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  • Annotating textual and speech data in Maltese 
    Gatt, Albert; Vella, Alexandra; Caruana, Joe (2003)
    The present document has been compiled in response to the call for contributions issued by the International Standards Organisation (ISO TC37/SC4 N047) towards the adoption of a morphosyntactic annotation framework. The ...
  • Are all Semitic languages immune to letter transpositions? The case of Maltese 
    Perea, Manuel; Gatt, Albert; Moret-Tatay, Carmen; Fabri, Ray (Springer New York LLC, 2012)
    Recent research using the rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) paradigm with English sentences that included words with letter transpositions (e.g., jugde) has shown that participants can readily reproduce the correctly ...
  • Are all Semitic languages immune to letter transpositions? The case of Maltese 
    Perea, Manuel; Gatt, Albert; Moret-Tatay, Carmen; Fabri, Ray (Springer New York LLC, 2012)
    Recent research using the rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) paradigm with English sentences that included words with letter transpositions (e.g., jugde) has shown that participants can readily reproduce the correctly ...
  • Are we Bayesian referring expression generators 
    Gatt, Albert; van Gompel, Roger P. G.; van Deemter, Kees; Krahmer, Emiel (Cognitive Science Society, 2013)
    A recent paper by Frank and Goodman (2012) proposes a Bayesian model of simple referential games. One of the claims embodied in the model is that choosing which word or property to use to refer to an object depends ...
  • Assessing the incremental algorithm : a response to Krahmer et al 
    van Deemter, Kees; Gatt, Albert; van der Sluis, Ielka; Power, Richard (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc., 2012)
    This response discusses the experiment reported in Krahmer et al.’s Letter to the Editor of Cognitive Science. We observe that their results do not tell us whether the Incremental Algorithm is better or worse than its ...
  • Attribute preference and priming in reference production : experimental evidence and computational modeling 
    Gatt, Albert; Goudbeek, Martijn; Krahmer, Emiel (Cognitive Science Society, 2011)
    Referring expressions (such as the red chair facing right) often show evidence of preferences (Pechmann, 1989; Belke & Meyer, 2002), with some attributes (e.g. colour) being more frequent and more often included when ...
  • The attribute selection for GRE challenge : overview and evaluation results 
    Belz, Anja; Gatt, Albert (European Association for Machine Translation, 2007)
    The Attribute Selection for Generating Referring Expressions (ASGRE) Challenge was the first shared-task evaluation challenge in the field of Natural Language Generation. Six teams submitted a total of 22 systems. All ...
  • Attribute selection for referring expression generation : new algorithms and evaluation methods 
    Gatt, Albert; Belz, Anja (Association for Computational Linguistics., 2008)
    Referring expression generation has recently been the subject of the first Shared Task Challenge in NLG. In this paper, we analyse the systems that participated in the Challenge in terms of their algorithmic properties, ...
  • Automatic generation of natural language nursing shift summaries in neonatal intensive care : BT-Nurse 
    Hunter, James; Freer, Yvonne; Gatt, Albert; Reiter, Ehud; Sripada, Somayajulu; Sykes, Cindy (Elsevier BV, 2012)
    automatically generate helpful natural language nursing shift summaries solely from an electronic patient record system, in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Methods: A system was developed which automatically ...
  • Automatic generation of textual summaries from neonatal intensive care data 
    Portet, Francois; Reiter, Ehud; Gatt, Albert; Hunter, Jim; Sripada, Somayajulu; Freer, Yvonne; Sykes, Cindy (Elsevier BV, 2009)
    Effective presentation of data for decision support is a major issue when large volumes of data are generated as happens in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Although the most common approach is to present the data graphically, ...
  • Beyond DICE : measuring the quality of a referring expression 
    van Deemter, Kees; Gatt, Albert (Cognitive Science Society, 2009)
    This paper discusses ways in which the similarity between the contents of two referring expressions can be measured. Simi- larity metrics of this kind are essential when expressions gen- erated by an algoritm are ...
  • Borrowed affixes and morphological productivity : a case study of two Maltese nominalisations 
    Gatt, Albert; Fabri, Ray (Language Science Press, 2017)
    Among the derivational processes that have been adopted into Maltese based on the Romance model, there are processes to derive nouns from verbs which are relatively recent developments. Examples include the use of the ...
  • BT-Nurse : computer generation of natural language shift summaries from complex heterogeneous medical data 
    Hunter, James; Freer, Yvonne; Gatt, Albert; Reiter, Ehud; Sripada, Somayajulu; Sykes, Cindy; Westwater, Dave (Oxford University Press, 2011)
    Objective: To determine if a computer system can automatically generate a useful natural language nursing shift summary solely from an electronic patient record system, in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Design: ...
  • Building a semantically transparent corpus for the generation of referring expressions 
    van Deemter, Kees; van der Sluis, Ielka; Gatt, Albert (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2006)
    This paper discusses the construction of a corpus for the evaluation of algorithms that generate referring expressions. It is argued that such an evaluation task requires a semantically transparent corpus, and controlled ...
  • Conceptual coherence in the generation of referring expressions 
    Gatt, Albert; van Deemter, Kees (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2006)
    One of the challenges in the automatic generation of referring expressions is to identify a set of domain entities coherently, that is, from the same conceptual perspective. We describe and evaluate an algorithm that ...
  • Content determination in GRE : evaluating the evaluator 
    Gatt, Albert (UCNLG, 2007)
    In this paper, we discuss the evaluation mea- sures proposed in a number of recent papers as- sociated with the TUNA project1, and which have become an important component of the First NLG Shared Task and Evaluation Cam- ...
  • Corpus-based evaluation of referring expressions generation 
    Gatt, Albert; van der Sluis, Ielka; van Deemter, Kees (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2007)
    Corpus-based evaluation of NLP systems has become a dominant methodology. Typically, some metric is invoked to evaluate the results produced by a system against a ‘gold standard’ represented in the corpus. Despite ...
  • Crowd-sourcing evaluation of automatically acquired, morphologically related word groupings 
    Borg, Claudia; Gatt, Albert (European Language Resources Association, 2014)
    The automatic discovery and clustering of morphologically related words is an important problem with several practical applications. This paper describes the evaluation of word clusters carried out through crowd-sourcing ...
  • Cues to gemination in word-initial position in Maltese 
    Galea, Luke; Hermes, Anne; Gatt, Albert; Grice, Martine (International Phonetic Association, 2015)
    In this study we investigated word-initial geminates in Maltese, focusing on sub-segmental acoustic durations: constriction duration and, where appropriate, VOT; and the duration of adjacent segments: the tonic vowel ...
  • Decoding language 
    Gatt, Albert; Pace, Gordon J.; Rosner, Mike (University of Malta, 2014-03)
    Maltese needs to be saved from digital extinction. Dr Albert Gatt, Prof. Gordon Pace, and Mike Rosner write about their work making digital tools for Maltese, interpretting legalese, and making a Maltese-speaking ...