Ielka van der Sluis

Also published as: Ielka van der Sluis


2024

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Attractive Multimodal Instructions, Describing Easy and Engaging Recipe Blogs
Ielka van der Sluis | Jarred Kiewiet de Jonge
Proceedings of the 20th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation @ LREC-COLING 2024

This paper presents a corpus study that extends and generalises an existing annotation model which integrates functional content descriptions delivered via text, pictures and interactive components. The model is used to describe a new corpus with 20 online vegan recipe blogs in terms of their Attractiveness for at least two types of readers: vegan readers and readers interested in a vegan lifestyle. Arguably, these readers value a blog that shows that the target dish is Easy to Make which can be inferred from the number of ingredients, procedural steps and visualised actions, according to an Easy to Read cooking instruction that displays a coherent use of verbal and visual modalities presenting processes and results of the cooking actions involved. Moreover, added value may be attributed to invitations to Engage with the blog content and functionality through which information about the recipe, the author, diet and nutrition can be accessed. Thus, the corpus study merges generalisable annotations of verbal, visual and interaction phenomena to capture the Attractiveness of online vegan recipe blogs to inform reader and user studies and ultimately offer guidelines for authoring effective online multimodal instructions.

2017

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Text-Picture Relations in Multimodal Instructions
Ielka van der Sluis | Anne Nienke Eppinga | Gisela Redeker
Proceedings of the IWCS workshop on Foundations of Situated and Multimodal Communication

2016

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PAT workbench: Annotation and Evaluation of Text and Pictures in Multimodal Instructions
Ielka van der Sluis | Lennart Kloppenburg | Gisela Redeker
Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technology Resources and Tools for Digital Humanities (LT4DH)

This paper presents a tool to investigate the design of multimodal instructions (MIs), i.e., instructions that contain both text and pictures. The benefit of including pictures in information presentation has been established, but the characteristics of those pictures and of their textual counterparts and the rela-tion(s) between them have not been researched in a systematic manner. We present the PAT Work-bench, a tool to store, annotate and retrieve MIs based on a validated coding scheme with currently 42 categories that describe instructions in terms of textual features, pictorial elements, and relations be-tween text and pictures. We describe how the PAT Workbench facilitates collaborative annotation and inter-annotator agreement calculation. Future work on the tool includes expanding its functionality and usability by (i) making the MI annotation scheme dynamic for adding relevant features based on empirical evaluations of the MIs, (ii) implementing algorithms for automatic tagging of MI features, and (iii) implementing automatic MI evaluation algorithms based on results obtained via e.g. crowdsourced assessments of MIs.

2011

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A Cross-Linguistic Study on the Production of Multimodal Referring Expressions in Dialogue
Ielka van der Sluis | Saturnino Luz
Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation

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Production of Demonstratives in Dutch, English and Portuguese Dialogues
Saturnino Luz | Ielka van der Sluis
Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation

2010

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Comparing intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation of MT output in a dialogue system
Anne H. Schneider | Ielka van der Sluis | Saturnino Luz
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Papers

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Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference
John Kelleher | Brian Mac Namee | Ielka van der Sluis
Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference

2009

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Towards Empirical Evaluation of Affective Tactical NLG
Ielka van der Sluis | Chris Mellish
Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2009)

2008

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Using Tactical NLG to Induce Affective States: Empirical Investigations
Ielka van der Sluis | Chris Mellish
Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference

2007

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Evaluating algorithms for the Generation of Referring Expressions using a balanced corpus
Albert Gatt | Ielka van der Sluis | Kees van Deemter
Proceedings of the Eleventh European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 07)

2006

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Building a Semantically Transparent Corpus for the Generation of Referring Expressions.
Kees van Deemter | Ielka van der Sluis | Albert Gatt
Proceedings of the Fourth International Natural Language Generation Conference

2004

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Evaluating Multimodal NLG Using Production Experiments
Ielka van der Sluis | Emiel Krahmer
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’04)

2003

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A New Model for Generating Multimodal Referring Expressions
Emiel Krahmer | Ielka van der Sluis
Proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG-2003) at EACL 2003