Slides from the lectures

On this page, I will provide the slides for each lecture, along with links to the papers I cited on the slides.

Oct 15: Introduction: slides

• SumTime project at Aberdeen
• Reiter et al. (2005): Choosing words in computer-generated weather forecasts. Artificial Intelligence.
• Isard et al. (2003): Speaking the user's languages. IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine.
• Demberg & Moore (2006): Information presentation in spoken dialogue systems. Proc. EACL.
• Reiter (1994): Has a consensus NL generation architecture appeared, and is it psycholinguistically plausible?. Proc. INLGW.
• Dale & Reiter (1995): Computational interpretations of the Gricean Maxims in the generation of referring expressions. Cognitive Science.

Oct 22: The GIVE Challenge: slides

• Walker et al. (2002): DARPA Communicator: Cross-System Results for the 2001 Evaluation. ICSLP 2002.
• Special session on sharing data and comparative evaluation at INLG 2006
• Workshop on shared tasks and comparative evaluation in NLG, 2007
• Generation Challenges 2009 / Generation Challenges 2010
• ASGRE 2007 - REG 2008 - TUNA Challenge 2009
• GREC Challenge 2009
• Belz & Gatt (2008): Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Evaluation Measures for Referring Expression Generation. Proceedings of ACL.

Oct 29: Implementing GIVE systems; tools: slides

• GIVE-2 API documentation; GIVE-2 documentation index and documentation on worlds
• Maven; Maven in Five Minutes
• Mercurial homepage (includes clients and a tutorial)
• Unit tests; JUnit 4 Tutorial; Google testing blog
• Code reviews; Code Reviewing: Just Do It on Code Horror, with link to sample chapters of Peer reviews in software: a practical guide
• Scrum
• Programming languages for JVM: Java; Scala; Groovy; Jython (Maven plugins for each exist)

Nov 5: Context in situated communication slides

• van Deemter & Odijk (1997): Context modeling and the generation of spoken discourse. Speech Communication.
• Geldof (1999): Parrot-Talk requires multiple context dimensions. Proc. CONTEXT '99.
• van der Sluis & Krahmer (2001): Generating referring expressions in a multimodal context. Proc. 11th CLIN-meeting.
• Byron & Fosler-Lussier (2006): The OSU Quake 2004 corpus of two-party situated problem-solving dialogs. Proc. LREC.
• Stoia et al. (2006): Noun phrase generation for situated dialogues. Proc. INLG.
• Kelleher & Kruijff (2006): Incremental Generation of Spatial Referring Expressions in Situated Dialogue. Proc. COLING.
• SCARE: A Situated Corpus with Annotated Referring Expressions.

Nov 12: Instruction giving as communicative interaction: slides

• Brennan & Clark (1996): Conceptual pacts and lexical choice in conversation. J. Exp. Psychology 22.
• Brockmann et al. (2005): Modelling Alignment for Affective Dialogue. Proc. UM-05.
• Buschmeier et al. (2009): An alignment-capable microplanner for naural language generation. Proc EACL-09.
• Cassell et al. (2007): Coordination in Conversation and Rapport. Proc. ENL-07.
• Clark (1996): Using Language. CUP.
• Clark & Wilkes-Gibbs (1986): Referring as a collaborative process. Cognition 22.
• Funakoshi & Tokunaga (2006): Identifying Repair Targets in Action Control Dialogue. Proc. EACL-06.
• Jong et al. (2008): Politeness and Alignment in Dialogues with a Virtual Guide. Proc. AAMAS-08.
• Pearson et al. (2006): Adaptive language behavior in HCI: how expectations and beliefs about a system affect users' word choice. Proc. CHI-06.
• Porzel (2006): How People (Should) Talk to Computers. In Proc. Workshop SFB-TR8, Fischer (ed.).
• Roque & Traum (2008): Degrees of Grounding Based on Evidence of Understanding. SIGDial-08.
• Traum (1999): Computational Models of Grounding in Collaborative Systems. AAAI Symp. on Psych. Models of Communication.