Harry Bunt

Areas of expertise

• Dialogue theory and computational pragmatics -- Development of "Dynamic Interpretation Theory" (DIT), a computational semantic-pragmatic theory of dialogue in which utterances are viewed as multifunctional combinations of dialogue acts, defined as context-changing operators. Specification of a formal and computational semantics of dialogue acts. Book Abduction, Belief and Context in Dialogue; Studies in Computational Pragmatics (with Bill Black). See also the DIT++ taxonomy of dialogue acts (and here's about multifunctionality in dialogue), and about grounding.
• Formal and computational semantics -- Setting up and organising the series of International Conferences on Computational Semantics (IWCS), publishing four books on the computation of meaning (Computing Meaning, Vol. 1 (1999), Computing Meaning, Vol. 2 (2001), Computing Meaning, Vol. 3 (2007)) and Computing Meaning, Vol. 4 (2014, with Johan Bos and Stephen Pulman).
• Dialogue annotation and interpretation -- Design of DIT++ mulidimensional dialogue annotation scheme; Main author of ISO 24617-2 international standard for dialogue act annotation, based on DIT++; Development of the DialogBank, a public resource consisting of dialogues annotated according to the ISO 24617-2 standard (also with parts according to DIT++)
• Semantic annotation -- Principles of semantic annotation (ISO standard 24617-6). Annotation of quantification -- preparatory study for developing an ISO standard for the annotation of semantic information relating to quantification; Setting up and organization of the "ISA" series of Joint ACL-ISO Workshops on Interoperable Semantic Annotation - the most recent editions, ISA-14, ISA-15, and ISA-16 took place in Santa Fe (New Mexico) in 2018, in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2019, and in Marseille, France, in 2020. The next one, ISA-17, will be held in Groningen, the Netherlands (or on-line) in the context of the IWCS 2021. Look here for work related to semantic annotation in the framework of ISO standards and related research. Look here for semantic annotation work in the LIRICS project, concerning semantic roles.
• Context modelling and context-driven dialogue management -- Supervision of Andrei Malchanau's PhD thesis work at the University of Saarland, Saarbruecken, see Andrei Malchanau
  'Cognitive Architecture for Multimodal Multidimensional Dialogue Management.' Spoken Dialogue Systems Group, Univeristy of Saarland, Saarbruecken, 2019.
• Natural language parsing and generation -- Organisation of the series of ACL/SIGPARSE-sponsored International Conferences on Parsing Technologies (IWPT), most recently IWPT 2013 in Nara, Japan, and publishing four books on natural language parsing with contributions emerging from these conferences (see below)
• Multimodal human-human and human-machine communication -- Organisation of the first and second conference on Cooperative Multimodal Communication (CMC/95 and CMC/98, together with Robbert-Jan Beun), and of the Dagstuhl Seminar "Fusion and Coordination in Multimodal Interaction", with Mark Maybury and Wolfgang Wahlster.

Projects

• Semantic Annotation of Quantification (ISO Semantic Annotation Framework, Part 12 (ISO WD 24617-12). Project of the International Organization for Standardization ISO: Definition of an international standard for the annotation of quantification phenomena (project leader). See the preparatory study.
• The DialogBank. Development of a public resource consisting of dialogues annotated according to the ISO 24617-2 standard (also with parts according to DIT++ or other annotation schemes). See the 2018 paper in the Language Resources and Evaluation journal.
• Dialogue Act Analysis and Annotation ISO Semantic Annotation Framework, Part 2: Dialogue Acts. ISO 24617-2, an international standard for dialogue annotaation (ISO). Definition of an international standard for dialogue annotation (project leader)
• Principles of Semantic Annotation. ISO Semantic Annotation Framework, Part 6: International standard for the definition of semantic annotation schemes.
• Semantic Annotation Framework, Part 8: Semantic Relations in Discourse. Project ISO 24617-8, International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Definition of an international standard for the annotation of discourse relations (co-project leader together with Rashmi Prasad)
• EU Project Metalogue (cognitive skills training in multimodal interaction), with Volha Petukhova and Andrei Malchanei at Saarland University, Saarbruecken
• EU COST Action TextLink - Structuring Discourse in Multilingual Europe
• EU Project Madrigal, with Simon Keizer (Herriott-Watt University, Edinburgh)
• Dynamic Interpretation and Dialogue Theory (further development and application of DIT - see the DIT++ taxonomy of dialogue acts)
  
