Donia Scott

Also published as: D Scott, Donia R. Scott


2020

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Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Donia Scott | Nuria Bel | Chengqing Zong
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

2019

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Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Discourse Structure in Neural NLG
Anusha Balakrishnan | Vera Demberg | Chandra Khatri | Abhinav Rastogi | Donia Scott | Marilyn Walker | Michael White
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Discourse Structure in Neural NLG

2018

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Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts
Donia Scott | Marilyn Walker | Pascale Fung
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts

2012

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KBGen – Text Generation from Knowledge Bases as a New Shared Task
Eva Banik | Claire Gardent | Donia Scott | Nikhil Dinesh | Fennie Liang
INLG 2012 Proceedings of the Seventh International Natural Language Generation Conference

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Corpus Annotation as a Scientific Task
Donia Scott | Rossano Barone | Rob Koeling
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)

Annotation studies in CL are generally unscientific: they are mostly not reproducible, make use of too few (and often non-independent) annotators and use guidelines that are often something of a moving target. Additionally, the notion of ‘expert annotators' invariably means only that the annotators have linguistic training. While this can be acceptable in some special contexts, it is often far from ideal. This is particularly the case when subtle judgements are required or when, as increasingly, one is making use of corpora originating from technical texts that have been produced by, and intended to be consumed by, an audience of technical experts in the field. We outline a more rigorous approach to collecting human annotations, using as our example a study designed to capture judgements on the meaning of hedge words in medical records.

2011

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Unlocking Medical Ontologies for Non-Ontology Experts
Shao Fen Liang | Donia Scott | Robert Stevens | Alan Rector
Proceedings of BioNLP 2011 Workshop

2008

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Can we Evaluate the Quality of Generated Text?
David Hardcastle | Donia Scott
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)

Evaluating the output of NLG systems is notoriously difficult, and performing assessments of text quality even more so. A range of automated and subject-based approaches to the evaluation of text quality have been taken, including comparison with a putative gold standard text, analysis of specific linguistic features of the output, expert review and task-based evaluation. In this paper we present the results of a variety of such approaches in the context of a case study application. We discuss the problems encountered in the implementation of each approach in the context of the literature, and propose that a test based on the Turing test for machine intelligence offers a way forward in the evaluation of the subjective notion of text quality.

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Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2008)
Donia Scott | Hans Uszkoreit
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2008)

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Coling 2008: Companion volume: Posters
Donia Scott | Hans Uszkoreit
Coling 2008: Companion volume: Posters

2007

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Visualising Discourse Structure in Interactive Documents
Clara Mancini | Christian Pietsch | Donia Scott
Proceedings of the Eleventh European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 07)

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Composing Questions through Conceptual Authoring
Catalina Hallett | Donia Scott | Richard Power
Computational Linguistics, Volume 33, Number 1, March 2007

2006

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Computational Approaches to Discourse and Document Processing
Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley | Donia Scott
Traitement Automatique des Langues, Volume 47, Numéro 2 : Discours et document : traitements automatiques [Computational Approaches to Discourse and Document Processing]

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Visualising discourse coherence in nonlinear documents
Clara Mancini | Donia Scott | Simon Buckingham Shum
Traitement Automatique des Langues, Volume 47, Numéro 2 : Discours et document : traitements automatiques [Computational Approaches to Discourse and Document Processing]

2005

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Structural variation in generated health reports
Catalina Hallett | Donia Scott
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Paraphrasing (IWP2005)

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Automatic generation of large-scale paraphrases
Richard Power | Donia Scott
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Paraphrasing (IWP2005)

2003

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Multilingual generation of controlled languages
Richard Power | Donia Scott | Anthony Hartley
EAMT Workshop: Improving MT through other language technology tools: resources and tools for building MT

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Document Structure
Richard Power | Donia Scott | Nadjet Bouayad-Agha
Computational Linguistics, Volume 29, Number 2, June 2003

2002

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PILLS: Multilingual generation of medical information documents with overlapping content
Nadjet Bouayad-Agha | Richard Power | Donia Scott | Anja Belz
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’02)

