Mariët Theune

Ordered per topic. Some publications are listed under multiple topics.

Language generation
(see below for the generation of referring expressions)

ExpReal: a writing language and system for authoring texts in interactive narrative. Nicolas Szilas, Ruud de Jong and Mariët Theune. Proceedings of Foundations of Digital Games 2020 (FDG2020), Article No.: 12.
Remixing headlines for context-appropriate flavor text. Judith van Stegeren and Mariët Theune. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 20-23 August 2019, London, UK.
Churnalist: fictional headline generation for context-appropriate flavor text. Judith van Stegeren and Mariët Theune. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity, pp. 65-72. Association for Computational Creativity, 2019.
Narrative generation in the wild: Methods from NaNoGenMo. Judith van Stegeren and Mariët Theune. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Storytelling, pp. 65-74. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019.
Going Dutch: Creating SimpleNLG-NL. Ruud de Jong and Mariët Theune. To appear in the Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2018), Tilburg, The Netherlands, November 5-8, 2018, pp. 73-78.
Template-based multilingual football reports generation using Wikidata as a knowledge base. Lorenzo Gatti, Chris van der Lee and Mariët Theune. In the Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2018), Tilburg, The Netherlands, November 5-8, 2018, pp. 183-188.
Towards generating textual game assets from real-world data. Judith van Stegeren, Mariët Theune. In Proceedings of Foundations of Digital Games 2018 (FDG2018). Malmö, Sweden. August 7–10, 2018.
Generating game narratives with focalization and flashbacks. Marissa Hoek, Mariët Theune and Jeroen Linssen. Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Games and NLP (GAMNLP-14) held at AIIDE-14, October 3, 2014, Raleigh, NC, USA, pp. 9-14.
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, 28-30 September 2011, 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, 28-30 September 2011, pp. 312-317.
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.
Playful versus serious instruction giving in a 3D game environment. Roan Boer Rookhuiszen and Mariët Theune. Entertainment Computing 1(2), 2009, pp. 95-104. (pre-print available here)
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.
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.
The automatic generation of narratives. Mariët Theune, Nanda Slabbers and Feikje Hielkema. In the Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN-17), Centre for Computational Linguistics, Peter Dirix, Ineke Schuurman, Vincent Vandeghinste, and Frank Van Eynde (eds.), LOT Occasional Series 7, LOT, Utrecht, pp. 131-146, 2007.
The Narrator: NLG for digital storytelling. Mariët Theune, Nanda Slabbers and Feikje Hielkema. In the Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'07), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, 17-20 June 2007, pp. 109-112.
Cueing the Virtual Storyteller: Analysis of cue phrase usage in fairy tales. Manon Penning and Mariët Theune. In the Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'07), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, 17-20 June 2007, pp. 159-162.
Performing aggregation and ellipsis using discourse structures. Mariët Theune, Feikje Hielkema and Petra Hendriks. Research on Language and Computation 4(4), pp. 353-375. © Springer 2006 (Click here for the publisher's final version at www.springerlink.com)
Real versus template-based Natural Language Generation: a false opposition? Kees van Deemter, Emiel Krahmer and Mariët Theune. Computational Linguistics 31(1), March 2005, pp. 15-24.
Generating ellipsis using discourse structures. Feikje Hielkema, Mariët Theune and Petra Hendriks. ESSLLI Workshop on Cross-Modular Approaches to Ellipsis, Edinburgh, Scotland, 8-12 August 2005, pp. 37-44.
From monologue to dialogue: natural language generation in OVIS. Mariët Theune. AAAI 2003 Spring Symposium on Natural Language Generation in Written and Spoken Dialogue, Palo Alto, USA, 2003, pp. 141-150.
From data to speech: a general approach. Mariët Theune, Esther Klabbers, Jan Odijk, Jan Roelof de Pijper and Emiel Krahmer. Natural Language Engineering 7(1), 2001, pp. 47-86.
From data to speech: language generation in context. Mariët Theune. Ph.D. thesis, Eindhoven University of Technology 2000.
Plan-based vs. template-based NLG: a false opposition? Kees van Deemter, Emiel Krahmer and Mariët Theune. In Proceedings of the Workshop "May I Speak Freely?", KI'99, DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany, 1999, pp. 1-5.
A generic algorithm for generating spoken monologues. Esther Klabbers, Emiel Krahmer and Mariët Theune. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'98), Sydney, Australia, 1998, pp. 2759-2762.
System Demonstration - GoalGetter: Generation of spoken soccer reports. Mariët Theune and Esther Klabbers. Proceedings of the Ninth-International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, 5-7 August 1998, pp. 292-295.
GoalGetter: from Teletext to speech. Esther Klabbers, Jan Odijk, Jan Roelof de Pijper and Mariët Theune. In IPO Annual Progress Report 31, 1996, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, pp. 66-75.

