Professor Christopher Mellish

Professor Christopher Mellish The University of Aberdeen School of Natural & Computing Sciences Professor Christopher Mellish Chair in Computing Science work +44 (0)1224 272293 http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~csc248/ pref Meston 237 and MacRobert 906

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Professor Christopher Mellish

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Telephone: +44 (0)1224 272293
Email: c.mellish@abdn.ac.uk
Personal website: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~csc248/
Address: Meston 237 and MacRobert 906
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Publications

Working Papers and Discussion Papers

Working Papers

  • Croitoru, M., Compatangelo, E. & Mellish, CS. (2005). 'Theoretical Knowlege Oriented Specification: Technical Report AUCS/TR0506'. University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom.

Contributions to Journals

Articles

  • Varges, S. & Mellish, CS. (2010). 'Instance-Based Natural Language Generation'. Natural Language Engineering, vol 16, no. 3, pp. 309-346.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1017/S1351324910000069
  • Edwards, P., Farrington, JH., Mellish, CS., Philip, LJ., Chorley, AH., Hielkema, F., Pignotti, E., Reid, R., Polhill, G. & Gotts, N. (2009). 'E-Social Science and Evidence-Based Policy Assessment: Challenges and Solutions'. Social Science Computer Review, vol 27, no. 4, pp. 553-568.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1177/0894439309332305
    [Online] AURA: computingreview_Challenges_and_Solutions.pdf
  • Karamanis, N., Mellish, CS., Poesio, M. & Oberlander, J. (2009). 'Evaluating centering for information ordering using corpora'. Computational Linguistics, vol 35, no. 1, pp. 29-46.
  • Mellish, C. & Pan, JZ. (2008). 'Natural language directed inference from ontologies'. Artificial Intelligence, vol 172, no. 10, pp. 1285-1315.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2008.01.003
  • Yu, J., Reiter, EB., Hunter, JRW. & Mellish, CS. (2007). 'Choosing the content of textual summaries of large time-series data sets'. Natural Language Engineering, vol 13, no. 1, pp. 25-49.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1017/S1351324905004031
  • Ferreira, A., Moore, J. & Mellish, CS. (2007). 'A Study of Feedback Strategies in Foreign Language Classrooms and Tutorials with Implications for Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning Systems'. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, vol 17, no. 4, pp. 389-422.
  • Mellish, CS., Scott, D., Cahill, L., Paiva, D., Evans, R. & Reape, M. (2006). 'A Reference Architecture for Generation Systems'. Natural Language Engineering, vol 12, no. 1, pp. 1-34.
  • Mellish, CS. & Sun, X. (2006). 'The Semantic Web as a Linguistic Resource: Opportunities for Natural Language Generation'. Knowledge-Based Systems, vol 19, no. 5, pp. 298-303.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2005.11.011
  • Mellish, CS. & Evans, R. (2004). 'Implementation Architectures for Natural Language Generation'. Natural Language Engineering, vol 10, no. 3/4, pp. 261-282.
  • Atkinson, J., Mellish, CS. & Aitken, S. (2004). 'Combining Information Extraction with Genetic Algorithms for Text Mining'. IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol 19, no. 3, pp. 22-30.
  • Atkinson-Abutridy, J., Mellish, CS. & Aitken, S. (2003). 'A Semantically Guided and Domain Independent Evolutionary Model for Knowledge Discovery from Texts'. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol 7, no. 6, pp. 546-560.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1109/TEVC.2003.819262
  • Brighton, H. & Mellish, CS. (2002). 'Advances in Instance selection for Instance-Based Learning Algorithms'. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, vol 6, no. 2, pp. 153-172.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1023/A:1014043630878
  • Leung, S., Mellish, CS. & Robertson, D. (2001). 'Basic Gene Grammars and DNA Chart Parser for Language Processing of Escherichia Coli promoter DNA'. Bioinformatics, vol 17, pp. 226-236.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/17.3.226
  • O'Donnell, M., Knott, A., Mellish, CS. & Oberlander, J. (2001). 'ILEX: The Architecture for a Dynamic Hypertext Generation System'. Natural Language Engineering, vol 7, pp. 225-250.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1017/S1351324901002698
  • O'Donnell, M., Knott, A., Mellish, CS. & Oberlander, J. (2001). 'ILEX: The Architecture of a Dynamic Hypertext Generation System'. Natural Language Engineering, vol 7, no. 3, pp. 225-250.
  • Leung, S., Mellish, CS. & Robertson, D. (2001). 'Basic Gene Grammars and DNA Chart Parser for Language Processing of Escherichia Coli promoter DNA Sequences'. Bioinformatics, vol 17, no. 3, pp. 226-236.
  • REITER, E., MELLISH., C. & LEVINE, J. (1995). 'AUTOMATIC-GENERATION OF TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION'. Applied Artificial Intelligence, vol 9, no. 3, pp. 259-287.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

