Technical Publications

 

Papers sorted into the following topic areas, in time order:

Ontologies, Lexical Semantics, Corpus Annotation, and Text Mining 

·  Ontologies and lexical semantics  

·  Corpus annotation

·  Information harvesting and text mining

Natural Language Processing Applications, Text Formatting, and Multimedia Issues

·  Information extraction, opinion identification, parsing, and automated text analysis

·  Biomedical Text Processing

·  Text summarization and evaluation

·  Question answering and information retrieval

·  Machine translation, MT evaluation, and Interlinguas

·  Dialogue and virtual agents

·  Planning of discourse structure, and discourse structure relations

·  Text generation (planning and realization)

·  Multimedia issues and text formatting

Digital Government Research

·  Knowledge integration, database access, and data alignment

·  eRegulations 

·  Other

Knowledge Integration, Database Access, and Data Alignment

Other 


            Ontologies, Lexical Semantics, and Corpus Annotation

Refereed conference paper: Zhu, J. and E.H. Hovy. 2008. Learning a Stopping Criterion for Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation and Text Classification. Full paper in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on NLP (IJCNLP). Hyderabad, India.  Click here for pdf version.

Refereed conference poster: Feng, D., G.A.P.C. Burns, and E.H. Hovy. 2008. Towards Automated Semantic Analysis on Large Scale Biomedical Text. Poster in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on NLP (IJCNLP). Hyderabad, India.

Book chapter of workshop paper: Philpot, A., E.H. Hovy, and P. Pantel. 2008. The Omega Ontology. In Huang, C.-R., A. Gangemi, A. Lenci, and N. Calzolari (eds), Ontologies and Lexical Resources for Natural Language Processing. Cambridge University Press.

Refereed workshop paper: Yu, L.C., C.H. Wu, A. Philpot, and E.H. Hovy. 2007. OntoNotes: Sense Pool Verification Using Google N-gram and Statistical Tests.  Proceedings of the OntoLex Workshop at the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007). Busan, Korea.  Click here for pdf version.

Refereed conference paper (Best Paper Award): Pradhan, S., E.H. Hovy, M. Marcus, M. Palmer, L. Ramshaw, and R. Weischedel 2007. OntoNotes: A Unified Relational Semantic Representation. Full paper, in Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC-07).  Irvine, CA. Click here for pdf version.

Refereed conference paper: Zhu, J. and E.H. Hovy. 2007. Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation with Methods for Addressing the Class Imbalance Problem. Full paper, in Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Prague, Czech Republic. Click here for pdf version.

Refereed conference short paper / poster: Hovy, E.H., M. Marcus, M. Palmer, S. Pradhan, L. Ramshaw, and R. Weischedel. 2006. OntoNotes: The 90% Solution. Short paper.  Proceedings of the Human Language Technology / North American Association of Computational Linguistics conference (HLT-NAACL 2006). New York, NY.  Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Rambow, O., B. Dorr, D. Farwell, R. Green, N. Habash, S. Helmreich, E.H. Hovy, L. Levin, K. Miller, T. Mitamura, F. Reeder, A. Siddharthan. 2006. Parallel Syntactic Annotation of Multiple Languages.  Short paper. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Genoa, Italy.  Click here for pdf version.

Invited abstract for conference keynote talk: Hovy, E.H. 2006. Toward Semantic Corpora: Creating Concepts from Words via Senses, and Storing them in an Ontology.  Invited paper. Proceedings of the LREC conference. Genoa, Italy.

Conference paper: Kwon, N. and E.H. Hovy. 2006. Learning Semantic Frames from Multiple Sources. Proceedings of the 6th International conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational (CICLing-06). Mexico City, Mexico.  February 2006.  Click here for pdf version.

Book chapter of invited conference paper: Hovy, E.H. 2005. Methodologies for the Reliable Construction of Ontological Knowledge.  In F. Dau, M.-L. Mugnier, and G. Stumme (eds), Conceptual Structures: Common Semantics for Sharing Knowledge. Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2005). Kassel, Germany. Springer Lecture Notes in AI 3596, pp 91–106.  Click here for pdf version. 

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Philpot, A., E.H. Hovy, and P. Pantel. 2005. The Omega Ontology. Proceedings of the ONTOLEX Workshop at the International Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP).  Jeju Island, Korea.  Click here for pdf version. 

