An Intermediate Representation for the Interpretation of Temporal Expressions (2009)
The interpretation of temporal expressions in text is an important constituent task for many practical natural language processing tasks, including question-answering, information extraction and text...
Controlling Redundancy in Referring Expressions (2009)
Jette Viethen, Robert Dale, Emiel Krahmer, Mariët Theune, Pascal Touset
Krahmer et al.’s (2003) graph-based framework provides an elegant and flexible approach to the generation of referring expressions. In this paper, we present the first reported study that...
Steven Bird, Robert Dale, Bonnie J. Dorr, Bryan Gibson, Mark T. Joseph, Min-yen Kan, ...
The ACL Anthology is a digital archive of conference and journal papers in natural language processing and computational linguistics. Its primary purpose is to serve as a reference repository of...
Classifying Speech Acts using Verbal Response Modes (2009)
Andrew Lampert, Robert Dale, Cécile Paris
The driving vision for our work is to provide intelligent, automated assistance to users in understanding the status of their email conversations. Our approach is to create tools that enable the...
Div of Information Communication Sciences (2009)
Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Robert Dale
Summary sentences are often paraphrases of existing sentences. They may be made up of recycled fragments of text taken from important sentences in an input document. We investigate the use of a...
Local semantics in the interpretation of temporal expressions (2009)
Work on the interpretation of temporal expressions in text has generally been pursued in one of two paradigms: the formal semantics approach, where an attempt is made to provide a well-grounded...
GLEU: Automatic Evaluation of Sentence-Level Fluency (2008)
Andrew Mutton, Mark Dras, Stephen Wan, Robert Dale
In evaluating the output of language technology applications—MT, natural language generation, summarisation—automatic evaluation techniques generally conflate measurement of faithfulness to...
Jim Yaghi, Rolf Schwitter, Robert Dale
This is a proposal for a PhD thesis in Computer Science with the Natural Language Technology group under the supervision of Rolf Schwitter and Robert Dale. I intend to explore the use of natural...
yCSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences (2008)
Cornelia M. Verspoor, Robert Dale, Stephen J. Green, Maria Milosavljevic, Ra Williams, North Ryde Nsw
Users of the World Wide Web have needs and interests which can help to determine what of the vast quantities of information available might be relevant tothem. Intelligent agents might...
In this article, we giveanoverview of Natural Language Generation (nlg) from an applied system-building perspective. The article includes a discussion of when nlg techniques should be used �...
Edinburgh eh8 9lw Scotland (2008)
This document contains a reasonably comprehensive bibliography of research in natural language generation. Corrections and additions are welcomed. The biggest problem in building a bibliography inany...
Robert Dale, Chris Mellish, Michael Zock (editors, Ingrid Zukerman
The papers included in this volume were selected from revised versions of some of the papers presented at the workshop. The book provides a snapshot of the current research in NLG, with particular...
Ccile Paris, William R. Swartout, Robert Dale
A number of collections of papers from the field of natural language generation (NLG)
A Machine Learning Approach to Identification and Resolution of One-Anaphora (2008)
Hwee Tou Ng, Yu Zhou, Robert Dale, Mary Gardiner
We present a machine learning approach to identifying and resolving one-anaphora. In this approach, the system first learns to distinguish different uses of instances of the word one; in the second...
• For managers: Goals of the Tutorial (2008)
Robert Dale, Ehud Reiter, E Reiter, R Dale, Building Natural
• The design and construction of systems which – produce understandable texts in English or other human languages... – … from some underlying non-linguistic representation of information …...
selectional preferences for use in resolving associative anaphora
R. Dale~uk. ac. edinburgh In this paper, we review Dale's [1989] algorithm for determining the content of a referring expres-sion. The algorithm, which only permits the use of one-place...
Edinburgh eh8 9lw Scotland (2007)
This paper reports on the beginnings of some work whose aim is to investigate the role of punctuation in signalling discourse structure. This is part of a larger enterprise motivated by the view that...
Generating Expressions Referring to Eventualities (2007)
Jon Oberl, Robert Dale, Buccleuch Place
We note (a) the well-rehearsed linguistic observation that eventualities can be referred to by using either noun phrases or sentences, and (b) the seductive ontological parallels drawn by Bach [1986]...
Robert Dale, Aravind Joshi, Karen Sparck Jones, Donia Scott
This book describes the author's research on the automatic generation of referring expressions in English. The work is encapsulated in EPICURE, a natural language gen-eration system that...
Evangelising Language Technology: A Practically-Focussed Undergraduate Program (2007)
Robert Dale, Diego Mollá Aliod, Rolf Schwitter
This paper describes an undergraduate program in Language Technology that we have developed at Macquarie University. We question the industrial relevance of much that is taught in NLP courses, and...
In this article, we give anoverview of Natural Language Generation (nlg) from an applied system-building perspective. The article includes a discussion of when nlg techniques should be used;...
