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Piwek, Paul (2024). Are conversational large language models speakers? In: Proceedings of the 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Bernardi, Raffaella; Breitholtz, Ellen and Riccardi, Guiseppe eds.), SemDial, SemDial Anthology, Rovereto, Italy.

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Domingo, Cecilia; Piwek, Paul; Stoyanchev, Svetlana and Wermelinger, Michel (2023). Discourse annotation - Towards a dialogue system for pair programming. TAL Journal, 63(3) pp. 11–35.

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Farag, Youmna; Brand, Charlotte; Amidei, Jacopo; Piwek, Paul; Stafford, Tom; Stoyanchev, Svetlana and Vlachos, Andreas (2022). Opening up Minds with Argumentative Dialogues. In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, Association for Computational Linguistics, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates pp. 4569–4582.

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Withington, Lucy; Diaz Pardo de Vera, David; Guest, Claire; Mancini, Clara and Piwek, Paul (2021). Artificial Neural Networks for classifying the time series sensor data generated by medical detection dogs. Expert Systems with Applications, 184, article no. 115564.

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Amidei, Jacopo; Piwek, Paul and Stoyanchev, Svetlana (2021). QTMM2012c+: A Queryable Empirically- Grounded Resource of Dialogue with Argumentation. In: 5th Workshop on Advances in Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence, 29 Nov 2021, Online event.

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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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Piwek, Paul and Savage, Simon (2020). Challenges with Learning to Program and Problem Solve: An Analysis of Student Online Discussions. In: SIGCSE '20: Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, ACM, New York, pp. 494–499.

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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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Savage, Simon and Piwek, Paul (2019). Full report on challenges with learning to program and problem solve: an analysis of first year undergraduate Open University distance learning students' online discussions. The Open University, Milton Keynes.

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Piwek, Paul; Wermelinger, Michel; Laney, Robin and Walker, Richard (2019). Learning to program: from problems to code. In: Third Conference in Computing Education Practice (CEP), 9 Jan 2019, Durham, UK, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

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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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Piwek, Paul (2017). Dialogue with computers: dialogue games in action. In: Mildorf, Jarmila and Thomas, Bronwen eds. Dialogue across Media. Dialogue studies (28). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 179–202.

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Doust, Richard and Piwek, Paul (2017). A model of suspense for narrative generation. In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (Alonso, Jose M.; Bugarín, Alberto and Reiter, Ehud eds.), Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 178–187.

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Plüss, Brian and Piwek, Paul (2016). Measuring Non-cooperation in Dialogue. In: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2016), 11-16 Dec 2016, Osaka, Japan, pp. 1925–1936.

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Godwin, Keith and Piwek, Paul (2016). Collecting Reliable Human Judgements on Machine-Generated Language: The Case of the QG-STEC Data. In: Proceedings of the 9th International Natural Language Generation Conference (Isard, Amy; Rieser, Verena and Gkatzia, Dimitra eds.), Association for Computational Linguistics, Edinburgh, pp. 212–216.

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Roman, Norton Trevisan; Piwek, Paul; Carvalho, Ariadne Maria Brito Rizzoni and Alvares, Alexandre Rossi (2015). Sentiment and behaviour annotation in a corpus of dialogue summaries. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 21(4) pp. 561–586.

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Yu, Yijun; Piwek, Paul; Tun, Thein Than and Nuseibeh, Bashar (2014). Towards explaining rebuttals in security arguments. In: 14th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument, 10 Dec 2014, Krakow, Poland.

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Piwek, Paul (2014). Towards a computational account of inferentialist meaning. In: Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Convention of the AISB.

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Trevisan Roman, Norton; Piwek, Paul; M. B. Rizzoni Carvalho, Ariadne and Rossi Alvares, Alexandre (2013). Introducing a corpus of human-authored dialogue summaries in Portuguese. In: International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2013), 7-13 Sep 2013, Hissar, Bulgaria.

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Nguyen, Tu Anh T.; Power, Richard; Piwek, Paul and Williams, Sandra (2013). Predicting the understandability of OWL inferences. In: Extended Semantic Web Conference 2013 (ESWC 2013) - Research Track, 26 May to 30 May 2013, Montpellier, France, pp. 109–123.