Conference paper: Reeder, F., B. Dorr, D. Farwell, N. Habash, S. Helmreich, E.H. Hovy, L. Levin, T. Mitamura, K. Miller, O. Rambow, A. Siddharthan. 2004. Interlingua Development for MT Development.   Proceedings of AMTA conference.  Washington, DC.  Click here for pdf version.

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Fleischman, M.B. and E.H. Hovy. 2004. Multi-Document Person Name Resolution.  Proceedings of the Reference Resolution Workshop at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Barcelona, Spain.  Click here for pdf version.

Refereed one-day workshop paper:  Kwon, N., M.B. Fleischman, and E.H. Hovy. 2004.  SENSEVAL Automatic Labeling of Semantic Roles Using Maximum Entropy Models.  Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text (SENSEVAL-3) at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).  Barcelona, Spain.  Click here for pdf version.

Conference proceedings, invited paper: Philpot, A., M. Fleischman, E.H. Hovy. 2003. Semi-Automatic Construction of a General Purpose Ontology.  Proceedings of the International Lisp Conference.  New York, NY.  Click here for pdf version.

Journal paper (brief note): Hovy, E.H. 2003. Using an Ontology to Simplify Data Access.  Communications of the ACM, Special Issue on Digital Government. January.

Conference paper: Fleischman, M., N. Kwon, and E.H Hovy. 2003. Maximum Entropy Models for FrameNet Classification.  Proceedings of the EMNLP Conference. Sapporo, Japan.  Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper (short): Fleischman, M. and E.H. Hovy. 2003. A Maximum Entropy Approach to FrameNet Tagging.  Supplemental Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL). Edmonton, Canada.

Book chapter: Hovy, E.H. 2002. Comparing Sets of Semantic Relations in Ontologies. In R. Green, C.A. Bean, and S.H. Myaeng (eds), The Semantics of Relationships: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, pp. 91–110.  Dordrecht: Kluwer.  Click here for pdf version.

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Agirre, E., O. Ansa, D. Martínez, E.H. Hovy. 2001. Enriching WordNet Concepts with Topic Signatures.  Proceedings of the Workshop on WordNet of the NAACL Conference. Pittsburgh, PA.

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Agirre, E., O. Ansa, E.H. Hovy, and D. Martínez. 2000. Enriching Very Large Ontologies using the WWW.  Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontology Construction of the European Conference of AI (ECAI). Berlin, Germany. Click here for pdf version.

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Hovy, E.H. and S. Nirenburg. 1992. Approximating an Interlingua in a Principled Way.  Proceedings of the DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop. Arden House, NY. Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Hovy, E.H. 1998. Combining and Standardizing Large-Scale, Practical Ontologies for Machine Translation and Other Uses.  Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Granada, Spain.  Click here for pdf version.

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Dalianis, H. and E.H. Hovy. 1998. Integrating STEP Schemata using Automatic Methods.  Proceedings of Workshop on Applications of Ontologies and Problem-Solving Methods,ECAI-98. Brighton, England.

Conference paper: Okumura, A. and E.H. Hovy. 1994. Ontology Concept Association using a Bilingual Dictionary.  Proceedings of the 1st AMTA Conference. Columbia, MD.

Conference paper: Okumura, A. and E.H. Hovy. 1994. Building a Japanese-English Dictionary Based on Ontology for Machine Translation.  Proceedings of the ARPA Human Language Technology Conference. Princeton, NJ.

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Hovy, E.H. and K. Knight. 1993. Motivation for Shared Ontologies: An Example from the Pangloss Collaboration.  Proceedings of Workshop on Knowledge Sharing and Information Interchange, IJCAI-93. Chambéry, France. 

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Corpus Annotation

Refereed conference paper: Zhu, J. and E.H. Hovy. 2008. Learning a Stopping Criterion for Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation and Text Classification. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on NLP (IJCNLP). Hyderabad, India.  Click here for pdf version.

Refereed workshop paper: Yu, L.C., C.H. Wu, A. Philpot, and E.H. Hovy. 2007. OntoNotes: Sense Pool Verification Using Google N-gram and Statistical Tests.  Proceedings of the OntoLex Workshop at the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007). Busan, Korea.  Click here for pdf version.

