Area Chair ("Chinese Language Processing"): COLING 2010, Beijing, China
Co-Chair, the 4th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (The LAW IV), in conjunction with ACL 2010, Uppsala, Sweden.
NAACL-HLT 2009 tutorial (Boulder Colorado): "OntoNotes: the 90%
Solution"
The 3rd Linguistic Annotation Workshop ( The
LAW III).
The CoNLL Shared Task 2009: Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies in Multiple Languages.
The 2nd Linguistic Annotation Workshop (The LAW II)
Research Interests
Semantic Role Labeling, Temporal inference,
Machine Translation, Chinese language processing,
Linguistic annotation (Chinese Treebank, Chinese Proposition Bank,
OntoNotes)
Openings: I am currently looking for Ph.D. students to work with me on
Natural
Language Processing projects such as syntactic and semantic
parsing. Email me your C.V. and research interest if you are
interested.
Teaching
Spring 2009: Algorithms in Natural Language Processing
Spring 2009: Topics in Natural Language Processing
Jinho D. Choi, Martha Palmer and Nianwen Xue. 2009. Using Parallel Propbanks to enhance Word-alignments. Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP workshop on Linguistic Annotation.
Adam Meyers, Michico Kosaka, Heng Ji, Nianwen Xue, Mary Harper, Ang Sun, Wei Sun and Shasha Liao. 2009. Transducing Logic Relations from Automatic and Manual Annotation. Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP workshop on Linguistic Annotation.
Jan Hajic, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Richard Johansson, Daisuke
Kawahara, Maria Antonia Marti, Lluis Marquez, Adam Meyers, Joakim Nivre,
Sebastian Pado, Jan Stepanek, Pavel Stranak, Mihai Surdeanu, Nianwen Xue
and Yi Zhang. 2009. The CoNLL-2009 Shared Task: Syntactic and Semantic
Dependencies in Multiple languages. Proceedings of the 13th Conference
on
Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2009). Boulder,
Colorado,
USA.
Adam Meyers, Michiko Kosaka, Nianwen Xue, Heng Ji, Ang
Sun, Shasha
Liao and Wei Xue. 2009. Automatic Recognition of Logical Relations for
English, Chinese and Japanese. SEW-2009.
Nianwen Xue. Evaluating the Impact of Chinese Word Segmentation on Syntactic Parsing, book chapter for Global Automatic Language Exploitation.
Ralph Weischedel, Eduard Hovy, Mitchell Marcus, Martha Palmer, Robert Belvin, Sameer Pradan, Lance Ramshaw and Nianwen Xue. OntoNotes: A Large Training Corpus for Enhanced Processing, book chapter for Global Automatic Language Exploitation.
Modeling the Word Concept without Convention, With Chu-Ren Huang, Submitted to Linguistics Compass
Semantic Role Labeling. In preparation with Martha Palmer and
Daniel Gildea. To be published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers.
Martha Palmer and Nianwen Xue. In press. Linguistic Annotation. Chapter in
Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.
Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. 2009. Adding semantic
roles to the Chinese Treebank. Natural Language Engineering, 15(1):143-172. [Available here]
2008:
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]
2007:
Nianwen Xue. 2007. Tapping the implicit information for the PS to DS
conversion of the Chinese Treebank. In Proceedings of the Sixth
International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistics Theories. Bergen,
Norway. pdf | slides
Vicky Lai, Meiyu Chang,Cecily Duffield, Jena D. Hwang, Nianwen Xue and
Martha Palmer. 2007. Defining a Methodology for Mapping Chinese & English Sense
Inventories. In Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop 2007. Hong Kong,
China.
