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Eugene Charniak's Publications

2008

Headden, W., McCloksy, D., and Charniak, E. Evaluating Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging for Grammar Induction. In 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'08) (Manchester, UK, Aug. 2008).

McClosky, D., Charniak, E., and Johnson, M. When is Self-training Effective for Parsing? In 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'08) (Manchester, UK, Aug. 2008).

Elsner, M., and Charniak, E. Coreference-inspired Coherence Modeling. In Association for Computational Linguistics-08 (Columbus, Ohio, June 2008), pp. 41-44.

Elsner, M., and Charniak, E. You Talking to Me? A Corpus and Algorithm for Conversation Disentanglement. In Association for Computational Linguistics-08 (Columbus, Ohio, June 2008), pp. 101-104.

McClosky, D., and Charniak, E. Self-Training for Biomedical Parsing. In ACL-08 (June 2008), pp. 101-104.

Lease, M., and Charniak, E. A Dirichlet-smoothed Bigram Model for Retrieving Spontaneous Speech. In 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2007) Revised Selected Papers (2008), Springer-Verlag.

2007

Elsner, M., Austerweil, J., and Charniak, E. A Unified Local and Global Model for Discourse Coherence. HLT-NAACL '07, Association for Computational Linguistics.

Turner, J., and Charniak, E. Language Modeling for Determiner Selection. In Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of teh North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 177-180.

Lease, M., and Charniak, E. Retrieving Conversational Speech in English and Czech. In Working Notes of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF): Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) track.

2006

Lease, M., Johnson, M., and Charniak, E. Recognizing Disfluencies in Conversational Speech. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 14, 5 (Sept. 2006), 1566-1573. [ pdf ]

Headden, W., Charniak, E., and Johnson, M. Learning Phrasal Categories. In Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (July 2006), pp. 301-307. [ pdf ]

Charniak, E., Johnson, M., and ... Multilevel Coarse-to-fine PCFG Parsing. In Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2006). [ pdf ]

Lease, M., Charniak, E., Johnson, M., and McClosky, D. A Look at Parsing and Its Applications. In Proceedings of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (2006). [ pdf ]

McClosky, D., Charniak, E., and Johnson, M. Effective Self-Training for Parsing. In Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (2006). [ pdf ]

McClosky, D., Charniak, E., and Johnson, M. Reranking and Self-Training for Parser Adaptation. In Proceedings of the ACL (2006). [ pdf ]

2005

Charniak, E., and Johnson, M. Coarse-to-Fine n-Best Parsing and MaxEnt Discriminative Reranking. In Proceedings of the 2005 Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2005), pp. 173-180. [ pdf ]

Kahn, G., Lease, M., Charniak, E., Johnson, M., and Ostendorf, M. Effective Use of Prosody in Parsing Conversational Speech. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology/Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP) (2005). [ pdf ]

Lease, M., Charniak, E., and Johnson, M. Parsing and its Applications for Conversational Speech. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'05) (2005). [ pdf ]

Lease, M., and Charniak, E. Parsing Biomedical Literature. R. Dale, K.-F. Wong, J. Su, and O. Kwong, Eds., Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Natural-Language Processing, Springer-Verlag, pp. 58-69. [ pdf ]

Turner, J., and Charniak, E. Supervised and Unsupervised Learning for Sentences Compression. In Proceedings of the 2005 Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2005), pp. 290-297. [ pdf ]

2004

Gregory, M., Johnson, M., and Charniak, E. Sentence-Internal Prosody Does not Help Parsing the Way Punctuation Does. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) (2004). [ pdf ]

Johnson, M., and Charniak, E. A TAG-Based Noisy Channel Model of Speech Repairs. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2004), pp. 33-39. [ pdf ]

2003

Charniak, E., Knight, K., and Yamada, K. Syntax-based Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 9th Machine Translation Summit (2003). [ pdf ]

Charniak, E., and Genzel, D. Variation of Entropy and Parse Trees of Sentences as a Function of the Sentence Number. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2003). [ pdf ]

2002

Charniak, E., and Genzel, D. Entropy Rate Constancy in Text. In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL02) (2002), Association for Computational Linguistics. [ pdf ]

Engel, D., Charniak, E., and Johnson, M. Parsing and Disfluency Placement. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2002), pp. 49-54. [ pdf ]

