Archna Bhatia
Postdoctoral Researcher
Language Technologies Institute, CMU

All Presentations

  • Exploring the form-function mappings of definiteness in typologically diverse languages. Archna Bhatia, Chu-Cheng Lin, Lori Levin and Mandy Simons. LSA 2015 at Portland, OR (Jan 8-11, 2015). [Poster]
  • Grammaticalization of Definiteness based on its Communicative Functions. Archna Bhatia, Chu-Cheng Lin, Lori Levin and Mandy Simons. Accepted at the 11th High Desert Linguistics Society Conference 2014. [Talk, Proceedings]
  • A Dependency Parser for Tweets. Lingpeng Kong, Nathan Schneider, Swabha Swayamdipta, Archna Bhatia, Chris Dyer and Noah A. Smith. Accepted at the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2014. [Proceedings]
  • Analyzing conjunct agreement. Archna Bhatia. Thursday Thoughts, Linguistics Speaker Series in the Linguistics Department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (September 18, 2014). [Invited talk]
  • Studying form-function mappings cross-linguistically. Archna Bhatia. Common Ground Seminar Series, IRCS, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (September 17, 2014). [Invited talk]
  • Studying form-function mappings cross-linguistically. Archna Bhatia. Lunch Series at Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Ocala, FL (August 7, 2014). [Invited talk]
  • Studying form-function mappings cross-linguistically. Archna Bhatia. Computational Linguistics + NLP lunch Seminar Series, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (August 5, 2014). [Talk]
  • Automatic Classification of Communicative Functions of Definiteness. Archna Bhatia, Chu-Cheng Lin, Nathan Schneider, Yulia Tsvetkov, Fatima Talib Al-Raisi, Laleh Roostapour, Jordan Bender, Abhimanu Kumar, Lori Levin, Mandy Simons and Chris Dyer. In the Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics 2014. [Poster, Proceedings]
  • The CMU Machine Translation Systems at WMT 2014. Austin Matthews, Waleed Ammar, Archna Bhatia, Greg Hanneman, Swabha Swayamdipta, Eva Schlinger, Yulia Tsvetkov, Alon Lavie and Chris Dyer. In the Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Machine Translation, 2014. [Poster, Proceedings]
  • A Unified Annotation Scheme for the Semantic/Pragmatic Components of Definiteness. Archna Bhatia, Mandy Simons, Lori Levin, Yulia Tsvetkov, Chris Dyer and Jordan Bender. In the Proceedings of the 9th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2014. [Talk, Proceedings]
  • A Corpus of Participant Roles in Contentious Discussions. Siddharth Jain, Angelique Rein, Archna Bhatia and Eduard Hovy. In the Proceedings of the 9th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2014. [Poster, Proceedings]
  • Augmenting English Adjective Senses with Supersenses. Yulia Tsvetkov, Nathan Schneider, Dirk Hovy, Archna Bhatia, Manaal Faruqui, Chris Dyer. In the Proceedings of the 9th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2014. [Talk, Proceedings]
  • Swahili Treebanking using Graph Fragment Language. Archna Bhatia, Chris Dyer and Lori Levin (alphabetical order). Training Treebankers at Department of English, Howard University, Washington DC (January 18-19, 2014). [Talk]
  • The Future of Treebanks. Round Table Discussion at the Twelfth Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, Sofia, Bulgaria (December 14, 2013). [Invited as one of the main discussants (declined due to a visa related issue)]
  • Repurposing Treebanks. Archna Bhatia, Michael Deeringer, Matthew Gardner, Carlos Ramírez, Lori Levin and Owen Rambow. In the Proceedings of the Twelfth Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, 2013. [Talk, Proceedings]
  • Definiteness: Annotations and Translation. Lori Levin, Archna Bhatia, Yulia Tsvetkov and Chris Dyer. Linguistic Core MT MURI meeting, University of Maryland, College Park (November 22, 2013). [Talk]
  • Generating English Determiners in Phrase-Based Translation with Synthetic Translation Options. Yulia Tsvetkov, Chris Dyer, Lori Levin and Archna Bhatia. In Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Machine Translation, 2013. [Talk, Proceedings]
  • Government and Binding Theory. Archna Bhatia. A tutorial at the Linguistics Reading Group for the Computer Scientists, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (July- August 2013). [Invited]
  • Improving Machine Translations using semantic annotations: Definiteness Annotation Scheme as an example. Archna Bhatia. In Mandy Simon's “Syntax and Discourse (80283)” class at Carnegie Mellon University, 11 April, 2013. [Invited guest Lecture]
  • Learning about Agreement from Closest Conjuncts. Maria Polinsky, Archna Bhatia and Elabbas Benmamoun. Formal Approaches to South Asian Linguistics, MIT (March 17, 2012). [Talk]
  • Agreement and Coordination in Hindi. Archna Bhatia. In Elabbas Benmamoun's “Syntax II (LING 541)” class at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 14 April 2011. [Invited guest Lecture]