2006:
Nianwen Xue. 2006. A Chinese lexicon of roles and senses. Journal of Language
Resources and Evaluation, 40:395-403. on-line
publication
Nianwen Xue, Jinying Chen and Martha Palmer. 2006. Aligning features with
sense distinction dimensions. Proceedings of ACL/COLING 2006. Sydney, Australia.
pdf
Nianwen Xue. 2006. Semantic Role Labeling of nominalized predicates in Chinese,
in Proceedings of HTL-NAACL 2006. New York City. pdf
A. Meyers, A. C. Fang, L. Ferro, S. K$(1vT(Bler, T. Jia-Lin, M. Palmer, M. Poesio, A. Dolbey, K. K. Schuler, E. Loper, H. Zinsmeister, G. Penn, N. Xue, E. Hinrichs, J. Wiebe, J. Pustejovsky, D. Farwell, E. Hajicova, B. Dorr, E. Hovy, B. A. Onyshkevych and L. Levin (2006). Annotation Compatibility Working Group Report. ACL 2006 Workshop: Frontiers in Linguistically Annotated Corpora 2006: A Merged Workshop with 7th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-2006) and Frontiers in Corpus Annotation III, Sydney Australia
pdf
2005:
Nianwen Xue. 2005. Annotating discourse connectives in the Chinese Treebank,
in Proceedings of the ACL Workshop in Frontiers in Annotation II: Pie in
the Sky . Ann Arbor, Michigan. pdf
Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. 2004. Calibrating Features for Semantic Role Labeling,
in Proceedings of 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing , in conjunction with
ACL'04. Barcelona, Spain. pdf
Paul Kingsbury, Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. 2004. Propbanking in Parallel,
in Proceedings of the Workshop on "the Amazing Utility of Parallel and Comparable Corpora", in conjunction with
LREC'04. Lisbon, Portugal.
Olga Babko-Malaya, Martha Palmer, Nianwen Xue, Aravind Joshi and Seth
Kulick. 2004. Proposition Bank II: Delving Deeper, In Proceedings of
the Frontiers in Corpus Annotation Workshop 2004, in conjunction with
NAACL-HLT'04. Boston, Massacusetts. pdf
Nianwen Xue. 2004. Handling Dislocated and Discontinuous Constituents in
Chinese Semantic Role Labeling, In Proceedings of the 4th
Workshop on Asian Language Resources, ALR04. Hainan Island, China. pdf
Jinying Chen, Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. 2004. Using a Smoothing Maximum
Entropy Model for Chinese Nominal Tagging, In Proceedings of the 1st
International Joint Conference on Natural Language
Processing. Hainan Island, China. pdf
2003
Nianwen Xue and Seth Kulick. 2003. Automatic Predicate Argument Structure Analysis
of the Penn Chinese Treebank. Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit IX
(MTIX 2003). pdf
Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. 2003. Annotating Propositions in the Penn Chinese
Treebank, In Proceedings of the 2nd SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language
Processing, in conjunction with ACL'03. Sapporo, Japan. pdf
Nianwen Xue and Libin Shen. 2003. Chinese Word Segmentation as LMR Tagging, In Proceedings of the 2nd SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language
Processing, in conjunction with ACL'03. Sapporo, Japan. pdf
Nianwen Xue. 2003. Chinese Word Segmentation as Character Tagging.
International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language
Processing, 8(1):29-48. [Available here]
Nianwen Xue and Susan Converse, 2002. Combining Classifiers for Chinese Word
Segmentation. In Proceedings of the 1st SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language
Processing, in conjunction with COLING'02, Taipei, Taiwan, 2002. pdf
2002
Nianwen Xue, Fu-Dong Chiou and Martha Palmer, 2002, Building a
Large-Scale Annotated Chinese Corpus. In Proceedings of the 19th. International
Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002), Taipei, Taiwan,
2002. pdf
2001
Nianwen Xue, 2001. Defining and Automatically Identifying Words in
Chinese. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Delaware. pdf
Fei Xia, Martha Palmer, Nianwen Xue, Mary Ellen Okurowski, John Kovarik,
Fu-Dong Chiou, Shizhe Huang, Tony Kroch, and Mitch Marcus. Designing guidelines
and ensuring consistency for Chinese text annotation. In Proceedings on the Second
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2000),
Athens, Greece.
2000
Nianwen Xue, Fei Xia, Shizhe Huang and Tony Kroch 2000. The Bracketing Guidelines for the Chinese
Treebank, IRCS technical report, University of Pennsylvania.
