• CODA Project on Text-to-Dialogue generation started July 1 2009.

Current Projects

• Principal Investigator on the EPSRC CODA project (Coherent Dialogue Automatically generated from text);
• Co-Investigator on the NESTA DataMIX project which explores more inclusive means of communicating data;
• Participant of the informal MREDI project (Multimodal Referring Expressions in Dialogue) with Aberdeen, Neuchatel and Trinity College Dublin;
• Participant of the EPSRC MATREX project on Natural Language Processing in Requirements Engineering;
• Participant on a project since 1998 on knowledge editing technologies: WYSIWYM Project  (What You See is What you Meant).

Past projects (as research fellow)

• EPOCH Network of Excellence (Excellence in Processing Open Cultural Heritage) (2004) [EPOCH iGuide low res screenshot]
• Semantic Mining Network of Excellence (2004-2007)
• NECA Project (A Net Environment for Embodied Emotional Conversational Agents) (2001-2004) [NECA eShowroom low res screenshot]
• CLIME Project (Computerized Legal Information Management and Explanation) (1998-2001) [CLIME Interface low res screenshot]
• DENK Project (Dialogue Management and Knowledge Transfer) (1994-1998) [DENK system low res screenshot]

Current PhD Students

• Tu Anh (co-supervisors: Richard Power and Sandra Williams);
• Eva Banik (co-supervisor with Richard Power and Donia Scott);
• Richard Doust (co-supervisor with Richard Power);
• Lin Ma (co-supervisor with Bashar Nuseibeh, Anne DeRoeck and Alistair Willis)
• Sharon Moyo (co-supervisor: Neil Smith);
• Brian Plüss (co-supervisors: Richard Power).

Past PhD Students

• Norton Trevisan Roman (PhD on July 31, 2007; co-supervisor with Ariadne Maria Brito Rizzoni Carvalho).

Current MSc Students

• Neil Hastings;
• Brendan Wyse.

Past MSc Students

• Dugald Foreman;
• Linas Jakucionis;
• Malin Bergenstrahle.

