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Dr Paul Piwek

Profile summary

  • Central Academic Staff
  • Senior Lecturer
  • Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
  • School of Computing & Communications
  • paul.piwek

Professional biography

Paul holds first-class degrees from the Universities of Tilburg and Amsterdam in the Netherlands (both cum laude). He studied computational linguistics and philosophy (Tilburg) and the philosophy of linguistics and cognitive science (Amsterdam). He gained his PhD in 1998 at the Institute for Perception Research (Eindhoven University and Philips Research) with his thesis entitled Logic, Information & Conversation. After 7 years as a Research Fellow at the Information Technology Research Institute in Brighton, he joined the Open University in 2015, where he currently is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Computing. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and UK Council for Graduate Education Recognised Research Supervisor, having supervised 9 PhD students to completion as well as being examiner and examination panel chair for several PhD students.

He is lead of the OU's EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) and has been leading several research projects at the Open University, including:

1) Principal Investigator at lead research organisation of the EPSRC Opening Up Minds: Engaging Dialogue Generated From Argument Maps project (2021-2023), which aims to build AI chatbots that help people pass the Ideological Turing Test.  (External funding: £730K of which £250K to the OU)

2) Principal Investigator at the OU on the NESTA DataMIX project (Lead partner/coordinator: Hua Dong at Brunel) which explores more inclusive means of communicating data (2008 - 2012). (External funding: £12K)

3) Principal Investigator on the EPSRC CODA project - Coherent Dialogue Automatically generated from text (2009 - 2011). (External funding: £170K)

His research has been published in journals (including Artificial Intelligence, Synthese, Journal of Logic, Language & Information, and the Journal of Pragmatics), conference proceedings (including ACL, COLING, EACL, IVA, and NAACL) and as (invited) book chapters.

Paul's teaching includes both undergraduate and postgraduate modules. He led the development of a free course on Digital Thinking Tools (co-authored with Richard Walker), which includes a session on From Thinking Tools to AI. His work on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning won the 2023 eSTEeM Scholarship project of the year prize (with Simon Savage). At the 2024 eSTEeM conference, his poster (with Cecilia Domingo and Richard Walker) was voted best poster winner. 

Research interests

Paul's research in computational dialogue studies sits at the intersection of research in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. It has a strong interdisciplinary dimension, with links to research in Linguistics, Psychology - specifically, Cognitive Science - and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Central to his work is the aim to understand and model the principles underlying communication in dialogue. This ranges from cooperative to non-cooperative dialogue, verbal and non-verbal communication (in particular, pointing gestures), spontaneous and scripted dialogue, and, finally, formal and computational modelling of the inferences that dialogue participants draw individually and jointly during dialogue.

He advocates and practises open research, having made available both data sets and tools that were created as part of his research projects. He was co-organiser of the first Shared Task and Evaluation Campaign for Question Generation, an open competition to compare different Question Generation approaches.

He is keen for his research to translate into solutions for practical challenges. For instance, the dialogue generation research from his CODA project has been used to semi-automatically generate videos (with dialogue between computer-animated characters) for the public facing website of the Papworth trust. The videos inform their service users, conveying the same information as the original leaflets, but in a more engaging way. Papworth trust work with disabled people, supporting thousands of people, their families and carers. Currently, he is leading the Opening Up Minds project, which aims to address the societal challenge of ever more polarisation of opinions in society.

Teaching interests

Paul has chaired two large undergraduate Computing and IT modules:

  • Introduction to Computing and IT 2 (TM112)
  • Algorithms, data structures and computability (M269)

and written course materials for these and other Open University modules including course materials on:

  • how to analyse and construct arguments using the argument mapping technique,
  • computational thinking, proof, computability and computational complexity,
  • programming and problem solving in Python,
  • legal, social, security and ethical implications of information technologies.

He has undertaken several research and scholarship projects related to his teaching:

Paul has led the development of two resources for OpenLearn:

Impact and engagement

Paul's research is complemented by several initiatives that translate the results from this work into tools that help people navigate, communicate, reason with and use information more effectively. Following up on the EPSRC CODA project, the Papworth Trust commissioned videos that were generated from their information leaflets for service users using CODA Monologue-to-Dialogue technology; the videos are available on the Papworth Trust's YouTube Channel, see e.g. User Involvement Promise. 