• Multidimensional Dialogue Modelling. NWO MOSAIC project with Olga Petukhova.
• ISO Semantic Annotation Framework, Part 1: Time and Events. ISO Project 24617-1, International Organization for Standardization (ISO) (co-project leader with James Pustejovsky, Branimir Boguraev, and Kiyong Lee)
• Semantic Annotation Framework, Part 4: Semantic Roles. Project 24617-4, International Organization for Standardization (ISO) (with Martha Palmer (project leader), James Pustejovsky, Kiyong Lee and Antonio Pareja-Lora)
• LIRICS: Linguistic Infrastructure for Interoperable Resources and Systems. eContent Project nr. 22.236 (with Mandy Schiffrin and Volha Petukhova) -- see here for results in the area of semantic annotation, concerning semantic roles..
• PARADIME:Parallel Agent-nased Dialogue Management Engine, project within the NWO IMIX program (with Simon Keizer and Jacques Terken)
• DIAMANT: Dialogue Management Theory. Subproject of the DIAMOND project (with Jeroen Geertzen)
• Computing Meaning in Interaction. Subproject of the DIAMOND project (with Roser Morante)
• Context-driven dialogue management for spoken human-computer interaction (with Yann Girard and Jacques Terken)
• Context-driven generation of multimodal dialogue acts (with Ielka van der Sluis and Emiel Krahmer) 
• IDUSI: Natural dialogue structure and user interface design (with Hans van Dam and Jacques Terken) 
• Machine learning and dialogue strategies (with Piroska Lendvai, Antal van den Bosch and Emiel Krahmer) 
• NaDenK-1: Context-driven dialogue management for spoken human-computer interaction (with Yann Girard, Emiel Krahmer and Raymond Veldhuis)
• NaDenK-2: Context-driven generation of multimodal dialogue acts (with Ielka van der Sluis, Emiel Krahmer, and Robbert-Jan Beun)
• MATIS: Multimodal Access to Transaction and Information Systems (with Huub Prust and others)
• IDUSI: Natural dialogue structure and user interface design (with Hans van Dam, Rob van der Willigen and Jacques Terken)
• Machine learning and dialogue strategies (with Piroska Lendvai, Antal van den Bosch and Emiel Krahmer)

Other activities

• Steering Committee member, The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies, Hong Kong.
• General chair and programme chair of the 19th Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-19), Workshop at IWCS 2023, Nancy, June 20, 2023.
• PhD Examiner at University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, for Nathan Duran ('Conversation Analysis for Computational Modelling of Task-oriented Dialogue'), December 2022.
• General chair and programme chair of the 18th Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-18), Workshop at LREC 2022, Marseille, June 20, 2022.
• Program committee member of the Hongkong-Beijing-Lancaster Symposium on Research Methodologies in PhD Studies in Linguistics (REMLing 2022), 15-18 March 2022.
• Visiting Professor, Dialogue Systems Group, City University of Hong Kong
• PhD Examiner at Trinity College, Dublin, for David Woods ('Strings for Temporal Annotation and Semantic Representation of Events').
• General chair and programme chair of the 17th Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-17), Workshop at IWCS 2021, Groningen (Netherlands)/online, June 16-17, 2021.
• Member of review committee for "Vidi" research proposals of the Dutch Research Councel (NWO).
• External Course Examiner for Computer Science and Linguistics (CSLL) at Trinity College, Dublin.
• Reviewer of research proposals for the Hong Kong Ressearch Grants Councel.
• General chair and programme chair of the 16th Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-16), Marseille, France, May 12, 2020.
• Editorial Board member, Journal of Intercultural Communicatioon
• General chair and programme chair of the 15th Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-15), at IWCS 2019,Gothenburg, Sweden, May 23-28, 2019
• General chair and programme chair of the 14th Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-14), at COLING 2018,Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, August 2018
• Area Chair at COLING 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, August 2018
• General chair and programme chair of the 13th Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-12), Montpellier, France, September 19, 2017
• Co-organizer of the 15th national Dutch Philosophy Day ("Dag van de filosofie"), Theater Cinecitta, Tilburg, Netherlands, April 8, 2017
• General chair and programme chair of the 12th Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-12), Portoroz, Slovenia, May 28, 2016
• Dag van de Filosofie ("Philosophy Day") 2014, Saturday April 12, 2014, Tilburg
• General chair of IWPT 2013, the 13th International Conference on Parsing Technologies, Nara, Japan, November 13-15, 2013
• General chair and programme chair of the 9th Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-9), Potsdam, Germany, March 19-20, 2013
• General chair and programme chair of the 8th Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-8), "ISA in Pisa", Pisa, Italy, October 3-5, 2012
• General chair and programme chair of the 7th Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-7),, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2012
• General chair of IWPT 2011, the 12th International Conference on Parsing Technologies, Dublin, October 2011
• General chair of IWPT 2011, the 12th International Conference on Parsing Technologies, Dublin, October 2011
• General chair and programme chair of the 6th Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-6), Oxford, UK, January 2011
• General chair and programme chair of the 5th Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-5), Hong Kong, January 2010
• Vice-Dean and Director of Research, Faculty of Arts (2005-2008)
• General chair of the 10th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2009), Paris, October 7-9, 2009
• General chair and programme chair of the 8th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS-8), Tilburg, January 7-9, 2009
• General chair and programme chair of the 4th Joint Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-4), Tilburg, January 5-6, 2009
• General chair of the 9th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2007), Prague, ech Republic, 2007, co-located with the ACL 2007 Conference.
• Member of the Governing Council of EU 6FP project "Companions"
• Organization of the 7th International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-7), Tilburg, January 10-12, 2007
• Organization of ISA-3, the Third Joint Workshop of the ACL-SIGSEM Working Group on the Representation of Multimodal Semantic Information and the ISO TC37/SC4 Task Domain Group on Semantic Content Representation (ISA-3), January 10-11, 2005
• Organization of the 6th International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-6), Tilburg, January 12-14, 2005
• Organization of conference "The Future of the Web: Perspectives, Conditions and Consequences of the Semantic Web", Tilburg, 26-27 March 2003
• Chairman of the SIGSEM Working Group on the Representation of Multimodal Semantic Information
• Organization of the 5th International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-5), Tilburg, January 15-17, 2003
• Organization of the First Working Meeting of the ACL-SIGSEM Working Group on the Representation of Multimodal Semantic Information, Tilburg, January 14, 2003
• Member of Technical Committee 37, Subcommittee 4 on International Standards for Terminology and Language Resources Management of ISO, the International Standards Organization
• Co-chair and co-organizer, with Mark Maybury and Wolfgang Wahlster, of Dagstuhl Seminar "Coordination and Fusion in Multimodal Interaction", Schloss Dagstuhl Conference Center (Germany), 28 October - 2 November 2001.
• Chairman of SIGPARSE, the ACL Special Interest Group in Parsing
• General Director of the Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence (Instituut voor Taal- en Kennistechnologie, ITK), 1988-1995
• Dean of the Faculty of Arts, 1997-2000
• Director of SPIN programme `Human Computer Communication' (1988-1994)
• Director of inter-university research project DenK (1989-2001) and follow-up `NaDenK'
• Chairman of Working Group 2.5 (Natural Language Processing) of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), 1990-1996
• Chairman of the 4th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies IWPT'95, Prague and Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, September 1995
• Director of SPIN programme `Human Computer Communication' (October 1988-December 1994)
• Director of inter-university research project DenK and follow-ups
• Reviewer of the Verbmobil project (1992-2000)
• Chairman of the 5th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies IWPT'97, Boston/Cambridge (MA), September 1997
• Secretary of SIGSEM, the ACL Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics
• Member of the editorial board of Artificial Intelligence Review
• Member of the editorial board of the journal Grammars
• Member of the editorial board of Cognitive Processing
• Chairman of the 6th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies IWPT'2000, February 2000, Trento, Italy and of the 7th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies IWPT'2001, Beijing, October 2001
• Organiser and Program Chair of the International Workshops on Computational Semantics (IWCS'94; IWCS-2, 197; IWCS-3, 1999; IWCS-4, 2001)
• Chairman of the First and Second International Conference on Cooperative Multimodal Communication (CMC/95 and CMC/98)

