Lab Publications
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2016
2015
Byron C. Wallace, Do Kook Choe, and Eugene Charniak. Sparse, Contextually Informed Models for Irony Detection: Exploiting User Communities, Entities and Sentiment. In Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 1035-1044, Beijing, China, July 2015. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Do Kook Choe and David McClosky. Parsing Paraphrases with Joint Inference. In Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 1223-1233, Beijing, China, July 2015. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Do Kook Choe, David McClosky, and Eugene Charniak. Syntactic Parse Fusion. In Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1360-1366, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2015. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Chris Tanner and Eugene Charniak. A Hybrid Generative/Discriminative Approach To Citation Prediction. In Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 75-83, Denver, Colorado, May-June 2015. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
2014
Rebecca Mason and Eugene Charniak. Domain-Specific Image Captioning. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, pages 11-20, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2014. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Rebecca Mason and Eugene Charniak. Nonparametric Method for Data-driven Image Captioning. In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 592-598, Baltimore, Maryland, June 2014. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Byron C. Wallace, Do Kook Choe, Laura Kertz, and Eugene Charniak. Humans Require Context to Infer Ironic Intent (so Computers Probably do, too). In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 512-516, Baltimore, Maryland, June 2014. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Ben Swanson and Eugene Charniak. Data Driven Language Transfer Hypotheses. In Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, volume 2: Short Papers, pages 169-173, Gothenburg, Sweden, April 2014. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
2013
Rebecca Mason. Domain-Independent Captioning of Domain-Specific Images. In Proceedings of the 2013 NAACL HLT Student Research Workshop, pages 69-76, Atlanta, Georgia, June 2013. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Rebecca Mason and Eugene Charniak. Annotation of Online Shopping Images without Labeled Training Examples. In Proceedings of Workshop on Vision and Language, Atlanta, Georgia, June 2013. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Do Kook Choe and Eugene Charniak. Naive Bayes Word Sense Induction. In Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1433-1437, Seattle, Washington, USA, October 2013. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Ben Swanson and Eugene Charniak. Extracting the Native Language Signal for Second Language Acquisition. In Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 85-94, Atlanta, Georgia, June 2013. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Ben Swanson, Elif Yamangil, Eugene Charniak, and Stuart Shieber. A Context Free TAG Variant. In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 302-310, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
2012
Rebecca Mason and Eugene Charniak. Apples to Oranges: Evaluating Image Annotations from Natural Language Processing Systems. In NAACL-2012: Main Proceedings, Montreal, Canada, 2012. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Ben Swanson and Eugene Charniak. Native language detection with tree substitution grammars. In Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Short Papers - Volume 2, ACL '12, pages 193-197, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, 2012. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Ben Swanson and Elif Yamangil. Correction detection and error type selection as an ESL educational aid. In Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT '12, pages 357-361, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, 2012. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
2011
