Publications

Book

Daniel Marcu. The Theory and Practice of Discourse Parsing and Summarization. The MIT Press, November 2000. ISBN 0-262-13372-5, $39.95.

Papers

2006

Jason Riesa, Behrang Mohit, Kevin Knight, and Daniel Marcu (2006). Building an English-Iraqi Arabic Machine Translation System for Spoken Utterances with Limited Resources. Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech'2006), September 17-21, Pittsburgh, PA.
Hal Daume III and Daniel Marcu (2006). Domain Adaptation for Statistical Classifiers. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 26, 101-126.
Abdessamad Echihabi, Ulf Hermjakob, Eduard Hovy, Daniel Marcu, Eric Melz, Deepak Ravichandran (2006). How to select an answer string? Advances in Textual Question Answering, Tomek Strzalkowski and Sanda Harabagiu eds., Kluwer, To appear. Click here for a preliminary version of this paper.
Daniel Marcu, Wei Wang, Abdessamad Echihabi, and Kevin Knight (2006). SPMT: Statistical Machine Translation with Syntactified Target Language Phraases. Proceedings of EMNLP-2006, pp. 44-52, Sydney, Australia.
Radu Soricut and Daniel Marcu (2006). Stochastic Coherence Modeling, Parameter Estimation, and Decoding for Text Planning Applications. Proceedings of ACL-2006 (Poster), pp. 803-810, Sydney, Australia.
Radu Soricut and Daniel Marcu (2006). Stochastic Language Generation using WIDL-expressions and its Application in Machine Translation and Summarization. Proceedings of ACL-2006, pp. 1105-1112, Sydney, Australia.
Hal Daume III and Daniel Marcu (2006). Bayesian Query-Focused Summarization. Proceedings of ACL-2006, pp. 305-312, Sydney, Australia.
Dragos Stefan Munteanu and Daniel Marcu (2006). Extracting Parallel Sub-Sentential Fragments from Comparable Corpora. Proceedings of ACL-2006, pp. 81-88, Sydney, Australia.
Alex Fraser and Daniel Marcu (2006). Semi-Supervised Training for Statistical Word Alignment. Proceedings of ACL-2006, pp. 769-776, Sydney, Australia.
Michel Galley, Jonathan Graehl, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, Steve DeNeefe, Wei Wang, and Ignacio Thayer (2006). Scalable Inferences and Training of Context-Rich Syntax Translation Models. Proceedings of ACL-2006, pp. 961-968, Sydney, Australia.
Wei Wang, Kevin Knight, and Daniel Marcu (2006). Capitalizing Machine Translation. Proceedings of HLT/NAACL-2006, pp. 1-8, New York.

2005

Daniel Marcu (2005). Automatic Discourse Parsing. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition. Elsevier.
Dragos Munteanu and Daniel Marcu (2005). Improving Machine Translation Performance by Exploiting Comparable Corpora. Computational Linguistics, 31 (4), pp. 477-504, December.
Hal Daume III and Daniel Marcu (2005). Induction of Word and Phrase Alignments for Automatic Document Summarization. Computational Linguistics, 31 (4), pp. 505-530, December. Click here for a preliminary version of this paper.
Hal Daume III and Daniel Marcu (2005). A Bayesian Model for Supervised Clustering with the Dirichlet Process Prior Journal of Machine Learning Research, 6, pp. 1551-1577. Click here for a preliminary version of this paper.
Thiago Pardo, Daniel Marcu, and Maria Nunes (2006). Unsupervised Learning of Verb Argument Structures. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, Mexico City, Mexico, Febr 2006.
Hal Daume III and Daniel Marcu (2005). A Large-Scale Exploration of Effective Global Features for a Joint Entity Detection and Tracking Model. Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP-2005), Oct 6-8, Vancouver, Canada.
Hal Daume III and Daniel Marcu (2005). Learning as Search Optimization: Approximate Large Margin Methods for Structured Prediction. Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2005), August 7-11, Bonn, Germany.
Radu Soricut and Daniel Marcu (2005). Towards Developing Generation Algorithms for Text-to-Text Applications. Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2005), June 25-30, Ann Arbor, MI.
Hal Daume III and Daniel Marcu (2005). Bayesian Multi-Document Summarization Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Multilingual Summarization Evaluation, June 29, Ann Arbor, MI.
Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu (2005). Machine Translation in Year 2004. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, March 18-23, Philadelphia, PA.
Daniel Marcu and Ana-Maria Popescu (2005) Towards Developing Probabilistic Generative Models for Reasoning with Natural Language Representations. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Text Processing, Mexico City, Mexico, February 13-19, 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2406 Springer 2005, ISBN 3-540-24523-5.

