Hello, I am Selina Meyer...
PhD Student at the Natural Language Understanding Lab | University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany.
Welcome to my space on the internet.
I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the University fo Technology Nuremberg.
I have recently completed my PhD in Information Science at the University of Regensburg, funded through a doctoral scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. I love learning new things, reading and spending time in nature.
My PhD research focused on conversational agents for behaviour change. I like to take an interdisciplinary approach to my research and care about ethical implications of technological processes. As part of my studies, I was a visiting researcher at CiTIUS in Santiago de Compostela, Spain in Fall 2022.
I wrote my master's thesis in Information Science on the quality of weight loss information on the German web in November 2019. During my bachelor's I studied British Studies as my major and Information Science as a minor. Take a look at my CV to find out more.
Publications
2025
- Selina Meyer, David Elsweiler.
LLM-based conversational agents for behaviour change support: A randomised controlled trial examining efficacy, safety, and the role of user behaviour.
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. - Selina Meyer.
Integrating Motivational Interviewing Principles and Large Language Models in Automated Behaviour Change Support.
PhD Thesis
- David Elsweiler, Samy Ateia, Markus Bink, Gregor Donabauer, Marcos Fernández Pichel, Alexander Frummet, Udo Kruschwitz, David Losada, Bernd Ludwig, Selina Meyer, Noel Pascual Presa.
Query Smarter, Trust Better? Exploring Search Behaviours for Verifying News Accuracy.
Accepted at SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '25)
2024
- Selina Meyer, David Elsweiler.
"You tell me": A Dataset of GPT-4-Based Behaviour Change Support Conversations.
Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR '24) Resource Paper | 🏆 Best Short Paper - Selina Meyer, Marcos Fernández-Pichel, David Elsweiler, David E Losada.
Exploring the Challenges of Behaviour Change Language Classification: A Study on Semi-Supervised Learning and the Impact of Pseudo-Labelled Data.
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC-COLING 2024 - Gergana Rosenova, Marcos Fernández-Pichel, Selina Meyer, David E Losada
Semi-Supervised Learning in the Field of Conversational Agents and Motivational Interviewing.
Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural
2023
- Selina Meyer, David Elsweiler.
Towards Cross-Content Conversational Agents for Behaviour Change: Investigating Domain Independence and the Role of Lexical Features in Written Language Around Change.
Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI '23) Trailer ► - Marcos Fernández-Pichel, Selina Meyer, Markus Bink, Alexander Frummet, David E Losada, David Elsweiler.
Improving the Reliability of Health Information Credibility Assessments.
ROMCIR 2023: The 3rd Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval, held as part of ECIR 2023: the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval
2022
- Selina Meyer, David Elsweiler, Bernd Ludwig, Marcos Fernández-Pichel, and David E. Losada.
Do We Still Need Human Assessors? Prompt-Based GPT-3 User Simulation in Conversational AI.
Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI '22) Provocation Paper | Recording ► - Elisabeth Moser, Selina Meyer, Maximilian Schmidhuber, Daniel Ketterer, and Matthias Eberhardt.
Argo: Towards Small Vessel Detection for Humanitarian Purposes.
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '22) Demo Paper - Selina Meyer, Maximilian Schmidhuber, and Udo Kruschwitz
MS@ IW at SemEval-2022 Task 4: Patronising and Condescending Language Detection with Synthetically Generated Data.
International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval '22) - Johanne Trippas, David Maxwell, Abdulaziz Alqatan, Miriam Boom, Catherine Chavula, Anita Crescenzi, Luis-Daniel Ibáñez, Selina Meyer, Anna-Marie Ortloff, Srishti Palani, Dolinkumar Patel, Wiebke Thode, and Zhaopeng Xing.
Report on the 1st Early Career Researchers’ Roundtable for Information Access Research (ECRs4IR 2022) at CHIIR 2022
ACM SIGIR Forum (Volume 56, Number 1) - Selina Meyer, and David Elsweiler
GLoHBCD: A Naturalistic German Dataset for Language of Health Behaviour Change on Online Support Forums.
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC '22)
Recording ► - Selina Meyer
“I’m at my wits’ end”-Anticipating Information Needs and Appropriate Support Strategies in Behaviour Change.
Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR '22). Doctoal Colloquium Paper
2021
- Selina Meyer
Natural Language Stage of Change Modelling for “Motivationally-driven” Weight Loss Support.
International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '21) Doctoal Colloquium Paper - Damiano Spina, Johanne R. Trippas, Paul Thomas, Hideo Joho, Katriina Byström, Leigh Clark, Nick Craswell, Mary Czerwinski, David Elsweiler, Alexander Frummet, Souvick Ghosh, Johannes Kiesel, Irene Lopatovska, Daniel McDuff, Selina Meyer, Ahmed Mourad, Paul Owoicho, Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Daniel Russel, and Laurianne Sitbon
Report on the Future Conversations Workshop at CHIIR 2021.
ACM SIGIR Forum (Volume 55, Number 1) - Bernd Ludwig, Selina Meyer, Julian Dietz, Gregor Donabauer, Andreas Pfaffelhuber, and David Elsweiler
Recommending Better Food Choices for Clinically Obese Users.
Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP '21) Demo Paper
2020
- Selina Meyer, David Elsweiler, and Bernd Ludwig
Assessing the quality of weight loss information on the German language web.
Movement and Nutrition in Health and Disease (Volume 4)
2019
- Manuel Burghardt, Selina Meyer, Stefanie Schmidtbauer, and Johannes Molz
“The Bard meets the Doctor”–Computergestützte Identifikation intertextueller Shakespearebezüge in der Science Fiction-Serie Dr. Who.
Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd '19)
Invited Talks
- Hilfreiche Stütze oder MotivationsKIller? Wie wir Künstliche Intelligenz nutzen können um Menschen bei Verhaltensänderungen zu unterstützen (Helpful support or motivation killer? How we can use Artificial Intelligence to help people change their behaviour) | Institut für Psychodynamische Psychotherapie Nürnberg e.V.
- Designing an Empathetic Conversational Agent for Health Behaviour Change |
Women in Data Science Regensburg (WIDS '22)
Poster ► - Designing a Conversational Agent to Facilitate Health Behaviour Change |
Centro Singular de InvestigaciĂłn en TecnoloxĂas Intelixentes da USC (CiTIUS)
Recording ►
Academic Service
- Reviewer | ACL Rolling Review (since Feb. 2024) ✾ Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2025) ✾ SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '25) ✾ ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23) ✾ Conversational User Interfaces (CUI '23) ✾ iConference '23 ✾ Conversational User Interfaces (CUI '22)
- Publication Chair | Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2025)
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer & Local Organizer | Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR '22)
- Coordinator & Programme Organizer | Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS '22)
- Coordinator and Designer | Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS '21)
- Student Volunteer | Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR '21) ✾ Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial '22)
- Webmaster and Local Organizer | Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT '19)
Teaching
- Rules, Slots, and Large Language Models for Conversational Agents
Summer 2023 Graduate Course - Conversational Agents for Behavior Changes
Summer 2022 Graduate Course - Tutorial to Introduction to Information Retrieval
Summer 2020 | Summer 2021 Undergraduate Course - Tutorial to Basics and Applications of Machine Learning / Basics of Computational Intelligence
Summer 2020 | Summer 2021 Graduate Course - Tutorial to Representation and Processing of Secure and Unsecure Knowledge
Winter 2020/21 Undergraduate Course
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