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I'm now in my third year in the Linguistics department as one of the faculty members specializing in computational linguistics. I am also affiliated with the speech and language technologies lab in computer science & engineering. My research interests are in natural language generation, spoken language and multimodal dialogue systems, and the connection between natural language generation and speech synthesis.
Prior to joining the faculty here, I was a Research Fellow in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Before crossing the pond to Scotland, I worked for many years at CoGenTex, Inc., a small company dedicated to developing commercial natural language generation software, as well as advancing research in NLG. Before joining the CGT crew, I obtained a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania.
(Full CV)
Some recent activities:
Michael White and Rajakrishnan Rajkumar. 2008. A More Precise Analysis of Punctuation for Broad-Coverage Surface Realization with CCG. To appear in Proc. of the Workshop on Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF08).
Dominic Espinosa, Michael White and Dennis Mehay. 2008. Hypertagging: Supertagging for Surface Realization with CCG. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-08: HLT).
Stephen A. Boxwell and Michael White. 2008. Projecting Propbank Roles onto the CCGbank. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-08).
Robert Dale and Michael White, editors. 2007. Report from the Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in Natural Language Generation.
Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser, Amanda Stent, Marilyn Walker and Michael White. 2007. Text-to-Text Generation. In Report from the Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in Natural Language Generation.
Michael White, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar and Scott Martin. 2007. Towards Broad Coverage Surface Realization with CCG. In Proc. of the Workshop on Using Corpora for NLG: Language Generation and Machine Translation (UCNLG+MT).
Mary Ellen Foster and Michael White. 2007. Avoiding Repetition in Generated Text. In Proc. of the 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation.
Robert Dale and Michael White, editors. 2007. Position Papers of the Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in Natural Language Generation.
Michael White. 2006. CCG Chart Realization from Disjunctive Inputs. In Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG-06).
Crystal Nakatsu and Michael White. 2006. Learning to Say It Well: Reranking Realizations by Predicted Synthesis Quality. In Proc. COLING-ACL-06.
Michael White. 2006. Efficient Realization of Coordinate Structures in Combinatory Categorial Grammar. Research on Language and Computation, 4(1):39–75. (prefinal version, accepted 2004)
Mary Ellen Foster and Michael White. 2005. Assessing the Impact of Adaptive Generation in the COMIC Multimodal Dialogue System. In Proc. of the IJCAI-05 Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems.
Carsten Brockmann, Amy Isard, Jon Oberlander, and Michael White. 2005. Modelling alignment for affective dialogue. In Proc. of the UM-05 Workshop on Adapting the Interaction Style to Affective Factors.
Michael White, Mary Ellen Foster, Jon Oberlander, and Ash Brown. 2005. Using Facial Feedback to Enhance Turn-Taking in a Multimodal Dialogue System. In Proc. of the HCI International 2005 Thematic Session on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction.
Michael White. 2005. Designing an Extensible API for Integrating Language Modeling and Realization. In Proc. ACL-05 Workshop on Software.
Mary Ellen Foster, Michael White, Andrea Setzer, and Roberta Catizone. 2005. Generating Multimodal Output in the COMIC Dialogue System. ACL 2005 Demo Session. (Poster [A0 PDF])
Mary Ellen Foster and Michael White. 2004. Techniques for Text Planning with XSLT. In Proc. of the 4th NLPXML Workshop.
Michael White. 2004. Reining in CCG Chart Realization. In Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG-04).
Rachel Baker, Robert A. J. Clark, and Michael White. 2004. Synthesising Contextually Appropriate Intonation in Limited Domains. In Proc. of the 5th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop.
Johanna Moore, Mary Ellen Foster, Oliver Lemon, and Michael White. 2004. Generating Tailored, Comparative Descriptions in Spoken Dialogue. In Proc. of the 17th International FLAIRS Conference.
Michael White and Jason Baldridge. 2003. Adapting Chart Realization to CCG. In Proc. of the 9th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation.
