Complete List of Publications

This is a complete list of all my publications arranged in chronological order. This list includes single author papers by graduate students I have advised, if the work was done at Duluth. I also provide a seperate listing of all the PhD dissertations, Master's theses, and Master's projects I have supervised.

2009

UMLS-Interface and UMLS-Similarity : Open Source Software for Measuring Paths and Semantic Similarity (McInnes, Pedersen, and Pakhomov) - To appear in the Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association, Nov 14-18, 2009, San Francisco, CA
WordNet::SenseRelate::AllWords - A Broad Coverage Word Sense Tagger that Maximimizes Semantic Relatedness (Pedersen and Kolhatkar) - Apears in the Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies 2009 Conference, June 1-3, 2009, pp. 17-20, Boulder, CO. (Demonstration System)
Improved Unsupervised Name Discrimination with Very Wide Bigrams and Automatic Cluster Stopping (Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, March 1-7, 2009, pp. 294-305, Mexico City. [acceptance rate 26%]

2008

Learning High Precision Rules to Make Predictions of Morbidities in Discharge Summaries (Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Second i2b2 Workshop on Challenges in Natural Language Processing for Clinical Data, Nov 7-8, 2008, Washington, DC.
Empiricism is Not a Matter of Faith (Pedersen), Computational Linguistics, Volume 34, Number 3, pp. 465-470, September 2008. [Journal Citation Reports Index Factor 2007: 2.367]
Computational Approaches to Measuring the Similarity of Short Contexts : A Review of Applications and Methods (Pedersen), to appear in the South Asian Language Review (Also available from CMP-LG E-Print Archive as 0806.3787)
Name Discrimination and E-mail Clustering Using Unsupervised Clustering of Similar Concepts (Kulkarni and Pedersen), Journal of Intelligent Systems (Special Issue : Recent Advances in Knowledge-Based Systems and Their Applications), 17(1-3), 37-50, 2008.

2007

Using UMLS Concept Unique Identifiers (CUIs) for Word Sense Disambiguation in the Biomedical Domain (McInnes, Pedersen, and Carlis) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association, Nov 10-14, 2007, pp. 533-537, Chicago, IL. [acceptance rate 45%]
Measures of Semantic Similarity and Relatedness in the Biomedical Domain (Pedersen, Pakhomov, Patwardhan, and Chute), Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 40(3), 288-299, June 2007. [Journal Citation Reports Index Factor 2006: 2.346]
Determining the Syntactic Structure of Medical Terms in Clinical Notes (McInnes, Pedersen, and Pakhomov) - Appears in the Proceedings of BioNLP 2007, June 29, 2007, pp. 9-16, Prague, Czech Republic. [acceptance rate 29%] [ppt]
UMND1: Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Using Contextual Semantic Relatedness (Patwardhan, Banerjee, and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of SemEval-2007: 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations, June 23-24, 2007, pp. 390-393, Prague, Czech Republic.
UMND2 : SenseClusters Applied to the Sense Induction Task of Senseval-4 (Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of SemEval-2007: 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations, June 23-24, 2007, pp. 394-397, Prague, Czech Republic.
Unsupervised Discrimination of Person Names in Web Contexts (Pedersen and Kulkarni) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, pp. 299-310, February 18-24, 2007, Mexico City. [acceptance rate 29%] Download the data used in this paper (Kulkarni name corpus).
Discovering Identities in Web Contexts with Unsupervised Clustering (Pedersen and Kulkarni) - Appears in the Proceedings of the IJCAI-2007 Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data, pp. 23-30, January 8, 2007, Hyderabad, India. Download the data used in this paper (Kulkarni name corpus).