We examine the problem of generating definite noun phrases that are appropriate referring expressions; that is, noun phrases that (1) successfully identify the intended referent to the hearer whilst...
Selectional Restrictions in HPSG Ion Androutsopoulos (2007)
Selectional restrictions are semantic sortal constraints imposed on the participants of linguistic constructions to capture contextuallydependent constraints on interpretation. Despite their...
Handling conjunctions in named entities (2007)
Although the literature contains reports of very high accuracy figures for the recognition of named entities in text, there are still some named entity phenomena that remain problematic for existing...
Citation indices are increasingly being used not only as navigational tools for researchers, but also as the basis for measurement of academic performance and research impact. This means that the...
Citations play an essential role in navigating academic literature and following chains of evidence in research. With the growing availability of large digital archives of scientific papers, the...
Two-dimensional Forster resonance energy transfer (2-D FRET) and the membrane raft hypothesis (2006)
Acasandrei, M., DALE, Robert, VAN DE VEN, Martin, AMELOOT, Marcel
A model for analyzing Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET) data in relation to the cell plasma membrane raft hypothesis is developed to take into account: (a) the distribution of FRET donors and...
Classifying speech acts using verbal response modes (2006)
Lampert, Andrew, Dale, Robert, Paris, Cecile
The driving vision for our work is to provide intelligent, automated assistance to users in understanding the status of their email conversations. Our approach is to create tools that enable the...
Classifying speech acts using verbal response modes (2006)
Lampert, Andrew, Dale, Robert, Paris, Cecile
The driving vision for our work is to provide intelligent, automated assistance to users in understanding the status of their email conversations. Our approach is to create tools that enable the...
Classifying speech acts using verbal response modes (2006)
Lampert, Andrew, Dale, Robert, Paris, Cecile
The driving vision for our work is to provide intelligent, automated assistance to users in understanding the status of their email conversations. Our approach is to create tools that enable the...
doi:10.1017/S1351324906004414 Printed in the United Kingdom Industry Watch (2006)
The last six months have seen a number of interesting announcements and products in the commercial language technology arena. Here are some that caught my eye, and which you might find interesting...
Using natural language generation in automatic route description (2005)
Dale, Robert, Geldof, Sabine, Prost, Jean-Philippe
In this paper we tackle the problem of generating natural route descriptions on the basis of input obtained from a commercially available way-finding system. Our framework and architecture...
A Machine learning approach to identification and resolution of one-anaphora (2005)
Ng, Hwee Tou, Zhou, Yu, Dale, Robert, Gardiner, Mary
We present a machine learning approach to identifying and resolving one-anaphora. In this approach, the system first learns to distinguish different uses of instances of the word one; in the second...
Viewing referring expression generation as search (2005)
Almost all natural language generation (NLG) systems are faced with the problem of the generation of referring expressions (GRE): given a symbol corresponding to an intended referent, how do we work...
Using natural language generation in automatic route description (2005)
In this paper we tackle the problem of generating natural route descriptions on the basis of input obtained from a commercially available way-finding system. Our framework and architecture...
User responses to speech recognition errors: Consistency of behaviour across domains (2004)
Stephen Choularton, Robert Dale
The problems caused by imperfect speech recognition in spoken dialogue systems are well known: they confound the ability of the system to manage the dialogue, and can lead to both user frustration...
Referring Expression Generation as a Search Problem (2004)
One of the most widely explored issues in natural language generation is the generation of referring expressions (gre): given an entity we want to refer to, how do we work out the content of a...
Generating Navigation Information Based on the Driver's Route Knowledge (2004)
Hua Cheng, Lawrence Cavedon, Robert Dale
This paper targets the content selection problem in generating appropriate information in the domain of in-car navigation. It describes an algorithm that models driver's knowledge about roads...
Generating more natural route descriptions (2002)
In this paper we tackle the problem of generating natural route descriptions on the basis of input obtained from a commercially available wayfinding system. We adopt a standard pipelined natural...
Evangelising Language Technology: (2002)
Robert Dale, Diego Mollá Aliod, Rolf Schwitter
This paper describes an undergraduate program in Language Technology that we have developed at Macquarie University. We question the industrial relevance of much that is taught in NLP courses, and...
Issues in Anaphora Annotation: The Case of Encyclopaedic Animal Descriptions (2001)
Anaphora resolution has been a widely studied problem in natural language processing almost since work in the field began (see [Hirst 1981, Mitkov 1999] for summaries). However, most work focuses on...
Selectional restrictions in hpsg (2000)
Ion Androutsopoulos, Robert Dale
Selectional restrictions arc semantic sortal con-straints ilnposed on the particil)ants of lin-guistic constructions to capture contextually-dependent constraints on interpretation. De-spite their...
