Mariët Theune

In chronological order. A slightly more extensive list of publications (2001-now) can be found HERE

To appear

A tabletop interactive storytelling system: designing for social interaction. Thijs Alofs, Mariët Theune and Ivo Swartjes. Accepted for publication in the International Journal of Arts and Technology.
Having one's cake and eating it too: coherence of children's emergent narratives. Mariët Theune, Thijs Alofs, Jeroen Linssen and Ivo Swartjes. To appear in the Proceedings of the 2013 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative, Hamburg, Germany, 4–6 August 2013.
Learning to extract folktale keywords. Dolf Trieschnigg, Dong Nguyen and Mariët Theune. To appear in the Proceedings of the ACL 2013 workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH 2013), 8 August 2013 - Sofia, Bulgaria.

2013

Hierarchical document categorization using associative networks. Niels Bloom, Mariët Theune, and Franciska de Jong. In Proceedings of the 12th IASTED International Conference onArtificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA 2013), Innsbruck, Austria, 11-13 February 2013.
Folktale classification using learning to rank. Dong Nguyen, Dolf Trieschnigg, and Mariët Theune. Proceedings of the 35th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2013), Moscow, Russia, 24-27 March 2013.
Using Wikipedia with associative networks for document classification. Niels Bloom, Mariët Theune and Franciska de Jong. Proceedings of the 21st European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN 2013), Bruges, Belgium, 24-26 April 2013.

2012

An exploration of language identification techniques for the Dutch folktale database. Dolf Trieschnigg, Djoerd Hiemstra, Mariët Theune, Franciska de Jong, and Theo Meder. Proceedings of the Workshop on Adaptation of Language Resources and Tools for Processing Cultural Heritage (LREC 2012), Istanbul, Turkey, 26 May 2012, pp. 47-51.
Learning preferences for Referring Expression Generation: effects of domain, language and algorithm. Ruud Koolen, Emiel Krahmer and Mariët Theune. Proceedings of the 7th International Language Generation Conference (INLG 2012), Starved Rock, IL, USA, 30 May - 1 June 2012, pp. 3-11.
Is it that difficult to find a good Preference Order for the Incremental Algorithm? Emiel Krahmer, Ruud Koolen and Mariët Theune. Letter to the editor, Cognitive Science 36(5):837-841, July 2012.
Using out-of-character reasoning to combine storytelling and education in a serious game. Jeroen Linssen and Mariët Theune. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Pedagogically–Driven Serious Games (PDSG 2012) at EC-TEL 2012, Saarbrücken (Germany), 18 September 2012, pp. 27-30.
Automatic classification of folk narrative genres. Dong Nguyen, Dolf Trieschnigg, Theo Meder and Mariët Theune. Proceedings of the workshop on Language Technology for Historical Text(s) at KONVENS 2012, Vienna, Austria, 21 September 2012, pp. 378-382.
Cleaning up and standardizing a folktale corpus for humanities research. Iwe Muiser, Mariët Theune and Theo Meder. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities (ACRH-2), Lisbon, Portugal, November 29, 2012, pp. 63-74.

2011

A tabletop board game interface for multi-user interaction with a storytelling system. Thijs Alofs, Mariët Theune and Ivo Swartjes. Proceedings of The Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN 2011), 25-27 May 2011, Genova, Italy. Springer LNICST 78, pp. 123-128.
Experiments in multimodal information presentation. Charlotte van Hooijdonk, Wauter Bosma, Emiel Krahmer, Alfons Maes and Mariët Theune. In Antal van den Bosch and Gosse Bouma (eds.), Interactive Multi-modal Question-Answering. Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing. Springer Verlag Berlin-Heidelberg, pp. 89-115. © Springer
Text-to-text generation for question answering. Wauter Bosma, Erwin Marsi, Emiel Krahmer and Mariët Theune. In Antal van den Bosch and Gosse Bouma (eds.), Interactive Multi-modal Question-Answering. Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing. Springer Verlag Berlin-Heidelberg, pp. 117-145. © Springer
Does size matter - How much data is required to train a REG algorithm? Mariët Theune, Ruud Koolen, Emiel Krahmer and Sander Wubben. Proceedings of The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-HLT 2011), Portland, USA, 19-24 June, 2011, pp. 660-664
Generating varied narrative probability exercises. Mariët Theune, Roan Boer Rookhuiszen, Rieks op den Akker and Hanneke Geerlings. Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA-6) at ACL-HLT 2011, Portland, USA, 24 June, 2011, pp. 20-29.
Report on the Second Second Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE-2.5). Kristina Striegnitz, Alexandre Denis, Andrew Gargett, Konstantina Garoufi, Alexander Koller, and Mariët Theune. Proceedings of the Generation Challenges Session at the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Nancy,France, pp. 270-279.
The Thumbs Up! Twente system for GIVE 2.5. Saskia Akkersdijk, Marin Langenbach, Frieder Loch and Mariët Theune. Proceedings of the Generation Challenges Session at the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Nancy, France, pp. 312-317.

