@Book{wegener-verbal_art-2018,
  keywords =  {edited},
  title =     {On Verbal Art: essays in honour of Ruqaiya Hasan},
  booktitle = {On Verbal Art: essays in honour of Ruqaiya Hasan},
  publisher = {Equinox},
  year =      {2018},
  note =      {ISBN: 9781781794470},
  editor =    {Rebekah Wegener and Stella Neumann and Antje Osterle},
}

@InCollection{wegener-rabbit-2018,
  keywords =  {chapter},
  author =    {Rebekah Wegener and Timo Lothmann},
  title =     {That is Not Normal Rabbit Behaviour: on the trail of the grammar of fictional worlds},
  booktitle = {On Verbal Art: essays in honour of Ruqaiya Hasan},
  publisher = {Equinox},
  year =      {2018},
  note =      {ISBN: 9781781794470},
  editor =    {Rebekah Wegener and Stella Neumann and Antje Osterle},
}

@article{wegener-what_makes_a_text-2018,
  keywords =  {article},
  author =    {Rebekah Wegener},
  title =     {What makes a text a text and why does it matter?},
  journal =   {Functions of Language special issue},
  publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Company},
  year =      {2018}
}

@Proceedings{Cassens-Wegener-Kofod-Petersen-MRC-2017,
  keywords =  {edited},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context},
  title =     {Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context},
  editor =    {Jörg Cassens and Rebekah Wegener and Anders Kofod-Petersen},
  year =      {2017},
  address =   {Melbourne, Australia},
  month =     {August},
}
    

@InProceedings{wegener_kohlschein_cassens-modelling_context_emotion_recognition-2017,
  keywords =  {paper},
  title =     {Modelling Context for Emotion Recognition During Literary Text Reading},
  author =    {Rebekah Wegener and Christian Kohlschein and Jörg Cassens},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context},
  editor =    {Jörg Cassens and Rebekah Wegener and Anders Kofod-Petersen},
  year =      {2017},
  address =   {Melbourne, Australia},
  month =     {August},
}

@InProceedings{wegener_cassens-importance_in_context-2017,
  keywords =  {paper},
  title =     {Understanding Importance in Context: multi-modal markers for context dependent information extraction},
  author =    {Rebekah Wegener and Jörg Cassens},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context},
  editor =    {Jörg Cassens and Rebekah Wegener and Anders Kofod-Petersen},
  year =      {2017},
  address =   {Melbourne, Australia},
  month =     {August},
}

@article{Wegener-review_2017,
  keywords =  {review},
  author =    {Rebekah Wegener},
  title =     {Review of Flöck, Ilka (2016) Requests in American and British English: A contrastive multi-method analysis},
  journal =   {Languages in Contrast},
  publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Company},
  year =      2017,
  doi =       {10.1075/lic.17.2.08weg},
  month =     {September},
  volume =    {17},
  number =    {2},
  pages =     {308--311},
}

@InProceedings{wegener-ea-emolite-2017,
  keywords =  {paper},
  author =    {Rebekah Wegener and Christian Kohlschein and Sabine Jeschke and Stella Neumann},
  title=      {EmoLiTe \textendash A Database for Emotion Detection During Literary Text Reading},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th International workshop on Context Based Affect Recognition @ ACII 2017},
  year=       {2017}
}

@InProceedings{wegener_ea-needing_wanting-2017,
  keywords =  {paper},
  author =    {Rebekah Wegener and Bianca Schüller and Jörg Cassens},
  title=      {Needing and Wanting in Academic Lectures: Profiling the academic lecture across context},
  editor =    {Phil Chappell and John S. Knox},
  booktitle = {Transforming Contexts: Papers from the 44th International Systemic Functional Congress},
  year =      {2017},
  address =   {Wollongong, Australia},
  url =       {http://www.isfla.org/Systemics/Conferences/ISFC_2017_Proceedings.pdf},
}

@Proceedings{Cassens-Wegener-Kofod-Petersen-MRC-2016,
  keywords =  {edited},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context},
  title =     {Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context},
  editor =    {Jörg Cassens and Rebekah Wegener and Anders Kofod-Petersen},
  year =      {2016},
  address =   {The Hague, The Netherlands},
  month =     {August},
  url =       {http://www.ecai2016.org/content/uploads/2016/08/W17-mrc-2016.pdf}
}
    

@InProceedings{wegener_ea-multi_modal_markers-2016,
  keywords =  {paper},
  title=      {Multi-modal Markers for Meaning: using behavioural, acoustic and textual cues for automatic, context dependent summarization of lectures},
  author=     {Rebekah Wegener and Jörg Cassens},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context},
  editor =    {Jörg Cassens and Rebekah Wegener and Anders Kofod-Petersen},
  year=       {2016}
}

