PUBLICATIONS
BOOK CHAPTERS
- ``Dependency and Valency in other theories: Tree Adjoining
Grammar'', with O. Rambow and A.K. Joshi. In Dependency and
Valency: An International Handbook of Contemporary Research, V. Agel,
L.M. Eichinger, H.W. Eroms et. al.(eds.), Portico Publications, 2003.
- ``Localizing Dependencies and SuperTagging'', In Data-Oriented
Parsing, Rens Bod, Remko Scha and Khalil Sima'an (eds.), CSLI
Publications, 2003.
- ``A computational model of the grammatical aspects of word
recognition as supertagging'', with A.E. Kim and John Trueswell. In
The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing: Formal, computational
and experimental issues, Paola Merlo and Suzanne Stevenson (eds.),
John Benjamins, 2002.
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``Glean: Using Syntactic Information in Document Filtering'', with
R. Chandrasekar, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science,
Volume 71, A. Kent (ed). Marcel Dekker, 2002.
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``Glean: Using Syntactic Information in Document Filtering'', with
R. Chandrasekar, Encyclopedia of Microcomputers Volume 28,
A. Kent and J.G. Williams (eds). Marcel Dekker Publishers,
2002.
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``Performance Evaluation of SuperTagging for Partial Parsing'', In
Advances in Probabilistic and Other Parsing Technologies, Harry Bunt and
Anton Nijholt (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
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``A Computational Model of Lexico-Syntactic Processing as `SuperTagging''',
with A. Kim and J. Trueswell, In Sentence Processing and the Lexicon:
Formal, Computational and Experimental Perspectives , S. Stevenson
and P. Merlo (eds), John Benjamins, 2000.
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``Explanation-based Learning and Finite State Transducers: Application
for Parsing Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammars'', In András Kornai,
editor, Extended finite state models of language. Cambridge University
Press, 1999.
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``Developing a Wide-Coverage CCG System'' with C. Doran, to appear in CSLI
Lecture Notes, A. Abeille and O. Rambow (eds.), Cambridge University
Press.
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``Status of the XTAG System'' with C. Doran, D. Egedi, B.A. Hockey, CSLI
Lecture Notes, A. Abeille and O. Rambow (eds.), Cambridge University
Press.
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``Using Parsed Corpora for Circumventing Parsing'', with Aravind Joshi,
in Symbolic, Connectionist and Statistical Approaches to Learning for
Natural Language Processing, S. Wermter, E. Riloff and G. Scheler (Eds),
Springer Verlag, 1996.
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
- ``Extracting Clauses for Spoken Language Understanding in
Conversational Systems'', with Narendra Gupta, In TAL Journal,
Special Issue on Spoken corpus processing, Hermes Science, Accepted
for publication.
- ``Finite-state Multimodal Integration and Understanding'', with
Michael Johnston, In Journal of Natural Language Engineering,
Cambridge University Press, Accepted for publication.
- ``Stochastic Finite-State Models for Spoken Language Machine
Translation '', with Giuseppe Riccardi, In Machine Translation,
Kluwer Publications, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2002.
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``Head
Transducer Models for Speech Translation and their Automatic Acquisition
from Bilingual Data '', with H. Alshawi and S. Douglas Machine
Translation , 2000.
-
``Learning
Dependency Translation Models as Collections of Finite State Head Transducers'',
with H. Alshawi and S. Douglas Computational Linguistics , Vol 26,
No. 1, March 2000, MIT Press.
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``A Lightweight Dependency Analyzer for Partial Parsing'', In Natural
Language Engineering, Cambridge University Press, Vol 6:113-138, 2000.
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``Supertagging:
An Approach to Almost Parsing'', with A.K. Joshi Computational Linguistics
,
Vol 25, No. 2, June 1999, MIT Press.
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``Glean: Using Syntactic Information in Document Filtering'', with R. Chandrasekar
Information
Processing and Management , Vol. 34, No. 5, (1998), Elsevier Science.
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"Automatic Induction of Rules for Text Simplification", with R.Chandrasekar,
Knowledge
Based Systems, Vol. 10 (1997), Elsevier Science.
