Richard Power: Publications

Recent papers

2012

Tu Anh Nguyen, Richard Power, Paul Piwek and Sandra Williams (2012). Measuring the understandability of deduction rules for OWL. Proceedings of First International Workshop on Debugging Ontologies and Ontology Mappings. Galway, Ireland. [pdf]
Richard Power (2012) OWL Simplified English: a finite-state language for ontology editing. In T. Kuhn and N.E. Fuchs (eds) Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2012, Zurich), pp 44-60. Springer, Heidelberg. [pdf] [slides]
Tu Anh Nguyen, Richard Power, Paul Piwek and Sandra Williams (2012) Planning Accessible Explanations for Entailments in OWL Ontologies. Proceedings of the 7th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2012), 30 May - 1 June 2012, Starved Rock, IL, USA. [pdf]
Richard Power and Sandra Williams (2012) Generating numerical approximations. Computational Linguistics Volume 38 Number 1, pp 113-134. [pdf]
Kees van Deemter, Albert Gatt, Ielka van der Sluis and Richard Power (2012) Generation of referring expressions: assessing the incremental algorithm. Cognitive Science. [pdf]
Kees van Deemter, Albert Gatt, Ielka van der Sluis and Richard Power (2012) Assessing the Incremental Algorithm: a Response to Krahmer et al. Letter to the Editor. Cognitive Science. [pdf]

2011

Third, Allan; Williams, Sandra and Power, Richard (2011). OWL to English: a tool for generating organised easily-navigated hypertexts from ontologies. Proceedings of 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011), 23 - 27 Oct 2011, Bonn, Germany. [pdf]
Richard Power (2011) Deriving rhetorical relationships from semantic content. Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, September 2011, Nancy, France. [pdf]
Sandra Williams, Allan Third and Richard Power (2011) Levels of organisation in ontology verbalisation. Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, September 2011, Nancy, France.
Susana Bautista, Raquel Hervás, Pablo Gervás, Richard Power, Sandra Williams (2011) How to Make Numerical Information Accessible: Experimental Identification of Simplification Strategies. To appear in Proceedings of the 13th IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2011), Lisbon, Portugal, 5-12 September.
Susana Bautista, Raquel Hervás, Pablo Gervás, Richard Power, Sandra Williams (2011) Experimental Identification of the Use of Hedges in the Simplification of Numerical Expressions. The Second Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), 30 July 2011, Edinburgh, Scotland. [pdf]
Robert Stevens, James Malone, Sandra Williams, Richard Power, Alan Third (2011) Automating generation of textual class definitions from OWL to English. Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 2011 May 17, Vol. 2 Suppl 2:S5. [pdf]
Tu Anh T. Nguyen, Richard Power, Paul Piwek and Sandra Williams (2011) Justification Patterns for OWL DL Ontologies. Technical Report TR2011-05, Department of Computing, The Open University. ISSN 1744-1986. [pdf]
Richard Power (2011) Coherence relations in ontologies. Technical Report TR2011-01, Department of Computing, The Open University. ISSN 1744-1986. [pdf]

2010

Richard Power and Allan Third (2010) Expressing OWL axioms by English sentences: dubious in theory, feasible in practice. To appear in Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), Beijing China. [pdf]
Robert Stevens, James Malone, Sandra Williams and Richard Power (2010) Automating Class Definitions: From OWL to English. To appear in Proceedings of Bio-Ontologies 2010: Semantic Applications in Life Sciences SIG at 18th Annual International conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2010), Boston, USA. [pdf]
Sandra Williams and Richard Power (2010) Grouping axioms for more coherent ontology descriptions. To appear in Proceedings of 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2010), Dublin. [pdf]
Power, R. (2010) Complexity assumptions in ontology verbalisation. To appear in Proceedings of 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010), Uppsala, Sweden. [pdf]
Sandra Williams and Richard Power (2010) A fact-aligned corpus of numerical expressions. Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010), Malta, pp. 2396-2400. [pdf]

2009

Power, R., Stevens, R., Scott, D. and Rector, A. (2009) Editing OWL through generated CNL. Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL'09) Marettimo Island, Italy. [pdf] [slides]
Power, R. (2009) Towards a Generation-Based Semantic Web Authoring Tool. Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'09), Athens. [pdf]
Sandra Williams and Richard Power (2009) Precision and mathematical form in first and subsequent mentions of numerical facts and their relation to document structure. Proceedings of 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Athens. [pdf]