As editor:

Empirical Methods in Natural Language Generation. Emiel Krahmer and Mariët Theune (eds.). LNAI 5790, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
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.

Referring expressions

Referring expression generation in interaction: a graph-based perspective. Emiel Krahmer, Martijn Goudbeek and Mariët Theune. In Amanda Stent and Srinivas Bangalore (eds.), Natural Language Generation in Interactive Systems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2014.
Generation of Dutch referring expressions using the D-TUNA corpus. Marissa Hoek and Mariët Theune. Proceedings of PRE-CogSci 2013 – Bridging the Gap between Cognitive and Computational Approaches to Reference, Berlin, Germany, 31 July 2013.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
GRAPH: the costs of redundancy in referring expressions. Emiel Krahmer, Mariët Theune, Jette Viethen and Iris Hendrickx. In the Proceedings of the 5th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2008), Salt Fork, Ohio, USA, 12-14 June 2008, pp. 227-229. (poster)
Controlling redundancy in referring expressions. Jette Viethen, Robert Dale, Emiel Krahmer, Mariët Theune and Pascal Touset. In the Proceedings of LREC 2008, Marrakech, Morocco, 28-30 May 2008, pp. 239-246.
Cost-based attribute selection for GRE (GRAPH-SC/GRAPH-FP). Mariët Theune, Pascal Touset, Jette Viethen and Emiel Krahmer. In the Proceedings of the MT Summit XI Workshop on Using Corpora for NLG: Language Generation and Machine Translation (UCNLG+MT), Copenhagen, Denmark, 11 September 2007, pp. 95-97.
Efficient context-sensitive generation of referring expressions. Emiel Krahmer and Mariët Theune. In Kees van Deemter and Rodger Kibble (eds.), Information Sharing: Reference and Presupposition in Language Generation and Interpretation, CSLI Publications 2002, pp. 223-264.
Efficient generation of descriptions in context. Emiel Krahmer and Mariët Theune. In Proceedings of the ESSLLI workshop on the generation of nominals, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1999.
Context sensitive generation of descriptions. Emiel Krahmer and Mariët Theune. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'98), Sydney, Australia, 1998, pp. 1151-1154.

