Anja Belz's Publications

Peer-reviewed research publications:
  1. Anja Belz and Albert Gatt (2012) A Repository of Data and Evaluation Resources for Natural Language Generation. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12). [PDF] (AR: 60%)

  2. Eric Kow and Anja Belz (2012) LG-Eval: A Toolkit for Creating Online Language Evaluation Experiments. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12) [PDF] (AR: 60%)

  3. Anja Belz and Eric Kow (2011) Discrete vs. Continuous Rating Scales for Language Evaluation in NLP. In Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-HLT'11). pp. 230-235. [PDF] (AR: 25%)

  4. Anja Belz and Eric Kow (2011) Unsupervised Alignment of Comparable Data and Text Resources. In Proceedings of the ACL-HLT'11 Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (4th BUCC Workshop), pp. 102-109. [PDF]

  5. Takenobu Tokunaga, Ryu Iida, Masaaki Yasuhara, Asuka Terai, David Morris and Anja Belz (2010) Construction of bilingual multimodal corpora of referring expressions in collaborative problem solving. In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Asian Language Resources (ALR 8), pp. 38-46. [PDF]

  6. Anja Belz and Eric Kow (2010) Comparing Rating Scales and Preference Judgements in Language Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG'10), pp. 7-15. [PDF]

  7. Anja Belz and Eric Kow (2010) Extracting Parallel Fragments from Comparable Corpora for Data-to-text Generation. In Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG'10), pp. 167-171. [PDF]

  8. Khalil Dahab and Anja Belz (2010), A game-based approach to transcribing images of text. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10), pp. 3685-3688. [PDF]

  9. Anja Belz, Eric Kow, Jette Viethen and Albert Gatt (2010), Generating Referring Expressions in Context: The GREC Shared Task Evaluation Challenges. In Krahmer, E., Theune, M. (eds.) Empirical Methods in Natural Language Generation, Vol. 5980 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp. 294-327. [pre-proof PDF]

  10. Anja Belz and Eric Kow (2010), Assessing the Trade-Off between System Building Cost and Output Quality in Data-to-Text Generation. In Krahmer, E., Theune, M. (eds.) Empirical Methods in Natural Language Generation, Vol. 5980 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp. 180-200. (Extended version of Belz and Kow, 2009.) [pre-proof PDF]

  11. Albert Gatt and Anja Belz (2010), Introducing Shared Tasks to NLG: The TUNA Shared Task Evaluation Challenges. In Krahmer, E., Theune, M. (eds.) Empirical Methods in Natural Language Generation, Vol. 5980 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp. 264-293. [pre-proof PDF]

  12. Ehud Reiter and Anja Belz (2009), An Investigation into the Validity of Some Metrics for Automatically Evaluating NLG Systems, Computational Linguistics, 35:4, pp. 529-558 [PDF].

  13. Anja Belz and Eric Kow (2009), System Building Cost vs. Output Quality in Data-to-Text Generation, Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'09), pp. 16-24. ENLG'09 Best Paper Award. [.pdf]

  14. Albert Gatt and Anja Belz (2008) Attribute Selection for Referring Expression Generation: New Algorithms and Evaluation Methods. In Proceedings of the 5th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG'08), pp. 50-58. [.pdf]

  15. Anja Belz and Albert Gatt (2008) Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Evaluation Measures for Referring Expression Generation. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'08), pp. 197-200. [.pdf] (AR: 25%)

  16. Anja Belz (2008). Automatic generation of weather forecast texts using comprehensive probabilistic generation-space models. In Natural Language Engineering, 14(4), pp. 431-455. Cambridge University Press. [preproof .pdf]

  17. Anja Belz and Sebastian Varges (2007). Generation of Repeated References to Discourse Entities. In Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'07), pp. 9-16. [.pdf]

  18. Roger Evans, David Weir, John Carroll, Daniel Paiva and Anja Belz (2007). Modelling Control in Generation. In Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'07), pp. 25-32. [.pdf]

  19. Anja Belz (2007). Probabilistic generation of weather forecast texts. In Proceedings of Human Language Technologies 2007: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT'07), pp. 164-171. [.pdf] (AR: 24%)

  20. Ehud Reiter and Anja Belz (2006). GENEVAL: A proposal for shared-task evaluation in NLG. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG'06), pp. 136-138. [.pdf]

  21. Anja Belz and Adam Kilgarriff (2006). Shared-task evaluations in HLT: Lessons for NLG. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG'06), pp. 133-135. [.pdf]

  22. Anja Belz and Ehud Reiter (2006). Comparing automatic and human evaluation in NLG. In Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL'06), pp. 313-320. [.pdf] (AR: 20%)

