Full-Length Peer-Reviewed Publications

The following publications are at least five pages in length and have been through at least one round of peer--review.

2012

Rule-based and Lightly Supervised Methods to Predict Emotions in Suicide Notes (Pedersen) - Biomedical Informatics Insights 2012:5 (Suppl. 1) pp 185 - 193.
Semantic Relatedness Study Using Second Order Co-occurrence Vectors Computed from Biomedical Corpora, UMLS and WordNet (Liu, McInnes, Pedersen, Melton-Meaux, and Pakhomov) - Appears in the Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium, January 28-30, 2012, pp. 363 - 371, Miami, FL

2011

Knowledge-based Method for Determining the Meaning of Ambiguous Biomedical Terms Using Information Content Measures of Similarity (McInnes, Pedersen, Liu, Melton, and Pakhomov) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association, October 22-26, 2011, pp. 895 - 904, Washington, DC.
Using Second-order Vectors in a Knowledge-based Method for Acronym Disambiguation (McInnes, Pedersen, Liu, Pakhomov, and Melton) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2011), June 23-24, 2011, pp. 145 - 153, Portland, Oregon.
Towards a Framework for Developing Semantic Relatedness Reference Standards (Pakhomov, Pedersen, McInnes, Melton, Ruggieri, and Chute) - Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 44(2), 251-265, April 2011. [Data]

2010

The Effect of Different Context Representations on Word Sense Discrimination in Biomedical Texts (Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium, November 11 - 12, 2010, pp. 56 - 65, Arlington, VA. [acceptance rate 17%]
Semantic Similarity and Relatedness between Clinical Terms : An Experimental Study (Pakhomov, McInnes, Adam, Liu, Pedersen, and Melton) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association, November 13-17 2010, pp. 572 - 576, Washington, DC. [acceptance rate 50%]

2009

UMLS-Interface and UMLS-Similarity : Open Source Software for Measuring Paths and Semantic Similarity (McInnes, Pedersen, and Pakhomov) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association, Nov 14-18, 2009, pp. 431-435, San Francisco, CA. [acceptance rate 50%]
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

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]
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]
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).

2006

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 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.
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%]
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

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%]

2003

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%]

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%]

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%]

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%]

2002

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%]

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%]

2001

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%]

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%]

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%]

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%]

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%]

1996

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%]

By: Ted Pedersen - tpederse AT d umn edu