Research

This page contains a list of my research publications.

PhD thesis

• Judith van Stegeren. Flavor text generation for role-playing video games. PhD thesis, 2022. mirror

Peer-reviewed research publications

So far, all of my research publications are published as open access papers, which means they are freely accessible to anyone with an internet connection. :)

• Judith van Stegeren and Jakub Myśliwiec. Fine-tuning GPT-2 on annotated RPG quests for NPC dialogue generation. 16th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 2021 (FDG '21'). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 2, 1–8.
• Lorenzo Gatti and Judith van Stegeren. Improving Dutch sentiment analysis in Pattern. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 10, 73-89. Published 2020-12-12.
• Judith van Stegeren, Mariët Theune. Fantastic Strings and Where to Find Them: The Quest for High-Quality Video Game Text Corpora. 12th edition of the Intelligent Narrative Technologies workshop. October 19-20, 2020. [datasets] [talk on YouTube]
• Thérèse Bergsma, Judith van Stegeren, Mariët Theune. Creating a Sentiment Lexicon with Game-Specific Words for Analyzing NPC Dialogue in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Games and NLP workshop, LREC 2020.
• Judith van Stegeren, Mariët Theune. Remixing Headlines for Context-Appropriate Flavor Text. IEEE Conference on Games (COG) 2019. London, UK. August 20--23, 2019.
• Judith van Stegeren, Mariët Theune. Narrative Generation in the Wild: Methods from NaNoGenMo. StoryNLP workshop, ACL 2019. Florence, Italy. August 1--3, 2019.
• Judith van Stegeren, Mariët Theune. Churnalist: Fictional Headline Generation for Context-appropriate Flavor Text. Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Creativity 2019 (ICCC2019). Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. June 17--22, 2019.
• Judith van Stegeren, Mariët Theune. Towards Generating Textual Game Assets from Real-World Data. Proceedings of Foundations of Digital Games 2018 (FDG2018). Malmö, Sweden. August 7--10, 2018. [Related poster]
• Herman Geuvers, Wouter Geraedts, Bram Geron, Judith van Stegeren. A type system for Continuation Calculus. EPTCS 164. Proceedings Fifth International Workshop on Classical Logic and Computation. Vienna, Austria. July 13, 2014. Ed. Paulo Oliva, pp. 1-18.

Industry publications

• Johannes Steinrücke, Paris Mavromoustakos-Blom, Judith van Stegeren, Ymko Attema, Sander Bakkes, Thomas de Groot, Johan de Heer, Dirk Heylen, Rafal Hrynkiewicz, Ton de Jong, Tije Oortwijn, Pieter Spronck, Mariët Theune, and Bernard Veldkamp. Data2Game: Towards an Integrated Demonstrator. AHFE 2021.

Bachelor and master theses

• Judith van Stegeren. Correctness and termination of Tomte components for active register automata learning. Master's thesis, supervised by Frits Vaandrager, Radboud University Nijmegen, 2015
• Judith van Stegeren. Exploring the inference problem for D0L-systems. Bachelor thesis computer science, supervised by Alexandra Silva, Radboud University Nijmegen, 2013.