Recent Publications

Pascal Denis and Jason Baldridge. 2009. Global joint models for coreference resolution and named entity classification. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural 42. ISSN:1135-5948. PDF

Katrin Erk. 2009. Representing words as regions in vector space. In Proceedings of the Conference on Natural Language Learning. Boulder, Colorado.

Katrin Erk. 2009. Supporting inferences in semantic space: representing words as regions. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Computational Semantics. Tilburg.

Alexis Palmer, Taesun Moon, and Jason Baldridge. 2009. Evaluating automation strategies in language documentation. In Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2009 Workshop on Active Learning for Natural Language Processing. Boulder, Colorado. PDF

Aaron Shield and Jason Baldridge. A morphological analyzer for verbal aspect in American Sign Language. 2009. In Proceedings of the Texas Linguistics Society X. CSLI. Austin, Texas.

Katrin Erk, Diana McCarthy and Nicholas Gaylord: Investigations on Word Senses and Word Usages. Proceedings of ACL 2009, Singapore. PDF

Taesun Moon, Katrin Erk, and Jason Baldridge: Unsupervised morphological segmentation and clustering with document boundaries. Proceedings of EMNLP 2009. PDF

Katrin Erk and Diana McCarthy: Graded sense assignment. Proceedings of EMNLP 2009, Singapore. PDF

Katrin Erk and Sebastian Pado. Paraphrase assessment in structured vector space: Exploring parameters and datasets. Proceedings of the EACL Workshop on Geometrical Methods for Natural Language Semantics (GEMS). PDF

Amac Herdagdelen, Marco Baroni and Katrin Erk: Measuring semantic relatedness with vector space models and random walks. Proceedings of TextGraphs 2009. PDF

Jason Baldridge and Miles Osborne. 2008. Active Learning and Logarithmic Opinion Pools for HPSG Parse Selection. Natural Language Engineering. 14(2):199-222. Cambridge, UK.

Jason Baldridge. 2008. Weakly supervised supertagging with grammar-informed initialization. In Proceedings of COLING-2008. Manchester, UK.

Jason Baldridge and Katrin Erk. 2008. Teaching computational linguistics to a large, diverse student body: courses, tools, and interdepartmental interaction. In Proceedings of TeachCL-08. Columbus, OH.

Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, Edward Loper and Jason Baldridge. 2008. Multidisciplinary Instruction with the Natural Language Toolkit. In Proceedings of TeachCL-08. Columbus, OH.

Chen, D.L. and Mooney, R.J., “Learning to Sportscast: A Test of Grounded Language Acquisition,” Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Helsinki, Finland, to appear July 2008.

Oliver Culo, Katrin Erk, Sebastian Pado and Sabine Schulte im Walde. Comparing and Combining Semantic Verb Classifications. Language Resources and Evaluation 42(3), 2008

Pascal Denis and Jason Baldridge. 2008. Learning specialized ranking models for coreference resolution. Proceedings of EMNLP. Hawaii.

Robert Elwell and Jason Baldridge. 2008. Discourse connective argument identification with connective specific rankers. In Proceedings of ICSC-2008. Santa Clara, CA.

Fred Hoyt and Jason Baldridge. 2008. A Logical Basis for the D combinator and normal form constraints in Combinatory Categorial Grammar. In Proceedings of ACL/HLT-2008. Columbus, OH.

Taesun Moon and Katrin Erk. Minimally supervised lemmatization scheme induction through bilingual parallel corpora. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources. Hong Kong, 2008.

Mooney, R.J., “Learning to Connect Language and Perception,” Proceedings of the 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intel ligence (AAAI), Senior Member Paper, Chicago, IL, July 2008.

Katrin Erk and Sebastian Pado. “A structured vector space model for word meaning in context”. In Proceedings of EMNLP, 2008.

Jason Baldridge, Nicholas Asher, and Julie Hunter. 2007. Annotation for and Robust Parsing of Discourse Structure on Unrestricted Texts. Zeitschrift fur Sprachwissenschaft 26: 213-239.

Alexis Palmer, Elias Ponvert, Jason Baldridge, and Carlota Smith. 2007. A Sequencing Model for Situation Entity Classification. In Proceedings of ACL-2007. Prague.

Taesun Moon and Jason Baldridge. 2007. Part-of-Speech Tagging for Middle English through Alignment and Projection of Parallel Diachronic Texts. In Proceedings of EMNLP/CONLL-2007. Prague.

Pascal Denis and Jason Baldridge. 2007. Joint determination of anaphoricity and coreference resolution using integer programming. In Proceedings of NAACL-2007. Rochester, NY. [Won best student paper award.]

Pascal Denis and Jason Baldridge. 2007. A ranking approach to pronoun resolution. In Proceedings of IJCAI-2007. Hyderabad, India.

Jason Baldridge, Sudipta Chatterjee, Alexis Palmer, and Ben Wing. 2007. DotCCG and VisCCG: Wiki and Programming Paradigms for Improved Grammar Engineering with OpenCCG. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks. Stanford, CA. [See the UTCL wiki pages for working with DotCCG and VisCCG.]

