2025
EHOP: A Dataset of Everyday NP-hard Optimization Problems. Under review. Unpublished
LLMs syntactically adapt their language use to their conversational partner. Under review. Unpublished
Triangulating LLM Progress through Benchmarks, Games, and Cognitive Tests. Under review. Unpublished
A Survey on Complex Tasks for Goal-Directed Interactive Agents . Under review. Unpublished
Learning Program Behavioral Models from Synthesized Input-Output Pairs. Under review. Unpublished
LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks. Under review. Unpublished
Automating the Generation of Prompts for LLM-based Action Choice in PDDL Planning. Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). Conference Publication
Fine-grained Controllable Text Generation through In-context Learning with Feedback. AAAI Workshop on AI for Education -- Tools, Opportunities, and Risks in the Generative AI Era. Workshop Publication
2024
Scope-enhanced Compositional Semantic Parsing for DRT. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Conference Publication
Strengthening Structural Inductive Biases by Pre-training to Perform Syntactic Transformations. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Conference Publication
Predicting generalization performance with correctness discriminators. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024. Conference Publication
A Dialogue Game for Eliciting Balanced Collaboration. Proceedings of the 25th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL). Conference Publication
AppWorld: A Controllable World of Apps and People for Benchmarking Interactive Coding Agents. Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Conference Publication Best resource paper award
Injecting a Structural Inductive Bias into a Seq2Seq Model by Simulation. Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Conference Publication
Adapting Multilingual LLMs to Low-Resource Languages with Knowledge Graphs via Adapters. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models (KALLM). Workshop Publication
Automating the Generation of Prompts for LLM-based Action Choice in PDDL Planning. ICAPS Workshop on Bridging the Gap Between AI Planning and Reinforcement Learning (PRL). Workshop Publication
Simple and effective data augmentation for compositional generalization. Proceedings of the 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). Conference Publication
ADaPT: As-Needed Decomposition and Planning with Language Models. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024. Conference Publication
Unlocking Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Low-Resource Language Translation. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024. Conference Publication
A Corpus of German Abstract Meaning Representation (DeAMR). Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). Conference Publication
Closing the Curious Case of Neural Text Degeneration. Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). Conference Publication
2023
Compositionality in Computational Linguistics. Annual Review of Linguistics. Journal Publication
Compositional Generalisation with Structured Reordering and Fertility Layers. Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL). Conference Publication
What′s the Meaning of Superhuman Performance in Today′s NLU?. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Conference Publication Outstanding paper award
Compositional Generalization without Trees using Multiset Tagging and Latent Permutations. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Conference Publication Outstanding paper award
SLOG: A Structural Generalization Benchmark for Semantic Parsing. Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Conference Publication
We′re Afraid Language Models Aren′t Modeling Ambiguity. Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Conference Publication
MultiFin: A Dataset for Multilingual Financial NLP. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023. Conference Publication
From Sentence to Action: Splitting AMR Graphs for Recipe Instructions. Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations. Workshop Publication
2022
Structural generalization is hard for sequence-to-sequence models. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Conference Publication
Zero-shot Script Parsing. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). Conference Publication
Towards Situated AMR: Creating a Corpus of Gesture AMR. Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management. Health, Operations Management, and Design. Workshop Publication
Abstract Meaning Representation for Gesture. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. Conference Publication
Compositional generalization with a broad-coverage semantic parser. Proceedings of *SEM 2022: The 11th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics. Conference Publication
2021
Representing Implicit Positive Meaning of Negated Statements in AMR. Proceedings of the Joint 15th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW) and 3rd Designing Meaning Representations (DMR) Workshop. Workshop Publication
It's the Meaning That Counts: The State of the Art in NLP and Semantics. KI - Künstliche Intelligenz. Journal Publication
A Persona-Based Analysis of Politeness in~Japanese and Spanish. New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. Workshop Publication
Situated UMR for Multimodal Interactions. Proceedings of the 25th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. Workshop Publication
Script Parsing with Hierarchical Sequence Modelling. Proceedings of *SEM 2021: The Tenth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics. Conference Publication
Aligning Actions Across Recipe Graphs. Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Conference Publication
Learning compositional structures for semantic graph parsing. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Structured Prediction for NLP (SPNLP 2021). Workshop Publication
2020
Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Conference Publication Best theme paper award
Normalizing Compositional Structures Across Graphbanks. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). Conference Publication
Story Generation with Rich Details. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). Conference Publication
Generating Instructions at Different Levels of Abstraction. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). Conference Publication
Fast semantic parsing with well-typedness guarantees. Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Conference Publication
MC-Saar-Instruct: a Platform for Minecraft Instruction Giving Agents. Proceedings of SIGDIAL (Demo Papers). Workshop Publication
Dialogue-AMR: Abstract Meaning Representation for Dialogue. Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. Workshop Publication
A Two-Level Interpretation of Modality in Human-Robot Dialogue. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Workshop Publication
Graph-to-Graph Meaning Representation Transformations for Human-Robot Dialogue. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2020. Workshop Publication
