Dr Anja Belz
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Computing, Engineering and Mathematics
Moulsecoomb
Brighton
BN2 4GJ
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 642909
Email: A.S.Belz@brighton.ac.uk
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Research interests
- Formal models of natural language: finite-state and context-free grammars, probabilistic models, representational underspecification for language generation.
- Computational learning: learning context-free grammars, statistical estimation, genetic algorithms, finite-state generalisation methods, neural networks, different search techniques.
- Natural language processing: evaluation of NLG applications, systems and techniques, probabilistic techniques for language generation, controlled generation of language, probabilistic parsing techniques, shallow syntactic parsing techniques, phonotactic description, phonological grammars.
Publications from the document repository
BELZ, ANJA and Kow, Eric (2011) Unsupervised alignment of comparable data and text resources In: Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora, 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 19-24 June, 2011, Portland, Oregon, USA.
BELZ, ANJA and Kow, Eric (2011) Discrete vs. continuous rating scales for language evaluation in NLP In: The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 19-24 June, 2011, Portland, Oregon, USA, 19-24 June, 2011.
Tokunaga, Takenobu, Iida, Ryu, Yasuhara, Masaaki, Terai, Asuka, Morris, David and BELZ, ANJA (2010) Construction of bilingual multimodal corpora of referring expressions in collaborative problem solving In: 8th Workshop on Asian Language Resources, 21-22 August 2010, Coling.
BELZ, ANJA and Kow, Eric (2010) Assessing the trade-off between system building cost and output quality in data-to-text generation In: Krahmer, E. and Theune, M., eds. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Generation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5790 . Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 180-200. ISBN 9783642155727
BELZ, ANJA and Kow, Eric (2010) Comparing rating scales and preference judgements in language evaluation In: Proceedings of the 6th International Language Generation Congerence (INLG'10), July 7 - 9, 2010, Dublin, Ireland.
BELZ, ANJA and Kow, Eric (2010) Extracting parallel fragments from comparable corpora for data-to-text generation In: Proceedings of 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG'10), July 7 - 9, 2010, Dublin, Ireland.
BELZ, ANJA, White, Mike, Genabith, Josef van, Hogan, Deirdre and Stent, Amanda (2010) Finding common ground: towards a surface realisation shared task In: INLG 2010 - 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference, 7-9 July 2010, Trim, Co. Meath, Ireland.
Dahab, Khalil and BELZ, ANJA (2010) A game-based approach to transcribing images of text In: 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 19-21 May 2010, Valletta, Malta.
BELZ, ANJA, Kow, Eric, Viethen, Jette and Gatt, Albert (2010) Generating referring expressions in context: the GREC shared task evaluation challenges In: Krahmer, E. and Theune, M., eds. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Generation. Lecture notes in computer science, 5790 . Springer, Berlin, pp. 294-327. ISBN 9783642155727
Reiter, Ehud and BELZ, ANJA (2009) An investigation into the validity of some metrics for automatically evaluating Natural Language Generation systems Computational Linguistics, 35 (4). ISSN 0891-2017
BELZ, ANJA and Kow, Eric (2009) System building cost vs. output quality in data-to-text generation In: Proceedings of the 12th European workshop on natural language generation (ENLG 2009), Athens, Greece, 30-31 March, 2009.
BELZ, ANJA (2009) That's nice ... what can you do with it? Computational Linguistics, 35 (1). ISSN 0891-2017
Gatt, Albert and BELZ, ANJA (2008) Attribute selection for referring expression generation: new algorithms and evaluation methods In: INLG '08 Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference, Salt Fork State Park, Ohio, USA.
BELZ, ANJA (2008) Automatic generation of weather forecast texts using comprehensive probabilistic generation-space models Natural Language Engineering, 14 (4). pp. 431-455. ISSN 1351-3249
BELZ, ANJA, Kow, Eric, Viethen, Jette and Gatt, Albert (2008) The GREC challenge 2008; Overview and evaluation results In: 5th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG'08), 12-14th June, 2008, Ohio, USA.
BELZ, ANJA and Gatt, Albert (2008) Intrinsic vs. extrinsic evaluation measures for referring expression generation In: Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'08), 15-20 June 2008, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
BELZ, ANJA (2007) Automatic generation of weather forecast texts using comprehensive probabilistic generation-space models Natural Language Engineering, 14 (4). pp. 431-455. ISSN 1351-3249
EVANS, ROGER, Weir, David, Carroll, John, Paiva, Daniel and BELZ, ANJA (2007) Modelling control in generation In: 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG '07), 17-20 Jun 2007, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.
BELZ, ANJA and Varges, Sebastian (2007) Generation of repeated references to discourse entities In: Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'07), 17-20 Jun 2007, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.
BELZ, ANJA (2007) Probabilistic generation of weather forecast texts In: Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, April 22-27, 2007, Rochester, New York, USA.
BELZ, ANJA and Reiter, Ehud (2006) Comparing automatic and human evaluation of NLG systems In: 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 3 -7, 2006 , Trento, Italy.
Reiter, Ehud and BELZ, ANJA (2006) GENEVAL: a proposal for shared-task evaluation in NLG In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG'06), July 2006, Sydney, Australia.
BELZ, ANJA and Kilgarriff, Adam (2006) Shared-task evaluations in HLT: lessons for NLG In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG'06), 15-16 July 2006, Sydney, Australia.
BELZ, ANJA (2005) Statistical generation: three methods compared and evaluated In: Proceedings of the 10th European Workshop On Natural Language Generation, 8-10 Aug 2005, Aberdeen, Scotland.
BELZ, ANJA, EVANS, ROGER and Piwek, Paul (2004) Natural language generation: Third International Conference, INLG 2004 Brockenhurst, UK, July 14-16, 2004 Proceedings Lecture notes in artificial intelligence, 3123/2004 . Springer, Heidelburg, Germany. ISBN 9783540223405
BELZ, ANJA (2002) Grammar learning by partition search In: Proceedings of the LREC 2002 workshop on event modelling for multilingual document linking, Las Palmas, Spain.
BELZ, ANJA (2002) Learning grammars for different parsing tasks by partition search In: COLING '02 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on computational linguistics, Taipei, Taiwan.
BELZ, ANJA (2002) Learning grammars for noun phrase extraction by partition search In: Proceedings of the LREC 2002 workshop on linguistic knowledge acquisition and representation: bootstrapping annotated language data, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain.
BELZ, ANJA (2002) PCFG learning by nonterminal partition search In: Adriaans, P., Fernau, H. and van Zaanen, M., eds. Grammatical Inference: Algorithms and Applications: 6th International Colloquium: ICGI 2002, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 23-25, 2002. Proceedings. Lecture notes in computer science, 2484/2002 . Springer, Berlin, Germany, pp. 14-27. ISBN 0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online)
Bouayad-Agha, Nadjet, Power, Richard, Scott, Donia and BELZ, ANJA (2002) PILLS: multilingual generation of medical information documents with overlapping content In: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on language resources and evaluation, 29-31 May 2002, Las Calmas, Canary Islands.
BELZ, ANJA (2001) Optimisation of corpus-derived probabilistic grammars In: Corpus Linguistics 2001, 30 Mar - 2 Apr 2001, Lancaster University, UK.
Nerbonne, John, BELZ, ANJA, Cancedda, Nicola, Dejean, Herve, Hammerton, James, Koeling, Rob, Konstantopoulos, Stasinos, Osborne, Miles, Thollard, Franck and Tjong Kim Sang, Erik (2001) Learning computational grammars In: Proceedings of CoNLL-2001: the fifth workshop on computational language learning, 6-7 Jul 2001, Toulouse, France.

