Professor Kees Van Deemter

Professor Kees Van Deemter The University of Aberdeen School of Natural & Computing Sciences Chair in Computing Science work +44 (0)1224 272298

Chair in Computing Science

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Telephone: +44 (0)1224 272298
Email: k.vdeemter@abdn.ac.uk
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Publications

Working Papers and Discussion Papers

Working Papers

  • Sluis, IVD., Gatt, A. & van Deemter, K. (2006). 'Manual for TUNA Corpus: Referring Expressions in Two Domains'.

Contributions to Journals

Articles

  • van Deemter, K., Gatt, A., Sluis, IVD. & Power, R. (2012). 'Generation of referring expressions: assessing the incremental algorithm'. Cognitive Science, vol 36, no. 5.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2011.01205.x
  • Khan, IH., van Deemter, K. & Ritchie, GD. (2012). 'Managing ambiguity in reference generation: the role of surface structure'. Topics in Cognitive Science, vol 4, no. 2, pp. 211-231.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2011.01167.x
  • Krahmer, E. & van Deemter, K. (2012). 'Computational generation of referring expressions: a survey'. Computational Linguistics, vol 38, no. 1, pp. 173-218.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1162/COLI_a_00088
  • van Deemter, K., Gatt, A., van Gompel, R. & Krahmer, E. (2012). 'Towards a computational psycholinguistics of reference production'. Topics in Cognitive Science, vol 4, no. 2, pp. 166-183.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2012.01187.x
  • van Deemter, K., Gatt, A., van der Sluis, I. & Power, R. (2012). 'Assessing the Incremental Algorithm: a Response to Krahmer et al'. Cognitive Science, vol 36, no. 5, pp. 842-845.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2012.01259.x
  • van Deemter, K. (2009). 'Utility and language generation: the case of vagueness'. Journal of Philosophical Logic, vol 38, no. 6, pp. 607-632.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s10992-009-9114-x
  • van Deemter, K., Krenn, B., Piwek, P., Klesen, M., Schroeder, M. & Baumann, S. (2008). 'Fully generated scripted dialogue for embodied agents'. Artificial Intelligence, vol 172, pp. 1219-1244.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2008.02.002
  • Paraboni, I., Van Deemter, K. & Masthoff, J. (2007). 'Generating Referring Expressions: Making Referents Easy to Identify'. Computational Linguistics, vol 33, no. 2, pp. 229-254.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1162/coli.2007.33.2.229
  • Piwek, P. & van Deemter, K. (2007). 'Generating under Global Constraints: the Case of Scripted Dialogue'. Research on Language and Computation, vol 5, no. 2, pp. 237-263.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s11168-007-9029-z
  • Gatt, A. & van Deemter, K. (2007). 'Lexical Choice and Conceptual Perspective in the Generation of Plural Referring Expressions'. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, vol 16, no. 4, pp. 423-443.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s10849-007-9047-0
  • van Deemter, K. (2006). 'Generating Referring Expressions that involve gradable properties'. Computational Linguistics, vol 32, no. 2, pp. 195-222.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1162/coli.2006.32.2.195
  • van Deemter, K., Horacek, H. & Reiter, E. (2006). 'Formal Issues in Natural Language Generation'. Research on Language and Computation, vol 4, no. 1, pp. 1-7.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s11168-006-9008-9
  • van Deemter, K., Krahmer, E. & Theune, M. (2005). 'Real vs template-based natural language generation: a false opposition?'. Computational Linguistics, vol 31, no. 1, pp. 1-8.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1162/0891201053630291
  • van Deemter, K. (2004). 'Towards a probabilistic version of bidirectional OT syntax and semantics'. Journal of Semantics, vol 21, pp. 251-281.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1093/jos/21.3.251
  • Van Deemter, CJ. & Power, R. (2003). 'High-level authoring of illustrated documents'. Natural Language Engineering, vol 9, pp. 101-126.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1017/S1351324802003054
  • Van Deemter, K. (2002). 'Generating Referring Expressions: Boolean Extensions of the Incremental Algorithm'. Computational Linguistics, vol 28, no. 1, pp. 37-52.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

  • van Deemter, K. (in press). 'The two cultures of logic'. in R Seising, E Trillas, C Moraga & S Termini (eds), On Fuzziness: A homage to Lotfi A. Zadeh. vol. 1, Springer, Berlin.
  • Masthoff, J., Van Deemter, K. & Langrial, S. (2013). 'Personalizing triggers for charity actions'. in S Berkovsky & J Freyne (eds), Persuasive Technology: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). vol. 7822 LNCS, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 7822, Springer, pp. 125-136, 8th International Conference, PERSUASIVE 2013, Sydney, Australia, 3-5 April.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37157-8_16
  • Krahmer, E. & van Deemter, K. (2006). 'Graphs and Booleans: on the generation of referring expressions'. in H Bunt & R Muskens (eds), Computing Meaning: Volume 3 (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy). vol. 3, Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 397-422.
  • Piwek, P., Power, R., Scott, D. & van Deemter, K. (2005). 'Generating Multimedia Presentations: from Plain Text to Screenplay'. in O Stock & M Zancanaro (eds), Intelligent Multimodal Information Presentation.. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 203-226.
  • Paraboni, I. & van Deemter, K. (2002). 'Towards the generation of document-deictic references'. in K van Deemter & R Kibble (eds), Information sharing: reference and presupposition in language generation and interpretation.. CSLI Publications, Stanford.