• Invited Speaker
• at CID III, 2008 Constraints in Discourse workshop, University of Potsdam, Germany, July 30 - August 1, 2008.
• at DECALOG 2007, the 11th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, University of Trento, Italy.
• Information officer/Webmaster Since 2003 of the ACL SIG on Computational Semantics (SIGSEM);
• Guest Editor
  • Special Issue Dialogue Modelling and Generation of Discourse Processes, 44(3), 2007. (Editors: P. Kuehnlein and P. Piwek)
  • Special Issue Coherence in Dialogue and Generation of Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 16(4), 2007. (Editors: R. Kibble, P. Piwek and I. van der Sluis)
  • Special Issue Perspectives on Dialogue of the Journal Research on Language and Computation 4(2/3), 2006 (Editors: R. Kibble & P. Piwek). [Introduction .pdf] (pages 143-152)
• Chair/Organizer/Steering Committee
• Workshop on the Question Generation Task and Evaluation Challenge, September 25-26, 2008 National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA. [Member of Steering Committee]
• Workshop on Coherence in Generation and Dialogue. ESSLLI 2006, Malaga, Spain, July/August 2006. (with Rodger Kibble and Ielka van der Sluis)
• Symposium on Dialogue Modelling and Generation at the annual meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse (2005). (with Peter Kuehnlein and Claudia Sassen).
• Third International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2004). (with Anja Belz and Roger Evans);
• Doctoral colloquia:
  • The CRC PhD Student Conference (with Marian Petre, Trevor Collins and Robin Laney), Milton Keynes, 12 and 13 June 2008. [Video]
  • The Flatlands 2007 Natural Language Processing Meeting. Co-organizer/chair with Donia Scott. London, 14 June 2007.
  • The 2004 and 2005 (with Marian Petre) doctoral colloquia of the Semantic Mining Network of Excellence, Balaton fured, Hungary.
  • First and Second ITRI/NLCL research student workshops (2003 and 2004). Co-organizer/co-chair with John Carroll of Sussex University.
• Programme Committees/Reviewing since 2001:
• 6^th Workshop on the Semantic and Pragmatics of Dialogue (EDILOG 02);
• FLAIRS 04 Special Track on User Modeling and HCI Approaches in Natural Language Generation (Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society);
• 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 04) (Reviewer for generation of text and documents area);
• 10^th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG05). Aberdeen, Scotland;
• Foundations of Grammar Formalisms Workshop at the European Summer School on Language, Logic and Information (ESSLLI 2005);
• 16th Irish Artificial Intelligence Cognitive Science Conference (AICS05). Ulster, Ireland, 2005.
• 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-06), Riva del Garda, Italy;
• Human Language Technology conference - North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting (HLT-NAACL 2006), New York City, US.
• 17th Irish Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Science Conference, 2006.
• The third joint conference of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING/ACL).
• First International Workshop on Ontology content and evaluation in Enterprise (OnToContent'06). With two tracks on Human Resources and eHealth. Oct 29 - Nov 3, 2006 Montpellier, France.
• 7th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA VII), Hyderabad (India), 7 January 2007 (to be held as part of the IJCAI 2007 workshop programme).
• Human Language Technology conference - North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting (HLT-NAACL 2007), Rochester, NY.
• 45th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2007), Prague.
• 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, 2-3 September 2007, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
• EMNLP-CoNLL 2007, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Prague.
• RANLP07, Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, September 27-29, 2007, Borovets, Bulgaria.
• Second International Workshop on Ontology content and evaluation in Enterprise (OnToContent'07). With two tracks on Human Resources and eHealth. Nov 28, 2007, Algarve, Portugal.
• IJCNLP 2008, The Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India.
• Special Track on Virtual Agents at the 2008 edition of the Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS08) conference. May 12 - 16, 2008, Estoril, Portugal.
• Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2008), June 12-14, 2008, Salf Fork, Ohio.
• 46th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-08), June 15-20, 2008, Columbus, Ohio.
• Third International Workshop on Ontology content and evaluation in Enterprise (OntoContent'08), Monterrey, Mexico, Nov 10 - 12, 2008.
• The 8th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'08) in Tokyo, September 1-3, 2008.
• LONDIAL, the SEMDIAL (Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue) 2008 meeting to be held June 2-4, London.
• The 8th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA08), co-located with ECAI, Patras, Greece.
• The 9th SIGDIAL workshop on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL-08) to be held as an ACL workshop, June 19-20 2008, Columbus, Ohio.
• SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Asia 2008, Singapore, 10 - 13 December 2008.
• 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL'09), March 30 - April 3, 2009, Athens, Greece.
• 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG2009), March 30 - 21, 2009, Athens, Greece.
• Eighth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-09), May 10 - 15, Budapest, Hungary.
• 13th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (DiaHolmia 2009), June 24 - 26, 2009, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden.
• 9th Intelligent Virtual Agents conference IVA09, to be held in Amsterdam, 14-16 September 2009.
• SIGDIAL 2009: the 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. The Conference will be co-located with Interspeech 2009 as a satellite event at Queen Mary University of London on September 11-12, 2009.
• Human-Computer Interaction in Natural Language Environments track at KES-IIMSS-2009, Mogliano Veneto (Treviso), ITALY, July 16-17.
• 2nd Workshop on Question Generation, Brighton, UK, 6-7 July 2009.
• 9th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA IX), Pasadena (California, US), 7 January 2007 (to be held as part of the IJCAI 2009 workshop programme).
• The Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS2010), Toronto, Canada, May 10-14, 2010.
• 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2010), Trim Castle Hotel in Trim, Ireland, July 7-9, 2010.
• 3rd Workshop on Multimodal Output Generation (MOG 2010), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, July 5-6, 2010.
• Student Research Workshop at ACL 2010, Uppsala, Sweden, July 11-16, 2010.
• The 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2010, Uppsala, Sweden, July 11-16, 2010.
• ESSLLI 2010 Workshop on Theories of information dynamics and interaction and their application to dialogue..
• SemDial 2010 workshop, Poznan, Poland, June 16-18 2010.
• 10th Intelligent Virtual Agents conference IVA 2010, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 20-22 September 2010.
• 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), August 23-27, Beijing, China.
Reviewing for journals:
• Argument and Computation Journal, Artificial Intelligence Journal, Artificial Intelligence Review, Computational Linguistics, Expert Systems, International Journal of AI Tools, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, Journal of Logic, Language and Information (JoLLI), Knowledge and Intelligent Systems (KAIS), Linguistics and Philosophy, Natural Language Engineering, and Research on Language and Computation, Journal of Pragmatics.
Reviewing for Funding Agencies:
• I have been a reviewer for the AHRC, EPSRC, ESRC, ESF, NWO and NSF.
• Other:
  • In 2008, I was selected by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) for participation in their Crucible 2008 labs for early-career researchers.
  • In 2006, I received funding, under a Memorandum of Understanding between the Open University and National Institute of Informatics (NII, Tokyo), for three months of research leave at the NII in the lab of Dr. Helmut Prendinger.
  • In 2006, I was selected for a 'Special Parliamentary Reception and Competition' in the House of Commons for 'Britain's Top Younger Scientists, Engineers and Technologists'.

