@inproceedings{Diderichsen2006,
  author    = {Diderichsen, Philip},
  title     = {Cross recurrence quantification analysis of indefinite anaphora in Swedish dialog : an eye-tracking pilot experiment},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10388},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {A new method is used in an eye-tracking pilot experiment which shows that it is possible to detect differences in common ground associated with the use of minimally different types of indefinite anaphora. Following Richardson and Dale (2005), cross recurrence quantification analysis (CRQA) was used to show that the tandem eye movements of two Swedish-speaking interlocutors are slightly more coupled when they are using fully anaphoric indefinite expressions than when they are using less anaphoric indefinites. This shows the potential of CRQA to detect even subtle processing differences in ongoing discourse.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{LueckingRieserStaudacher2006,
  author    = {L{\"u}cking, Andy and Rieser, Hannes and Staudacher, Marc},
  title     = {Multi-modal integration for gesture and speech},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10393},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {Demonstratives, in particular gestures that "only" accompany speech, are not a big issue in current theories of grammar. If we deal with gestures, fixing their function is one big problem, the other one is how to integrate the representations originating from different channels and, ultimately, how to determine their composite meanings. The growing interest in multi-modal settings, computer simulations, human-machine interfaces and VRapplications increases the need for theories ofmultimodal structures and events. In our workshopcontribution we focus on the integration of multimodal contents and investigate different approaches dealing with this problem such as Johnston et al. (1997) and Johnston (1998), Johnston and Bangalore (2000), Chierchia (1995), Asher (2005), and Rieser (2005).},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{SagetGuyomard2006,
  author    = {Saget, Sylvie and Guyomard, Marc},
  title     = {Goal-oriented dialog as a collaborative subordinated activity involving collective acceptance},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10420},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {Modeling dialog as a collaborative activity consists notably in specifying the contain of the Conversational Common Ground and the kind of social mental state involved. In previous work (Saget, 2006), we claim that Collective Acceptance is the proper social attitude for modeling Conversational Common Ground in the particular case of goal-oriented dialog. We provide a formalization of Collective Acceptance, besides elements in order to integrate this attitude in a rational model of dialog are provided; and finally, a model of referential acts as being part of a collaborative activity is provided. The particular case of reference has been chosen in order to exemplify our claims.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{DeVaultStone2006,
  author    = {DeVault, David and Stone, Matthew},
  title     = {Scorekeeping in an uncertain language game},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10448},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {Received views of utterance context in pragmatic theory characterize the occurrent subjective states of interlocutors using notions like common knowledge or mutual belief. We argue that these views are not compatible with the uncertainty and robustness of context-dependence in human–human dialogue. We present an alternative characterization of utterance context as objective and normative. This view reconciles the need for uncertainty with received intuitions about coordination and meaning in context, and can directly inform computational approaches to dialogue.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{HoffmannLonghurst1999,
  author    = {Hoffmann, Arthur and Longhurst, Kerry},
  title     = {German strategic culture and the changing role of the Bundeswehr},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-11448},
  year      = {1999},
  abstract  = {The article mobilises the concept of strategic culture in order to identify the impact of history upon contemporary security policy. The article will first look at the "wholesale construction" of a strategic culture after the Second World War in West Germany before exploring its impact upon security policy since the end of the Cold War in two areas: the Bundeswehr's out-of-area role and conscription. The central argument presented here is that the strategic culture of the former Federal Republic now writ large on to the new united Germany sets the context within which security policies are designed. This strategic culture, as will be argued, acts as both a facilitating and a restraining variable on behaviour, making certain policy options possible and others impossible.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Archer1999,
  author    = {Archer, Clive},
  title     = {The EU, security and the Baltic region},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-11453},
  year      = {1999},
