Projects – Barbara Konat

Current projects

Reasoning Research Group, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
Principal Investigator in the project „ComPathos: towards the new model of pathos for computational rhetoric”.
Funded by National Science Centre 2020/39/D/HS1/00488 (Sonata).
Read more about this project here.

The New Ethos laboratory at Warsaw University of Technology.
Co-Investigator in the project „An Argumentative Model of Rephrase: Pragmatic and Rhetorical Approach”.
The project funded by the OPUS-LAP program of the Polish National Science Center (NCN) and
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

SWPS University, Laboratory of Emotion Neuroscience;
B+R project of therapeutic chatbot;
Co-Investigator in the Project: „Chatbot as an automated tool supporting psychotherapy and psychological help, and promoting mental health” („Chatbot jako zautomatyzowane narzędzie wsparcia psychoterapii i pomocy psychologicznej oraz promocji zdrowia psychicznego”) funded by MEiN 012/RID/2018/19;

R&D PI at Sentimenti.pl
W3A.PL sp. z o. o. in cooperation with Laboratory of Brain Imaging and Language Technology G4.19 Group.
Project: „Sentimenti – emotion analyser for Polish texts”.
Scrum Master, R&D coordinator.

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences and Centre for Argument Technology, University of Dundee.
Project: „EthAn: Ethos Analysis” PI: dr hab. Katarzyna Budzynska, funded by Polish National Science Centre.
Automated extraction of ethotic structures in dialogue.
Ethos annotation and representation.

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Centre for Argument Technology, University of Dundee.
Project “Argument Analytics (ArgAn)”, PI: dr Katarzyna Budzynska, funded by Innovate UK. R&D project in cooperation with tech start-up Juralio Ltd (Project lead: Graeme Johnston).
Automated extraction of argumentative-dialogical structures from natural language interaction.
Argument annotation and representation (Online Visualization of Arguments).
Argument Mining (lexical and statistical approach, machine learning).
Python NLTK for Argument Mining, Java ONLP implementations.

Research Assistant

Institute of Linguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
Project “Multimodal expressions of conceptual metaphors vs. coherence and synchrony of communicative behavior in dialogue (MultiMet)”, PI: dr Konrad Juszczyk, funded by Polish National Science Centre.
Lexical and gestural analysis of dialogical interactions in career coaching sessions.
Organization of psycholinguistic research with human subjects (covering legal, ethical and practical issues).
Spoken corpora transcription and compilation.

Research Assistant