@InProceedings{wegener_ea-detection_textual_triggers-2016,
  keywords =  {paper},
  title=      {Automatic Detection of Textual Triggers for Reader emotion in Short Stories},
  author=     {Rebekah Wegener and Christian Kohlschein and Sabine Jeschke and Björn Schuller},
  booktitle=  {Proceedings of the LREC 2016 Workshop Emotion and Sentiment Analysis},
  editor =    {J. Fernando Sánchez-Rada and Björn Schuller},
  address =   {Portorož, Slovenia},
  year=       {2016}
}

@Book{neumann_ea-isfc-2016,
  keywords =  {edited},
  title =     {Challenging Boundaries in Linguistics: Systemic Functional Perspectives},
  publisher = {Peter Lang},
  year =      {2016},
  editor =    {Stella Neumann and Rebekah Wegener and Jennifer Fest and Paula Niemietz and Nicole Hützen},
  doi=        {10.3726/b10693},
  address =   {Frankfurt/Main, Germany},
}

@incollection{Wegener-language_society-2016,
  keywords =  {chapter},
  author =    {Rebekah Wegener},
  title =     {Studying Language in Society and Society through Language: Context and Multimodal Communication},
  booktitle = {Society in Language, Language in Society: Essays in Honour of Ruqaiya Hasan},
  editor =    {Wendy L. Bowcher and Jennifer Yameng Liang},
  doi =       {10.1057/9781137402868_10},
  year =      2016,
  publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan {UK}},
  pages =     {227--248},
}

@article{Wegener-review_2016,
  keywords =  {review},
  author =    {Rebekah Wegener},
  title =     {Review of Teun A. van Dijk, Discourse and Knowledge: A Sociocognitive Approach.},
  journal =   {Languages in Contrast},
  publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Company},
  year =      2016,
  doi =       {10.1075/lic.16.2.06weg},
  month =     {September},
  volume =    {16},
  number =    {2},
  pages =     {280--284},
}

@Proceedings{weger-context_doctoral_symposium-2015,
  keywords =  {edited},
  editor =    {Peter Eklund and Rebekah Wegener},
  title =     {Proceedings of the Doctoral Symposium of the 9th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context},
  year =      {2015},
  url =       {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1537/},
  series =    {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
  issn =      {1613-0073},
  address =   {Larnaca, Cyprus},
  month =     {November},
  publisher = {CEUR-WS.org}
}

@InProceedings{Butt-Wegener-Cassens-Context-2013,
  keywords =  {paper},
  author =    {David Butt and Rebekah Wegener and Jörg Cassens},
  title =     {Modelling Behaviour Semantically},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of CONTEXT 2013},
  editor =    {P. Brézillon and P. Blackburn and R. Dapoigny},
  pages =     {343--349},
  year =      {2013},
  publisher = {Springer},
  volume =    {LNCS},
  number =    {8175},
  address =   {Annecy, France},
  doi =       {10.1007/978-3-642-40972-1_27},
  note =      {ISBN: 978-3-642-40971-4},
  abstract =  {Context is only one of several strata of meaning and we can not predict realisation at the lexical or grammatical level from context alone. Yet, there is a tendency to confuse contextual patterning with semantic patterning and allocate patterning to the contextual level that might better be dealt with on other levels. While much work has been done on theorising lexis and grammar and, more recently, on seeing these in context, much remains to be done on theorising semantics as a separate level mediating between context and lexis and grammar. This paper examines the problem of modelling behaviour and the challenge of understanding behaviour in context as well as on a semantical level. By understanding the descriptive responsibilities allocated to each level of language, we are better able to see what remains to be covered by context within a model.}
}

Context is only one of several strata of meaning and we can not predict realisation at the lexical or grammatical level from context alone. Yet, there is a tendency to confuse contextual patterning with semantic patterning and allocate patterning to the contextual level that might better be dealt with on other levels. While much work has been done on theorising lexis and grammar and, more recently, on seeing these in context, much remains to be done on theorising semantics as a separate level mediating between context and lexis and grammar. This paper examines the problem of modelling behaviour and the challenge of understanding behaviour in context as well as on a semantical level. By understanding the descriptive responsibilities allocated to each level of language, we are better able to see what remains to be covered by context within a model.