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Piwek, Paul (2013). Supporting computing and technology distance learning students with developing argumentation skills. In: IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON 2013), 12-15 Mar 2013, Berlin.

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Nguyen, Tu; Power, Richard; Piwek, Paul and Williams, Sandra (2012). Measuring the understandability of deduction rules for OWL. In: First International Workshop on Debugging Ontologies and Ontology Mappings, 8 Oct 2012, Galway, Ireland.

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Kuyten, Pascal; Bickmore, Timothy; Stoyanchev, Svetlana; Piwek, Paul; Prendinger, Helmut and Ishizuka, Mitsuru (2012). Fully automated generation of question-answer pairs for scripted virtual instruction. In: Intelligent Virtual Agents, 12th International Conference (Nakano, Yukiko; Neff, Michael; Paiva, Ana and Walker, Marilyn eds.).

Nguyen, Tu Anh T.; Power, Richard; Piwek, Paul and Williams, Sandra (2012). Planning accessible explanations for entailments in OWL ontologies. In: 7th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2012), 30 May - 1 Jun 2012, Utica, IL, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 110–114.

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Rus, Vasile; Wyse, Brendan; Piwek, Paul; Lintean, Mihai; Stoyanchev, Svetlana and Moldovan, Cristian (2012). A detailed account of the First Question Generation Shared Task Evaluation challenge. Dialogue & Discourse, 3(2) pp. 177–204.

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Piwek, Paul and Boyer, Kristy Elizabeth (2012). Varieties of Question Generation: introduction to this special issue. Dialogue & Discourse, 3(2) pp. 1–9.

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Piwek, Paul and Boyer, Kristy Elizabeth (eds.) (2012) Dialogue and Discourse, Vol. 3, No.2: Special Issue on Question Generation

Piwek, Paul (2011). Dialogue structure and logical expressivism. Synthese, 183(Suppl. 1) pp. 33–58.

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Plüss, Brian; Piwek, Paul and Power, Richard (2011). Modelling non-cooperative dialogue: the role of conversational games and discourse obligations. In: SemDial 2011 (Los Angelogue), pp. 212–213.

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Piwek, Paul and Stoyanchev, Svetlana (2011). Data-oriented monologue-to-dialogue generation. In: 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics:shortpapers, 19-24 Jun 2011, Portland, Oregon, pp. 242–247.

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Stoyanchev, Svetlana and Piwek, Paul (2011). The CODA system for monologue-to-dialogue generation. In: 12th Annual Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 17-18 Jun 2011, Portland, Oregon, USA.

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Nguyen, Tu Anh T.; Power, Richard; Piwek, Paul and Williams, Sandra (2011). Justification Patterns for OWL DL Ontologies. Technical Report 2011/05; Department of Computing, The Open University.

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Piwek, Paul (2011). Three principles of information flow: conversation as a dialogue game. In: Ramage, Magnus and Chapman, David eds. Perspectives on Information. Routledge Studies in Library and Information Science (9). New York, USA: Routledge, pp. 106–120.

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Stoyanchev, Svetlana; Piwek, Paul and Prendinger, Helmut (2011). Comparing Modes of Information Presentation: Text versus ECA and Single versus Two ECAs. In: Intelligent Virtual Agents, 14-17 Sep 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland.

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Stoyanchev, Svetlana and Piwek, Paul (2010). Annotation Scheme for Authored Dialogues. Version 1.1. Technical Report 2010/15; Department of Computing, The Open University.

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Stoyanchev, Svetlana and Piwek, Paul (2010). Harvesting re-usable high-level rules for expository dialogue generation. In: 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2010), 7-8 Jul 2010, Dublin, Ireland.

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Rus, Vasile; Wyse, Brendan; Piwek, Paul; Lintean, Mihai; Stoyanchev, Svetlana and Moldovan, Cristian (2010). The First Question Generation Shared Task Evaluation Challenge. In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2010), 7-9 Jul 2010, Trim Castle, Ireland.

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Boyer, Kristy Elizabeth and Piwek, Paul eds. (2010). Proceedings of QG2010: The Third Workshop on Question Generation. Pittsburgh: questiongeneration.org.