2001

Charniak, E., and Johnson, M. Edit Detection and Parsing for Transcribed Speech. In Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2001), The Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 118-126. [ pdf ]

Charniak, E. Immediate-Head Parsing for Language Models. In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2001), The Association for Computational Linguistics. [ pdf ]

Charniak, E. Unsupervised Learning of Name Structure from Co-Reference Data. In Proceedings of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (2001), pp. 48-54. [ pdf ]

2000

Blaheta, D., and Charniak, E. Assigning Function Tags to Parsed Text. In Proceedings of the Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2000), pp. 234-240. [ pdf ]

Charniak, E., and Roark, B. Measuring Efficiency in High-Accuracy, Broad-Coverage Statistical Parsing. In Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics (COLING) Workshop on Efficiency in Large-scale Parsing Systems (2000). [ pdf ]

Charniak, E. A Maximum-Entropy-Inspired Parser. In Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2000), pp. 132-139. [ pdf ]

Charniak, E., Altun, Y., de Salvo Braz, R., Garrett, B., Kosmala, M., Moscovich, T., Pang, L., Pyo, C., Sun, Y., Wy, W., Yang, Z., Zeller, S., and Zorn, L. Reading Comprehension Programs in a Statistical-Language-Processing class. In Proceedings of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) Workshop on Reading Comprehension Tests As Evaluation for Computer-Based Language Understanding Systems (Morristown, NJ, 2000), Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1-5. [ pdf ]

1999

Berland, M., and Charniak, E. Finding Parts in Very Large Corpora. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Orlando, Florida, 1999), Harcourt Brace. [ pdf ]

Blaheta, D., and Charniak, E. Automatic Compensation for Parser Figure-of-merit Flaws. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Orlando, Florida, 1999), Harcourt Brace. [ pdf ]

Charniak, E., and Caraballo, S. Determining the Specificity of Nouns from Text. In Proceedings of the Joint Sigdat Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora (1999), pp. 63-70. [ pdf ]

1998

Charniak, E., Goldwater, S., and Johnson, M. Edge-based Best-First Chart Parsing. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora (1998), Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 127-133. [ pdf ]

Charniak, E., and Caraballo, S. New Figures of Merit for Best-first Probabilistic Chart Parsing. Computational Linguistics 24 (1998), 275-298. [ pdf ]

Ge, N., Hale, J., and Charniak, E. A Statistical Approach to Anaphora Resolution. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora (Orlando, Florida, 1998), Harcourt Brace, pp. 161-171. [ pdf ]

Roark, B., and Charniak, E. Noun-phrase Co-occurrence Statistics for Semi-automatic Semantic Lexicon Construction. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (1998), The Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1110-1116. [ pdf ]

1997

Caraballo, S., and Charniak, E. Figures of Merit for Best-First Probabalistic Parsing. Computational Linguistics (1997). [ pdf ]

Charniak, E. Statistical Parsing with a Context-Free Grammar and Word Statistics. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Menlo Park, 1997), AAAI Press/MIT Press, pp. 598-603. [ pdf ]

Charniak, E. Statistical Techniques for Natural Language Parsing. AI Magazine 18 (1997), 33-43. [ pdf ]

1996

Caraballo, S., and Charniak, E. Figures of Merit for Best-First Probabalistic Parsing. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (1996), pp. 127-132. [ pdf ]

Charniak, E., and Ersan, M. A Statistical Syntactic Disambiguation Program and What it Learns. Springer, 1996, pp. 146-160. [ pdf ]

Charniak, E. Tree-bank Grammars. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Menlo Park, 1996), AAAI Press/MIT Press, pp. 1031-1036. [ pdf ]

Charniak, E., Carroll, G., Adcock, J., Cassandra, A., Gotoh, Y., Katz, J., Littman, M., and McCann, J. Taggers for Parsers. Artificial Intelligence Journal 85 (1996), 45-57. [ pdf ]

1994

Charniak, E., and Shimony, S. Cost-Based Abduction and MAP Explanation. Artificial Intelligence Journal 66 (1994), 345-374.

Charniak, E., and Carroll, G. Context-Sensitive Statistics for Improved Grammatical Language Models. In Proceedings of the Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '94) (1994), pp. 728-733. [ pdf ]

1993

Charniak, E., and Goldman, R. A Bayesian Model of Plan Recognition. Artificial Intelligence Journal 64 (1993), 53-79.

