journal article and book chapters

Robert Dale and Jette Viethen (to appear 2010). Attribute-Centric Referring Expression Generation. In Emiel Krahmer and Mariët Theune (eds.) Empirical Methods in Natural Language Generation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 5980, Springer. [ pre-print ]

Anja Belz, Eric Kow, Jette Viethen and Albert Gatt (to appear 2010). Generating Referring Expressions in Context: The GREC Shared Task Evaluation Challenges. In Emiel Krahmer and Mariët Theune (eds.) Empirical Methods in Natural Language Generation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 5980, Springer.

Jette Viethen and Robert Dale (2007). Evaluation in natural language generation: lessons from referring expression generation. In Traitement Automatique des Langues 48(1), special edition "Principles of Evaluation in Natural Language Processing". [ pdf ]

 

conference papers

Jette Viethen, Simon Zwarts, Robert Dale and Markus Guhe (2010). Generating subsequent referring expressions in a visual domain. In Proceedings of the 7th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Valetta, Malta. [ pdf ]

Jette Viethen and Robert Dale (2009). Referring expression generation: What can we learn from human data? In Proceedings of the Workshop on Production of Referring Expressions: Bridging the Gap Between Computational and Empirical Approaches to Reference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [ pdf | slides ]

Robert Dale and Jette Viethen (2009). Referring expression generation through attribute-based heuristics. In Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Natural Language Generation, Athens, Greece. [ pdf ]

Jette Viethen and Robert Dale (2008). Generating relational references: What makes a difference? In Proceedings of the 6th Australasian Language Technology Workshop, Hobart, Australia. [ pdf ]

Jette Viethen and Robert Dale (2008). The use of spatial relations in referring expressions. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Salt Fork OH, USA. [ pdf | slides ]

Jette Viethen, Robert Dale, Emiel Krahmer, Mariët Theune and Pascal Touset (2008). Controlling redundancy in referring expressions. In Proceedings of the 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco. [ pdf | slides ]

Jette Viethen and Robert Dale (2007). Capturing acceptable variation in distinguishing descriptions. Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Natural Natural Language Generation, Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany. [ pdf | slides ]

Jette Viethen and Robert Dale (2006). Towards the evaluation of referring expression generation. In Proceedings of the 4th Australasian Language Technology Workshop, Sydney, Australia. [ pdf | poster ]

Jette Viethen and Robert Dale (2006). Algorithms for generating referring expressions: Do they do what people do? In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 63-70, Sydney, Australia. [ pdf | slides ]

 

evaluation competition submissions

Ivo Brugman, Mariët Theune,Emiel Krahmer, Jette Viethen (2009). Realising the costs: template-based surface realisation in the GRAPH approach to referring expression generation. In Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Athens, Greece. [ pdf | poster ]

Emiel Krahmer, Mariët Theune, Jette Viethen, and Iris Hendrickx (2008). GRAPH: The costs of redundancy in referring expressions. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Salt Fork OH, USA. [ pdf | poster ]

Mariët Theune, Pascal Touset, Jette Viethen, and Emiel Krahmer (2007). Cost-based attribute selection for GRE (GRAPH-SC/ GRAPH-FP). In Proceedings of the UCNLG+MT at MT Summit XI, Copenhagen, Denmark. [ pdf ]

 

position papers, reports, presentations

Jette Viethen and Robert Dale (2009). The cognitive plausibility of algorithms for referring expression generation. Presentation at The 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science, Sydney, Australia. [ abstract ]

Anja Belz, Eric Kow and Jette Viethen (2009). The GREC Named Entity Generation Challenge 2009: Overview and Evaluation Results. In Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Language Generation and Summarisation (UCNLG+Sum 2009), Singapore. [ pdf ]

Anja Belz, Eric Kow, Jette Viethen and Albert Gatt (2009). The GREC Main Subject Reference Generation Challenge 2009: Overview and Evaluation Results. In Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Language Generation and Summarisation (UCNLG+Sum 2009), Singapore. [ pdf ]

Anja Belz, Eric Kow, Jette Viethen and Albert Gatt (2008). The GREC Challenge: Overview and evaluation results. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Salt Fork OH, USA. [ pdf ]

Jette Viethen (2007). Referring expressions: from the good enough to the most useful. Position paper presented at the Research Workshop on Generating Referring Expressions that Are Optimal for Hearers, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. [ pdf | slides ]

Anja Belz, Albert Gatt, Ehud Reiter and Jette Viethen (2007). Referring Expression Generation. In Report of the Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in Natural Language Generation, Chapter 3, 17–32, Arlington VA, USA. [ pdf ]

Jette Viethen (2007). Automatic evaluation of referring expression generation is possible. Position paper for the Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in Natural Language Generation, Arlington VA, USA. [ pdf | slides ]