Chinese Language Processing at Brandeis University

Publications

2011:

Sameer Pradhan, Lance Ramshaw, Mitchell Marcus, Martha Palmer, Ralph Weischedel and Nianwen Xue. 2011.CoNLL-2011 Shared Task: Modeling Unrestricted Coreference in OntoNotes. Procceedings of CoNLL 2011. Portland, Oregon.

Adam Meyers, Michiko Kosaka, Shasha Liao and Nianwen Xue. 2011. Improving MT Word Alignment Using Aligned Multi-Stage Parses. Proceedings of SSST 2011. Portland, Oregon

Yuping Zhou and Nianwen Xue. 2011. Discourse-constrained Temporal Annotation. Proceedings of the FIfth Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW V). Portland, Oregon.

Yaqin Yang, Nianwen Xue and Peter Anick. 2011. A Machine Learning-Based Coreference Detection System for OntoNotes. Procceedings of CoNLL 2011. Portland, Oregon.

Jeremy Warner, Peter Anick, Pengyu Hong and Nianwen Xue. (to appear) Natural Language Processing and the Oncologic History: Is There a Match? Accepted to Journal of Oncological Practice.

Nianwen Xue. 2011. Book review of Natural Language Processing with Python. Natural Language Engineering.

Keh-Jiann Chen, Qun Liu, Nianwen Xue and Le Sun. (to appear). Introduction to the Special Issue on Chinese Language Processing. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing.

Nianwen Xue and Yaqin Yang. 2011. Chinese sentence segmentation as comma classification. In Proceedings of ACL 2011 (Short Papers). Portland, Oregon. [Data]

Nianwen Xue. 2011. Evaluating the Impact of Chinese Word Segmentation on Syntactic Parsing, in Olive, Christianson, McCary eds. Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation

Ralph Weischedel, Eduard Hovy, Mitchell Marcus, Martha Palmer, Robert Belvin, Sameer Pradan, Lance Ramshaw and Nianwen Xue. 2011. OntoNotes: A Large Training Corpus for Enhanced Processing, in Olive, Christianson, McCary eds. Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation

2010:

Peter Anick, Pengyu Hong, Nianwen Xue and David Anick. I2B2 2010 Challenge: Machine Learning for Information Extraction from Patient Records. The Fourth I2B2/VA Workshop on Challenges in Natural Language Processing for Clinical Data. Washington, D.C.

Yaqin Yang and Nianwen Xue. 2010. Chasing the ghost: recovering empty categories in the Chinese Treebank. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). Beijing, China. pdf

Nianwen Xue and Yuping Zhou. 2010. Applying syntactic, semantic and discourse constraints to Chinese temporal annotation. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). Beijing, China. pdf

Jena D. Hwang, Archna Bhatia, Claire Bonial, Aous Mansouri, Ashwini Vaidya,Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. 2010. PropBank Annotation of Multilingual Light Verb Constructions. In Proceedings of the Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW IV). Uppsala, Sweden.

Martha Palmer, Daniel Gildea, and Nianwen Xue. 2010 Semantic Role Labeling. Morgan & Claypool Publishers. Online version Available here.

Martha Palmer and Nianwen Xue. 2010. Linguistic Annotation, in Clark, Fox and Lappin eds. Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. pdf

Ealier:

Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. 2009. Adding semantic roles to the Chinese Treebank. Natural Language Engineering, 15(1):143-172. [Available here]

Nianwen Xue. 2008. Automatic inference of the temporal location of situations in Chinese text. In Proceedings of EMNLP-2008. Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii. pdf

Nianwen Xue, Hua Zhong and Kai-Yun Chen. 2008. Annotating "tense" in a tense-less language. In Proceedings of LREC 2008. Marrakech. Morocco. pdf

Nianwen Xue. 2008. Labeling Chinese Predicates with Semantic roles. Computational Linguistics, 34(2):225-255. [Available here]

Nianwen Xue. 2006. A Chinese lexicon of roles and senses. Journal of Language Resources and Evaluation, 40:395-403. on-line publication

Nianwen Xue. 2006. Semantic Role Labeling of nominalized predicates in Chinese, in Proceedings of HTL-NAACL 2006. New York City. pdf

Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. 2005. Automatic Semantic Role Labeling for Chinese Verbs, in Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Edinburgh, Scotland. pdf

Nianwen Xue, Fei Xia, Fu-Dong Chiou and Martha Palmer. 2005. The Penn Chinese Treebank: Phrase Structure Annotation of a Large Corpus. Natural Language Engineering, 11(2):207-238. [Manuscript: pdf]

 

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