Micha Elsner and Eugene Charniak. Disentangling chat with local coherence models. In Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Volume 1, HLT '11, pages 1179-1189, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, 2011. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Micha Elsner and Deepak Santhanam. Learning to fuse disparate sentences. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Monolingual Text-To-Text Generation, MTTG '11, pages 54-63, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, 2011. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Micha Eisner and Eugene Charniak. Extending the entity grid with entity-specific features. In Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: short papers - Volume 2, HLT '11, pages 125-129, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, 2011. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Rebecca Mason and Eugene Charniak. Extractive Multi-Document Summaries Should Explicitly Not Contain Document-Specific Content. In Proceedings of the ACL 2011 Workshop on Automatic Summarization for Different Genres, Media, and Languages, Portland, Oregon, 2011. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Rebecca Mason and Eugene Charniak. BLLIP at TAC 2011: A General Summarization System for a Guided Summarization Task. In Proceedings of TAC 2011, 2011. [ bib | .pdf ]
2010
Eugene Charniak. Top-down nearly-context-sensitive parsing. In Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP '10, pages 674-683, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, 2010. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Micha Elsner and Eugene Charniak. The Same-head Heuristic for Coreference. In Proceedings of ACL 10, Uppsala, Sweden, July 2010. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
David McClosky, Eugene Charniak, and Mark Johnson. Automatic domain adaptation for parsing. In Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, HLT '10, pages 28-36, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, 2010. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
2009
Eugene Charniak and Micha Elsner. EM Works for Pronoun Anaphora Resolution. In Proceedings of the Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-09), Athens, Greece, 2009. [ bib | .pdf ]
Micha Elsner and Warren Schudy. Bounding and Comparing Methods for Correlation Clustering Beyond ILP. In Proceedings of the NAACL/HLT 2009 Workshop on Integer Linear Programming for Natural Language Processing (ILP-NLP '09), Boulder, Colorado, June 2009. [ bib | .pdf ]
Micha Elsner, Eugene Charniak, and Mark Johnson. Structured Generative Models for Unsupervised Named-Entity Clustering. In Proceedings of NAACL-09: HLT, Boulder, Colorado, June 2009. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
William P. Headden III, Mark Johnson, and David McClosky. Improving Unsupervised Dependency Parsing with Richer Contexts and Smoothing. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, Main Conference (to appear), Boulder, Colorado, May 2009. [ bib ]
Matthew Lease. An Improved Markov Random Field Model for Supporting Verbose Queries. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, 2009. 16% acceptance rate, to appear. [ bib | Abstract ]
Matthew Lease, James Allan, and W. Bruce Croft. Regression Rank: Learning to Meet the Opportunity of Descriptive Queries. In Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), pages 90-101, 2009. 22% acceptance rate. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
2008
Micha Elsner and Eugene Charniak. You Talking to Me? A Corpus and Algorithm for Conversation Disentanglement. In Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, pages 834-842, Columbus, Ohio, June 2008. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf | slides ]
Micha Elsner and Eugene Charniak. Coreference-inspired Coherence Modeling. In Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, Short Papers, pages 41-44, Columbus, Ohio, June 2008. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf | poster ]
William P. Headden III, David McClosky, and Eugene Charniak. Evaluating Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging for Grammar Induction. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'08), Manchester, UK, August 2008. [ bib | .pdf | .ps ]
Matthew Lease. Incorporating Relevance and Psuedo-relevance Feedback in the Markov Random Field Model: Brown at the TREC'08 Relevance Feedback Track. In Proceedings of the 17th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC'08), 2008. Best results in track. This paper supersedes an earlier version appearing in conference's Working Notes. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
Matthew Lease and Eugene Charniak. A Dirichlet-smoothed Bigram Model for Retrieving Spontaneous Speech. In Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval: 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, Revised Selected Papers, volume 5152 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag, 2008. [ bib | .pdf ]
David McClosky and Eugene Charniak. Self-Training for Biomedical Parsing. In Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, Short Papers, pages 101-104, Columbus, Ohio, June 2008. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
David McClosky, Eugene Charniak, and Mark Johnson. When is Self-training Effective for Parsing? In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'08), Manchester, UK, August 2008. [ bib | .pdf | .ps ]