Current and former PhD students

• Mahmoud Shokrollahi-Far
• David Woods (Dublin)
• Andree Malchanau (Saarbruecken)
• Rintse van der Werff
• Sander Wubben
• Philip C. Jackson, Jr
• Olga Petukhova
• Hans van Dam
• Roser Morante
• Jeroen Geertzen
• Toine Bogers
• Marieke van Erp
• Jan Jaspars
• Tijn Borghuis
• Emiel Krahmer
• Paola Monachesi
• Mieke Rats
• Anita Cremers
• Paul Piwek
• Leen Kievit
• Hans Paijmans
• Rene Ahn
• Margriet Verlinden
• Sabine Buchholz
• Piroska Lendvai
• Iris Hendrickx
• Ielka van der Sluis
• Sander Canisius
• Erik-Jan van der Linden
• Elias Thijsse
• Robbert-Jan Beun

Publications: Books

• Computing Meaning, Vol. 4, Harry Bunt, Johan Bos and Stephen Pulman, editors. Text, Speech and Language Technology Series, Springer: Dordrecht 2014.
• Trends in Parsing Technology, Harry Bunt, Paola Merlo and Joakim Nivre, editors. Text, Speech and Language Technology Series, Vol. 43. Springer: Dordrecht, 2010, pp. 1--297.
• Computing Meaning, Vol. 3 (with Reinhard Muskens) Dordrecht: Kluwer. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy.
• New Developments in Parsing Technology (with John Carroll and Giorgio Satta)). Dordrecht: Kluwer. Text, Speech and Language Technology Series.
• Computing Meaning, Vol. 2 (with Reinhard Muskens and Elias Thijsse). Dordrecht: Kluwer. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 77, 2001.
• Cooperative Multimodal Communication (with Robbert-Jan Beun). Berlin: Springer. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2155.
• Abduction, Belief and Context in Dialogue; Studies in Computational Pragmatics (with Bill Black), Amsterdam: Benjamins, Natural Language Processing Series N0. 1, 2000.
• Advances in Probabilistic and Other Parsing Technologies (with Anton Nijholt). Dordrecht: Kluwer. Text, Speech and Language Technology Series No. 16, 2000.
• Computing Meaning, Vol. 1 (with Reinhard Muskens). Dordrecht: Kluwer. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 73, 1999.
• Multimodal Human-Computer Communication; Systems, Techniques and Experiments (with Robbert-Jan Beun and Tijn Borghuis). Berlin: Springer. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1374, 1998.
• Discontinuous Constituency (with Arthur van Horck). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Natural Language Processing Series No. 6, 1998.
• De informatiemaatschappij en de multiculturele samenleving (with Guus Extra). Tilburg University Press, 1997.
• Recent Advances in Parsing Technology (with Masaru Tomita). Dordrecht: Kluwer. Text, Speech and Language Technology Series No. 1, 1996.
• Mass terms and model-theoretic semantics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press 1985.
• The formal semantics of mass terms. PhD dissertation, University of Amsterdam 1981.