• Doctoraal examen (equivalent to MA) in Computational Linguistics at the University of Tilburg in 1993 (Cum Laude; supervisor: dr. R. Muskens).
  
• During my studies I did a traineeship at the IMS of the University of Stuttgart (supervisor: Prof. T.E. Zimmermann).
• Postdoctoraal examen (equivalent to MA) in the Philosophy of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Amsterdam in 1994 (Cum Laude; supervisor: Prof. dr. R. Bartsch).
• PhD at IPO (Institute for Perception Research), Eindhoven University/Philips Research Labs in 1998 (supervisors: dr. ir. R.J. Beun, Prof. D. Bouwhuis and Prof. H. Bunt; examiners: Prof. J. Baeten, Prof. H. Kamp, dr. R. Nederpelt,  Prof. R. Scha, dr. K. van Deemter).
• Since January 2006, I am a part-time student at the Open University for a BSc degree in Life Sciences.

• BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
• ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)
• Cognitive Science Society
• SIGDIAL (SIG on Dialogue)
• SIGGEN (SIG on Natural Language Generation)
• SIGSEM (SIG on Computational Semantics)
• CONTEXT WEB
• CLUK (Computational Linguistics in the UK)

Piwek, P. (2009). Salience and Pointing in Multimodal Reference. In: K. van Deemter, A. Gatt, R. van Gompel and E. Krahmer (Eds.), Proceedings of Production of Referring Expressions: bridging the gap between computational and empirical approaches to generating reference - (PRE-CogSci 2009), 29 July, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [.pdf]

Piwek, P. (2009). Salience in the Generation of Multimodal Referring Acts. In: D. Gatica-Perez, M. Johnston and R. Stiefelhagen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI-MLMI), ACM Press, pp. 207-210, November 2-6, Cambridge, MA, USA. [doi][.pdf]

Ma, L., P. Piwek, A. De Roeck, B. Nuseibeh and A. Willis (2009). On Presuppositions in Requirements. In: Second International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MaRK’09), September 1, 2009, Atlanta, USA.

Gacitua, R., L. Ma, B. Nuseibeh, P. Piwek, A. de Roeck, M. Rouncefield, P. Sawyer, A. Willis and H. Yang. (2009). Making Tacit Requirements Explicit. In: Second International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MaRK’09), September 1, 2009, Atlanta, USA.

Wyse, B. and P. Piwek (2009). Generating Questions from OpenLearn Study Units. In: V. Rus and J. Lester (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Question Generation, AIED 2009 Workshop Proceedings, pp. 66-73. [.pdf]

Moyo, S. and P. Piwek (2008). Effective Tutoring with Affective Embodied Conversational Agents. In: V. Dimitrova, R. Mizoguchi, B. du Boulay and A. Graesser (eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building Learning Systems from Knowledge Representation to Affective Modelling, pp. 767-768, IOS Press, Amsterdam.