Additionally, Paul has, partly in his capacity as AISB committee member responsible for the public understanding of artificial intelligence, been involved in several public engagement activities:

External collaborations

Paul has edited special issues of journals such as Discourse Processes, the Journal of Logic, Language and Information, Language & Computation and Discourse & Dialogue, and co-chaired several workshops and conferences, including:

In 2019, he was area chair for generation at ACL. In 2020, he is remote presentations co-chair for COLING2020. Also, since 2019, he is a committee member of AISB (responsible for the public understanding of AI). Paul is a member of the editorial board of the Dialogue & Discourse journal and editor for the PhilPapers category on Inferentialist Accounts of Meaning and Content.

Paul is involved in an ongoing collaboration with Prendinger Lab at the National Institute for Informatics in Tokyo.

Research groups

NameTypeParent Unit
CRC (LM & KT): Natural Language GenerationGroupFaculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology
CRC (LM & KT): Natural Language ProcessingGroupFaculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology
CRC: Language, Multimedia and Knowledge TechnologiesGroupFaculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology

 

Externally funded projects

EPSRC DTP 2022/23/24
RoleStart dateEnd dateFunding source
Lead01 Oct 202230 Sep 2028EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). EPSRC allocate funding for Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTP) using an algorithm based on a variety of criteria including grants awarded to the institution. The Open University Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) currently holds an EPSRC DTP award covering the following subject areas: General Engineering IT, Systems Sciences and Software Engineering Mathematical Sciences Physics

EPSRC DTP - Pair Programming Project with Toshiba
RoleStart dateEnd dateFunding source
Lead01 Feb 202231 Jan 2026Toshiba Research Europe Ltd

In pair programming, two people work together on the same problem, collaboratively writing code (in a shared window or screen) whilst communicating with each other (via voice or text, face-to-face or remotely). Pair programming is used by professional software developers (Goth, 2016) and has also been shown to help beginning programmers improve their skills. For example, McDowell et al. (2002) found that pair programming increases retention and helps students become better programmers. Also, pair programming was found particularly beneficial for women, helping them persist in computer science (Werner, 2004). The practicalities involved in setting up pair programming sessions can be a barrier to adopting it, both in professional and educational settings (especially distance learning settings). The proposed research explores the use of chatbots to address this issue. Chatbots are dialogue systems that respond to users questions and requests with natural language responses. Task-oriented chatbots are used in business applications while open-domain chatbots are used for entertainment. Katz et al. (2014) explore use of chatbots in an education task. Our work will advance dialogue systems research by applying it in the context of pair programming. Research topic and approach Building on the research strengths in dialogue modelling, question generation, pair programming and multi-modality at the OU and Toshiba, we propose to develop and investigate an AI buddy for pair programming, which can collaborate with a software developer on solving a programming problem (either from scratch or by completing a skeleton program). The AI should be able to: - detect if the developer is stuck and requires help - make contextual suggestions and provide hints - question the developer about the rationale for their programming and problem solving decisions - thereby helping them self-evaluate their work - generate contributions appropriate for the developer's emotional state A distinctive aspect of the project will be the use of multimodal communication. Depending on the strengths of the PhD applicant one or more of the following modalities will be used by the AI to interact with the student: - Spoken voice: analysis (content of what the student says, but also emotion) & synthesis (of the AIs dialogue contributions) - Webcam video to monitor: emotion, focus, level of understanding, cognitive load, etc. - Text-based chat (as an alternative to spoken interaction) - Embodied computer-animated representation of the AI buddy (Andrist 2019)

Opening up minds: engaging dialogue generated from argument maps
RoleStart dateEnd dateFunding source
Lead18 Jan 202117 Jul 2023EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

The idea is to design a "dialogue system" interface to existing databases of the arguments surrounding controversial topics such as "Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union?" or "Should all humans be vegan?". In particular, a user can have a "Moral Maze" style chat with the dialogue system. "Moral Maze" is a longrunning popular BBC 4 Radio programme in which a panel discusses a controversial topic with the help of witnesses and a host who chairs the conversation. The dialogue system consists of a panel of Argumentation Bots (ArguBots) who present arguments for or against the topic under discussion (the pro and con ArguBots), a host ArguBot and a witness ArguBot (that can provide detailed evidence). The user is invited to join the panel and voice their views on the topic under discussion. Thus the user can explore what they thought and what others thought about the controversial topic. An important part of the projects will be to evaluate the effects on people's appreciation of the complexity of debate and attendant ability to comprehend the world from other people's point of view or perspective.

Publications

Discourse annotation - Towards a dialogue system for pair programming (2023-02-28)
Domingo, Cecilia; Piwek, Paul; Stoyanchev, Svetlana and Wermelinger, Michel
TAL Journal, 63, Article 1(3) (pp. 11-35)

Artificial Neural Networks for classifying the time series sensor data generated by medical detection dogs (2021-12-01)
Withington, Lucy; Diaz Pardo de Vera, David; Guest, Claire; Mancini, Clara and Piwek, Paul
Expert Systems with Applications, 184, Article 115564

Sentiment and behaviour annotation in a corpus of dialogue summaries (2015-04-01)
Roman, Norton Trevisan; Piwek, Paul; Carvalho, Ariadne Maria Brito Rizzoni and Alvares, Alexandre Rossi
Journal of Universal Computer Science, 21(4) (pp. 561-586)

A detailed account of the First Question Generation Shared Task Evaluation challenge (2012-03)
Rus, Vasile; Wyse, Brendan; Piwek, Paul; Lintean, Mihai; Stoyanchev, Svetlana and Moldovan, Cristian
Dialogue & Discourse, 3(2) (pp. 177-204)

Varieties of Question Generation: introduction to this special issue (2012-03)
Piwek, Paul and Boyer, Kristy Elizabeth
Dialogue & Discourse, 3(2) (pp. 1-9)

Dialogue structure and logical expressivism (2011-10-11)
Piwek, Paul
Synthese, 183(Suppl. 1) (pp. 33-58)

'Proximal' and 'distal' in language and cognition: Evidence from deictic demonstratives in Dutch (2008-04)
Piwek, Paul; Beun, Robbert-Jan and Cremers, Anita
Journal of Pragmatics, 40(4) (pp. 694-718)

Natural language processing in CLIME, a multilingual legal advisory system (2008-01)
Evans, Roger; Piwek, Paul; Cahill, Lynne and Tipper, Neil
Natural Language Engineering, 14(1) (pp. 101-132)

Fully generated scripted dialogue for embodied agents (2008)
van Deemter, Kees; Krenn, Brigitte; Piwek, Paul; Klesen, Martin; Schröder, Marc and Baumann, Stefan
Artificial Intelligence, 172(10) (pp. 1219-1244)

Meaning and Dialogue Coherence: A Proof-theoretic Investigation (2007-10)
Piwek, Paul
Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 16(4) (pp. 403-421)

Generating under global constraints: the case of scripted dialogue (2007-06)
Piwek, Paul and Van Deemter, Kees
Research on Language and Computation, 5(2) (pp. 237-263)

Perspectives on dialogue: Introduction to this special issue (2006-02-24)
Piwek, Paul
Research on Language and Computation, 4(2-3) (pp. 143-152)

Dialogue with computers: dialogue games in action (2017-01-01)
Piwek, Paul
In: Mildorf, Jarmila and Thomas, Bronwen eds. Dialogue across Media. Dialogue studies (28) (pp. 179-202)
ISBN : 9789027210456 | Publisher : John Benjamins | Published : Amsterdam

Three principles of information flow: conversation as a dialogue game (2011-04-11)
Piwek, Paul
In: Ramage, Magnus and Chapman, David eds. Perspectives on Information. Routledge Studies in Library and Information Science (9) (pp. 106-120)
ISBN : 9780415884105 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : New York, USA