David McClosky. Modeling Valence Effects in Unsupervised Grammar Induction. Technical Report CS-09-01, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, 2008. [ bib | tech-report | Abstract ]
2007
Micha Elsner, Joseph Austerweil, and Eugene Charniak. A Unified Local and Global Model for Discourse Coherence. In Proceedings of HLT-NAACL '07, Rochester, New York, April 2007. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf | slides ]
Micha Elsner and Eugene Charniak. A Generative Discourse-New Model for Text Coherence. Technical Report CS-07-04, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, 2007. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
Jianfeng Gao, Galen Andrew, Mark Johnson, and Kristina Toutanova. A Comparative Study of Parameter Estimation Methods for Statistical Natural Language Processing. In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'07), 2007. [ bib ]
Sharon Goldwater, Thomas L. Griffiths, and Mark Johnson. Distributional Cues to Word Segmentation: Context is Important. In Proceedings of the 31st Boston University Conference on Language Development, 2007. [ bib | .pdf ]
Mark Johnson. Why Doesn't EM Find Good HMM POS-Taggers? In Proceedings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'07), 2007. [ bib ]
Mark Johnson. Transforming Projective Bilexical Dependency Grammars into Efficiently-Parsable CFGs with Unfold-Fold. In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'07), 2007. [ bib ]
Mark Johnson, Thomas L. Griffiths, and Sharon Goldwater. Bayesian inference for PCFGs via Markov chain Monte Carlo. In Proceedings of the North American Conference on Computational Linguistics (NAACL'07), 2007. [ bib | .pdf ]
Mark Johnson, Thomas L. Griffiths, and Sharon Goldwater. Adaptor Grammars: a Framework for Specifying Compositional Nonparametric Bayesian Models. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19, 2007. [ bib | .pdf ]
Matthew Lease and Eugene Charniak. Brown at CL-SR'07: Retrieving Conversational Speech in English and Czech. In Working Notes of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF): Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) track, 2007. Corrected version. [ bib | .pdf ]
Matthew Lease. Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval: the time is ripe (again). In Proceedings of the 1st Ph.D. Workshop at the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (PIKM), 2007. Best Paper award. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
Jenine Turner and Eugene Charniak. Language Modeling for Determiner Selection. In Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Companion Volume, Short Papers, pages 177-180, Rochester, New York, April 2007. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
2006
Ann Bies, Stephanie Strassel, Haejoong Lee, Kazuaki Maeda, Seth Kulick, Yang Liu, Mary Harper, and Matthew Lease. Linguistic Resources for Speech Parsing. In Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'06), Genoa, Italy, 2006. [ bib | .pdf ]
Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson, Micha Elsner, Joseph Austerweil, David Ellis, Isaac Haxton, Catherine Hill, R. Shrivaths, Jeremy Moore, Michael Pozar, and Theresa Vu. Multilevel Coarse-to-Fine PCFG Parsing. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL (HLT-NAACL'06), pages 168-175, New York City, USA, June 2006. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf | slides ]
Sharon Goldwater, Tom Griffiths, and Mark Johnson. Interpolating between types and tokens by estimating power-law generators. In Y. Weiss, B. Schölkopf, and J. Platt, editors, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 18, pages 459-466, Cambridge, MA, 2006. MIT Press. [ bib | .pdf ]
Sharon Goldwater, Thomas L. Griffiths, and Mark Johnson. Contextual Dependencies in Unsupervised Word Segmentation. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association or Computational Linguistics (COLING_ACL'06), pages 673-680, Sydney, Australia, July 2006. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
John Hale, Izhak Shafran, Lisa Yung, Bonnie J. Dorr, Mary Harper, Anna Krasnyanskaya, Matthew Lease, Yang Liu, Brian Roark, Matthew Snover, and Robin Stewart. PCFGs with Syntactic and Prosodic Indicators of Speech Repairs. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING-ACL'06), pages 161-168, Sydney, Australia, July 2006. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
William P. Headden III, Eugene Charniak, and Mark Johnson. Learning Phrasal Categories. In Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 301-307, Sydney, Australia, July 2006. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Matthew Lease, Mark Johnson, and Eugene Charniak. Recognizing disfluencies in conversational speech. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 14(5):1566-1573, September 2006. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