2004

Hal Daume III and Daniel Marcu (2004) Supervised Clustering with the Dirichlet Process. Proceedings of the NIPS'04 Workshop on Learning with Structured Outputs, Dec 17, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada.
Abdessamad Echihabi, Doug Oard, Daniel Marcu, and Ulf Hermjakob (2004). Cross-Language Question Answering at the USC Information Sciences Institute, Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3237, pp. 514-523, Springer-Verlag.
Beata Klebanov, Kevin Knight, and Daniel Marcu (2004). Text Simplification for Information Seeking Applications On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3290, pp. 735-747, Springer-Verlag.
Hal Daume III and Daniel Marcu (2004). A Phrase-Based HMM Approach to Document/Abstract Alignment Proceedings of EMNLP'04. To appear.
Hal Daume III and Daniel Marcu (2004). NP Bracketing by Maximum Entropy Tagging and SVM Reranking Proceedings of EMNLP'04. To appear.
Hal Daume III and Daniel Marcu (2004). Generic Sentence Fusion is an Ill-Defined Summarization Task Proceedings of the ACL-2004 Workshop, Text Summarization Branches Out. To appear.
Dragos Stefan Munteanu, Alexander Fraser, and Daniel Marcu (2004). Improved Machine Translation Performace via Parallel Sentence Extraction from Comparable Corpora. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology and North American Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (HLT/NAACL 2004), May 2-5, Boston, MA.
Michel Galley, Mark Hopkins, Kevin Knight, and Daniel Marcu (2004). What's in a Translation Rule? In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology and North American Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (HLT/NAACL 2004), May 2-5, Boston, MA.
Derrick Higgins, Jill Burstein, Daniel Marcu, and Claudia Gentile (2004). Evaluating Multiple Aspects of Coherence in Student Essays In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology and North American Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (HLT/NAACL 2004), May 2-5, Boston, MA.
Hal Daume III and Daniel Marcu (2004). A Tree-Position Kernel for Document Compression Proceedings of the Document Understanding Conference, (DUC-2004), May 6-7, Boston, MA.
Ulrich Germann, Mike Jahr, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, and Kenji Yamada (2004). Fast Decoding and Optimal Decoding for Machine Translation. Artificial intelligence, 154 (1-2), pp. 127-143.

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2003

Abdessamad Echihabi, Ulf Hermjakob, Eduard Hovy, Daniel Marcu, Eric Melz, Deepak Ravichandran (2003). Multiple-engine question answering in TextMap. Proceedings of TREC-2003.
Daniel Marcu (2003). Automatic Abstracting, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science,

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Yaser Al-Onaizan, Ulrich Germann, Ulf Hermjakob, Kevin Knight, Philipp Koehn, Daniel Marcu, and Kenji Yamada) (2003). Translation with Scarce Bilingual Resources. Machine Translation, To appear.
Lynn Carlson, Daniel Marcu, and Mary Ellen Okurowski (2003). Building a Discourse-Tagged Corpus in the Framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory. In Current Directions in Discourse and Dialogue, pp. 85-112, Jan van Kuppevelt and Ronnie Smith eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Jill Burstein, Daniel Marcu, and Kevin Knight (2003). Finding the WRITE Stuff: Automatic Identification of Discourse Structure in Student Essays. IEEE Intelligent Systems, pp. 32-39, Jan/Feb, 2003.
Jill Burstein and Daniel Marcu (2003). Developing Technology for Automated Evaluation of Discourse Structure in Student Essays. In Automated Essay Scoring: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective. Shermis M. and Burstein J. eds., pp. 209-230, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Jill Burstein and Daniel Marcu (2003). A Machine Learning Approach for Identification of Thesis and Conclusion Statements in Student Essays. Computers and the Humanities, 37(4), Nov. 2003.
Abdessamad Echihabi and Daniel Marcu (2003). A Noisy-Channel Approach to Question Answering. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), July 7-12, Sapporo, Japan.
Bo Pang, Kevin Knight, and Daniel Marcu (2003). Syntax-based Alignment of Multiple Translations: Extracting Paraphrases and Generating New Sentences. Proceedings of the Human Language Technology and North American Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (HLT/NAACL), May 27-June 1, Edmonton, Canada.
Philipp Koehn, Franz Joseph Och, and Daniel Marcu (2003). Statistical Phrase-Based Translation. Proceedings of the Human Language Technology and North American Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (HLT/NAACL), May 27-June 1, Edmonton, Canada.
Radu Soricut and Daniel Marcu (2003). Sentence Level Discourse Parsing using Syntactic and Lexical Information. Proceedings of the Human Language Technology and North American Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (HLT/NAACL), May 27-June 1, Edmonton, Canada.
Greg Kondrak, Daniel Marcu, and Kevin Knight. Cognates Can Improve Statistical Translation Models. Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL 2003), Companion volume, pp. 46-48, Edmonton, May 2003.