Publications: Papers (selection)

2024:

Harry Bunt
ISO 24617-12: A New Standard for Semantic Annotation. Submitted.

2023:

Harry Bunt and Volha Petukhova
Semantic and Pragmatic Precision in Conversational AI Systems. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 6, Special Issue on Conversational AI. Anita Cremers, Emiel Krahmer, Stephan Raaijmakers and Matthijs Westera, editors. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2023.896729

2022:

Harry Bunt, Maxime Amblard, Johan Bos, Karen Fort, Philippe de Groote, Bruno Guillaume, Chuyuan Li, Pierre Ludmann, Michel Musiol, Guy Perrier, Siyana Pavlova, and Sylvaiin Pogodalla
Quantification Annotation in ISO 24617-12, Second Draft. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022), Marseille, June 20-25, 2022.

Harry Bunt
Intuitive and Formal Transparency in Annotation Schemes. In Proceedings of the 18th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-18), Marseille,June 20, 2022, pp. 102-109.

Harry Bunt (ed.)
Proceedings of the 18th Joint ISO-ACL Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-18),Marseille, June 20, 2022. ELDA, Paris, ISBN 979-10-95546-81-8.

Harry Bunt
The multifunctionality of utterances in interactive discourse. In Multifunctionality in English, Zihan Yin and Elaine Vine (eds.). Routledge, London & New York, pp. 11-29. DOI: 10.4324/9781003155072-3.

2021:

Harry Bunt
The ISA-17 Quantification Challenge: Background and Introduction. In Proceedings of the 17th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-17), pp. 33-40.

Harry Bunt
Observations on the use of QuantML. 17th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-17), Special track on quantification.

Harry Bunt (ed.)
Proceedings 17th Joint ISO-ACL Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-17), ISBN 978-1-954885-20-6.

2020:

Harry Bunt
Annotation of Quantification: The Current State of ISO 24617-12. In Proceedings of the 16th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-16), pp. 1-13.

Harry Bunt, Volha Petukhova, Emer Gilmartin, Catherine Pelachaud, Alex Fang, Simon Keizer, and Laurent Prevot
The ISO Standard for Dialogue Act Annotation, Second Edition. In Proceedings 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), Marseille.

Harry Bunt
Computational Pragmatics: An annotated bibliography. In Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. (in press)

Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt
'Adapting the ISO 24617-2 Dialogue Act Annotation Scheme for Modelling Medical Consultations'. In Proceedings of the 16th Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-16), pp. 74-86.

Harry Bunt
Semantic Annotation of Quantification in Natural Language - second, revised and extended edition). TiCC Technical Report 2020-2, Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication and Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University.

Harry Bunt (ed.)
Proceedings 16th Joint ISO-ACL Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-16), Marseille, ISBN 978-1-948087-63-6.

2019:

Harry Bunt, Volha Petukhova, Andrei Malchanau, Alex Chengyu Fang, and Kars Wijnhoven
The DialogBank: Dialogues with Interoperable Annotations. Language Resources and Evaluation 53:213-249. Available online at DOI: 10.1007/s10579-018-9436-9

Harry Bunt
Plug-ins for content annotation of dialogue acts. In Proceedings of the 15th Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-15), Gothenburg, Sweden, pp. 34-45.

James Pustejovsky, Kiyong Lee and Harry Bunt
The semantics of ISO-Space. In Proceedings of the 15th Joint ISO-ACL Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-15), Gothenburg, Sweden, pp. 46-53.

Harry Bunt
An annotation scheme for quantification. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2019), Gothenburg, Sweden, pp. 31-42.

Andrei Malchanau, Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt
'Multimodal dialogue system evaluation: A case study applying usability standards.' In Proceedings Ninth International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS-9) Singapore.

Harry Bunt (ed.)
Proceedings 15th Joint ISO-ACL Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-15), Gothenburg, Sweden, May 2019, pp. 1-107. ISBN 978-1-948087-63-6.

Harry Bunt
Guidelines for using ISO standard 24617-2 for dialogue annotation. TiCC Technical Report 2019-1, Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication and Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University.

Andrei Malchanau, Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt
'Towards Integration of Cognitive Models in Dialogue Management: Designing the Virtual Negotiation Coach Application.' Dialogue and Discourse 9(2), 35-79. DOI: 10.5087/dad.2018.202. See also the online version.

2018:

Harry Bunt
Semantic Annotation of Quantification in Natural Language -- preparatory study for developing an ISO standard TiCC Technical Report 2018-15, Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication and Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University.

Harry Bunt, Emer Gilmartin, Simon Keizer, Catherine Pelachaud, Volha Petukhova, Laurent Prevot and Mariet Theune
'Downward Compatible Revision of Dialogue Act Annotation.' In Proceedings 14th Joint ISO-ACL Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-14), Santa Fe (New Mexico), USA, August 2018, pp. 21-34.

Kiyong Lee, James Pustejovsky and Harry Bunt
'The Revision of ISO-Space and the Role of the Movement Link.' In Proceedings 14th Joint ISO-ACL Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-14), Santa Fe (New Mexico), USA, August 2018, pp. 35-44.

Harry Bunt (ed.)
Proceedings 14th Joint ISO-ACL Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-14), Santa Fe (New Mexico), USA, August 2018, pp. 1-107. ISBN 978-1-948087-63-6.

Harry Bunt, James Pustejovsky, and Kiyong Lee
'Towards an ISO Standard for the Annotation of Quantification.' In Proceedings 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), Miyazaki, Japan, May 2018.

Andrei Malchanau, Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt
'Multimodal dialogue system evaluation: a case study applying usability standards.' In Proceedings Ninth International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (ISWDS 2018), Singapore, May 2018.

Alex Chengyu Fang, Yanjao Liu, Jing Cao and Harry Bunt
'Chinese Multimodal Resources for DA Analysis.' In Chu-Ren Huang, Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, and Barbara Meisterernst (eds) The Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics, Chapter 17. Routledge, Oxford.

Volha Petukhova, Andrei Malchanau and Harry Bunt
'Towards Continuous Corpus Creation.' In Proceedings 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), Miyazaki, Japan, May 2018.

2017:

Harry Bunt, Volha Petukhova and Alex Chengyu Fang
'Revisiting the ISO Standard for Dialogue Act Annotation.' In Proceedings 13th Joint ISO-ACL Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-13), Montpellier, pp. 37-50.

Harry Bunt
'Computational Pragmatics'. Chapter 17, Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics, Yan Huang, editor. Oxford University Press, pp. 326-345.

Andrei Malchanau, Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt
'Virtual Debate Coach design: Assessing multimodal argumentation performance.' In Proceedings International Conference om Multimodal Interaction ICMI 2017.

Volha Petukhova, Harry Bunt and Andrei Malchanau
'Computing negotiation update semantics in multi-issue bargaining dialogues.' In Proceedings 21st Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL 2017 - SaarDial), Saarbruecken, August 2017.

Harry Bunt (ed.)
Proceedings of the 13th Joint ISO - ACL SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-9), Montpellier, France, September 2017.

Volha Petukhova, Manoj Raju and Harry Bunt
'Multimodal Markers of Persuasive Speech: Designing a Virtual Debate Coach.' In Proceedings Interspeech 2017 Situated Interaction, Stockholm, August 2017, pp. 142-146.

Harry Bunt
'The Annotation of Quantification.' In Proceedings 13th Joint ISO-ACL Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-13), Montpellier, pp. 84-94.

James Pustejovsky, Harry Bunt, and Annie Zaenen
'Designing Annotation Schemes: From Theory to Model.' In Nancy Ide and James Pustejovsky (eds): Handbook of Linguistic Annotation, Springer, Berlin.

2016:

Harry Bunt, Volha Petukhova, David Traum and Jan Alexandersson
'Dialogue Act Annotation with the ISO 24617-2 Standard'. In Deborah Dahl (ed.) Multimodal Interaction with W3C Standards: Towards Natural User Interfaces to Everything, Springer, Berlin.

Volha Petukhova, Andrei Malchanau and Harry Bunt
'Modelling argumentation in parliamentary debates: data collection, analysis and test case'. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin.

Harry Bunt and Rashmi Prasad
'ISO DR-Core (ISO 24617-8): Core Concepts for the Annotation of Discourse Relations.' Proceedings 12th Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, Portoro z, Slovenia, May 2016, pp. 45-54.

Harry Bunt, Volha Petukhova, Andrei Malchanau, Alex Chengyu Fang, and Kars Wijnhoven
'The DialogBank.' In Proceedings 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), Portoroz, Slovenia, May 23-29. ELRA, Paris.

Harry Bunt
'Principles of Semantic Annotation.' ISO International Standard 24617-6. International Organisation for Standardisation ISO, Geneva.

Andrei Malchanau, Volha Petukhova, Harry Bunt and Dietrich Klakow
'Multidimensional dialogue management for tutoring systems.'' In Proceedings of the 7th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2015), Poznan, Poland.

2015:

Volha Petukhova, Andrei Malchanau and Harry Bunt
'Modelling argumentation in parliamentary debates'. Proceedings of CMNA XV, The 15th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument, Bertinoro, Italy, October 2015.

Harry Bunt
'On the principles of semantic annotation.' Proceedings 11th Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, London, April 2015, pp. 1-13.

Volha Petukhova, Harry Bunt and Andrei Malchanau and Ramkumar Aruchamy
'Experimenting with grounding strategies in dialogue'. Proceedings of GoDial, The 19th International Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL 2015), Gothenburg, August 2015. 

Rashmi Prasad and Harry Bunt
'Semantic Relations in Discourse: The Current State of ISO 24617-8'. Proceedings 11th Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, London, April 2015, pp. 80-92.

Harry Bunt (ed.)
Proceedings of the 11th Joint ISO - ACL SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-11), Queen Mary University London, April 2015.

2014:

Harry Bunt
'Annotations that effectively contribute to semantic interpretation'. In Computing Meaning, Vol. 4, Harry Bunt, Johan Bos and Stephen Pulman, editors. Springer, Dordrecht.