2008

Hardcastle, D. and Power, R (2008) Fast, Scalable and Reliable Generation of Controlled Natural Language. Proceedings of SETQA-NLP Workshop at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL08), Ohio, US. [pdf]
Sandra Williams, Richard Power and Paul Piwek (2008) Simulating emotional reactions in medical dramas. Proceedings of the Symposium on Affective Language in Human and Machine, Volume 2, The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) 2008 Convention: Communication, Interaction and Social Intelligence, Aberdeen, April 2008, pp. 25-32. [pdf]
Sandra Williams and Richard Power (2008) Deriving rhetorical complexity data from the RST-DT Corpus. To appear in proceedings of the 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2008), Marrakech, Morocco, 28-30 May, 2008. [pdf]

2007

Piwek, P., Hardcastle, D., Power, R. (2007) Dialogue Games for Crosslingual Communication Proceedings of DECALOG 2007, Rovereto, Italy L. Vieu and R. Artstein (ed.) [pdf]
Richard Power (2007) Abstract Verbs. Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation. [pdf]
Sandra Williams, Paul Piwek and Richard Power (2007) Generating monologue and dialogue to present personalised medical information to patients. Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation. [pdf]
Hallett, C., Scott, D. and Power, R. (2007). Composing Questions through Conceptual Authoring. Computational Linguistics, 33 (1), pp. 105 - 133. [pdf]

2006

Ling Yin and Richard Power (2006) Adapting the Naive Bayes Classifier to Rank Procedural Texts. 28th European Conference on Information Retreival Research (ECIR 2006), London, UK. [link]
Marina Santini, Richard Power and Roger Evans (2006) Implementing a Characterization of Genre for Automatic Genre Identification of Web Pages. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2006), Sydney, Australia. [pdf]
Paul Piwek, Richard Power and Sandra Williams [2006]. Generating scripts for personalised medical dialogues for patients. Technical Report 2006/06. Computing Department, The Open University. ISSN 1744-1986. [pdf]

2005

Hallett, C., Scott, D., Power, R. (2005) Intuitive querying of e-Health data repositories. Proceedings of the UK E-Science All-Hands Meeting, Nottingham, UK. [pdf]
Power, R., Scott, D. (2005) Automatic generation of large-scale paraphrases. Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Paraphrasing (IWP2005), Jeju Island, Korea pp. 57-64. [pdf]
Ling Yin and Richard Power (2005) Investigation of the structure of topic expressions: a corpus-based approach. Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics Conference Series, Vol. 1, no. 1.
Piwek P., Power R., Scott D., van Deemter K. (2005) Generating multimedia presentations: from plain text to screenplay in Intelligent Multimodal Information Presentation, Text Speech and Language Processing vol. 27 pp. 203-226 O. Stock and M. Zancanar (ed.) Kluwer: Dordrecht

2004

Rodger Kibble and Richard Power (2004) Optimising referential coherence in text generation. Computational Linguistics 30(4). [pdf] (expanded version, available as ITRI Technical Report)
Richard Power and Roger Evans (2004) WYSIWYM with wider coverage. Companion Volume to the Proceedings of ACL-04 conference, Interactive Posters/Demonstrations and Tutorial Abstracts, 211-214. [pdf]

2003

Kees van Deemter and Richard Power (2003) High-level authoring of illustrated documents. Natural Language Engineering 9 (2), 101-126. [pdf]
Power, R., Scott, D. and Bouayad-Agha, N (2003) Document Structure. Computational Linguistics, 29:4 pp. 211-260 [pdf]
R. Power, D. Scott and A. Hartley (2003) Multilingual generation of controlled languages. In Proceedings of The Joint Conference of the 7th International Workshop of the European Association for Machine Translation and the 4th Controlled Language Applications Workshop (EAMT/CLAW-03), Dublin. [pdf] [ppt]
R. Power, D. Scott and N. Bouayad-Agha (2003) Generating texts with style. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing'03) Mexico City. [pdf]
Roger Evans and Richard Power (2003) WYSIWYM: building user interfaces with natural language feedback. Research notes and demonstration papers at EACL-03, pp. 203-206, Budapest, Hungary. [pdf] [pdf]

2002

Bouayad-Agha, Nadjet, Richard Power, Donia Scott and Anja Belz (2002) PILLS: Multilingual generation of medical information documents with overlapping content. In Proceedings of LREC 2002, pp. 2111-2114. [pdf]

2001

L. Cahill and J. Carroll and R. Evans and D. Paiva and R. Power and D. Scott and K. van Deemter (2001) From RAGS to RICHES: exploiting the potential of a flexible generation architecture. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'01), Toulouse, France, 98-105. [pdf]
N. Bouayad-Agha and D. Scott and R. Power (2001) The Influence of Layout on the Interpretation of Referring Expressions. In Liesbeth Degand and Yves Bestgen and Wilbert Spooren and Luuk van Waes (2001) Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse, Stiching Neerlandistiek VU, Amsterdam, 133-141. [pdf]
D. Scott and N. Bouayad-Agha and R. Power and S. Shultz and R. Beck and D. Murphy and R. Lockwood (2001) PILLS: A Multilingual Authoring System for Patient Information. Proceedings of the 2001 Meeting of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMAI'01), Washington, D.C. [pdf]
D. Scott and R. Power (2001) Generating textual diagrams and diagrammatic texts. In Advances in Multimodal Human-Computer Communication, H. Bunt and R. Beun (eds), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag (in press). [pdf]

