2026 Wolfgang Minker: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	33	12651	12283	618	604	433	4870

Overview

Wolfgang Minker is affiliated with the University of Ulm in Germany. The scientific work spans multiple aspects of computer science and psychology with a focus on intersections of artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and social psychology.

The main fields of study in this research portfolio include:

Computer Science
Psychology

Within these fields, the subfields most represented are:

Artificial Intelligence
Social Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Signal Processing
Human-Computer Interaction

The research covers a diverse range of topics, particularly in technology-enhanced communication and interaction systems. Principal topics of study include:

Speech and dialogue systems
AI in Service Interactions
Topic Modeling
Social Robot Interaction and HRI (Human-Robot Interaction)
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Emotion and Mood Recognition
Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation

Frequent publication venues reflect the interdisciplinary breadth, with numerous articles published in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Access
it - Information Technology
ACM Computing Surveys
International Journal of Social Robotics

Among recent papers authored or coauthored, key publications include:

"Driver Emotion Recognition for Intelligent Vehicles" (2020) published in ACM Computing Surveys
"Small Talk with a Robot? The Impact of Dialog Content, Talk Initiative, and Gaze Behavior of a Social Robot on Trust, Acceptance, and Proximity" (2021) published in International Journal of Social Robotics
"Natural language understanding for argumentative dialogue systems in the opinion building domain" (2022) published in Knowledge-Based Systems
"The Role of Trust in Proactive Conversational Assistants" (2021) published in IEEE Access
"End-to-End Modeling and Transfer Learning for Audiovisual Emotion Recognition in-the-Wild" (2022) published in Multimodal Technologies and Interaction

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Wolfgang Minker's work. Frequent coauthors include:

Stefan Ultes
Matthias Kraus
Niklas Rach
Nicolas Wagner
Denis Dresvyanskiy

Best Publications

Driver Emotion Recognition for Intelligent Vehicles: A Survey

Sebastian Zepf;Javier Hernandez;Alexander Schmitt;Wolfgang Minker

188
Citations
Affective Dialogue Systems

Elisabeth André;Laila Dybkjær;Wolfgang Minker;Paul Heisterkamp

181
Citations
Evaluation and Usability of Multimodal Spoken Language Dialogue Systems

Laila Dybkjær;Niels Ole Bernsen;Wolfgang Minker

165
Citations
Hidden Understanding Models for Machine Translation

Wolfgang Minker;Marsal Gavalda;Alex Waibel

152
Citations
Endowing Spoken Language Dialogue Systems with Emotional Intelligence

Elisabeth André;Matthias Rehm;Wolfgang Minker;Dirk Bühler

118
Citations
A spoken language system for information retrieval.

Samir Bennacef;Hélène Bonneau-Maynard;Jean-Luc Gauvain;Lori Lamel

111
Citations
A Parameterized and Annotated Spoken Dialog Corpus of the CMU Let's Go Bus Information System

Alexander Schmitt;Stefan Ultes;Wolfgang Minker

106
Citations
Bandwidth Extension of Speech Signals

Bernd Iser;Wolfgang Minker;Gerhard Schmidt

101
Citations
Modeling and Predicting Quality in Spoken Human-Computer Interaction

Alexander Schmitt;Benjamin Schatz;Wolfgang Minker

90
Citations
Statistical Pronunciation Modeling for Non-Native Speech Processing

Rainer E. Gruhn;Wolfgang Minker;Satoshi Nakamura

75
Citations
Small Talk with a Robot? The Impact of Dialog Content, Talk Initiative, and Gaze Behavior of a Social Robot on Trust, Acceptance, and Proximity

Franziska Babel;Johannes Kraus;Linda Miller;Matthias Kraus

72
Citations
Emotion recognition and adaptation in spoken dialogue systems

Johannes Pittermann;Angela Pittermann;Wolfgang Minker

72
Citations
A stochastic case frame approach for natural language understanding

W. Minker;S. Bennacef;J.-L. Gauvain

69
Citations
Handling Emotions in Human-Computer Dialogues

Johannes Pittermann;Angela Pittermann;Wolfgang Minker

67
Citations
Perception and Interactive Technologies

Elisabeth André;Laila Dybkjær;Wolfgang Minker;Heiko Neumann

63
Citations
Recent trends in discourse and dialogue

Laila Dybkjær;Wolfgang Minker

58
Citations
Stochastically-based semantic analysis

Wolfgang Minker;Alex Waibel;Joseph Mariani

56
Citations
Stochastic versus rule-based speech understanding for information retrieval

Wolfgang Minker

56
Citations
Speech and Human-Machine Dialog

Wolfgang Minker;Samir Bennacef

55
Citations
Emotion Recognition and Depression Diagnosis by Acoustic and Visual Features: A Multimodal Approach

Maxim Sidorov;Wolfgang Minker

52
Citations
Detecting the Number of Clusters through Cluster Validation

Amparo Albalate;Wolfgang Minker

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Satoshi Nakamura Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Elisabeth André University of Augsburg

Michael Weber University of Ulm

Sakriani Sakti Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Alex Waibel Carnegie Mellon University

Hani Hagras University of Essex

Heiko Neumann University of Ulm

Gerhard Schmidt Kiel University

Günther Palm University of Ulm

Klaus Dietmayer University of Ulm

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