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Volha Petukhova is a Researcher at Saarland University, specializing in computational semantics, dialogue theory, and cognitive modeling. She contributes to ISO standards for semantic annotation frameworks (ISO 24617-2 and -5). Her work focuses on dialogue acts, multimodal communication, and argumentation systems. She has led projects like DialogBank and participated in initiatives such as METALOGUE and DBOX. She teaches courses including Multimodal Dialogue Systems and Computational Pragmatics.
Her research interests include dialogue management, belief-intention representation, and context-based reasoning. She has published extensively on topics like metacognitive event classification, argument quality assessment, and negotiation strategies. Her recent projects involve personalized health intervention messages and customer-oriented dialogue analysis.
She has advised numerous students on topics like negotiation outcome prediction, argument generation, and multimodal depression detection. She collaborates on creating annotated dialogue corpora, such as the DBOX and Metalogue Debate Trainee Corpus. Her work bridges theoretical dialogue semantics with practical applications in healthcare and education.
