Sebastian Varges


2012

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SemScribe: Natural Language Generation for Medical Reports
Sebastian Varges | Heike Bieler | Manfred Stede | Lukas C. Faulstich | Kristin Irsig | Malik Atalla
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)

Natural language generation in the medical domain is heavily influenced by domain knowledge and genre-specific text characteristics. We present SemScribe, an implemented natural language generation system that produces doctor's letters, in particular descriptions of cardiological findings. Texts in this domain are characterized by a high density of information and a relatively telegraphic style. Domain knowledge is encoded in a medical ontology of about 80,000 concepts. The ontology is used in particular for concept generalizations during referring expression generation. Architecturally, the system is a generation pipeline that uses a corpus-informed syntactic frame approach for realizing sentences appropriate to the domain. The system reads XML documents conforming to the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) Standard and enhances them with generated text and references to the used data elements. We conducted a first clinical trial evaluation with medical staff and report on the findings.

2010

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Investigating Clarification Strategies in a Hybrid POMDP Dialog Manager
Sebastian Varges | Silvia Quarteroni | Giuseppe Riccardi | Alexei Ivanov
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference

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Cooperative User Models in Statistical Dialog Simulators
Meritxell González | Silvia Quarteroni | Giuseppe Riccardi | Sebastian Varges
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference

2009

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Combining POMDPs trained with User Simulations and Rule-based Dialogue Management in a Spoken Dialogue System
Sebastian Varges | Silvia Quarteroni | Giuseppe Riccardi | Alexei V. Ivanov | Pierluigi Roberti
Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Software Demonstrations

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Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Language Generation and Summarisation (UCNLG+Sum 2009)
Anja Belz | Roger Evans | Sebastian Varges
Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Language Generation and Summarisation (UCNLG+Sum 2009)

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Leveraging POMDPs Trained with User Simulations and Rule-based Dialogue Management in a Spoken Dialogue System
Sebastian Varges | Silvia Quarteroni | Giuseppe Riccardi | Alexei Ivanov | Pierluigi Roberti
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference

2008

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Persistent Information State in a Data-Centric Architecture
Sebastian Varges | Giuseppe Riccardi | Silvia Quarteroni
Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

2007

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Generation of repeated references to discourse entities
Anja Belz | Sebastian Varges
Proceedings of the Eleventh European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 07)

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A Conversational In-Car Dialog System
Baoshi Yan | Fuliang Weng | Zhe Feng | Florin Ratiu | Madhuri Raya | Yao Meng | Sebastian Varges | Matthew Purver | Annie Lien | Tobias Scheideck | Badri Raghunathan | Feng Lin | Rohit Mishra | Brian Lathrop | Zhaoxia Zhang | Harry Bratt | Stanley Peters
Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT)

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CHAT to Your Destination
Fuliang Weng | Baoshi Yan | Zhe Feng | Florin Ratiu | Madhuri Raya | Brian Lathrop | Annie Lien | Sebastian Varges | Rohit Mishra | Feng Lin | Matthew Purver | Harry Bratt | Yao Meng | Stanley Peters | Tobias Scheideck | Badri Raghunathan | Zhaoxia Zhang
Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

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Proceedings of the Workshop on Using corpora for natural language generation
Anja Belz | Sebastian Varges
Proceedings of the Workshop on Using corpora for natural language generation

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One-way translation: an opportunity for NLG and MT research to interact
Sebastian Varges
Proceedings of the Workshop on Using corpora for natural language generation

2006

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Interactive Question Answering and Constraint Relaxation in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Sebastian Varges | Fuliang Weng | Heather Pon-Barry
Proceedings of the 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

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Overgeneration and Ranking for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Sebastian Varges
Proceedings of the Fourth International Natural Language Generation Conference

2005

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Chart Generation Using Production Systems
Sebastian Varges
Proceedings of the Tenth European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG-05)

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Spatial Descriptions as Referring Expressions in the MapTask Domain
Sebastian Varges
Proceedings of the Tenth European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG-05)

2002

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Fluency and Completeness in Instance-based Natural Language Generation
Sebastian Varges
COLING 2002: The 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

2001

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Instance-Based Natural Language Generation
Sebastian Varges | Chris Mellish
Second Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics