Dr. Thora Tenbrink

	Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Anglistik / Linguistik mit Schwerpunkt empirische Diskursanalyse und Pragmatik SFB/TR8 Spatial Cognition:  I5-[DiaSpace] Volkswagen Foundation: Tandem Project Wayfinding Strategies in Behavior and Language formerly: AG Cognitive Systems / Project I1-[OntoSpace] since 1 Jan 2003: FB10 Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Sciences, University of Bremen Cartesium 1,059, Enrique-Schmidt-Straße 5 28359 Bremen, Germany Postal address: FB 10, Universität Bremen Postfach 330440, 28334 Bremen, Germany E-Mail: tenbrink at uni-bremen.de // thoratenbrink at googlemail.com Phone: +49 421-218-64212 // mobile 0179-3905935 Fax: +49 421-218-98-64212	Call for Papers: !! DEADLINE  MAY 31, 2009 !! Presenting Spatial Information: Granularity, Relevance, and Integration Workshop at COSIT 2009, Aber Wrac'h, France, September 21st, 2009 Workshop website: www.sfbtr8.spatial-cognition.de/cosit09-psi Looking for a thesis topic? Contact  me!
	Office hour: Thursdays 11-12, Cartesium 1,059; best: contact me personally

Interests:

• Cognitive Discourse Analysis
• Linguistic analysis of verbalization in problem solving processes
• Dialogue structure and analysis
• Spatial Cognition and Spatial Language
• Temporal Connectives and Prepositions
• Communication (problems) and conflict consulting (Kommunikations- und Konfliktberatung auf sprachlicher Basis, Klärungshilfe)
  
• Human-Robot Interaction

Project membership: 

Localising objects and events: Discoursal applicability conditions for spatiotemporal expressions in English and German. Abstract 
Presentation (November 4, 2005) ppt  6-pages summary pdf-file
Mikrofiche version at Universität Bremen, SuUB

Tenbrink, Thora and Jan Wiener. 2009. The verbalization of multiple strategies in a variant of the traveling salesperson problem. Cognitive Processing 10:2, 143-161.

Tenbrink, Thora and Stephan Winter. 2009. Variable Granularity in Route Directions. Spatial Cognition and Computation 9, 64 – 93.

Wiener, Jan and Thora Tenbrink. 2008. Traveling salesman problem: The human case. KI 1/08 Themenheft KI und Kognition, arenDTaP Verlag, pp. 18-22.

Tenbrink, Thora, Kerstin Fischer, and Reinhard Moratz. 2002. Spatial Strategies in Human-Robot Communication. Künstliche Intelligenz 4/02 Themenheft Spatial Cognition, ISSN 0933-1875, arendtap Verlag, Bremen (Germany). Ms pdf-file

Moratz, Reinhard, Kerstin Fischer, and Thora Tenbrink. 2001. Cognitive Modelling of Spatial Reference for Human-Robot Interaction. International Journal On Artificial Intelligence Tools, 10:4,  World Scientific Publishing, Singapur. Abstract (html)

Klippel, Alexander, Thora Tenbrink, and Dan Montello (forthcoming). The Role of Structure and Function in the Conceptualization of Directions. In Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova and Emile van der Zee (eds.), Motion Encoding in Spatial Language. Oxford University Press.

Shi, Hui and Thora Tenbrink. 2009. Telling Rolland where to go: HRI dialogues on route navigation. In Kenny Coventry, Thora Tenbrink, and John Bateman (eds.), Spatial Language and Dialogue (pp. 177-190). Oxford University Press.

Tenbrink, Thora. 2009. Identifying objects in English and German: A contrastive linguistic analysis of spatial reference. In Kenny Coventry, Thora Tenbrink, and John Bateman (eds.), Spatial Language and Dialogue (pp. 104-118). Oxford University Press. 

Moratz, Reinhard and Thora Tenbrink. 2008. Affordance-based human-robot interaction. In Erich Rome, Joachim Hertzberg, and Georg Dorffner (eds.), Towards affordance-based robot control, LNAI 4760, pp. 63-76. Berlin: Springer. Abstract

Tenbrink, Thora. 2007. Imposing common ground by using temporal connectives: The pragmatics of before and after. In Anita Fetzer and Kerstin Fischer (eds.), Lexical Markers of Common Grounds. Elsevier, pp. 113-139.