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Piwek, Paul and Stoyanchev, Svetlana (2010). Generating expository dialogue from monologue: Motivation, corpus and preliminary rules. In: 11th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Forthcoming), 1-6 Jun 2010, Los Angeles.

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Piwek, Paul and Stoyanchev, Svetlana (2010). Question generation in the CODA project. In: The Third Workshop on Question Generation, 18 Jun 2010, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

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Stoyanchev, Svetlana and Piwek, Paul (2010). Constructing the CODA corpus: A parallel corpus ofmonologues and expository dialogues. In: The seventh international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) (Forthcoming), 18-21 May 2010, Malta.

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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.

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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Piwek, Paul (2009). Salience and pointing in multimodal reference. In: Proceedings of Production of Referring Expressions: Bridging the gap between computational and empirical approaches to generating reference (PRE-CogSci 2009), 29 Jul 2009, Amsterdam.

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Piwek, Paul (2009). Salience in the generation of multimodal referring acts. In: Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Multimodal interfaces - ICMI-MLMI '09, p. 207.

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Wyse, Brendan and Piwek, Paul (2009). Generating questions from OpenLearn study units. In: AIED 2009 Workshop Proceedings Volume 1: The 2nd Workshop on Question Generation, 6-9 Jul 2009, Brighton, UK.

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Moyo, Sharon and Piwek, Paul (2009). Effective tutoring with affective embodied conversational agents. In: 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, 6-10 Jul 2009, Brighton, UK, pp. 767–768.

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Piwek, Paul; Beun, Robbert-Jan and Cremers, Anita (2008). 'Proximal' and 'distal' in language and cognition: Evidence from deictic demonstratives in Dutch. Journal of Pragmatics, 40(4) pp. 694–718.

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Evans, Roger; Piwek, Paul; Cahill, Lynne and Tipper, Neil (2008). Natural language processing in CLIME, a multilingual legal advisory system. Natural Language Engineering, 14(1) pp. 101–132.

Williams, Sandra; Power, Richard and Piwek, Paul (2008). Simulating emotional reactions in medical dramas. In: Proceedings of the AISB 2008 Symposium on Affective Language in Human and Machine, 1-2 Apr 2008, Aberdeen, UK, pp. 25–32.

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Hernault, Hugo; Piwek, Paul; Prendinger, Helmut and Ishizuka, Mitsuru (2008). Generating Dialogues for Virtual Agents Using Nested Textual Coherence Relations. In: Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5208, 1-3 Sep 2008, Tokyo, Springer, pp. 139–145.

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Piwek, Paul (2008). Presenting Arguments as Fictive Dialogue. In: Proceedings of 8th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA08; in conjunction with ECAI 2008), 21 Jul 2008, Patras, Greece.

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van Deemter, Kees; Krenn, Brigitte; Piwek, Paul; Klesen, Martin; Schröder, Marc and Baumann, Stefan (2008). Fully generated scripted dialogue for embodied agents. Artificial Intelligence, 172(10) pp. 1219–1244.

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Piwek, Paul (2007). Meaning and Dialogue Coherence: A Proof-theoretic Investigation. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 16(4) pp. 403–421.

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Piwek, Paul; Hernault, Hugo; Prendinger, Helmut and Ishizuka, Mitsuru (2007). T2D: Generating Dialogues Between Virtual Agents Automatically from Text. In: Intelligent Virtual Agents (Pelachaud, Catherine; Martin, Jean-Claude; Andre, Elisabeth; Chollet, Gerard; Karpouzis, Kostas and Pele, Danielle eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 161–174.

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Piwek, Paul and Van Deemter, Kees (2007). Generating under global constraints: the case of scripted dialogue. Research on Language and Computation, 5(2) pp. 237–263.

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Williams, Sandra; Piwek, Paul and Power, Richard (2007). Generating monologue and dialogue to present personalised medical information to patients. In: Proceedings of the Eleventh European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, ENLG '07, Association for Computational Linguistics, USA, pp. 167–170.

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Piwek, Paul (2007). Modality Choice for Generation of Referring Acts: Pointing versus Describing. In: Proceedings of Workshop on Multimodal Output Generation (MOG 2007), 25-26 Jan 2007, Aberdeen, Scotland, pp. 129–139.

