Survey of the state of the art in natural language generation: Core tasks, applications and evaluation

A Gatt, E Krahmer - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2018 - jair.org
This paper surveys the current state of the art in Natural Language Generation (NLG),
defined as the task of generating text or speech from non-linguistic input. A survey of NLG is …

Recent advances in natural language generation: A survey and classification of the empirical literature

R Perera, P Nand - Computing and Informatics, 2017 - cai.sk
Abstract Natural Language Generation (NLG) is defined as the systematic approach for
producing human understandable natural language text based on non-textual data or from …

Computational generation of referring expressions: A survey

E Krahmer, K Van Deemter - Computational Linguistics, 2012 - direct.mit.edu
This article offers a survey of computational research on referring expression generation
(REG). It introduces the REG problem and describes early work in this area, discussing what …

Adapting progress feedback and emotional support to learner personality

M Dennis, J Masthoff, C Mellish - International Journal of Artificial …, 2016 - Springer
As feedback is an important part of learning and motivation, we investigate how to adapt the
feedback of a conversational agent to learner personality (as well as to learner performance …

On generating linguistic descriptions of time series

N Marín, D Sánchez - Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper we provide a general approach for the concepts and processes related to the
generation of linguistic descriptions of time series. As we will see, this approach consists of …

The effect of scene variation on the redundant use of color in definite reference

R Koolen, M Goudbeek, E Krahmer - Cognitive Science, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates to what extent the amount of variation in a visual scene causes
speakers to mention the attribute color in their definite target descriptions, focusing on …

Explainable goal-driven agents and robots-a comprehensive review

F Sado, CK Loo, WS Liew, M Kerzel… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recent applications of autonomous agents and robots have brought attention to crucial trust-
related challenges associated with the current generation of artificial intelligence (AI) …

Reduction in gesture during the production of repeated references

M Hoetjes, R Koolen, M Goudbeek, E Krahmer… - Journal of Memory and …, 2015 - Elsevier
In dialogue, repeated references contain fewer words (which are also acoustically reduced)
and fewer gestures than initial ones. In this paper, we describe three experiments studying …

Stored object knowledge and the production of referring expressions: The case of color typicality

H Westerbeek, R Koolen, A Maes - Frontiers in psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
When speakers describe objects with atypical properties, do they include these properties in
their referring expressions, even when that is not strictly required for unique referent …

[PDF][PDF] Generating expressions that refer to visible objects

M Mitchell, K Van Deemter, E Reiter - Proceedings of the 2013 …, 2013 - aclanthology.org
We introduce a novel algorithm for generating referring expressions, informed by human
and computer vision and designed to refer to visible objects. Our method separates absolute …