Refereed conference paper (Best Paper Award): Pradhan, S., E.H. Hovy, M. Marcus, M. Palmer, L. Ramshaw, and R. Weischedel 2007. OntoNotes: A Unified Relational Semantic Representation. Full paper, in Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC-07).  Irvine, CA.  Click here for pdf version.

Refereed conference paper: Zhu, J. and E.H. Hovy. 2007. Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation with Methods for Addressing the Class Imbalance Problem. Full paper, in Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Prague, Czech Republic. Click here for pdf version.

Refereed conference short paper / poster: Hovy, E.H., M. Marcus, M. Palmer, S. Pradhan, L. Ramshaw, and R. Weischedel. 2006. OntoNotes: The 90% Solution. Short paper.  Proceedings of the Human Language Technology / North American Association of Computational Linguistics conference (HLT-NAACL 2006). New York, NY.  Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Rambow, O., B. Dorr, D. Farwell, R. Green, N. Habash, S. Helmreich, E.H. Hovy, L. Levin, K. Miller, T. Mitamura, F. Reeder, A. Siddharthan. 2006. Parallel Syntactic Annotation of Multiple Languages.  Short paper. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Genoa, Italy.  Click here for pdf version.

Invited abstract for conference keynote talk: Hovy, E.H. 2006. Toward Semantic Corpora: Creating Concepts from Words via Senses, and Storing them in an Ontology.  Invited paper. Proceedings of the LREC conference. Genoa, Italy.

Book chapter of invited conference paper: Hovy, E.H. 2005. Methodologies for the Reliable Construction of Ontological Knowledge.  In F. Dau, M.-L. Mugnier, and G. Stumme (eds), Conceptual Structures: Common Semantics for Sharing Knowledge. Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2005). Kassel, Germany. Springer Lecture Notes in AI 3596, pp 91–106.  Click here for pdf version. 

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Levin, L., T. Mitamura, O. Rambow, A. Siddharthan, E.H. Hovy, F. Reeder, K. Miller, D. Farwell, S. Helmreich, B. Dorr, N. Habash, R. Green, 2004. Multilingual Text Annotation.   Proceedings of the Workshop on Corpus Semantics at LREC conference.  Lisbon, Portugal.

Refereed one-day workshop paper of invited talk: Farwell, D., S. Helmreich, B.J. Dorr, N. Habash, K. Miller, F. Reeder, L. Levin, T. Mitamura, E.H. Hovy, O. Rambow, A. Siddharthan. 2004. Interlingual Annotation of Multilingual Text Corpora.  Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus. Boston, MA.  

Conference paper: Reeder, F., B. Dorr, D. Farwell, N. Habash, S. Helmreich, E.H. Hovy, L. Levin, T. Mitamura, K. Miller, O. Rambow, A. Siddharthan. 2004. Interlingual Annotation for MT Development.   Proceedings of AMTA conference.  Washington, DC.  Click here for pdf version.

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Information Harvesting and Text Mining

Conference poster: Bhagat, R., P. Pantel and E.H. Hovy. 2007. LEDIR: An Unsupervised Algorithm for Learning Directionality of Inference Rules. Poster in Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Prague, Czech Republic. Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Pantel, P., R. Bhagat, B. Coppola, T. Chklovski and E.H. Hovy. 2007. ISP: Learning Inferential Selectional Preferences. Proceedings of the Human Language Technology / North American Association of Computational Linguistics conference (HLT-NAACL 2007). Rochester, NY. Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper (poster):  Feng, D. and E.H. Hovy. 2005.  Handling Biographical Questions with Implicature.  Proceedings of the Human Language Technology / Empirical Methods in NLP conference (HLT-EMNLP). Vancouver, Canada.  Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Ravichandran, D., P. Pantel, and E.H. Hovy. 2005. Randomized Algorithms and NLP: Using Locality Sensitive Hash Functions for High Speed Noun Clustering.  Proceedings of the conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).  Ann Arbor, MI.  Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Pantel, P., D. Ravichandran, and E.H. Hovy. 2004. Towards Terascale Knowledge Acquisition.  Proceedings of the COLING conference. Geneva, Switzerland. Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Fleischman, M., A. Echihabi, and E.H. Hovy. 2003. Offline Strategies for Online Question Answering: Answering Questions Before They Are Asked.   Proceedings of the ACL Conference. Sapporo, Japan. Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Ravichandran, D. and E.H. Hovy. 2002. Learning Surface Text Patterns for a Question Answering System.  Proceedings of the 40th ACL conference. Philadelphia, PA. Click here for pdf version.