2002

Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu (2002). Summarization beyond sentence extraction: A Probabilistic Approach to Sentence Compression, Artificial Intelligence, 139(1), 2002.
Ulf Hermjakob, Abdessamad Echihabi, and Daniel Marcu (2002). Natural Language Based Reformulation Resource and Web Exploitation for Question Answering. Proceedings of TREC-2002.
Radu Soricut, Kevin Knight, and Daniel Marcu (2002). Using a large monolingual corpus to improve translation accuracy. Proceedings of the Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA-2002), Tiburon, CA, October 8-12.
Daniel Marcu and Abdessamad Echihabi (2002). An Unsupervised Approach to Recognizing Discourse Relations. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2002), Philadelphia, PA, July 7-12.
Hal Daume III and Daniel Marcu (2002). A Noisy-Channel Model for Document Compression. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2002), Philadelphia, PA, July 7-12.
Daniel Marcu and William Wong (2002). A Phrase-Based, Joint Probability Model for Statistical Machine Translation. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2002), Philadelphia, PA, July 6-7.
Dragos Stefan Munteanu and Daniel Marcu (2002). Processing Comparable Corpora With Bilingual Suffix Trees. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2002), Philadelphia, PA, July 6-7.
Hal Daume III, Abdessamad Echihabi, Daniel Marcu, Dragos Stefan Munteanu, and Radu Soricut (2002). GLEANS: A Generator of Logical Extracts and Abstracts for Nice Summaries. Proceedings of the Document Understanding Conference (DUC-2002), Philadelphia, PA, July 11-12.
Hal Daume III, Kevin Knight, Irene Langkilde-Geary, Daniel Marcu, and Kenji Yamada (2002). The Importance of Lexicalized Syntax Models for Natural Language Generation Tasks. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Natural Language Generation. Arden House, NJ, July 1-3.

2001

Lynn Carlson, John M. Conroy, Daniel Marcu, Dianne P. O'Leary, Mary Ellen Okurowski, Anthony Taylor, and William Wong (2001). An Empirical Study of the Relation Between Abstracts, Extracts, and the Discourse Structure of Texts. Proceedings of the Document Understanding Conference (DUC-2001), New Orleans, LA, Sept 13-14.
Lynn Carlson, Daniel Marcu, and Mary Ellen Okurowski (2001). Building a Discourse-Tagged Corpus in the Framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory. Proceedings of the 2nd SIGDIAL Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Eurospeech 2001, Denmark, September 2001.
Ulrich Germann, Michael Jahr, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, and Kenji Yamada (2001). Fast Decoding and Optimal Decoding for Machine Translation. Proceedings of ACL-2001, Toulouse, France, July 2001. Best Paper Award.
Daniel Marcu (2001). Towards a Unified Approach to Memory- and Statistical-Based Machine Translation. Proceedings of ACL-2001, Toulouse, France, July 2001.
Jill Burstein, Daniel Marcu, Slava Andreyev, and Martin Chodorow (2001). Towards Automatic Classification of Discourse Elements in Essays. Proceedings of ACL-2001, Toulouse, France, July 2001.
Daniel Marcu and Laurie Gerber (2001). An Inquiry into the Nature of Multidocument Abstracts, Extracts, and Their Evaluation. Proceedings of the NAACL-2001 Workshop on Automatic Summarization, Pittsburgh, PA, June 3, 2001.

2000

The Rhetorical Parsing of Unrestricted Texts: A Surface-Based Approach.

