I am working on the STANDUP (System to Augment Non-speakers Dialogue Using Puns) project, funded by the EPSRC. It is a joint collaboration with the Department of Applied Computing at the University of Dundee, and is exploring how humour may be used to help non-speaking children communicate more effectively.

In late 2003 I (finally!) finished my PhD, supervised by Dr. Henry Thompson and Dr. Graeme Ritchie, entitled "An evolutionary algorithm approach to poetry generation". You can find an electronic copy of it here (or here in PDF format).

I am also an academic staff (on leave) at the Faculty of Computer Science of Universitas Indonesia.

A (rather outdated) copy of my CV is available here.

Interesting research links:

• The Scottish Natural Language Generation homepage
• The Computation and Language E-Print Archive
• ACL Special Interest Group in Generation (SIGGEN)

• Ruli Manurung, Graeme Ritchie, Dave O'Mara, Annalu Waller, and Helen Pain, Combining Lexical Resources for an Interactive Language Tool. To be presented at ISAAC 2006.
• Dave O'Mara, Annalu Waller, Ruli Manurung, Graeme Ritchie, and Helen Pain, Designing and Evaluating Joke-Building Software for AAC Users. To be presented at ISAAC 2006.
• Ruli Manurung, Dave O'Mara, Helen Pain, Graeme Ritchie, and Annalu Waller, Building a Lexical Database for an Interactive Joke-Generator. In Proceedings of LREC 2006, Genoa, 24-26 May 2006.
• Graeme Ritchie, Ruli Manurung, Helen Pain, Annalu Waller, and Dave O'Mara, The STANDUP Interactive Riddle Builder. IEEE Intelligent Systems 21(2), March/April. Pp. 67-69.
• Annalu Waller, Dave O'Mara, Hisar Maruli Manurung, Helen Pain, and Graeme Ritchie, Facilitating User Feedback in the Design of a Novel Joke Generation System for People with Severe Communication Impairment. To be presented at HCII 2005. (PDF).
• Hisar Maruli Manurung, Alistair Low, Lucia Trujillo-Dennis, Dave O'Mara, Helen Pain, Graeme Ritchie and Annalu Waller, Interactive Computer Generation of Jokes for Language Skill Development. Presented at 2004 Conference of International Society for Humor Studies, Dijon, France. (PDF). Slides from presentation available here.
• Dave O'Mara, Annalu Waller, Graeme Ritchie, Helen Pain and Hisar Maruli Manurung, The Role of Assisted Communicators as Domain Experts in Early Software Design. Presented at the ISAAC 2004 conference in Natal, Brazil. (PDF).
• Nikiforos Karamanis and Hisar Maruli Manurung, Stochastic Text Structuring Using the Principle of Continuity, to appear in Proceedings of the Second International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG'02), 1-3 July 2002, New York, USA. Available online as a gzipped .ps file.
• Hisar Maruli Manurung, McGonagall: The Evolutionary Poet, 1st prize, Poster competition, the Informatics Jamboree, 23-25 May 2001 Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Available online as a gzipped .eps file.
• Hisar Maruli Manurung, Graeme Ritchie, and Henry Thompson, A Flexible Integrated Architecture for Generating Poetic Texts, appears in Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SNLP 2000), 10-12 May 2000, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Also available online as Informatics Report EDI-INF-RR-0016.
• Hisar Maruli Manurung, Graeme Ritchie and Henry Thompson, Towards a Computational Model of Poetry Generation, appears in Proceedings of the AISB'00 Symposium on Creative & Cultural Aspects and Applications of AI & Cognitive Science, 17-20 April 2000, Birmingham University. Also available online as Informatics Report EDI-INF-RR-0015.
• Hisar Maruli Manurung, Chart Generation of Rhythm-Patterned Text, appears in Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Literature in Cognition and Computer, July 1999, Waseda University, Tokyo. Available online as gzipped .ps file.

• This week, I have been mostly listening to...
• A list of my favourite albums
• Some of my favourite quotes
• Some of the rare noteworthy snippets of e-mails that have been forwarded to me over the years (those forwarded jokey types, to be exact)
• Universitas Indonesia English Debating Society
• SunSITE Indonesia
• The place where masochists go for punishment
• Dream Theater
• Not a broken link
• A not-too-difficult game of Spot The Difference

Contact:

Hisar Maruli Manurung
Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems
Division of Informatics
The University of Edinburgh
2 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh EH8 9LW
Scotland, UK

Tel: {+44-131 | 0131} 650-8484
Fax: {+44-131 | 0131} 650-6626