Generating Dialogues for Virtual Agents Using Nested Textual Coherence Relations (2008)
Hernault, Hugo; Piwek, Paul; Prendinger, Helmut and Ishizuka, Mitsuru
In: Intelligent Virtual Agents (pp. 139-145)
ISBN : 978-3-540-85482-1 | Publisher : Springer

Politeness and bias in dialogue summarization: two exploratory studies (2006)
Roman, Norton; Piwek, Paul and Carvalho, Ariadne M.B.R.
In: Shanahan, James G.; Qu, Yan and Wiebe, Janyce eds. Computing attitude and affect in text: theory and applications. The Information Retrieval Series (20)
ISBN : 1402040261 | Publisher : Springer | Published : Dordrecht, The Netherlands

Generating multimedia presentations: from plain text to screenplay (2005)
Piwek, Paul; Power, Richard; Scott, Donia and Van Deemter, Kees
In: Stock, Oliviero and Zancanaro, Massimo eds. Multimodal intelligent information presentation. Text, speech and language technology (pp. 203-226)
ISBN : 1402030495 | Publisher : Springer | Published : Dordrecht, The Netherlands

Relating imperatives to action (2001)
Piwek, Paul
In: Bunt, Harry and Beun, Robbert-Jan eds. Cooperative multimodal communication. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence series (pp. 140-155)
Publisher : Springer | Published : Berlin, Germany

Multimodal Cooperative Resolution of Referential Expressions in the DENK System (2001)
Kievit, Leen; Piwek, Paul; Beun, Robbert-Jan and Bunt, Harry
In: Cooperative Multimodal Communication (pp. 197-216)
ISBN : 978-3-540-42806-0 | Publisher : Springer

Presuppositions in Context: Constructing Bridges (2000-07)
Piwek, P. and Krahmer, E.
In: Bonzon, P.; Cavalcanti, M. and Nossum, R. eds. Formal Aspects of Context. Applied Logic Series (pp. 85-106)
ISBN : 792363507 | Publisher : Kluwer Academic Publishers | Published : Dordrecht

Presupposition projection as proof construction (1999)
Krahmer, Emiel and Piwek, Paul
In: Bunt, Harry and Muskens, Reinhard eds. Computing Meaning. Studies in Linguistics & Philosophy (pp. 281-300)
Publisher : Kluwer Academic Publishers | Published : Dordrecht

Proceedings of QG2010: The Third Workshop on Question Generation (2010-06-18)
Boyer, Kristy Elizabeth and Piwek, Paul
Boyer, Kristy Elizabeth and Piwek, Paul eds.
Publisher : questiongeneration.org | Published : Pittsburgh

Opening up Minds with Argumentative Dialogues (2022)
Farag, Youmna; Brand, Charlotte; Amidei, Jacopo; Piwek, Paul; Stafford, Tom; Stoyanchev, Svetlana and Vlachos, Andreas
In : EMNLP 2022: The 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (7-11 Dec 2022, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) (pp. 4569-4582)

QTMM2012c+: A Queryable Empirically- Grounded Resource of Dialogue with Argumentation (2021-11-29)
Amidei, Jacopo; Piwek, Paul and Stoyanchev, Svetlana
In : 5th Workshop on Advances in Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence (29 Nov 2021, Online event)

Challenges with Learning to Program and Problem Solve: An Analysis of Student Online Discussions (2020-02)
Piwek, Paul and Savage, Simon
In : The 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’20) (11-14 Mar 2020, Portland, OR, USA) (pp. 494-499)

Identifying Annotator Bias: A new IRT-based method for bias identification (2020)
Amidei, Jacopo; Piwek, Paul and Willis, Alistair
In : Proceedings of The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) (8-13 Dec 2020, Barcelona, Spain) (pp. 4787-4797)

Learning to program: from problems to code (2019-01-09)
Piwek, Paul; Wermelinger, Michel; Laney, Robin and Walker, Richard
In : Third Conference in Computing Education Practice (CEP) (9 Jan 2019, Durham, UK)