2006

Determining Smoker Status using Supervised and Unsupervised Learning with Lexical Features (Pedersen) - Appears in the Working Notes of the i2b2 Workshop on Challenges in Natural Language Processing for Clinical Data, Nov 10-11, 2006, Washington, DC.
A Comparative Study of Supervised Learning as Applied to Acronym Expansion in Clinical Reports (Joshi, Pakhomov, Pedersen, and Chute) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association, pp. 399-403, Nov 11-16, 2006, Washington, DC. [acceptance rate 41%] [ppt]
Unsupervised Context Discrimination and Automatic Cluster Stopping (Kulkarni and Pedersen), University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Research Report UMSI 2006/90, August 2006. [Note: This is Anagha's MS thesis, from July 2006.]
How many different "John Smiths", and who are they? (Kulkarni and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1885-1886, July 19, 2006, Boston, MA. (Student Poster)
Kernel Methods for Word Sense Disambiguation and Acronym Expansion (Joshi, Pedersen, Maclin, and Pakhomov) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1879-1880, July 19, 2006, Boston, MA. (Student Poster)
An End-to-End Supervised Target-Word Sense Disambiguation System (Joshi, Pakhomov, Pedersen, Maclin, and Chute) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1941-1942, July 19, 2006, Boston, MA. (Intelligent System Demonstration)
Unsupervised Corpus Based Methods for WSD (Pedersen), In Agirre, E. and Edmonds, P. (Editors), Word Sense Disambiguation : Algorithms and Applications, June 2006, pp. 133-166, Springer.
Automatic Cluster Stopping with Criterion Functions and the Gap Statistic (Pedersen and Kulkarni), Appears in the Proceedings of the Demonstration Session of the Human Language Technology Conference and the Sixth Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 276-279, June 6, 2006, New York City.
Selecting the "Right" Number of Senses Based on Clustering Criterion Functions (Pedersen and Kulkarni), Appears in the Proceedings of the Posters and Demo Program of the Eleventh Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 111-114, April 5-7, 2006, Trento, Italy. [acceptance rate 40%]
Using WordNet Based Context Vectors to Estimate the Semantic Relatedness of Concepts (Patwardhan and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the EACL 2006 Workshop Making Sense of Sense - Bringing Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics Together, pp. 1-8, April 4, 2006, Trento, Italy.
Improving Name Discrimination : A Language Salad Approach (Pedersen, Kulkarni, Angheluta, Kozareva, and Solorio) - Appears in the Proceedings of the EACL 2006 Workshop on Cross-Language Knowledge Induction, pp. 25-32, April 3, 2006, Trento, Italy. Download the Bulgarian, English, Spanish, and Romanian data used in this paper!
An Unsupervised Language Independent Method of Name Discrimination Using Second Order Co-occurrence Features (Pedersen, Kulkarni, Angheluta, Kozareva, and Solorio) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, pp. 208-222, February 19-25, 2006, Mexico City. [acceptance rate 30%] Download the Bulgarian, English, Spanish, and Romanian data and stoplists used in this paper.

2005

A Comparative Study of Support Vector Machines Applied to the Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation Problem in the Medical Domain (Joshi, Pedersen, and Maclin) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Second Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 3449-3468, December 20-22, 2005, Pune, India. [acceptance rate 35%]
Name Discrimination and Email Clustering using Unsupervised Clustering and Labeling of Similar Contexts (Kulkarni and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Second Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 703-722, December 20-22, 2005, Pune, India. [acceptance rate 35%] Download the data used in this paper.
Abbreviation and Acronym Disambiguation in Clinical Discourse (Pakhomov, Pedersen and Chute) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association, pp. 589-593, October 22-26, 2005, Washington, DC. [acceptance rate 37%]
Identifying Similar Words and Contexts in Natural Language with SenseClusters (Pedersen and Kulkarni) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1694-1695, July 12, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA. (Intelligent Systems Demonstration)
Download the data used in this demo.
SenseRelate::TargetWord - A Generalized Framework for Word Sense Disambiguation (Patwardhan, Banerjee, and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1692-1693, July 12, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA. (Intelligent Systems Demonstration)
Word Alignment for Languages with Scarce Resources (Martin, Mihalcea, and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts, pp. 65-74, June 29-30, 2005, Ann Arbor, MI.
Unsupervised Discrimination and Labeling of Ambiguous Names (Kulkarni) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. pp. 145-150, June 27, 2005, Ann Arbor, MI. [acceptance rate 28%] Download the data used in this paper.
SenseClusters: Unsupervised Clustering and Labeling of Similar Contexts (Kulkarni and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Demonstration and Interactive Poster Session of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 105-108, June 26, 2005, Ann Arbor, MI. [acceptance rate 55%] Download the data used in this paper.
SenseRelate::TargetWord - A Generalized Framework for Word Sense Disambiguation (Patwardhan, Banerjee, and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Demonstration and Interactive Poster Session of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 73-76, June 26, 2005, Ann Arbor, MI. [acceptance rate 55%]
Resolving Ambiguities in Biomedical Text with Unsupervised Clustering Approaches (Savova, Pedersen, Purandare and Kulkarni) - University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Research Report UMSI 2005/80 and CB Number 2005/21, May.
Measures of Semantic Similarity and Relatedness in the Medical Domain (Pedersen, Pakhomov, and Patawardhan) - University of Minnesota Digital Technology Center Research Report DTC 2005/12, May. [This is a preliminary version of the JBI 2007 article].
Maximizing Semantic Relatedness to Perform Word Sense Disambiguation (Pedersen, Banerjee, and Patwardhan) - University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Research Report UMSI 2005/25, March.
Name Discrimination by Clustering Similar Contexts (Pedersen, Purandare, and Kulkarni) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, pp. 220-231, February 13-19, 2005, Mexico City. [acceptance rate 37%] Download the data used in this paper.

