2010-01-29

Anja Belz

Principal Lecturer
Natural Language Technology Group
School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences
University of Brighton
Lewes Road, Brighton, BN2 4GJ, UK
Email: A dot S dot Belz at brighton dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1273 642909
Fax: +44 (0)1273 642908

Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Natural Language & Computational Linguistics Group
Department of Informatics
University of Sussex


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Data and software resources
  1. Prodigy-METEO Corpus pre-alpha release; data as used in Belz & Kow, 2009; join Prodigy-METEO user mailing list by emailing Anja Belz (address see above).
  2. Generation Challenges 2009 Participants Packs:
    1. TUNA-REG PACK [test data]
    2. GREC-MSR PACK [test data]
    3. GREC-NEG Task (to be made available after completion of GREC'10)
  3. REG'08 Participants Packs:
    1. TUNA Tasks (TUNA-AS, TUNA-R, TUNA-REG) PACK; [TUNA-AS test data], [TUNA-R test data], [TUNA-REG test data]
    2. GREC Task (GREC-MSR) PACK; [test data]
  4. ASGRE'07 Participants Pack (TUNA-AS Task) PACK; [test data]

Research projects
  1. V&L Net: EPSRC Network on Vision and Language, 2010-2013
  2. Prodigy: Probabilistic Deep Generation, 2007-2010
  3. CoGenT: Controlled Generation of Text, 2003-2006
  4. NECA: A Net Environment for Embodied Emotional Conversational Agents, 2001-2003
  5. PILLS: Patient Information Language Localisation System, 2001
  6. Learning Computational Grammars, EU TMR, 1998-2001

Academic activities

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(2007-2010): Probabilistic Deep Generation

  1. Project home

  2. 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).

  3. 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]

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


COGENT logo (2003-2006): Controlled Generation of Text
    Evaluation of NLG:

    1. Anja Belz and Robert Dale (2006). Introduction to the INLG'06 Special Session on Sharing Data and Comparative Evaluation. To appear in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG'06). [.pdf]

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

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

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

    5. INLG'06 Special Session on Sharing Data and Comparative Evaluation, Sydney, 15-16 July, 2006: [Call for papers]

    6. ELRA 10th anniversary workshop on HLT Evaluation, Malta, 1-2 December 2005:

    Statistical Generation:

    1. Anja Belz (2005). Statistical generation: Three methods compared and evaluated. In Proceedings of the 10th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'05). See list of publications below.

    2. Anja Belz (2005). Corpus-driven generation of weather forecasts. In Proceedings of the 3rd Corpus Linguistics Conference (CL'05). See list of publications below.

    3. Workshop on Using Corpora for NLG, Birmingham, 14 July 2005.

    4. Implementation of probabilistic NLG technology will be available shortly as pCRU-1.0 (contact me if interested in helping with beta-testing).

    Underspecification for Natural Language Generation:

    1. 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]

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

    3. Implementation of technology described in above TR available as CRU-1.0 (contact me if interested).

    4. 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.

    5. Underspecification Bibliography 2004 (subsumes IMS Underspecification Bibliography, maintained until 1997)

NECA (2001-2003): A Net Environment for Embodied Emotional Conversational Agents
    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]

<PILLS logotype> Patient Information Language Localisation System (2001)
    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]

Learning Computational Grammars (1998-2001): EU TMR Scheme
    Other project partners: Groningen University (coordinating partner), Antwerp University, Tuebingen University, University College Dublin, Geneva University and Xerox Research Centre Europe.

    Project Report:

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

    Grammar Learning by Nonterminal Merging and Splitting:

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

    2. 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)]

    3. 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]

    4. 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]

    5. 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]


Summary of Research Interests

Memberships
  • ACL, Association for Computational Linguistics
  • CLUK, Computational Linguistics in the UK
  • SIGGEN, ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation
  • SIGNLL, ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning


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