Matthew Lease, Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson, and David McClosky. A Look At Parsing and Its Applications. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), 16-20 July 2006. [ bib | .pdf ]
Matthew Lease and Mark Johnson. Early Deletion of Fillers In Processing Conversational Speech. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL (HLT-NAACL'06), Companion Volume: Short Papers, pages 73-76, New York City, USA, June 2006. Association for Computational Linguistics. Version here corrects Table 2 in published version. [ bib | .pdf ]
David McClosky, Eugene Charniak, and Mark Johnson. Reranking and Self-Training for Parser Adaptation. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'06), pages 337-344, Sydney, Australia, July 2006. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf | .ps ]
David McClosky, Eugene Charniak, and Mark Johnson. Effective Self-Training for Parsing. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, Main Conference, pages 152-159, New York City, USA, June 2006. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf | slides | .ps ]
B. Roark, Yang Liu, M. Harper, R. Stewart, M. Lease, M. Snover, I. Shafran, B. Dorr, J. Hale, A. Krasnyanskaya, and L. Yung. Reranking for Sentence Boundary Detection in Conversational Speech. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'06), pages 545-548, May 14-19 2006. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
Brian Roark, Mary Harper, Eugene Charniak, Bonnie Dorr, Mark Johnson, Jeremy G. Kahn, Yang Liu, Mari Ostendorf, John Hale, Anna Krasnyanskaya, Matthew Lease, Izhak Shafran, Matthew Snover, Robin Stewart, and Lisa Yung. SParseval: Evaluation Metrics for Parsing Speech. In Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'06), Genoa, Italy, 2006. [ bib | .pdf ]
2005
Eugene Charniak and Mark Johnson. Coarse-to-Fine n-Best Parsing and MaxEnt Discriminative Reranking. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'05), pages 173-180, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Micha Elsner, Mary Swift, James Allen, and Daniel Gildea. Online Statistics for a Unification-Based Dialogue Parser. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Parsing Technology (IWPT'05), pages 198-199, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 2005. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf | poster ]
Heidi Fox. Dependency-Based Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the ACL Student Research Workshop, pages 91-96, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Dmitriy Genzel. Inducing a Multilingual Dictionary from a Parallel Multitext in Related Languages. In Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 875-882, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 2005. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Sharon Goldwater and David McClosky. Improving Statistical MT through Morphological Analysis. In Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT-EMNLP'05), pages 676-683, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 2005. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf | .ps ]
Sharon Goldwater and Mark Johnson. Representational Bias in Unsupervised Learning of Syllable Structure. In Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2005), pages 112-119, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Jeremy G. Kahn, Matthew Lease, Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson, and Mari Ostendorf. Effective Use of Prosody in Parsing Conversational Speech. In Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'05), pages 233-240, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 2005. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Matthew Lease. Parsing and Disfluency Modeling. Technical Report CS-05-15, Brown University Department of Computer Science, 2005. [ bib | tech-report ]
Matthew Lease, Eugene Charniak, and Mark Johnson. Parsing and its applications for conversational speech. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'05), volume 5, pages 961-964, March 18 - March 23 2005. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
Matthew Lease and Eugene Charniak. Parsing Biomedical Literature. In R. Dale, K.-F. Wong, J. Su, and O. Kwong, editors, Proceedings of the 2nd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP'05), volume 3651 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 58 - 69, Jeju Island, Korea, October 11 - October 13 2005. Springer-Verlag. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
Heng Lian. Chinese Language Parsing with Maximum-Entropy-Inspired Parser. Master's thesis, Brown University, Providence, RI, 2005. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