@article{Santiano_ea-met-2011,
  keywords =  {article},
  title =     {The impact of the medical emergency team on the resuscitation practice of critical care nurses},
  author =    {N. Santiano and L. Young and L.S. Baramy and R. Cabrera and E. May and Rebekah Wegener and David Butt and M. Parr and Clinical Analysis Group},
  journal =   {BMJ Quality and Safety},
  year =      {2011},
  volume =    {20},
  number =    {2},
  pages =     {115-120},
  doi =       {10.1136/bmjqs.2008.029876},
  issn =      {2044-5415},
  publisher = {BMJ Publishing Group Ltd},
  eprint = {http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/20/2/115.full.pdf},
  abstract = {
    Background Medical Emergency Teams (MET)/rapid response are replacing Cardiac Arrest teams in acute hospitals. There is a lack of knowledge about how Critical Care Nurses (CCNs), rostered on MET construct their responsibilities/roles.Objective Assess MET nurse activities at different hospitals.Methods The authors used visual ethnography; selecting Systemic Functional Grammar as our methodological framework. The Generic Systemic Potential was used to guide the coding of visual and inferential meaning of the activities of MET nurses. CCNs coded over 6 h of videoed MET calls, sampled across three hospitals, Sydney, Australia.Results The first layer of coding contained 1042 discreet tasks. They were sorted into 15 Areas of Practice (AOPs) and then allocated to aspects of performance (psychomotor and cognitive). The AOPs {\textquoteleft}Assisting with Procedure{\textquoteright} through to {\textquoteleft}Monitoring Vital Signs{\textquoteright} reflect psychomotor skills which account for almost half (48\%) of the AOPs at site 1 and three-quarters at sites 2 (70\%) and 3 (78\%). Eight generic responsibilities/roles were identified. {\textquoteleft}Ongoing Assessment,{\textquoteright} {\textquoteleft}Re-evaluating Risk{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}Prioritising Interventions{\textquoteright} were the most prominent. The patterns differed by hospital: {\textquoteleft}Re-evaluating Risk{\textquoteright} was prominent for sites 1 and 2 but less so for site 3.Conclusion {\textquoteleft}Ongoing Assessment{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}Re-evaluating Risk{\textquoteright} occupied almost half of the MET nurses time, whereas {\textquoteleft}Establishing Patient Acuity, the key activity in CA teams, occupied only 4\%. These findings provide evidence of the roles of CCNs in the MET and suggest that education and training of MET nurses should support these roles.
    },
}

Background Medical Emergency Teams (MET)/rapid response are replacing Cardiac Arrest teams in acute hospitals. There is a lack of knowledge about how Critical Care Nurses (CCNs), rostered on MET construct their responsibilities/roles.Objective Assess MET nurse activities at different hospitals.Methods The authors used visual ethnography; selecting Systemic Functional Grammar as our methodological framework. The Generic Systemic Potential was used to guide the coding of visual and inferential meaning of the activities of MET nurses. CCNs coded over 6 h of videoed MET calls, sampled across three hospitals, Sydney, Australia.Results The first layer of coding contained 1042 discreet tasks. They were sorted into 15 Areas of Practice (AOPs) and then allocated to aspects of performance (psychomotor and cognitive). The AOPs \textquoteleftAssisting with Procedure\textquoteright through to \textquoteleftMonitoring Vital Signs\textquoteright reflect psychomotor skills which account for almost half (48%) of the AOPs at site 1 and three-quarters at sites 2 (70%) and 3 (78%). Eight generic responsibilities/roles were identified. \textquoteleftOngoing Assessment,\textquoteright \textquoteleftRe-evaluating Risk\textquoteright and \textquoteleftPrioritising Interventions\textquoteright were the most prominent. The patterns differed by hospital: \textquoteleftRe-evaluating Risk\textquoteright was prominent for sites 1 and 2 but less so for site 3.Conclusion \textquoteleftOngoing Assessment\textquoteright and \textquoteleftRe-evaluating Risk\textquoteright occupied almost half of the MET nurses time, whereas \textquoteleftEstablishing Patient Acuity, the key activity in CA teams, occupied only 4%. These findings provide evidence of the roles of CCNs in the MET and suggest that education and training of MET nurses should support these roles.