Tenbrink, Thora and Jan Wiener. 2007. Wayfinding Strategies in Behavior and Language: A Symmetric and Interdisciplinary Approach to Cognitive Processes. In Thomas Barkowsky, Markus Knauff, Gérard Ligozat, and Dan Montello (eds.), Spatial Cognition V: Reasoning, Action, Interaction (pp. 401-420). Berlin: Springer. Abstract

Vorwerg, Constanze and Thora Tenbrink. 2007. Discourse factors influencing spatial descriptions in English and German. In Thomas Barkowsky, Markus Knauff, Gérard Ligozat, and Dan Montello (eds.), Spatial Cognition V: Reasoning, Action, Interaction (pp. 470-488). Berlin: Springer. Abstract

Tenbrink, Thora. 2005. Identifying objects on the basis of spatial contrast: An empirical study. In Freksa, Christian, Markus Knauff, Bernd Krieg-Brückner, Bernhard Nebel, and Thomas Barkowsky (eds.), Spatial Cognition IV: Reasoning, Action, Interaction. International Conference Spatial Cognition 2004, Frauenchiemsee, Germany, October 2004, Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 124-146. Springer Link

Fischer, K. & T. Tenbrink. Video conferencing in a transregional research cooperation: Turn-taking in a new medium. - In Döring, Jana, H. Walter Schmitz, & Olaf Schulte (Hrsg.), 2003. Connecting Perspectives. Videokonferenz: Beiträge zu ihrer Erforschung und Anwendung. Aachen: Shaker. pdf-file

Moratz, Reinhard, Thora Tenbrink, John Bateman & Kerstin Fischer. 2003. Spatial Knowledge Representation for Human-Robot Interaction. In: Ch. Freksa, W. Brauer, Ch. Habel & K.F. Wender (eds): Spatial Cognition III: Routes and Navigation, Human Memory and Learning, Spatial Representation and Spatial Reasoning. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2685. Berlin: Springer.  Springer Link

Tenbrink, Thora & Frank Schilder. 2003. (Non)temporal concepts conveyed by before, after, and then in dialogue. In: Peter Kühnlein, Hannes Rieser and Henk Zeevat (eds.): Perspectives on Dialogue in the New Millennium. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins., pp 353-380.

Contributions to International Conferences and Workshops:

Tenbrink, Thora and Christian Freksa. 2009. Contrast sets in spatial and temporal language. ICSC International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Rome 2009.

Thora Tenbrink, Robert J. Ross, Elena Andonova, and Juliana Goschler. 2009. Spatial Granularity and Perspective in Route Descriptions for Humans and Dialogue Systems. Adaptation in Spatial Communication: Workshop held in conjunction with AGILE 2009, June 2, 2009, Hannover, Germany.

Tenbrink, Thora. 2008. CODA: A method for investigating language expressing cognitive processes. Workshop Linguistic methodology: Traditional and new approaches, ISLE 2008, First Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English, Freiburg, 8-11 October 2008.

Andonova, Elena, Thora Tenbrink, and Kenny R. Coventry. 2008. Spatial Description, Function and Context. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 199-204). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. pdf

Tenbrink, Thora. 2008. The verbalization of cognitive processes: Thinking-aloud data and retrospective reports. In Wiebke Ramm & C. Fabricius-Hansen (eds.), Linearisation and Segmentation in Discourse. Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse 2008 (MAD 08), Feb 20-23 2008, Lysebu, Oslo. Oslo: Dept. of Literature, Area Studies and Europ. Languages, Univ. of Oslo, pp. 125-135. pdf

Tenbrink, Thora. 2008. Wayfinding in an urban environment: A discourse-analytic approach to thinking-aloud data. Space, Interaction, and Discourse, Aalborg, 12.-14.11.2008.

Tenbrink, Thora, Elena Andonova, and Kenny Coventry. 2008. Negotiating spatial relationships in dialogue: The role of the addressee. In Jonathan Ginzburg, Pat Healey & Yo Sato (eds.), Proceedings of LONDIAL – The 12th SEMDIAL workshop, June 2nd - June 4th, 2008, King's College, London, UK, pp. 201-208, ISSN 1470-5559, London, UK: Queen Mary University.

Tenbrink, Thora, Christoph Hölscher, and Jan Wiener. 2008. Route instructions at choice points. Spatial Language in Context: Computational and Theoretical Approaches to Situation Specific Meaning. Workshop at the International Conference Spatial Cognition 2008, September 15-19, 2008, Freiburg, Germany.

Wiener, Jan, Thora Tenbrink, Jakob Henschel, and Christoph Hölscher. 2008. Situated and Prospective Path Planning: Route Choice in an Urban Environment. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 851-856). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. pdf

Tenbrink, Thora. 2007. Space, time, and the use of language. Panel The Language of Space and Time at the 10th IPRA International Pragmatics Conference, 8-13 July 2007, Göteborg, Sweden. Abstract

Tenbrink, Thora and Shi Hui. 2007. Negotiating spatial goals with a wheelchair. Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Antwerp.