2010

Natural interaction with a virtual guide in a virtual environment: a multimodal dialogue system. Dennis Hofs, Mariët Theune and Rieks op den Akker. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces 3(1/2), pp. 141-153. Special Issue on Real-Time Affect Analysis and Interpretation: Closing the Affective Loop in Virtual Agents and Robots. (Springer Open Access.)
The use of modality in in-vehicle information presentation: a brief overview. Yujia Cao and Mariët Theune. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces for Automotive Applications (MIAA), in conjunction with IUI 2010, Hong Kong, China, 7 February 2010.
Local danger warnings for drivers: the effect of modality and level of assistance on driver reaction. Yujia Cao, Angela Mahr, Sandro Castronovo, Mariët Theune, Christoph Stahl, Christian Müller. Proceedings of IUI 2010, Hong Kong, China, 7 February 2010, pp. 239-248.
To beat or not to beat: beat gestures in direction giving. Mariët Theune and Chris Brandhorst. In Stefan Kopp and Ipke Wachsmuth (eds.), Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human-Computer Interaction. Revised selected papers of the 8th International Gesture Workshop, GW 2009. Springer LNAI 5934, pp. 195-206. © Springer
Cross-linguistic attribute selection for REG: comparing Dutch and English. Mariët Theune, Ruud Koolen and Emiel Krahmer. Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2010), Dublin, Ireland, 7-9 July 2010, pp. 191-196.
Multimodal presentation of local danger warnings for drivers: a situation-dependent assessment of usability. Yujia Cao, Mariët Theune and Christian Müller. Proceedings of the 2010 Conference of the International Professional Communication Society (IPCC 2010), Enschede, The Netherlands, 7-9 July 2010.
What if it suddenly fails? Behavioral aspects of Advanced Driver Assistant Systems on the example of local danger alerts. Angela Mahr, Yujia Cao, Mariët Theune, Tim Schwartz and Christian Müller. In the Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2010), Lisbon, Portugal, 16-20 August 2010, pp. 1051-1052.
The organisation of floor in meetings and the relation with speaker addressee patterns. Rieks op den Akker, Mariët Theune, Iwan de Kok and Khiet Truong. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Social Signal Processing at ACM Multimedia 2010, Firenze, Italy, 29 October 2010, pp. 35-40.
Evaluating informative auditory and tactile cues for in-vehicle information systems. Yujia Cao, Frans van der Sluis, Mariët Theune, Rieks op den Akker, and Anton Nijholt. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI 2010), Pittsburgh, USA, 11-12 November 2010, pp. 102-109.
Cognitive-aware modality allocation in intelligent multimodal information presentation. Yujia Cao, Mariët Theune and Anton Nijholt. In: Ling Shao, Caifeng Shan, Jiebo Luo and Minoru Etoh (eds.) Multimedia Interaction and Intelligent User Interfaces: Principles, Methods and Applications. Advances in Pattern Recognition. Springer Verlag, London, pp. 61-83.

As editor:

Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Multimodal Output Generation (MOG 2010). Ielka van der Sluis, Kirsten Bergmann, Charlotte van Hooijdonk and Mariët Theune (eds.). CTIT Workshop Proceedings WP 2010-02, 6 July 2010, Dublin, Ireland.
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Generation. Emiel Krahmer and Mariët Theune (eds.). LNAI 5790, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg.

2009

Playful versus serious instruction giving in a 3D game environment. Roan Boer Rookhuiszen and Mariët Theune. Entertainment Computing 1(2), pp. 95-104. (pre-print available here)
Modality effects on cognitive load and performance in high-load information presentation. Yujia Cao, Mariët Theune and Anton Nijholt. In the Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Sanibel Island, Florida, USA, 8-11 February 2009, pp. 335-344.
Realizing the costs: template-based surface realisation in the GRAPH approach to referring expression generation. Ivo Brugman, Mariët Theune, Emiel Krahmer and Jette Viethen. In the Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2009), Athens, Greece, 30-31 March 2009, pp. 183-184.
Two approaches to GIVE: dynamic level adaptation versus playfulness. Roan Boer Rookhuiszen, Michel Obbink and Mariët Theune. In the Proceedings of the First Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE), 2009.
Generating instructions in a 3D game environment: efficiency or entertainment? Roan Boer Rookhuiszen and Mariët Theune. In the Proceedings of The Third International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN 2009), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22-24 June 2009, pp. 32-43.
An experiment in improvised interactive drama. Ivo Swartjes and Mariët Theune. Proceedings of The Third International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN 2009), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22-24 June 2009, pp. 234-239.
Towards cognitive-aware multimodal presentation: the cognitive effects of modality in high-load HCI. Yujia Cao, Mariët Theune and Anton Nijholt. In the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics (EPCE 2009), held as part of HCI International 2009, San Diego, USA, 19-24 July 2009. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 5639, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 3-12.
Social Agents: the first generations. Dirk Heylen, Mariët Theune, Rieks op den Akker and Anton Nijholt. In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Social Signal Processing at the 2009 International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2009), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 13 September 2009.
Decision making with a time limit: the effects of presentation modality and structure. Yujia Cao, Mariët Theune and Anton Nijholt. In the Proceedings of ECCE 2009: European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, Helsinki, Finland, 30 September - 2 October 2009.
Iterative authoring using story generation feedback: debugging or co-creation? Ivo Swartjes and Mariët Theune. In the Proceedings of the Second Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2009), Guimarães, Portugal, 9-11 December 2009. Springer LNCS volume 5915, pp. 62-73.
Enhancing embodied conversational agents with social and emotional capabilities. Bart van Straalen, Dirk Heylen, Mariët Theune, and Anton Nijholt. In: Frank Dignum, Jeff Bradshaw, Barry Silverman and Willem van Doesburg (Eds.), Agents for Games and Simulations, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5920, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg.

As editor:

Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2009). Emiel Krahmer and Mariët Theune (eds.), 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-09), Athens, Greece, 30-31 March 2009.

2008

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