speaker: 'Neurolinguistics and technology: language, learning and the brain'. Salzburg University Public Lectures, 2020. BibTeX

2019

  1. Wegener, R. and Cassens, J. Invited talk: The Semiotic Machine: Technology and Multimodal Interaction in Context. The Conference New Methods for Multimodal Research. Salzburg, Austria, 2019. BibTeX
  2. Wegener, R. Invited talk: Dialogue in design: building socio-technical systems through transdisciplinary collaboration. Workshop ``The Future of AI: Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues''. Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2019. BibTeX

2018

  1. Wegener, R. Invited talk: Variation in SFL: Hasan's approach to speech function and mood. The Nottingham Workshop 2018: On the WHY of Text Analysis and Mood and Speech Function. Nottingham, UK, 2018. BibTeX
  2. Wegener, R. Invited workshop: ‘Socio-cognitive models of Context for Studying Language in Use’. LinC Summer School on the Road, RWTH Aachen University. Aachen, Germany, 2018. BibTeX

2017

  1. Wegener, R. Invited Speaker: ‘Using multi-modal markers for importance in academic lecture understanding’. Köln University Colloquium on Phonetics and Phonology, Köln University. Köln, Germany, 2017. BibTeX

2016

  1. Wegener, R. Invited Talk: ‘Operationalizing Creativity: Hasan and the Systematic Study of Verbal Art’. Symposium on Register in an SFL perspective, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK, 2016. BibTeX
  2. Wegener, R. Invited Workshop: ‘Mixed Methods in Linguistics: Exploring the Challenges of Data Combination’. Symposium on Register in an SFL perspective, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK, 2016. BibTeX

2015

  1. Wegener, R. Postdoctoral Symposium Co-organiser and Invited Speaker ‘Working on Interdisciplinary Projects’. Context Interdisciplinary Conference on Modelling and Using Context. Larnaca, Cyprus., 2015. BibTeX

2013

  1. Wegener, R. Invited Speaker: ‘Star Trek Doors: building behaviour aware applications’. Galaxy Tech Talks, 2013. BibTeX
  2. Wegener, R. Invited Speaker: 'The problem of Instantiation: context and multimodality. Register and Context Symposium, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 2013. BibTeX
  3. Wegener, R. Invited Speaker: 'Learning Analytics and the integration of Social and Technical Systems'. Systems for Retention and Student Engagement in Higher Education, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 2013. BibTeX

2011

  1. Wegener, R. Invited Speaker: 'Classifying Report Type: why 'pre-diagnosis' makes sense'. Cancer Council Australia and Radiology Victoria Stakeholder Meeting (Autumn), 2011. BibTeX
  2. Wegener, R. Invited Speaker: 'Understanding negation and location in radiology reports'. Cancer Council Australia and Radiology Victoria Stakeholder Meeting (Spring), 2011. BibTeX

Conference and Workshop Presentations

Please see above for invited talks, guest lectures and plenaries.

2020

  1. Wegener, R. and Cassens, J. Applied Multimodality: multimodality for technology and technology for multimodal research (postponed to 2021 due to Covid-19 pandemic). AILA 2020 World Congress of Applied Linguistics. Groningen, The Netherlands, 2020. BibTeX
  2. Cassens, J.; Wegener, R.; Habenicht, L. and Blohm, J. Explaining as a dialogic process (postponed to 2021 due to Covid-19 pandemic). ICT – The International Conference on Thinking. Paris, France, 2020. BibTeX
  3. Wegener, R. and Cassens, J. The Context of Reading: Understanding the textual triggers for reader emotion during literary text reading. The Ninth Göttingen-Hildesheim Workshop. Göttingen, Germany, 2020. BibTeX

2019

  1. Cassens, J. and Wegener, R. Ambient Explanations: Ambient Intelligence and Explainable AI. AmI – The European Conference on Ambient Intelligence. Rome, Italy, 2019. BibTeX
  2. Cassens, J. and Wegener, R. Multi-modal Markers for Meaning: Making Use of Behavioural, Acoustic and Textual Cues to Automatically Identify Importance in Lectures. The Fourth Bremen Conference on Multimodality (BreMM 2019). Bremen, Germany, 2019. BibTeX
  3. Wegener, R. and Cassens, J. Combining the lab with the crowd to understand multimodal responses to fantasy text reading. The Fourth Bremen Conference on Multimodality (BreMM 2019). Bremen, Germany, 2019. BibTeX
  4. Wegener, R. and Cassens, J. Multi-modal responses to texts: Combining lots of low quality data with a bit of high quality data. The Eighth Göttingen-Hildesheim Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities. Hildesheim. Germany, 2019. BibTeX
  5. Cassens, J.; Wiek, T.; Wegener, R. and Schüller, B. Academic Writing Support: The Sensate-System and an SFL Perspective. The 29th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (ESFLC 2019). Leiria, Portugal, 2019. BibTeX
  6. Wegener, R. and Cassens, J. Explanatory Behaviour in Context: the multimodal and dialogic nature of explanation in the wild. The 29th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (ESFLC 2019). Leiria, Portugal, 2019. BibTeX
  7. Wegener, R. and Cassens, J. Multi-Modal Markers for Meaning: Dynamic Extraction of Contextually Relevant Information (Poster). Workshop ``The Future of AI: Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues''. Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2019. BibTeX
  8. Cassens, J. and Wegener, R. How can an Artificial Intelligence explain itself? (Poster). Workshop ``The Future of AI: Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues''. Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2019. BibTeX

