Publications

2010

Alexander Koller, Kristina Striegnitz, Andrew Gargett, Donna Byron, Justine Cassell, Robert Dale, Johanna Moore, and Jon Oberlander. Report on the Second NLG Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE-2). In Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2010), Dublin, Ireland.

Alexander Koller, Kristina Striegnitz, Donna Byron, Justine Cassell, Robert Dale, Johanna Moore, and Jon Oberlander. The First Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments. Emiel Krahmer and Mariet Theune (eds.), "Empirical Methods in Natural Language Generation". Springer.

Andrew Gargett, Konstantina Garoufi, Alexander Koller, and Kristina Striegnitz. The GIVE-2 Corpus of Giving Instructions in Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of the 7th Conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010), Valletta, Malta.

2009

Alexander Koller, Kristina Striegnitz, Donna Byron, Justine Cassell, Robert Dale, Sara Dalzel-Job, Johanna Moore, and Jon Oberlander. Validating the web-based evaluation of NLG systems. In Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 2009 (Short Papers), Singapore.

Donna Byron, Alexander Koller, Kristina Striegnitz, Justine Cassell, Robert Dale, Johanna Moore, and Jon Oberlander. Report on the First NLG Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE). In Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2009), Athens.

Individual reports of each of the GIVE-1 participating teams, presented at the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2009):

• "Austin" system: David Chen and Igor Karpov. The GIVE-1 Austin System.
• "Union" system: Kristina Striegnitz and Filip Majda. Landmarks in Navigation Instructions for a Virtual Environment.
• "Madrid" system: Daniel Dionne, Salvador de la Puente, Carlos León, Raquel Hervás, and Pablo Gervás. GUIDE.
• "Twente" and "Warm-Cold" systems: Roan Boer Rookhuiszen, Michel Obbink, and Mariet Theune. Two approaches to GIVE: dynamic level adaptation versus playfulness.

Alexander Koller, Donna Byron, Justine Cassell, Robert Dale, Kristina Striegnitz, Johanna Moore, and Jon Oberlander. The software architecture for the First Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL (Demo Session), Athens.

2007

Alexander Koller, Johanna Moore, Barbara di Eugenio, James Lester, Laura Stoia, Donna Byron, Jon Oberlander, and Kristina Striegnitz. Shared Task Proposal: Instruction Giving in Virtual Worlds. Working group report, Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in Natural Language Generation.

Donna Byron, Alexander Koller, Jon Oberlander, Laura Stoia, and Kristina Striegnitz. Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE): A challenge and evaluation testbed for NLG. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in Natural Language Generation, Arlington.