Charniak, E., Hendrickson, C., Jacobson, N., and Perkowitz, M. Equations for Part-of-Speech Tagging. In Proceedings of the Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (1993), pp. 784-789. [ pdf ]

Charniak, E., and Goldman, R. A Language for Construction of Belief Networks. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 15 (1993), 196-208. [ pdf ]

Charniak, E. Statistical Language Learning. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1993.

1992

Charniak, E., and Santos, E. Dynamic MAP Calculations for Abduction. In Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (1992), AAAI Press/MIT Press, pp. 552-557. [ pdf ]

Charniak, E., and Carroll, G. Learning Probabilistic Dependency Grammars from Labelled Text. In Working Notes, American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fall Symposium Series. 1992, pp. 25-32.

Charniak, E., and Goldman, R. Probabilistic Text Understanding. In Statistics and Computing. Chapman and Hall, 1992, pp. 105-114.

Charniak, E., and Goldman, R. Probabilistic Text Understanding. In Artificial Intelligence Frontiers in Statistics: AI and Statistics III, D. J. Hand, Ed. Chapman and Hall, 1992.

Charniak, E., and Carroll, G. Two Experiments on Learning Probabilistic Dependency Grammars from Corpora. In Proceedings of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Workshop on Statistically-Based Natural Language Processing (NLP) Techniques (1992), AAAI Press, pp. 1-13. [ pdf ]

1991

Charniak, E. Bayesian Networks Without Tears. AI Magazine (1991), 50-63. [ pdf ]

Charniak, E., and Goldman, R. Dynamic Construction of Belief Networks. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence 6 (1991), 171-184.

Charniak, E., and Hussain, S. A New Admissible Heuristic for Minimal-Cost Proofs. In Proceedings of the Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (1991), pp. 446-451.

Charniak, E., and Carroll, G. A Probabilistic Analysis of Marker-Passing Techniques for Plan-Recognition. In Proceedings of the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (1991), pp. 69-76. [ pdf ]

Charniak, E., and Goldman, R. A Probabilistic Approach to Text Understanding. In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (1991).

Charniak, E., and Goldman, R. A Probabilistic Model of Plan Recognition. In Proceedings of the Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (1991), pp. 160-165.

1990

Charniak, E., and Goldman, R. Dynamic Construction of Belief Networks. In Proceedings of the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (1990), pp. 90-97.

Charniak, E., and Shimony, S. E. A New Algorithm for Finding MAP Assignments to Belief Networks. In Proceedings of the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (1990), pp. 98-103.

Charniak, E., and Shimony, S. E. Probabilistic Semantics for Cost-Based Abduction. In Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (1990), pp. 106-111.

1989

Charniak, E., and Goldman, R. A Probabilistic Approach to Plan-Recognition and Text Understanding - Work in Progress. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Plan Recognition, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (1989), pp. 1-5.

Charniak, E., and Goldman, R. Plan Recognition in Stories and in Life. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (1989), pp. 54-59.

Charniak, E., and Goldman, R. A Semantics for Probabilistic Quantifier-Free First-Order Languages with Particular Application to Story Understanding. In Proceedings of the 1989 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (1989), pp. 1074-1079.

1988

Charniak, E., and Goldman, R. A Logic for Semantic Interpretation. In Proceedings of the 1988 Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (1988), Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 87-94. [ pdf ]

Charniak, E. Motivation Analysis, Abductive Unification and Non-Monotonic Equality. Artificial Intelligence 34 (1988), 275-296.

Charniak, E., and Goldman, R. A Probabilistic ATMS for Plan Recognition. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Plan Recognition (1988), AAAI Press.

1987

Charniak, E., Riesbeck, C., McDermott, D. V., and Meehan, J. R. Artificial Intelligence Programming, 2 ed. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1987.

Charniak, E., and Santos, E. A Connectionist Context-Free Parser Which is Not Context-Free, But Then It is Not Really Connectionist Either. In Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (1987), pp. 70-77.

1986

Charniak, E. A Neat Theory of Marker Passing. In Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (1986), pp. 584-589.

Charniak, E., and Harper, M. Time and Tense in English. In Proceedings of the Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (1986), Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 3-9. [ pdf ]

1985

Charniak, E., and McDermott, D. V. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1985.