  abstract  = {The end of the cold war division of the Baltic Sea in 1989, and the three Baltic states' return to independence in 1991 created new opportunities for the decision-makers of the area, as well as new possibilities for fashioning security in the region. This article will examine the security debate affecting the Baltic Sea region in the post-cold war period, and in particular, the relevance of the European Union to that debate. The following section will examine various concepts of security relevant to the Baltic region; the third section looks at the EU and the Baltic area; and the last part deals with the implications that EU membership by the Baltic Sea states may have for the security of the Baltic Sea zone.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{RoellySortais2004,
  author    = {Roelly, Sylvie and Sortais, Michel},
  title     = {Space-time asymptotics of an infinite-dimensional diffusion having a long- range memory},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-6700},
  year      = {2004},
  abstract  = {We develop a cluster expansion in space-time for an infinite-dimensional system of interacting diffusions where the drift term of each diffusion depends on the whole past of the trajectory; these interacting diffusions arise when considering the Langevin dynamics of a ferromagnetic system submitted to a disordered external magnetic field.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{RoellyThieullen2005,
  author    = {Roelly, Sylvie and Thieullen, Mich{\`e}le},
  title     = {Duality formula for the bridges of a Brownian diffusion : application to gradient drifts},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-6710},
  year      = {2005},
  abstract  = {In this paper, we consider families of time Markov fields (or reciprocal classes) which have the same bridges as a Brownian diffusion. We characterize each class as the set of solutions of an integration by parts formula on the space of continuous paths C[0; 1]; R-d) Our techniques provide a characterization of gradient diffusions by a duality formula and, in case of reversibility, a generalization of a result of Kolmogorov.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{KuhnertGuentnerKlannetal.2006,
  author    = {Kuhnert, Matthias and G{\"u}ntner, Andreas and Klann, Mechthild and Martin Garrido, F. and Zillgens, Birgit},
  title     = {Methods for spatial pattern comparison in distributed hydrological modelling : [Poster]},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-7160},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {The rigorous development, application and validation of distributed hydrological models obligates to evaluate data in a spatially distributed way. In particular, spatial model predictions such as the distribution of soil moisture, runoff generating areas or nutrient-contributing areas or erosion rates, are to be assessed against spatially distributed observations. Also model inputs, such as the distribution of modelling units derived by GIS and remote sensing analyses, should be evaluated against groundbased observations of landscape characteristics. So far, however, quantitative methods of spatial field comparison have rarely been used in hydrology. In this paper, we present algorithms that allow to compare observed and simulated spatial hydrological data. The methods can be applied for binary and categorical data on regular grids. They comprise cell-by-cell algorithms, cell-neighbourhood approaches that account for fuzziness of location, and multi-scale algorithms that evaluate the similarity of spatial fields with changing resolution. All methods provide a quantitative measure of the similarity of two maps. The comparison methods are applied in two mountainous catchments in southern Germany (Brugga, 40 km<sup>2) and Austria (L{\"o}hnersbach, 16 km<sup>2). As an example of binary hydrological data, the distribution of saturated areas is analyzed in both catchments. For categorical data, vegetation zones that are associated with different runoff generation mechanisms are analyzed in the L{\"o}hnersbach. Mapped spatial patterns are compared to simulated patterns from terrain index calculations and from satellite image analysis. It is discussed how particular features of visual similarity between the spatial fields are captured by the quantitative measures, leading to recommendations on suitable algorithms in the context of evaluating distributed hydrological models.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{RoellyDaiPra2004,
  author    = {Roelly, Sylvie and Dai Pra, Paolo},
  title     = {An existence result for infinite-dimensional Brownian diffusions with non- regular and non Markovian drift},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-6684},
  year      = {2004},
  abstract  = {We prove in this paper an existence result for infinite-dimensional stationary interactive Brownian diffusions. The interaction is supposed to be small in the norm ||.||∞ but otherwise is very general, being possibly non-regular and non-Markovian. Our method consists in using the characterization of such diffusions as space-time Gibbs fields so that we construct them by space-time cluster expansions in the small coupling parameter.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{WolskaKruijffKorbayova2006,
  author    = {Wolska, Magdalena and Kruijff-Korbayov{\´a}, Ivana},