@Article{Lukin_ea-register_revisited-2011,
  keywords =  {article},
  author =    {Annabelle Lukin and Alison Moore and Maria Herke and Rebekah Wegener and Canzhong Wu},
  title =     {Halliday’s model of register revisited and explored},
  journal =   {Linguistics and the Human sciences},
  publisher = {Equinox},
  doi=        {10.1558/lhs.v4i2.187},
  year =      {2011},
  volume =    {4},
  number =    {2},
  pages =     {187-243},
}

@Proceedings{Cassens-Wegener-Kofod-Petersen-MRC-2011,
  keywords =  {edited},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context},
  title =     {Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context},
  editor =    {Jörg Cassens and Rebekah Wegener and Anders Kofod-Petersen},
  year =      {2011},
  address =   {Karlsruhe, Germany},
  month =     {September},
}
    

@InCollection{kofod-petersen_wegener-like_poke_facebook-2011,
  keywords =  {chapter},
  author =    {Anders Kofod-Petersen and Rebekah Wegener},
  title =     {Like a poke on Facebook emergent semantics in location-aware social network services},
  booktitle = {Virtual Communities: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications},
  publisher = {{IGI} Global},
  year =      2011,
  pages =     {909--924},
  doi =       {10.4018/978-1-60960-100-3.ch315},
}

@PhdThesis{Wegener-2011-PhD,
  keywords =  {thesis},
  author =    {Rebekah Wegener},
  title =     {Parameters of context: from theory to model and application},
  school =    {Macquarie University, Sydney},
  year =      {2011},
  type =      {PhD-Thesis},
}

@InProceedings{Cassens-Kofod-Petersen-Zacarias-Wegener-preface-MRC-2010,
  keywords =  {paper},
  author =    {Jörg Cassens and Anders Kofod-Petersen and Marielba Zacarias and Rebekah Wegener},
  title =     {Preface Proceedings of MRC 2010},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context},
  editor =    {Jörg Cassens and Anders Kofod-Petersen and Marielba Zacarias and Rebekah Wegener},
  year =      2010,
  pages =     {1-3},
  series =    {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
  issn =      {1613-0073},
  address =   {Lisbon, Portugal},
  month =     {August},
  url =       {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-618/preface.pdf},
  publisher = {CEUR-WS.org}
}

@Proceedings{Cassens-Kofod-Petersen-Zacarias-Wegener-MRC-2010,
  keywords =   {edited},
  booktitle =  {Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context},
  title =      {Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context},
  year =       2010,
  editor =     {Jörg Cassens and Anders Kofod-Petersen and Marielba Zacarias and Rebekah Wegener},
  series =     {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
  issn =       {1613-0073},
  address =    {Lisbon, Portugal},
  month =      {August},
  url =        {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-618/},
  publisher =  {CEUR-WS.org}
}

@InCollection{kofod-petersen_wegener-like_poke_facebook-2010,
  keywords =  {chapter},
  author =    {Anders Kofod-Petersen and Rebekah Wegener},
  title =     {Like a poke on Facebook emergent semantics in location-aware social network services},
  booktitle = {Handbook of Research on Discourse Behavior and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction},
  editor =    {Rotimi Taiwo},
  volume =    {1},
  chapter =   {32},
  publisher = {{IGI} Global},
  year =      2010,
  pages =     {497-512},
  doi =       {10.4018/978-1-61520-773-2.ch032},
}

@InProceedings{Kofod-Petersen-Wegener-Cassens-NAIS-2009,
  keywords =  {paper},
  author =    {Anders Kofod-Petersen and Rebekah Wegener and Jörg Cassens},
  title =     {Closed Doors -- Modelling Intention in Behavioural Interfaces},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Society Symposium ({NAIS} 2009)},
  year =      2009,
  editor =    {Anders Kofod-Petersen and Helge Langseth and Odd Erik Gundersen},
  pages =     {93--102},
  publisher = {Tapir Akademiske Forlag},
  note =      {ISBN: 978-8-2519-2519-8},
  url =       {https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/81ec/a2c870ea8138d76c0805f3b05c615d8e9b22.pdf},
  address =   {Trondheim, Norway},
  month =     {November},
  abstract =  {Truly smart systems need to interface with the behaviour of human and non human actors in their surroundings. Systems with such interfaces could prove beneficial in supporting those with non standard communication practices, the elderly living alone, people with disabilities, and many others. While the benefits are clear, the means of achieving true behavioural interfaces are yet unclear. In this paper we outline how semiotics helps us to understand behaviour. We show how such an approach may be put to use in modelling the intention to walk through a door. We begin by outlining the semiotic approach and then discuss the behaviours which need to be described to model intention. We also discuss how this varies according to context and suggest the potential for a more general model of behaviour.}
}

Truly smart systems need to interface with the behaviour of human and non human actors in their surroundings. Systems with such interfaces could prove beneficial in supporting those with non standard communication practices, the elderly living alone, people with disabilities, and many others. While the benefits are clear, the means of achieving true behavioural interfaces are yet unclear. In this paper we outline how semiotics helps us to understand behaviour. We show how such an approach may be put to use in modelling the intention to walk through a door. We begin by outlining the semiotic approach and then discuss the behaviours which need to be described to model intention. We also discuss how this varies according to context and suggest the potential for a more general model of behaviour.

