• Computer-generation of numerical quantity expressions. Numerical quantities are often presented poorly (especially in the media) which frustrates numerate people who are not given enough information while at the same time it perplexes innumerate people who do not understand basic mathematical concepts. I believe that it is possible to vary descriptions of numerical quantities to suit different audiences, situations and writing styles. I am currently reviewing educational and psychological literature on common misconceptions about numbers and maths concepts. I am also building a corpus of examples and enumerating ways in which quantities can be expressed. Both of these activities, together with basic mathematical concepts, will form the foundation of a new NLG system for generating descriptions of numerical quantities.
• Computer-generation of scripts for medical dramas acted by embodied agents. These short dramas present personalised medical information to patients.

Other interests are discourse structure and microplanning, generation for people with limited literacy, discourse analysis, speech act analysis, intonation analysis, generation of prosodically-annotated text, dialogue management in spoken language systems and automatic text summarisation. More about me....