Building Natural Language Generation Systems (2000)
This book explains how to build Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems - computer software systems which use techniques from artificial intelligence and computational linguistics to automatically...
Generating Natural Language Descriptions of Project Plans (1999)
{mwasko] rdale}ics.mq. edu. au Abstract. We often resort to graphical means in order to describe nonlinear structures, such as task dependencies in project planning. There are many contexts, however,...
Integrating Natural Language Generation and Hypertext to Produce Dynamic Documents (1998)
Robert Dale, Jon Oberlander, Maria Milosavljevic, Alistair Knott
We discuss a task requiring the coherent presentation of heterogeneous information about objects recorded in electronic catalogues. We consider the advantages of combining hypermedia delivery with...
Cornelia M. Verspoor, Robert Dale, Stephen J. Green, Maria Milosavljevic, Cecile Parisy, Sandra Williams, ...
Users of the World Wide Web have needs and interests which can help to determine what of the vast quantities of information available might be relevant to them. Intelligent agents might be used to...
Using Natural Language Generation Techniques to Produce Virtual Documents (1998)
Robert Dale, Stephen J Green, Maria Milosavljevic, Cécile Paris, Cornelia Verspoor, Sandra Williams
With the increasing importance of Web publishing, there has been considerable interest in the production of virtual documents on demand. The bulk of this work has used existing documents annotated...
Using Natural Language Generation Techniques to Produce Virtual Documents (1998)
Robert Dale, Stephen J Green, Maria Milosavljevic, Cécile Paris, Cornelia Verspoor, Sandra Williams
With the increasing importance of Web publishing, there has been considerable interest in the production of virtual documents on demand. The bulk of this work has used existing documents annotated...
Building Applied Natural Language Generation Systems (1997)
In this article, we give an overview of Natural Language Generation (nlg) from an applied system-building perspective. The article includes a discussion of when nlg techniques should be used;...
The Web as Dialogue: the role of natural language generation in hypertext (1997)
Robert Dale, Maria Milosavljevic, Jon Oberlander
A very common metaphor used when discussing the World Wide Web, and hypertextual systems in general, is that of navigation within a space. An alternative metaphor is to view a session with any such...
The Role of the Gricean Maxims in the Generation of Referring Expressions (1996)
Grice's maxims of conversation [Grice 1975] are framed as directives to be followed by a speaker of the language. This paper argues that, when considered from the point of view of natural...
Strategies for Comparison in Encyclopædia Descriptions (1996)
Maria Milosavljevic, Robert Dale
<F4.909e+05> Comparisons are typically employed to distinguish similar entities, or to illustrate a property of an entity by referring to another commonly known entity which shares that...
The Role of the Gricean Maxims in the Generation of Referring Expressions (1996)
Robert Dale, North Ryde, Ehud Reiter
Grice's maxims of conversation [Grice 1975] are framed as directives to be followed by a speaker of the language. This paper argues that, when considered from the point of view of natural...
Choosing a Set of Coherence Relations for Text Generation: A Data-Driven Approach (1996)
. An active research programme in Natural Language Generation has grown up around the notion of `coherence relations'. Relations are being used in a variety of roles in generation systems, in...
Authoring on Demand: Natural Language Generation in Hypertext Documents (1996)
Robert Dale, Maria Milosavljevic
<F4.589e+05> Automatic natural language generation from underlying representations of information adds a new dimension to the electronic publishing world, particularly in the context of on-line...
Text Generation in a Dynamic Hypertext Environment (1996)
Maria Milosavljevic, Adrian Tulloch, Robert Dale
This paper describes PEBA-II, a working natural language generation system which interactively describes animals in a taxonomic knowledge base via the production of World Wide Web pages. Our aim is...
We examine the problem of generating definite noun phrases that are appropri-ate referring expressions: that is, noun phrases that (a) successfully identify the intended referent to the hearer whilst...
An Introduction to Natural Language Generation (1995)
Introduction Natural Language Generation Robert Microsoft Institute Advanced Software Technology School of Mathematics, Physics, Computing Electronics Macquarie University Sydney Australia...
A Bibliography of Research in Natural Language Generation (1993)
Robert Dale, G. Sabah, Advances Natural, Language Generation
This document contains a reasonably comprehensive bibliography of natural language generation. Corrections and additions are welcomed.
Using Linguistic Phenomena to Motivate a Set of Rhetorical Relations (1993)
The notion that a text is coherent in virtue of the `relations' which hold between the elements of that text has become fairly common currency, both in the study of discourse coherence and in...
We report on the initial stages of development of a robust parsing system, to be used as part of The Editor's Assistant, a program that detects and corrects textual errors and infelicities in...
A short annotated bibliography of research in natural language generation (1990)
These notes provide some pointers to further reading in a number of topic areas within natural language generation. The list is by no means exhaustive, but should provide su cient leads to get you...