2004

Improving Word Sense Discrimination with Gloss Augmented Feature Vectors (Purandare and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Lexical Resources for the Web and Word Sense Disambiguation, pp. 123-130, November 22, 2004, Puebla Mexico.
Incorporating Ngram Statistics in the Normalization of Clinical Notes (McInnes, Pakhomov, Pedersen and Chute) - Appears in MEDINFO 2004 : Proceedings of the 11th World Congress on Medical Informatics, p. 1882, September 2004, San Francisco, CA. (Poster)
Word Sense Discrimination by Clustering Similar Contexts (Purandare and Pedersen), University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Research Report UMSI 2004/146, September 2004. [Note: This is Amruta's MS thesis, from August 2004.]
Polysemy: Theoretical and Computational Approaches. By Yael Ravin and Claudia Leacock. (Pedersen) - Appears in Minds and Machines, Volume 14, Number 3, pp. 419-423. (Book Review)
Discriminating Among Word Meanings by Identifying Similar Contexts (Purandare and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04), pp. 964-965, July 25-29, 2004, San Jose, CA (Student Abstract) [ppt]
SenseClusters - Finding Clusters that Represent Word Senses (Purandare and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04), pp. 1030-1031, July 25-29, 2004, San Jose, CA (Intelligent Systems Demonstration)
WordNet::Similarity - Measuring the Relatedness of Concepts (Pedersen, Patwardhan, and Michelizzi) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04), pp. 1024-1025, July 25-29, 2004, San Jose, CA (Intelligent Systems Demonstration)
The Senseval-3 Multilingual English-Hindi lexical sample task (Chklovski, Mihalcea, Pedersen, and Purandare) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text (Senseval-3), pp. 5-8, July 25-26, 2004, Barcelona, Spain.
The Duluth Lexical Sample Systems in Senseval-3 (Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text (Senseval-3), pp. 203-208, July 25-26, 2004, Barcelona, Spain.
Complementarity of Lexical and Simple Syntactic Features: The Syntalex Approach to Senseval-3 (Mohammad and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text (Senseval-3), pp. 159-162, July 25-26, 2004, Barcelona, Spain.
Word Sense Discrimination by Clustering Contexts in Vector and Similarity Spaces (Purandare and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), pp. 41-48, May 6-7, 2004, Boston, MA. [acceptance rate 48%]
Combining Lexical and Syntactic Features for Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation (Mohammad and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), pp. 225-32, May 6-7, 2004, Boston, MA. [acceptance rate 48%]
SenseClusters - Finding Clusters that Represent Word Senses (Purandare and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of Fifth Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-04), pp. 26-29, May 3-5, 2004, Boston, MA. (Demonstration System)
WordNet::Similarity - Measuring the Relatedness of Concepts (Pedersen, Patwardhan, and Michelizzi) - Appears in the Proceedings of Fifth Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-04), pp. 38-41, May 3-5, 2004, Boston, MA. (Demonstration System)

2003

Writing About Research, Or The Art of WAR (Pedersen) - unpublished manuscript, September 2003. Also available in html.