  title     = {Modeling anaphora in informal mathematical dialogue},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10455},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {We analyze anaphoric phenomena in the context of building an input understanding component for a conversational system for tutoring mathematics. In this paper, we report the results of data analysis of two sets of corpora of dialogs on mathematical theorem proving. We exemplify anaphoric phenomena, identify factors relevant to anaphora resolution in our domain and extensions to the input interpretation component to support it.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{KempsonCann2006,
  author    = {Kempson, Ruth and Cann, Ronnie},
  title     = {Dialogue pressures and syntactic change},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10469},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {On the basis of the Dynamic Syntax framework, this paper argues that the production pressures in dialogue determining alignment effects and given versus new informational effects also drive the shift from case-rich free word order systems without clitic pronouns into systems with clitic pronouns with rigid relative ordering. The paper introduces assumptions of Dynamic Syntax, in particular the building up of interpretation through structural underspecification and update, sketches the attendant account of production with close coordination of parsing and production strategies, and shows how what was at the Latin stage a purely pragmatic, production-driven decision about linear ordering becomes encoded in the clitics in theMedieval Spanish system which then through successive steps of routinization yield the modern systems with immediately pre-verbal fixed clitic templates.},
  language  = {en}
}
@techreport{Becker2004,
  type      = {Working Paper},
  author    = {Becker, Ralf E.},
  title     = {Revisiting public investment},
  issn      = {0948-7549},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-9025},
  year      = {2004},
  abstract  = {The consumption equivalence method is the theoretical basis of public cost-benefit analysis. Consumption equivalence public capital prices are explicitly introduces in order to sufficiently care for the opportunity cost of public expenditure. This can solve the dispute about the social rate of discount within public cost-benefit analysis witch was generated on a criterion looking similar to the capital value formula, known as Lind's approach. The social rate of discount is liberated from opportunity costs considerations and the discounting away of the effects for future welfare vanishes. The corresponding question whether one should accept a positive value of the pure rate of social time preference is an old issue. Its current state between the prescriptive and descriptive view can also be interpreted as a consequence of the oversimplification of standard cost- benefit analysis. But apart from an economic self-process the pure rate of social time preference is also defined as a business-as-usual value of social distance discounting. Hence, a political choice has to be made about this rate which is free in principal.},
  language  = {en}
}
@techreport{Drechsler2005,
  type      = {Working Paper},
  author    = {Drechsler, Denis},
  title     = {Unemployment in Germany and the Eurosclerosis debate},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-9036},
  year      = {2005},
  abstract  = {Many European countries have experienced a significant increase of unemployment in recent years. This paper reviews several theoretical models that try to explain this phenomenon. Predominantly, these models claim a link between the poor performance of European labor markets and the high level of market regulation. Commonly referred to as the Eurosclerosis debate, prominent approaches consider insider-outsider relationships, search-models, and the influence of hiring and firing costs on equilibrium employment. The paper presents empirical evidence of each model and studies the relevance of the identified rigidities as a determinant of high unemployment in Europe. Furthermore, a case study analyzes the unemployment problem in Germany and critically discusses new reform efforts. In particular this section analyzes whether the recently enacted Hartz reforms can induce higher employment.},
  language  = {en}
}
@techreport{Eberhardt2005,
  type      = {Working Paper},
  author    = {Eberhardt, Bj{\"o}rn},
  title     = {Public pensions in the U.S.},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-9058},
  year      = {2005},
  abstract  = {Contents: The Public Old Age Insurance of the U.S. -Historical overview -Technical details -Individual equity and social adequacy The Economic Problem of Old Age -Risks and economic security -Old age, retirement, and idividual precaution -Insurance markets, market failures, and social insurance -Options for public pension systems The Problems of Social Security -The financial balance of OASDI -Causes of the long-run problems -Rates of return -Conclusion - The case for Social Security reform Proposed Remedies -Full, partial, or no privatization? -The President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security -Kotlikoff's Personal Security System -The Diamond-Orszag Three-Part plan},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{VlugterKnott2006,
