Visit of professor Marc Swerts

Marc Swerts, professor in the Department of Communication and Cognition at Tilburg University, is currently visiting our department and is hosted by Prof. Bernd Möbius. He is the recipient of the Humboldt Research Award, which funds his current and return visits and collaborations with LST and SFB 1102 projects.
Marc Swerts is an international authority in speech communication research. He analyzes spoken language in conjunction with visual communicative expressions (face, hand, body), using innovative methods to elicit natural conversational speech data and studying the social and contextual factors that cause variation in linguistic systems. During his stay in Germany, he focuses on functional and interactive approaches to model both human-human and human-machine interactions.