Publications

Book Chapters

  • S. Blair-Goldensohn, K. R. McKeown, A. H. Schlaikjer. "Answering Definitional Questions: A Hybrid Approach", (Chapter 5) In New Directions In Question Answering, Mark Maybury, ed. AAAI Press. October 2004. (AAAI)

Refereed Conference Publications

  • E. Nyberg., T. Mitamura, B. Frederking, V. Pedro, M. Bilotti, A. H. Schlaikjer, K. Hannan. Extending the JAVELIN QA System with Domain Semantics, In Proceedings of the 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2005). Pittsburgh, PA, June 2005. (PDF)
  • L. V. Lita, A. H. Schlaikjer, W. Hong, E. Nyberg. Qualitative Dimensions in Question Answering: Extending the Definitional QA Task, (Poster) In Proceedings of the 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2005). Pittsburgh, PA, June 2005. (PDF)
  • S. Blair-Goldensohn, K. R. McKeown, A. H. Schlaikjer. DefScriber: A Hybrid System for Definitional QA, (Demo) In Proceedings of 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference. Toronto, Canada, July 2003. (PDF)

Unrefereed Conference Publications

  • Teruko Mitamura, Frank Lin, Hideki Shima, Mengqiu Wang, Jeongwoo Ko, Justin Betteridge, Matthew Bilotti, Andrew Schlaikjer and Eric Nyberg. JAVELIN III: Cross-Lingual Question Answering from Japanese and Chinese Documents, In Proceedings of NTCIR. 2007. (PDF)
  • Eric Nyberg, Robert Frederking, Teruko Mitamura, Matthew Bilotti, Kerry Hannan, Laurie Hiyakumoto, Jeongwoo Ko, Frank Lin, Lucian Lita, Vasco Pedro, Andrew Schlaikjer. JAVELIN I and II Systems at TREC 2005, In Proceedings of the 14th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). 2005. (PDF)
  • S. Blair-Goldenshohn, D. Evans, V. Hatzivassiloglou, K. McKeown, A. Nenkova, R. Passonneau, B. Schiffman, A. H. Schlaikjer, A. Siddharthan, S. Siegelman. Columbia University at DUC 2004, In Proceedings of the 4th Document Understanding Conference (DUC 2004). May, 2004. (PDF)
  • S. Blair-Goldensohn, K. R. McKeown, A. H. Schlaikjer. A Hybrid Approach for QA Track Definitional Questions. In Proceedings of the 12th Annual Text Retreival Conference (TREC 2003). NIST, Gaithersburg, MD. November, 2003. (PDF)
  • A. Nenkova, B. Schiffman, A. H. Schlaikjer, S. Blair-Goldensohn, R. Barzilay, S. Sigelman, V. Hatzivassiloglou, and K. McKeown. Columbia at the Document Understanding Conference, In Proceedings of the 3rd Document Understanding Conference (DUC 2003). June, 2003. (PDF)
  • S. S. Pradhan, G. Illouz, S. J. Blair-Goldensohn, A. H. Schlaikjer, V. Krugler, E. Filatova, P. A. Duboue, H. Yu, R. J. Passonneau, W. Ward, V. Hatzivassiloglou, D. Jurafsky, K. R. McKeown, J. H. Martin. Building a Foundation System for Producing Short Answers to Factual Questions, In Proceedings of the 11th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-11). NIST, Gathersberg, Maryland. November, 2002. (PDF)

Technical Reports

  • A. Schlaikjer. A Dual-Use Speech CAPTCHA: Aiding Visually Impaired Web Users while Providing Transcriptions of Audio Streams, Technical Report CMU-LTI-07-014, Carnegie Mellon University. November, 2007. (PDF)
  • S. Blair-Goldensohn, K. R. McKeown, A. H. Schlaikjer. A Hybrid Approach for Answering Definitional Questions, Technical Report CUCS-006-03. Columbia University. 2003. (PDF)