@Article{Wegener-Cassens-Butt-RIA-2008,
  keywords =  {article},
  author =    {Rebekah Wegener and Jörg Cassens and David Butt},
  title =     {Start Making Sense: Systemic Functional Linguistics and Ambient Intelligence},
  journal =   {Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle},
  issn =      {0992-499X},
  pages =     {629--645},
  year =      {2008},
  volume =    {22},
  number =    {5},
  doi =       {10.3166/ria.22.629-645},
  abstract =  {An operational model of context is particularly important for the successful integration of new technical artefacts into complex processes. One of the challenges for ambient intelligence is to embed technical artefacts into human work processes in such a way that they support the sense making processes of human actors instead of placing new burdens upon them. This paper examines some of the strengths and current limitations of a systemic functional model of context. We propose that the dimensions that are relevant to modeling are those that have the most consequences for meaning. This is explored in a hypothetical hospital scenario.}
}

An operational model of context is particularly important for the successful integration of new technical artefacts into complex processes. One of the challenges for ambient intelligence is to embed technical artefacts into human work processes in such a way that they support the sense making processes of human actors instead of placing new burdens upon them. This paper examines some of the strengths and current limitations of a systemic functional model of context. We propose that the dimensions that are relevant to modeling are those that have the most consequences for meaning. This is explored in a hypothetical hospital scenario.

@InProceedings{Cassens-Wegener-IFIP-AI-2008,
  keywords =  {paper},
  author =    {Jörg Cassens and Rebekah Wegener},
  title =     {Making Use of Abstract Concepts -- Sys\-temic-Functional Linguistics and Ambient Intelligence},
  editor =    {Max Bramer},
  booktitle = {Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice II -- IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, IFIP AI Stream},
  pages =     {205--214},
  year =      {2008},
  volume =    {276},
  series =    {IFIP},
  address =   {Milano, Italy},
  publisher = {Springer},
  doi =       {10.1007/978-0-387-09695-7_20},
  issn =      {1571-5736},
  abstract =  {One of the challenges for ambient intelligence is to embed technical artefacts into human work processes in such a way that they support the sense making processes of human actors instead of placing new burdens upon them. This successful integration requires an operational model of context. Such a model of context is particularly important for disambiguating abstract concepts that have no clear grounding in the material setting of the work process. This paper examines some of the strengths and current limitations in a systemic functional model of context and concludes by suggesting that the notions of instantiation and stratification can be usefully employed.}
}

One of the challenges for ambient intelligence is to embed technical artefacts into human work processes in such a way that they support the sense making processes of human actors instead of placing new burdens upon them. This successful integration requires an operational model of context. Such a model of context is particularly important for disambiguating abstract concepts that have no clear grounding in the material setting of the work process. This paper examines some of the strengths and current limitations in a systemic functional model of context and concludes by suggesting that the notions of instantiation and stratification can be usefully employed.

@incollection{Butt_Wegener-context_metafunction-2007,
  keywords =  {chapter},
  title =     {The work of concepts: context and metafunction in the systemic functional model},
  author =    {David Butt and Rebekah Wegener},
  booktitle = {Continuing Discourse on language: a functional perspective (vol. 2)},
  editor =    {Ruqaiya Hasan and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen and Jonathan Webster},
  year =      {2007},
  publisher = {Equinox},
  address =   {London},
  doi =       {10.1558/equinox.25346},
  pages =     {590-618},
  note =      {ISBN: 9781845531140},
}

@InCollection{wegener_maiorani-theories_evidences_sfl-forthcoming,
  keywords =  {chapter},
  title =     {Instantiation in Modelling Multimodal Communication: Challenges and Proposals},
  booktitle = {Theories and Evidences in Functional Linguistics},
  author =    {Rebekah Wegener and Ariana Maiorani},
  publisher = {Routledge},
  year =      {forthcoming},
  series =    {Advances in Functional Linguistics},
}

@InCollection{wegener_johlschein-t_rex-forthcoming,
  keywords =  {chapter},
  author =    {Rebekah Wegener and Christian Kohlschein},
  title =     {T-Rex: a platform for online reader behaviour data collection and why we need it},
  booktitle = {E-cosmos: data triangulation for the social sciences},
  edition =   {Stella Neumann and Tobias Meisen and Paula Niemietz},
  year =      {forthcoming},
}

@Book{wegener-sfl_context-forthcoming,
  keywords =  {book},
  title=      {Systemic Functional Linguistics and Context: looking across the disciplines},
  author=     {Rebekah Wegener},
  publisher = {Equinox},
  year =      {forthcoming},
}