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  • Lade, S., Willis, A., Nylk, J. and Howson, O., 2026, ‘Domain-Adaptive Pre-training for Automated Short Answer Grading in Conceptual Physics: Reliability, Question-Level Analysis, and Error Reduction’, in Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2026), 3-4 Jul 2026, San Diego, California, United States., https://oro.open.ac.uk/110742/.
  • Willis, A. and Third, A., 2026, ‘AMATI at BEA 2026 Shared Task 2: Automatic Short Answer Grading with Inductive Logic Programming and a Large Language Model’, in Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2026), 3-4 Jul 2026, San Diego, California, United States., https://oro.open.ac.uk/110741/.
  • Willis, A., 2026, ‘How Did We Get Here?: A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence’, in Baker, Geoff and Caton, Lucy eds. AI-Powered Pedagogy and Curriculum Design: Practical Insights for Educators. New York, USA and Oxon, UK: Routledge, pp. 13–33., https://oro.open.ac.uk/106049/.
  • Bolzoni, A., Willis, A., Sharp, D., Linson, A. and Laney, R., 2023, ‘Bringing Timbral Shapes to Interactive Music Systems’, in CHIME One Day Workshop 2023, 4 Dec 2023, The Open University, Milton Keynes., https://oro.open.ac.uk/98023/.
  • Crilley, R., Gillespie, M., Vidgen, B. and Willis, A., 2022, ‘Understanding RT’s Audiences: Exposure Not Endorsement for Twitter Followers of Russian State-Sponsored Media’, The International Journal of Press/Politics, 27(1), pp. 220–242., https://oro.open.ac.uk/74257/.
  • Crilley, R., Gillespie, M., Kazakov, V. and Willis, A., 2021, ‘‘Russia isn’t a country of Putins!’: How RT bridged the credibility gap in Russian public diplomacy during the 2018 FIFA World Cup’, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 24(1), pp. 136–152., https://oro.open.ac.uk/77190/.
  • Howson, O., Adeliyi, A., Willis, A., Hirst, T., Charlton, P., Gooch, D., Rosewell, J., Richards, M., Wermelinger, M., Piwek, P., Savage, S., Lowndes, C., Thomas, E. and Smith, A., 2020, ‘Best Practices in using Technological Infrastructures’, The Institute of Coding., https://oro.open.ac.uk/80350/.
  • Crilley, R., Gillespie, M. and Willis, A., 2020, ‘Tweeting the Russian revolution: RT’s #1917LIVE and social media re-enactments as public diplomacy’, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 23(3), pp. 354–373., https://oro.open.ac.uk/67310/.
  • Willis, A., Charlton, P. and Hirst, T., 2020, ‘Developing Students' Written Communication Skills with Jupyter Notebooks’, in Technical Symposium of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), 11-14 Mar 2020, Portland, OR, USA., https://oro.open.ac.uk/68285/.
  • Amidei, J., Piwek, P. and Willis, A., 2020, ‘Identifying Annotator Bias: A new IRT-based method for bias identification’, in Proceedings of The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 8-13 Dec 2020, Barcelona, Spain., https://oro.open.ac.uk/73521/.
  • Ruiz-Marcos, G., Willis, A. and Laney, R., 2020, ‘Automatically calculating tonal tension’, in The 2020 Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity, 19-23 Oct 2020, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden [On-line]., https://oro.open.ac.uk/72732/.
  • Mensio, M., Alani, H. and Willis, A., 2020, ‘Towards a Cross-article Narrative Comparison of News’, in Proceedings of the Text2Story’20 Workshop, 14 Apr 2020, Lisbon, Portugal., https://oro.open.ac.uk/69887/.
  • Rose, G. and Willis, A., 2019, ‘Seeing the smart city on Twitter: Colour and the affective territories of becoming smart’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 37(3), pp. 411–427., https://oro.open.ac.uk/54628/.
  • Amidei, J., Piwek, P. and Willis, A., 2019, ‘The use of rating and Likert scales in Natural Language Generation human evaluation tasks: A review and some recommendations’, in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 29 Oct - 1 Nov 2019, Tokyo, Japan., https://oro.open.ac.uk/67963/.
  • Amidei, J., Piwek, P. and Willis, A., 2019, ‘Agreement is overrated: A plea for correlation to assess human evaluation reliability’, in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 29 Oct - 1 Nov 2019, Tokyo, Japan., https://oro.open.ac.uk/67962/.
  • Amidei, J., Piwek, P. and Willis, A., 2018, ‘Evaluation methodologies in Automatic Question Generation 2013-2018’, in Proceedings of The 11th International Natural Language Generation Conference, 5-8 Nov 2018, Tilburg, The Netherlands., https://oro.open.ac.uk/57517/.
  • Amidei, J., Piwek, P. and Willis, A., 2018, ‘Rethinking the Agreement in Human Evaluation Tasks’, in Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 20-26 Aug 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico., https://oro.open.ac.uk/56443/.
  • Vu, T., Nguyen, D. Q., Johnson, M., Song, D. and Willis, A., 2017, ‘Search Personalization with Embeddings’, in 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2017), 8-13 Apr 2017, Aberdeen, Scotland UK., https://oro.open.ac.uk/48159/.
  • Vu, T., Willis, A., Kruschwitz, U. and Song, D., 2017, ‘Personalised Query Suggestion for Intranet Search with Temporal User Profiling’, in CHIIR 2017: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 7-11 Mar 2017, Oslo, Norway., https://oro.open.ac.uk/48158/.
  • Huynh, T., He, Y., Willis, A. and Rüger, S., 2016, ‘Adverse Drug Reaction Classification With Deep Neural Networks’, in Coling 2016, 13-15 Dec 2016, Osaka., https://oro.open.ac.uk/48109/.