Piwek, P., H. Prendinger, H. Hernault, and M. Ishizuka (2008). Generating Questions: An Inclusive Characterization and a Dialogue-based Application. In: V. Rus and A. Graesser (eds.), online Proceedings of Workshop on the Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge, September 25-26, 2008, NSF, Arlington, VA. [.pdf]

Piwek, P. (2008). Presenting Arguments as Fictive Dialogue. In: Grasso, F., N. Green, R. Kibble and C. Reed (Eds), Proceedings of 8th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA08; in conjunction with ECAI 2008), Patras, Greece, July 2008. ISBN 978-960-6843-12-9 [.pdf]

Hernault, H., P. Piwek, H. Prendinger and M. Ishizuka (2008). Generating Dialogues for Virtual Agents Using Nested Textual Coherence Relations. In: Proceedings of IVA08: 8th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Tokyo, Japan. [.pdf]

van Deemter, K., B. Krenn , P. Piwek , M. Klesen , M. Schroeder , and S. Baumann (2008). Fully Generated Scripted Dialogue for Embodied Agents. Artificial Intelligence Journal, 172(10):1219-1244.

Piwek, P., R.J. Beun and A. Cremers (2008). 'Proximal' and 'Distal' in language and cognition: evidence from deictic demonstratives in Dutch. Journal of Pragmatics, 40(4): 694-718. [Electronically published by Elsevier June 27, 2007] [DOI:10.1016/j.pragma.2007.05.001][final draft .pdf].

Piwek, P., I van der Sluis, A. Gatt and A. Bangerter (2008). Multimodal Reference in Dialogue: Towards a Balanced Corpus. In: Proceedings of LONDIAL 2008: the 12th workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, King’s College and Queen Mary, London, June 2008, 165-166. [.pdf]

van der Sluis, I., P. Piwek, A. Gatt and A. Bangerter (2008). Towards a Balanced Corpus of Multimodal Referring Expressions in Dialogue. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Multimodal Output Generation (MOG 2008) at AISB 2008 Convention, April 3 - 4, 2008, Aberdeen, Scotland. [.pdf]

Williams, S., R. Power and P. Piwek (to appear). Simulating emotional reactions in medical dramas. In: Symposium on Affective Language in Human and Machine at AISB 2008, April, 2008, Aberdeen, Scotland.

Piwek, P. (2008). Book review of 'Incremental Conceptualization for Language Production' by Markus Guhe, Computational Linguistics, 34(1), 129–132.

Evans, R., P. Piwek, L. Cahill and N. Tipper (2008). Natural Language Processing in CLIME, a Multilingual Legal Advisory System. Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 14(1):101-132 [Electronically published by CUP June 2006]

Kuehnlein, P. and P. Piwek (2007). Dialogue Modelling and Generation. In: P. Kuehnlein and P. Piwek (Eds.), Special issue of Discourse Processes, 44(3):141-144. [http://www.leaonline.com/toc/dp/44/3]

Prendinger, H., P. Piwek and M. Ishizuka (2007). A novel method for automatically generating multimodal dialogue from text. International Journal of Semantic Computing, 1(3):319-334. [invited paper based on IEEE ICSC 2007 conference paper]

Prendinger, H., P. Piwek and M. Ishizuka (2007). Automatic Generation of Multi-Modal Dialogue from Text Based on Discourse Structure Analysis. In: Proceedings of 1st IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE ICSC 2007), September 17-19, 2007, Irvine, CA, USA (The IEEE Computer Society 2007.9), pp. 27-34.