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Information Extraction, Opinion Identification, Parsing, and Automated Text Analysis

Refereed conference poster: Feng, D., G.A.P.C. Burns, and E.H. Hovy. 2008. Towards Automated Semantic Analysis on Large Scale Biomedical Text. Poster. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on NLP (IJCNLP). Hyderabad, India.

Refereed book chapter: Burns, G.A.P.C., D. Feng, and E.H. Hovy. 2007.  Intelligent Approaches to Mining the Primary Research Literature: Techniques, Systems, and Examples.  In A. Kelemen, A. Abraham, Y. Chen, and Y. Liang (eds), Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics. Springer Verlag, series Studies in Computational Intelligence. Click here for pdf version.

Refereed conference paper: Kwon, N., and E.H. Hovy. 2007. Information Acquisition using Multiple Classifications.  Proceedings of the K-CAP07 conference.  Banff, Canada. .  Click here for pdf version.

Refereed conference paper: Porter, B., K. Barker, E.H. Hovy, J.R. Hobbs, R. Mulkar. 2007. Learning by Reading: A Prototype System, Performance Baseline, and Lessons Learned. Proceedings of the AAAI conference. Vancouver, Canada. Click here for pdf version.

Refereed conference paper: Feng, D., G.A.P.C. Burns and E.H. Hovy. 2007. Extracting Data Records from Unstructured Biomedical Full Text.  Full (oral) paper, in Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Prague, Czech Republic. Click here for pdf version.

Refereed conference paper: Kim, S.M. and E.H. Hovy. 2007. CRYSTAL: Analyzing Predictive Opinions on the Web. Full (oral) paper, in Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Prague, Czech Republic. Click here for pdf version.

Refereed conference paper: Mulkar, R., J.R. Hobbs, and E.H. Hovy. 2007.  Learning from Reading Syntactically Complex Biology Texts. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium Commonsense'07. Stanford University, CA. Click here for pdf version.

Refereed conference paper: Kwon, N., E.H. Hovy, and S.W. Shulman. 2007.  Identifying and Classifying Subjective Claims. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2007). Philadelphia, PA. Click here for pdf version.

Refereed workshop paper: Burns, G.A.P.C., D. Feng, T. Ingulfsen, E.H. Hovy. 2007. Infrastructure for Annotation-Driven Information Extraction from the Primary Scientific Literature: Principles and Practice. Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Service Oriented Technologies for Biological Databases and Tools (SOBDAT 2007) at the ICWS/SCC conference, Salt Lake City, UT. Click here for pdf version.

Refereed workshop paper: Kim, J., G. Chern, D. Feng, E. Shaw, E.H. Hovy. 2007. Mining and Assessing Discussions on the Web through Speech Act Analysis. Proceedings of the Web Content Mining with Human Language Technologies with Human Language Technologies Workshop at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC). Athens, GA.

Refereed workshop paper: Mulkar, R., J.R. Hobbs, E.H. Hovy, H. Chalupsky, and C.-Y. Lin. 2007.  Learning by Reading: Two Experiments. Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning for Answering Questions (KRAQ). Hyderabad, India. . Click here for pdf version.

Refereed conference paper: Kwon, N., S. Shulman, and E.H. Hovy. 2006.  Multidimensional Text Analysis for eRulemaking. Full paper. Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government (dg.o 2006).  San Diego, CA.  Click here for pdf version.

Refereed conference paper: Kim, S.M. and E.H. Hovy. 2006. Identifying and Analyzing Judgment Opinions.  Full paper.  Proceedings of the Human Language Technology / North American Association of Computational Linguistics conference (HLT-NAACL 2006). New York, NY.  Click here for pdf version.

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Kim, S.-M. and E.H. Hovy. 2006. Extracting Opinions Expressed in Online News Media Text with Opinion Holders and Topics.  Proceedings of the Workshop on Sentiment and Subjectivity in Text at the joint COLING-ACL conference.  Sydney, Australia.  Click here for pdf version.

Refereed conference poster: Kim, S-M. and E.H. Hovy. 2006. Automatic Identification of Pro and Con Reasons in Online Reviews. Poster. Companion Proceedings of the conference of the ACL.  Sydney, Australia.  Click here for pdf version.

