AQUAINT Project Publications

2005

• Dmitri Roussinov, Michael Chau, Elena Filatova, and José-Antonio Robles-Flores. "Building on Redundancy: Factoid Question Answering, Robust Retrieval and the `Other'". In Proceedings of Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 2005. [PDF]
• Sasha Blair-Goldensohn. "From Definitions to Complex Topics: Columbia University at DUC 2005". In Proceedings of the 5th Document Understanding Conference (DUC2005), October 2005. [PDF]
• Ani Nenkova, Advaith Siddharthan, and Kathleen R. McKeown. "Automatically Learning Cognitive Status for Multi-Document Summarization of Newswire". In Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP 2005, Vancouver, Canada, October 2005. [PDF]
• Barry Schiffman and Kathleen R. McKeown. "Context and Learning in Novelty Detection". In Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP 2005, Vancouver, Canada, October 2005. [PDF]
• Elena Filatova and John Prager. "Tell Me What You Do And I'll Tell You What You Are: Learning Occupation-Related Activities for Biographies". In Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP 2005, Vancouver, Canada, October 2005. [PDF]
• Sameer Pradhan, Kadri Hacioglu, Valerie Krugler, Wayne Ward, Jim Martin, and Dan Jurafsky. "Support Vector Learning for Semantic Argument Classification". Machine Learning, 60(1-3):11-39, September 2005. [PDF]
• Kathleen McKeown, Rebecca Passonneau, David Elson, Ani Nenkova, and Julia Hirschberg. "Do Summaries Help? A Task-Based Evaluation of Multi-Document Summarization". In Proceedings of SIGIR'05, Salvador, Brazil, August 2005. [PDF]
• Ani Nenkova. "Automatic Text Summarization of Newswire: Lessons Learned from the Document Understanding Conference". In Proceedings of AAAI 2005, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 2005. [PDF]
• Sameer Pradhan, Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne Ward, Jim Martin, and Daniel Jurafsky. "Semantic Role Chunking Combining Complementary Syntactic Views". In Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2005), Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005. [PDF]
• Sameer Pradhan, Wayne Ward, Kadri Hacioglu, Jim Martin, and Daniel Jurafsky. "Semantic Role Labeling Using Different Syntactic Views". In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 43rd Annual Meeting (ACL-2005), Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005. [PDF]
• David Evans and Kathleen McKeown. "Identifying Similarities and Differences across English and Arabic News". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligence Analysis, McLean, Virginia, May 2005. [PDF]
• Kadri Hacioglu, Ying Chen, and Ben Douglas. "Automatic Time Expression Labeling for English and Chinese Text". In Proceedings of CICLing-2005, pages 348-359, Mexico City, Mexico, February 2005. Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3406. [PDF]

