This paper surveys the current state of the art in Natural Language Generation (NLG),
defined as the task of generating text or speech from non-linguistic input. A survey of NLG is …

This book, first published in 1996, argues that language use is more than the sum of a
speaker speaking and a listener listening. It is the joint action that emerges when speakers …

Artificial Knowing challenges the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) view of the
world. Alison Adam admirably fills the large gap in science and technology studies by …

This article offers a survey of computational research on referring expression generation
(REG). It introduces the REG problem and describes early work in this area, discussing what …

The study of human-human communication and the development of computational models
for human-agent communication have diverged significantly throughout the last decade. Yet …

The Gendered Cyborg explores the relationship between representation, technoscience and
gender, through the metaphor of the cyborg. The contributors argue that the figure of the …

We use the idea that actions performed in a conversation become part of the common
ground as the basis for a model of context that reconciles in a general and systematic …

Speakers often overspecify their target descriptions and include more information than
necessary for unique identification of the target referent. In the current paper, we study the …

Clarification requests are an important, relatively common and yet under-studied dialogue
device allowing a user to ask about some feature (eg the meaning or form) of an utterance …

To facilitate referential communication between humans and robots and mediate their
differences in representing the shared environment, we are exploring embodied …