Jenine Turner and Eugene Charniak. Supervised and Unsupervised Learning for Sentence Compression. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'05), pages 290-297, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
2004
Massimiliano Ciaramita and Mark Johnson. Multi-component Word Sense Disambiguation. In Rada Mihalcea and Phil Edmonds, editors, Senseval-3: Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text, pages 97-100, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Sharon Goldwater and Mark Johnson. Priors in Bayesian Learning of Phonological Rules. In Proceedings of the Seventh Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Phonology, pages 35-42, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Michelle Gregory and Yasemin Altun. Using Conditional Random Fields to Predict Pitch Accents in Conversational Speech. In Proceedings of the 42nd Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'04), Main Volume, pages 677-683, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004. [ bib | .pdf ]
Michelle Gregory, Mark Johnson, and Eugene Charniak. Sentence-Internal Prosody Does not Help Parsing the Way Punctuation Does. In Daniel Marcu Susan Dumais and Salim Roukos, editors, HLT-NAACL 2004: Main Proceedings, pages 81-88, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, May 2 - May 7 2004. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Keith B. Hall and Mark Johnson. Attention Shifting for Parsing Speech. In Proceedings of the 42nd Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'04), Main Volume, pages 40-46, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004. [ bib | .pdf ]
Mark Johnson and Eugene Charniak. A TAG-based noisy-channel model of speech repairs. In Proceedings of the 42nd Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'04), pages 33-39, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004. [ bib | .pdf ]
Mark Johnson, Eugene Charniak, and Matthew Lease. An Improved Model For Recognizing Disfluencies in Conversational Speech. In Rich Transcription 2004 Fall Workshop (RT-04F), 2004. [ bib | .pdf ]
Ron Kaplan, Stefan Riezler, Tracy H King, John T Maxwell III, Alex Vasserman, and Richard Crouch. Speed and Accuracy in Shallow and Deep Stochastic Parsing. In Daniel Marcu Susan Dumais and Salim Roukos, editors, HLT-NAACL 2004: Main Proceedings, pages 97-104, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, May 2 - May 7 2004. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .ps | .pdf ]
Brian Roark, Murat Saraclar, Michael Collins, and Mark Johnson. Discriminative Language Modeling with Conditional Random Fields and the Perceptron Algorithm. In ACL, pages 47-54, 2004. [ bib ]
2003
Yasemin Altun, Mark Johnson, and Thomas Hofmann. Investigating Loss Functions and Optimization Methods for Discriminative Learning of Label Sequences. In Michael Collins and Mark Steedman, editors, Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 145-152, 2003. [ bib | .pdf ]
Yasemin Altun and Thomas Hofmann. Large Margin Methods for Label Sequence Learning. In Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EuroSpeech'03), 2003. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
Eugene Charniak, Kevin Knight, and Kenji Yamada. Syntax-based Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Ninth Machine Translation Summit of the International Association for Machine Translation, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 2003. [ bib | .pdf ]
Massimiliano Ciaramita, Thomas Hofmann, and Mark Johnson. Hierarchical Semantic Classification: Word Sense Disambiguation with World Knowledge. In Georg Gottlob and Toby Walsh, editors, IJCAI-03, Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Acapulco, Mexico, August 9-15, 2003, pages 817-822. Morgan Kaufmann, 2003. [ bib | .pdf | .ps ]
Massimiliano Ciaramita and Mark Johnson. Supersense Tagging of Unknown Nouns in WordNet. In Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-03), pages 168-175, 2003. [ bib | .pdf ]
Stuart Geman and Mark Johnson. Probability and statistics in computational linguistics, a brief review. Mathematical foundations of speech and language processing, 138:1-26, 2003. [ bib | .pdf ]
Dmitriy Genzel and Eugene Charniak. Variation of Entropy and Parse Trees of Sentences as a Function of the Sentence Number. In Michael Collins and Mark Steedman, editors, Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'03), pages 65-72, 2003. [ bib | .pdf ]
Sharon Goldwater and Mark Johnson. Learning OT Constraint Rankings Using a Maximum Entropy Model. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Variation within Optimality Theory, Stockholm University, 2003. [ bib | .pdf | .ps ]
Keith Hall and Mark Johnson. Language modelling using efficient best-first bottom-up parsing. In Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU). IEEE ASRU 2003, 2003. [ bib | .pdf ]
