2006. An NLG evaluation competition? eight reasons to be cautious (2009)
Most would agree that NLG has to date failed to make much of an impact on the field of NLP and on the world — as measured by the number of articles in Computational Linguistics, papers in ACL...
Towards Customizable Individualized Dialogue Systems (2008)
Marilyn Walker, Roger Moore, Steve Whittaker, Johanna Moore, Steve Young, U. Sheffield Speech
Spoken language dialogue systems are one of the few extant examples of an intelligent artifact that can interact with humans. As such, they provide a platform for exploring fundamental cognitive...
This paper describes a media-independent, compositional,)lan-based approach to represent-ing attributive descriptions for use in integrated text and graphics generation. An attributive...
Part I: Previous research track record (2007)
Alan Bundy, Johanna Moore, Claus Zinn
Prof. Alan Bundy was educated as a Mathematician, obtaining a 1st class honours degree in Mathematics in 1968 from Leicester University and a PhD in Mathematical Logic in 1971, also from Leicester,...
A Media-Independent Content Language for Integrated Text and Graphics Generation (2007)
Green, Nancy, Carenini, Giuseppe, Kerpedjiev, Stephen, Roth, Steven, Moore, Johanna
This paper describes a media-independent knowledge representation scheme, or content language, for describing the content of communicative goals and actions. The language is used within an...
The Beetle and BeeDiff tutoring systems (2007)
Charles Callaway, Myroslava Dzikovska, Elaine Farrow, Manuel Marques-pita, Colin Matheson, Johanna Moore
We describe two tutorial dialogue systems that adapt techniques from task-oriented dialogue systems to tutorial dialogue. Both systems employ the same reusable deep natural language understanding and...
Using dialogue to learn math in the LeActiveMath project (2006)
Charles Callaway, Myroslava Dzikovska, Colin Matheson, Johanna Moore, Claus Zinn
We describe a tutorial dialogue system under development that assists students in learning how to differentiate equations. The system uses deep natural language understanding and generation to both...
Automatic Segmentation of Multiparty Dialogue (2006)
Pei-Yun Hsueh, Johanna Moore, Steve Renals
In this paper, we investigate the problem of automatically predicting segment boundaries in spoken multiparty dialogue. We extend prior work in two ways. We first apply approaches that have been...
Incorporating speaker and discourse features into speech summarization (2006)
Gabriel Murray, Steve Renals, Jean Carletta, Johanna Moore
We have explored the usefulness of incorporating speech and discourse features in an automatic speech summarization system applied to meeting recordings from the ICSI Meetings corpus. By analyzing...
Incorporating speaker and discourse features into speech summarization (2006)
Gabriel Murray, Steve Renals, Jean Carletta, Johanna Moore
We have explored the usefulness of incorporating speech and discourse features in an automatic speech summarization system applied to meeting recordings from the ICSI Meetings corpus. By analyzing...
Evaluating Automatic Summaries of Meeting Recordings (2005)
Murray, Gabriel, Renals, Steve, Carletta, Jean, Moore, Johanna
The research below explores schemes for evaluating automatic summaries of business meetings, using the ICSI Meeting Corpus. Both automatic and subjective evaluations were carried out, with a central...
Evaluating Automatic Summaries of Meeting Recordings (2005)
Murray, Gabriel, Renals, Steve, Carletta, Jean, Moore, Johanna
The research below explores schemes for evaluating automatic summaries of business meetings, using the ICSI Meeting Corpus. Both automatic and subjective evaluations were carried out, with a central...
Evaluating Automatic Summaries of Meeting Recordings (2005)
Gabriel Murray, Steve Renals, Jean Carletta, Johanna Moore
The research below explores schemes for evaluating automatic summaries of business meetings, using the ICSI Meeting Corpus (Janin et al., 2003). Both automatic and subjective evaluations were carried...
Generating tailored, comparative descriptions in spoken dialogue (2004)
Johanna Moore, Mary Ellen, Foster Oliver, Lemon Michael White
We describe an approach to presenting information in spoken dialogues that for the first time brings together multi-attribute decision models, strategic content planning, state-of-the-art dialogue...
Generating Tailored, Comparative Descriptions in Spoken Dialogue (2004)
Johanna Moore, Mary Ellen Foster, Oliver Lemon, Michael White, Mary Ellen, Foster Oliver, ...
We describe an approach to presenting information in spoken dialogues that for the first time brings together multi-attribute decision models, strategic content planning, state-of-the-art dialogue...
Fish or fowl: A wizard of oz evaluation of dialogue strategies in tehe restaurant domain (2002)
Steve Whittaker, Marilyn Walker, Johanna Moore
Recent work on evaluation of spoken dialogue systems suggests that the information presentation phase of complex dialogues is often the primary contributor to dialogue duration. This indicates that...
