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  • Domingo, C., Piwek, P., Wermelinger, M. and Stoyanchev, S., 2025, ‘Mention detection with LLMs in pair-programming dialogue’, in 6th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse and 8th Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference, 05-09 Nov 2025, Suzhou, China., https://oro.open.ac.uk/106230/.
  • Domingo, C., Piwek, P., Stoyanchev, S., Wermelinger, M., Adhikari, K. and Doddipatla, R. S., 2025, ‘Human ratings of LLM response generation in pair-programming dialogue’, in Proceedings of the 18th International Natural Language Generation Conference, 29 Oct - 02 Nov 2025, Hanoi, Vietnam., https://oro.open.ac.uk/106150/.
  • Piwek, P., Amidei, J. and Stoyanchev, S., 2025, ‘Coherence of Argumentative Dialogue Snippets: A New Method for Large Scale Evaluation with an Application to Inference Anchoring Theory’, in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, 4-9 Nov 2025, Suzhou, China., https://oro.open.ac.uk/109120/.
  • Piwek, P., Amidei, J. and Stoyanchev, S., 2025, ‘Coherence of Argumentative Dialogue Snippets: A New Method for Large Scale Evaluation with an Application to Inference Anchoring Theory’, in The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 04-09 Nov 2025, Suzhou, China., https://oro.open.ac.uk/106225/.
  • Domingo, C., Piwek, P., Wermelinger, M. and Stoyanchev, S., 2024, ‘Annotation Needs for Referring Expressions in Pair-Programming Dialogue’, in SemDial'24 – 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 11-12 Sep 2024, Trento, Italy., https://oro.open.ac.uk/99917/.
  • Piwek, P., 2024, ‘Are conversational large language models speakers? In: SemDial 2024: The 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 11-12 Sep 2024, Rovereto, Italy’, https://oro.open.ac.uk/99476/.
  • Domingo, C., Piwek, P., Stoyanchev, S. and Wermelinger, M., 2023, ‘Discourse annotation - Towards a dialogue system for pair programming’, TAL Journal, 63(3), pp. 11–35., https://oro.open.ac.uk/87217/.
  • Farag, Y., Brand, C., Amidei, J., Piwek, P., Stafford, T., Stoyanchev, S. and Vlachos, A., 2022, ‘Opening up Minds with Argumentative Dialogues’, in EMNLP 2022: The 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 7-11 Dec 2022, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates., https://oro.open.ac.uk/85410/.
  • Withington, L., Diaz Pardo de Vera, D., Guest, C., Mancini, C. and Piwek, P., 2021, ‘Artificial Neural Networks for classifying the time series sensor data generated by medical detection dogs’, Expert Systems with Applications, 184, https://oro.open.ac.uk/78167/.
  • Amidei, J., Piwek, P. and Stoyanchev, S., 2021, ‘QTMM2012c+: A Queryable Empirically- Grounded Resource of Dialogue with Argumentation’, in 5th Workshop on Advances in Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence, 29 Nov 2021, Online event., https://oro.open.ac.uk/81701/.
  • 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/.
  • Piwek, P. and Savage, S., 2020, ‘Challenges with Learning to Program and Problem Solve: An Analysis of Student Online Discussions’, in The 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’20), 11-14 Mar 2020, Portland, OR, USA., https://oro.open.ac.uk/68074/.
  • 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/.
  • Savage, S. and Piwek, P., 2019, ‘Full report on challenges with learning to program and problem solve: an analysis of first year undergraduate Open University distance learning students' online discussions’, The Open University, Milton Keynes., https://oro.open.ac.uk/68073/.
  • Piwek, P., Wermelinger, M., Laney, R. and Walker, R., 2019, ‘Learning to program: from problems to code’, in Third Conference in Computing Education Practice (CEP), 9 Jan 2019, Durham, UK., https://oro.open.ac.uk/58202/.
  • 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/.
  • Doust, R. and Piwek, P., 2017, ‘A model of suspense for narrative generation’, in 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 4-7 Sep 2017, Santiago de Compostela., https://oro.open.ac.uk/51555/.