Extended Gloss Overlaps as a Measure of Semantic Relatedness (Banerjee and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 805-810, August 9-15, 2003, Acapulco, Mexico. [acceptance rate 21%]
Also available in postscript.
An implementation of the extended gloss overlap measure is available in the WordNet::Similarity package

An Evaluation Exercise for Word Alignment (Mihalcea and Pedersen ) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data Driven Machine Translation and Beyond, pp. 1-10, May 31, 2003, Edmonton, Canada.
Also available in postscript

The Duluth Word Alignment System (Thomson-McInnes and Pedersen ) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data Driven Machine Translation and Beyond, pp. 40-43, May 31, 2003, Edmonton, Canada.
Also available in postscript

Discriminating Among Word Senses Using Mcquitty's Similarity Analysis (Purandare) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at HLT-NAACL, pp. 19-24, May 30-31, 2003, Edmonton, Canada. [ppt]

Using Measures of Semantic Relatedness for Word Sense Disambiguation (Patwardhan, Banerjee and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, pp. 241-257, February 17-21, 2003, Mexico City. [acceptance rate 46%]
Also available in postscript

Guaranteed Pre-tagging for the Brill Tagger (Mohammad and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, pp. 148-157, February 17-21, 2003, Mexico City. [acceptance rate 46%]
Also available in postscript

The Design, Implementation, and Use of the Ngram Statistics Package (Banerjee and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, pp. 370-381, February 17-21, 2003, Mexico City. [acceptance rate 46%]
Also available in postscript

2002

Assessing System Agreement and Instance Difficulty in the Lexical Sample Tasks of Senseval-2 (Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Word Sense Disambiguation: Recent Successes and Future Directions, pp. 40-46, July 11, 2002, Philadelphia.
Also available in postscript or from the Computation and Language E-Print Archive as #0205068
- Download the complete listing of all pairwise system comparisons. Paper only shows top 15.
- Download the complete listing with the number of systems able to disambiguate each word correctly.

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Ensembles of Decision Trees in Disambiguating Senseval Lexical Samples (Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Word Sense Disambiguation: Recent Successes and Future Directions, pp. 81-87, July 11, 2002, Philadelphia
Also available in postscript or from the Computation and Language E-Print Archive as #0205067

A Baseline Methodology for Word Sense Disambiguation (Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, pp. 126-135, February 17-23, 2002, Mexico City. [acceptance rate 52%]
Also available in postscript

An Adapted Lesk Algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation using WordNet (Banerjee and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, pp. 136-145, February 17-23, 2002, Mexico City. [acceptance rate 52%]
Also available in postscript

Empirical Methods for Exploiting Parallel Texts, by I. Dan Melamed (Pedersen) - Appears in Computational Linguistics, Volume 28, Number 2, pp. 235-237. (Book Review)
Also available in postscript

2001

A Plagiarism Case Study (Pedersen) - unpublished manuscript, April 2001. Also available in html.

Machine Learning with Lexical Features: The Duluth Approach to Senseval-2 (Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of SENSEVAL-2: Second International Workshop on Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Systems, pp. 139-144, July 5-6, 2001, Toulouse, France
Also available in postscript or from the Computation and Language E-Print Archive as #0205069

A Decision Tree of Bigrams is an Accurate Predictor of Word Sense (Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Second Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-01), pp. 79-86, June 2-7, 2001, Pittsburgh, PA. [acceptance rate 28%]
Also available in postscript or from the Computation and Language E-Print Archive as #0103026

Materials from the EM algorithm Panel Discussion at EMNLP-01, June 2001, in Pittsburgh PA.
The EM Algorithm : Selected Readings is a short literature review. I've also posted my slides as powerpoint or handouts from my short introduction to EM. It works through a simple example of EM for a multinomial distribution with hidden data.

Lexical Semantic Ambiguity Resolution with Bigram Based Decision Trees (Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLING-01), pp. 157-168, February 18-24, 2000, Mexico City. [acceptance rate 57%] [This is a preliminary version of the NAACL 2001 paper.]