Harry Bunt, Andreas Maletti and Joakim Nivre
Journal of Logic and Computation 24 (2), Special Issue on Grammars, Parsers, and Recognizers',  Oxford University Press

Harry Bunt, Andreas Maletti and Joakim Nivre
'Grammars, Parsers, and Recognizers'. In Journal of Logic and Computing, Vol. 24 (2), Oxford University Press.

Volha Petukhova, Andrei Malchanau and Harry Bunt
'Interoperability of Dialogue Corpora through ISO 24617-2-based Querying'. In Proceedings 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2014), Reykjavik, May 25-29. ELRA, Paris.

Harry Bunt (ed.)
Proceedings of the Tenth Joint ISO - ACL SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-10), Reykjavik, May 26, 2014.

Harry Bunt
'A context-change semantics for dialogue acts'. In Computing Meaning, Vol. 4, Harry Bunt, Johan Bos and Stephen Pulman, editors. Springer, Dordrecht.

Harry Bunt, Johan Bos and Stephen Pulman
'Computing Meaning: Annotation, Representation, and Inference'. In Computing Meaning, Vol. 4, Harry Bunt, Johan Bos and Stephen Pulman, editors. Springer, Dordrecht.

Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt
'Incremental Recognition and Prediction of Dialogue Acts'. In Computing Meaning, Vol. 4, Harry Bunt, Johan Bos and Stephen Pulman, editors. Springer, Dordrecht.

2013:

Harry Bunt and Martha Palmer
`Conceptual and Representational Choices in Defining an ISO standard for Semantic Role Annotation'. In Proceedings Ninth Joint ISO - ACL SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-9), Potsdam, pp. 41-50.

Harry Bunt, Alex Fang, Jin Cao, Xiaoyue Liu and Volha Pethukova
`Issues in the addition of ISO standard annotations to the Switchboard corpus'. In Proceedings Ninth Joint ISO ACL SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-9), Potsdam, March 19-20. 

Harry Bunt
'The annotation of quantification and its interpretation'. In Proceedings 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2013), Potsdam, March 20-22.

Harry Bunt, Khalil Sima'an and Liang Huang (eds.)
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2013), Nara, Japan.

Harry Bunt
A methodology for designing semantic annotations. TiCC Technical Report 2013-001, Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication and Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University.

Harry Bunt (ed.)
Proceedings of the Ninth Joint ISO - ACL SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-9), Potsdam, March 19-20.

Alex Fang, Jin Cao, Xiaoyue Liu and Harry Bunt
'Lexical Characteristics of Dialogue Acts in the Switchboard Corpus of Telephone Conversations.' Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research, No 3, Vol 44. pp 28-40. (in Chinese)

2012:

Harry Bunt, Jan Alexandersson, Jean Carletta, Jae-Woong Choe, Alex Chengyu Fang, Koiti Hasida, Volha Petukhova, Andrei Popescu-Belis, Claudia Soria, and David Traum
ISO 24617-2 International Standard for Dialogue Act Annotation. International Organisation for Standardisation ISO, Geneve, September 2012.

Harry Bunt
`Defining languages for semantic annotation with an abstract syntax and a formal semantics'. Forthcoming in Language Resources and Evaluation./p>

Kiyong Lee and Harry Bunt
'Counting time and events'. In Proceedings 8th Joint ISO-ACL SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-8), Pisa, October 2012. ILC-CNR, Pisa.

Alex Fang, Jing Cao, Harry Bunt, and Xiaoyue Liu
`The annotation of the Switchboard corpus with the new ISO standard for Dialogue Act Analysis'. In Proceedings 8th Joint ISO-ACL SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-8), Pisa, October 2012. ILC-CNR, Pisa.

Harry Bunt
`The semantics of feedback'. In Proceedings of SeineDial, 16th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL 2012), Paris, September 19-21, 2012.

Harry Bunt, Jan Alexandersson, Jae-Woong Choe, Alex Chengyu Fang, Koiti Hasida, Volha Petukhova, Andrei Popescu-Belis, and David Traum
`ISO 24617-2: A semantically-based standard for dialogue annotation'. In Proceedings 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Istanbul, May 2012. ELRA, Paris.

Harry Bunt, Michael Kipp, and Volha Petukhova
`Using DiAML and ANVIL for multimodal dialogue annotation'. In Proceedings 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Istanbul, May 2012. ELRA, Paris.

Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt
`The coding and annotation of multimnodal dialogue acts'. In Proceedings 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Istanbul, May 2012. ELRA, Paris.

Harry Bunt, Rashmi Prasad and Aravind Joshi
`First steps toward an ISO standard for the annotation of discourse relations'. In Proceedings Joint 7th Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-7), 3rd Workshop on Semantic Representation of Spoken Language (SRSL3), and Workshop on the Interoperability and Integration of Multimodal Resources and Tools (I2MRT), Istanbul, May 2012. ELRA, Paris.