2018

  1. Cassens, J. and Wegener, R. Supporting Students Through Notifications About Importance in Academic Lectures. AmI – The European Conference on Ambient Intelligence. Larnaca, Cyprus, 2018. BibTeX
  2. Wegener, R. and Cassens, J. Uni 2028 – From Academic Writing Support to Learning Analytics (Public Lecture). Opening of the Centre for Digital Change. Hildesheim, Germany, 2018. BibTeX
  3. Wegener, R.; Cassens, J.; Ude, J. and Schüller, B. A Pipeline for Extracting Multi-Modal Markers for Meaning in Lectures (Poster). LinC 2018. Aachen, Germany, 2018. BibTeX
  4. Cassens, J. and Wegener, R. How can an Artificial Intelligence explain itself? (Poster). LinC 2018. Aachen, Germany, 2018. BibTeX
  5. Ude, J.; Schüller, B.; Wegener, R. and Cassens, J. A Pipeline for Extracting Multi-Modal Markers for Meaning in Lectures. Tenth International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018. BibTeX
  6. Cassens, J. and Wegener, R. What makes a (good) explanation, and why does it matter for computing?. 28th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (ESFLC 2018). Pavia, Italy, 2018. BibTeX
  7. Wegener, R.; Cassens, J. and Schüller, B. Lexicogrammatical patterning in textual triggers for reader emotion during literary text reading. 28th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (ESFLC 2018), Pavia, Italy, 2018. BibTeX

2017

  1. Wegener, R.; Kohlschein, C. and Cassens, J. Modelling Context for Emotion Recognition During Literary Text Reading. Ninth International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context, Melbourne, Australia, 2017. BibTeX
  2. Wegener, R.; Kohlschein, C.; Jeschke, S. and Neumann, S. EmoLiTe textendash A Database for Emotion Detection During Literary Text Reading. CBAR – Fifth International workshop on Context Based Affect Recognition @ ACII 2017. San Antonio, Texas, USA, 2017. BibTeX
  3. Wegener, R. and Cassens, J. Understanding Importance in Context: multi-modal markers for context dependent information extraction. Ninth International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context, Melbourne, Australia, 2017. BibTeX
  4. Wegener, R.; Schüller, B. and Cassens, J. Needing and Wanting in Academic Lectures: Profiling the academic lecture across context. International Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference, Wollongong, Australia, 2017. BibTeX
  5. Wegener, R. and Trienekens, L. Textual triggers for emotion in Poetry: Eye-tracking and poetry reading. 27th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (ESFLC 2017). Salamanca, Spain, 2017. BibTeX
  6. Wegener, R. and Maiorani, A. Instantiation in modelling multimodal communication: challenges and proposals. 27th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (ESFLC 2017). Salamanca, Spain, 2017. BibTeX
  7. Schüller, B.; Cassens, J. and Wegener, R. Aligning multi-modal markers for importance in Academic Lectures. 27th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (ESFLC 2017). Salamanca, Spain, 2017. BibTeX

2016

  1. Wegener, R. and Cassens, J. Multi-modal Markers for Meaning: using behavioural, acoustic and textual cues for automatic, context dependent summarization of lectures. Eighth International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2016. BibTeX
  2. Wegener, R.; Kohlschein, C.; Jeschke, S. and Schüller, B. Automatic Detection of Textual Triggers for Reader emotion in Short Stories. The LREC 2016 Workshop Emotion and Sentiment Analysis, Portorož, Slovenia, 2016. BibTeX
  3. Cassens, J. and Wegener, R. ShareBoard – How Transdisciplinary Research Guides Technological Development in a User-Centred Process (Poster and lightning talk). LingUnite 2016. Aachen, Germany, 2016. BibTeX
  4. Wegener, R. and Cassens, J. Multi-modal Markers for Meaning (Poster and lightning talk). LingUnite 2016. Aachen, Germany, 2016. BibTeX
  5. Cassens, J. and Wegener, R. ShareBoard – How Transdisciplinary Research Guides Technological Development in a User-Centred Process. 26th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (ESFLC 2016). Salzburg, Austria, 2016. BibTeX
  6. Fest, J. and Wegener, R. Understanding Information Elicitation in Context: Newspaper Interviews Across Cultures. 26th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (ESFLC 2016). Salzburg, Austria, 2016. BibTeX
  7. Wegener, R. and Lothmann, T. This is not normal rabbit behaviour. CRAL-PALA - Stylistics Symposium (Nottingham, UK), 2016. BibTeX

