Daniel S. Paiva's homepage

I'm a PhD research student who joined ITRI in October of 1997. At the moment (end of 2003) I'm finishing my PhD and in January 2004 I'm joining the Informatics Department of University of Sussex as a member of the Cogent project which is a project that will investigate the characteristics of wide-coverage generation and develop reflective techniques for controlling it effectively.
Contact details

Information Technology Research Institute 
University of Brighton 
Lewes Rd, Brighton 
BN2 4GJ, UK 
Phone: +44 1273 642911
Fax: +44 1273 642908 
Email: Daniel.Paiva "followed by" @itri.brighton.ac.uk 
URL: http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/~Daniel.Paiva
Research interests
The issue of how to control a generator using stylistic parameters is the topic of my PhD and I'm at the moment (end of 2003) in the process of finishing the writing up of my thesis.

Here at ITRI, I was also involved with the RAGS project (Reference Architecture for Generation Systems) where we analysed components of generations systems to try to arrive at a consensus, together with the generation community, in terms of what are the main components, their tasks, and what are the data representations. 

Publications

I've written a survey of applied generation systems which was the starting point for the RAGS project. 

In the EACL'99, I presented a paper (student session) about a methodology for investigating relationships between NLG architectures and stylistic properties of a text. This was the first step in the development of my PhD project.

In the ACL'2000, I presented another student session (now called Student Workshop) paper about the result of a statistical stylistic analysis that was performed on a corpus of pharmaceutical leaflets.

There are also some papers with the RAGS project. 
Some NLP Links

ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) 
ACL SIGGEN (Special Interest Group on GENeration) 
Computing Research Repository (CoRR)
Outside interests

My "outside" interests are related to the Brazilian music,  specially to the "mineiro" composers from "O Clube da Esquina"  ("The Corner Club") like Toninho Horta and Milton Nascimento.  Also interesting is the webpage of Tom Jobim, one of the most important Brazilian composers. 
 
 
 
 
 

Maintained by Daniel Paiva. 
Last updated 30/11/2003. 

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