About Me

I'm a PhD student in the research project 'Computational Linguistic Analysis of Public Service Encounters' in the Exzellenzcluster 'Politics of Inequality' at the University of Konstanz and researcher at the University of Passau.

My research interest lie in argument mining, discourse analysis and pragmatics, with a focus on the computational lingusitic model of hierarchy in dialogue and debate and the rhetorical strategies with which differences in hierarchy are signaled. An interesting phenomenon is question dodging, i.e. "answers" which evade the topic of the question and often remain undetected by the interlocutors.

  • Education

    2017-2020: Master of Arts in Speech and Language Processing from the University of Konstanz

    2013-2017: Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Studies and Economics from the University of Konstanz

  • Professional experience

    Jan 2022 - Present: Scientific staff at the University of Passau

    Aug 2020 - Present: Scientific staff at the University of Konstanz

    Aug 2018 - Feb 2019: Internship at Daimler AG (Sindelfingen, Germany) Team Navigation Systems

    May 2018 - Aug 2020: Research assistant at the University of Konstanz (Germany)

  • Awards

    2019 University of Konstanz's Alumni Association (VEUK) prize for outstanding academic accomplishments

  • Associate membership

    2022-Present: Centre for Argument Technology (University of Dundee, Scotland, UK)

Publications

  • "So, are you a different person today?" Analysing Bias during Parole Hearings

    Wassiliki Siskou and Ingrid Espinoza
    Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Social Influence in Conversations (SICon 2024) PAPER

  • Automated Anonymization of Parole Hearing Transcripts

    Abed Itani, Wassiliki Siskou, Annette Hautli-Janisz
    Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2024 PAPER

  • PSE v1.0: The First Open Access Corpus of Public Service Encounters

    Ingrid Espinoza, Steffen Frenzel, Laurin Friedrich, Wassiliki Siskou, Steffen Eckhard, Annette Hautli-Janisz
    Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) PAPER

  • Measuring plain language in public service encounters

    Wassiliki Siskou, Laurin Friedrich, Steffen Eckhard, Ingrid Espinoza, Annette Hautli-Janisz
    Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Political Text Analysis (CPSS-2022) Potsdam, Germany. PAPER

  • Automatized Detection and Annotation for Calls to Action in Latin-American Social Media Postings

    Wassiliki Siskou, Clara Giralt Mirón, Sarah Molina-Raith, and Miriam Butt
    Proceedings of the 6th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature. International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2022. PAPER

  • Annotating very large arguments

    Kamila Gorska, Wassiliki Siskou, and Chris Reed
    Computational Models of Argument: Proceedings of COMMA 2022. editor / Francesca Toni ; Sylwia Polberg ; Richard Booth ; Martin Caminada ; Hiroyuki Kido. IOS Press BV, 2022. pp. 357-358 (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications). PAPER

  • The Keystone Role Played by Questions in Debate

    Zlata Kikteva, Kamila Gorska, Wassiliki Siskou, Annette Hautli-Janisz, and Chris Reed
    In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse, at COLING 2022, 2022. PAPER

  • QT30: A Corpus of Argument and Conflict in Broadcast Debate

    Annette Hautli-Janisz, Zlata Kikteva, Wassiliki Siskou, Kamila Gorska, Ray Becker, and Chris Reed
    In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2022), European Language Resources Association, 2022. PAPER