VINCI Publications

Publications

Note: In the following, ACH = Association for Computers and the Humanities, ALLC = Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing.

Chapters in Books

2001	Levison, Michael; Lessard, Greg; Danielson, Anna Marie; Merven, Delphine. From Symptoms to Diagnosis. In CALL -- The Challenge of Change, (Cameron, Keith; ed.), Exeter: Elm Bank Publications, pp. 53-59.
1999	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael. L2 French Lexical Creativity in Context. In CALL and the Learning Community, (Cameron, Keith; ed.), Exeter: Elm Bank Publications, pp. 301-314.
1995	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael. Le logiciel VINCI: lexigrammaire et génération automatique. In Lexiques-grammaires comparés et traitements automatiques. (Labelle, Jacques, ed.) Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal, pp. 175-185.
1994	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael; Olsen, Mark. Possible and Impossible Pronouns: Using Textbases and Natural Language Generation in Linguistics Research. In Research in Humanities Computing, 2 (Hockey, Susan; Ide, Nancy; eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 173-185.
1992	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael; Girard, Eugene; Maher, Daniel. Form, Frequency, Markedness and Strategies in Second Language Performance Modelling. In Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 360-371.
1990	Levison, Michael, Lessard, Greg. The Role of Attributes in Natural Language Sentence Generation. In Attribute Grammars and their Applications. (Derensart, P.; Jourdan, M.; eds.). Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 298-312.
1990	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael; Bastianutti, Diego; McDonald, James K. Vers un ELAO génératif: le projet VINCI. In CALL: Papers and Reports. (Craven, M.L.; Sinyor, R.; Paramskas, D.; eds.). La Jolla, California: Athelstan Press, pp. 105-114.
1990	Levison, Michael; Lessard, Greg; Hurd, Scott; Bastianutti, Diego; McDonald, James K. VINCI: An Intelligent Computer System for Language Teaching. In Computers in Literary and Linguistic Research. (Choueka, Yaacov; ed.). Paris, Slatkine, pp. 293-298.

Articles in Refereed Journals

2001	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael. Lexical Creativity in L2 French. In International Review of Applied Linguistics 39:241-253.
2000	Levison, Michael; Lessard, Greg. A Multi-Level Approach to the Detection of Second Language Learner Errors. In Literary and Linguistic Computing 15/3:313-322..
1998	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael Quo Vadimus? Computers and the Humanities 31:261-269.
1996	Levison, Michael; Lessard, Greg. Using a Language Generation System for Second Language Learning. Computer-Assisted Language Learning 9/2-3:181-189.
1995	Levison, Michael; Lessard, Greg. Syntax and Morphology in Verb Phrase Generation. Literary and Linguistic Computing 10/4:237-245.
1995	Levison, Michael; Lessard, Greg. New Words from Old: A Formalism for Word Formation. Computers and the Humanities 29:463-479.
1994	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael; Maher, Daniel; Tomek, Ivan. Modelling Second Language Learner Creativity. Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education 5/4:455-480.
1992	Levison, Michael; Lessard, Greg. A System for Natural Language Sentence Generation. Computers and the Humanities, 26:43-58.