Computational Linguistics

Daniel Marcu. Perlocutions: The Achilles' Heel of Speech Act Theory. Journal of Pragmatics, 32 (12) pp. 1719-1741. An earlier version of this paper was published in The Working Notes of the AAAI-97 Fall Symposium on Communicative Action in Humans and Machines, pages 51-58, MIT, Cambridge, MA, November 1997.
Jill Burstein and Daniel Marcu (2000). Towards Using Text Summarization for Essay-Based Feedback. Le 7e Conference Annuelle sur Le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles TALN'2000, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 2000.
Jill Burstein and Daniel Marcu (2000). Benefits of Modularity in an Automated Essay Scoring System. The Coling-2000 Workshop on Using Toolsets and Architectures to Build NLP Systems. Luxembourg, August 5, 2000.
Daniel Marcu (2000). Extending a Formal and Computational Model of Rhetorical Structure Theory with Intentional Structures à la Grosz and Sidner.The 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics COLING'2000, Saarbrueken, July 31-August 4, 2000.
Dan Cristea, Nancy Ide, Daniel Marcu, and Valentin Tablan (1999). Discourse Structure and Co-Reference: An Empirical Study The 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics COLING'2000, Luxembourg, July 31-August 4, 2000. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the ACL'99 Workshop on the Relation Between Discourse Structure and Reference, Maryland, June 1999.
Yaser Al-Onaizan, Ulrich Germann, Ulf Hermjakob, Kevin Knight, Philipp Koehn, Daniel Marcu, Kenji Yamada (2000). Translating with Scarce Resources. The 17th National Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence AAAI'2000, Austin, Texas, July 30-August 3, 2000.
Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu (2000). Statistics-Based Summarization - Step One: Sentence Compression. The 17th National Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence AAAI'2000, Outstanding Paper Award, Austin, Texas, July 30-August 3, 2000.
Daniel Marcu, Lynn Carlson, and Maki Watanabe (2000). An empirical study in multilingual natural language generation: what should a text planner do? The 1st International Conference on Natural Language Generation INLG'2000, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, June 12-16, 2000.
Daniel Marcu, Lynn Carlson, and Maki Watanabe (2000). The Automatic Translation of Discourse Structures. The 1st Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL'2000), Seattle, Washington, April 30-May 4, 2000.

1999

Daniel Marcu (1999). Discourse trees are good indicators of importance in text. In I. Mani and M. Maybury editors, Advances in Automatic Text Summarization, pages 123-136, The MIT Press.
Daniel Marcu (1999). The automatic construction of large-scale corpora for summarization research.The 22nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'99), pages 137-144, Berkeley, CA, August 1999.

Daniel Marcu, Magdalena Romera, and Estibaliz Amorrortu (1999). Experiments in Constructing a Corpus of Discourse Trees: Problems, Annotation Choices, Issues. The Workshop on Levels of Representation in Discourse, pages 71-78, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 1999.
Daniel Marcu (1999). A decision-based approach to rhetorical parsing. The 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'99), pages 365-372, Maryland, June 1999.
Daniel Marcu, Estibaliz Amorrortu, and Magdalena Romera (1999). Experiments in Constructing a Corpus of Discourse Trees. The ACL'99 Workshop on Standards and Tools for Discourse Tagging, pages 48-57, Maryland, June 1999.

1998

Daniel Marcu (1998). Improving summarization through rhetorical parsing tuning. The Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora, pages 206-215, Montreal, Canada, August 1998.
Daniel Marcu (1998). A surface-based approach to identifying discourse markers and elementary textual units in unrestricted texts. The COLING/ACL'98 Workshop on Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers, pages 1-7, Montreal, Canada, August 1998.
Daniel Marcu (1998). To build text summaries of high quality, nuclearity is not sufficient. The Working Notes of the the AAAI-98 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Text Summarization, pages 1-8, Stanford, CA, March 1998. Copyright 1998, American Association for Artificial Intelligence. All rights reserved.