Thomas Hofmann, Lijuan Cai, and Massimiliano Ciaramita. Learning with taxonomies: Classifying documents and words. In Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Statistics (NIPS-03)., 2003. [ bib | .pdf ]
Mark Johnson. Learning and Parsing Stochastic Unification-Based Grammars. In Bernhard Schölkopf and Manfred K. Warmuth, editors, Computational Learning Theory and Kernel Machines, 16th Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory and 7th Kernel Workshop, COLT/Kernel 2003, Washington, DC, USA, August 24-27, 2003, Proceedings, volume 2777 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 671-683. Springer, 2003. [ bib | .pdf ]
2002
Yasemin Altun, Thomas Hofmann, and Mark Johnson. Discriminative Learning for Label Sequences via Boosting. In Proceedings of Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS02), 2002. [ bib | .pdf ]
Don Blaheta. Handling noisy training and testing data. In Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Philadelpha, Pennsylvania, July 2002. [ bib | .pdf ]
Massimiliano Ciaramita. Boosting automatic lexical acquisition with morphological information. In Unsupervised Lexical Acquisition: Proceedings of the Workshop of the ACL Special Interest Group on the Lexicon (SIGLEX), pages 17-25, Philadelphia, July 2002. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .ps | .pdf ]
Donald Engel, Eugene Charniak, and Mark Johnson. Parsing and Disfluency Placement. In Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2002), pages 49-54, 2002. [ bib | .pdf ]
Heidi Fox. Phrasal Cohesion and Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2002), pages 304-311, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 2002. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Stuart Geman and Mark Johnson. Dynamic programming for parsing and estimation of stochastic unification-based grammars. In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'02), pages 279-286, Morristown, NJ, USA, 2002. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Stuart Geman and Mark Johnson. Probabilistic Grammars and their Applications. In N.J. Smelser and P.B. Baltes, editors, International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, pages 12075-12082, Pergamon, Oxford, 2002. [ bib | .pdf ]
Dmitriy Genzel and Eugene Charniak. Entropy Rate Constancy in Text. In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-02), pages 00-00, 2002. [ bib | .pdf ]
Mark Johnson. The DOP Estimation Method is Biased and Inconsistent. Computational Linguistics, 28(1):71-76, 2002. [ bib | .pdf ]
Mark Johnson. A Simple Pattern-matching Algorithm for Recovering Empty Nodes and their Antecedents. In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 136-143, 2002. [ bib | .pdf | .ps ]
Stefan Riezler, Tracy H. King, Ronald M. Kaplan, Richard Crouch, John T. III Maxwell, and Mark Johnson. Parsing the Wall Street Journal using a Lexical-Functional Grammar and Discriminative Estimation Techniques. In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-02), pages 271-278, 2002. [ bib | .pdf ]
2001
Yasemin Altun and Mark Johnson. Inducing SFA with Epsilon-Translations Using Minimum Description Length. In Finite State Methods in Natural Language Processing Workshop, ESSLLI 2001, 2001. [ bib | .pdf ]
Don Blaheta and Mark Johnson. Unsupervised learning of multi-word verbs. In Proceedings of the 2001 ACL Workshop on Collocation, 2001. [ bib | .pdf ]
Eugene Charniak and Mark Johnson. Edit Detection and Parsing for Transcribed Speech. In Proceedings of the Second Conference of the North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL '01), 2001. [ bib | .pdf ]
Eugene Charniak. Immediate-Head Parsing for Language Models. In Proceedings of 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 124-131, 2001. [ bib | .pdf | .ps ]
Eugene Charniak. Unsupervised Learning of Name Structure From Coreference Data. In Second Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NACL-01), 2001. [ bib | .pdf ]
Keith Hall. A Statistical Model of Nominal Anaphora. Master's thesis, Brown University, Providence, RI, 2001. [ bib | .pdf ]
Mark Johnson. Joint and Conditional Estimation of Tagging and Parsing Models. In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-01), 2001. [ bib | .pdf ]
Brian Roark. Probabilistic top-down parsing and language modeling. Computational Linguistics, 27(2):249-276, 2001. [ bib | .pdf ]
2000
Don Blaheta and Eugene Charniak. Assigning function tags to parsed text. In Proceedings of the First Conference of the North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL '00), pages 234-240, 2000. [ bib | .pdf ]
Eugene Charniak. Parsing to Meaning, Statistically. In Canadian Conference on AI, page 442, 2000. [ bib | .pdf ]