Alex Fang, Harry Bunt, Jing Cao, and Xiaoyue Liu
Applicability Verification of a New ISO Standard for Dialogue Act Annotation with the Switchbaord Corpus. In: Proceedings of EACL 2012 Workshop on Innovative Hybrid Approaches to the Processing of Textual Data, Avignon, April 23, 2012.

2011:

Harry Bunt
`Multifunctionality in dialogue'. Computer Speech and Language 25, 222-245. (April 2011)

Claire Bonial, William Corvey, Martha Palmer, Volha Petukhova, and Harry Bunt
A Hierarchical Unification of LIRICS and VerbNet Semantic Roles. In: Proceedings IEEE-ICSC 2011 Workshop on Semantic Annotation for Computational Linguistic Resources, Stanford, CA, September 22, 2011.

Harry Bunt, Joakim Nivre and Ozlem Cetinoglu (eds.)
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2011), Dublin, Ireland.

Harry Bunt
`The Semantics of Dialogue Acts'. In Proceedings 9th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2011), Oxford, UK January 12-14, 2011, pp. 1-14.
Accompanying slides here.

Harry Bunt
`Abstract syntax and semantics in semantic annotation, applied to time and events'. In Eunryoung Lee and Aesun Yoong (eds.) Recent Trends in Language and Knowledge Processing. Hankukmunhwasa, Seoul 2011.

Alex Fang, Harry Bunt, Jing Cao, and Xiaoyue Liu
Relating the Semantics of Dialogue Acts to Linguistic Properties: A Machine Learning Perspective through Lexical Cues. In: Proceedings IEEE-ICSC 2011 Workshop on Semantic Annotation for Computational Linguistic Resources, Stanford, CA, September 22, 2011.

Simon Keizer, Harry Bunt, and Volha Petukhova
Multidimensional Dialogue Management. In: A. van den Bosch and G. Bouma (eds.) Interactive Multimodal Question Answering. Springer, Berlin 2011, pp. 57-86.

Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt
`Incremental dialogue act understanding' In Proceedings 9th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2011), Oxford, UK January 12-14, 2011, pp. 235-244.

Harry Bunt
`Interpretation and generation of dialogue with multidimensional context models'. In: A. Esposito (ed.) (Toward Autonomous, Adaptive, and Context-Aware Multimedia Interfaces: Theoretical and Practical Issues. Berlin: Springer 2011, pp. 214-242..

Volha Petukhova, Laurent Prevot and Harry Bunt
`Discourse relations in dialogue' In Proceedings 6th Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-6), Oxford, UK January 11-12, 2011.

Claire Bonial, Susan Brown, William Conley, Volha Petukhova, Martha Palmer and Harry Bunt
`An Exploratory Comparison of Thematic Roles in VerbNet and LIRICS' In Proceedings 6th Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-6), Oxford, UK January 11-12, 2011.

Harry Bunt (ed.)
'Proceedings 6th Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-6)', Oxford, UK January 11-12, 2011.

Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt
'Grounding by nodding.' In Proceedings of GESPIN 2009, Conference on Gestures and Speech in Interaction, Poznan, September 2009.

Harry Bunt
`Multifunctionality and multidimensional dialogue semantics'. In Proceedings of DiaHolmia 2009, (invited talk), Stockholm, June 2009.

Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt
'Who's next? Speaker-selection mechanisms in multiparty dialogue'. In Proceedings of DiaHolmia 2009, 8th Internal Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Stockholm, June 2009.

Harry Bunt
'The DIT++ taxonomy for functional dialogue markup'. In Proceedings of the AAMAS 2009 Workshop "Towards a Standard Markup Language for Embodied Dialogue Acts" (EDAML 2009), Dirk Heylen, Catherine Pelachaud, Roberta Catizone, and David Traum, editors, Budapest, May 12, 2009.

Harry Bunt and Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (eds.)
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2009), Paris.

Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt
'The independence of dimensions in multidimensional dialogue act annotation'. tab In Proceedings of the NAACL 2009 conference, Boulder, Colorado, June 2009, pp. 197-200.

Harry Bunt
'Semantic Annotations as Complementary to Underspecified Semantic Representations'. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS-8), Tilburg, January 7-9, 2009, pp. 33-45.

Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt
'Towards a multidimensional semantics for discourse markers'. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS-8), Tilburg, January 7-9,2009

Harry Bunt and Chwhynny Overbeeke
'A note on the definition of semantic annotation languages'. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS-8), Tilburg, January 7-9, 2009, pp. 268-271.

2008:

Harry Bunt and Chwhynny Overbeeke
`An Extensible, Compositional Semantics of Temporal Annotation.' In Proceedings of LAW-II, the Second Linguistic Annotation Workshop, Marrakech, Morocco, May 26-27, 2008.

Jeroen Geertzen, Volha Petukhova, and Harry Bunt
`Evaluating Dialogue Act Tagging with Naive and Expert Annotators.' In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008), Marrakech, Morocco, May 28-30, 2008.

Harry Bunt and Chwhynny Overbeeke
`Towards formal interpretation of semantic annotation.' In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008), Marrakech, Morocco, May 28-30, 2008.

Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt
`LIRICS semantic role annotation: design and evaluation of a set of data categories.' In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008), Marrakech, Morocco, May 28-30, 2008.

