Research Interests

Xenia Klinge is a data scientist and computational linguist at DFKI with a focus on human-centric intelligent medical and ambient applications, as well as language and conversation in the context of health, wellbeing and recreation. Her interests lie in automatic creativity and storytelling in the context of conversational systems.

She is living and working in Berlin.

B.Sc. / M.Sc. Thesis Topics

If you are interested in doing a Bachelor's or Master's thesis in my area of interest, please contact me. Here are my open topics:

• Dysarthria Translator. You will research the SOTA in machine translation of spoken language and apply it to the specific use case of "translating" impaired speech to typical speech for a prototype to be tested in the field. Possibility to work closely with a family whose child struggles with speech impairment and see a direct impact of your work. If you are very successful, this has startup potential.
• "You don't feel like doing that right now", an escape-the-room chatbot giving voice to depression. You will create a chatbot which acts as a hostile inner voice to a person just trying to have a happy life. This project requires experience in NLP / conversational systems and willingness to research psychologial background.

Advice will cover the contents of the thesis, as well as suggestions and recommendations on literature, structure and work plan, not communication with university, Ausländerbehörde or other beaurocratic aid. You should be willing and looking to publish your results as at least a poster or journal article. You are expected to work independently and by your own motivation, so feel free to propose your own ideas if they fall within one or more of the following areas: 

• Computational creativity
• Storytelling, story generation, story understanding, NaNoGenMo
• Computation (VR, AR, XR, AI) for LARP or roleplaying in general
• Text, dialog and games
• Computational applications in therapy and mental health awareness
• LLMs and hybrid approaches to any of these topics

Internship

If you are interested in an internship, feel free to contact me with details (your experience, duration of the internship, area of interest).

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