Serious games

Vocabulary acquisition in new and learned contexts using Immersive Virtual Reality. Thérèse Bergsma, Robby van Delden and Mariët Theune. To appear in the Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Games Based Learning (ECGBL) 2023.
Data2Game: Towards an integrated demonstrator. Johannes Steinrücke, Paris Mavromoustakos-Blom, Judith van Stegeren, Ymko Attema, Sander Bakkes, Thomas de Groot, Johan de Heer, Dirk Heylen, Rafal Hrynkiewicz, Ton de Jong, Tije Oortwijn, Pieter Spronck, Mariët Theune, Bernard Veldkamp. In: Ahram T.Z., Falcão C.S. (eds) Advances in Usability, User Experience, Wearable and Assistive Technology. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 275. Springer.
Improving social awareness through thought bubbles and flashbacks of virtual characters. Jeroen Linssen, Mariët Theune, Thomas de Groot, Dirk Heylen. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2015), 26-28 August 2015, Delft, The Netherlands, pp. 250-259.
LOITER-TB: Thought bubbles that give feedback on virtual agents' experiences. Jeroen Linssen, Mariët Theune, Dirk Heylen, Thomas de Groot. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2015), 26-28 August 2015, Delft, The Netherlands, pp.283-286.
Meta-techniques for a social awareness learning game. Jeroen Linssen and Mariët Theune. Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Games Based Learning (ECGBL 2014), 9-10 October 2014, Berlin, Germany, pp. 697-704.
Beyond simulations: serious games for training interpersonal skills in law enforcement. Jeroen Linssen, Thomas de Groot, Mariët Theune and Merijn Bruijnes. Proceedings of the Social Simulation Conference 2014 (SSC'14), 1-5 September 2014, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 127-130.
What is at play? A first exploration of the possibilities of meta-techniques in games and their effects on social believability. Jeroen Linssen, Mariët Theune and Thomas de Groot. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Social Believability in Games, SBG-ACE2013, Boekelo, The Netherlands, 12 November 2013.
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.

Storytelling (and serious games)

