ielka van der sluis Department of Communication and Information Sciences Center for Language and Cognition Groningen Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen Oude Kijk in ’t Jatstraat 26, 1312-428 9712 EK Groningen, the Netherlands email: I.F.van.der.SluisATrug.nl phone: +31 (0)50 363 5813
	After finishing my Ph.D. on Context-based Natural Language Generation in Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Tilburg, I worked on the EPSRC-funded TUNA project (Towards a UNified Algorithm for the generation of referring expressions) at the University of Aberdeen. TUNA focussed on an experimental (essentially psycholinguistic approach) to generating referring expressions and proposed automatic evaluation measures. In 2007 and 2008 I was engaged in the EPSRC platform grant project Affecting People with Natural Language, which main goal is to investigate how text affects people with respect to their emotional state. As a starting point evaluation methods to measure the emotional effects of language alternatives in controlled settings were investigated. From May 2008 til July 2011 I worked at Trinity College Dublin at the Centre for Next Generation Localisation in the Systems Framework group which aims to develop novel interaction design techniques and evaluation metrics to support the development of multimodal applications. Per August I started as a Senior Lecturer at Center for Language and Cognition Groningen at the University of Groningen, where I work further on my interests. Interests: human communication, information presentation, human computer interaction, natural language generation, affective computing, multimodal interaction.
	Visual Communication Methodology Design and Evaluation Media Theory Media and Discourse: Audience Design Text Analysis
	I. van der Sluis, W. Breitfuß, S. Luz, H. Prendinger and M. Ishizuka (In Press). The Perception of Multimodal Referring Expressions in Dialogue: a Crosscultural Study. To appear in International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS). K. van Deemter, A. Gatt, I. van der Sluis and R. Power. (In Press) Generation of Referring Expressions: Evaluating some Classic Algorithms. To appear in Cognitive Science. (Electronic version expected 2011. Paper version 2012) I. van der Sluis and S. Luz (2011). Multilingual generation of Referring Expressions, Issues in Translating and Producing Japanese Referring Expressions for Dialogues. Linguistic Issues in Language Technology (LiLT), 5(1). I. van der Sluis and E. Krahmer (2007). Generating Multimodal Referring Expressions. Discourse Processes. Special Issue on ``Dialogue Modelling: Computational and Empirical Approaches''. Edited by Paul Piwek and Peter Kuhnlein. 44(3), p.145-174, ISSN 0163-853X.
	I. van der Sluis and C. Mellish (2010). Towards Empirical Evaluation of Affective Tactical NLG. In Krahmer, E., Theune, M., eds.: Empirical Methods in Natural Language Generation. Volume 5980 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg (2010)
	I. van der Sluis and S. Luz (2011). A Cross-Linguistic Study on the Production of Multimodal Referring Expressions in Dialogue. Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG11) september 28-30, Nancy, France. I. van der Sluis and S. Luz (2011). Production of Demonstratives in Dutch, English and Portuguese dialogues. Proceedings of the European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'11). September 27-30, Nancy, France. I. van der Sluis and C. Mellish and G. Doherty (2011). Replication Issues in Assessing Emotions in Readers. Proceedings of the 24th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-24), 18-20 May, Palm Beach, Florida, USA. A. Schneider, I. van der Sluis and S. Luz (2010). Comparing Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation of MT Output in a Dialogue System. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation IWSLT 2010, December 2-3, Paris, France. I. van der Sluis, F. Hielkema, C. Mellish and G. Doherty (2010). Ontology Based Queries - Investigating a Natural Language Interface. Proceedings of the Workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and Semantic Web (VISSW 2010) at the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2010), February 7, Hong Kong. W. Breitfuss, I. van der Sluis, S. Luz, H. Prendinger and M. Ishizuka (2009). Evaluating an Algorithm for the Generation of Multimodal Referring Expressions in a Virtual World: a Pilot Study. Proceedings of the 9th IVA-2009. September 14-16, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. I. van der Sluis, J. Nagai and S. Luz (2009). Producing Referring Expressions in Dialogue: Insights from a Translation Exercise. Proceedings of preCogsci 2009: Production of Referring Expressions: Bridging the gap between computational and empirical approaches to reference. July 29, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. N. Karamanis, A. Schneider, I. van der Sluis, S. Schlogl, G. Doherty and S. Luz (2009). Do HCI and NLP Interact? Proceedings of the 27th CHI-2009. April 4-9, Boston USA. I. van der Sluis and C. Mellish (2009). Towards Empirical Evaluation of Affective Tactical NLGs. Proceedings of the Twelfth European Natural Language Generation Conference (ENLG 2009). March 30-31, 2009, Athens Greece. I. van der Sluis and C. Mellish (2008). Using Tactical NLG to Induce Affective States: Empirical Investigations. Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2008). June 12-14, 2008, at Salt Fork State Park, Ohio. I. van der Sluis and C. Mellish (2008). Towards Affective Natural Language Generation: Empirical Investigations. Proceedings of the Symposium on Affective Language in Human and Machine held at the AISB 2008 Convention, April 1-2, 2008, at the University of Aberdeen. I. van der Sluis, P. Piwek, A. Gatt and A. Bangerter (2008). Multimodal Referring Expressions in Dialogue. Proceedings of the Symposium on Multimodal Output Generation (MOG 2008) held at the AISB 2008 convention, 3rd-4th April 2008 at the University of Aberdeen. I. van der Sluis, A. Gatt and K. van Deemter (2007). Evaluating Algorithms for the Generation of Referring Expressions: Going beyond Toy Domains. Proceedings of the RANLP-2007, September 27-29, Borovets, Bulgaria. A. Gatt, I. van der Sluis and K. van Deemter (2007). Evaluating Algorithms for the Generation of Referring Expressions Using a Balanced Corpus. Proceedings of the ENLG-2007, July 17-20, Sloss Dagstuhl, Germany. K. van Deemter, I. van der Sluis and A. Gatt (2006). Building a Semantically Transparent Corpus for the Generation of Referring Expressions. Proceedings of the INLG-2006, July 15-16, Sidney, Australia. I. van der Sluis and E. Krahmer (2005). Towards the Generation of Overspecified Multimodal Referring Expressions. Proceedings of the Symposium on Dialogue Modelling and Generation at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse (STD 2005). July 6-9, Amsterdam, The Netherlands I. van der Sluis and E. Krahmer (2004). The Influence of Target Size and Distance on the Production of Speech and Gesture in Multimodal Referring Expressions. Proceedings of the ICSLP-2004, Octobre 4-8, Jeju, Korea. J. Geertzen, Y. Girard, R. Morante, I. Van der Sluis, H. Van Dam, B. Suijkerbuijk, R. Van der Werf, and H. Bunt (2004). The Diamond Project. Presented at the 8th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Catalog'04, July 19-21, Barcelona, Spain. I. van der Sluis and E. Krahmer (2004). Evaluating Multimodal NLG using Production Experiments. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, May 26-28, Lisbon, Portugal, p. 209-212. E.Krahmer and I. van der Sluis (2003). A New Model for Generating Multimodal Referring Expressions. Proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG-2003). April 12-13, Budapest Hungary, p. 47-54.   I. van der Sluis (2001). An Empirically Motivated Algorithm for the Generation of Multimodal Referring Expressions. Proceedings of the 10th EACL meeting, July 9-11, Toulouse France, p. 67-72. I. van der Sluis and E. Krahmer (2001). Generating Referring Expressions in a Multimodal Context: an Empirical Approach. Proceedings 11th CLIN-meeting, Rodopi, Amsterdam/Atlanta. I. van der Sluis and F. de Jong (2000). Enriching Textual Documents with Timecodes from Video Fragments. Proceedings of RIAO'2000, College du France Paris France, April 12-14 2000. Volume 1, p. 431-440.
	I. van der Sluis (2005). Multimodal Reference, Studies in Automatic Generation of Multimodal Referring Expressions. Ph.D. thesis, Tilburg University, the Netherlands. I. van der Sluis (1999) Assigning Time-codes to Video-related Textual Documents, the Alignment Module within the Olive Project. master thesis Computational Linguistics, University of Groningen.
	J. Kelleher, B. Mac Namee and I. van der Sluis (2010). Proc. of the sixth International Conference for Natural language Generation (INLG 2010), July 5-7 2010, Trim, Ireland, p. 1-276. I. van der Sluis K. Bergmann, C. van Hooijdonck and M. Theune (2010). Proc. of the third Workshop on Multimodal Output Generation (MOG 2010), July 6 2010, Dublin, Ireland, p. 1-65. M. Theune, I. van der Sluis, Y. Bachvarova and E. Andre (2008). Proceedings of the Workshop on Multimodal Output Generation (MOG'08), April 3-4 2008, Aberdeen, Scotland, p. 1-76. I. van der Sluis, M. Theune, E. Reiter and E. Krahmer (2007). Proceedings of the Workshop on Multimodal Output Generation (MOG'07), January 25-26 2007, Aberdeen, Scotland, p. 1-159. R. Kibble, P. Piwek and I. van der Sluis (2006). Proceedings of the ESSLLI Workshop on Coherence in Generation and Dialogue, August 7-11 2006, Malaga, Spain, p. 1-76. H. Bunt, I. van der Sluis and R. Morante (2003). Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-5), January 15-17 2003, Tilburg University, p. 1-488. H. Bunt, I. van der Sluis and E. Thijsse (2001). Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-4), January 10-12 2001, Tilburg University, p. 1-470.
	R. Kibble, P. Piwek and I. van der Sluis (2007) Coherence in Dialogue and Generation. Special Issue of Journal of Logic, Language and Information 16(4) p.1-485, ISSN 0925-8531.
	I. van der Sluis, A. Gatt and K. van Deemter (2006). Manual for the TUNA Corpus: Referring expressions in two domains. Technical Report AUCS/TR0705, University of Aberdeen.
	N. Karamanis, Van der Sluis, I. and G. Doherty (2010). A Usability Study of the Give-2 Environment. D. Hayes-McCoy, I. van der Sluis and S. Luz (2010). The TCD System for Give-2, presented at the INLG 2010 July, Trim, Ireland. I. van der Sluis, N. Karamanis, A. Schneider, S. Luz, G. Doherty and S. Schlogl (2009). Is HCI Research Relevant to the Practice of Natural Language Processing? Presented at the 30st Tabudag, June, Groningen, the Netherlands.   G. Doherty, I. van der Sluis, N. Karamanis and S. Luz (2008). Designing personalised, multilingual speech and language based applications presented at the Irish Human Computer Interaction Conference '08, September, Cork, Ireland. P. Piwek, I. van der Sluis, A. Gatt and A. Bangerter (2008). Multimodal reference in Dialogue: Towards a Balanced Corpus. Presented at LONDIAL, the SEMDIAL (Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue) 2008 meeting June 2-4, London, UK. I. van der Sluis and C. Mellish (2007). Affecting People with Natural Language. Presented at the Workshop on Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction at the 21st BCS HCI Group conference. 4th September 2007, Lancaster University, UK I. van der Sluis and I. Hussain Khan (2007). Beyond Distinguishing Descriptions: A Clarity-Brevity Contest. Presented at the Workshop on Generating Referring Expressions that are optimal for hearers held at 22nd June 2007, University of Aberdeen, UK A. Gatt, I. Van der Sluis and K. van Deemter (2007). Corpus-based Evaluation of Referring Expressions Generation. In proceedings of Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in Natural Language Generation. Arlington, Virginia, USA, April 2007. I. van der Sluis (2005). "Dat witte paard daar". DIXIT, Tijdschrift over Toegepaste Taal- en SpraakTechnologie 3(4) p. 10-13.