2004

• Elena Filatova and Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou. "Marking Atomic Events in Sets of Related Texts". In Nicolas Nicolov, Kalina Boncheva, Galja Angelova and Ruslan Mitkov (editors), "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing Part III". Current Issues in Linguistic Theory series, John Benjamin Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2004. [PDF]
• Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Kathleen R. McKeown, and Andrew Hazen Schlaikjer. "Answering Definitional Questions: A Hybrid Approach". In New Directions In Question Answering, Mark Maybury (editor), Chapter 4. AAAI Press, 2004. [PDF]
• Mona Diab. "The Feasibility of Bootstrapping an Arabic WordNet Leveraging Parallel Corpora and an English WordNet". In Proceedings of the Conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools, Cairo, Egypt, September 2004. [PDF].
• Elena Filatova and Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou. "A Formal Model for Information Selection in Multi-Sentence Text Extraction". In Proceedings of COLING, Geneva, Switzerland, August 2004. [PostScript] [PDF]
• Kadri Hacioglu. "Semantic Role Labeling Using Dependency Trees". In Proceedings of CoLING-04, Geneva-Switzerland, August 2004. [PDF]
• Lokesh Shrestha and Kathleen R. McKeown. "Detection of Question-Answer Pairs in Email Conversations". In Proceedings of COLING, Geneva, Switzerland, August 2004. [PostScript] [PDF]
• Mona Diab. "An Unsupervised Approach for Bootstrapping Arabic Sense Tagging". In Proceedings of Arabic Script Based Languages Workshop at COLING 2004, Geneva, Switzerland, August 2004.[PDF].
• Rodney D. Nielsen and Sameer Pradhan. "Mixing Weak Learners in Semantic Parsing". In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2004), Barcelona, Spain, July 2004. [PDF]
• Elena Filatova and Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou. "Event-Based Extractive Summarization". In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Summarization, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004. [PostScript] [PDF]
• Kadri Hacioglu, Sameer Pradhan, Wayne Ward, Jim Martin, and Daniel Jurafsky. "Semantic Role Labeling by Tagging Syntactic Chunks". In Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Natural Language Learning (CONLL-2004), Boston, Massachusetts, May 2004. [PDF]
• Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, David Evans, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Kathleen McKeown, Ani Nenkova, Rebecca Passonneau, Barry Schiffman, Andrew Schlaikjer, Advaith Siddharthan, and Sergei Siegelman. "Columbia University at DUC 2004". In Proceedings of the 4th Document Understanding Conference (DUC 2004) at HLT/NAACL 2004, Boston, Massachusetts, 2004. [PostScript] [PDF]
• Ani Nenkova and Rebecca Passonneau. "Evaluating Content Selection in Summarization: the Pyramid Method". In Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2004, Boston, Massachusetts, May 2004. [PostScript] [PDF]
• Mona Diab, Kadri Hacioglu, and Daniel Jurafsky. "Automatic Tagging of Arabic Text: From Raw Text to Base Phrase Chunks". In Proceedings of HLT-NAACL-04, Boston, Massachusetts, May 2004. [PDF]
• Kadri Hacioglu. "A Lightweight Semantic Chunking Model Based on Tagging". In Proceedings of HLT/NAACL-04, Boston, Massachusetts, May 2004. [PDF]
• Sameer Pradhan, Wayne Ward, Kadri Hacioglu, Jim Martin, and Daniel Jurafsky. "Shallow Semantic Parsing using Support Vector Machines". In Proceedings of HLT/NAACL-2004, Boston, Massachusetts, May 2004. [PDF]
• Sameer Pradhan, H. Sun, Wayne Ward, Jim Martin, and Daniel Jurafsky. "Parsing Arguments of Nominalizations in English and Chinese". In Proceedings of HLT/NAACL-2004, Boston, Massachusetts, May 2004. [PDF]
• Rebecca Passonneau. "Computing Reliability for Coreference Annotation". In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2004), Lisbon, Portugal, May 2004. [PostScript] [PDF] 
• Steven Bethard, Hong Yu, Ashley Thornton, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou and Dan Jurafsky. "Automatic Extraction of Opinion Propositions and their Holders". In Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on Exploring Attitude and Affect in Text, Yan Qu, James G. Shanahan, and Janyce Wiebe (Eds.), AAAI Technical Report Series, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, USA, March 2004. [PDF]

