Publications

Jan Alexandersson, Tilman Becker. Efficient Computation of Overlay for Multiple Inheritance Hierarchies in Discourse Modelling to appear in Computing Meaning, Vol. 3, Harry Bunt etal, editors, Kluwer, 2005.

Tilman Becker. Natural Language Generation with Fully Specified Templates. to appear in: Wolfgang Wahlster (ed.), SmartKom: Foundations of Multi-modal Dialogue Systems, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2005.

Jan Alexandersson, Tilman Becker, Norbert Pfleger. Overlay - the Basic Operation for Discourse Processing. to appear in: Wolfgang Wahlster (ed.), SmartKom: Foundations of Multi-modal Dialogue Systems, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2005.

Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, Nate Blaylock, Ciprian Gerstenberger, Verena Rieser, Tilman Becker, Michael Kaißer, Peter Poller, Jan Schehl. An Experiment Setup for Collecting Data for Adaptive Output Planning in a Multimodal Dialogue System Proceedings of the 10th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Aberdeen, August, 2005.

Harald Lochert, Jan Alexandersson, Tilman Becker, Thomas Kleinbauer. OntoMatters-Ontology-Based Representation of Multi-modal Multi-party Interaction. Proceedings of MLMI'05, Edingburgh, July, 2005.

Christoph Lauer, Jochen Frey, Benjamin Lang, Jan Alexandersson, Tilman Becker, Thomas Kleinbauer, Harald Lochert. AmiGram---a General-Purpose Tool for Multimodal Corpus Annotation. Proceedings of MLMI'05, Edingburgh, July, 2005.

Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, Nate Blaylock, Ciprian Gerstenberger, Verena Rieser, Tilman Becker, Michael Kaißer, Peter Poller, Jan Schehl. Presentation Strategies for Flexible Multimodal Interaction with a Music Player. Proceedings of DIALOR, Nancy, France, June, 2005.

Massimo Romanelli, Tilman Becker, Jan Alexandersson. On Plurals and Overlay. Proceedings of DIALOR, Nancy, France, June, 2005.

Christian Schulz, Dmitri Rubinstein, Dimitris Diamantakos, Michael Kaisser, Jan Schehl, Massimo Romanelli,  Thomas Kleinbauer,  Andreas Klüter, Dietrich Klakow, Tilman Becker,  Jan Alexandersson.  A Spoken Language Frontend for a Multilingual Music Data Base Berliner XML Tage, Berlin, October, 2004.

Jan Alexandersson, Tilman Becker, Norbert Pfleger. Intelligent scoring based on the shape of the ontology. Proceedings of KONVENS 2004, Wien, September, 2004.

Jan Alexandersson, Tilman Becker, Ralf Engel, Markus Löckelt, Elsa Pecourt, Peter Poller, Norbert Pfleger, Norbert Reithinger Ends-based Dialogue Processing. Proceedings of ScaNaLU, Boston, May, 2004.

Gerd Herzog, Heinz Kirchmann, Stefan Merten, Alassane Ndiaye, Peter Poller, Tilman Becker. Large-Scale Software Integration for Spoken Language and Multimodal Dialog Systems. Special issue on "Software Architecture for Language Engineering" of the Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Vol. 10-3/4, pp. 283-305, 2004.

Norbert Reithinger, Jan Alexandersson, Tilman Becker, Anselm Blocher, Ralf Engel, Markus Löckelt, Jochen Müller, Norbert Pfleger, Peter Poller, Michael Streit and Valentin Tschernomas. SmartKom - Adaptive and Flexible Multimodal Access to Multiple Applications. In Proceedings of ICMI 2003, Vancouver, B.C., 2003.

Norbert Pfleger, Jan Alexandersson and Tilman Becker A robust and generic discourse model for multimodal dialogue. In IJCAI-03 Workshop on ``Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems,'' Acapulco, Mexico, August, 2003.