  • Differential Case Marking in Hindi Heritage Speakers. Silvina Montrul, Rakesh Bhatt, Roxana Girju, and Archna Bhatia. GASLA 11 at University of Washington, Seattle (March 25-27, 2011). [Talk]
  • Close Conjunct Agreement: Adjacency vs. Gapping. Archna Bhatia and Elabbas Benmamoun. LSA 2011 at Pittsburgh, PA (January 6-9, 2011). [Poster]
  • PropBank Annotation of Multilingual Light Verb Constructions. Jena D. Hwang, Archna Bhatia, Claire Bonial, Aous Mansouri, Ashwini Vaidya, Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. In the Proceedings of the Linguistic Annotation Workshop held in conjunction with ACL-2010. Uppsala, Sweden, July 15-16, 2010. [Talk, Proceedings]
  • Comparative Heritage Languages. Silvina Montrul, Rakesh Bhatt, Roxana Girju and Archna Bhatia. 4th Heritage Language Summer Institute, University of Hawaii (June 21-25, 2010). [Talk]
  • Role of Null Categories in conversion from DS to PS representation. Archna Bhatia & Ashwini Vaidya. In Laura Michaelis-Cummings' “Syntactic Analysis (LING 6450)” class at the University of Colorado at Boulder, 11 March 2010. [Invited guest Lecture]
  • Role of Null Categories in conversion from DS to PS representation. Archna Bhatia & Ashwini Vaidya. In Martha Palmer's “Computational Lexical Semantics (LING 7800)” class at the University of Colorado at Boulder, 10 March 2010. [Invited guest Lecture]
  • Role of Null Categories in conversion from DS to PS representationi. Archna Bhatia & Ashwini Vaidya. CompSem meeting at the University of Colorado at Boulder, 9 March 2010. [Invited Talk]
  • Empty Categories in a Hindi Treebank. Archna Bhatia, Rajesh Bhatt, Bhuvana Narasimhan, Martha Palmer, Owen Rambow, Dipti Misra Sharma, Michael Tepper, Ashwini Vaidya and Fei Xia. In the Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10), Valletta, Malta, May, 2010. [Talk, Proceedings]
  • Complex Predicates. Archna Bhatia, Ashwini Vaidya and Bhuvana Narasimhan. Hindi Treebanking Workshop at IIIT, Hyderabad (Dec 17-21, 2009). [Talk]
  • Empty Categories. Archna Bhatia, Ashwini Vaidya and Bhuvana Narasimhan. Hindi Treebanking Workshop at IIIT, Hyderabad (Dec 17-21, 2009). [Talk]
  • Against the late merge analysis of close conjunct agreement: Evidence from Long Distance Agreement in Hindi. Archna Bhatia and Elabbas Benmamoun. South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable XXVIII at the University of North Texas, Denton, TX (Oct 9-11, 2009). [Talk]
  • Interaction of Number Sensitive Items with Agreement: A Case from Hindi. Archna Bhatia and Elabbas Benmamoun. Illinois Language and Linguistics Society 1 at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (May 29-31, 2009). [Talk]
    • It was also accepted at the Canadian Linguistic Association 2009. [Talk]
  • Close Conjunct Agreement: Hindi as a Case Study. Archna Bhatia and Elabbas Benmamoun. GLOW-in-Asia VII Colloquium at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India (February 25-27, 2009). [Talk]
  • Close Conjunct Agreement: Role of Linear Adjacency. Archna Bhatia and Elabbas Benmamoun. 2009. LSA 2009 at San Francisco, CA (January 8-11, 2009). [Talk]
  • Close Conjunct Agreement: Structure of Coordination or Linear Adjacency. Archna Bhatia and Elabbas Benmamoun. Arizona Linguistics Circle 2 at University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (October 31-Nov 2, 2008). [Talk]
  • The Origin of the Indo-Aryan Ergative Construction Revisited. Archna Bhatia and Hans H. Hock. South Asian Linguistic Analysis 27 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (October 16-19, 2008). [Talk]
    • Also a previous version presented at the Linguistics Seminar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (October 9, 2008). [Talk]
    • A previous version was also accepted at the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, Canada (August 6-11, 2007). [Talk]
  • Testing Universality of Cinque's Hierarchy with respect to an SOV language: Adverb Placement in Hindi. Archna Bhatia. WIGL 4 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (February 17-18, 2006). For erratum, please see here. [Talk, Proceedings]
  • Role of Definiteness, Specificity & Animacy in the Prominence of Object NPs in Hindi. Archna Bhatia. South Asian Linguistic Analysis 25 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (October 15-18, 2005). [Talk]
  • Hindi Phonetics. Archna Bhatia. In Chilin Shih's “Introduction to General Phonetics (LING 401)” class at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Fall 2004. [Invited guest Lecture]
  • Feature Checking in Paite. Archna Bhatia. Niagara Linguistics Society Conference at the University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (October 13-14, 2001). [Talk]

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