  • Venour, CT., Ritchie, GD. & Mellish, CS. (2011). 'Dimensions of incongruity in register humour'. in M Dynel (ed.), The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains 2011 edn, vol. vi, John Benjamins Pub., pp. 125-144.
  • van der Sluis, I. & Mellish, CS. (2010). 'Towards Empirical Evaluation of Affective Tactical NLG'. in E Krahmer & M Theune (eds), Empirical Methods in Natural Language Generation vol. 5790, Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 242-263.
  • Mahamood, S., Reiter, EB. & Mellish, CS. (2008). 'Neonatal intensive care information for parents: An affective approach'. in IOEAEE (ed.), 21st IEEE Symposium on Computer-based Medical Systems IEEE Computer Society, pp. 461-463, 21st IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Jyvaskyla, Finland, 17/06/08.
  • Croitoru, M., Compatangelo, E. & Mellish, CS. (2005). 'Hierarchical knowledge integration using layered conceptual graphs'. Conceptual Structures: Common Semantics for Sharing Knowledge: 13th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2005, Kassel, Germany, July 17-22, 2005, Proceedings Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, no. 3596, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp. 267-280.

Conference Proceedings

  • Kutlak, R., van Deemter, K. & Mellish, CS. (in press). 'Corpus-based metrics for assessing common ground'. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society Sapporo, Japan.
  • Dennis, M., Masthoff, J., Pain, H. & Mellish, CS. (2011). 'Does Self-Efficacy Matter when Generating Motivational Feedback?'. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6738, Springer, pp. 444-446, 15th International Conference, AIED 2011, Auckland, New Zealand, 28/06/11.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21869-9
  • van der Sluis, I., Mellish, CS. & Doherty, G. (2011). 'Affective Text: Generation Strategies and Emotion Measurement Issues'. Florida Artificial Intelligence Society Conference FLAIRS-24, Palm Beach, Florida, United States, 18/05/11.
  • Bouttaz, T., Pignotti, E., Mellish, CS. & Edwards, P. 'A Policy-Based Approach to Context Dependent Natural Language Generation'. Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation: ENLG 2011 The Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 151-157.
    [Online] AURA: bouttaz_ENLG11_Natural_Language_Generation.pdf
  • Kutlak, R., van Deemter, K. & Mellish, CS. (2011). 'Audience design in the generation of references to famous people'. Proceedings of the 33th CogSci conference Cogsci, Boston, CogSci 2011, Boston, MA, United States, 20/07/11.
  • Venour, CT., Ritchie, GD. & Mellish, CS. (2010). 'Quantifying Humorous Lexical Incongruity'. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity Lisbon, pp. 268-277, First International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC-X),, Lisbon, Portugal, 7/01/10.
  • Mellish, CS. (2010). 'Using Semantic Web Technology to Support NLG: Case Study: OWL finds RAGS'. Procs of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Sixth International Natural Language Generation Conference, Trim, County Meath, Ireland, 7/07/10.
  • Mellish, CS. (2010). 'Towards a Programmable Instrumented Generator'. Procs of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Sixth International Natural Language Generation Conference, Trim, County Meath, Ireland, 7/07/10.
  • van der Sluis, I. & Mellish, CS. (2009). 'Towards Empirical Evaluation of Affective Tactical NLG'. Procs of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation.
  • Lin, J., Mellish, CS. & Reiter, EB. (2008). 'Style Variation in Cooking Recipes'. Proceedings of AISB08 Symposium on Style in Text.
  • Hielkema, F., Mellish, CS. & Edwards, P. (2008). 'Evaluating an ontology-driven WYSIWYM interface'. Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2008) ACL, Morristown, NJ, USA, pp. 138-146, 5th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2008), Salt Fork, Ohio, United States, 12/06/08.
  • van der Sluis, I. & Mellish, CS. (2008). 'Using Tactical NLG to Induce Affective States: Empirical Investigations'. Procs of the 5th International Natural Language Generation Conference.
