Education | Grants | Talks | Movies | News | OU page | PCs | Projects | Publications | Research | Students

Jenny Lee Building, Walton Hall Campus, The Open University, taken by Sandra Williams, January 2010

Dr Sandra Williams

Research Fellow in Natural Language Generation

Research interests

Other interests are discourse structure and microplanning, generation for people with limited literacy, discourse analysis, speech act analysis, intonation analysis, generation of prosodically-annotated text, dialogue management in spoken language systems and automatic text summarisation.

I am a member of the Open University Natural Language Generation (NLG) research group.

Education

Projects

Current

Past

Students

Grants and Awards

Membership of Programme Committees and Review Panels

Invited Talks

Publications

See also, lists of my publications in the OU repository: Open Research Online and on Google Scholar

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

1990s


Movies

Here is one way to Calculate a 20% Discount, an animation that I created with GoAnimate.com.
Poor Bridget wants a cup of coffee but she only has $1...

To calculate how much you pay with a 20% discount, divide the full price by 10 and multiply by 8. Why? With a 20% discount, you pay 80% of the full price. If the full price is $1.20, divide by 10 to get 10% (or one tenth). That gives us $0.12. Then multiply by 8 to get 80%. So you pay $0.96

What does Sandra do? In simple English, here's an interview with Sandra's avatar from GoAnimate

Maths Word Problem, an animation from GoAnimate.com that I created.


A computer-generated medical drama

The script for this drama was generated by a computer using natural language generation technology. It is acted by embodied agents. Watch it here


-->