2015

  1. Cassens, J. and Wegener, R. Putting SFL to Work: applications in artificial intelligence. 42nd International Systemic-Functional Congress (ISFC 2015). Aachen, Germany, 2015. BibTeX
  2. Wegener, R. Linguistic Annotations and Machine Learning. Software Demonstration at the 42nd International Systemic-Functional Congress (ISFC 2015). Aachen, Germany, 2015. BibTeX

2014

  1. Wegener, R.; Cassens, J. and Kofod-Petersen, A. Modelling Behaviour Semantically (Poster and lightning talk). e-cosmos workshop Computational Perspectives on Multimodal Data. Aachen, Germany, 2014. BibTeX
  2. Wegener, R. Audaxi – There is a better way to learn (Software Demonstration). Smart Universities Workshop. London, UK, 2014. BibTeX

2013

  1. Butt, D.; Wegener, R. and Cassens, J. Modelling Behaviour Semantically. CONTEXT 2013, Annecy, France, 2013. BibTeX
  2. Wegener, R. Software Demonstration. Mentoring Symposium – Learning, Mentoring & Leading: building resilience, supporting diversity, 2013. BibTeX
  3. Wegener, R. Leaders in First Year Higher Education consortium meeting. FYHE - 17th International Conference on First Year in Higher Education (Wellington, New Zealand), 2013. BibTeX

2012

  1. Wegener, R. Paper A. COMET - Communication and Ethics in Medicine (Trondheim, Norway), 2012. BibTeX
  2. Wegener, R. Paper B. COMET - Communication and Ethics in Medicine (Trondheim, Norway), 2012. BibTeX
  3. Wegener, R. Software Demonstration. COMET - Communication and Ethics in Medicine (Trondheim, Norway), 2012. BibTeX
  4. Wegener, R. Paper. Register and Context Symposium (Sydney, Australia), 2012. BibTeX

2011

  1. Wegener, R. Multiple project stakeholder report presentations. Victorian Cancer Council (Melbourne, Australia), 2011. BibTeX

2010

  1. Wegener, R. and Cassens, J. Possibility and Probability: Choice and Change in Systems. 37th International Systemic-Functional Congress (ISFC 2010). Vancouver, Canada, 2010. BibTeX
  2. Wegener, R. Instantiation. 37th International Systemic-Functional Congress (ISFC 2010). Vancouver, Canada, 2010. BibTeX

2009

  1. Kofod-Petersen, A.; Wegener, R. and Cassens, J. Closed Doors -- Modelling Intention in Behavioural Interfaces. Inaugural Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Society Symposium (NAIS), Trondheim, Norway, 2009. BibTeX
  2. Wegener, R. Paper. Macquarie University Divisional Research Showcase (Sydney, Australia), 2009. BibTeX
  3. Wegener, R. Workshop. Freelinguistics Conference (Sydney, Australia), 2009. BibTeX

2008

  1. Cassens, J. and Wegener, R. Making Use of Abstract Concepts -- Sys-temic-Functional Linguistics and Ambient Intelligence. IFIP 20$^textrmscriptsize th$ World Computer Congress, IFIP AI Stream, Milano, Italy, 2008. BibTeX
  2. Wegener, R. Paper. Macquarie University Division of Linguistics and Psychology Research Festival (Sydney, Australia), 2008. BibTeX

2007

  1. Wegener, R. Paper. Association for Qualitative Research Conference (Melbourne, Australia), 2007. BibTeX
  2. Wegener, R. Paper. Macquarie University Division of Linguistics and Psychology Research Festival (Sydney, Australia), 2007. BibTeX

2006

  1. Wegener, R. Paper. Macquarie University Division of Linguistics and Psychology Research Festival (Sydney, Australia), 2006. BibTeX

2005

  1. Wegener, R. Paper. International Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (Sydney, Australia), 2005. BibTeX
  2. Wegener, R. Paper. Macquarie University Division of Linguistics and Psychology Research Festival (Sydney, Australia), 2005. BibTeX

2004

  1. Wegener, R. Paper. Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association Conference (Brisbane, Australia), 2004. BibTeX
  2. Wegener, R. Paper. International Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (Kyoto, Japan), 2004. BibTeX
  3. Wegener, R. Paper. Macquarie University Division of Linguistics and Psychology Research Festival (Sydney, Australia), 2004. BibTeX

2003

  1. Wegener, R. Poster. Australian Social Policy Research Centre Conference (Sydney, Australia), 2003. BibTeX
  2. Wegener, R. Paper. Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association Conference (Adelaide, Australia), 2003. BibTeX
  3. Wegener, R. Paper. Macquarie University Division of Linguistics and Psychology Research Festival (Sydney, Australia), 2003. BibTeX

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