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``Explanation-based Learning and Finite State Transducers : Applications
to Parsing Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars'', Journal of Natural
Language Engineering , Vol.2, No. 4, Cambridge University Press.
CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
- ``Compiling Boostexter Rules into a Finite-state Transducer'',
Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL2004), Barcelona,
Spain, 2004.
- ``MATCHkiosk: A Multimodal Interactive City Guide'', with M. Johnston, Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL2004), Barcelona, Spain, 2004.
- ``Balancing Data-driven and Rule-based Approaches in the Context
of a Multimodal Conversational System'', with M. Johnston, NAACL 2004, Boston, 2004.
- ``Robust Multimodal Understanding'', with M. Johnston, ICASSP 2004, Montreal, Canada, 2004.
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``Creating
a Finite-State Parser with Application Semantics'', with O. Rambow,
T. Butt, A. Nasr and R. Sproat, International Conference on Computational
Linguistics (COLING 2002), Taipei,Taiwan, 2002.
-
``Towards
Automatic Generation of Natural Language Generation Systems'',
with J. Chen, O. Rambow and M. Walker, International Conference
on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002), Taipei, Taiwan, 2002.
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``Bootstrapping
Bilingual Data using Consensus Translation for a Multilingual Instant
Messaging System'', with V. Murdock and G. Riccardi, International
Conference in Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002), Taipei,
Taiwan, 2002.
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``MATCH: An
Architecture for Multimodal Dialogue System'', with M. Johnston, et.al,
Association
of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2002), Philadelphia, 2002.
-
``Extracting
Clauses for Spoken Language Understanding in Conversational Systems'',
with N. Gupta and M. Rahim, International Conference on Speech
and Language Processing 2002 (ICSLP 2002), Colorado, 2002.
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``A Finite-State
Approach to Machine Translation'', with G. Riccardi, North American
Association of Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2001), Pittsburgh,
May 2001.
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``Impact of Quality and Quantity of Corpora on Stochastic Generation'',
with J.Chen and O.Rambow, Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing, Pittsburgh, May 2001.
-
``Finite-State
Models for Lexical Reordering in Spoken Language Translation'', with
G. Riccardi, International Conference on Speech and Language Processing
2000 (ICSLP-2000) , Beijing, China, October 2000.
-
``Tight-coupling
of Multimodal Language Processing with Speech Recognition'', with M.
Johnston, International Conference on Speech and Language Processing
2000 (ICSLP-2000) , Beijing, China, October 2000.
-
``Corpus-Based
Lexical Choice in Natural Language Generation'', with O. Rambow, Association
of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2000) , Hongkong, China, October
2000.
-
``Exploiting
a Probabilistic Hierarchical Model for Generation'', with O. Rambow,
International
Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2000)
, Saarbrucken,
Germany, August 2000.
-
``Finite-state
Multimodal Parsing and Understanding'', with M. Johnston, International
Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2000) , Saarbrucken,
Germany, August 2000.
-
``Evaluation
Metrics for Generation'', with O. Rambow and S. Whittaker, International
Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2000) , Mitzpe Ramon,
Israel, July 2000.
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``New Models for Improving Supertag Disambiguation'', with J. Chen and
K. Vijay-Shanker, European Association of Computational Linguistics
(EACL 99) , Bergen, Norway, June 1999.
-
"Learning
Phrase-based Head Transduction Models for Translation of Spoken Utterances'',
with H. Alshawi and S. Douglas, International Conference on Speech and
Language Processing 98 (ICSLP-98) , Sydney, Australia, October 1998
.
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"Automatic Acquisition
of Hierarchical Transduction Models for Machine Translation", with
H. Alshawi and S. Douglas, Proceedings of the 36^{th} Conference of
Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 98), Montreal, Canada,
August 1998.
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``Using Supertags
in Document Filtering: The Effect of Increased Context on Information Retrieval
Effectiveness'', with R. Chandrasekar, Recent Advances in NLP'97
(RANLP'97), September 1997.
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`` Incremental Processing
Using Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar: Symbolic and Connectionist Approaches'',
with Albert Kim and John Trueswell, Conference on Computational Psycholinguistics,
Berkeley, California, August 1997.
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``EAGLE: An Extensible Architecture for General Linguistic Engineering'',
with B. Baldwin, C. Doran, J.C. Reynar, M. Niv and M. Wasson, RIAO'97
,
Montreal, Quebec, June 1997.
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`` Using Syntactic
Information in Document Filtering: A Comparative Study of Part-of-speech
Tagging and Supertagging '', with R. Chandrasekar, RIAO'97 ,
Montreal, Quebec, June 1997.
-
``Automatic Induction of Rules for Text Simplification'', with R. Chandrasekar,
International
Conference on Knowledge-based Computer Systems, Mumbai, India, December
1996.
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``Almost Parsing
Technique for Language Modeling'', International Conference on Speech
and Language Processing 96 (ICSLP-96), Philadelphia, PA, USA, October
1996.
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``Motivations and Methods for Text Simplification'', with R. Chandrasekar
and C. Doran, International Conference on Computational Linguisitics
(COLING 96), Copenhagen, August 1996.
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``Exploiting
Supertag Representation for Fast Coreference Resolution'', with Breck
Baldwin, International Conference on NLP+IA/TAL+AI 96, Moncton,
NB, Canada, June 1996.
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``Novel Applications
of Explanation-based Learning for Parsing Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammars'',
with Aravind Joshi, Proceedings of the 33rd Conference of Association
of Computational Linguistics (ACL 95), MIT, Boston, June 1995.
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``Lexicalization and Grammar Development'', with C.Doran, D.Egedi and T.
Becker, KONVENS 94, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, September
1994.
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``Integration
of Structural and Statistical Information: Role of Complexity of Description
of Primitives'', with Aravind Joshi, New Methods in Language Processing,
UMIST, Manchester, United Kingdom, September 1994.
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``XTAG System -- A Wide Coverage Grammar for English'', with C. Doran,
D. Egedi, B.A. Hockey and M. Zaidel, International Conference on Computational
Linguistics (COLING 94), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, August 1994.
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``Disambiguation
of Super Parts of Speech (or Supertags): Almost Parsing'', with Aravind
Joshi, International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING
94), Kyoto University, Japan, August 1994.
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``Feature-based TAG in place of Multi-Component Adjunction: Computational
Implication'', with B.A. Hockey, Natural Language Processing Pacific
Rim Symposium, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan, December
1993.
WORKSHOP PUBLICATIONS
- ``WebTalk:
Mining Websites for Automatically Building Dialog Systems'', with
J. Feng and M. Rahim, ASRU, December 2003.
- ``Segmenting Spoken Language Utterances into Clauses for
Semantic Classification'', with N. Gupta, ASRU, December 2003.
- ``Balancing data-driven and rule-based approaches in the context
of a Multimodal Conversational System'', with M. Johnston, ASRU ,
December 2003.
-
``Extracting
Clauses for Spoken Language Understanding in Conversational Systems'',
with N. Gupta, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2002),
Philadelphia, June 2002.
-
`Reranking
an N-gram SuperTagger'', with J.Chen, M. Collins, O.Rambow, Sixth
International Workshop on Tree-Adjoining Grammars (TAG+6), Italy,
May 2002.
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``Context-free
parsing of a Tree-Adjoining Grammar using Finite-State Machines, with
A. Nasr, O. Rambow, and J.Chen, Sixth International Workshop on
Tree-Adjoining Grammars (TAG+6), Italy, May 2002.
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``MATCH: Multimodal
Access To City Help'', with M. Johnston, Workshop on Automatic Speech
Recognition and Understanding, Italy, December 2001.
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``Computing
Consensus Translation from Multiple Machine Translation Systems'',
with G. Riccardi and G. Bordel, Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition
and Understanding, Italy, December 2001.
-
``Finite-state
Methods for Multimodal Parsing and Integration'', with M. Johnston,
In Finite State Methods in Natural Language Processing, Helsinki,
August 2001.
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``Natural
Language Generation in Dialog Systems'', with O.Rambow and M. Walker,
Workshop
on Human Language Technology (HLT), San Diego, March 2001.
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``Using
TAG, a Tree Model, and a Language Model for Generation'', with O. Rambow,
Fifth
International Workshop on Tree-Adjoining Grammars (TAG+) , TALANA,
Paris, May 2000.