2000

K. van Deemter and R. Power (2000) Multimedia Document Authoring using WYSIWYM editing. Proceedings of the Workshop on Coherence in Generated Multimedia at the International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG-2000), Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, pp 15-19. [pdf]
R. Kibble and R. Power (2000) An integrated framework for text planning and pronominalisation. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG-2000), Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, pp 77-84 [pdf]
N. Bouayad-Aga, R. Power and D. Scott (2000) ``Can text structure be incompatible with rhetorical structure?'' Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG-2000), Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, pp 194-200 [pdf]
R. Power (2000) ``Planning texts by constraint satisfaction'' Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2000), Saarbruecken, Germany, pp 642-648 [pdf]
K. van Deemter and R. Power (2000) ``Authoring Multimedia Documents using WYSIWYM editing'' Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2000), Saarbruecken, Germany, pp 222-228 [pdf]
N. Bouayad-Aga, D. Scott and R. Power (2000) ``Integrating Content and Style in Documents: a case study of Patient Information Leaflets'' Information Design Journal 9/2-3, pp 161-176. [pdf]

Before 2000

R. Kibble and R. Power (1999) ``Using centering theory to plan coherent texts'' Proceedings of the 12th Amsterdam Colloqium. [pdf]

R. Power (1999) ``Controlling logical scope in text generation'' Proceedings of the European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Toulouse, France. [pdf]

R. Power, C. Doran and D. Scott (1999) ``Generating embedded discourse markers from rhetorical structure'' Proceedings of the European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Toulouse, France. [pdf]

R. Power (1999) ``Generating referring expressions with a unification grammar'' Proceedings of the Nth Conference of the European Association for Computation Linguistics, Bergen, Norway. [pdf]

P.Piwek, R. Evans and R. Power (1999) ``Editing speech acts: a practical approach to human-machine dialogue'' In Preproceedings of Amstelogue'99. Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. University of Amsterdam 7-9 May, 1999. [pdf]

R. Kibble, R. Power and K. van Deemter (1999) ``Editing logically complex discourse meanings'' Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Computational Semantics, pp. 147-162. [pdf]

R. Power and D. Scott (1998) ``Multilingual authoring using feedback texts'' Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING-ACL 98), Montreal, Canada. [pdf]

R. Power, D. Scott and R. Evans (1998) ``What You See Is What You Meant: direct knowledge editing with natural language feedback'' Proceedings of the 13th Biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 98), Brighton, UK. [pdf]

D. Scott, R. Power and R. Evans (1998) ``Generation as a solution to its own problem'' Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation (INLG 98), Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada. [pdf]

K. van Deemter and R. Power (1998) ``Coreference in knowledge editing'' Proceedings of the COLING-ACL workshop on the Computational Treatment of Nominals, Montreal Canada, 56-60. [pdf]

Richard Power and Nico Cavallotto (1996) ``Multilingual generation of administrative forms'' International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Sussex UK. Long version [pdf]

Paris C., Vander Linden K., Fischer M., Hartley A., Pemberton L., Power R., Scott D. (1995) A Support Tool for Writing Multilingual Instructions in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Montreal, Canada pp. 1398-1404. [pdf]

D. Scott and R. Power (eds) (1994) Characteristics of administrative forms in English, German and Italian. Gist project deliverable EV-1 [pdf]

Early publications

R. Power and H.C. Longuet-Higgins (1978) "Learning to count: a computational model of language acquisition" Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B.200, 391-417.

R. Power (1979) "The organisation of purposeful dialogues" Linguistics 17, 107-152.

R. Power (1981) "Dialogue as collective action" In Dieter Metzing (ed) "Dialogmuster und Dialogprozesse" Verlag: Buske Hamburg 1981.

R. Power (1982) "Artificial Intelligence and Psychology" University of Padua Institute of Psychology Report 58.

R. Power (1984) "Mutual Intention" Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 14, 85-102.

R. Power (1984) "Some applications of artificial intelligence planning theory in discourse analysis" In V. D'Urso and P. Leonardi (eds) "Discourse analysis and natural rhetoric" CLEUP: Padova, 59-66.

M.F. Dal Martello and R. Power (1984) "Egocentricity and Reference: Do children sometimes use the correct article for the wrong reason?" University of Padua Institute of Psychology Report 103.