Designing a learning robot to encourage collaboration between children. Wouter Kaag, Mariët Theune and Theo Huibers. To appear in the Proceedings of EAI DLI 2020 - 5th EAI International Conference on Design, Learning & Innovation December 10-11, 2020.
Designing a smart toy interactive setting for creating stories: From free play to story structure and reflection support. Silke ter Stal, Alejandro Catala, Mariët Theune, and Dennis Reidsma. To appear in the Proceedings of DLI 2019 – 4th EAI International Conference on Design, Learning & Innovation, 6-8 November 2019, Aalborg, Denmark.
Designing a playful robot application for second language learning. Gijs Verhoeven, Alejandro Catala, Mariët Theune. In Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation: Proceedings of the 7th EAI International Conference, ArtsIT 2018, and 3rd EAI International Conference, DLI 2018, pp. 385-394. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; Vol. 265. Springer, 2019.
Exploring children’s use of a remotely controlled character for storytelling. Alejandro Catala, Mariët Theune, Dennis Reidsma, Silke Ter Stal and Dirk Heylen. In the Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN 2017).
Storytelling as a creative activity in the classroom. Alejandro Catala, Mariët Theune, Hannie Gijlers, and Dirk Heylen. In the Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition, pp. 237-242.
Improving social awareness through thought bubbles and flashbacks of virtual characters. Jeroen Linssen, Mariët Theune, Thomas de Groot, Dirk Heylen. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2015), 26-28 August 2015, Delft, The Netherlands, pp. 250-259.
LOITER-TB: Thought bubbles that give feedback on virtual agents' experiences. Jeroen Linssen, Mariët Theune, Dirk Heylen, Thomas de Groot. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2015), 26-28 August 2015, Delft, The Netherlands, pp.283-286.
A tabletop interactive storytelling system: designing for social interaction. Thijs Alofs, Mariët Theune and Ivo Swartjes. International Journal of Arts and Technology 8(3), 2015, 188-211.
Generating game narratives with focalization and flashbacks. Marissa Hoek, Mariët Theune and Jeroen Linssen. Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Games and NLP (GAMNLP-14) held at AIIDE-14, October 3, 2014, Raleigh, NC, USA, pp. 9-14.
Hide and sneak: story generation with characters that perceive and assume. Hans ten Brinke, Jeroen Linssen and Mariët Theune. Proceedings of the Tenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-14), October 3-7, 2014, Raleigh, NC, USA, pp. 174-180.
Acting, playing or talking about the story: children's communication during interactive digital storytelling. Mariët Theune, Jeroen Linssen and Thijs Alofs. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2013), Istanbul, Turkey, 6-9 November 2013, pp. 132-143.
Having one's cake and eating it too: coherence of children's emergent narratives. Mariët Theune, Thijs Alofs, Jeroen Linssen and Ivo Swartjes. Proceedings of the 2013 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative, Hamburg, Germany, 4–6 August 2013. OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs) vol. 32, pp. 293-309.
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.
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), Genova, Italy, 25-27 May 2011. Springer LNICST 78, pp. 123-128.
Iterative authoring using story generation feedback: debugging or co-creation? Ivo Swartjes and Mariët Theune. 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.
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.
Let's pretend I had a sword: late commitment in emergent narrative. Ivo Swartjes, Edze Kruizinga and Mariët Theune. In the Proceedings of the First Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2008), Erfurt, Germany, 26-29 November 2008, pp. 264-267.
The Virtual Storyteller: story generation by simulation. Ivo Swartjes and Mariët Theune. In the Proceedings of the 20th Belgian-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2008), University of Twente, The Netherlands, 30-31 October 2008, pp. 257-264.
Emergent narrative and late commitment. Ivo Swartjes, Edze Kruizinga, Mariët Theune and Dirk Heylen. In the Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2008), Tokyo, Japan, 1-3 September 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5208, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 543-544. © Springer
The automatic generation of narratives. Mariët Theune, Nanda Slabbers and Feikje Hielkema. In the Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN-17), Centre for Computational Linguistics, Peter Dirix, Ineke Schuurman, Vincent Vandeghinste, and Frank Van Eynde (eds.), LOT Occasional Series 7, LOT, Utrecht, pp. 131-146, 2007.
The Narrator: NLG for digital storytelling. Mariët Theune, Nanda Slabbers and Feikje Hielkema. In the Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'07), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, 17-20 June 2007, pp. 109-112.
Cueing the Virtual Storyteller: analysis of cue phrase usage in fairy tales. Manon Penning and Mariët Theune. In the Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'07), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, 17-20 June 2007, pp. 159-162.
Performing aggregation and ellipsis using discourse structures. Mariët Theune, Feikje Hielkema and Petra Hendriks. Research on Language and Computation 4(4), pp. 353-375. © Springer 2006 (Click here for the publisher's final version at www.springerlink.com)
A Fabula model for emergent narrative. Ivo Swartjes and Mariët Theune. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment (TIDSE 2006), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4326, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 49-60. © Springer.
Designing a story database for use in automatic story generation. Katri Oinonen, Mariët Theune, Anton Nijholt and Jasper Uijlings. Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2006: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4161, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 298-301. © Springer 2006
Generating expressive speech for storytelling applications (preprint). Mariët Theune, Koen Meijs, Dirk Heylen and Roeland Ordelman. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 14(4), pp. 1137-1144. © IEEE 2006
Generating ellipsis using discourse structures. Feikje Hielkema, Mariët Theune and Petra Hendriks. ESSLLI Workshop on Cross-Modular Approaches to Ellipsis, Edinburgh, Scotland, 8-12 August 2005, pp. 37-44.
Getting the story right: making computer-generated stories more entertaining. Katri Oinonen, Mariët Theune, Anton Nijholt and Dirk Heylen. Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment: First International Conference, INTETAIN 2005, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3814, Springer-Verlag, pp. 267-271. © Springer 2005
Emotional characters for automatic plot creation. Mariët Theune, Sander Rensen, Rieks op den Akker, Dirk Heylen and Anton Nijholt. In S. Göbel, A. Hoffmann, I. Iurgel, O. Schneider, J. Dechau, A. Feix and U. Spierling (eds.), Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment (TIDSE 2004), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3105, Springer-Verlag 2004, pp. 95-100.
The Virtual Storyteller: story creation by intelligent agents. Mariët Theune, Sander Faas, Anton Nijholt and Dirk Heylen. In S. Göbel, N. Braun, U. Spierling, J. Dechau and H. Diener (eds.), Proceedings TIDSE 2003: Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment, Fraunhofer IRB Verlag, pp. 204-215.
The Virtual Storyteller. Mariët Theune, Sander Faas, Anton Nijholt and Dirk Heylen. In ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin, Volume 23, Issue 2, 2002, ACM Press, pp. 20-21.

