David M. Howcroft

According to our database, David M. Howcroft authored at least 17 papers between 2013 and 2024.

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2024

Automatic Metrics in Natural Language Generation: A survey of Current Evaluation Practices.

Patrícia Schmidtová, Saad Mahamood, Simone Balloccu, Ondrej Dusek, Albert Gatt, Dimitra Gkatzia, David M. Howcroft, Ondrej Plátek, Adarsa Sivaprasad

Proceedings of the 17th International Natural Language Generation Conference, 2024

Exploring the impact of data representation on neural data-to-text generation.

David M. Howcroft, Lewis N. Watson, Olesia Nedopas, Dimitra Gkatzia

Proceedings of the 17th International Natural Language Generation Conference, 2024

2023

Building a dual dataset of text- and image-grounded conversations and summarisation in Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic).

David M. Howcroft, William Lamb, Anna Groundwater, Dimitra Gkatzia

Proceedings of the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference, 2023

LOWRECORP: the Low-Resource NLG Corpus Building Challenge.

Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, David M. Howcroft, Dimitra Gkatzia, Yi-Ling Chung, Yufang Hou, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Pawan Rajpoot, Tosin P. Adewumi

Proceedings of the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference, 2023

2021

What happens if you treat ordinal ratings as interval data? Human evaluations in NLP are even more under-powered than you think.

David M. Howcroft, Verena Rieser

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021

OTTers: One-turn Topic Transitions for Open-Domain Dialogue.

Karin Sevegnani, David M. Howcroft, Ioannis Konstas, Verena Rieser

Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2021

2020

Twenty Years of Confusion in Human Evaluation: NLG Needs Evaluation Sheets and Standardised Definitions.

David M. Howcroft, Anya Belz, Miruna-Adriana Clinciu, Dimitra Gkatzia, Sadid A Hasan, Saad Mahamood, Simon Mille, Emiel van Miltenburg, Sashank Santhanam, Verena Rieser

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2020

Disentangling the Properties of Human Evaluation Methods: A Classification System to Support Comparability, Meta-Evaluation and Reproducibility Testing.

Anya Belz, Simon Mille, David M. Howcroft

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2020

2019

Semantic Noise Matters for Neural Natural Language Generation.

Ondrej Dusek, David M. Howcroft, Verena Rieser

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2019

2018

Toward Bayesian Synchronous Tree Substitution Grammars for Sentence Planning.

David M. Howcroft, Dietrich Klakow, Vera Demberg

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2018

2017

The Extended SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus: Designing a Corpus with Variable Information Density.

David M. Howcroft, Dietrich Klakow, Vera Demberg

Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2017

G-TUNA: a corpus of referring expressions in German, including duration information.

David M. Howcroft, Jorrig Vogels, Vera Demberg

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2017

Psycholinguistic Models of Sentence Processing Improve Sentence Readability Ranking.

David M. Howcroft, Vera Demberg

Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017

2016

Search Challenges in Natural Language Generation with Complex Optimization Objectives.

Vera Demberg, Jörg Hoffmann, David M. Howcroft, Dietrich Klakow, Álvaro Torralba

Künstliche Intell., 2016

From OpenCCG to AI Planning: Detecting Infeasible Edges in Sentence Generation.

Maximilian Schwenger, Álvaro Torralba, Jörg Hoffmann, David M. Howcroft, Vera Demberg

Proceedings of the COLING 2016, 2016

2015

Inducing Clause-Combining Rules: A Case Study with the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus.

Michael White, David M. Howcroft

Proceedings of the ENLG 2015, 2015

2013

Enhancing the Expression of Contrast in the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus.

David M. Howcroft, Crystal Nakatsu, Michael White

Proceedings of the ENLG 2013, 2013