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Feng, D. and E.H. Hovy. 2005. MRE: A Study on Evolutionary Language Understanding.  Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science (NLUCS). Miami, FL.

Refereed one-day workshop proceedings paper: Kim, S.-M. and E.H. Hovy. 2005. Identifying Opinion Holders for Question Answering in Opinion Texts.  Proceedings of the Workshop on Question Answering in Restricted Domain at the Conference of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05).  Pittsburgh, PA.

Project highlight in conference proceedings: Shulman, S. J. Callan, E.H. Hovy, and S. Zavestoski. 2005. Language Processing Technology for Electronic Rulemaking.  Proceedings of NSF’s national conference on Digital Government (dg.o 2005). Atlanta, GA.  Click here for pdf version.

Book chapter: Filatova, E. and E.H. Hovy. 2005. Assigning Time-Stamps to Event-Clauses. In I. Mani, J. Pustejovsky, and R. Gaizauskas (eds), The Language of Time: A Reader, 523–523.  Oxford University Press.  Click here for pdf version.

Journal article (short note): Shulman, S. J. Callan, E.H. Hovy, and S. Zavestoski. 2004. SGER Collaborative: A Testbed for eRulemaking Data.  Journal of E-Government 1(1), pp. 123–127.  Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Kim, S.-M. and E.H. Hovy. 2004. Determining the Sentiment of Opinions.  Proceedings of the COLING conference.  Geneva, Switzerland.  Click here for pdf version.

Project highlight in conference proceedings: Shulman, S., J. Callan, E.H. Hovy, and S. Zavestoski. 2004. SGER Collaborative: A Testbed for eRulemaking Data.  Proceedings of NSF’s national conference on Digital Government (dg.o 2004).  Seattle, WA. 

Conference paper: Hovy, E.H., A. Philpot, J.L. Klavans, U. Germann, P.T. Davis, S.D. Popper. 2003. Extending Metadata Definitions by Automatically Extracting and Organizing Glossary Definitions.  Proceedings of the dg.o 2003 conference. Boston, MA.  Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Fleischman, M. and E.H. Hovy. 2003. Recommendations Without User Preferences: A Natural Language Processing Approach.  Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). Miami Beach, FL.  Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Kwon, N., M.B. Fleischman, and E.H. Hovy. 2004. FrameNet-based Semantic Parsing using Maximum Entropy Models.  Proceedings of the COLING conference.  Geneva, Switzerland.  Click here for pdf version.

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Filatova, E. and E.H. Hovy. 2001. Assigning Time-Stamps to Event-Clauses.  Proceedings of the Workshop on Temporal and Spatial Reasoning at the Conference of the ACL. Toulouse, France. Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper (poster): Gallippi, A. and E.H. Hovy. 1997. A Machine Learning Approach to Multilingual Proper Name Recognition.  Proceedings of the Conference of the Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium, NLPRS. Phuket, Thailand.

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Kasper, R. and E.H. Hovy. 1990. Integrated Semantic and Syntactic Parsing using Classification.  Proceedings of the DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop. Pittsburgh, PA. 

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Biomedical Text Processing

Refereed conference poster: Feng, D., G.A.P.C. Burns, and E.H. Hovy. 2008. Towards Automated Semantic Analysis on Large Scale Biomedical Text. Poster. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on NLP (IJCNLP). Hyderabad, India.

Refereed book chapter: Burns, G.A.P.C., D. Feng, and E.H. Hovy. 2007.  Intelligent Approaches to Mining the Primary Research Literature: Techniques, Systems, and Examples.  In A. Kelemen, A. Abraham, Y. Chen, and Y. Liang (eds), Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics. Springer Verlag, series Studies in Computational Intelligence.  Click here for pdf version.

Refereed conference paper: Feng, D., G.A.P.C. Burns and E.H. Hovy. 2007. Extracting Data Records from Unstructured Biomedical Full Text.  Full (oral) paper, in Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Prague, Czech Republic. Click here for pdf version.

Refereed workshop paper: Burns, G.A.P.C., D. Feng, T. Ingulfsen, E.H. Hovy. 2007. Infrastructure for Annotation-Driven Information Extraction from the Primary Scientific Literature: Principles and Practice. Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Service Oriented Technologies for Biological Databases and Tools (SOBDAT 2007) at the ICWS/SCC conference, Salt Lake City, UT.  Click here for pdf version

Burns, G.A.P.C. and E.H. Hovy. 2006. The NeuroScholar System as a Natural Language Processing Platform for the Neuroscience Literature.  Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Atlanta, GA.