  author    = {Vlugter, Peter and Knott, Alistair},
  title     = {A multi-speaker dialogue system for computer-aided language learning},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10208},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {The main topic of this paper is how to configure a dialogue system to support computer-aided language learning. The paper also serves to introduce our new multi-speaker dialogue system, and highlight some of its novel features.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{LoehmannsroebenBeckHildebrandtetal.2006,
  author    = {L{\"o}hmannsr{\"o}ben, Hans-Gerd and Beck, Michael and Hildebrandt, Niko and Schm{\"a}lzlin, Elmar and van Dongen, Joost T.},
  title     = {New challenges in biophotonics : laser-based fluoroimmuno analysis and in-vivo optical oxygen monitoring},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10120},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {Two examples of our biophotonic research utilizing nanoparticles are presented, namely laser-based fluoroimmuno analysis and in-vivo optical oxygen monitoring. Results of the work include significantly enhanced sensitivity of a homogeneous fluorescence immunoassay and markedly improved spatial resolution of oxygen gradients in root nodules of a legume species.},
  subject      = {Sauerstoff},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{NiederkruegerSalbBecketal.2006,
  author    = {Niederkr{\"u}ger, Matthias and Salb, Christian and Beck, Michael and Hildebrandt, Niko and L{\"o}hmannsr{\"o}ben, Hans-Gerd and Marowsky, Gerd},
  title     = {Improvement of a fluorescence immunoassay with a compact diode-pumped solid state laser at 315 nm},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10150},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {We demonstrate the improvement of fluorescence immunoassay (FIA) diagnostics in deploying a newly developed compact diode-pumped solid state (DPSS) laser with emission at 315 nm. The laser is based on the quasi-three-level transition in Nd:YAG at 946 nm. The pulsed operation is either realized by an active Q-switch using an electro-optical device or by introduction of a Cr<SUP>4+</SUP>:YAG saturable absorber as passive Q-switch element. By extra-cavity second harmonic generation in different nonlinear crystal media we obtained blue light at 473 nm. Subsequent mixing of the fundamental and the second harmonic in a β-barium-borate crystal provided pulsed emission at 315 nm with up to 20 μJ maximum pulse energy and 17 ns pulse duration. Substitution of a nitrogen laser in a FIA diagnostics system by the DPSS laser succeeded in considerable improvement of the detection limit. Despite significantly lower pulse energies (7 μJ DPSS laser versus 150 μJ nitrogen laser), in preliminary investigations the limit of detection was reduced by a factor of three for a typical FIA.},
  subject      = {Immunoassay},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{Karagjosova2006,
  author    = {Karagjosova, Elena},
  title     = {Correction and acceptance by contrastive focus},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10258},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {An account is presented of the focus properties, common ground effect and dialogue behaviour of the accented German discourse marker "doch" and the accented sentence negation "nicht". It is argued that "doch" and "nicht" evoke as a focus alternative the logical complement of the proposition expressed by the sentence in which they occur, and that an analysis in terms of contrastive focus accounts for their effect on the common ground and their function in dialogue.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{MacuraGinzburg2006,
  author    = {Macura, Zoran and Ginzburg, Jonathan},
  title     = {Acquiring words across generations : introspectively or interactively?},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10408},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {How does a shared lexicon arise in population of agents with differing lexicons, and how can this shared lexicon be maintained over multiple generations? In order to get some insight into these questions we present an ALife model in which the lexicon dynamics of populations that possess and lack metacommunicative interaction (MCI) capabilities are compared. We ran a series of experiments on multi-generational populations whose initial state involved agents possessing distinct lexicons. These experiments reveal some clear differences in the lexicon dynamics of populations that acquire words solely by introspection contrasted with populations that learn using MCI or using a mixed strategy of introspection and MCI. The lexicon diverges at a faster rate for an introspective population, eventually collapsing to one single form which is associated with all meanings. This contrasts sharply with MCI capable populations in which a lexicon is maintained, where every meaning is associated with a unique word. We also investigated the effect of increasing the meaning space and showed that it speeds up the lexicon divergence for all populations irrespective of their acquisition method.},
  language  = {en}
}