Eugene Charniak. A maximum-entropy-inspired parser. In Proceedings of the first conference on North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 132-139, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2000. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc. [ bib | .pdf | tech-report ]
Eugene Charniak, Yasemin Altun, Rodrigo de Salvo Braz, Benjamin Garrett, Margaret Kosmala, Tomer Moscovich, Lixin Pang, Changbee Pyo, Ye Sun, Wei Wy, Z. Yang, S. Zeller, and L. Zorn. Reading Comprehension Programs in a Statistical-Language-Processing Class. In In ANLP/NAACL Workshop on Reading Comprehension Tests as Evaluation for Computer-Based Language Understanding Systems (ANLP/NAACL-00), 2000. [ bib | .pdf ]
Massimiliano Ciaramita and Mark Johnson. Explaining away ambiguity: Learning verb selectional preference with Bayesian networks. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2000. [ bib | .pdf ]
Keith Hall and Thomas Hofmann. Learning Curved Multinomial Subfamilies for Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. In Pat Langley, editor, Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2000), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, June 29 - July 2, 2000, pages 351-358. Morgan Kaufmann, 2000. [ bib | .pdf ]
Mark Johnson and Brian Roark. Compact non-left-recursive grammars using the selective left-corner transform and factoring. In Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics (COLING '00), pages 355-361, 2000. [ bib | .pdf ]
Mark Johnson and Stefan Riezler. Exploiting auxiliary distributions in stochastic unification-based grammars. In 1st Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NACL-00), pages 154-161, 2000. [ bib | .pdf ]
Scott Miller, Heidi Fox, Lance Ramshaw, and Ralph Weischedel. A novel use of statistical parsing to extract information from text. In Proceedings of the first conference on North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL'00), pages 226-233, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2000. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc. [ bib | .pdf ]
Stefan Riezler, Detlef Prescher, Jonas Kuhn, and Mark Johnson. Lexicalized Stochastic Modeling of Constraint-Based Grammars using Log-Linear Measures and EM Training. In In Proceedings of 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Compuational Linguistics (ACL-00), 2000. [ bib | .pdf ]
Brian Roark and Eugene Charniak. Measuring efficiency in high-accuracy, broad-coverage statistical parsing. In Proceedings of the COLING'00 Workshop on Efficiency in Large-scale Parsing Systems, pages 29-36, 2000. [ bib | .pdf ]
1999
Matthew Berland and Eugene Charniak. Finding parts in very large corpora. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '99), pages 57-64, 1999. [ bib | .pdf | tech-report ]
Don Blaheta and Eugene Charniak. Automatic compensation for parser figure-of-merit flaws. In Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics (ACL'99), pages 513-518, Morristown, NJ, 1999. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Sharon A. Caraballo and Eugene Charniak. Determining the Specificity of Nouns from Text. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-99), 1999. [ bib | .ps ]
Mark Johnson. Type-driven semantic interpretation and Feature dependencies in R-LFG. Semantics and Syntax in Lexical Functional Grammar, pages 359-388, 1999. [ bib | .pdf ]
Mark Johnson. A Resource Sensitive Interpretation of Lexical Functional Grammar. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 8(1):45-81, 1999. [ bib | .pdf | .ps ]
Mark Johnson, Stuart Geman, Stephen Canon, Zhiyi Chi, and Stefan Riezler. Estimators for Stochastic Unification-Based Grammars. In 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-99), pages 535-541, 1999. [ bib | .pdf ]
Brian Roark and Mark Johnson. Efficient probabilistic top-down and left-corner parsing. In Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics (ACL '99), pages 421-428, 1999. [ bib | .pdf ]
1998
Sharon Caraballo and Eugene Charniak. New Figures of Merit for Best-First Probabalistic Chart Parsing. Computational Linguistics, 24(2):275-298, 1998. [ bib | .pdf ]
Eugene Charniak, Sharon Goldwater, and Mark Johnson. Edge-Based Best-First Chart Parsing. In Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora, pages 127-133, 1998. [ bib | .pdf ]
Zhiyi Chi and Stuart Geman. Estimation of probabilistic context-free grammars. Computational Linguistics, 24(2):299-305, 1998. [ bib | .pdf ]
Niyu Ge, John Hale, and Eugene Charniak. A statistical approach to anaphora resolution. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora, Orlando, Florida, 1998. Harcourt Brace. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
