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Bolzoni, Andrea; Willis, Alistair; Sharp, David; Linson, Adam and Laney, Robin (2023). Bringing Timbral Shapes to Interactive Music Systems. In: CHIME One Day Workshop 2023, 4 Dec 2023, The Open University, Milton Keynes.

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Crilley, Rhys; Gillespie, Marie; Vidgen, Bertie and Willis, Alistair (2022). Understanding RT’s Audiences: Exposure Not Endorsement for Twitter Followers of Russian State-Sponsored Media. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 27(1) pp. 220–242.

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Crilley, Rhys; Gillespie, Marie; Kazakov, Vitaly and Willis, Alistair (2021). ‘Russia isn’t a country of Putins!’: How RT bridged the credibility gap in Russian public diplomacy during the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 24(1) pp. 136–152.

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Howson, Oliver; Adeliyi, Adeola; Willis, Alistair; Hirst, Tony; Charlton, Patricia; Gooch, Daniel; Rosewell, Jonathan; Richards, Mike; Wermelinger, Michel; Piwek, Paul; Savage, Simon; Lowndes, Charly; Thomas, Elaine and Smith, Andrew (2020). Best Practices in using Technological Infrastructures. The Institute of Coding.

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Crilley, Rhys; Gillespie, Marie and Willis, Alistair (2020). Tweeting the Russian revolution: RT’s #1917LIVE and social media re-enactments as public diplomacy. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 23(3) pp. 354–373.

Willis, Alistair; Charlton, Patricia and Hirst, Tony (2020). Developing Students' Written Communication Skills with Jupyter Notebooks. In: The 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’20), pp. 1089–1095.

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Mensio, Martino; Alani, Harith and Willis, Alistair (2020). Towards a Cross-article Narrative Comparison of News. In: Proceedings of the Text2Story’20 Workshop (Campos, Ricardo; Jorge, Alípio; Jatowt, Adam and Bhatia, Sumit eds.), CEUR WS.

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Ruiz-Marcos, Germán; Willis, Alistair and Laney, Robin (2020). Automatically calculating tonal tension. In: The 2020 Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity (Sturm, Bob and Elmsley, Andy eds.), 19-23 Oct 2020, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden [On-line].

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Amidei, Jacopo; Piwek, Paul and Willis, Alistair (2020). Identifying Annotator Bias: A new IRT-based method for bias identification. In: Proceedings of The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 8-13 Dec 2020, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 4787–4797.

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Rose, Gillian and Willis, Alistair (2019). Seeing the smart city on Twitter: Colour and the affective territories of becoming smart. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 37(3) pp. 411–427.

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Amidei, Jacopo; Piwek, Paul and Willis, Alistair (2019). Agreement is overrated: A plea for correlation to assess human evaluation reliability. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 29 Oct - 1 Nov 2019, Tokyo, Japan.

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Amidei, Jacopo; Piwek, Paul and Willis, Alistair (2019). The use of rating and Likert scales in Natural Language Generation human evaluation tasks: A review and some recommendations. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 29 Oct - 1 Nov 2019, Tokyo, Japan.

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Amidei, Jacopo; Piwek, Paul and Willis, Alistair (2018). Evaluation methodologies in Automatic Question Generation 2013-2018. In: Proceedings of The 11th International Natural Language Generation Conference, 5-8 Nov 2018, Tilburg, The Netherlands, pp. 307–317.

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Amidei, Jacopo; Piwek, Paul and Willis, Alistair (2018). Rethinking the Agreement in Human Evaluation Tasks. In: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 20-26 Aug 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico, pp. 3318–3329.

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Vu, Thanh; Nguyen, Dat Quoc; Johnson, Mark; Song, Dawei and Willis, Alistair (2017). Search Personalization with Embeddings. In: 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2017), 8-13 Apr 2017, Aberdeen, Scotland UK.

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Vu, Thanh; Willis, Alistair; Kruschwitz, Udo and Song, Dawei (2017). Personalised Query Suggestion for Intranet Search with Temporal User Profiling. In: CHIIR '17: Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, ACM, New York, pp. 265–268.

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Huynh, Trung; He, Yulan; Willis, Alistair and Rüger, Stefan (2016). Adverse Drug Reaction Classification With Deep Neural Networks. In: Proceedings of COLING 2016: Technical Papers, COLING, pp. 877–887.

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Collins, Tom; Laney, Robin; Willis, Alistair and Garthwaite, Paul H. (2016). Developing and evaluating computational models of musical style. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 30(01) pp. 16–43.

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Willis, Alistair (2015). Using NLP to support scalable assessment of short free text responses. In: Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, pp. 243–253.