Harry Bunt and Roser Morante
`The Weakest Link.' In V. Matousek and P. Mautner (2008) (eds.) Text, Speech and Dialogue. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 4629, Springer, Berlin.

2007:

Harry Bunt
`The Semantics of Semantic Annotation.' Invited paper presented at PACLIC-21, the 21st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Compuation, Seoul, Korea, November 2,. 2007. In Proceedings of PACLIC-21, the 21st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Compuation, Seoul, Korea, November 1-3, 2007.

Harry Bunt
`Multifunctionality and Multidimensional Dialogue Act Annotation.' In E. Ahlsen et al. (ed.) Communication - Action - Meaning, A Festschrift to Jens Allwood. Gothenburg University Press, August 2007, pp. 237 -- 259.

Harry Bunt, Roser Morante, and Simon Keizer
`An empirically based computational model of grounding in dialogue.' In Proceedings of the Eighth SIGDIAL Conference on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2007). Antwerp, 1-2 September, 2007, pp. 283-290.

Kiyong Lee, Branimir Boguraev, Harry Bunt, Nancy Ide and James Pustejovsky
`ISO-TimeML and its Applications'. ISO TC37 Conference, Provo, Utah, August 13, 2007.

Jeroen Geertzen, Volha Petukhova, and Harry Bunt
`A multidimensional approach to utterance segmentation and dialogue act classification.' In Proceedings of the Eighth SIGDIAL Conference on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2007). Antwerp, 1-2 September, 2007, pp. 140-149.

Harry Bunt
`Semantic Underspecification: Which Technique for What Purpose?.' In: Harry Bunt and Reinhard Muskens (eds) Computing Meaning, Vol. 3. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 83, Springer, Dordrecht, 2007, pp. 55-85.

Harry Bunt and Paola Merlo (eds.)
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2007), Prague.

Roser Morante, Simon Keizer and Harry Bunt
`Dialogue simulation and context dynamics for dialogue management.' In J. Nivre, H.-J. Kaalep, K. Muischnek, and M. Keit (eds) Proceedings of the 16th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 2007). Tartu, Estonia, pp. 310-317.

Simon Keizer and Harry Bunt
`Evaluating combinations of dialogue acts'. In Proceedings of the Eighth SIGDIAL Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2007), Antwerp, September, 2007, pp. 158-165.

Roser Morante, Simon Keizer and Harry Bunt
`A dialogue act based model for context updating.' In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (DECALOG 2007). Trento, 30 May - 3 July, 2007, pp. 9-16.

Harry Bunt and Amanda Schiffrin
`Interoperable concepts for dialogue act annotation.' In Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-7). Tilburg, January 10-12, 2007, pp. 16-27.

Harry Bunt and Reinhard Muskens
'Computing the semantic information in an utterance'. In H. Bunt and R. Muskens (eds) Computing Meaning, Volume 3. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 83, Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 1-10.

Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt
`A Multidimensional Approach to Multimodal Dialogue Act Annotation.' In Proceedings Seventh International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-7). Tilburg, January 10-12, 2007, pp. 142-153.

Volha Petukhova, Harry Bunt and Amanda Schiffrin
`Defining Semantic Roles.' In Proceedings Seventh International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-7). Tilburg, January 10-12, 2007, pp. 362-365.

2006:

Jeroen Geertzen and Harry Bunt
`Measuring annotator agreement in a complex hierarchical dialogue act scheme'. In Proceedings of the Seventh SIGDIAL Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2006), Sydney, July 15-16, 2006.

Simon Keizer and Harry Bunt
`Multidimensional dialogue management'. In Proceedings of the Seventh SIGDIAL Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2006), Sydney, July 15-16, 2006.

Harry Bunt
'Dimensions in Dialogue Act Annotation'. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006). Genova, Italy, May 24-26, 2006.

Harry Bunt and Amanda Schiffrin
`Methodologial aspects of semantic annotation'. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006). Genova, Italy, May 24-26, 2006.

Jacques Terken, Hans van Dam and Harry Bunt
`Cooperative assistance for human-system interaction'. In Proceedings of the 16th World Conference on Ergonomics (IEA2006), Maastricht, July 10-14, 2006.

Harry Bunt
`Mass Terms'. In Keith Brown (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 5757-5760.

Harry Bunt, Michael Kipp, Mark Maybury and Wolfgang Wahlster
`Fusion and Coordination for Multimodal Interactive Information Presentation'. In: O. Stock and M. Zancanaro (eds) Multimodal Intelligent Information Presentation. Springer, Dordrecht 2005, pp. 325-339.

Rieks op den Akker, Harry Bunt, Simon Keizer and Boris van Schooten
`From Question Answering to Spoken Dialogue: Towards an Information Search Assistant for Interactive Multimodal Information Extraction'. In Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Interspeech 2005, Lisbon, September 2005, pp. 2793-2797.

Harry Bunt and Yann Girard
`Designing an Open, Multidimensional Dialogue Act Taxonomy'. In Claire Gardent & Bertrand Gaiffe (eds) DIALOR'05, Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. Nancy, June 9-11, 2005.

Harry Bunt and Rob Malouf (eds.)
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2006), Vancouver, British COlumbia.