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Text Summarization and Evaluation

Conference paper: Zhou, L. N. Kwon, and E.H. Hovy. 2007. A Semi-Automated Evaluation Scheme: Automated Nuggetization for Manual Annotation. Proceedings of the Human Language Technology / North American Association of Computational Linguistics conference (HLT-NAACL 2007). Rochester, NY. Click here for pdf version.

Refereed conference demo description: Zhou, L., N. Kwon, and E.H. Hovy. 2007. A Semi-Automatic Evaluation Scheme: Automated Nuggetization for Manual Annotation.  Demo paper. Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology of the North American chapter of the ACL (HLT-NAACL 07). Rochester, NY.

Conference paper: Zhou, L. and E.H. Hovy. 2006. A Semi-Automatic Evaluation Scheme. Proceedings of the DARPA GALE PI workshop. San Francisco, CA.  Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Zhou, L., D. Munteanu, C.-Y. Lin, E.H. Hovy. 2006. ParaEval: Using Paraphrases to Evaluate Summaries Automatically.  Full paper.  Proceedings of the Human Language Technology / North American Association of Computational Linguistics conference (HLT-NAACL 2006). New York, NY.  Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Hovy, E.H., C.-Y. Lin, L. Zhou, and J. Fukumoto. 2006. Automated Summarization Evaluation with Basic Elements. Full paper. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Genoa, Italy.  Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Zhou, L., C.-Y. Lin, and E.H. Hovy. 2006. Summarizing Answers for Complicated Questions. Full paper. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Genoa, Italy.  Click here for pdf version.

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Zhou, L. and E.H. Hovy. 2006. On the Summarization of Dynamically Introduced Information: Online Discussions and Blogs. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs. Stanford, CA.  Click here for pdf version.

Unrefereed report: Lin, C.Y., L. Zhou, E.H. Hovy, and H.T. Dang. 2005. Multilingual Summarization Evaluation 2005: Automatic Evaluation Report.  Report for Multilingual Summarization Evaluation workshop 2005 (MSE2005). 

Encyclopedia entry: Hovy, E.H. 2005. Automated Text Summarization.   In R. Mitkov (ed), The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics, pp. 583–598.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.  Click here for pdf version.

System demo in conference proceedings: Zhou, L., E. Shaw, C.-Y. Lin, and E.H. Hovy. 2005. Classummary: Introducing Discussion Summarization to Online Classrooms.  Demonstration; short paper in Companion Proceedings of the Human Language Technology / Empirical Methods in NLP conference (HLT-EMNLP). Vancouver, Canada.

Conference paper: Zhou, L. and E.H. Hovy. 2005. Digesting Virtual “Geek” Culture: The Summarization of Technical Internet Relay Chats.   Proceedings of the conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).  Ann Arbor, MI.  Click here for pdf version.

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Hovy, E.H., C.-Y. Lin, and L. Zhou. 2005. A BE-based Multi-document Summarizer with Sentence Compression.  Proceedings of the Multilingual Summarization Evaluation Workshop at the ACL 2005 conference.  Ann Arbor, MI.  Click here for pdf version. 

Technical report: Lin, C.Y., L. Zhou, E.H. Hovy, and H.T. Dang. 2005. Multilingual Summarization Evaluation 2005: Automatic Evaluation Report.   Report of the Multilingual Summarization Evaluation 2005 effort (MSE2005). 

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Zhou, L. and E.H. Hovy. 2005. Fine-grained Clustering for Summarizing Chat Logs.  Proceedings of the Workshop on Beyond Threaded Conversation, held at the Computer-Human Interaction conference (CHI2005). Portland OR.

Conference paper (poster): Zhou, L., M. Ticrea, and E.H. Hovy. 2004. Multi-Document Biography Summarization.  Conference on Empirical Methods in NLP (ENMLP). Barcelona Spain.  Click here for pdf version.

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Zhou, L. and E.H. Hovy. 2004. Template-Filtered Headline Summarization.  Proceedings of the Workshop on Automated Text Summarization at the ACL 2004 conference.  Barcelona, Spain.  Click here for pdf version.