  23. Anja Belz (2005). Statistical generation: Three methods compared and evaluated. In Proceedings of the 10th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'05), pp. 15-23. [.pdf]

  24. Anja Belz (2005). Corpus-driven generation of weather forecasts. In Proceedings of the 3rd Corpus Linguistics Conference (CL' 05), pp. 173-181 [.pdf]

  25. Anja Belz (2004). Underspecification for NLG. In: Belz et al. (eds.) INLG04 Posters: Extended abstracts of posters presented at the 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2004), pp. 9-13. Technical Report No. ITRI-04-01. Information Technology Research Institute, University of Brighton, UK. [.pdf]

  26. Roger Evans, Kees van Deemter, Anja Belz, Jason Teeple, David Weir, John Carroll, Daniel de Paiva and Eva Ferrer (2004). Controlling wide-coverage generation: The COGENT Project. In: Belz et al. (eds.) INLG04 Posters: Extended abstracts of posters presented at the 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2004), pp. 16-19. Technical Report No. ITRI-04-08. Information Technology Research Institute, University of Brighton, UK.

  27. Anja Belz (2002). PCFG learning by nonterminal partition search. In P. Adriaans, H. Fernau and M. van Zaanen (eds.) Grammatical Inference: Algorithms and Applications. Proceedings of the 6th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI 2002), pp. 14-27. Berlin: Springer. [publication page] [.ps.gz (copyright Springer-Verlag)]

  28. Anja Belz (2002). Learning grammars for different parsing tasks by partition search. In Proceedings of the 19th International conference in Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002), pp. 78-84. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufman. [.ps.gz] (AR: 40%)

  29. Anja Belz (2002). Grammar learning by partition search. Proceedings of the LREC 2002 Workshop on Event Modelling for Multilingual Document Linking, pp. 9-16. [.ps]

  30. Anja Belz (2002). Learning Grammars for Noun Phrase Extraction by Partition Search. Proceedings of the LREC 2002 Workshop on Linguistic Knowledge Acquisition and Representation: Bootstrapping Annotated Language Data, pp. 63-70. [.ps]

  31. Nadjet Bouayad-Agha, Richard Power, Donia Scott and Anja Belz (2002). PILLS: Multilingual generation of medical information documents with overlapping content. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002), pp. 2111-2114. [.ps.gz]

  32. John Nerbonne, Anja Belz, Nicola Cancedda, Hervé Déjean, James Hammerton, Rob Koeling, Stasinos Konstantopoulos, Miles Osborne, Franck Thollard and Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang (2001). Learning Computational Grammars, In: Walter Daelemans and Rémi Zajac (eds.) Proceedings of CoNLL-2001, pp. 97-104. [cs.CL/0107017]

  33. Anja Belz (2001) Optimisation of corpus-derived probabilistic grammars, Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics 2001, pp. 46-57. [.ps.gz file ]

  34. Anja Belz (2000) Multi-syllable phonotactic modelling, in Jason Eisner, Lauri Karttunen and Alain Theriault (eds.), Proceedings of SIGPHON 2000: Finite-State Phonology, pp. 46-56. [.ps.gz file]

  35. Anja Belz (1998) A few English words can help improve your Russian. In: H. Prade (ed.) ECAI '98: 13th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 197-198. [ps file]

  36. Anja Belz (1998) An approach to the automatic acquisition of phonotactic constraints. In: T. M. Ellison (ed.) Proceedings of SIGPHON '98: The Computation of Phonological Constraints, 15th August 1998, University of Montreal, Canada, pp. 35-44. [ps file]

  37. Anja Belz (1998) Discovering phonotactic finite-state automata by genetic search. In: Proceedings of COLING-ACL '98, Morgan Kaufman, pp. 1472-1474. [ps file]

  38. Anja Belz and Berkan Eskikaya (1998) A genetic algorithm for finite state automata induction with an application to phonotactics. In: B. Keller (ed.) Proceedings of the ESSLLI-98 Workshop on Automated Acquisition of Syntax and Parsing, August 1998, Saarbruecken, Germany, pp. 9-17. [ps file]

  39. Anja Belz and Berkan Eskikaya (1998) Inference of Russian phonotactics with a genetic algorithm. In: I. Kruijff-Korbayova (ed.) Proceedings of the Third ESSLLI Student Session, August 1998, Saarbruecken, Germany, pp. 51-61. [ps file]

Proceedings and other volumes edited:
  1. Anja Belz, Roger Evans and Sebastian Varges (eds.) (2009) Proceedings of UCNLG+Sum: Language Generation and Summarisation. [CD-ROM image].

