Dominic Petrak

Dominic Petrak is a Doctoral Researcher at the UKP Lab, Technical University of Darmstadt. His research focuses on conversational AI, particularly improving dialogue systems through implicit user feedback analysis and error prevention in open-world scenarios. He holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science from RheinMain University of Applied Sciences and has professional experience in software engineering with firms like Sopra Steria and DXC Technology, specializing in NLP, enterprise applications, and Jakarta EE.

Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Conversational AI, Numeracy in Language Models, Dialogue Systems Design, Software Architecture, and Enterprise Application Development.

Publications: His work spans dialogue systems (e.g., FEDI dataset), numeracy enhancement in LMs (Arithmetic-Based Pretraining), and citizen science for NLP. Recent contributions include analyzing social acceptance requirements for service robots and exploring free-text human feedback integration.

Advisors & Labs: Supervised by Prof. Nafise Sadat Moosavi (University of Sheffield) and Prof. Iryna Gurevych. Affiliated with the UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt.