SIGGEN: Who's Who in NLG

This page is intended to be a list of people working in the field of natural language generation. We welcome others to add themselves to this list by sending as email: siggen-webmaster (at) aclweb (dot) org.

A

• Manex Agirrezabal, University of the Basque Country, Donostia, Spain
• Jan Alexandersson, DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany
• Elisabeth André, University of Augsburg, Germany
• Ion Androutsopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
• Doug Appelt, SRI International, USA

B

• Valerio Basile, PhD Student, University of Groningen, Netherlands
• Hadi Banaee, Örebro Universit, Sweden
• John Bateman, University of Bremen, Germany
• Tilman Becker, DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany
• Anja Belz, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics (CEM), University of Brighton, UK
• Bernd Bohnet, Institut für Visualisierung und Interaktive Systeme, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
• Kalina Bontcheva, Univ. of Sheffield, UK
• Nadjet Bouayad-Agha, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
• Narjes Boufaden, RALI lab, Computer and Operations Research Departement (DIRO), Université de Montréal, Canada
• Ernst Buchberger, Section for Artificial Intelligence, CeMSIIS, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
• Hendrik Buschmeier, Bielefeld University, Center of Excellence in Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC), Germany
• Stephan Busemann, DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany

C

• Lynne Cahill, University of Sussex, UK
• Charles Callaway, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
• Giuseppe Carenini, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Sandra Carberry, Univ. of Delaware, USA
• Gerard Casamayor, TALN groups, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
• Yllias Chali, University of Lethbridge, Canada
• Songsak Channarukul, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
• Hua Cheng, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
• Jennifer Chu-Carroll, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, USA
• Nathalie Colineau, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
• Norman Creaney, University of Ulster, N. Ireland
• Crit Cremers, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
• Cristina Barros, GPLSI research group / University of Alicante, Spain

D

• Robert Dale, Chief Technology Officer, Arria NLG Ltd, Australia
• Hercules Dalianis, KTH, Stockholm University, Sweden
• Laurence Danlos, TALaNa, UFR de Linguistique, Universite Paris 7, France
• Dana Dannélls, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• Judy Delin, University of Stirling, UK
• Seniz Demir, Senior Researcher, TUBITAK BILGEM, Turkey
• David DeVault, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, USA
• Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois, Chicago USA
• Chrysanne DiMarco, Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Aggeliki Dimitromanolaki, Software and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece
• Christine Doran, Intel
• Mark Dras, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
• Pablo A. Duboue, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA

E

• Philip Edmonds, Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd, UK
• Adil El Ghali, Scientific Project Officer, JRC - European Commission, Italy
• Michael Elhadad, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
• Noemie Elhadad, Columbia University, USA
• Roger Evans, NLTG, University of Brighton, UK

F

• Armin Fiedler, Saarland University, Germany
• Mary Ellen Foster, ICCS, Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
• Reva Freedman, Northern Illinois University, USA

G

• Claire Gardent, Loria/CNRS, Nancy France
• Konstantina Garoufi, University of Potsdam, Germany
• Albert Gatt, University of Malta, Malta
• Sabine Geldof, Researcher, Namahn, Brussels, Belgium
• Michel Généreux, Researcher at Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa
• Ciprian Gerstenberger, University of Tromsø, Norway
• Pablo Gervás, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
• Dimitra Gkatzia, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
• Rodrigo Gomes de Oliveira, PhD Student, University of Aberdeen, UK
• Floriana Grasso, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK
• Nancy Green, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
• Charlie Greenbacker, University of Delaware, USA
• Barbara J. Grosz, Harvard University, USA
• Brigitte Grote, Department of Computer Science, Universitaet Magdeburg, Germany
• Bikash Gyawali, Université de Lorraine, Nancy France
• Markus Guhe, Human Computer Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

