Wolfgang Maier

Speech Technology · Mercedes-Benz R&D

I work at the Speech Technology group at Mercedes-Benz Research & Development, contributing to the next generations of the Mercedes-Benz User Experience MBUX, with the MBUX Virtual Assistant. Previously I was a researcher in the Beyond-CFG group at the University of Düsseldorf. I received my doctorate (Dr. phil.) in Computational Linguistics from the University of Tübingen (2013). Further details are available on the profiles linked above.

2023
Ye Liu, Stefan Ultes, Wolfgang Minker, Wolfgang Maier (2023)
Unified Conversational Models with System-Initiated Transitions between Chit-Chat and Task-Oriented Dialogues
CUI '23: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces
2022
Ye Liu, Wolfgang Maier, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes (2022)
ConceptNet infused DialoGPT for Underlying Commonsense Understanding and Reasoning in Dialogue Response Generation
Proceedings of the 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2022)
Ye Liu, Yung-Ching Yang, Wolfgang Maier, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes (2022)
On System-Initiated Transitions in a Unified Natural Language Generation Model for Dialogue Systems
Proceedings of the 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2022)
Ye Liu, Wolfgang Maier, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes (2022)
Empathetic Dialogue Generation with Pre-trained RoBERTa-GPT2 and External Knowledge
Conversational AI for Natural Human-Centric Interaction · Singapore · 67–81
2021
Ye Liu, Wolfgang Maier, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes (2021)
Naturalness Evaluation of Natural Language Generation in Task-oriented Dialogues using BERT
Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing · 839–845
Ye Liu, Wolfgang Maier, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes (2021)
Empathetic Dialogue Generation with Pre-trained RoBERTa-GPT2 and External Knowledge
International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS) 2021
Ye Liu, Wolfgang Maier, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes (2021)
Context Matters in Semantically Controlled Language Generation for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems
ICON 2021: 18th International Conference on Natural Language Processing
Wolfgang Maier, Stefan Ultes (2021)
Challenges for the conversational entity dialogue model
SemDial 2021 · Potsdam, Germany
Stefan Ultes, Wolfgang Maier (2021)
Blending Task Success and User Satisfaction: Analysis of Learned Dialogue Behaviour with Multiple Rewards
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue · Singapore and Online · 403–410
Stefan Ultes, Wolfgang Maier (2021)
User Satisfaction Reward Estimation Across Domains: Domain-independent Dialog Policy Learning
Dialogue & Discourse 12(2) · 81–114
2020
Stefan Ultes, Wolfgang Maier (2020)
On the Complexity in Task-Oriented Spoken Dialogue Systems
Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces · New York, NY, USA
Stefan Ultes, Wolfgang Maier (2020)
Similarity Scoring for Dialogue Behaviour Comparison
Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue · 1st virtual meeting · 311–322
2018
Mohammed Attia, Younes Samih, Manaal Faruqui, Wolfgang Maier (2018)
GHH at SemEval-2018 Task 10: Discovering Discriminative Attributes in Distributional Semantics
Proceedings of The 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation · New Orleans, Louisiana · 947–952
Mohammed Attia, Younes Samih, Wolfgang Maier (2018)
GHHT at CALCS 2018: Named Entity Recognition for Dialectal Arabic Using Neural Networks
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching · Melbourne, Australia · 98–102
Patricia Braunger, Wolfgang Maier, Jan Wessling, Maria Schmidt (2018)
Towards an Automatic Assessment of Crowdsourced Data for NLU
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018) · Miyazaki, Japan
2017
Patricia Braunger, Wolfgang Maier (2017)
Natural Language Input for In-Car Spoken Dialog Systems: How Natural is Natural?
Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue · Saarbrücken, Germany · 137–146
2016
Laura Kallmeyer, Wolfgang Maier (2016)
LR Parsing for LCFRS
Algorithms 9(3)
Wolfgang Maier, Timm Lichte (2016)
Discontinuous parsing with continuous trees
Proceedings of the Workshop on Discontinuous Structures in Natural Language Processing · San Diego, California · 47–57
Younes Samih, Wolfgang Maier, Laura Kallmeyer (2016)
SAWT: Sequence Annotation Web Tool
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching · Austin, Texas · 65–70
Younes Samih, Wolfgang Maier (2016)
An Arabic-Moroccan Darija Code-Switched Corpus
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16) · Portorož, Slovenia · 4170–4175
Younes Samih, Wolfgang Maier (2016)
Detecting code-switching in moroccan Arabic social media
SocialNLP@IJCAI-2016 · New York
Wolfgang Maier, Sandra Kübler, Constantin Orasan (2016)
Proceedings of the Workshop on Discontinuous Structures in Natural Language Processing
San Diego, California
2015
Laura Kallmeyer, Wolfgang Maier (2015)
LR Parsing for LCFRS
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies · Denver, Colorado · 1250–1255
Wolfgang Maier (2015)
Discontinuous Incremental Shift-reduce Parsing
Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers) · Beijing, China · 1202–1212
2014
Levi King, Eric Baucom, Timur Gilmanov, Sandra Kübler, Dan Whyatt, Wolfgang Maier, Paul Rodrigues (2014)
The IUCL+ System: Word-Level Language Identification via Extended Markov Models
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching · Doha, Qatar · 102–106
Wolfgang Maier, Miriam Kaeshammer, Peter Baumann, Sandra Kübler (2014)
Discosuite - A Parser Test Suite for German Discontinuous Structures
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14) · Reykjavik, Iceland
Wolfgang Maier, Sandra Kübler, Daniel Dakota, Daniel Whyatt (2014)
Parsing German: How Much Morphology Do We Need?
Proceedings of the First Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages and Syntactic Analysis of Non-Canonical Languages · Dublin, Ireland · 1–14
Wolfgang Maier, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez (2014)
Language variety identification in Spanish tweets
Proceedings of the EMNLP'2014 Workshop on Language Technology for Closely Related Languages and Language Variants · Doha, Qatar · 25–35
2013
Laura Kallmeyer, Wolfgang Maier (2013)
Data-driven Parsing using Probabilistic Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems
Computational Linguistics 39(1) · 87–119
Sandra Kübler, Wolfgang Maier (2013)
Über den Einfluss von Part-of-Speech-Tags auf Parsing-Ergebnisse
Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics 28(1) · 17–44
Wolfgang Maier (2013)
LCFRS binarization and debinarization for directional parsing
Proceedings of The 13th International Conference on Parsing Technologies · Nara, Japan · 113–119
Wolfgang Maier (2013)
Parsing Discontinuous Structures
Tübingen, Germany
Wolfgang Maier, Sandra Kübler (2013)
Are All Commas Equal? Detecting Coordination in the Penn Treebank
The Twelfth Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT12) · Sofia, Bulgaria · 121–133
Djamé Seddah, Reut Tsarfaty, Sandra Kübler, Marie Candito, Jinho D. Choi, Richárd Farkas, Jennifer Foster, Iakes Goenaga, Koldo Gojenola Galletebeitia, Yoav Goldberg, Spence Green, Nizar Habash, Marco Kuhlmann, Wolfgang Maier, Yuval Marton, Joakim Nivre, Adam Przepiórkowski, Ryan Roth, Wolfgang Seeker, Yannick Versley, Veronika Vincze, Marcin Wolinski, Alina Wróblewska (2013)
Overview of the SPMRL 2013 Shared Task: A Cross-Framework Evaluation of Parsing Morphologically Rich Languages
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically-Rich Languages · Seattle, WA · 146–182
2012
Wolfgang Maier, Miriam Kaeshammer, Laura Kallmeyer (2012)
Data-Driven PLCFRS Parsing Revisited: Restricting the Fan-Out to Two
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+11) · Paris, France · 126–134
Wolfgang Maier, Sandra Kübler, Erhard Hinrichs, Julia Krivanek (2012)
Annotating Coordination in the Penn Treebank
Proceedings of The 6th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (The LAW VI) · Jeju, Korea · 166–174
2011
Wolfgang Maier, Timm Lichte (2011)
Characterizing Discontinuity in Constituent Treebanks
Formal Grammar. 14th International Conference, FG 2009. Bordeaux, France, July 25-26, 2009. Revised Selected Papers · Berlin, Heidelberg, New York · 167–182
2010
Laura Kallmeyer, Wolfgang Maier, Yannick Parmentier, Johannes Dellert (2010)
TuLiPA - Parsing Extensions of TAG with Range Concatenation Grammars
Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences 58(3) · 377–392
Laura Kallmeyer, Wolfgang Maier (2010)
Data-Driven Parsing with Probabilistic Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems
Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2010) · Beijing, China · 537–545
Wolfgang Maier (2010)
Direct Parsing of Discontinuous Constituents in German
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 First Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically-Rich Languages · Los Angeles, CA · 58–66
Wolfgang Maier, Laura Kallmeyer (2010)
Discontinuity and Non-Projectivity: Using Mildly Context-Sensitive Formalisms for Data-Driven Parsing
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+10) · New Haven, CT · 119–126
2009
Laura Kallmeyer, Wolfgang Maier, Yannick Parmentier (2009)
An Earley Parsing Algorithm for Range Concatenation Grammars
Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Conference Short Papers · Singapore · 9–12
Laura Kallmeyer, Wolfgang Maier, Yannick Parmentier (2009)
Un Algorithme d'Analyse de Type Earley pour Grammaires à Concaténation d'Intervalles
Actes de la 16eme conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2009) · Senlis, France
Laura Kallmeyer, Wolfgang Maier, Giorgio Satta (2009)
Synchronous Rewriting in Treebanks
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'09) · Paris, France · 69–72
Laura Kallmeyer, Wolfgang Maier (2009)
An Incremental Earley Parser for Simple Range Concatenation Grammar
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'09) · Paris, France · 61–64
Sandra Kübler, Erhard Hinrichs, Wolfgang Maier, Eva Klett (2009)
Parsing Coordinations
Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL 2009) · Athens, Greece · 406–414
Wolfgang Maier, Timm Lichte (2009)
Characterizing Discontinuity in Constituent Treebanks
Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Formal Grammar · Bordeaux, France
2008
Ebru Arisoy, Keisuke Inoue, Wolfgang Maier (2008)
Proceedings of the ACL-08: HLT Student Research Workshop
Columbus, OH
Laura Kallmeyer, Timm Lichte, Wolfgang Maier, Yannick Parmentier, Johannes Dellert (2008)
Developing a TT-MCTAG for German with an RCG-based parser
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08) · Marrakech, Morocco · 782–789
Laura Kallmeyer, Timm Lichte, Wolfgang Maier, Yannick Parmentier, Johannes Dellert, Kilian Evang (2008)
TuLiPA: Towards a Multi-Formalism Parsing Environment for Grammar Engineering
Coling 2008: Proceedings of the workshop on Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks · Manchester, England · 1–8
Sandra Kübler, Wolfgang Maier, Ines Rehbein, Yannick Versley (2008)
How to Compare Treebanks
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08) · Marrakech, Morocco · 2322–2329
Wolfgang Maier, Anders Søgaard (2008)
Treebanks and Mild Context-Sensitivity
Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Formal Grammar (FG-2008) · Hamburg, Germany · 61–76
Yannick Parmentier, Laura Kallmeyer, Wolfgang Maier, Timm Lichte, Johannes Dellert (2008)
TuLiPA: A syntax-semantics parsing environment for mildly context-sensitive formalisms
Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+9) · Tübingen, Germany · 121–128
Yannick Parmentier, Wolfgang Maier (2008)
Using Constraints over Finite Sets of Integers for Range Concatenation Grammar Parsing
Advances in Natural Language Processing · Gothenburg, Sweden · 360–365
2007
Wolfgang Maier (2007)
NeGra und TüBa-D/Z – Ein Vergleich
Datenstrukturen für linguistische Ressourcen und ihre Anwendungen – Proceedings der GLDV-Jahrestagung 2007 · Tübingen · 29–38
Yannick Parmentier, Laura Kallmeyer, Timm Lichte, Wolfgang Maier (2007)
XMG: eXtending MetaGrammars to MCTAG
Actes de l'atelier sur les formalismes syntaxiques de haut niveau, Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, TALN 2007 · Toulouse, France · 473–482
Anders Søgaard, Timm Lichte, Wolfgang Maier (2007)
On the complexity of linguistically motivated extensions of tree-adjoining grammar
Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2007 · Borovets, Bulgaria · 548–553
2006
Sandra Kübler, Erhard W. Hinrichs, Wolfgang Maier (2006)
Is it Really that Difficult to Parse German?
Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · Sydney, Australia · 111–119
Wolfgang Maier (2006)
Annotation Schemes and their Influence on Parsing Results
Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Student Research Workshop · Sydney, Australia · 19–24

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