A Continuation Semantics for Abstract Meaning Representation. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations. Workshop Publication
Predicting Coreference in Abstract Meaning Representations. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference. Workshop Publication
2019
Abstract Meaning Representation for Human-Robot Dialogue. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics. Workshop Publication
Talking about what is not there: Generating indefinite referring expressions in Minecraft. Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG). Conference Publication
Semantic expressive capacity with bounded memory. Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Conference Publication
Compositional Semantic Parsing Across Graphbanks. Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Conference Publication
Saarland at MRP 2019: Compositional parsing across all graphbanks. Proceedings of the Shared Task on Cross-Framework Meaning Representation Parsing at the 2019 CoNLL. Workshop Publication
2018
Efficient Translation with Linear Bimorphisms. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications (LATA). Conference Publication
AMR dependency parsing with a typed semantic algebra. Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Conference Publication
Discovering User Groups for Natural Language Generation. Proceedings of SIGdial. Conference Publication
Generalized chart constraints for efficient PCFG and TAG parsing. Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Conference Publication
DialogOS: Simple and extensible dialog modeling. Proceedings of Interspeech (Demo Session). Workshop Publication
2017
Generating Contrastive Referring Expressions. Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Conference Publication
A constrained graph algebra for semantic parsing with AMRs. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS). Conference Publication
Coarse-To-Fine Parsing for Expressive Grammar Formalisms. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT). Conference Publication
Integrated sentence generation with charts. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG). Conference Publication
Alto: Rapid Prototyping for Parsing and Translation. Proceedings of the EACL Demo Session. Workshop Publication
A feature structure algebra for FTAG. Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+13). Workshop Publication
Parsing Minimalist Languages with Interpreted Regular Tree Grammars. Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+13). Workshop Publication
2016
Efficient techniques for parsing with tree automata. Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Conference Publication
Adaptive Importance Sampling from Probabilistic Tree Automata. Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Statistical NLP and Weighted Automata. Workshop Publication
2015
Lexicalization and Generative Power in CCG. Computational Linguistics. Journal Publication
Exploiting listener gaze to improve situated communication in dynamic virtual environments. Cognitive Science. Journal Publication
Semantic construction with graph grammars. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS). Conference Publication
Semantic dependency graph parsing using tree approximations. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS). Conference Publication
Graph parsing with s-graph grammars. Proceedings of the 53rd ACL and 7th IJCNLP. Conference Publication
The impact of listener gaze on predicting reference resolution. Proceedings of the 53rd ACL and 7th IJCNLP (Short Papers). Conference Publication
2014
Generation of effective referring expressions in situated context. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience. Journal Publication
Generating effective referring expressions using charts. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG). Conference Publication
Potsdam: Semantic Dependency Parsing by Bidirectional Graph-Tree Transformations and Syntactic Parsing. Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval). Workshop Publication
2013
Incremental, Predictive Parsing with Psycholinguistically Motivated Tree-Adjoining Grammar. Computational Linguistics. Journal Publication
Generic binarization for parsing and translation. Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Conference Publication
Predicting the resolution of referring expressions from user behavior. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Short Papers. Conference Publication
2012
Generation of landmark-based navigation instructions from open-source data. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL). Conference Publication
Enhancing referential success by tracking hearer gaze. Proceedings of the 13th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL). Conference Publication Best paper award
Using listener gaze to augment speech generation in a virtual 3D environment. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci). Conference Publication
Decomposing TAG algorithms using simple algebraizations. Proceedings of the 11th TAG+ Workshop. Workshop Publication
2011
Experiences with planning for natural language generation. Computational Intelligence. Journal Publication
Learning script participants from unlabeled data. Proceedings of the Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP). Conference Publication
A generalized view on parsing and translation. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT). Conference Publication
Combining symbolic and corpus-based approaches for generation of successful referring expressions. Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG). Workshop Publication
The Potsdam NLG systems at the GIVE-2.5 Challenge. GIVE-2.5 Challenge: System descriptions. Workshop Publication
Report on the Second Second Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE-2.5). Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (Special session on Generation Challenges). Workshop Publication
2010
Waking up a sleeping rabbit: On Natural-Language Sentence Generation with FF. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), Short Papers. Conference Publication
Generating instructions in virtual environments: The GIVE corpus. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Conference Publication
Computing weakest readings. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Conference Publication
Automated planning for situated natural language generation. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Conference Publication
The importance of rule restrictions in Combinatory Categorial Grammar. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Conference Publication
Learning script knowledge from web experiments. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Conference Publication
Computing relative normal forms in regular tree languages. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA). Conference Publication
A scalable model of planning perlocutionary acts. Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (PozDial). Workshop Publication
Sentence Generation as Planning with Probabilistic LTAG. Proceedings of the 10th TAG+ Workshop. Workshop Publication
