Postdoc Researcher
Alexander Henlein is a PostDoc at the Text Technology Lab (TTLab) of the Professorship for Computational Humanities / Text Technology of Prof. Dr. Alexander Mehler at the Goethe University Frankfurt. His doctoral research focused on the analysis of spatial semantics in language models, the extraction of object habitats from images, and the development of a VR-based Text2Scene system. Based on this work experience, he would like to develop VR-assisted communication systems within the scope of this project and use the data thus generated to create novel multimodal models.
About
Goethe University Frankfurt
henlein@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Project
Virtual Reality Sustained Multimodal Distributional Semantics for Gestures in Dialogue (GeMDiS)
Selected Publications
- A. Henlein, A. Gopinath, N. Krishnaswamy, A. Mehler, J. Pustejovsky, “Grounding Human-Object Interaction to Affordance Behavior in Multimodal Datasets”, in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence-Language and Computation, 2023 (accepted).
- A. Henlein and A. Mehler, “What do Toothbrushes do in the Kitchen? How Transformers Think our World is Structured,” in Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2022), 2022
- A. Henlein, G. Abrami, A. Kett, C. Spiekermann, and A. Mehler, “Digital Learning, Teaching and Collaboration in an Era of ubiquitous Quarantine,” in Remote Learning in Times of Pandemic – Issues, Implications and Best Practice, L. Daniela and A. Visvizin, Eds., Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK: Routledge, 2021.
- A. Henlein, G. Abrami, A. Kett, and A. Mehler, “Transfer of ISOSpace into a 3D Environment for Annotations and Applications,” in Proceedings of the 16th Joint ACL – ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, Marseille, 2020, pp. 32-35.
- A. Henlein and A. Mehler, “On the Influence of Coreference Resolution on Word Embeddings in Lexical-semantic Evaluation Tasks,” in Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marseille, France, 2020, pp. 27-33.