Vu, Thanh; Willis, Alistair and Song, Dawei (2015). Modelling time-aware search tasks for search personalisation. In: WWW '15 Companion, ACM, pp. 131–132.

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Willis, Alistair; Fisher, Ali and Lvov, Ilia (2015). Mapping networks of influence: tracking Twitter conversations through time and space. Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, 12(1) pp. 494–530.

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Vu, Thanh; Willis, Alistair; Tran, Son N. and Song, Dawei (2015). Temporal latent topic user profiles for search personalisation. In: Advances in Information Retrieval (Hanbury, Allan; Kazai, Gabriella; Rauber, Andreas and Fuhr, Norbert eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer International Publishing, pp. 605–616.

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Vu, Thanh; Song, Dawei; Willis, Alistair; Tran, Son N. and Li, Jingfei (2014). Improving search personalisation with dynamic group formation. In: Proceedings of the 37th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research & development in information retrieval, ACM, pp. 951–954.

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Prechtl, Anthony; Laney, Robin; Willis, Alistair and Samuels, Robert (2014). Algorithmic music as intelligent game music. In: AISB50: The 50th Annual Convention of the AISB, 1-4 Apr 2014, London, UK.

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Prechtl, Anthony; Laney, Robin; Willis, Alistair and Samuels, Robert (2014). Methodological approaches to the evaluation of game music systems. In: AM '14 Proceedings of the 9th Audio Mostly: A Conference on Interaction With Sound, ACM, article no. 26.

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Morse, David; Yang, Hui; Willis, Alistair; De Roeck, Anne and King, David (2013). ComTax: community-driven curation for taxonomic databases. In: TDWG 2013, 27 Oct - 1 Nov 2013, Florence, Italy.

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Yang, Hui; Willis, Alistair; Morse, David and De Roeck, Anne (2013). Literature-driven Curation for Taxonomic Name Databases. In: The Second Semantic Web and Information Extraction Workshop (SWAIE'13), 12 Sep 2013, Hissa, Bulgaria.

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Morse, David; De Roeck, Anne; Willis, Alistair and Yang, Hui (2013). Curation tools for taxonomic databases. In: BioCuration 2013, Su ay 7 Apr to Wednesday 10 April 2013, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK.

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Johnson, J.; Buckingham Shum, S.; Willis, A.; Bishop, S.; Zamenopoulos, T.; Swithenby, S.; MacKay, R.; Merali, Y.; Lorincz, A.; Costea, C.; Bourgine, P.; Louçã, J.; Kapenieks, A.; Kelly, P.; Caird, S.; Bromley, J.; Deakin Crick, R.; Goldspink, C.; Collet, P.; Carbone, A. and Helbing, D. (2012). The FuturICT education accelerator. European Physical Journal - Special Topics, 214 pp. 215–243.

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Willis, Alistair; Yang, Hui and De Roeck, Anne (2012). A generalised hybrid architecture for NLP. In: Workshop on Innovative Hybrid Approaches to the Processing of Textual Data, 23 Apr 2012, Avignon, France, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 97–105.

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Yang, Hui; Willis, Alistair; De Roeck, Anne and (2012). A hybrid model for automatic emotion recognition in suicide notes. Biomedical Informatics Insights, 5(Supp 1) pp. 17–30.

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Yang, Hui; De Roeck, Anne; Gervasi, Vincenzo; Willis, Alistair and Nuseibeh, Bashar (2012). Speculative requirements: automatic detection of uncertainty in natural language requirements. In: The 20th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 24-28 Sep 2012, Chicago, ILL, USA, IEEE, pp. 11–20.

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King, David; Morse, David R.; Willis, Alistair and Dil, Anton (2011). Towards the bibliography of life. ZooKeys, 150 pp. 151–166.

Yang, Hui; De Roeck, Anne; Gervasi, Vincenzo; Willis, Alistair and Nuseibeh, Bashar (2011). Analysing anaphoric ambiguity in natural language requirements. Requirements Engineering, 16(3) pp. 163–189.

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Collins, Tom; Laney, Robin; Willis, Alistair and Garthwaite, Paul (2011). Modeling pattern importance in Chopin's mazurkas. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 28(4) pp. 387–414.

Willis, Alistair; King, David; Morse, David; Dil, Anton; Lyal, Chris and Roberts, David (2010). From XML to XML: The why and how of making the biodiversity literature accessible to researchers. In: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 19-21 May 2010, Malta, pp. 1237–1244.

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Willis, Alistair; King, David; Morse, David; Dil, Anton; Lyal, Chris and Roberts, Dave (2010). ABLE Corpus. The Open University.

King, David; Willis, Alistair; Dil, Anton and Morse, David (2010). ABLE Software. The Open University.

