Publications

Language Computer has long been committed to publishing its research findings in academic journals and in the proceedings of peer-reviewed conferences. A sample of our recent publications is provided below.

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Question Answering

Kirk Roberts and Andrew Hickl. 2008. Scaling Answer Type Detection to Large Hierarchies. Proceedings of the 2008 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2008). Marrakech, Morocco.

Andrew Hickl, Kirk Roberts, Bryan Rink, Jeremy Bensley, Tobias Jungen, Ying Shi, and John Williams. 2007. Question Answering with LCC's Chaucer-2 at TREC 2007. Proceedings of the 2007 Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2007). Gaithersburg, MD.

Andrew Hickl, Patrick Wang, John Lehmann, and Sanda Harabagiu. 2006. Ferret: Interactive Question-Answering for Real-World Environments. Proceedings of the 2006 COLING-ACL Interactive Presentations Session. Sydney, Australia.

Sanda Harabagiu and Andrew Hickl. 2006. Methods for Using Textual Entailment in Open-Domain Question Answering. Proceedings of COLING-ACL 2006. Sydney, Australia.

Sanda Harabagiu, Finley Lacatusu, and Andrew Hickl. 2006. Answering Complex Questions with Random Walk Models. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006). Seattle, WA.

Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hickl, and Sanda Harabagiu. 2006. The Impact of Question Decomposition on the Quality of Answer Summaries. Proceedings of the Seventh Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2006). Genoa, Italy.

Multi-Document Summarization

Sanda Harabagiu, Andrew Hickl, and Finley Lacatusu. 2007. Satisfying Information Needs with Multi-Document Summaries. Special Issue of Information Processing and Management.

Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hickl, Kirk Roberts, Ying Shi, Jeremy Bensley, Patrick Wang, Bryan Rink, and Lara Taylor. 2006. GISTexter at DUC 2006: Multi-Strategy Multi-Document Summarization. Proceedings of the 2006 Document Understanding Conference (DUC 2006). New York, New York.

Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hickl, Paul Aarseth, and Lara Taylor. Lite-GISTexter at DUC 2005. Document Understanding Conference 2005 (DUC 2005).

Sanda Harabagiu and Finley Lacatusu. Generating Single and Multi-Document Summaries with GISTexter. Document Understanding Conference 2002 (DUC 2002), July 2002.

Sanda Harabagiu and Steven Maiorano. Multi-Document Summarization with GISTexter. Proceedings of the Third LREC Conference 2002 (LREC 2002), June 2002, Canary Islands, Spain.

Information Extraction

Luke Nezda, Andrew Hickl, John Lehmann, and Sarmad Fayyaz. 2006. What in the world is a Shahab? Wide Coverage Named Entity Recognition in Arabic. Proceedings of the 2006 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2006). Genoa, Italy.

Mihai Surdeanu and Sanda Harabagiu. Infrastructure for Open-Domain Information Extraction. Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference (HLT 2002), March 2002, San Diego, California.

Textual Inference

Andrew Hickl. 2008. Using Discourse Commitments to Recognize Textual Entailment. Proceedings of the 22nd Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2008). Manchester.

Andrew Hickl and Jeremy Bensley. 2007. A Discourse Commitment-Based Framework for Recognizing Textual Entailment. Proceedings of the ACL-COLING Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing (WTEP 2007). Prague.

Andrew Hickl and Sanda Harabagiu. 2007. Machine Reading through Textual and Knowledge Entailment. Proceedings of the 2007 AAAI Spring Symposium on Machine Reading. Palo Alto, CA.

Sanda Harabagiu, Andrew Hickl, and Finley Lacatusu. 2006. Negation, Contrast, and Contradiction in Text Processing. Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06). Boston, MA.