Tenbrink, Thora, Veronika Maiseyenka, and Reinhard Moratz. 2007. Spatial reference in simulated human-robot interaction involving intrinsically oriented objects. Symposium Spatial Reasoning and Communication at AISB'07 Artificial and Ambient Intelligence, April 2nd-5th 2007, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. pdf

Tenbrink, Thora. 2006. Teaching an autonomous wheelchair where things are. In Kerstin Fischer (ed.), Proceedings of the Workshop on 'How People Talk To Computers Robots And Other Artificial Communication Partners', April 21-23, 2006, HWK Delmenhorst, Germany, pp. 54-67. SFB/TR8 Report 010-09_2006.

Tenbrink, Thora, Hui Shi, and Kerstin Fischer. 2006. Route instruction dialogues with a robotic wheelchair. Proc. brandial 2006: The 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. University of Potsdam, Germany; September 11th-13th 2006. pdf

Farrar, Scott, Thora Tenbrink, Robert Ross, and John Bateman. 2005. On the Role of Conceptual & Linguistic Ontologies Spoken Dialogue Systems. Proceedings of the Symposium on Dialogue Modelling and Generation, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 7, 2005. ISBN: 3-921823-30-7  

Klippel, Alexander, Thora Tenbrink, and Daniel R. Montello. 2005. Beyond Left, Right, and Straight: How Speakers Disambiguate Route Directions. Australian Linguistic Society Conference 2005, September 28-30, 2005, Melbourne. Abstract

Shi, Hui and Thora Tenbrink. 2005. Telling Rolland where to go: HRI dialogues on route navigation. Proc. Workshop on Spatial Language and Dialogue (5th Workshop on Language and Space), October 23-25, 2005, Delmenhorst, Germany.

Tenbrink, Thora. 2005. Identifying objects in English and German: A contrastive linguistic analysis of spatial reference. Proc. Workshop on Spatial Language and Dialogue (5th Workshop on Language and Space), October 23-25, 2005, Delmenhorst, Germany.

Tenbrink, Thora. 2005. Methods for analyzing natural discourse: Investigating spatial language in HRI vs. in a no-feedback web study. Proc. Dagstuhl Seminar 05491: Spatial Cognition: Specialization and Integration, 04.12.05-09.12.05. http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/frontdoor.php?source_opus=983

Tenbrink, Thora & Alexander Klippel. 2005. Achieving reference via contrast in route instructions and spatial object identification. Workshop on Reference, 21st Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Trondheim, June 1-4, 2005. Abstract

Tenbrink, Thora & Andi Winterboer. 2005. Spatial Directionals for Robot Navigation. Thematic Session on Motion Encoding, 21st Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Trondheim, June 1-4, 2005. Abstract

Bateman, John, Kerstin Fischer, Reinhard Moratz, Scott Farrar & Thora Tenbrink. 2003. Project I1-OntoSpace: Ontologies for Spatial Communication. Proc. DiaBruck, 7th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Sept. 4th-6th 2003, Wallerfangen. Abstract

Bateman, John, Kerstin Fischer & Thora Tenbrink. 2003. Why a static interpretation is not sufficient in spatial communication. Proc. EACL 03 Workshop on Dialogue Systems: interaction, adaptation and styles of management, Budapest, Ungarn, 13-14 April 2003. pdf-file

Moratz, Reinhard & Thora Tenbrink. 2003. Instruction modes for joint spatial reference between naive users and a mobile robot. Proc. RISSP 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Intelligent Systems and Signal Processing, Special Session on New Methods in Human Robot Interaction, October 8-13, 2003, Changsha, Hunan, China. Abstract

Tenbrink, Thora. 2003. Conveying spatial information in linguistic human-robot interaction. Proc. DiaBruck, 7th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Sept. 4th-6th 2003, Wallerfangen. Abstract

Tenbrink, Thora. 2003. Imposing common ground by using temporal connectives: The pragmatics of before and after. 8th International Pragmatics Conference, Toronto, 13-18 July 2003, Panel on “Lexical markers of common grounds“. Abstract

Tenbrink, Thora & Reinhard Moratz. 2003. Group-based Spatial Reference in Linguistic Human-Robot Interaction. Proc. EuroCogSci 2003: The European Cognitive Science Conference, September 10-13, Osnabrück, Germany.