1997

Daniel Marcu (1997). From Local to Global Coherence: A Bottom-up Approach to Text Planning. The Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 629-635, Providence, Rhode Island, July 1997. Copyright 1997, American Association for Artificial Intelligence. All rights reserved.
Daniel Marcu (1997). The Rhetorical Parsing of Natural Language Texts. The Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, (ACL'97/EACL'97) pages 96-103, Madrid, Spain, July 7-10, 1997.
Daniel Marcu (1997). From Discourse Structures to Text Summaries. The Proceedings of the ACL'97/EACL'97 Workshop on Intelligent Scalable Text Summarization, pages 82-88, Madrid, Spain, July 11, 1997.
Daniel Marcu (1997). The Automatic Derivation of Complex Conjunctive Structures. The 24th International Systemic Functional Linguistics Congress, Toronto, Canada, July 1997.

1996

Yves Lespérance, Hector Levesque, Fangzhen Lin, Daniel Marcu, Ray Reiter, and Richard Scherl (1996). Foundations of a Logical Approach to Agent Programming. In M. Wooldridge, J.P. Müller, and M. Tambe, editors, Intelligent Agents, Volume II -- Proceedings of the 1995 Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL-95), pages 331-346, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 1037, 1996.
Daniel Marcu (1996). The Conceptual and Linguistic Facets of Persuasive Arguments. The Proceedings of the ECAI-96 Workshop "Gaps and Bridges: New Directions in Planning and Natural Language Generation", pages 43-46, Budapest, Hungary, August 1996.
Daniel Marcu and Graeme Hirst (1996). A Formal and Computational Characterization of Pragmatic Infelicities. The Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 587-591, Budapest, Hungary, August 1996. A version of this paper was also presented at the AAAI-96 Spring Symposium on Computational Implicature, Stanford, California, March 1996.
Daniel Marcu (1996). Building Up Rhetorical Structure Trees. The Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol 2, pages 1069-1074, Portland, Oregon, August 1996. Copyright 1996, American Association for Artificial Intelligence. All rights reserved.
Daniel Marcu (1996). Distinguishing between Coherent and Incoherent Texts. The Proceedings of the Student Conference on Computational Linguistics in Montreal, pages 136-143, Montreal, Canada, June 1996.

1995

Daniel Marcu, Yves Lespérance, Hector Levesque, Fangzhen Lin, Ray Reiter, Richard Scherl (1995). Distributed Software Agents and Communication in the Situation Calculus. In The Proceedings of the International Workshop on Intelligent Computer Communication, pages 69-78, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, June 1995.
Daniel Marcu and Graeme Hirst (1995). A uniform treatment of pragmatic inferences in simple and complex utterances and sequences of utterances. In The Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 144-150, Boston, MA, June 1995.
Yves Lespérance, Hector Levesque, Fangzhen Lin, Daniel Marcu, Ray Reiter, Richard Scherl (1995). Fondements d'une Approche Logique a la Programmation d'Agents. In Actes des Troisiemes Journees Francophones sur l'Intelligence Artificielle Distribuee et les Systemes Multi-Agents, pages 3-14, Chambery-St.Badolph, France, March 1995.

1994

Ioan Alfred Letia, Daniel Marcu, and Bogdan Ungureanu (1994). Procesoare de Limbaje - Indrumator de Laborator (Language Processors - A Practical Lab Guide). Technical University Press, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 1994.
Daniel Marcu and Graeme Hirst (1994). An implemented formalism for computing linguistic presuppositions and existential commitments. In International Workshop on Computational Semantics, pages 141-150, Tilburg, The Netherlands, December 1994. Also presented at the Research Conference on Logic, Language and Information Structure within Computational Semantics, Espinho, Portugal, December 1994.
Yves Lespérance, Hector Levesque, Fangzhen Lin, Daniel Marcu, Ray Reiter, Richard Scherl (1994). A logical approach to high-level programming - a progress report. In Control of the Physical World by Intelligent Systems, Working Notes of the 1994 AAAI Fall Symposium, pages 109-119, New Orleans, LA, November 1994.

Reviews

Daniel Marcu (1996). Robert C. Moore, Logic and Representation, CSLI lecture notes, vol 39, 1995. Computing Reviews, Vol. 37, No. 5, pages 246-247, May 1996.

Theses

Daniel Marcu (1997). The Rhetorical Parsing, Summarization, and Generation of Natural Language Texts. PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, December 1997. Also published as Technical Report CSRG-371, Computer Systems Research Group, University of Toronto.
Daniel Marcu (1994). A Formalism and an Algorithm for Computing Pragmatic Inferences and Detecting Infelicities. Master's Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, September 1994. Also published as Technical Report CSRI-309, Computer Systems Research Institute, University of Toronto.