H

• Christopher Habel, University of Hamburg, Germany
• Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Senior Technical Staff, AT&T Research, USA
• Susan Haller, University of Wisconsin - Parkside, USA
• Catalina Hallett, Natural Language Generation Group, Open University, England, UK
• Xiwu Han, University of Aberdeen, UK
• David Hardcastle, Natural Language Generation Group, Open University, England, UK
• Terry Harvey, University of Delaware, USA
• Helen Hastie, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
• Raquel Hervás, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
• Feikje Hielkema, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
• Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA
• Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada
• Helmut Horacek, Saarland University, Germany
• Julian Hough, Interaction, Media and Communication Group, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, UK
• Eduard Hovy, Information Sciences Institute, USA
• Blake Howald, Research Scientist, Thomson Reuters R&D
• Dave Howcroft, Saarland University, Germany
• Matt Huenerfauth, University of New York, Queens College, USA

I

• Amy Isard, Informatics, University of Hamburg, Germany

J

• Marie-Claire Jenkins, Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
• Pamela W. Jordan, Intelligent Systems Program, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Aravind K. Joshi, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

K

• Min-Yen Kan, National University of Singapore
• Ronald Kaplan, Nuance Communications, Linguistics, Stanford University, USA
• Nikiforos Karamanis, University of Wolverhampton, UK
• John Kelleher, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland
• Gerard Kempen, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
• Fazel Keshtkar, University of Memphis, USA
• Imtiaz Hussain Khan, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
• Rodger Kibble, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
• Richard Kittredge, CoGenTex, Inc., USA
• Sheldon Klein, Professor of Computer Sciences, Professor of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
• Alistair Knott, Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Otago University, New Zealand
• Leila Kosseim, Concordia University, Canada
• Emiel Krahmer, University of Tilburg, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, Saarland University, Germany
• Roman Kutlak, Research Assistant, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
• Nick Kuringi, Computer Science, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia

L

• Xiao Li, University of Aberdeen, UK
• Irene Langkilde-Geary, Brigham Young University, Utah, USA
• Guy Lapalme, RALI lab, Computer and Operations Research Departement (DIRO), Université de Montréal, Canada
• François Lareau, Département de linguistique et de traduction, Université de Montréal, Canada
• Julia Lavid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
• Tennessee Leeuwenburg, The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Australia
• Oliver Lemon, Interaction Lab, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
• Greg Lessard, Queen's University, Canada
• James Lester, North Carolina State University, USA
• Michael Levison, Queen's University, Canada
• Grace Lin, Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab, University of California Santa Cruz
• Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Xin Lu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• Stephanie Lukin, Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab, University of California Santa Cruz
• Elena Lloret,GPLSI research group / University of Alicante, Spain

M

• Saad Mahamood, Senior NLG Engineer, Arria NLG plc, UK
• Francois Mairesse, Machine Intelligence Lab, University of Cambridge, UK
• Clara Mancini, Natural Language Generation Group, Open University, England, UK
• Inderjeet Mani, Information Systems and Technology Division, MITRE
• Ruli Manurung, ICCS, Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
• Tomasz Marciniak, European Media Lab, Heidelberg, Germany
• Daniel Marcu, Information Sciences Institute, USA
• Erwin Marsi, University of Tilburg, Netherlands
• David Martins de Matos, Spoken Language Systems Lab, INESC ID Lisboa / Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
• Christian M.I.M Matthiessen, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Australia
• Mark Maybury, Information Technology Center, MITRE, USA
• Alessandro Mazzei, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
• Kathy McCoy, University of Delaware, USA
• David McDonald, Smart Information Flow Technologies (SIFT), Boston, MA, USA
• Kathy McKeown, Columbia University, USA
• Chris Mellish, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
• Simon Mille, TALN groups, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
• Maria Milosavljevic, Human Computer Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
• Margaret Mitchell, Natural Language Processing Group, Microsoft Research, Seattle, WA, USA
• Vibhu O. Mittal, Google, Mountain View, CA, USA
• Johanna Moore, Human Computer Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

N

• Nipat Nalamlieng, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA
• Shashi Narayan, Université de Lorraine Nancy France
• Yael Dahan Netzer, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
• Günter Neumann, DFKI, Germany
• Nicolas Nicolov, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
• Elena Not, ITC-irst, Italy

O

• Jon Oberlander, Human Computer Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
• Mick O'Donnell, Wagsoft, Madrid, Spain

P

• Daniel Paiva, University of Sussex, England UK
• Franck Panaget, France Telecom, France
• Afrodite Papagiannopoulou, University of Essex, Dept of Computer Science, UK
• Ivandre Paraboni, University of São Paulo, Brazil
• Cécile Paris, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
• Rebecca Passonneau, Columbia University
• Laura Perez-Beltrachini, LORIA/CNRS, Nancy, France
• Emanuele Pianta, ITC-irst, Italy
• Christian Pietsch, Bielefeld University, Center of Excellence in Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC), Germany
• Paul Piwek, Natural Language Generation Group, Open University, England UK
• Massimo Poesio, Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, England UK
• Claude Ponton, Cristal-Gresec team - Stendhal University - Grenoble3, France
• Vladimir Popescu, CNRS, Grenoble Institute of Technology, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France
• Richard Power, Natural Language Generation Group, Open University, England, UK
• Rashmi Prasad, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
• Jean-Philippe Prost, LIRMM, Université de Montpellier 2, France

R

• Dragomir R. Radev, School of Information, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, USA
• Owen Rambow, Columbia University,, NY, USA
• Chris Reed, University of Dundee, Scotland UK
• Ehud Reiter, Arria NLG, University of Aberdeen, Scotland UK
• David Reitter, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
• Verena Rieser, Lecturer in Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, UK
• Elena Rishes, Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab, University of California Santa Cruz
• Graeme Ritchie, Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Scotland UK
• Jacques Robin, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
• Laurent Roussarie, TALaNa, UFR de Linguistique, Universite Paris 7, France

S

• Advaith Siddharthan, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
• Horacio Saggion, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
• Gregory Sanders, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA
• Daniel Savey, Universite Montpellier 3, France
• Jennifer Sawyer, Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab, University of California Santa Cruz
• Bilge Say, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
• Anne H. Schneider, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
• Frank Schilder, Research Manager, Thomson Reuters R&D, USA
• Rolf Schwitter, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Australia
• Donia Scott, University of Sussex, England, UK
• James Shaw, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA
• Simeon Simoff, University of Sydney, Australia
• Yaji Sripada, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
• Manfred Stede, Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany
• Mark Steedman, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
• Amanda Stent, AT&T Research, USA
• Holger Stenzhorn, Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS) and Department of Medical Informatics, Freiburg University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany
• Oliviero Stock, ITC-irst, Italy
• Matthew Stone, Department of Computer Science and Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, USA
• Kristina Striegnitz, Assistant Professor, Union College, USA
• Reid Swanson, Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab, University of California Santa Cruz

T

• Elke Teich, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany
• Henry S. Thompson, Human Computer Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
• Mariët Theune, Research Group Human Media Interaction, University of Twente, The Netherlands
• Ross Turner, [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science University of Aberdeen

V

• Keith Vander Linden, Calvin College, USA
• Ielka van der Sluis, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
• Kees van Deemter, University of Aberdeen, Scotland UK
• Sebastian Varges, Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
• Jette Viethen, Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University, Australia
• Marta Vicente, GPLSI research group / University of Alicante, Spain

W

• Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI, Saarland University, Germany
• Marilyn Walker, Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab, University of California Santa Cruz
• Stephen Wan, Center for Language Technology, Macquarie University, Australia
• Leo Wanner, [http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
• Nigel Ward, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
• Bonnie Webber, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
• Michael White, Dept. of Linguistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
• Graham Wilcock, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
• Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK
• Sandra Williams, Natural Language Generation Group, Open University, England, UK

X

• Wei Xu, Assistant Professor, Ohio State University, USA

Y

• R. Michael Young, Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University, USA

Z

• Massimo Zancanaro, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
• Michael Zock, Research Director, CNRS, LIF (AMU, Marseille), France
• Ingrid Zukerman, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Australia

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