  2. Anja Belz and Sebastian Varges (eds.) (2007). Proceedings of UCNLG+MT: Language Generation and Machine Translation. [.pdf]

  3. Anja Belz and Robert Dale (2006). Introduction to the INLG'06 Special Session on Sharing Data and Comparative Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG'06), pp. 125-126. [.pdf]

  4. Anja Belz and Sebastian Varges (eds.) (2005). Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics 2005 Workshop on Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation. [.pdf]

  5. Anja Belz, Roger Evans and Paul Piwek (eds.) (2004). INLG04 Posters: Extended abstracts of posters presented at the 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2004). ITRI Technical Report ITRI-04-01. Information Technology Research Institute, University of Brighton, UK. 59 pages. [.pdf]

  6. Anja Belz, Roger Evans and Paul Piwek (eds.) (2004). Natural Language Generation: Third International Conference, INLG 2004. LNCS No. 3123. Springer Verlag.

Miscellaneous other publications:
  1. Anja Belz, Mike White, Dominic Espinosa, Deirdre Hogan, Eric Kow and Amanda Stent (2011) The First Surface Realisation Shared Task: Overview and Evaluation Results. In Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'11). [PDF]

  2. Anja Belz, Mike White, Josef van Genabith, Deirdre Hogan and Amanda Stent (2010) Finding Common Ground: Towards a Surface Realisation Shared Task. In Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG'10), pp. 267-272. [PDF]

  3. Anja Belz and Eric Kow (2010) The GREC Challenges 2010: Overview and Evaluation Results. In Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG'10), pp. 219-229. [PDF]

  4. Anja Belz (2009) Prodigy-METEO: Pre-Alpha Release Notes (Nov 2009). Technical Report NLTG-09-01, Natural Language Technology Group, CMIS, University of Brighton. [PDF]

  5. Anja Belz, Eric Kow and Jette Viethen (2009) The GREC Named Entity Generation Challenge 2009: Overview and Evaluation Results. [PDF]

  6. Anja Belz, Eric Kow, Jette Viethen and Albert Gatt (2009) The GREC Main Subject Reference Generation Challenge 2009: Overview and Evaluation Results. [PDF].

  7. Albert Gatt, Anja Belz and Eric Kow (2009) The TUNA-REG Challenge 2009: Overview and Evaluation Results. In Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'09), pp. 198-206 [PDF].

  8. Anja Belz (2009) That's nice ... what can you do with it? Last Words, Computational Linguistics, 35:1, pp. 111-118 [.pdf].

  9. Anja Belz, Eric Kow, Jette Viethen and Albert Gatt (2008) The GREC Challenge 2008: Overview and Evaluation Results. In Proceedings of the 5th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG'08), pp. 183-191. [.pdf]

  10. Albert Gatt, Anja Belz and Eric Kow (2008) The TUNA Challenge 2008: Overview and Evaluation Results. In Proceedings of the 5th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG'08), pp. 198-206. [.pdf]

  11. Anja Belz and Albert Gatt (2007) The Attribute Selection for GRE Challenge: Overview and Evaluation Results. In Proceedings of UCNLG+MT: Language Generation and Machine Translation, pp. 75-83. [.pdf]

  12. Anja Belz (2006). High-quality probabilistic generation of language, Technical Report NLTG-06-02, Natural Language Technology Group, CMIS, University of Brighton. [.pdf]

  13. Anja Belz (2006). pCRU: Probabilistic generation using representational underspecification, Technical Report NLTG-06-01, Natural Language Technology Group, CMIS, University of Brighton. [.pdf]

  14. Anja Belz (2004). Context-Free Representational Underspecification for NLG. Technical Report No. ITRI-04-18. Information Technology Research Institute, University of Brighton, UK. [.pdf]

  15. Anja Belz (2004). Towards a General Framework for Underspecification in NLG and an Underspecification Language for MRS. Technical Report No. ITRI-04-17. Information Technology Research Institute, University of Brighton, UK. [.pdf]

  16. Anja Belz (2003). And Now with Feeling: Developments in Emotional Language Generation. Technical Report No. ITRI-03-21. Information Technology Research Institute, University of Brighton. 17 pages. [.pdf]

  17. Anja Belz (2000) Computational Learning of Finite-State Models for Natural Language Processing, Ph.D. Thesis, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, UK.

  18. Anja Belz and Berkan Eskikaya (forthcoming) A genetic algorithm for finite-state automaton induction. CSRP 487, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, UK.

  19. Anja Belz (1997) Review of Petra Barg, Automatischer Erwerb von linguistischem Wissen, Tuebingen: Niemeyer, 1996. Linguistics 35(4), pp. 971-975.




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