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``Stochastic
Finite-State models for Spoken Language Machine Translation'', with
G. Riccardi, Workshop on Embedded Machine Translation Systems ,
Seattle, April 2000.
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``Learning
Head-dependency Relations From Unannotated Corpora'', with G. Riccardi
and P. Sarin, Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop
,
Keystone, Colarado, December 1999.
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``Automatic
Acquisition of Phrase Grammars for Stochastic Language Modeling'',
with G. Riccardi, Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora , Montreal,
Canada, August 1998.
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"Migrating Supertags
from English to Spanish", Proceedings of Fourth International Workshop
on Tree-Adjoining Grammars, Philadelphia, August 1998.
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"Automatic Acquisition
of Phrase Grammars for Stochastic Language Modeling", with G. Riccardi,
Proceedings
of the 6^{th} Workshop on Very Large Corpora (WVLC 6), Montreal, Canada,
August 1998.
-
"Grammar &
Parser Evaluation in the XTAG Project", with C. Doran, B.A. Hockey
and A. Sarkar, Workshop on the Evaluation of Parsing Systems, Granada,
Spain, May 1998.
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``Catering to the needs of Web users: Integrating Retrieval and Browsing'',
with Z. Lacroix, A. Sahuguet and R. Chandrasekar, Workshop on Conceptual
Modelling in Multimedia Information Seeking, ER97, Los Angeles, California,
November 1997.
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``Performance Evaluation
of SuperTagging for Partial Parsing'',
Fifth International Workshop
on Parsing Technologies, Boston, September 1997.
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``Catering to the Web User's Needs: Integrating Retrieval and Browsing'',
with Z. Lacroix and A. Sahuguet, Third International Workshop on Multimedia
Information Systems, Como, Italy, September 1997.
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``Mother of Perl: A Multi-tier Pattern Description Language'', with B.
Baldwin, C. Doran, J.C. Reynar and M. Niv, International Workshop on
Lexically Driven Information Extraction, Frascati, Italy, July 1997.
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``Maintaining
the forest and burning out the underbrush in XTAG'', with C. Doran,
B. Hockey, P. Hopely, J. Rosenzweig, A. Sarkar, F. Xia, A. Nasr and O.
Rambow, Workshop on Computational Environments for Practical Grammar
Development (ENVGRAM '97), Madrid, July 1997.
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``Gleaning information
from the Web: Using Syntax to Filter out Irrelevant Information'',
with R. Chandrasekar, Submitted to Workshop on Natural Language Processing
for the World Wide Web , AAAI Spring Symposium, Stanford University,
California, March 1997.
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`` An Approach
to Robust Partial Parsing and Evaluation Metrics'', Workshop on
Robust Parsing, European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information(ESSLLI),
August 1996.
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``Explanation-Based Learning and Finite State Transducers: Applications
to Parsing Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammars'', Workshop on Extended
Finite State Models of language, Budapest, Hungary, August 1996.
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``University of Pennsylvania: Description of the University of Pennsylvania
System used for MUC-6'', with B. Baldwin, J.C. Reynar, M. Collins, J. Eisner
A. Ratnaparkhi, J. Rosenzweig and A. Sarkar, Sixth Message Understanding
Conference (MUC-6), Maryland, October 1995.
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``Parse Ranking and Heuristics'', with C.Doran and S. Kulick, Fourth
International Workshop on Parsing Technology (IWPT 95), Prague, September
1995.
-
``Using Parsed Corpora for Circumventing Parsing'', with Aravind Joshi,
International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence workshop on New Approaches
to Learning for Natural Language Processing, Montreal, August 1995.
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``Status of the XTAG System'', with C.Doran, D.Egedi and B.A. Hockey, Third
International Workshop on Tree-Adjoining Grammars (TAG+), TALANA, Paris,
September 1994.
-
``Bootstrapping a Wide-coverage CCG from FB-LTAG'', with C.Doran, Third
International Workshop on Tree-Adjoining Grammars (TAG+), TALANA, Paris,September
1994.
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``Complexity of Description of Primitives: Relevance to Local Statistical
Computations'', with Aravind Joshi, Balancing Act Workshop, Las
Cruces, New Mexico, June 1994.