Multimodality
(see below for embodied agents)

With a little help from a holographic friend: The OpenIMPRESS mixed reality telepresence toolkit for remote collaboration systems. Jan Kolkmeier, Emiel Harmsen, Sander Giesselink, Dennis Reidsma, Mariët Theune, and Dirk Heylen. 2018. In VRST 2018: 24th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST ’18), November 28-December 1, 2018,Tokyo, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA.
Towards audio enrichment through images: A user evaluation on image relevance with spoken content. Danish Nadeem, Mariët Theune and Roeland Ordelman. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA 2016), Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 44-47.
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 2011, pp. 89-115. © Springer
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Illustrating answers: an evaluation of automatically retrieved illustrations of answers to medical questions. Wauter Bosma, Mariët Theune, Charlotte van Hooijdonk, Emiel Krahmer and Fons Maes. In the Proceedings of the AISB 2008 Symposium on Multimodal Output Generation (MOG 2008), Aberdeen, UK, 3-4 April 2008, pp. 34-41.
Production and evaluation of (multimodal) answers to medical questions. Charlotte van Hooijdonk, Emiel Krahmer, Alfons Maes, Mariët Theune and Wauter Bosma. In the Proceedings of the EARLI SIG2 - 2008 Conference on Comprehension of Text and Graphics, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 27-29 August 2008, pp. 72-76.
Towards automatic generation of multimodal answers to medical questions: a cognitive engineering approach. Charlotte van Hooijdonk, Emiel Krahmer, Alfons Maes, Mariët Theune and Wauter Bosma. In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Multimodal Output Generation (MOG 2007), CTIT Workshop Proceedings WP 07-01, Aberdeen, Scotland, 25-26 January 2007, pp. 93-104.
Questions, pictures, answers: introducing pictures in question-answering systems. Mariët Theune, Boris van Schooten, Rieks op den Akker, Wauter Bosma, Dennis Hofs, Anton Nijholt, Emiel Krahmer, Charlotte van Hooijdonk and Erwin Marsi. ACTAS-1 of X Symposio Internacional de Comunicacion Social, Centro de Linguistica Aplicade, L. Ruiz Miyarez, A. Munoz Alvarado & C. Alvarez Moreno (eds.), ISBN 959-7174-08-1, Santiago de Cuba, 22-26 January 2007, Centro de Linguistica Aplicada, Santiago de Cuba, pp. 450-463.
On the role of visuals in multimodal answers to medical questions. Charlotte van Hooijdonk, Jurry de Vos, Emiel Krahmer, Fons Maes, Mariët Theune and Wauter Bosma. In the Proceedings of the 2007 Conference of the IEEE Professional Communication Society (IPCC), Seattle, USA, 30 September - 3 October 2007.

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.
Proceedings of the AISB 2008 Symposium on Multimodal Output Generation (MOG 2008). Mariët Theune, Ielka van der Sluis, Yulia Bachvarova and Elisabeth André (eds.), Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, Aberdeen, Scotland, 3-4 April 2008.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Multimodal Output Generation (MOG 2007). Ielka van der Sluis, Mariët Theune, Ehud Reiter and Emiel Krahmer (eds.), CTIT Workshop Proceedings WP 07-01, Aberdeen, Scotland, 25-26 January 2007.

