I work in Computational Linguistics, a research area that belongs to both Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. My main area of expertise is Natural Language Generation (NLG). I often collaborate with linguists, logicians, and psychologists to produce computer programs that

• mimic the choices that human speakers make when referring to objects, or
• analyse a photograph to produce a textual description (e.g., "A dog chasing a ball"), or
• analyse weather data to produce a weather description (e.g., "A sunny day, with occasional showers"), or
• manipulate a logical formula to produce an explanation of the formula in Dutch or English

I take a lively interest in methodological issues arising from this work. My colleagues and I have also started a line of work in which we look specifically at the challenges to NLG posed by Mandarin.

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