journal article
Jette Viethen and Robert Dale (2007). Evaluation in natural language generation: lessons from referring expression generation. In Traitement Automatique des Langues 48(1), special edition "Principles of Evaluation in Natural Language Processing". [ pdf ]
conference papers
Jette Viethen and Robert Dale (2006). Algorithms for generating referring expressions: Do they do what people do? In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 63-70, Sydney, Australia. [ pdf | slides ]
Jette Viethen and Robert Dale (2006). Towards the evaluation of referring expression generation. In Proceedings of the 4th Australasian Language Technology Workshop, Sydney, Australia. [ pdf | poster ]
Jette Viethen and Robert Dale (2007). Capturing acceptable variation in distinguishing descriptions. Proceedngs of the 11th Eurpean Workshop on Natural Natural Language Generation, Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany. [ pdf | slides ]
Jette Viethen, Robert Dale, Emiel Krahmer, Mariët Theune and Pascal Touset (2008). Controlling redundancy in referring expressions. In Proceedings of the 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco. [ pdf | slides ]
Jette Viethen and Robert Dale (2008). The use of spatial relations in referring expressions In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Salt Fork OH, USA. [ pdf | slides ]
evaluation competition submissions
Mariët Theune, Pascal Touset, Jette Viethen, and Emiel Krahmer (2007). Cost-based attribute selection for GRE (GRAPH-SC/ GRAPH-FP). In Proceedings of the UCNLG+MT at MT Summit XI, Copenhagen, Denmark. [ pdf ]
Emiel Krahmer, Mariët Theune, Jette Viethen, and Iris Hendrickx (2008). GRAPH: The costs of redundancy in referring expressions. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Salt Fork OH, USA. [ pdf | poster ]
position papers and reports
Jette Viethen (2007). Automatic evaluation of referring expression generation is possible. Position paper for the Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in Natural Language Generation, Arlington VA, USA. [ pdf | slides ]
Anja Belz, Albert Gatt, Ehud Reiter and Jette Viethen (2007). Referring Expression Generation. In Report of the Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in Natural Language Generation, Chapter 3, 17–32, Arlington VA, USA. [ pdf ]
Jette Viethen (2007). Referring expressions: from the good enough to the most useful. Position paper presented at the Research Workshop on Generating Referring Expressions that Are Optimal for Hearers, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. [ pdf | slides ]
Anja Belz, Eric Kow, Jette Viethen and Albert Gatt (2008). The GREC Challenge: Overview and evaluation results. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Salt Fork OH, USA. [ pdf ]