Piwek, P., H. Hernault, H. Prendinger, M. Ishizuka (2007). T2D: Generating Dialogues between Virtual Agents Automatically from Text. In: Intelligent Virtual Agents: Proceedings of IVA07, LNAI 4722, September 17-19, 2007, Paris, France, (Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg) pp.161-174, [final draft .pdf]

Piwek, P. (2007). Meaning and Dialogue Coherence: a Proof-theoretic Investigation. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 16(4):403-421. [final draft .pdf].

Piwek, P. and K. van Deemter (2007). Generating under Global Constraints: the Case of Scripted Dialogue. Journal of Research on Language and Computation, 5(2):237-263. [final draft .pdf].

Piwek, P., D. Hardcastle and R. Power (2007). Dialogue Games for Crosslingual Communication, In: L. Vieu and R. Artstein (eds.), Proceedings of DECALOG, The 2007 Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, University of Trento, Italy, pp. 117-124. [.pdf]

Williams, S., P. Piwek and R. Power (2007). Generating Monologue and Dialogue to Present Personalised Medical Information to Patients. In: Proceedings of 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG) 2007, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, pp. 167-170.

Piwek, P. (2007). Modality Choice for Generation of Referring Acts: Pointing versus Describing. In: Proceedings of Workshop on Multimodal Output Generation (MOG 2007). Aberdeen, Scotland, January 25 and 26, 2007. pp.129-139. [.pdf]

Evans, R., P. Piwek, L. Cahill and N. Tipper (2006). Natural Language Processing in CLIME, a Multilingual Legal Advisory System. Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Electronically published by CUP June 2006 [DOI: 10.1017/S135132490600427X]

Piwek, P., R. Power and S. Williams (2006). Generating scripts for personalised medical dialogues for patients. Technical Report 2006/06. Computing Department, The Open University. [.pdf]

Piwek, P. (2006). Meaning and Dialogue Coherence: A Proof-theoretic Investigation. In: Proceedings of the ESSLLI Workshop on Coherence in Generation and Dialogue, Malaga, Spain, pp. 57-64. [subsequent journal paper: final draft .pdf]

Piwek, P. (2006). The ALLIGATOR Theorem Prover for Dependent Type Systems: Description and Proof Sample. In: Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS-5), April 2006, Buxton, UK. (6 pages). [.pdf][Alligator Homepage]

Piwek, P. and R. Power (2006). CROCODIAL: Crosslingual Computer-mediated Dialogue. To appear in: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Computer Supported Activity Coordination (CSAC 2006), May 23-24 2006, Paphos, Cyprus [Published by INSTICC]. (10 pages). [.pdf]

Piwek, P. and K. van Deemter (2006). Constraint-based Natural Language Generation: A Survey. Technical Report 2006/03, Computing Department, The Open University. [.pdf] (Bibtex file with all references: [.bib])

Piwek, P. (2006). Perspectives on Dialogue: Introduction to this Special Issue. In: R. Kibble & P. Piwek, Special Issue of Research on Language and Computation on "Perspectives on Dialogue". 4(2/3), pages 143-152. [final draft .pdf]

Roman, N., Piwek, P., Carvalho, A. (2006). Politeness and Bias in Dialogue Summarization: Two Exploratory Studies. In: J. Shanahan, Y. Qu, J. Wiebe (Eds.), Computing Attitude and Affect in Text: Theory and Applications, The Information Retrieval Series, Vol. 20, Dordrecht: Springer. pp.171-185. [draft .pdf]

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Sassen, C., Piwek, P. and Kuehnlein, P. (2005) (Eds.). Proceedings of the Symposium on Dialogue Modelling and Generation. On occasion of the 15th Annual meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 2005. (ISBN 3-921823-30-7) [quick access to procs.][official proceedings issued electronically by Dortmund Uni. Library]

Piwek, P., Power, R., Scott, D., van Deemter, K. (2005). Generating Multimedia Presentations: from plain text to screenplay.  O. Stock and and M. Zancanara (Eds.), Intelligent Multimodal Information Presentation. Text, Speech and Language Processing, Volume 27. Dordrecht: Springer. [draft/preprint .pdf]