2003

• Luis Gravano, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, and Richard Lichtenstein. "Categorizing Web Queries According to Geographical Locality". In Proceedings of the Twelfth International ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2003), pages 325–333, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2003. Association for Computing Machinery. [PDF]
• Sameer Pradhan, Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne Ward, Jim Martin, and Daniel Jurafsky. "Semantic Role Parsing: Adding Semantic Structure to Unstructured Text". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM-2003), Melbourne, Florida, November 2003. [PDF]
• Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Kathleen McKeown, and Andrew Hazen Schlaikjer. "A Hybrid Approach for QA Track Definitional Questions". In Proceedings of the 12th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2003), Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 2003. [PDF]
• Judith Klavans, Samuel Popper, and Rebecca Passonneau. "Tackling the Internet Glossary Glut: Automatic Extraction and Evaluation of Genus Phrases". In Proceedings of the SIGIR'03 Workshop on the Semantic Web, 2003. [PostScript] [PDF]
• Elena Filatova and Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou. "Domain-Independent Detection, Extraction, and Labeling of Atomic Events". In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP-2003), Borovets, Bulgaria, September 2003. [PostScript] [PDF]
• Pablo A. Duboue and Kathleen R. McKeown. "Statistical Acquisition of Content Selection Rules for Natural Language Generation". In Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-03), Sapporo, Japan, July 2003. [PostScript] [PDF]
• Hong Yu and Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou. "Towards Answering Opinion Questions: Separating Facts from Opinions and Identifying the Polarity of Opinion Sentences". In Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-03), Sapporo, Japan, July 2003. [Postscript] [PDF]
• Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Kathleen R. McKeown, and Andrew Hazen Schlaikjer. "DefScriber: A Hybrid System for Definitional QA" (Short Paper and Demo). In Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, Toronto, Canada, July 2003. [PDF]
• Pablo A. Duboue, Kathleen R. McKeown, and Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou. "ProGenIE: Biographical Descriptions for Intelligence Analysis". In Proceedings of the First NSF/NIJ Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2003), pages 343–345, Tucson, Arizona, June 2003. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2665. [PostScript] [PDF]
• Kadri Hacioglu and Wayne Ward. "Target Word Detection and Semantic Role Chunking Using Support Vector Machines". In Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2003, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, pp. 25-27, May 2003. [PDF]
• Kadri Hacioglu and Wayne Ward. "Question Classification with Support Vector Machines and Error Correcting Codes". In Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2003, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, pp. 28-30, May 2003. [PDF]
• Ani Nenkova, Barry Schiffman, Andrew H. Schlaikjer, Sasha J. Blair-Goldensohn, Regina Barzilay, Sergey Sigelman, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, and Kathleen R. McKeown. "Columbia at the Document Understanding Conference 2003". In Proceedings of the Third Document Understanding Conference (DUC-03), NIST, May 2003. [PostScript] [PDF]
• Sameer S. Pradhan, Gabriel Illouz, Sasha J. Blair-Goldensohn, Andrew Hazen Schlaikjer, Valerie Krugler, Elena Filatova, Pablo A. Duboue, Hong Yu, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Steven Bethard, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Wayne Ward, Dan Jurafsky, Kathleen R. McKeown, and James H. Martin. "Building a Foundation System for Producing Short Answers to Factual Questions". In Proceedings of the 11th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-11), Gaithersburg, Maryland, March 2003. [Postscript] [PDF] [TREC Notebook Version]

2002

• Sameer Pradhan, Valerie Krugler, Wayne Ward, Daniel Jurafsky, and Jim Martin. "Using Semantic Representations in Question Answering". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2002), pp. 195-203, Bombay, India, December 2002. [PDF]
• Regina Barzilay, Noemie Elhadad, and Kathleen R. McKeown. "Inferring Strategies for Sentence Ordering in Multidocument News Summarization". Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 17:35-55, 2002. [PostScript] [PDF]
• Pablo A. Duboue and Kathleen R. McKeown. "Content Planner Construction via Evolutionary Algorithms and a Corpus-Based Fitness Function". In Proceedings of the Second International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2002), July 2002. [PostScript] [PDF]
• Kathleen R. McKeown, Regina Barzilay, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, David Evans, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Judith L. Klavans, Ani Nenkova, Barry H. Schiffman, and Sergey Sigelman. "The Columbia Multidocument Summarizer for DUC 2002". In Proceedings of the Second Document Understanding Conference (DUC-02), Philadephia, Pennsylvania, July 2002. [Postscript] [PDF]
• Barry Schiffman, Ani Nenkova, and Kathleen R. McKeown. "Experiments in Multidocument Summarization". In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference, March 2002. [PostScript] [PDF]