Report on the Second NLG Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE-2). Proceedings of the Sixth International Natural Language Generation Conference (Special session on Generation Challenges). Workshop Publication
2009
Dependency trees and the strong generative capacity of CCG. Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL). Conference Publication
A logic of semantic representations for shallow parsing. Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL). Conference Publication
Validating the web-based evaluation of NLG systems. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics/4th International Joint Conference on NLP of the AFNLP (ACL/IJCNLP), Short Papers. Conference Publication
The Software Architecture for the First Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments. Proceedings of the EACL-09 Demo Session. Workshop Publication
Report on the First NLG Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE). Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (Special session on Generation Challenges). Workshop Publication
Controlling the spatio-visual context in situated natural language generation. Workshop on Space in Language. Workshop Publication
2008
Regular tree grammars as a formalism for scope underspecification. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-08: HLT). Conference Publication
Efficient Processing of Underspecified Discourse Representations. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-08: HLT), Short Papers. Conference Publication
Referring expressions as formulas of description logic. Proceedings of the 5th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG). Conference Publication
Experiences with planning for natural language generation. Proceedings of SPARK-08: The ICAPS-08 Scheduling and Planning Applications Workshop. Workshop Publication Best paper award
2007
Sentence generation as a planning problem. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL). Conference Publication
Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE): A Challenge and an Evaluation Testbed for NLG. Proceedings of the Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in Natural Language Generation. Workshop Publication
Solving unrestricted dominance graphs. Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Formal Grammar. Workshop Publication
Relating dominance formalisms. Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Formal Grammar. Workshop Publication
Shared Task Proposal: Instruction Giving in Virtual Worlds. Working group reports of the Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in Natural Language Generation. Workshop Publication
2006
An improved redundancy elimination algorithm for underspecified descriptions. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING/ACL). Conference Publication
Towards an efficient redundancy elimination algorithm for underspecified representations. Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS-5). Workshop Publication
2005
A new well-formedness criterion for semantics debugging. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). Conference Publication
The Evolution of Dominance Constraint Solvers. Proceedings of the ACL-05 Workshop on Software. Workshop Publication
Efficient solving and exploration of scope ambiguities. Proceedings of the ACL-05 Demo Session. Workshop Publication
2004
Put my galakmid coin into the dispenser and kick it: Computational Linguistics and Theorem Proving in a Computer Game. Journal of Logic, Language, and Information. Journal Publication
Minimal Recursion Semantics as Dominance Constraints: Translation, Evaluation, and Analysis. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Conference Publication
Computing Locally Coherent Discourses. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Conference Publication
A Relational Syntax-Semantics Interface Based on Dependency Grammar. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). Conference Publication
Talking Robots With LEGO Mindstorms. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). Conference Publication
2003
Processing Underspecified Semantic Descriptions in the Constraint Language for Lambda Structures. Research on Language and Computation. Journal Publication
An Efficient Graph Algorithm for Dominance Constraints. Journal of Algorithms. Journal Publication
Resource-Adaptive Model Generation as a Performance Model. Logic Journal of the IGPL. Journal Publication
Bridging the Gap Between Underspecification Formalisms: Hole Semantics as Dominance Constraints. Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL). Conference Publication
Statistical A$^*$ Dependency Parsing. Prospects and Advances in the Syntax/Semantics Interface. Workshop Publication
2002
Generation as Dependency Parsing. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Conference Publication
Natural Language and Inference in a Computer Game. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). Conference Publication
2001
The Constraint Language for Lambda Structures. Journal of Logic, Language, and Information. Journal Publication
An Efficient Algorithm for the Configuration Problem of Dominance Graphs. Proceedings of the 12th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA). Conference Publication
Underspecified Beta Reduction. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Conference Publication
Beta Reduction Constraints. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA). Conference Publication
VP Ellipsis by Tree Surgery. Proceedings of the 13th Amsterdam Colloquium. Workshop Publication
Dominance Constraints in Context Unification. Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics, Third International Conference, LACL'98, Grenoble, France, December 14-16, 1998, Selected Papers. Workshop Publication
Dominance Constraints: Algorithms and Complexity. Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics, Third International Conference, LACL'98, Grenoble, France, December 14-16, 1998, Selected Papers. Workshop Publication
Building a Text Adventure on Description Logic. Proceedings of KI-2001 Workshop on Applications of Description Logics. Workshop Publication
Playing With Description Logic. Proceedings of Second Workshop on Methods for Modalities (Application Description). Workshop Publication
2000
Relaxing Underspecified Semantic Representations for Reinterpretation. Grammars. Journal Publication
On Underspecified Processing of Dynamic Semantics. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). Conference Publication
A Polynomial-Time Fragment of Dominance Constraints. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Conference Publication
Towards a Tableaux Machine for Language Understanding. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS-2). Workshop Publication
1999
A Calculus for Direct Deduction with Dominance Constraints. Proceedings of the 12th Amsterdam Colloquium. Workshop Publication
Relaxing Underspecified Semantic Representations for Reinterpretation. Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting on Mathematics of Language (MOL6). Workshop Publication
1998
Evaluating Context Unification for Semantic Underspecification. Proceedings of the Third ESSLLI Student Session. Workshop Publication