Katrin Erk. A simple, similarity-based model for selectional preferences. Proceedings of ACL 2007. Prague, Czech Republic, 2007.

Sebastian Pado, Ulrike Pado and Katrin Erk. Flexible, corpus-based modelling of human plausibility judgements. Proceedings of EMNLP-CoNLL 2007. Prague, Czech Republic, 2007.

Alexis Palmer and Katrin Erk. IGT-XML: an XML format for interlinearized glossed texts. Proceedings of the Linguistics Annotation Workshop (LAW-07). Prague, Czech Republic, 2007.

Katrin Erk and Sebastian Pado. Towards a computational model of gradience in word sense. Proceedings of IWCS-7, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2007

Katrin Erk and Joachim Niehren, Dominance Constraints in Stratified Context Unification, Information Processing Letters 4 101, 141-147

Bunescu, R. C. and Mooney, R.J., “Statistical Relational Learning for Natural Language Information Extraction,” in Introduction to Statistical Relational Learning, Getoor, L. and Taskar, B. (Eds.), pp. 535–552, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007.

Bunescu, R. C. and Mooney, R.J., “Extracting Relations from Text: From Word Sequences to Dependency Paths,” in Natural Language Processing and Text Mining, Kao, A. and Poteet, S. (Eds.), pp. 29–44, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2007.

Kate, R. and Mooney, R.J., “Learning Language Semantics from Ambiguous Supervision,” Proceedings of the 22nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intel ligence (AAAI), Vancouver, BC, pp. 895–900, July 2007.

Bunescu, R. C. and Mooney, R.J., “Learning to Extract Relations from the Web using Minimal Supervision,” Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 576–583, June 2007.

Wong, Y.W. and Mooney, R.J., “Learning Synchronous Grammars for Semantic Parsing with Lambda Calculus,” Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistic (ACL), Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 960–967, June 2007. (Best Paper Award)

Wong, Y.W. and Mooney, R.J., “Generation by Inverting a Semantic Parser that uses Statistical Machine Translation,” Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), pp. 172–179, Rochester, NY, April 2007.

Kate, R. and Mooney, R.J., “Semi-Supervised Learning for Semantic Parsing using Support Vector Machines,”Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Short Papers (NAACL-HLT), pp. 81–84, Rochester, NY, April 2007.

Mooney, R.J., “Learning for Semantic Parsing,” (invited paper) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference, CICLing 2007, Mexico City, A. Gelbukh (Ed.), pp. 311–324, Springer, Berlin, Germany, February 2007.

Ruket Cakici and Jason Baldridge. 2006. Projective and non-projective Turkish parsing. In Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories. Prague.

Ben Wing and Jason Baldridge. 2006. Adaption of Data and Models for Probabilistic Parsing of Portuguese. Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Computational Processing of Written and Spoken Portuguese PROPOR'06, Itatiaia, Brazil.

Kate, R. and Mooney, R.J., “Using String-Kernels for Learning Semantic Parsers,” Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING-ACL), Sydney, Australia, pp. 913–920, July 2006.

Ge, R. and Mooney, R.J., “Discriminative Reranking for Semantic Parsing,” (poster paper) Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING-ACL), Sydney, Australia, pp. 263–270, July 2006.

Wong, Y.W. and Mooney, R.J., “Learning for Semantic Parsing with Statistical Machine Translation,” Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting (HLT-NAACL), New York, NY, pp. 439–446, June 2006.

Bunescu, R. C. and Mooney, R.J.,“Subsequence Kernels for Relation Extraction,” in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Vol. 18: Proceedings of the 2005 Conference (NIPS), Y. Weiss, B. Sch ̈olkopf, J. Platt (Eds.), MIT Press, 2006.

Fred Hoyt (2006). “Negative Concord and Restructuring in Palestinian Arabic: A Comparison of TAG and CCG Analyses.” in proceedings of TAG+8, July 14-15 (Sydney, Australia).

P. Denis and J. Kuhn. 2006. Applying an LFG parser in coreference resolution. Experiments and Analysis. Presented at the 11th International LFG Conference (LFG-2006), Konstanz, Germany, July 10-13.

Kate, R.J., Wong, Y. W., and Mooney, R.J., “Learning to Transform Natural to Formal Languages,” Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intel ligence (AAAI), Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 1062–1068, July 2005.

Ge, R. and Mooney, R.J., “A Statistical Semantic Parser that Integrates Syntax and Semantics,” Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), Ann Arbor, MI, pp. 9–16, June 2005.

Boas, Hans C. “From Theory to Practice: Frame Semantics and the Design of FrameNet,” in: Langer, S. and D. Schnorbusch (eds.), Semantik im Lexikon. Tübingen: Narr. 129-160.

Boas, Hans C. “Semantic Frames as Interlingual Representations for Multilingual Lexical Databases”. International Journal of Lexicography 18(4), 445-478. [ PDF ]