Journal paper: Leuski, A., C.-Y. Lin, L. Zhou, U. Germann, F.J. Och, and E.H. Hovy. 2003. Cross-lingual C*ST*RD: English Access to Hindi Information.  ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP) Special Issue on the Surprise Language Exercise Part II, 2(3), pp. 245–269.  Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Lin, C.-Y. and E.H. Hovy. 2003. Automatic Evaluation of Summaries Using N-gram Co-Occurrence Statistics.   Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL). Edmonton, Canada.  Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Zhou, L. and E.H. Hovy. 2003. A Web-Trained Extraction Summarization System.  Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL). Edmonton, Canada.

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Zhou, L. and E.H. Hovy. 2003. Headline Summarization at ISI.  Proceedings of the Document Understanding Conference DUC-03, at the HLT-NAACL Conference. Edmonton, Canada.

System demo in conference proceedings: Leuski, A., C.-Y. Lin, and E.H. Hovy. 2003. iNeATS: Interactive Multi-Document Summarization.  Companion Proceedings of the ACL Conference. Sapporo, Japan.  Click here for pdf version.

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Lin, C.-Y. and E.H. Hovy. 2003. The Potential and Limitations of Automatic Sentence Extraction for Summarization.  Proceedings of the Workshop on Automatic Summarization (DUC03), held at the HLT-NAACL03 conference. Edmonton, Canada.  Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Lin, C.-Y. and E.H. Hovy. 2002. From Single to Multi-document Summarization: A Prototype System and its Evaluation. Proceedings of the ACL conference. Philadelphia, PA.  Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Lin, C.-Y. and E.H. Hovy. 2002. Automated Multi-Document Summarization in NeATS. Proceedings of the Human Language Technology (HLT) Conference. San Diego, CA. Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Lin, C.-Y. and E.H. Hovy. 2000. The Automated Acquisition of Topic Signatures for Text Summarization. Proceedings of the COLING Conference. Saarbrücken, Germany.  Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper, invited: Hovy, E.H. and C.-Y. Lin. 2000. Automated Text Summarization and the SUMMARIST System. Proceedings of the TIPSTER Text Program, Phase III, pp. 197–214.

Magazine paper: Radev, D.R. and E.H. Hovy. 1999. Report on AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Text Summarization. AI Magazine 20(3), p. 84. Fall issue.

Book chapter: Hovy, E.H. and C.Y. Lin. 1998. Automated Text Summarization in SUMMARIST. In M. Maybury and I. Mani (eds), Advances in Automatic Text Summarization. Cambridge: MIT Press. Click here for pdf version.

Refereed multi-day workshop paper: Hovy, E.H. and C.-Y. Lin. 1998. Automated Text Summarization and the SUMMARIST System.  Proceedings of the TIPSTER Workshop. Baltimore, MD.

Conference paper: Lin, C.Y. and E.H. Hovy. 1997. Identifying Topic by Position.  Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, ANLP. Washington, DC.

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Hovy, E.H. and C.Y. Lin. 1997. Automated Text Summarization in SUMMARIST.  Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Text Summarization, ACL/EACL-97. Madrid, Spain.

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Question Answering and Information Retrieval

Conference paper: Yu, L.-C., C.-H. Wu, C.-Y. Lin, E.H. Hovy, and C.-L. Lin. 2007. Topic Analysis for Psychiatric Document Retrieval. Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics conference (ACL-07). Prague, Czech Republic. Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Feng, D., D. Ravichandran, E.H. Hovy. 2006.  Mining and Re-ranking for Answering Biographical Queries on the Web. Proceedings of the conference of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06).  Full paper, poster presentation.   Boston, MA.  Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Feng, D., E. Shaw, J. Kim, and E.H. Hovy. 2006. An Intelligent Discussion-Bot for Answering Student Queries in Threaded Discussions. Proceedings of the Intelligent User Interface conference (IUI). Sydney, Australia.  Click here for pdf version.

Book chapter: Echihabi, A., U. Hermjakob, E.H. Hovy, D. Marcu, E. Melz, and D. Ravichandran. 2005. How to Select an Answer String?   In T. Strzalkowski and S. Harabagiu (eds), Advances in Textual Question Answering. Kluwer.  Click here for pdf version.

Journal paper: Khan, L., D. McLeod, E.H. Hovy. 2005. A Framework for Effective Annotation of Information from Closed Captions Using Ontologies.   Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 25(2), pp. 181–205. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 

Journal paper: Khan, L., D. McLeod, and E.H. Hovy. 2004. Retrieval Effectiveness of an Ontology-Based Model for Information Selection.  Journal for Very Large Data Bases (VLDB). 13(1), pp. 71–85.  Click here for pdf version. 