Refereed Conference Papers

2003	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael. Computational Generation of Limericks ACH/ALLC Joint Annual Conference, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. (Conference extended abstracts pp. 69-72.) [Extended Abstract]
2003	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael. Representation and Learning of Verbal Humour: the Case of Limericks 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference University of La Rioja, Spain. [Abstract] [Conference pages: shortened abstract in pdf]
2002	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael. Dynamic Generation of Structure Texts for CALL Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics, &c. (ACLA/CAAL), Toronto. [Abstract]
2002	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael; Venour, Chris. Cleverness versus Funniness TWLT20 - April Fools Day Workshop on Computational Humour, Trento, Italy. (Proceedings pp 137-145.) [Full paper]
2001	Levison, Michael; Lessard, Greg; Danielson, Anna Marie; Merven, Delphine. From Symptoms to Diagnosis. Conference on Computer Aided Language Learning, University of Exeter, Exeter. (Full paper published in conference volume. See Chapters in Books.) [Full paper]
2001	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael. A Testbed Generator for the Evaluation of Grammar Checkers. Annual Meeting of the Association canadienne de linguistique appliquée/Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics, Université Laval. [Handout]
2001	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael; Sinclair, Stéfan. Un outil oulipien. Annual Meeting of the Association canadienne des professeurs de français des universités et collèges du Canada, Université Laval. [Handout]
2000	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael. Poetic Prosthetics. ACH/ALLC Joint Annual Conference, University of Glasgow. (Conference extended abstracts pp. 70-74.) [Extended abstract on conference web site]
1999	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael. L2 French Lexical Creativity in Context. Conference on CALL and the Learning Community, University of Exeter, Exeter. (Full paper published in post-conference volume. See Chapters in Books.)
1999	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael. Beyond Corpora: Elicitation as a Tool in Second Language Word Formation Studies. ACH/ALLC Joint Annual Conference, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. [Extended abstract on conference web site]
1998	Levison, Michael; Lessard, Greg; Walker, Derek. The Intelligent Detection of Second Language Learner Errors. ALLC/ACH Joint Annual Conference, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary. [Extended abstract on conference web site]
1998	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael; Surridge, Marie. Teaching French Gender with a Natural Language Generator. CCALL3, Nova Scotia.
1997	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael. Clothing Meaning in Syntax: Aspects and Applications of Multilingual Generation. ACH/ALLC Joint Annual Conference, Queen's University, Kingston. [Extended abstract on conference web site]
1997	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael. Rule-governed wordplay and creativity. in Mind II: Computational Models of Creative Cognition, Dublin City University, Dublin. (Conference proceedings, 11 pp.) [Full paper on conference web site]
1997	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael. Limites d'une néologie informatisée. Annual conference of the Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences (ACFAS), Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières. [Full paper]
1996	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael. Generating Coherent Paragraphs. ACH/ALLC Joint Annual Conference, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. (Extended abstract published in conference proceedings, pp. 189-191.) [Extended abstract on conference web site] [Handout]
1996	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael. Lexical Creativity in L2 French. Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. [Full paper]
1995	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael. Linguistic and Cognitive Underpinnings of Verbal Humour. International Cognitive Linguistics Association Conference, Albuquerque. (In conference proceedings, no page number.) [Full paper]
1995	Levison, Michael; Lessard, Greg. Experiments in Word Creation. ACH/ALLC Joint Annual Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara. (Extended abstract in conference proceedings, pp. 74-77.) [Extended abstract]
1995	Levison, Michael; Lessard, Greg. Using a Language Generation System for Second Language Learning. Conference on CALL and the Learning Environment, University of Exeter, Exeter. [Full paper]
1995	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael. Le projet VINCI: Lexigrammaire et génération automatique? Conference on Lexiques-grammaires comparés, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal. (Published in volume. See Chapters in Books.) [Full paper]
1994	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael. Computation Elicitation of L2 Performance Errors: Theory and Practice. In Second Language Research Forum, McGill University, Montreal. (Abstract in conference proceedings, p. 48.)
1994	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael; Maher, Daniel; Tomek, Ivan. Prepositional Usage in L2 French. ALLC/ACH Joint Annual Conference, Sorbonne, Paris. (Extended abstract in conference proceedings, pp. 143-144.)
1993	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael; Maher, Daniel; Tomek, Ivan. Modelling L2 Linguistic Creativity: Corpus Data and Generative Devices. Conference on Sciences Cognitives, Informatique et Apprentissage des Langues, Université Blaise-Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France. (Complete paper in conference proceedings, pp. 121-131.)
1993	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael. Computational Modelling of Riddling Strategies. ACH/ALLC Joint Annual Conference, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. (Extended abstract in conference proceedings, pp. 120-122.) [Full paper]
1992	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael; Girard, Eugene; Maher, Daniel. Form, Frequency, Markedness and Strategies in Second Language Performance Modelling. ITS'92, Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Université de Montréal, Montréal. (Revised version of paper published in volume. See Chapters in Books.)
1992	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael. Computational Modelling of Linguistic Humour: Tom Swifties. ALLC/ACH Joint Annual Conference, Christ Church, Oxford. (Extended abstract in conference proceedings, pp. 175-178.) [Extended abstract]
1991	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael. Computer-Aided Analysis and Modelling of Second Language Performance Errors. ACH/ALLC Joint Annual Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. (Extended abstract in conference proceedings.)
1991	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael; Olsen, Mark. Agreement Variation in French Coordinate Constructions: the case of ou. Linguistic Symposium on the Romance Languages XXI, University of California, Santa Barbara. (Conference abstracts, p. 32.) [Full paper]
1991	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael; Girard, Eugene. La génération artificielle du langage naturel et la linguistique: applications à la recherche et à l'enseignement. Conference of the Association de professeurs de français des universités et collèges du Canada (APFUCC), Queen's University, Kingston.
1990	Levison, Michael; Lessard, Greg. The Role of Attributes in Natural Language Sentence Generation. Workshop on Attribute Grammars and their Applications (WAGA). Sponsored by INRIA, Paris, France. (Revised version of paper published in volume. See Chapters in Books.)
1990	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael. Using a Sentence Generator as an Aid in Teaching Introductory Linguistics. ACH Conference on Teaching Humanities Computing, Fordham University, New York. [Full paper]
1990	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael; Olsen, Mark. Possible and Impossible Pronouns: Using Textbases and Natural Language Generation in Linguistics Research. ALLC/ACH Joint Annual Conference, University of Siegen, Germany. (Extended abstract in conference proceedings, pp. 150-151.)
1990	Lessard, Greg. Modelling Performance Errors in Advanced Learners of French. 9th World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA), Thessaloniki, Greece. (Abstract in conference proceedings, p. 448.)
1989	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael; Bastianutti, Diego; McDonald, James K.; Hurd, Scott; Smith, Don. The Role of Attributes in a Generative Call Program. ACH/ALLC Joint Annual Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto. (Extended abstract in conference proceedings, pp. 12-13.)
1989	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael; Bastianutti, Diego; McDonald, James K. Vers un ELAO génératif: le projet VINCI. CCALL: First Canadian Conference on Computer-Aided Language Learning, York University / University of Guelph. (Revised version in volume: see Chapters in Books.)
1988	Lessard, Greg. Tom Swifties: analyse sémantique et formelle. Annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, University of Windsor, Windsor.
1988	Levison, Michael; Hurd, Scott; Lessard, Greg; Bastianutti, Diego; McDonald, James K. VINCI: An Intelligent Computer System for Language Teaching. XVth Annual Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Jerusalem. (Revised version of paper published in volume. See Chapters in Books.)
1988	McDonald, James K.; Lessard, Greg; Bastianutti, Diego; Levison, Michael. Q'VINCI Italian Instructional System: Classroom Experience with Q'VINCI and Prospects for the new VINCI System. Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, Missouri.