2000

A Simple Approach to Building Ensembles of Naive Bayesian Classifiers for Word Sense Disambiguation (Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the First Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-00), pp. 63-369, May 1-3, 2000, Seattle, WA. [acceptance rate 26%]
Also available in postscript or from the Computation and Language E-Print Archive as #0005006 )

An Ensemble Approach to Corpus Based Word Sense Disambiguation (Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLING-00), pp. 205-218, February 13-18, 2000, Mexico City. [This is a preliminary version of the NAACL 2000 paper.]

One Jump Ahead: Challenging Human Supremacy in Checkers, by Jonathan Schaeffer (Pedersen) Appears in Intelligence, Volume 11, Issue 1, Spring 2000, pp. 56-57. (Book Review)

1999

Search Techniques for Learning Probabilistic Models of Word Sense Disambiguation (Pedersen) - Appears in the Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Search Techniques for Problem Solving Under Uncertainty and Incomplete Information, pp. 107-112, March 22-24, 1999, Palo Alto, CA

Integrating Natural Language Subtasks with Bayesian Belief Networks (Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Pacific Asian Conference on Expert Systems (PACES-99), pp. 1-6, Feb 11-12, 1999, Los Angeles, CA

The Balancing Act: Combining Symbolic and Statistical Approaches to Language, edited by Judith L. Klavans and Philip Resnik. (Pedersen) Appears in Intelligence, Volume 10, Issue 1, Spring 1999, pp. 41-43. (Book Review)

1998

Knowledge Lean Word Sense Disambiguation (Pedersen & Bruce) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98), p. 800-805, July 28-30, 1998, Madison, WI [acceptance rate 30%]

Raw Corpus Word Sense Disambiguation (Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98), p. 1198, July 28-30, 1998, Madison, WI (Student Poster)

Dependent Bigram Identification (Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98), p. 1197, July 28-30, 1998, Madison, WI (Student Poster)

Learning Probabilistic Models of Word Sense Disambiguation (Pedersen) May 1998, Southern Methodist University, 195 pages (PhD Dissertation) (Also available from CMP-LG E-Print Archive as 0707.3972)

Naive Bayes as a Satisficing Model. (Pedersen) Appears in the Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Satisficing Models, 60-67, March 1998, Palo Alto, CA.

1997

Distinguishing Word Senses in Untagged Text (Pedersen & Bruce) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Second Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2), pp. 197-207, August 1-2, 1997, Providence, RI. [acceptance rate 35%] (Also available from CMP-LG E-Print Archive as #9706008 )

A New Supervised Learning Algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation (Pedersen & Bruce) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-97), pp. 604-609, July 27-31, 1997, Providence, RI. [acceptance rate 36%]

Naive Mixes for Word Sense Disambiguation (Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-97), p. 841, July 27-31, 1997, Providence, RI (Student Poster)

Knowledge Lean Word Sense Disambiguation (Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-97), p. 814, July 27-31, 1997, Providence, RI (Doctoral Consortium)

A Statistical Decision Making Method : A Case Study in Prepositional Pharse Attachment (Kayaalp, Pedersen, and Bruce) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Computational Natural Language Learning Workshop (CoNLL), pp. 33-42, July 11, 1997, Madrid, Spain

Sequential Model Selection for Word Sense Disambiguation (Pedersen, Bruce & Wiebe) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP-97), pp. 388-395, April 1-3, 1997, Washington, DC. [acceptance rate 32%] (Also available from CMP-LG E-Print Archive as #9702008 )

1996

Fishing for Exactness (Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the South - Central SAS Users Group Conference (SCSUG-96), pp. 188-200, Oct 27-29, 1996, Austin, TX (Also available from CMP-LG E-Print Archive as #9608010 )

Significant Lexical Relationships (Pedersen, Kayaalp, & Bruce) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-96), pp. 455-460, August 4-8, 1996, Portland, OR. [acceptance rate 30%]

The Measure of a Model (Bruce, Wiebe, & Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pp. 101-112, May 17-18, 1996, Philadelphia, PA. [acceptance rate 30%] (Also available from CMP-LG E-Print Archive as #9604018 )

1995

Lexical Acquisition via Constraint Solving (Pedersen & Chen) - Appears in the Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Representation and Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge, pp. 118-122, March 27-29, 1995, Palo Alto, CA (Also available from CMP-LG E-Print Archive as #9502028)

By: Ted Pedersen - tpederse AT d umn edu