John Hale and Eugene Charniak. Getting Useful Gender Statistics from English Text. Technical Report CS-98-06, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1998. [ bib | .ps.Z | .html | Abstract ]
Mark Johnson. Proof Nets and the Complexity of Processing Center Embedded Constructions. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 7(4):433-447, 1998. [ bib | .pdf ]
Mark Johnson. The Effect of Alternative Tree Representations on Tree Bank Grammars. In David M. W. Powers, editor, Proceedings of the Joint Conference on New Methods in Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning: (NeMLaP3/CoNLL98), pages 39-48, Somerset, New Jersey, 1998. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Mark Johnson. PCFG Models of Linguistic Tree Representations. Computational Linguistics, 24(4):613-632, 1998. [ bib | .pdf | .ps.gz ]
Mark Johnson. Finite-state Approximation of Constraint-based Grammars using Left-corner Grammar Transforms. In COLING-ACL, pages 619-623, 1998. [ bib | .pdf | .ps ]
1997
Eugene Charniak. Statistical Techniques for Natural Language Parsing. AI Magazine, 18(4):33-44, 1997. [ bib | .pdf | .ps ]
Eugene Charniak. Statistical Parsing with a Context-Free Grammar and Word Statistics. In Proceedings of AAAI, pages 598-603, 1997. [ bib | .pdf | tech-report | .ps | Abstract ]
Mark Johnson. Features as resources in R-LFG. In Proceedings of the 1997 LFG Conference, 1997. [ bib | .ps ]
1996
Sharon Caraballo and Eugene Charniak. Figures of Merit for Best-First Probabilistic Parsing. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'96), pages 127-132, 1996. [ bib | tech-report | .pdf | Abstract ]
Eugene Charniak. Tree-bank Grammars. In Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-96), 1996. [ bib | tech-report | Abstract ]
Eugene Charniak, Glenn Carroll, John Adcock, Anthony R. Cassandra, Yoshihiko Gotoh, Jeremy Katz, Michael L. Littman, and John McCann. Taggers for Parsers. Artificial Intelligence, 85(1-2):45-57, 1996. [ bib | tech-report | .ps | Abstract ]
Eugene Charniak. Expected-Frequency Interpolation. Technical Report CS-96-37, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1996. [ bib | .html | Abstract ]
Mark Johnson. Resource-sensitivity in Lexical-Functional Grammar. Proceedings of the 1996 Roma Workshop, 1996. [ bib ]
1995
Sam Bayer and Mark Johnson. Features and Agreement. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-95), pages 70-76, 1995. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
Eugene Charniak. Parsing with context-free grammars and word statistics. Technical Report CS-95-28, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1995. [ bib | .ps.Z | Abstract ]
Murat Ersan and Eugene Charniak. A statistical syntactic disambiguation program and what it learns. In Stefan Wermter, Ellen Riloff, and Gabriele Scheler, editors, Symbolic, Connectionist, and Statistical Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing, 1995. [ bib | tech-report ]
Mark Johnson. Memorization in Top-Down Parsing. Computational Linguistics, 21(3):405-415, 1995. [ bib | .pdf ]
Mark Johnson and Sam Bayer. Features and Agreement in Lambek Categorial Grammar. In Proceedings of the 1995 ESSLLI Formal Grammar Workshop, pages 123-137, 1995. [ bib | .ps.Z ]
Mark Johnson and Jochen Dorre. Memoization of coroutined constraints. In Proceedings of the 33rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 100-107, Morristown, NJ, USA, 1995. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
1994
Glenn Carroll and Eugene Charniak. Combining Grammars For Improved Learning. Technical Report CS-94-08, Department of Computer Science, Brown University, February 1994. [ bib | .pdf | .ps | .html | Abstract ]
Eugene Charniak, Glenn Carroll, John Adcock, Antony Cassandra, Yoshihiko Gotoh, Jeremy Katz, Michael Littman, and John McCann. Expected-Frequency Interpolation. Technical Report CS-94-06, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1994. [ bib | .ps.Z ]
Eugene Charniak and Glenn Carroll. Context-Sensitive Statistics for Improved Grammatical Language Models. Technical Report CS-94-07, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1994. [ bib | .ps.Z | .html | Abstract ]
Mark Johnson. Computing with Features as Formulae. Computational Linguistics, 20(1):1-25, 1994. [ bib | .pdf ]
1993
Eugene Charniak, Curtis Hendrickson, Neil Jacobson, and Mike Perkowitz. Equations for Part-of-Speech Tagging. In National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 784-789, 1993. [ bib | .ps | Abstract ]
Eugene Charniak. Statistical Language Learning. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1993. [ bib | http ]
1992
Glenn Carroll and Eugene Charniak.
Two Experiments on Learning Probabilistic Dependency Grammars
from Corpora.
Technical Report CS-92-16, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA,
1992.
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