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Piwek, Paul; Hardcastle, David and Power, Richard (2007). Dialogue Games for Crosslingual Communication. In: Proceedings of DECALOG, The 2007 Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 1 May - 30 Jun 2007, University of Trento, Italy.

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Piwek, Paul; Power, Richard and Williams, Sandra (2006). Generating scripts for personalised medical dialogues for patients. Technical Report 2006/06; Department of Computing, The Open University.

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Piwek, Paul (2006). Perspectives on dialogue: Introduction to this special issue. Research on Language and Computation, 4(2-3) pp. 143–152.

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Roman, Norton; Piwek, Paul and Carvalho, Ariadne M.B.R. (2006). Politeness and bias in dialogue summarization: two exploratory studies. In: Shanahan, James G.; Qu, Yan and Wiebe, Janyce eds. Computing attitude and affect in text: theory and applications. The Information Retrieval Series, 20 (20). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.

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Piwek, Paul (2006). The ALLIGATOR Theorem Prover for Dependent Type Systems: Description and Proof Sample. In: Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS-5), 20-21 Apr 2006, Buxton, UK.

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Piwek, Paul; Power, Richard; Scott, Donia and Van Deemter, Kees (2005). Generating multimedia presentations: from plain text to screenplay. In: Stock, Oliviero and Zancanaro, Massimo eds. Multimodal intelligent information presentation. Text, speech and language technology, 27. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, pp. 203–226.

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Piwek, Paul; Masthoff, Judith and Bergenstrahle, Malin (2005). Reference and Gestures in Dialogue Generation: Three Studies with Embodied Conversational Agents. In: Proceedings of AISB05 Joint Symposium on Virtual Social Agents Symposium, 12-15 Apr 2005, University of Herfordshire, UK.

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Piwek, Paul (2003). A Flexible pragmatics-driven language generator for animated agents. In: 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 12-17 Apr 2003, Budapest, Hungary.

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Piwek, Paul; Krenn, Brigitte; Schroeder, Marc; Grice, Martine; Baumann, Stefan and Pirker, Hannes (2002). RRL: A Rich Representation Language for the Description of Agent Behaviour in NECA. In: Proceedings of AAMAS 2002 workshop: Embodied conversational agents - let's specify and evaluate them!, 2002, Bologna, Italy.

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Krenn, B.; Pirker, H.; Grice, M.; Baumann, S.; Piwek, P.; van Deemter, K.; Schroeder, M.; Klesen, M. and Gstrein, E. (2002). Generation of multi-modal dialogue for a net environment. In: Proceedings of KONVENS-02, 30 Sep - 02 Oct 2002, Saarbruecken, Germany.

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Piwek, Paul and van Deemter, Kees (2002). Towards automated generation of scripted dialogue: some time-honoured strategies. In: Proceedings of EDILOG: 6th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, 4-6 Sep 2002, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 141–148.

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Piwek, Paul (2001). Relating imperatives to action. In: Bunt, Harry and Beun, Robbert-Jan eds. Cooperative multimodal communication. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence series, 2155. Berlin, Germany: Springer, pp. 140–155.

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Kievit, Leen; Piwek, Paul; Beun, Robbert-Jan and Bunt, Harry (2001). Multimodal Cooperative Resolution of Referential Expressions in the DENK System. In: ed. Cooperative Multimodal Communication, Volume 2155. Springer, pp. 197–216.

Piwek, P. and Krahmer, E. (2000). Presuppositions in Context: Constructing Bridges. In: Bonzon, P.; Cavalcanti, M. and Nossum, R. eds. Formal Aspects of Context. Applied Logic Series, 20. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 85–106.

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Piwek, Paul (2000). A Formal Semantics for Editing and Generating Plurals. In: Procs of COLING 2000 pp. 607–613.

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Krahmer, Emiel and Piwek, Paul (1999). Presupposition projection as proof construction. In: Bunt, Harry and Muskens, Reinhard eds. Computing Meaning. Studies in Linguistics & Philosophy. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 281–300.

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Piwek, Paul (1997). Accent Interpretation, Anaphora Resolution and Implicature Derivation. In: Proceedings of the 11th Amsterdam Colloquium, 17-20 Dec 1997, University of Amsterdam, pp. 55–60.

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