Piwek, P. (2005). Generation Resources and Strategies in the NECA Multimodal Natural Language Generator. In: Proc. of Sixth International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-6). Tilburg University, The Netherlands. [short paper (.pdf)] [iwcs6-poster (.pdf)]

Piwek, P., J. Masthoff and M. Bergenstrahle (2005). Reference and Gestures in Dialogue Generation: Three Studies with Embodied Conversational Agents In: Proc. of AISB05 Virtual Social Agents Symposium, University of Herfordshire. [.pdf]

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Trevisan Roman, N., Piwek, P. and Carvalho, A. (2004). Politeness and Summarization: an Exploratory Study. In: Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on Exploring Attitude and Affect in Text: Theories and Applications (AAAI-EAAT 2004), AAAI Technical Report SS-04-07, March 22-24, 2004, Stanford University.

Belz, A., Evans, R. and Piwek, P. (2004) (Eds.). Natural Language Generation, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3123, Berlin: Springer.

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Piwek, P. (2003). An Annotated Bibliography of Affective Natural Language Generation. version 1.3 (version 1.0 appeared in 2002 as ITRI Technical Report ITRI-02-02, University of Brighton). [.pdf]

Piwek, P. (2003). A Flexible Pragmatics-driven Language Generator for Animated Agents. In: Proceedings of EACL03 (Research Notes), Budapest. [.pdf]

Piwek, P. and K. van Deemter (2003). Dialogue as Discourse: Controlling Global Properties of Scripted Dialogue. In: AAAI Spring Symposium on Natural Language Generation in Spoken and Written Dialogue, Stanford. [.pdf]

Piwek, P. (2003). The effect of gestures on the perception of a dialogue between two embodied conversational agents: a pilot study. ITRI Technical Report ITRI-03-09. [.pdf]

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Krenn B., Pirker H., Grice M., Baumann S., Piwek P., Deemter K. van, Schroeder M., Klesen M., Gstrein E. (2002). Generation of multimodal dialogue for net environments, in: Busemann S. (ed.), KONVENS 2002, Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Saarbruecken, Germany, pp. 91-98, 2002. [.pdf]

Piwek, P., B. Krenn, M. Schröder, M. Grice, S. Baumann and H. Pirker (2002). RRL: A Rich Representation Language for the Description of Agent Behaviour in NECA. Proceedings of the AAMAS workshop "Embodied conversational agents - let's specify and evaluate them!", Bologna, Italy, 16 July 2002. [.ps][.pdf][RRL Resources Page]

Evans, R., P. Piwek and L. Cahill (2002). What is NLG? Proceedings of International Natural Language Generation Conference INLG02, New York, USA, 1-3 July 2002. [.pdf]

Piwek, P. (2002). Requirements Definition, Verification, Validation and Evaluation of the CLIME Interface and Natural Language Processing Technology. ITRI Technical Report ITRI-02-03, University of Brighton. [.pdf][.ps]

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Piwek, P. & R.J. Beun (2001). Multimodal Referential Acts in a Dialogue Game: From Empirical Investigations to Algorithms. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Information Presentation and Natural Multimodal Dialogue (IPNMD-2001), Verona, Italy, 14-15 December 2001, pp. 127-131. [.ps]

Piwek, P. (2001). Relating Imperatives to Action. In: Bunt, H. and R.J. Beun, Cooperative Multimodal Communication, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series 2155, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg. pp.140-155. [.pdf][.ps]

Kievit, L., P. Piwek, R.J. Beun and H. Bunt (2001). Multimodal Cooperative Resolution of Referential Expressions in the DENK system. In: Bunt, H. and R.J. Beun, Cooperative Multimodal Communication, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series 2155, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg. pp.197-214.