1983

Charniak, E. The Bayesian Basis of Common Sense Medical Diagnosis. In Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (1983), pp. 70-73.

Charniak, E. Cognitive Science is Methodologically Fine. In Methods and Tactics in Cognitive Science, W. Kintch, J. R. Miller, and P. G. Polson, Eds. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1983.

Charniak, E. Parsing, How To. In Automatic Natural Language Parsing, K. S. Jones and Y. Wilks, Eds. Wiley, Colchester, England, 1983, pp. 156-163.

Charniak, E. Passing Markers: A Theory of Contextual Influence in Language Comprehension. Cognitive Science (1983), 171-190.

Charniak, E. A Parser with Something for Everyone. In Parsing Natural Language, M. King, Ed. Academic Press, London, 1983.

1982

Charniak, E. Context Recognition in Language Comprehension. In Strategies for Natural Language Processing, W. Lehnert and M. Ringle, Eds. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1982.

Charniak, E., and Hirst, G. Word Sense and Case Slot Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (1982), pp. 95-98.

1981

Charniak, E. A Common Representation for Problem Solving and Language Comprehension. Artificial Intelligence 16 (1981), 225-255.

Charniak, E. The Case-Slot Identity Theory. Cognitive Science 5 (1981), 285-292.

Charniak, E., Lehnert, W., and Ringle, M. Six Topics in Search of a Parser: An Overview of AI Language Research. In Proceedings of the 7th Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (1981), pp. 1079-1087.

1980

Charniak, E., Riesbeck, C., and McDermott, D. V. Artificial Intelligence Programming, 1 ed. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1980.

1978

Charniak, E. On the Use of Framed Knowledge in Language Comprehension. Artificial Intelligence 11 (1978), 225-265.

Charniak, E. On the Use of Framed Knowledge in Language Comprehension. Tech. rep., Yale University (Artificial Intelligence Project), 1978.

Charniak, E. With a Spoon in My Hand This Must be the Eating Frame. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing (1978).

Charniak, E. With a Spoon in My Hand This Must be the Eating Frame. Journal of Computational Linguistics (1978).

1977

Charniak, E. A Framed PAINTING: The Representation of a Common Sense Knowledge Fragment. Cognitive Science 1 (1977), 355-395.

Charniak, E. A Framed PAINTING: The Representation of a Common Sense Knowledge Fragment. Tech. rep., Institute for Semantic Cognitive Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, 1977.

Charniak, E. Knowledge and Inference in Language Comprehension: An Overview. In Machine Representations of Knowledge. D Reidel Publishing Company, Netherlands, 1977.

Charniak, E. Ms. Malaprop, A Language Comprehension Program. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (1977).

Charniak, E. Ms. Malaprop, A Language Comprehension Program. Tech. rep., Institute for Semantic Cognitive Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, 1977.

1976

Charniak, E., and Wilks, Y. Computational Semantics: An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Comprehension. North Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1976.

Charniak, E. Inference and Knowledge. In Computational Semantics: An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Comprehension, E. Charniak and Y. Wilks, Eds. North Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1976.

Charniak, E. Introduction to Syntax. In Computational Semantics: An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Comprehension, E. Charniak and Y. Wilks, Eds. North Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1976.

Charniak, E. Reference and Question Answering in Simple Narration. In Semantics and Artificial Intelligence, P. Eisenberg, Ed. W de Gruyter, Berlin, 1976. in German.

1975

Charniak, E. A Partial Taxonomy of Knowledge About Actions. In Proceedings of the 1975 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (1975).

Charniak, E. Organization and Inference in a Frame-Like System of Common Sense Knowledge. Proceedings of the Workshop on Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing (1975).

Charniak, E. A Partial Taxonomy of Knowledge About Actions. Tech. rep., Institute for Semantic Cognitive Studies, Castagnola, Switzerland, 1975.

1973

Charniak, E. Jack and Janet in Search of a Theory of Knowledge. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (1973).

1972

Charniak, E. Context and the Reference Problem. In Natural Language Processing, R. Rustin, Ed. Algorithmics Press, New York, NY, 1972, pp. 311-331.

1969

Charniak, E. Computer Comprehension of Calculus Word Problems. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (1969), pp. 303-316.


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