Papers by Topic Area

I have published papers in the following subjects areas (my PhD thesis covers a number of these topics): [Back to homepage Paul Piwek]
Accenting Piwek, P. (1997). Accent Interpretation, Anaphora Resolution and Implicature Derivation. In: Dekker, P., M. Stokhof &Y. Venema (eds), The proceedings of the 11th Amsterdam Colloquium, University of Amsterdam, ILLC/Department of Philosophy, 55-60. [.ps]

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Affect

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]

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.

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. [draft .pdf]

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Anaphora,
Reference and
Presupposition


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]

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) [.ps]

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) [.ps]

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

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NLG 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. and K. van Deemter (2002). Towards Automated Generation of Scripted Dialogue: Some Time-Honoured Strategies. In: Bos, J., M. Foster and C. Matheson, Proceedings of EDILOG: 6th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, Edinburgh, September 4-6, 2002. [.ps][.pdf]

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

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

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]

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

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.

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

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., 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). 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. [.pdf]

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Demonstratives Piwek, P., R.J. Beun & A. Cremers (1995). Demonstratives in Dutch Cooperative Task Dialogues. IPO Manuscript 1134, 1995, Eindhoven University of Technology. [.ps]

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

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]

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]

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

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

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

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]

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]

Piwek, P. and K. van Deemter (2002). Towards Automated Generation of Scripted Dialogue: Some Time-Honoured Strategies. In: Bos, J. and C. Matheson, Proceedings of EDILOG: 6th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, Edinburgh, September 4-6, 2002. [.ps][.pdf]

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

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". Electronically published Feb 2006 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11168-006-9001-3). Paper publication forthcoming. [final draft .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. [.pdf]

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Dialogue Systems 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.

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. (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]

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]

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Imperatives

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]

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. [.ps]

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Questions 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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Summarization

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.

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. [draft .pdf]

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Theorem Proving

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]

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