Miscellaneous

1987-	Levison, Michael; Lessard, Greg. [Software] VINCI Natural Language Generation Environment. Interpreter for morphology, lexicon and syntax data and rules to generate natural language utterances (words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs or dialogues). The language description files and the interpreter form the basis of an environment for modelling linguistic descriptions, for subject testing, and for language teaching. The interpreter itself, written in C, runs under Solaris or Windows. Freely available. See publications, manual and software at: www.cs.queensu.ca/CompLing/
1996-	Levison, Michael; Lessard, Greg. [Reference Manual] The VINCI Generation Environment: Reference Manual, Computing and Information Science, Queen's University. Documentation and software available at: http://www.cs.queensu.ca/CompLing/.
2003	Thomas, Craig; Levison, Michael; Lessard, Greg. Generating Oral French Unpublished. Paper.
2002	Levison, Michael; Thomas, Craig. Jigsaw Puzzles: Problem B ACH/ALLC Joint Annual Conference, Tubingen. [Extended abstract]
2001	Levison, Michael; Lessard, Greg; Gottesman, Ben; Stringer, Michael. Semantic Expressions: An Experiment Unpublished. Paper.
1999	Levison, Michael; Wu, James. The Jigsaw Puzzle Problem Revisited ACH/ALLC Joint Annual Conference, Charlottesville, Va. [Extended abstract on conference website]
1997	Levison, Michael; Lessard, Greg. Towards a Paperless Conference. In ACH/ALLC Joint Annual Conference, Queen's University, Kingston, 1997. (Available at: http://www.ach.org/abstracts/1997/introduction.html)
1997	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael. [Editors] ACH/ALLC '97 Conference Abstracts. The full set of extended abstracts can be found at http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/achallc97/. There is also an ACH/ALLC Conference Abstracts Database search engine.
1998	Lessard, Greg; Levison, Michael. [Guest editors] A Snapshot of Humanities Computing: Selected Papers from ACH/ALLC '97. Special issue of Computers and the Humanities 31/4.

Recent Theses

All theses at Queen's University are available on microfilm. Information can be obtained through National Library of Canada, Canada Theses Service Division, 1 819 953 6221.

2002	Thomas, Craig A Prosodic Transcription Method for Natural Language Generation. MSc, Queen's University, Kingston.
2000	Inoue, Jiro. Hard Realization in Natural Language Generation. MSc, Queen's University, Kingston.
1999	Venour, Chris. The Computational Generation of a Class of Pun. MSc, Queen's University, Kingston.
1998	Walker, Derek. A Text Planning Extension to VINCI. MSc, Queen's University, Kingston.