Agreement is overrated: A plea for correlation to assess human evaluation reliability (2019)
Amidei, Jacopo; Piwek, Paul and Willis, Alistair
In : Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (29 Oct - 1 Nov 2019, Tokyo, Japan)

The use of rating and Likert scales in Natural Language Generation human evaluation tasks: A review and some recommendations (2019)
Amidei, Jacopo; Piwek, Paul and Willis, Alistair
In : Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (29 Oct - 1 Nov 2019, Tokyo, Japan)

Evaluation methodologies in Automatic Question Generation 2013-2018 (2018-11-06)
Amidei, Jacopo; Piwek, Paul and Willis, Alistair
In : Proceedings of The 11th International Natural Language Generation Conference (5-8 Nov 2018, Tilburg, The Netherlands) (pp. 307-317)

Rethinking the Agreement in Human Evaluation Tasks (2018)
Amidei, Jacopo; Piwek, Paul and Willis, Alistair
In : Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (20-26 Aug 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico) (pp. 3318-3329)

A model of suspense for narrative generation (2017)
Doust, Richard and Piwek, Paul
In : 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (4-7 Sep 2017, Santiago de Compostela) (pp. 178-187)

Measuring Non-cooperation in Dialogue (2016-12-31)
Plüss, Brian and Piwek, Paul
In : Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2016) (11-16 Dec 2016, Osaka, Japan) (pp. 1925-1936)

Collecting Reliable Human Judgements on Machine-Generated Language: The Case of the QG-STEC Data (2016-09-08)
Godwin, Keith and Piwek, Paul
In : 9th International Natural Language Generation Conference (5-8 Sep 2016, Edinburgh, UK) (pp. 212-216)

Towards explaining rebuttals in security arguments (2014-12-10)
Yu, Yijun; Piwek, Paul; Tun, Thein Than and Nuseibeh, Bashar
In : 14th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (10 Dec 2014, Krakow, Poland)

Towards a computational account of inferentialist meaning (2014-04-03)
Piwek, Paul
In : 50th Annual Convention of the AISB (AISB50) (1-4 Apr 2014, London, UK)

Introducing a corpus of human-authored dialogue summaries in Portuguese (2013-09)
Trevisan Roman, Norton; Piwek, Paul; M. B. Rizzoni Carvalho, Ariadne and Rossi Alvares, Alexandre
In : International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2013) (7-13 Sep 2013, Hissar, Bulgaria)

Predicting the understandability of OWL inferences (2013-05)
Nguyen, Tu Anh T.; Power, Richard; Piwek, Paul and Williams, Sandra
In : Extended Semantic Web Conference 2013 (ESWC 2013) - Research Track (26 May to 30 May 2013, Montpellier, France) (pp. 109-123)

Supporting computing and technology distance learning students with developing argumentation skills (2013-03)
Piwek, Paul
In : IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON 2013) (12-15 Mar 2013, Berlin)

Measuring the understandability of deduction rules for OWL (2012-10)
Nguyen, Tu; Power, Richard; Piwek, Paul and Williams, Sandra
In : First International Workshop on Debugging Ontologies and Ontology Mappings (8 Oct 2012, Galway, Ireland)

Fully automated generation of question-answer pairs for scripted virtual instruction (2012-09)
Kuyten, Pascal; Bickmore, Timothy; Stoyanchev, Svetlana; Piwek, Paul; Prendinger, Helmut and Ishizuka, Mitsuru
In : 12th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (12-14 Sep 2012, Santa Cruz, CA, USA)

Planning accessible explanations for entailments in OWL ontologies (2012-05)
Nguyen, Tu Anh T.; Power, Richard; Piwek, Paul and Williams, Sandra
In : 7th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2012) (30 May - 1 Jun 2012, Utica, IL, USA) (pp. 110-114)

Modelling non-cooperative dialogue: the role of conversational games and discourse obligations (2011-09)
Plüss, Brian; Piwek, Paul and Power, Richard
In : 15th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (21-23 Sep 2011, Los Angeles) (pp. 212-213)

Data-oriented monologue-to-dialogue generation (2011-06)
Piwek, Paul and Stoyanchev, Svetlana
In : 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics:shortpapers (19-24 Jun 2011, Portland, Oregon) (pp. 242-247)