Embodied agents

Karen, the Interrupting Customer. Mirre van den Bos, Gergana Dzhondzhorova, Ioana Frincu, Ella Velner, Thomas Beelen, Mariët Theune. In: S. Schlobach et al. (Eds.), HHAI2022: Augmenting Human Intellect, pp. 263-265. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications vol. 354, IOS Press, 2022.
Björn: An Interrogation Simulator. Roel Leenders, Pietro Camin, Ella Velner, Mariët Theune. In: S. Schlobach et al. (Eds.), HHAI2022: Augmenting Human Intellect, pp. 269-271. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications vol. 354, IOS Press, 2022.
An embodied conversational agent coach to support societal participation learning by low-literate users. Dylan Schouten, Agnes Deneka, Mariët Theune, Mark Neerincx, Anita Cremers. Universal Access in the Information Society (2022), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-021-00865-5.
Flipper 2.0: A pragmatic dialogue engine for embodied conversational agents. Jelte van Waterschoot, Merijn Bruijnes, Jan Flokstra, Dennis Reidsma, Daniel Davison, Mariët Theune. In the Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2018), Sydney, Australia, November 5-8, 2018.
Selecting and expressing communicative functions in a SAIBA-compliant agent framework. Angelo Cafaro, Merijn Bruijnes, Jelte van Waterschoot, Caherine Pelachaud, Mariët Theune and Dirk Heylen. In the Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2017), Aug 27-30 2017, Stockholm, pp. 73-82.
R3D3 in the wild: Using a robot for turn management in multi-party interaction with a virtual human. Mariët Theune, Daan Wiltenburg, Max Bode, and Jeroen Linssen. In Proceedings of the IVA 2017 workshop on Interaction with Agents and Robots: Different Embodiments, Common Challenges.
You can leave your head on - Attention management and turn-taking in multi-party interaction with a virtual human/robot duo. Jeroen Linssen, Meike Berkhoff, Max Bode, Eduard Rens, Mariet Theune and Daan Wiltenburg. In the Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2017), Aug 27-30 2017, Stockholm.
R3D3: the rolling receptionist robot with double Dutch dialogue. Jeroen Linssen and Mariët Theune. In: HRI '17. Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 6-9 March 2017, Vienna, Austria, pp. 189-190.
Ask Alice: an Artificial Retrieval of Information Agent. Michel Valstar, Tobias Baur, Angelo Cafaro, Alexandru Ghitulescu, Blaise Potard, Johannes Wagner, Elisabeth André, Laurent Durieu, Matthew Aylett, Soumia Dermouche, Catherine Pelachaud, Eduardo Coutinho, Björn Schuller, Yue Zhang, Dirk Heylen, Mariët Theune, and Jelte van Waterschoot. Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2016), pp. 419-420.
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), 2010, pp. 141-153. Special Issue on Real-Time Affect Analysis and Interpretation: Closing the Affective Loop in Virtual Agents and Robots. (Springer Open Access.)
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.
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, 2009.
Politeness and alignment in dialogues with a virtual guide. Markus de Jong, Mariët Theune and Dennis Hofs. In the Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), Estoril, Portugal, 12-16 May 2008, pp. 207-214.
Multimodal interaction with a virtual guide (demo paper). Dennis Hofs, Mariët Theune and Rieks op den Akker. In the Proceedings of the 20th Belgian-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2008), University of Twente, The Netherlands, 30-31 October 2008, pp. 391-392.
The Virtual Guide: A direction giving embodied conversational agent. Mariët Theune, Dennis Hofs and Marco van Kessel. In the Proceedings of Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium, 27-31 August 2007, pp. 2197-2200.
Which way to turn? Guide orientation in virtual way finding. Mark Evers, Mariët Theune and Joyce Karreman. In the Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Workshop on Embodied Language Processing, Prague, Czech Republic, 29 June 2007, pp. 25-32.
Generating embodied information presentations. Mariët Theune, Dirk Heylen and Anton Nijholt. In O. Stock and M. Zancanaro (eds.), Multimodal Intelligent Information Presentation, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005, pp. 47-70.
Can you teach an old dog new tricks? How older adults perceive embodied agents. Mariët Theune, Renate ten Ham and Ard Heuvelman. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual SIGCHI.NL Conference "HCI Close to You", Den Haag, The Netherlands, 13 October 2005.
Judging Laura: perceived qualities of a mediated human versus an embodied agent. Renate ten Ham, Mariët Theune, Ard Heuvelman and Ria Verleur. Intelligent Virtual Agents: 5th International Working Conference, IVA 2005, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3661, Springer-Verlag, pp. 381 - 393. © Springer 2005
ANGELICA: choice of output modality in an embodied agent. Mariët Theune. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Information Presentation and Natural Multimodal Dialogue (IPNMD-2001), Verona, Italy, pp. 89-94.

Gestures

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 2010
Which way to turn? Guide orientation in virtual way finding. Mark Evers, Mariët Theune and Joyce Karreman. In the Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Workshop on Embodied Language Processing, Prague, Czech Republic, 29 June 2007, pp. 25-32.
Generating embodied information presentations. Mariët Theune, Dirk Heylen and Anton Nijholt. In O. Stock and M. Zancanaro (eds.), Multimodal Intelligent Information Presentation, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005, pp. 47-70.
Judging Laura: perceived qualities of a mediated human versus an embodied agent. Renate ten Ham, Mariët Theune, Ard Heuvelman and Ria Verleur. Intelligent Virtual Agents: 5th International Working Conference, IVA 2005, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3661, Springer-Verlag, pp. 381 - 393. © Springer 2005

Dialogue

Examining lexical alignment in human-agent conversations with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 models. Boxuan Wang, Mariët Theune and Sumit Srivastava. In: Følstad, A., et al. Chatbot Research and Design. CONVERSATIONS 2023, pp. 94-114. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14524.
Eliciting user self-disclosure using reciprocity in human-voicebot conversations. Wieke Harmsen, Jelte van Waterschoot, Iris Hendrickx and Mariët Theune. In: Proceedings of Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) 2023.
The role of lexical alignment in human understanding of explanations by conversational agents. Sumit Srivastava, Mariët Theune, Alejandro Catala. In: IUI '23: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, pp. 423–435, 27 March 2023.
Evaluating Conversational Question Generation: CoffeeBot. Jelte van Waterschoot and Mariet Theune. HRI 2021 workshop on Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction (LEAP-HRI), 8 March 2021.
Show Me Yours if I Show You Mine: Self-disclosure in Conversational Agents. Loes van Uffelen, Jelte van Waterschoot, and Mariët Theune. HRI 2021 workshop on Robo-Identity: Artificial identity and multi-embodiment, 8 March 2021.
BLISS: An agent for collecting spoken dialogue data about health and well-being. Jelte van Waterschoot, Iris Hendrickx, Arif Khan, Esther Klabbers,Marcel de Korte, Helmer Strik, Catia Cucchiarini and Marïet Theune. In the Proceedings of The International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation 2020 (LREC 2020), pp. 449–458.
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.
How Do I Address You? Modelling addressing behavior based on an analysis of a multi-modal corpus of conversational discourse. Rieks op den Akker and Mariët Theune. In the Proceedings of the AISB 2008 Symposium on Multimodal Output Generation (MOG 2008), Aberdeen, UK, 3-4 April 2008, pp. 10-17.
Social behaviour in police interviews: relating data to theories. Merijn Bruijnes, Jeroen Linssen, Rieks op den Akker, Mariët Theune, Sjoerd Wapperom, Chris Broekema, and Dirk Heylen. In Francesca D'Errico, Isabella Poggi, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Laura Vincze (eds.): Conflict and Multimodal Communication. Computational Social Sciences. Springer Verlag, London, pp. 317-347.
Downward compatible revision of dialogue annotation. Harry Bunt, Emer Gilmartin, Simon Keizer, Catherine Pelachaud, Volha Petukhova, Laurent Prévot, Mariët Theune. In Proceedings of the 14th Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation,August 25, 2018, Santa Fe, USA, pp. 21-34.

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