R. Power (1984) "Inverted deductions with numerical quantifiers" University of Padua Institute of Psychology Report 104.

R. Power (1984) "Quantity deductions with numerical quantifiers" University of Padua Institute of Psychology Report 105.

R. Power and M.F. Dal Martello (1985) "Methods of investigating conversation" Semiotica 53, 237-257.

R. Power and M.F. Dal Martello (1986) "Some criticisms of Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson on turn taking" Semiotica 58, 29-40. [pdf]

R. Power and M.F. Dal Martello 1986 "The use of the definite and indefinite articles by Italian pre-school children" Journal of Child Language 13, 145-154. [pdf]

F. Argentesi, L. Costantini, and R. Power (1986) "A knowledge-based system for estimating physical inventories in MBA's involving complex chemical processes" Proceedings of the Association for Nuclear Materials Management (ANMM) New Orleans.

R. Power (1986) "Second-hand perception" Ricerche di Psicologia 4.

R. Power (1987) "Efficiency in Conversation" Proceedings of the Second Alvey Workshop on Explanation, University of Surrey.

R. Power (1987) "Un aiuto per chi concede un fido" Zero-Uno vol 66/67.

R. Power, V. Lobascio, A. Solinas, L. Cioci, and F. Gardin (1987) "An expert system for evaluating leasing operations" Proceedings of the first annual conference on expert systems in business, New York.

R. Power (1988) "Sistemi Esperti ed Ipertesti" Atti del Secondo Incontro del Hypertext Users Group (HUG), Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Universitˆ degli Studi di Milano.

R. Power and P. Legrenzi (1989) "Quando e' conveniente sostituire il decisore umano con un sistema esperto? Il caso delle locazioni finanziarie" Sistemi Intelligenti 1:3.

R. Power and M.F. Dal Martello (1990) "The dictation of Italian numerals" Language and Cognitive Processes 5, 237-254. [pdf]

R. Power and Emilio Sarcina (1991) "Altre tecnologie collegate ai sistemi esperti: gli ipertesti". In Gardin F., Rossignoli C., and Vaturi S. "Sistemi esperti banca e finanza" Bologna: Il Mulino.

F. Banchi, L. Carminati, V. Lobascio and R. Power (1991) "ALVIN: sistema esperto per la valutazione di operazioni di leasing". In Gardin F., Rossignoli C., and Vaturi S. 1991 "Sistemi esperti banca e finanza" Bologna: Il Mulino.

F. Gardin, R. Power, H.C. Taylor and G. Baldassi (1991) "SEPT: a hybrid intelligent support system for the bank treasury dealing room".

R. Power (ed) (1993) "Cooperation among organizations: the potential of Computer Supported Cooperative Work" Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.

B. D'Hauwers, V. Van Hyfte, F. Vandamme and R. Power (1993) "Cooperative work in organizations" In R. Power (ed) "Cooperation among organizations".

R. Power and L. Carminati (1993) "Computer supported cooperative work" In R. Power (ed) "Cooperation among organizations".

R. Power and M. Martin (1993) "A methodology for CSCW" In R. Power (ed) "Cooperation among organizations".

R. Power and L. Carminati (1993) "Catalogue of CSCW systems" In R. Power (ed) "Cooperation among organizations".

R. Power and M. Dal Martello (1993) "Effects of CSCW on organizations" AI and Society 7:3, 252-263, Springer-Verlag. [pdf]

F. Gardin, R. Power and E. Martinelli (1995) "Liquidity management with fuzzy qualitative constraints" Decision Support Systems 15:2, 147-156, Elsevier.

C.Paris, K. Vander Linden, M. Fischer, A. Hartley, L. Pemberton, R. Power and D. Scott (1995) "A support tool for writing multilingual instructions" Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-95), Montreal, Canada.

Paris C., Vander Linden K., Fischer M., Hartley A., Pemberton L., Power R., Scott D. (1995) DRAFTER: A Drafting Tool for Producing Multilingual Instructions in Proceedings of the European Workshop on Natural Language Generation Leiden, NL.

L. Pemberton, L. Gorman, A. Hartley and R. Power (1996) "Computer support for producing software documentation: some possible futures" In M. Sharples and T. van der Geest (eds) "The new writing environment: writers at work in a world of technology" Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 59- 72.

R. Power and N. Cavallotto (1996) "Multilingual generation of administrative forms" Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Herstmonceux Castle, UK.

R. Power and M. Dal Martello (1997) ``From 834 to Eighty Thirty Four: The Reading of Arabic Numerals by Seven-year-old Children'' Mathematical Cognition 3 (1), 63-85. [pdf]

R. Power and D. Scott (1998) ``WYSIWYM: Knowledge editing with natural language feedback'' Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation (INLG 98), Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada.

K. van Deemter and R. Power (1998) ``Coreference in knowledge editing'' Proceedings of the COLING-ACL workshop on the Computational Treatment of Nominals, Montreal Canada, 56-60.