Collins, Tom; Laney, Robin; Willis, Alistair and Garthwaite, Paul (2010). Using discovered, polyphonic patterns to filter computer-generated music. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity, 7-9 Jan 2010, Lisbon Portugal.

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Collins, Tom; Thurlow, Jeremy; Laney, Robin; Willis, Alistair and Garthwaite, Paul (2010). A comparative evaluation of algorithms for discovering translational patterns in Baroque keyboard works. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval, 9-13 Aug 2010, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

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Yang, Hui; De Roeck, Anne; Willis, Alistair and Nuseibeh, Bashar (2010). A methodology for automatic identification of nocuous ambiguity. In: The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2010), 23-27 Aug 2010, Beijing, China, pp. 1218–1226.

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Yang, Hui; Willis, Alistair; De Roeck, Anne and Nuseibeh, Bashar (2010). Automatic detection of nocuous coordination ambiguities in natural language requirements. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering, ACM, pp. 53–62.

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Yang, Hui; De Roeck, Anne; Gervasi, Vincenzo; Willis, Alistair and Nuseibeh, Bashar (2010). Extending Nocuous Ambiguity Analysis for Anaphora in Natural Language Requirements. In: 18th International IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'10), 27 Sep - 1 Oct 2010, Sydney, Australia, pp. 25–34.

Gacitua, R.; Ma, L.; Nuseibeh, B.; Piwek, P.; De Roeck, A.; Rouncefield, M.; Sawyer, P.; Willis, A. and Yang, H. (2009). Making tacit requirements explicit. In: Second International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MaRK’09), 1 Sep 2009, Altanta, USA.

Willis, Alistair; Morse, David; Dil, Anton; King, David; Roberts, Dave and Lyal, Chris (2009). Improving search in scanned documents: Looking for OCR mismatches. In: Workshop on Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries 2009: ICSD - International Conference for Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web, 8 Sep 2009, Trento, Italy.

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Ma, Lin; Nuseibeh, Bashar; Piwek, Paul; De Roeck, Anne and Willis, Alistair (2009). On presuppositions in requirements. In: 2009 Second International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MaRK'09), 1 Sep 2009, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

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Willis, Alistair; Chantree, Francis and De Roeck, Anne (2008). Automatic identification of nocuous ambiguity. Research on Language and Computation, 6(3-4) pp. 355–374.

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Willis, Alistair (2007). NP coordination in underspecified scope representations. In: Seventh International Workshop on Computational Semantics, 10-12 Jan 2007, Tilburg, Netherlands.

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Chantree, Francis; Willis, Alistair; Kilgarriff, Adam and De Roeck, Anne (2007). Detecting dangerous coordination ambiguities using word distribution. In: Nicolov, Nicolas; Bontcheva, Kalina; Anjelova, Galia and Mitkov, Ruslan eds. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 4 (292). John Benjamins Publishers, pp. 287–296.

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Chantree, Francis; Nuseibeh, Bashar; De Roeck, Anne and Willis, Alistair (2006). Identifying nocuous ambiguities in natural language requirements. In: 14th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'06), IEEE, pp. 56–65.

Ahlfeldt, Hans; Borin, Lars; Daumke, Philipp; Grabar, Natalia; Hallett, Catalina; Hardcastle, David; Kokkinakis, Dimitrios; Mancini, Clara; Marko, Kornel; Merkel, Magnus; Pietsch, Christian; Power, Richard; Scott, Donia; Silvervarg, Annika; Gronostaj, Maria Toporowska; Williams, Sandra and Willis, Alistair (2006). Literature Review on Patient-Friendly Documentation Systems. Technical Report 2006/04; Department of Computing, The Open University.

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Willis, Alistair (2005). Can Online Learning Materials Improve Student Access to Digital Libraries? Technical Report 2005/10; Department of Computing, The Open University.

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Chantree, Francis; Nuseibeh, Bashar; De Roeck, Anne and Willis, Alistair (2005). Nocuous Ambiguities in Requirements Specifications. Technical Report 2005/03; Department of Computing, The Open University.

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Chantree, Francis; Kilgarriff, Adam; De Roeck, Anne and Willis, Alistair (2005). Using a Distributional Thesaurus to Resolve Coordination Ambiguities. Technical Report 2005/02; Department of Computing, The Open University.

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Chantree, F.; Kilgarriff, A.; De Roeck, A. and Willis, A. (2005). Disambiguating coordinations using word distribution information. In: Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing - 2005, 21-23 Sep 2005, Borovets, Bulgaria.

Willis, Alistair and Manandhar, Suresh (2002). The availability of partial scopings in an underspecified semantic representation. In: Bunt, Harry; Muskens, Reinhard and Thijsse, Elias eds. Computing Meaning. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 2. Kluwer Academic Publishers.