Refereed Publications

Ben Wellner. Sequence Models and Ranking Methods for Discourse Parsing. PhD Dissertation, Brandeis University, 2009.

Inderjeet Mani, Janet Hitzeman, Justin Richer, Dave Harris, Rob Quimby and Ben Wellner. SpatialML: Annotation Scheme, Corpora, and Tools. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC '08). May 2008. Marrakech, Morocco.

John Gibson, Ben Wellner and Susan Lubar. Identification of Duplicate News Stories in Web Pages. In Proceedings of the Fourth Web as a Corpus Workshop. May 2008. Marrakech, Morocco.

John Gibson, Ben Wellner and Susan Lubar. Adaptive Web-page Content Identification In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Workshop on Web Information and Data Management, 2007. Lisbon, Portugal.

Ben Wellner and James Pustejovsky. Automatically Identifiying the Arguments of Discorse Connectives. In Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL), 2007. Prague, Czech Republic.

Ben Wellner, Matt Huyck, Scott Mardis, John Aberdeen, Alex Morgan, Leon Peskin, Alex Yeh, Janet Hitzeman, Lynette Hirschman. Rapidly Retargetable Approaches to De-identification Journal of the Americal Medical Informatics Association 2007 Sep-Oct; 14(5): 564-573.

Alexander A. Morgan, Ben Wellner, Jeffrey B. Colombe, Robert Arens, Marc E. Colosimo, Lynette Hirschman.Evaluating the Automatic Mapping of Human Gene and Protein Mentions to Unique Identifiers. In Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, 2007.

Ben Wellner, James Pustejovsky, Catherine Havasi, Roser Sauri and Anna Rumshisky. Classification of Discourse Coherence Relations: An Exploratory Study using Multiple Knowledge Sources. In Proceedings of the 7th SIGDIAL Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue. Sydney, Australia. 2006.

Inderjeet Mani, Marc Verhagen, Ben Wellner, Chong Min Lee and James Pustejovsky. Machine Learning of Temporal Relations. In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Sydney, Australia. 2006

Inderjeet Mani and Ben Wellner. A Pilot Study on Acquiring Metric and Temporal Constraints for Events. In Proceedings of Annotating and Reasoning about Time and Events (ARTE). Sydney, Australia. 2006.

Ben Wellner and Marc Vilain, 2006. Leveraging Machine Readable Dictionaries in Discriminative Sequence Models. In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2006. Genoa, Italy

Conrad Chang, Lisa Ferro, John Gibson, Janet Hitzeman, Suzi Lubar, Justin Palmer, Sean Munson, Marc Vilain and Ben Wellner. Maytag: A Multi-staged Approach to Identifying Complex Events in Textual Data. In Proceedings of the European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) 2006. Trento, Italy

Ben Wellner, Lisa Ferro, Warren Greiff and Lynette Hirschman, 2005. Reading Comprehension Tests for Computer-based Understanding Evaluation. Natural Language Engineering, 12(4), December 2006, 305-334.

Ben Wellner Weakly Supervised Learning Methods for Improving the Quality of Gene Name Normalization Data. In Proceedings of the ACL-ISMB workshop on linking literature, information and knowledge for biology. June 2005. Detroit MI.

Ben Wellner, Jose Castano and James Pustejovsky Adaptive String Similarity Metrics for Biomedical Reference Resolution. In Proceedings of the ACL-ISMB workshop on linking literature, information and knowledge for biology. June 2005. Detroit MI.

Samuel Bayer, John Burger, Warren Greiff and Ben Wellner The MITRE Logical Form Generation System. Proceedings of Senseval-3: The Third International Workshop on Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text. 2004. Barcelona, Spain.

Andrew McCallum and Ben Wellner Conditional Models of Identity Uncertainty with Application to Proper Noun Coreference. In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), December 2004. Washington D.C.

Ben Wellner, Andrew McCallum, Fuchun Peng and Michael Hay An Integrated, Conditional Model of Information Extraction and Coreference with Application to Citation Matching. In Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) , July 2004. Banff, Canada.

Andrew McCallum and Ben Wellner Towards Conditional Models of Identity Uncertainty with Application to Proper Noun Coreference. In IJCAI Workshop on Information Integration and the Web, August 2003.

Andrew McCallum and Ben Wellner Object Consolidation by Graph Partitioning with a Conditionally-Trained Distance Metric. In KDD Workshop on Data Cleaning, Record Linkage and Object Consolidation, August 2003.

Lynette Hirschman, Kris Concepcion, Laurie Domianos, David Day, Joan Delmore, Lisa Ferro, John Griffith, John Henderson, Jeff Kurtz, Inderjeet Mani, Scott Mardis, Tom McEntee, Keith Miller, Beverly Nunan, Jay Ponte, Florence Reader, Ben Wellner, George Wilson and Alex Yeh. Integrated Feasibility Experiment for Bio-Security: IFE-Bio a TIDES demonstration. In Proceedings of the first international conference on human language technology research.