Conference paper: Fleischman, M. and E.H. Hovy. 2003. Recommendations Without User Preferences: A Natural Language Processing Approach.  Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). Miami Beach, FL.  Click here for pdf version.

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Ravichandran, D., E.H. Hovy, and F.J. Och. 2003. Statistical QA—Classifier vs. Re-ranker: What’s the Difference?   Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Multilingual Summarization and Question Answering—Machine Learning and Beyond. Sapporo, Japan. 

Journal paper: Leuski, A., C.-Y. Lin, L. Zhou, U. Germann, F.J. Och, and E.H. Hovy. 2003. Cross-lingual C*ST*RD: English Access to Hindi Information.  ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP) Special Issue on the Surprise Language Exercise Part II, 2(3), 245–269.  Click here for pdf version.

Newsletter article, invited: Hovy, E.H., A. Leuski, and C.-Y. Lin. 2003. CuSTaRD: Integrating Language Technologies for Hindi.   TIDES Newsletter, July issue.

Conference paper: Fleischman, M., A. Echihabi, and E.H. Hovy. 2003. Offline Strategies for Online Question Answering: Answering Questions Before They Are Asked.   Proceedings of the ACL Conference. Sapporo, Japan. Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Ravichandran, D. and E.H. Hovy. 2002. Learning Surface Text Patterns for a Question Answering System.  Proceedings of the 40th ACL conference. Philadelphia, PA. Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Hovy, E.H., L. Gerber, U. Hermjakob, C.-Y. Lin, and D. Ravichandran. 2001. Toward Semantics-Based Answer Pinpointing.  Proceedings of the DARPA Human Language Technology Conference (HLT). San Diego, CA. Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Hovy, E.H., L. Gerber, U. Hermjakob, M. Junk, and C.-Y. Lin. 2001. Question Answering in Webclopedia.  Proceedings of the TREC-9 Conference. NIST, Gaithersburg, MD. Click here for pdf version. 

Multi-day workshop paper, invited (one-page system demo description): Lin, C.-Y. and E.H. Hovy. 1999. Multilingual Information Access: The MuST System and its Integration with Systran. Proceedings of the DARPA IM/IC&V Meeting. San Diego.

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Machine Translation, MT Evaluation, and Interlinguas

Conference paper: Bhagat, R. and E.H. Hovy. 2007. Phonetic Models for Generating Spelling Variants.  Full (oral) paper.  Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Hyderabad, India.  Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Zhou, L., C.-Y. Lin, and E.H. Hovy. 2006. Re-evaluating Machine Translation Results with Paraphrase Support.   Proceedings of EMNLP conference.  Sydney, Australia.  Click here for pdf version.

Encyclopedia entry (invited): Dorr, B.J., E.H. Hovy, and L. Levin. 2005. Interlinguas In Machine Translation.   Entry for Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed. (ELL2).  Click here for pdf version.

Journal paper: Hovy, E.H., M. King, and A. Popescu-Belis. 2003. Principles of Context-Based Machine Translation Evaluation.   Machine Translation 2002, 17(1), pp. 43–75.  Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Reeder, F., B. Dorr, D. Farwell, N. Habash, S. Helmreich, E.H. Hovy, L. Levin, T. Mitamura, K. Miller, O. Rambow, A. Siddharthan. 2004. Interlingual Annotation for MT Development.   Proceedings of AMTA conference.  Washington, DC.  Click here for pdf version.

Conference paper: Dinh, D., H. Kiem, and E.H. Hovy. 2003. BTL: a Hybrid Model for English – Vietnamese Machine Translation.  Proceedings of the Machine Translation Summit IX. New Orleans, LA. 

Conference paper: King, M., A. Popescu-Belis, and E.H. Hovy. 2003. FEMTI: Creating and Using a Framework for MT Evaluation.  Proceedings of the Machine Translation Summit IX. New Orleans, LA.  Click here for pdf version.

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Levin, L., T. Mitamura, O. Rambow, A. Siddharthan, E.H. Hovy, F. Reeder, K. Miller, D. Farwell, S. Helmreich, B. Dorr, N. Habash, R. Green, 2004. Multilingual Text Annotation