2001

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From RAGS to RICHES: Exploiting the Potential of a Flexible Generation Architecture
Lynne Cahill | John Carroll | Roger Evans | Daniel Paiva | Richard Power | Donia Scott | Kees van Deemter
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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AGILE - a system for multilingual generation of technical instructions
Anthony Hartley | Donia Scott | John Bateman | Danail Dochev
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VIII

This paper presents a multilingual Natural Language Generation system that produces technical instruction texts in Bulgarian, Czech and Russian. It generates several types of texts, common for software manuals, in two styles. We illustrate the system’s functionality with examples of its input and output behaviour. We discuss the criteria and procedures adopted for evaluating the system and summarise their results. The system embodies novel approaches to providing multilingual documentation, ranging from the re-use of a large-scale, broad coverage grammar of English in order to develop the lexico-grammatical resources necessary for the generation in the three target languages, through to the adoption of a ‘knowledge editing’ approach to specifying the desired content of the texts to be generated independently of the target languages in which those texts finally appear.

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Evaluating Text Quality: Judging Output Texts Without a Clear Source
Anthony Hartley | Donia Scott
Proceedings of the ACL 2001 Eighth European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (EWNLG)

2000

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A Representation for Complex and Evolving Data Dependencies in Generation
C Mellish | R Evans | L Cahill | C Doran | D Paiva | M Reape | D Scott | N Tipper
Sixth Applied Natural Language Processing Conference

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Enabling Resource Sharing in Language Generation: an Abstract Reference Architecture
Lynne Cahill | Christy Doran | Roger Evans | Rodger Kibble | Chris Mellish | D. Paiva | Mike Reape | Donia Scott | Neil Tipper
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’00)

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Reinterpretation of an Existing NLG System in a Generic Generation Architecture
Lynne Cahill | Christy Doran | Roger Evans | Chris Mellish | Daniel Paiva | Mike Reape | Donia Scott | Neil Tipper
INLG’2000 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Natural Language Generation

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Can text structure be incompatible with rhetorical structure?
Nadjet Bouayad-Agha | Richard Power | Donia Scott
INLG’2000 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Natural Language Generation

1998

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Multilingual Authoring using Feedback Texts
Richard Power | Donia Scott
36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Volume 2

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Multilingual authoring using feedback texts
Richard Power | Donia Scott
COLING 1998 Volume 2: The 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

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Introduction to the Special Issue on Natural Language Generation
Robert Dale | Barbara Di Eugenio | Donia Scott
Computational-Linguistics, Volume 24, Number 3, September 1998

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Generation as a Solution to Its Own Problem
Donia Scott | Richard Power | Roger Evans
Natural Language Generation

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WYSIWYM: knowledge editing with natural language feedback
Richard Power | Donia Scott
Natural Language Generation

1996

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Fourth Workshop on Very Large Corpora
Donia Scott
Fourth Workshop on Very Large Corpora

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Computer Support for Authoring Multilingual Software Documentation
Donia Scott
Proceedings of Translating and the Computer 18

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Language-Specific Mappings from Semantics to Syntax
Judy Delin | Donia R. Scott | Anthony Hartley
COLING 1996 Volume 1: The 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1994

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Book Reviews: Generating Referring Expressions
Donia Scott
Computational Linguistics, Volume 20, Number 1, March 1994

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Intentions, Structure and Expression in Multi-Lingual Instructions
Cecile L. Paris | Donia R. Scott
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Natural Language Generation

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Expressing Procedural Relationships in Multilingual Instructions
Judy Delin | Anthony Hartley | Cecile Paris | Donia Scott | Keith Vander Linden
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Natural Language Generation

1993

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Knowledge, Intention, Rhetoric: Levels of Variation in Multilingual Instructions
Judy Delin | Donia Scott | Tony Hartley
Intentionality and Structure in Discourse Relations

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Multilingual drafting of instructional texts
Donia Scott
Proceedings of Translating and the Computer 15