The CODA system for monologue-to-dialogue generation (2011-06)
Stoyanchev, Svetlana and Piwek, Paul
In : 12th Annual Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (17-18 Jun 2011, Portland, Oregon, USA)

Comparing Modes of Information Presentation: Text versus ECA and Single versus Two ECAs (2011)
Stoyanchev, Svetlana; Piwek, Paul and Prendinger, Helmut
In : Intelligent Virtual Agents (14-17 Sep 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland)

Harvesting re-usable high-level rules for expository dialogue generation (2010-07)
Stoyanchev, Svetlana and Piwek, Paul
In : 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2010) (7-8 Jul 2010, Dublin, Ireland)

The First Question Generation Shared Task Evaluation Challenge (2010-07)
Rus, Vasile; Wyse, Brendan; Piwek, Paul; Lintean, Mihai; Stoyanchev, Svetlana and Moldovan, Cristian
In : Proceedings of the Sixth International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2010) (7-9 Jul 2010, Trim Castle, Ireland)

Generating expository dialogue from monologue: Motivation, corpus and preliminary rules (2010-06-01)
Piwek, Paul and Stoyanchev, Svetlana
In : 11th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Forthcoming) (1-6 Jun 2010, Los Angeles)

Question generation in the CODA project (2010-06)
Piwek, Paul and Stoyanchev, Svetlana
In : The Third Workshop on Question Generation (18 Jun 2010, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)

Constructing the CODA corpus: A parallel corpus ofmonologues and expository dialogues (2010-05-18)
Stoyanchev, Svetlana and Piwek, Paul
In : The seventh international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) (Forthcoming) (18-21 May 2010, Malta)

Making tacit requirements explicit (2009-09-01)
Gacitua, R.; Ma, L.; Nuseibeh, B.; Piwek, P.; De Roeck, A.; Rouncefield, M.; Sawyer, P.; Willis, A. and Yang, H.
In : Second International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MaRK’09) (1 Sep 2009, Altanta, USA)

On presuppositions in requirements (2009-09)
Ma, Lin; Nuseibeh, Bashar; Piwek, Paul; De Roeck, Anne and Willis, Alistair
In : 2009 Second International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MaRK'09) (1 Sep 2009, Atlanta, Georgia, USA)

Salience and pointing in multimodal reference (2009-07-29)
Piwek, Paul
In : Proceedings of Production of Referring Expressions: Bridging the gap between computational and empirical approaches to generating reference (PRE-CogSci 2009) (29 Jul 2009, Amsterdam)

Salience in the generation of multimodal referring acts (2009)
Piwek, Paul
In : 2009 International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (2-6 Nov 2009, Cambridge, Mass) (p 207)

Generating questions from OpenLearn study units (2009)
Wyse, Brendan and Piwek, Paul
In : AIED 2009 Workshop Proceedings Volume 1: The 2nd Workshop on Question Generation (6-9 Jul 2009, Brighton, UK)

Effective tutoring with affective embodied conversational agents (2009)
Moyo, Sharon and Piwek, Paul
In : 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (6-10 Jul 2009, Brighton, UK) (pp. 767-768)

Simulating emotional reactions in medical dramas (2008)
Williams, Sandra; Power, Richard and Piwek, Paul
In : Proceedings of the Symposium on Affective Language in Human and Machine, Volume 2, The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) 2008 Convention: Communication, Interaction and Social Intelligence (1-2 Apr 2008, Aberdeen, UK)

Presenting Arguments as Fictive Dialogue (2008)
Piwek, Paul
In : Proceedings of 8th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA08; in conjunction with ECAI 2008) (21 Jul 2008, Patras, Greece)

T2D: Generating Dialogues Between Virtual Agents Automatically from Text (2007-09)
Piwek, Paul; Hernault, Hugo; Prendinger, Helmut and Ishizuka, Mitsuru
In : Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (17-19 Sep 2007, Paris) (pp. 161-174)