Conference Proceedings

  • Tintarev, N., Kutlak, R., Oren, N., van Deemter, K., Green, MJ., Masthoff, J. & Vasconcelos, WW. (2013). 'SAsSy – Scrutable Autonomous Systems'. in Proceedings of The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour 2013. AISB, Do-Form: Enabling Domain Experts to use Formalised Reasoning, Exeter, United Kingdom, 3-5 April.
    [Online] AURA: 99990001.pdf
  • Kutlak, R., van Deemter, K. & Mellish, CS. (in press). 'Corpus-based metrics for assessing common ground'. in Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Sapporo, Japan.
  • Gatt, A., van Gompel, R., Krahmer, E. & van Deemter, K. (in press). 'Does domain size impact search time during reference production?'. in Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Sapporo, Japan.
  • Siddharthan, A., Green, MJ., van Deemter, K., Mellish, CS. & Van Der Wal, R. (2012). 'Blogging birds: Generating narratives about reintroduced species to promote public engagement'. in Proceedings of the 7th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2012). ACL Anthology.
    [Online] AURA: inlgKitesShort.pdf
  • Green, MJ. & van Deemter, K. (2011). 'Vagueness as Cost Reduction: An Empirical Test'. in Proceedings of `Production of Referring Expressions' workshop at 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Production of Referring Expressions, Boston, MA, United States, 20-20 July.
    [Online] AURA: green_van_deemter_7_8.pdf
  • Mitchell, MA., van Deemter, K. & Reiter, EB. (2011). 'Two Approaches for Generating Size Modifiers'. in Proceedings of ENLG-2011. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 63-70.
  • Mitchell, MA., van Deemter, K. & Reiter, EB. (2011). 'On the Use of Size Modifiers When Referring to Visible Objects'. in Proceedings of Cogsci 2011. CogSci 2011, Boston, MA, United States, 20-23 July.
  • Mitchell, MA., van Deemter, K. & Reiter, EB. (2011). 'Applying Machine Learning to the Choice of Size Modifiers'. in Cogsci 2011. Bridging the Gap between Computational, Empirical and Theoretical Approaches to Reference, Boston, MA, United States, 20 July.
  • Gatt, A., van Gompel, R., Krahmer, E. & van Deemter, K. (2011). 'Non-deterministic attribute selection in reference production'. in Proceedings of the CogSci workshop Production of Referring Expressions. Boston, CogSci 2011, Boston, MA, United States, 20-23 July.
  • Duncan, R. & van Deemter, K. (2011). 'Direction Giving: an Attempt to Increase User Engagement'. in Proceedings of 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation. The Association for Computational Linguistics, Nancy, pp. 280-284, The 13th European Workshop Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Nancy, France, 28-30 September.
  • Kutlak, R., van Deemter, K. & Mellish, CS. (2011). 'Audience design in the generation of references to famous people'. in Proceedings of the 33th CogSci conference. Cogsci, Boston, CogSci 2011, Boston, MA, United States, 20-23 July.
  • van Deemter, K. (2010). 'Vagueness Facilitates Search'. in M Aloni, H Bastiaanse, T de Jager & K Schulz (eds), Proceedings of the 17th Amsterdam Colloquium. Springer Lecture Notes, Berlin, pp. 173-182.
  • Ren, Y., van Deemter, K. & Pan, J. (2010). 'Generating referring expressions with OWL2'. in Proceedings of 23rd Workshop on Description Logics. 23rd International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2010), Waterloo, Canada, 4-7 May.
  • Ren, Y., van Deemter, K. & Pan, J. (2010). 'Charting the Potential of Description Logic for the Generation of Referring Expressions'. in Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Natural Language Generation. pp. 115-124, Sixth International Natural Language Generation Conference, Trim, County Meath, Ireland, 7-9 July.
  • Mitchell, M., Van Deemter, K. & Reiter, E. (2010). 'Natural Reference to Objects in a Visual Domain'. in J Kelleher, B Mac Namee & I van der Sluis (eds), Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Natural Language Generation. Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, pp. 95-104.
  • van Deemter, K. (2009). 'What Game Theory can do for NLG: the case of vague language''. in Proceedings of 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG-2009)..
  • Gatt, A. & van Deemter, K. (2009). 'Generating plural NPs in discourse: Evidence from the GNOME corpus'. in Proceedings of "Production of Referring Expressions''. Cognitive Science Society.
  • van Deemter, K. & Gatt, A. (2009). 'Beyond DICE: measuring the quality of a referring expression'. in Proceedings of "Production of Referring Expressions''. Cognitive Science Society.
  • Khan, IH., van Deemter, K. & Ritchie, GD. (2008). 'Generation of Referring Expressions: Managing Structural Ambiguities'. in 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-08). ACL Anthology, Morristown, NJ, USA.
  • Croitoru, M. & van Deemter, K. (2007). 'A Conceptual Graph Approach to the Generation of Referring Expressions'. in Proceedings of International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). pp. 2456-2461, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hyderabad, India, 6-12 January.
  • Gatt, A., Sluis, IVD. & van Deemter, K. (2007). 'Corpus-based evaluation of Referring Expression Generation'. in Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in Natural Language Generation. Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in Natural Language Generation, Arlington, Canada, 20-21 April.
  • Croitoru, M. & van Deemter, K. (2007). 'An inferential approach to the generation of referring expressions'. in Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Conceptual Structures. The 15th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 22-27 July.
  • Gatt, A. & Van Deemter, K. (2007). 'Incremental generation of plural descriptions: Similarity and partitioning'. in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP-CoNLL. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-CoNLL 2007), Prague, Czech Republic, 28-30 June.
  • van Deemter, K. & Gatt, A. (2007). 'Content determination in GRE: Evaluating the evaluator'. in A Belz & S Varges (eds), Proceedings of the MT Summit XI Workshop Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation: Language Generation and Machine Translation (UCNLG+MT). pp. 101-103.
  • Sluis, IVD., Gatt, A. & van Deemter, K. (2007). 'Evaluating algorithms for the generation of referring expressions: going beyond toy domains'. in Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing. Borovets, Bulgaria.
  • Khan, IH., Ritchie, GD. & Van Deemter, K. (2006). 'The clarity-brevity trade-off in generating referring expressions'. in Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG2006). ACL, pp. 89-91, 4th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG2006), Sydney, Australia, 15-16 July.
  • Paraboni, I., Masthoff, J. & van Deemter, K. (2006). 'Overspecified reference in hierarchical domains: measuring the benefits for readers'. in N Colineau, C Paris, S Wan & R Dale (eds), Proceedings of the Fourth International Natural Language Generation Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 55-62, Proceedings of the Fourth International Natural Language Generation Conference, INLG'06, Sydney, Australia, 1 July.
  • Paraboni, I. & Van Deemter, K. (2006). 'Referring via document parts'. in Procs. of Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLING-2006). Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Mexico City, Mexico, 19-25 February.
  • van Deemter, K., Sluis, IVD. & Gatt, A. (2006). 'Building a semantically transparent corpus for the generation of referring expressions'. in 4th International Conference on natural Language Generation. Coling/ACL, pp. 130-132, The 4th International Natural Language Generation Conference (the Biennial Meeting of the Special Interest Group in Natural Language Generation – SIGGEN), Sydney, Australia, 15-16 July.
  • Gatt, A. & van Deemter, K. (2006). 'Conceptual coherence in the generation of referring expressions'. in Proceedings of the Coling/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions. Coling/ACL, pp. 255-262, Coling/ACL2006, Sydney, United Kingdom, 17-21 July.
  • Paraboni, I., Van Deemter, K. & Masthoff, J. (2006). 'Gerando Expressoes de Referencia com a `Quantidade Certa' de Informação'. in Proceedings of 4th Workshop on Information and Human Language. Springer-Verlag, Fourth Workshop in Information and Human Language Technology (TIL'2006), Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil, 23-27 October.
  • Varges, S. & van Deemter, K. (2005). 'Generating referring expressions containing Quantifiers'. in H Bunt, J Geertzen & E Thijsse (eds), Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-6). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 6th International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-6), Tilburg, Netherlands, 12-14 January.
  • Gatt, A. & van Deemter, K. (2005). 'Semantic similarity and the generation of referring expressions: a first report'. in H Bunt, JG & E Thijsse (eds), Proceedings of Sixth International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-6). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 6th International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-6), Tilburg, Netherlands, 12-14 January.
  • van Deemter, K. (2004). 'Finetuning an NLG system through experiments with human subjects: the case of vague descriptions'. in A Belz, R Evans & P Piwek (eds), Proc. of 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Generation. Springer Lecture Notes, Berlin and Heidelberg.
  • Evans, R., van Deemter, K., Belz, A., Teeple, J., Weir, D., Carroll, J., Paiva, D. & Esteve Ferrer, E. (2004). 'Controlling wide-coverage generation: the Cogent project'. in A Belz, R Evans & P Piwek (eds), INLG04 Posters: Extended abstracts of posters presented at the Third International Conference on Natural Language Generation. Information Technology Research Institute Technical Report Series, no. 1, vol. 4, University of Brighton. Information Technology Research Institute, Brighton, pp. 14-17, Third International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Brockenhurst, United Kingdom, 14-16 July.
  • Masthoff, J. & van Deemter, K. (2003). 'User modeling as a goal in itself: an artificial companion for the elderly'. in Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on personalization in future TV: Associated with 9th International Conference on User Modelling-UM03. The 9th International Conference on User Modeling (UM'2003), Johnstown, PA, United States, 22-26 June.
  • van Deemter, K. (2003). 'OT for NLP: Towards a computationally useful notion of superoptimality'. in Procs. of 5th International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-03). pp. 72-92, 5th International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-03), Tilburg, Netherlands, 15-17 January.
  • Piwek, P. & van Deemter, K. (2003). 'Dialogue as Discourse: Controlling Global Properties of Scripted Dialogue'. in Procs. of AAAI Spring Symposium on Natural Language Generation in Spoken and Written Dialogue..
  • Paraboni, I. & van Deemter, K. (2002). 'Generating Easy References: the case of document deixis'. in Procs. of Second Int. Conf. on Natural Language Generation (INLG-2002).
  • Krenn, B., Grice, M., Piwek, P., Schroeder, M. & van Deemter, K. (2002). 'Generation of multi-modal dialogue for net environment'. in Procs. of KONVENS-02. KONVENS-02, Saarbruecken, Germany, 30-2 October.
  • Piwek, P. & van Deemter, K. (2002). 'Towards automated generation of scripted dialogue: some time-honoured strategies'. in J Bos, M-E Foster & C Matheson (eds), Procs. of EDILOG, 6th international workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue.
  • van Deemter, K. (2001). 'Generating referring expressions: beyond the incremental algorithm'. in Procs. of 4th Int. Workshop on Computational Semantics. pp. 50-67.
  • van Deemter, K. & Halldorsson, M. (2001). 'Logical Form Equivalence: the case of referring expressions generation'. in Proceedings of the 8th European workshop on Natural Language Generation. vol. 8, Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, pp. 1-8.
    [Online] DOI: 10.3115/1117840.1117844
  • Cahill, L., Carroll, J., Evans, R., Paiva, D., Power, R., Scott, D. & van Deemter, K. (2001). 'From RAGS to RICHES: exploiting the potential of a flexible generation architecture'. in Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Toulouse, France, 6-11 July.

Contributions to Conferences

Papers

  • Parvizi, A., Jay, C., Mellish, CS., Pan, JZ., Ren, Y., Stevens, R. & van Deemter, K. (2013). 'A Pilot Experiment in Knowledge Authoring as Dialogue'. Paper presented at 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics (iwcs-13), Potsdam, Germany, 20/03/13 - 22/03/13,.
  • Masthoff, J., Oren, N., van Deemter, K. & Vasconcelos, WW. (2012). 'Towards scrutable autonomous systems'. Paper presented at Influencing people with information Symposium, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 25/04/12,.

Books and Reports

Books

  • van Deemter, K., Gatt, A., van Gompel, R. & Krahmer, E. (2011). 'Proceedings of the workshop on the production of referring expressions (PRE-CogSci 2011)'. Cognitive Science Society, Boston, Mass.
  • van Deemter, K. (2010). 'Not Exactly: in Praise of Vagueness'. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  • van Deemter, K., Gatt, A., van Gompel, R. & Krahmer, E. (2009). 'Proceedings of the workshop on the production of referring expressions: bridging the gap between computational and empirical approaches to reference (PRE-CogSci 2009)'. Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam.
  • van Deemter, K. & Kibble, R. (2002). 'Information Sharing: Reference and Presupposition in Language Generation and Interpretation'. CSLI Publications, Stanford.

Contributions to Specialist Publications

Special Issues

  • Krahmer, E., van Gompel, R., Gatt, A. & van Deemter, K. (2012). 'Production on Referring Expressions: Special Issue of the TopiCS journal'. Topics in Cognitive Science, Special Issue Wiley-Blackwell.

Other Contributions

  • van Deemter, K. & Green, MJ. (2013). 'Why be Vague?: Invited talk at conference: Dealing Reasonably with Blurred Boundaries, Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover'.
    [Online] AURA: H_talk.pdf

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