Fish or fowl: A wizard of oz evaluation of dialogue strategies in tehe restaurant domain (2002)
Steve Whittaker, Marilyn Walker, Johanna Moore
Recent work on evaluation of spoken dialogue systems suggests that the information presentation phase of complex dialogues is often the primary contributor to dialogue duration. This indicates that...
Latent semantic analysis for text segmentation (2001)
Peter Wiemer-hastings, Johanna Moore
jmoorecogsci. ed. ac. uk This paper describes a method for linear text segmentation that is more accurate or at least as accurate as state-of-the-art methods (Utiyama and Isahara, 2001; Choi, 2000a)....
Tailoring Evaluative Arguments to a User's Preferences (1999)
Abstract. Computer systems that serve as personal assistants, advisors, or sales assistants frequently need to argue evaluations of domain entities. Argumentation theory shows that to argue an...
Tailoring Evaluative Arguments to a User's Preferences (1999)
Abstract. Computer systems that serve as personal assistants, advisors, or sales assistants frequently need to argue evaluations of domain entities. Argumentation theory shows that to argue an...
Tailoring Evaluative Arguments to User's Preferences (1999)
Giuseppe Carenini, Johanna Moore
. Computer systems that serve as personal assistants, advisors, or sales assistants frequently need to argue evaluations of domain entities. Argumentation theory shows that to argue an evaluation...
Discourse Cues In Narrative Text: Using Production To Predict Comprehension (1999)
David Allbritton, Johanna Moore
Discourse cues (e.g., because, since, therefore, and so) express structural and semantic relationships between parts of an explanation, and are used extensively by human tutors. Previous research by...
Tailoring Evaluative Arguments to a User’s Preferences (1999)
Abstract. Computer systems that serve as personal assistants, advisors, or sales assistants frequently need to argue evaluations of domain entities. Argumentation theory shows that to argue an...
A Media-Independent Content Language for Integrated Text and Graphics Generation (1998)
Nancy Green, Stephan Kerpedjiev, Steven Roth, Johanna Moore
This paper describes a media-independent knowledge representation scheme, or content language, for describing the content of communicative goals and actions. The language is used within an...
This paper describes a media-independent, compositional, plan-based approach to representing attributive descriptions for use in integrated text and graphics generation. An attributive...
Mark Core, Masato Ishizaki, Johanna Moore, Christine Nakatani, Norbert Reithinger, David Traum, ...
away "messy" bits of dialogue (e.g., local repair, turn-taking, grounding) to something more like text, to build as the basis of IU structure. Lots of Intentional/informational discourse...
A Media-Independent Content Language for Integrated Text and Graphics Generation (1998)
Nancy Green, Giuseppe Carenini, Stephan Kerpedjiev, Steven Roth, Johanna Moore
This paper describes a media-independent knowledge representation scheme, or content language, for describing the content of communicative goals and actions. The language is used within an...
Multimedia Explanations in IDEA Decision Support Systems (1998)
Giuseppe Carenini, Johanna Moore
In this paper, we present a new approach to support the decision of selecting one object out of a set of alternatives. As compared to previous approaches, the distinctive feature of our approach is...
Nancy Green, Giuseppe Carenini, Johanna Moore
This paper describes a media-independent, compositional, plan-based approach to representing attributive descriptions for use in integrated text and graphics generation. An attributive...
This paper describes a media-independent, compositional, plan-based approach to representing attributive descriptions for use in integrated text and graphics generation. An attributive...
Saying it in graphics: from intentions to visualizations (1998)
Stephan Kerpedjiev, Nancy Green, Johanna Moore, Steven Roth
We propose a methodology for automatically realizing communicative goals in graphics. It features a task model that mediates the communicative intent and the selection of graphical techniques. The...
Nancy Green, Stephan Kerpedjiev, Steven F. Roth, Giuseppe Carenini, Johanna Moore
This paper addresses the following symposium theme stated in the call for papers: theories of communicative action including other modalities than speech and nontraditional levels of action. We...
Corpus Analysis Resources for Discourse (1997)
James Allen, Johanna Moore, Kathleen R. McKeown, Kathleen R. Mckeown
d to capture properties of discourse independent of modality (e.g., spoken vs. written), number of participants, domain, genre and so on. That is, procedures for identifying a given DAL element, such...
Media-independent Communicative Actions in Integrated Text and Graphics Generation (1997)
Nancy Green, Stephan Kerpedjiev, Steven F. Roth, Johanna Moore
The research reported here is part of an ongoing effort to design systems which can automatically generate integrated text and information graphics presentations. We are investigating the integration...
An Improved Interface for Tutorial Dialogues: Browsing a Visual Dialogue History (1994)
When participating in tutorial dialogues, human tutors freely refer to their own previous explanations. Explanation is an inherently incremental and interactive process. New information must be...
Planning Text for Advisory Dialogues: Capturing Intentional and Rhetorical Information (1993)
Johanna Moore, Cecile L. Paris
To participate in a dialogue a system must be capable of reasoning about its own previous utterances. Follow-up questions must be interpreted in the context of the ongoing conversation, and the...