Moratz, Reinhard & Thora Tenbrink. 2002. Natural Language Instructions for Joint Spatial Reference between Naive Users and a Mobile Robot. Roman 2002 - 11th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. September 25-27, 2002, Berlin (Germany). ps-file

Schilder, Frank & Thora Tenbrink. 2002. The interplay of information structure and the placement of after and before.  Workshop on Information Structure in Context, Stuttgart (Germany), November 15-16, 2002.

Schilder, Frank & Thora Tenbrink. 2001. Before and after : sentence-internal and -external discourse relations. Presented at the Workshop From Sentence Processing to Discourse Interpretation: Crossing the Borders. Utrecht (The Netherlands), 2-3 July 2001. Extended version (pdf)

Tenbrink, Thora. 2001. Children can order events in time – why don't they understand before and after? Poster presented at IK Günne (Germany), March 2001. Abstract (html) ; poster (pdf)

Tenbrink, Thora & Reinhard Moratz. 2001. Group-based spatial reference in human-robot interaction. In T. Arnold and C. Herrmann (eds.), Cognitive Systems and Mechanisms - KogWis 2001, pp. 118f. Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag. Leipzig.  Abstract (html)

Tenbrink, Thora & Frank Schilder. 2001. (Non)temporal concepts conveyed by before, after, and then in dialogue. In: Proceedings of BIDIALOG 2001, 14-16 June 2001, Bielefeld, pp 228-238. Extended version: pdf-file

Miscellaneous:

Tenbrink, Thora, Shi Hui, Robert Ross, Elena Andonova, Juliana Goschler, and John Bateman. 2009. Building an empirically founded dialogue system. SFB/TR 8 Report No. 018-02/2009, Universität Bremen, Germany.

Bateman, J., Hois, J., Ross, R., Tenbrink, T. & Farrar, S. 2008. The Generalized Upper Model 3.0: Documentation. SFB/TR8 internal report, Collaborative Research Center for Spatial Cognition, University of Bremen, Germany.

Tenbrink, Thora. 2008. CODA: Eine diskursanalytische Methode zur Untersuchung von Sprache in der Repräsentation kognitiver Prozesse. 1. Nordwestdeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium, Universität Bremen, October 10-11, 2008.

Tenbrink, Thora and Stephan Winter. 2008. Granularity in Route Directions Generated by Systems and Humans. Poster at the International Conference Spatial Cognition 2008, September 15-19, 2008, Freiburg, Germany.

Tenbrink, Thora. 2007. Review of: Graf, Eva-Maria (2006). The ontogenetic development of literal and metaphorical space in language. Tübingen: Narr. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 5, 324-334.

Tenbrink, Thora. 2007. Review of: Tzanne, Angeliki (2000). Talking at Cross-Purposes: The Dynamics of Miscommunication. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Review

Tenbrink, Thora. 2006. Localising objects and events: Discoursal applicability conditions for spatiotemporal expressions in English and German. Dissertation, University of Bremen, 2005. Mikrofiche, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, ej 6922/E03.

Tenbrink, Thora. 2006. How to write a dissertation. Doctoral Colloquium talk, KI 2006, 14-19 June 2006, Bremen, Germany. Slides

Tenbrink, Thora. 2005. Review of: Carlson, Laura & van der Zee, Emile (2004). Functional Features in Language and Space. Oxford University Press. LinguistList 16.2207

Tenbrink, Thora. 2005. Semantics and application of spatial dimensional terms in English and German. SFB/TR8 Report No. 004-03/2005, Universität Bremen / Universität Freiburg.

Tenbrink, Thora. 2004. Review of: Evans, Vyvyan (2004). The Structure of Time: Language, meaning and temporal cognition. John Benjamins. LinguistList 15.2430

Tenbrink, Thora. 2004. Review of: van der Zee, Emile & Jon Slack (2003). Representing Direction in Language and Space. Oxford University Press. LinguistList 15.1321

Tenbrink, Thora. 2004. Review of: Tyler, Andrea & Vyvyan Evans (2003) The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Sciences, Embodied Meaning, and Cognition. Cambridge University Press. LinguistList 15.296

Tenbrink, Thora. 2003. Review of: Bras, Myriam, and Laure Vieu (2001) Semantic and Pragmatic Issues in Discourse and Dialogue: Experimenting With Current Dynamic Theories. Elsevier Science Ltd. LinguistList 14.1086.

Tenbrink, Thora. 2003. Review of: Levinson, Stephen C. (2003) Space in Language and Cognition: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity, Cambridge University Press, Language, Culture and Cognition 5. LinguistList 14.2458

Tenbrink, Thora. 1998. A linguistic perspective on egocentrism and perspective-taking in child-child interaction. Master's thesis. Hannoversche Arbeitspapiere zur Linguistik 5.