David M. Howcroft

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2013-2023
Publications (10 Years): 16

Top Topics

Referring Expressions

Natural Language

Top Venues

Publications

Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, David M. Howcroft, Dimitra Gkatzia, Yi-Ling Chung, Yufang Hou, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Pawan Rajpoot, Tosin P. Adewumi
LOWRECORP: the Low-Resource NLG Corpus Building Challenge. INLG (Generation Challenges) (2023)
David M. Howcroft, William Lamb, Anna Groundwater, Dimitra Gkatzia
Building a dual dataset of text- and image-grounded conversations and summarisation in Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic). INLG (2023)
Karin Sevegnani, David M. Howcroft, Ioannis Konstas, Verena Rieser
OTTers: One-turn Topic Transitions for Open-Domain Dialogue. CoRR (2021)
Karin Sevegnani, David M. Howcroft, Ioannis Konstas, Verena Rieser
OTTers: One-turn Topic Transitions for Open-Domain Dialogue. ACL/IJCNLP (1) (2021)
David M. Howcroft, Verena Rieser
What happens if you treat ordinal ratings as interval data? Human evaluations in NLP are even more under-powered than you think. EMNLP (1) (2021)
Anya Belz, Simon Mille, David M. Howcroft
Disentangling the Properties of Human Evaluation Methods: A Classification System to Support Comparability, Meta-Evaluation and Reproducibility Testing. INLG (2020)
David M. Howcroft, Anya Belz, Miruna-Adriana Clinciu, Dimitra Gkatzia, Sadid A Hasan, Saad Mahamood, Simon Mille, Emiel van Miltenburg, Sashank Santhanam, Verena Rieser
Twenty Years of Confusion in Human Evaluation: NLG Needs Evaluation Sheets and Standardised Definitions. INLG (2020)
Ondrej Dusek, David M. Howcroft, Verena Rieser
Semantic Noise Matters for Neural Natural Language Generation. INLG (2019)
Ondrej Dusek, David M. Howcroft, Verena Rieser
Semantic Noise Matters for Neural Natural Language Generation. CoRR (2019)
David M. Howcroft, Dietrich Klakow, Vera Demberg
Toward Bayesian Synchronous Tree Substitution Grammars for Sentence Planning. INLG (2018)
David M. Howcroft, Jorrig Vogels, Vera Demberg
G-TUNA: a corpus of referring expressions in German, including duration information. INLG (2017)
David M. Howcroft, Dietrich Klakow, Vera Demberg
The Extended SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus: Designing a Corpus with Variable Information Density. INTERSPEECH (2017)
David M. Howcroft, Vera Demberg
Psycholinguistic Models of Sentence Processing Improve Sentence Readability Ranking. EACL (1) (2017)
Maximilian Schwenger, Álvaro Torralba, Jörg Hoffmann, David M. Howcroft, Vera Demberg
From OpenCCG to AI Planning: Detecting Infeasible Edges in Sentence Generation. COLING (2016)
Vera Demberg, Jörg Hoffmann, David M. Howcroft, Dietrich Klakow, Álvaro Torralba
Search Challenges in Natural Language Generation with Complex Optimization Objectives. Künstliche Intell. 30 (1) (2016)
Michael White, David M. Howcroft
Inducing Clause-Combining Rules: A Case Study with the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus. ENLG (2015)
David M. Howcroft, Crystal Nakatsu, Michael White
Enhancing the Expression of Contrast in the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus. ENLG (2013)