  • Mahamood, S., Reiter, EB. & Mellish, CS. (2007). 'A Comparsion of Hedged and Non-hedged NLG Texts'. in S Busemann (ed.), 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'07): POSTER SESSION: Papers presented as posters ACL, Morristown, NY, USA, pp. 155-158, 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'07), Schloss Dagstuhl Computer Science Centre, Wadern, Germany, 17/06/07.
  • Hielkema, F., Mellish, CS. & Edwards, P. (2007). 'Using WYSIWYM to Create an Open-ended Interface for the Semantic Grid'. 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'07): SESSION: Long and short papers ACL, Morristown, NJ, USA, pp. 69-72, 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'07), Schloss Dagstuhl Computer Science Centre, Wadern, Germany, 17/06/07.
  • Hielkema, F., Edwards, P., Mellish, CS. & Farrington, JH. (2007). 'A Flexible Interface to Community-Driven Metadata'. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on eSocial Science NCeSS, Manchester, United Kingdom, Third International Conference on eSocial Science, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 7/10/07.
  • Edwards, P., Chorley, AH., Hielkema, F., Pignotti, E., Preece, AD., Mellish, CS. & Farrington, JH. (2007). 'Using the Grid to Support Evidence-Based Policy Assessment in Social Science'. Procs of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting.
  • Finlayson, JL., Mellish, CS. & Masthoff, J. (2007). 'Fisheye Views of Java Source Code: An Updated LOD Algorithm'. in C Stephanidis (ed.), UAHCI'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Universal access in human-computer interaction: Applications and services Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 289-298, 4th international conference on Universal access in human-computer interaction, Beijing, China, 22/07/07.
  • Sun, X. & Mellish, CS. (2007). 'An Experiment on 'free' Generation from Single RDF Triples'. in S Busemann (ed.), Proceedings of the Eleventh European Workshop on Natural Language Generation Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, pp. 105-108.
  • Sun, X. & Mellish, CS. (2006). 'Domain Independent Sentence Generation from RDF Representations for the Semantic Web'. ECAI06 Combined Workshop on Language-Enabled Educational Technology and Development and Evaluation of Robust Spoken Dialogue Systems.
  • Mellish, CS. & Pan, JZ. (2006). 'Finding Subsumers for Natural Language Presentation'. Proceedings of the DL2006 International Workshop on Description Logics pp. 127-134, DL2006 International Workshop on Description Logics, The Lake District, United Kingdom, 30/05/06.
  • Pan, JZ. & Mellish, CS. (2006). 'Supporting Semi-Automatic Semantic Annotation of Multimedia Resources'. 3rd IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations: Semantics in Multimedia Analysis and Natural Language Processing.

Contributions to Conferences

Papers

  • Tait, EJ., Wallace, CD., Mellish, CS., MacLeod, M. & Hunter, CJ. (in press). 'Creating Sustainable Digital Community Heritage Resources using Linked Data'. Paper presented at Supporting Digital Humanities: Answering the Unaskable, Copenhagen, Denmark, 17/11/11 - 18/11/11,.
  • Venour, CT., Mellish, CS. & Ritchie, GD. (2011). 'Measuring Incongruity in Register Humour'. Paper presented at International Society for Humor Studies, Boston, United States, 5/07/11 - 9/07/11,.
  • Mellish, CS., Wallace, CD., Tait, EJ., MacLeod, M. & Hunter, CJ. (2011). 'Can Digital Technologies Increase Engagement with Community History?'. Paper presented at Digital Engagement, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 15/11/11 - 17/11/11,.
  • Tait, EJ., Wallace, CD., Mellish, CS. & Hunter, CJ. (2011). 'Local Electronic Repositories: who are the Users and what is the Impact'. Paper presented at A Decade in Internet Time: OII-ICS Symposium, Oxford, United Kingdom, 17/11/11 - 18/02/12,.
  • Siddharthan, A., Mellish, CS., Nguyen, H., Zeng, C., Pearce, I. & Van Der Wal, R. (2011). 'Tell me a story about the birds and the bees: Using NLG to foster public engagement in nature conservation projects'. Paper presented at Digital Engagement 2011, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 15/11/11,.

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