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Piwek, P. & E. Krahmer (2000). Presuppositions in Context: Constructing Bridges, In: Bonzon P., M. Cavalcanti & R. Nossum (eds), Formal Aspects of Context, APPLIED LOGIC SERIES Volume 20, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. (An earlier version appeared in the Proceedings of CONTEXT'97, Rio de Janeiro, 1997) [.pdf][.ps]

Piwek, P. (2000). A Formal Semantics for Editing and Generating Plurals. In: Proceedings of COLING 2000, Saarbruecken, Germany, July 31- August 4 2000. [.pdf][.ps]

Krahmer, E. and P. Piwek (2000). Varieties of Anaphora: Introduction, In: Krahmer, E. and P. Piwek (eds.) Varieties of Anaphora. Reader ESSLLI 2000, Birmingham, 6-18 August 2000, 1-15. [course][.ps]

Piwek, P., R. Evans, L. Cahill and N. Tipper (2000). Natural Language Generation in the MILE System. In: Proceedings of the IMPACTS in NLG Workshop, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, July 26-28 2000. [.ps]

Piwek, P. and K. van Deemter (2000). Wat Je Ziet is Wat Je Bedoelde. Natuur en Techniek, Volume 68, No. 11, 56-61.

Piwek, P. (2000). Imperatives, Commitment and Action: Towards a Constraint-based Model. In: LDV Forum: GLDV-Journal for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, Special Issue on Communicating Agents, 17(1,2), 2000, ISSN 0175-1336 [.ps]

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Krahmer, E. & P. Piwek (1999). Presupposition Projection as Proof Construction  In: H. Bunt & R. Muskens (eds.), Computing Meanings: Current issues in Computational Semantics, Studies in Linguistics & Philosophy Series, Kluwer Academic Publisher, Dordrecht. (An earlier version appeared in the Proceedings of IWCS II, Tilburg, 1997) [.pdf][.ps]

Piwek, P., R. Evans, R. Power (1999). Dialogue as Knowledge Editing. ITRI-99-11 Tech. Report. Brighton. [.ps]

Piwek, P., R. Evans, R. Power (1999). Editing Speech Acts: A Practical Approach to Human-Machine Dialogue. In: Proceedings of Amstelogue '99, Amsterdam. [.ps]

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Piwek, P. (1998). Logic, Information and Conversation, PhD Thesis, Eindhoven University of Technology. [.ps] [.pdf] [more information ]

Kievit, L. and P. Piwek (1998). Multimodal Cooperative Resolution of Referential Expressions in the DenK System. In: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Cooperative Multimodal Communication, Tilburg, 28-30 January 1998. [.ps]

Piwek, P. (1998) Information Flow and Gaps. In: IPO Annual Progress Report 33, 1998. [.pdf][.ps]

Piwek, P. (1998). Cooperative Interpretation of Communicative Actions, in : Bunt et al., Proceedings of CMC98, January 28-30, 1998, Tilburg, 122-134.

Bunt, H., R. Ahn, L. Kievit, P. Piwek, M. Verlinden, R.J. Beun & T. Borghuis and K. van Overveld (1998). Cooperative Dialogue with the Multimodal DenK system. In: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Cooperative Multimodal Communication, Tilburg, 28-30 January 1998.

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Piwek, P. (1997). Situated Action and Commitment in Dialogue, In: IPO Annual Progress Report 32, 1997.

Piwek, P. (1997). The Construction of Answers. In: Benz A. & G. Jaeger (eds.), Proceedings of MunDial: the Muenchen Workshop on the Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, CIS-Bericht 97-106, Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Munich. (This is an abridged version of chapter 4 of my PhD thesis)

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Piwek, P. & A. Cremers (1996). Dutch and English Demonstratives: A Comparison. Language Sciences, Vol. 18, Nos 3-4, pp. 835-851. [Appeared also in: Turner, K. & K. Jaszczolt (eds.), Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics, Vol. II, Pergamon, Oxford]

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Piwek, P. (1995). Annotated Type Theory for Information Representation. DENK Report 95/17, SOBU, Tilburg-Eindhoven. [.pdf]

Piwek, P., R.J. Beun & A. Cremers (1995). Deictic use of Dutch Demonstratives. In: IPO Annual Progress Report 30, 1995, Eindhoven.

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