Publications

Information Extraction and Question Answering

• Detecting Discrepancies in Numerical Estimates Using Multidocument Hypertext Summaries.
  Michael White, Claire Cardie, Vincent Ng, and Daryl McCullough.
  Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Human Language Technology Research (HLT-02), 2002.

• Multi-document Summarization via Information Extraction.
  Michael White, Tanya Korelsky, Claire Cardie, Vincent Ng, David Pierce, and Kiri Wagstaff.
  Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research (HLT-01), 2001.

• Detecting Discrepancies and Improving Intelligibility: Two Preliminary Evaluations of RIPTIDES.
  Michael White, Claire Cardie, Vincent Ng, Kiri Wagstaff, and Daryl McCullough.
  Proceedings of the 2001 Document Understanding Conference (DUC-01), 2001.

• Examining the Role of Statistical and Linguistic Knoweledge Sources in a General-Knowledge Question Answering System.
  Claire Cardie, Vincent Ng, David Pierce, and Chris Buckley.
  Proceedings of the Sixth Applied Natural Language Processing Conference (ANLP-2000), 2000.

Morphological Parsing and Part-of-Speech Induction

• Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Acquisition for Resource-Scarce Languages.
  Sajib Dasgupta and Vincent Ng.
  Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL), 2007.

• High-Performance, Language-Independent Morphological Segmentation.
  Sajib Dasgupta and Vincent Ng.
  Main Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL HLT 2007), 2007.

• Unsupervised Morphological Parsing of Bengali.
  Sajib Dasgupta and Vincent Ng.
  Language Resources and Evaluation, 40(3-4), a Special Double-Issue on Asian Language Processing: State of the Art Resources and Processing, 2006.

• Unsupervised Word Segmentation for Bangla.
  Sajib Dasgupta and Vincent Ng.
  Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-07), 2007.

Noun Phrase Coreference

• Semantic Class Induction and Coreference Resolution.
  Vincent Ng.
  Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-07), 2007.

• Shallow Semantics for Coreference Resolution.
  Vincent Ng.
  Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07), 2007.

• Machine Learning for Coreference Resolution: From Local Classification to Global Ranking.
  Vincent Ng.
  Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-05), 2005.

• Supervised Ranking for Pronoun Resolution: Some Recent Improvements.
  Vincent Ng.
  Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), 2005.

• Learning Noun Phrase Anaphoricity to Improve Coreference Resolution: Issues in Representation and Optimization.
  Vincent Ng.
  Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-04), 2004.

• Weakly Supervised Natural Language Learning Without Redundant Views.
  Vincent Ng and Claire Cardie.
  Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL), 2003.

• Bootstrapping Coreference Classifiers with Multiple Machine Learning Algorithms.
  Vincent Ng and Claire Cardie.
  Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-03), 2003.

• Machine Learning for Coreference Resolution: Recent Successes and Future Directions.
  Vincent Ng.
  Cornell University Technical Report CUL.CIS/TR2003-1918, 2003.

• Improving Machine Learning Approaches to Coreference Resolution.
  Vincent Ng and Claire Cardie.
  Proceedings of the 40th Anniversary Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-02), 2002.

• Identifying Anaphoric and Non-Anaphoric Noun Phrases to Improve Coreference Resolution.
  Vincent Ng and Claire Cardie.
  Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-02), 2002.

• Combining Sample Selection and Error-Driven Pruning for Machine Learning of Coreference Rules.
  Vincent Ng and Claire Cardie.
  Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-02), 2002.

Weakly Supervised Natural Language Learning

• Weakly Supervised Natural Language Learning Without Redundant Views.
  Vincent Ng and Claire Cardie.
  Main Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL), 2003.

• Bootstrapping Coreference Classifiers with Multiple Machine Learning Algorithms.
  Vincent Ng and Claire Cardie.
  Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-03), 2003.

Sentiment Analysis

• Examining the Role of Linguistic Knowledge Sources in the Identification and Classification of Reviews.
  Vincent Ng, Sajib Dasgupta, and S. M. Niaz Arifin.
  Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions, 2006.