Gerd Herzog, Heinz Kirchmann, Stefan Merten, Alassane Ndiaye, Peter Poller, Tilman Becker. MULTIPLATFORM Testbed: An Integration Platform for Multimodal Dialog Systems. HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop: Software Engineering and Architecture of Language Technology Systems (SEALTS), Edmonton, Canada

Jan Alexandersson, Tilman Becker. The formal foundations underlying overlay. In Proceedings of IWCS-5, Fifth International Workshop on Computational Semantics, Tilburg University, 15-17 January 2003.

Norbert Pfleger, Jan Alexandersson, and Tilman Becker. Scoring Functions for Overlay and their Application in Discourse Processing. In Proceedings of KONVENS 2002, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2002.

Markus Löckelt, Tilman Becker, Norbert Pfleger, and Jan Alexandersson. Making sense of partial. In EDILOG 2002, 6th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, Edinburgh, September 2002. University of Edinburgh.

Tilman Becker. Practical, Template-Based Natural Language Generation with TAG. In Proceedings of TAG+6, Venice, Italy, 2002. PDF version

Jan Alexandersson, Tilman Becker. Overlay as the Basic Operation for Discourse Processing in a Multimodal Dialogue System. In Proceedings of the 2nd IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, Seattle, August 2001. PDF version.

Tilman Becker. Patterns in metarules. In Anne Abeille and Owen Rambow, editor, Tree Adjoining Grammars: formal, computational and linguistic aspects. CSLI publications, Stanford, 2000.

Aravind K. Joshi, Tilman Becker, and Owen Rambow. Complexity of scrambling: A new twist to the competence/performance distinction. In Anne Abeille and Owen Rambow, editor, Tree Adjoining Grammars: formal, computational and linguistic aspects. CSLI publications, Stanford, 2000.

Tilman Becker and Markus Lockelt. Liliput: a parameterizable finite-domain constraint solving framework and its evaluation with natural language generation problems. In TRICS: Techniques foR Implementing Constraint programming Systems, a CP 2000 Workshop, Singapore, 2000.

Tilman Becker, Anne Kilger, Patrice Lopez, and Peter Poller. The Verbmobil generation component VM-GECO. In Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-To-Speech Translation, LNCS. Springer, Berlin, 2000.

Tilman Becker, Patrice Lopez. The application of HPSG-to-TAG compilation techniques. In Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-To-Speech Translation, LNCS. Springer, Berlin, 2000.

Tilman Becker, Anne Kilger, Patrice Lopez, and Peter Poller. Multilingual generation for translation in speech-to-speech dialogues and its realization in Verbmobil. In Proceedings of ECAI 2000, Berlin, Germany, August 2000.

Tilman Becker, Stephan Busemann, editors. IMPACTS in Natural Language Generation NLG Between Technology and Applications. Workshop at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany July 26-28, 2000. Proceedings.

Tilman Becker, Anne Kilger, Patrice Lopez, and Peter Poller. An extended architecture for robust generation. In Proceedings of INLG 2000, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, June 2000.

Tilman Becker and Patrice Lopez. Adapting HPSG-to-TAG compilation to wide-coverage grammars. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Tree-Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+5), pages 47-54, Paris, France, May 2000.

Tilman Becker and Dominik Heckmann. Efficient parsing of mildly context-sensitve RMs. In John Carroll, editor, Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, IWPT2000, Trento, Italy, February 2000.

Tilman Becker, Stephan Busemann, editors. May I Speak Freely? Between Templates and Free Choice in Natural Language Generation. Workshop at the 23rd German Annual Conference for Artificial Intelligence (KI '99), Bonn, Germany, 14.- 15. September 1999. Proceedings.

T. Becker, W. Finkler, A. Kilger, and P. Poller. An efficient kernel for multilingual generation in speech-to-speech dialogue translation. In Proceedings of COLING/ACL-98, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1998.

Tilman Becker. Fully lexicalized head-driven syntactic generation. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, August 1998. PostScript PDF

Tilman Becker. Automaton models for mildly context-sensitive formalisms. In Manfred Kudlek, editor, Proceedings of the MFCS'98 Workshop on Mathematical Linguistics, pages 13-22, Brno, Czech Republic, August 1998. also available as Report FBI-HH-B-213/98, University of Hamburg.

Tilman Becker and Peter Poller. Two-step TAG parsing revisited. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks (TAG+4), Philadelphia, PA, July 1998. Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS).

Tilman Becker and Dominik Heckmann. Recursive matrix systems (RMS) and TAG. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks (TAG+4), Philadelphia, PA, July 1998. Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS).

Tilman Becker, Stephan Busemann, and Wolfgang Finkler, editors. DFKI Workshop on Natural Language Generation. Saarbrücken, Germany, 1997. Proceedings.

Tilman Becker, Hans-Ulrich Krieger, editors. Proceedings of the Fifth Meeting on Mathematics of Language (MOL5). Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany, 1997. Proceedings.

T. Becker, W. Finkler, A. Kilger, and W. Wahlster. Vorhabensbeschreibung zur Sprachgenerierung innerhalb des Teilprojektes 5 (Sprachgenerierung und -synthese) in Verbmobil, Phase 2. Document, Saarbrucken, Germany, August 1996.

Tilman Becker. Chapter "Exchange Formats for Tree-Adjoining-Grammars". In The EAGLES Formalisms Working Group - Final Report. Number LRE 61-100. Expert Advisory Group on Language Engineering Standards, Saarbrucken, 1996.

Tilman Becker and Owen Rambow. Parsing non-immediate dominance relations. In 4th International Workshop on Parsing Technology (IWPT), Prague, Czech Republic, 1995.

Tilman Becker. A new automaton model for TAGs: 2-SA. Computational Intelligence, 10(4):422-431, November 1994.

B. Srinivas, Dania Egedi, Christy Doran, and Tilman Becker. Lexicalization and grammar development. In Proceedings of KONVENS 94, Vienna, Austria, 1994.

Aravind K. Joshi, Tilman Becker, and Owen Rambow. Complexity of scrambling: A new twist to the competence/performance distinction. Appeared in 3e Colloque International sur les grammaires d'Arbres Adjoints (TAG+3). Technical Report TALANA-RT-94-01, TALANA, Universite' Paris 7, 1994.

Tilman Becker and Owen Rambow. Parsing free word-order languages in polynomial time. 3e Colloque International sur les Grammaries d'Arbres Adjoints (TAG+ 3), Technical Report TALANA-RT-94-01, TALANA, Universite Paris 7, 1994.

Tilman Becker. HyTAG: A new Type of Tree Adjoining Grammars for Hybrid Syntactic Representation of Free Word Order Languages. PhD thesis, Universitat des Saarlandes, Saarbrucken, 1993. PostScript version

Tilman Becker, Owen Rambow, and Michael Niv. The derivational generative power, or, scrambling is beyond LCFRS. Technical report, University of Pennsylvania, 1992. PostScript version

Owen Rambow, Tilman Becker, and Michael Niv. Scrambling is beyond LCFRS. Paper presented at MOL3, the 3rd Meeting on Mathematics of Language, 1992.

Tilman Becker. A new automaton model for TAGs: 2-SA. In Proceedings of the TAG+ workshop 1992, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1992.

Tilman Becker and Owen Rambow. Long-Distance Scrambling, TAGs, and HPSG. Presented at the Workshop on HPSG and German Word Order, Saarbrucken, 1991.

Tilman Becker, Aravind Joshi, and Owen Rambow. Long Distance Scrambling and Tree Adjoining Grammars. In Proceedings of the 5th Conference of the European Chapter. ACL, 1991.

Tilman Becker. Metaregeln fur Tree Adjoining Grammars. Master's thesis, RWTH Aachen, 1989.