Oana Postolache

Graduate Research Assistant
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001
Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6601
Tel: (310)448-8732
Fax: (310)822-0751

Education:

2006 - present
Phd student - Computer Science Department - University of Southern California, US
2004 - 2006
Graduate studies - Computational Linguistics Department - University of Saarland, Germany
2001 - 2003
M.S. in Computational Linguistics - Faculty of Computer Science, University of Iasi, Romania
1997 - 2001
B.S. in Computer Science - Faculty of Computer Science, University of Iasi, Romania

Publications:

[2006]

  • Oana Postolache, Dan Cristea & Constantin Orasan
    Transferring Coreference Chains through Word Alignment (pdf)
    Proceedings of LREC 2006. Genova, Italy

  • Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, Klára Chvátalová & Oana Postolache
    Annotation Guidelines for Czech-English Word Alignment (pdf)
    Proceedings of LREC 2006. Genova, Italy

[2005]

  • Oana Postolache, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová & Geert-Jan Kruijff
    Data-driven Approaches for Information Structure Identification (pdf)
    Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP 2005, pp. 9-16. Vancouver, Canada

  • Oana Postolache
    Learning Information Structure in The Prague Treebank (pdf)
    Proceedings of the ACL 2005 Student Session, pp. 115-120. Ann Arbor, USA

  • Diana Pérez, Oana Postolache, Enrique Alfonseca, Dan Cristea & Pilar Rodríguez
    About the Effects of Using Anaphora Resolution in Assessing Free-text Student Answers (pdf)
    Proceedings of the RANLP 2005 Conference, pp. 380-386. Borovets, Bulgaria.

  • Dan Cristea & Oana Postolache
    How to Deal with Wicked Anaphora (pdf)
    Anaphora Processing: Linguistic, Cognitive and Computational Modelling, ed. by A. Branco, T. McEnery & R. Mitkov, pp. 17-46. John Benjamins: Amsterdam & Philadelphia.

  • Ralph Debusmann, Oana Postolache & Maarika Traat
    A Modular Account of Information Structure in Extensible Dependency Grammar (pdf)
    Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 6th International Conference CICLing 2005, LNCS, vol. 3406, ed. by Alexander Gelbukh, pp. 25-36. Springer, Berlin.

  • Dan Cristea, Oana Postolache & Ionut Pistol
    Summarization through Discourse Structure (pdf)
    Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 6th International Conference CICLing 2005, LNCS, vol. 3406, ed. by Alexander Gelbukh, pp. 632-644. Springer, Berlin.

[2004]

  • Oana Postolache & Dan Cristea
    Designing Test-beds for General Anaphora Resolution (pdf)
    Proceedings of the 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium - DAARC'2004. Azores, Portugal.

  • Oana Postolache & Corina Forascu
    A Coreference Model on Excerpts from a Novel (pdf)
    Proceeding of The European Summer School in Logic Language and Information - ESSLLI'2004, pp. 202-213. Nancy, France.

  • Dan Cristea, Catalin Mihaila, Corina Forascu, Diana Trandabat, Monica Husarciuc, Gabriela Haja & Oana Postolache
    Mapping Princeton WordNet Synsets onto Romanian Wordnet Synsets (pdf)
    Romanian Journal on Information Science and Technology - Special Issue on BalkaNet, 7(1-2), ed. by Dan Tufis, pp. 125-147. Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania.

[2003]

  • Dan Cristea, Oana Postolache, Georgiana Puscasu, Laur Ghetu
    Summarizing Documents Based on Cue-Phrases and References (pdf)
    International Symposium on Reference Resolution and Its Aplications to Question Answering and Summarization. Venice, Italy.

[2002]

  • Dan Cristea, Gabriela Dima, Oana Postolache, Ruslan Mitkov
    Handling Complex Anaphora Resolution Cases (pdf)
    Proceedings of the 4th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium. Lisbon, Portugal.

  • Dan Cristea, Oana Postolache, Gabriela Dima, Catalina Barbu
    AR-Engine - A Framework for Unrestricted Coreference Resolution (pdf)
    Proceedings of LREC 2002, pp. 2000-2007. Las Palmas, Spain.

[theses]

  • Oana Postolache, 2004
    RARE - Robust Anaphora Resolution Engine
    M.Sc. Thesis, University of Iasi, Romania.

  • Oana  Postolache, 2001
    Text Summarization
    B.Sc. Thesis, University of Iasi, Romania.