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Publications

This page lists all my peer-reviewed publications. See my Google Scholar page for more (e.g. ArXiv preprints). I also have a an author profile at SemanticScholar and my own university. Since the field of computational linguistics is conference-driven, most of my work is published through proceedings in the ACL Anthology.

You can download my PhD thesis here.

Journal papers

    2023

  1. Emiel van Miltenburg, Miruna Clinciu, Ondřej Dušek, Dimitra Gkatzia, Stephanie Inglis, Leo Leppänen, Saad Mahamood, Stephanie Schoch, Craig Thomson, Luou Wen (2023) Barriers and enabling factors for error analysis in NLG research. Northern European Journal of Language Technology 9 (1) doi: https://doi.org/10.3384/nejlt.2000-1533.2023.4529
  2. Emiel van Miltenburg (2023) Resource papers as registered reports: a proposal. Northern European Journal of Language Technology 9 (1) 1--6 doi: 10.3384/nejlt.2000-1533.2023.4884
  3. Stefano Coretta, et al. [100+ authors] (2023) Multidimensional Signals and Analytic Flexibility: Estimating Degrees of Freedom in Human-Speech Analyses. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 6 1-29
  4. Michael Cohen, Neil Cohn, Myrthe Faber, Emiel Krahmer, Schuyler Laparle, Emar Maier, Emiel van Miltenburg, Floris Roelofsen, Eleonora Sciubba, Merel Scholman, Dimitar Shterionov, Maureen Sie, Frédéric Thomas, Eva Vanmassenhove, Noortje Venhuizen, Connie de Vos (2023) Minds: Big questions for linguistics in the age of AI. Linguistics in the Netherlands 40 (1) 301-308 doi: https://doi.org/10.1075/avt.00094.bac
  5. Azeb Amha, Matt Coler, Marjo van Koppen, Emiel van Miltenburg, Lynn de Rijk, Wyke Stommel, Mark Dingemans (2023) Reimagining language: Towards a better understanding of language by including our interactions with non-humans. Linguistics in the Netherlands 40 (1) 309-317 doi: https://doi.org/10.1075/avt.00095.ras
  6. 2021

  7. Chris van der Lee, Albert Gatt, Emiel van Miltenburg, Emiel Krahmer (2021) Human evaluation of automatically generated text: Current trends and best practice guidelines. Computer Speech & Language 67 101151 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2020.101151
  8. 2016

  9. Bob van Tiel, Emiel van Miltenburg, Natalia Zevakhina, Bart Geurts (2016) Scalar Diversity. Journal of Semantics 33 (1) 137–175 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffu017

Conference articles

    2022

  1. Anouck Braggaar, Frédéric Tomas, Peter Blomsma, Saar Hommes, Nadine Braun, Emiel van Miltenburg, Chris van der Lee, Martijn Goudbeek, Emiel Krahmer (2022) A reproduction study of methods for evaluating dialogue system output: Replicating Santhanam and Shaikh (2019). Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Natural Language Generation: Generation Challenges.
  2. 2021

  3. Emiel van Miltenburg, Chris van der Lee, Emiel Krahmer (2021) Preregistering NLP research. Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. (Best thematic paper)
  4. Sebastian Gehrmann, et al. [56 authors in total] (2021) The GEM Benchmark: Natural Language Generation, its Evaluation and Metrics. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM 2021).
  5. Emiel van Miltenburg, Miruna Clinciu, Ondřej Dušek, Dimitra Gkatzia, Stephanie Inglis, Leo Leppänen, Saad Mahamood, Emma Manning, Stephanie Schoch, Craig Thomson, Luou Wen (2021) Underreporting of errors in NLG output, and what to do about it. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation. (Commendation for Outstanding Position Paper)
  6. Anna Corone, Annemarie Nanne, Emiel van Miltenburg (2021) Controlling Social Media Data: a Case Study of the Effect of Social Presence on Consumers’ Engagement with Brand-generated Instagram Posts. Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication CMC and Social Media Corpora (CMC-Corpora2021).
  7. Simon Mille, Kaustubh Dhole, Saad Mahamood, Laura Perez-Beltrachini, Varun Gangal, Mihir Kale, Emiel van Miltenburg, Sebastian Gehrmann (2021) Automatic Construction of Evaluation Suites for Natural Language Generation Datasets. Proceedings of the Neural Information Processing Systems Track on Datasets and Benchmarks (NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks 2021).
  8. 2020