Modality Choice for Generation of Referring Acts: Pointing versus Describing (2007-01)
Piwek, Paul
In : Proceedings of Workshop on Multimodal Output Generation (MOG 2007) (25-26 Jan 2007, Aberdeen, Scotland) (pp. 129-139)

Generating monologue and dialogue to present personalised medical information to patients (2007)
Williams, Sandra; Piwek, Paul and Power, Richard
In : Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (17-20 Jun 2007)

Dialogue Games for Crosslingual Communication (2007)
Piwek, Paul; Hardcastle, David and Power, Richard
In : Proceedings of DECALOG, The 2007 Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (1 May - 30 Jun 2007, University of Trento, Italy)

The ALLIGATOR Theorem Prover for Dependent Type Systems: Description and Proof Sample (2006)
Piwek, Paul
In : Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS-5) (20-21 Apr 2006, Buxton, UK)

Reference and Gestures in Dialogue Generation: Three Studies with Embodied Conversational Agents (2005)
Piwek, Paul; Masthoff, Judith and Bergenstrahle, Malin
In : Proceedings of AISB05 Joint Symposium on Virtual Social Agents Symposium (12-15 Apr 2005, University of Herfordshire, UK)

A Flexible pragmatics-driven language generator for animated agents (2003)
Piwek, Paul
In : 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (12-17 Apr 2003, Budapest, Hungary)

RRL: A Rich Representation Language for the Description of Agent Behaviour in NECA (2002-07)
Piwek, Paul; Krenn, Brigitte; Schroeder, Marc; Grice, Martine; Baumann, Stefan and Pirker, Hannes
In : Proceedings of AAMAS 2002 workshop: Embodied conversational agents - let's specify and evaluate them! (2002, Bologna, Italy)

Generation of multi-modal dialogue for a net environment (2002)
Krenn, B.; Pirker, H.; Grice, M.; Baumann, S.; Piwek, P.; van Deemter, K.; Schroeder, M.; Klesen, M. and Gstrein, E.
In : Proceedings of KONVENS-02 (30 Sep - 02 Oct 2002, Saarbruecken, Germany)

Towards automated generation of scripted dialogue: some time-honoured strategies (2002)
Piwek, Paul and van Deemter, Kees
In : Proceedings of EDILOG: 6th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue (4-6 Sep 2002, Edinburgh, UK) (pp. 141-148)

A Formal Semantics for Editing and Generating Plurals (2000)
Piwek, Paul
In : Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics (31 Jul - 4 Aug 2000, Saarbrücken, Germany) (pp. 607-613)

Accent Interpretation, Anaphora Resolution and Implicature Derivation (1997)
Piwek, Paul
In : Proceedings of the 11th Amsterdam Colloquium (17-20 Dec 1997, University of Amsterdam) (pp. 55-60)

Best Practices in using Technological Infrastructures (2020-07)
Howson, Oliver; Adeliyi, Adeola; Willis, Alistair; Hirst, Tony; Charlton, Patricia; Gooch, Daniel; Rosewell, Jonathan; Richards, Mike; Wermelinger, Michel; Piwek, Paul; Savage, Simon; Lowndes, Charly; Thomas, Elaine and Smith, Andrew
The Institute of Coding

Full report on challenges with learning to program and problem solve: an analysis of first year undergraduate Open University distance learning students' online discussions (2019-12-01)
Savage, Simon and Piwek, Paul
The Open University, Milton Keynes.

Dialogue and Discourse, Vol. 3, No.2: Special Issue on Question Generation (2012-03)
Piwek, Paul and Boyer, Kristy Elizabeth
Dialogue and Discourse (D&D)

Justification Patterns for OWL DL Ontologies (2011-05-25)
Nguyen, Tu Anh T.; Power, Richard; Piwek, Paul and Williams, Sandra
Department of Computing, The Open University

Annotation Scheme for Authored Dialogues. Version 1.1 (2010-07-21)
Stoyanchev, Svetlana and Piwek, Paul
Department of Computing, The Open University

Generating scripts for personalised medical dialogues for patients (2006-06-21)
Piwek, Paul; Power, Richard and Williams, Sandra
Department of Computing, The Open University