  9. Emiel van Miltenburg, Chris van der Lee, Thiago Castro-Ferreira, Emiel Krahmer (2020) Evaluation rules! On the use of grammars and rule-based systems for NLG evaluation. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Evaluating NLG Evaluation.
  10. Emiel van Miltenburg (2020) How Do Image Description Systems Describe People? A Targeted Assessment of System Competence in the PEOPLE-domain. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Beyond Vision and LANguage: inTEgrating Real-world kNowledge (LANTERN).
  11. David M. Howcroft, Anya Belz, Miruna-Adriana Clinciu, Dimitra Gkatzia, Sadid A. Hasan, Saad Mahamood, Simon Mille, Emiel van Miltenburg, Sashank Santhanam, Verena Rieser (2020) Twenty Years of Confusion in Human Evaluation: NLG Needs Evaluation Sheets and Standardised Definitions. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation.
  12. Emiel van Miltenburg, Wei-Ting Lu, Emiel Krahmer, Albert Gatt, Guanyi Chen, Lin Li, Kees van Deemter (2020) Gradations of Error Severity in Automatic Image Descriptions. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation.
  13. 2019

  14. Chris van der Lee, Albert Gatt, Emiel van Miltenburg, Sander Wubben, Emiel Krahmer (2019) Best practices for the human evaluation of automatically generated text. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation. (Best paper)
  15. Emiel van Miltenburg, Merel van de Kerkhof, Ruud Koolen, Martijn Goudbeek, Emiel Krahmer (2019) On task effects in NLG corpus elicitation: a replication study using mixed effects modeling. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation.
  16. Sarah Ibrahimi, Shuo Chen, Devanshu Arya, Arthur Câmara, Yunlu Chen, Tanja Crijns, Maurits van der Goes, Thomas Mensink, Emiel van Miltenburg, Daan Odijk, William Thong, Jiaojiao Zhao, Pascal Mettes (2019) Interactive Exploration of Journalistic Video Footage Through Multimodal Semantic Matching. Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia. doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3343031.3350597
  17. Thiago Castro-Ferreira, Chis van der Lee, Emiel van Miltenburg, Emiel Krahmer (2019) Neural data-to-text generation: A comparison between pipeline and end-to-end architectures. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP). doi: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/D19-1052
  18. 2018

  19. Emiel van Miltenburg, Ákos Kádar, Ruud Koolen, Emiel Krahmer (2018) DIDEC: The Dutch Image Description and Eye-tracking Corpus. Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics.
  20. Emiel van Miltenburg, Desmond Elliott, Piek Vossen (2018) Measuring the Diversity of Automatic Image Descriptions. Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. (Area chair favorite)
  21. Emiel van Miltenburg, Desmond Elliott, Piek Vossen (2018) Talking about other people: an endless range of possibilities. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation.
  22. Emiel van Miltenburg, Ruud Koolen, Emiel Krahmer (2018) Varying image description tasks: spoken versus written descriptions. Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2018).
  23. 2017

  24. Emiel van Miltenburg, Desmond Elliott, Piek Vossen (2017) Cross-linguistic differences and similarities in image descriptions. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation.
  25. Emiel van Miltenburg (2017) Pragmatic descriptions of perceptual stimuli. Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
  26. 2016

  27. Marten Postma, Emiel van Miltenburg, Roxane Segers, Anneleen Schoen, Piek Vossen (2016) Open Dutch WordNet. Proceedings of the Eigth Global Wordnet Conference.
  28. Emiel van Miltenburg (2016) Pragmatic Factors in Image Description: The Case of Negations. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Vision and Language.
  29. Emiel van Miltenburg (2016) Stereotyping and Bias in the Flickr30k Dataset. Proceedings of Multimodal Corpora: Computer vision and language processing (MMC 2016).
  30. Emiel van Miltenburg, Benjamin Timmermans, Lora Aroyo (2016) The VU Sound Corpus: Adding More Fine-grained Annotations to the Freesound Database. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016).
  31. Emiel van Miltenburg (2016) WordNet-based similarity metrics for adjectives. Proceedings of the 8th Global WordNet Conference.
  32. 2015

  33. Alessandro Lopopolo, Emiel van Miltenburg (2015) Sound-based distributional models. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics.