Kenji Sagae

Selected Publications

2009

Sagae, K., Christian, G., DeVault, D. and Traum, D. R. 2009. Towards Natural Language Understanding of Partial Speech Recognition Results in Dialogue Systems. Short paper proceedings of the North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies conference (NAACL-HLT'09). Boulder, Colorado.

Miyao, Y., Sagae, K., Saetre, R., Matsuzaki, T. and Tsujii, J. 2009. Evaluating contributions of natural language parsers to protein-protein interaction extraction. Bioinformatics, 25(3):394-400.

2008

Sagae, K. and Tsujii, J. 2008. Shift-Reduce Dependency DAG Parsing. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2008). Manchester, UK.
Miyao, Y., Saetre, R., Sagae, K., Matsuzaki, T. and Tsujii, J. 2008. Task-oriented Evaluation of Syntactic Parsers and Their Representations. Proceedings of the 45th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'08:HLT). Columbus, Ohio.
Sagae, K., Miyao, Y. and Tsujii, J. 2008. Challenges in Mapping of Syntactic Representations for Framework-Independent Parser Evaluation. Proceedings of the Workshop on Automated Syntatic Annotations for Interoperable Language Resources at the First International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources (ICGL'08). Hong Kong. Best paper award.
Sagae, K., Miyao, Y., Saetre, R. and Tsujii, J. 2008. Evaluating the Effects of Treebank Size in a Practical Application for Parsing. Proceedings of the ACL 2008 workshop on Software Engineering, Testing, and Quality Assurance for Natural Language Processing (SET-QA'08). Columbus, Ohio.
Tateisi, Y., Miyao, Y., Sagae, K. and Tsujii, J. 2008. GENIA-GR: a Grammatical Relation Corpus for Parser Evaluation in the Biomedical Domain. Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08).

2007

Sagae, K., Miyao, Y. and Tsujii, J. 2007. HPSG Parsing with shallow dependency constraints. Proceedings of the 44th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'07). Prague, Czech Republic.
Sagae, K., Davis, E., Lavie, A., MacWhinney, B. and Wintner, S. 2007. High-accuracy annotation and parsing of CHILDES transcripts. Proceedings of the ACL-2007 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition. Prague, Czech Republic.
Sagae, K., Tsujii, J. 2007. Dependency parsing and domain adaptation with LR models and parser ensembles. Proceedings of the CoNLL 2007 Shared Task. Joint Conferences on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL'07). Prague, Czech Republic.
Saetre, R., Sagae, K. and Tsujii, J. 2007. Syntactic features for protein-protein interaction extraction. Short Paper Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM2007). Singapore.
Miyao, Y., Sagae, K. and Tsujii, J. 2007. Towards framework-independent evaluation of deep linguistic parsers. Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Grammar Engineering across Frameworks. Stanford University.

2006

Sagae, K. and Lavie, A. 2006. A best-first probabilistic shift-reduce parser. Proceedings of the 43rd Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - posters (ACL'06). Sydney, Australia.
Wang, M., Sagae, K. and Lavie A. 2006. A fast, accurate deterministic parser for Chinese. Proceedings of the 43rd Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'06). Sydney, Australia.
Sagae, K. and Lavie, A. 2006. Parser combination by reparsing. Proceedings of the 2006 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - short papers (HLT-NAACL'06). New York, NY.

2005

Sagae, K. and Lavie, A. 2005. A classifier-based parser with linear run-time complexity. Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'05). Vancouver, BC.
Sagae, K., Lavie, A. and MacWhinney, B. 2005. Automatic measurement of syntactic development in child language. Proceedings of the 42nd Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'05). Ann Arbor, MI.

2004

Sagae, K., MacWhinney, B. and Lavie, A. 2004. Automatic parsing of parental verbal input In Behavior Research Methods, Instruments and Computers, 36(1):113-126.
Sagae, K., MacWhinney, B. and Lavie, A. 2004. Adding syntactic annotations to transcripts of parent-child dialogs. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'04). Lisbon, Portugal.
Lavie, A., Sagae, K. and Jayaraman, S. 2004. The significance of recall in automatic metrics for MT evaluation. Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA'04). Washington, DC.

2003

Sagae, K. and Lavie, A. 2003. Combining rule-based and data-driven techniques for grammatical relation extraction in spoken language. Proceedings of the Eigth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'03). Nancy, France.

By topic
(papers may appear in more than one topic)

Child language, CHILDES

Sagae, K., Lavie, A. and MacWhinney, B. 2005. Automatic measurement of syntactic development in child language. Proceedings of the 42nd Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'05). Ann Arbor, MI.
Sagae, K., Davis, E., Lavie, A., MacWhinney, B. and Wintner, S. 2007. High-accuracy annotation and parsing of CHILDES transcripts. Proceedings of the ACL-2007 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition. Prague, Czech Republic.
Sagae, K., MacWhinney, B. and Lavie, A. 2004. Adding syntactic annotations to transcripts of parent-child dialogs. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'04). Lisbon, Portugal.

Data-driven Parsing

Sagae, K. and Tsujii, J. 2008. Shift-Reduce Dependency DAG Parsing. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2008). Manchester, UK.
Sagae, K., Miyao, Y. and Tsujii, J. 2007. HPSG Parsing with shallow dependency constraints. Proceedings of the 44th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'07). Prague, Czech Republic.
Sagae, K. and Lavie, A. 2006. A best-first probabilistic shift-reduce parser. Proceedings of the 43rd Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - posters (ACL'06). Sydney, Australia.
Sagae, K., Tsujii, J. 2007. Dependency parsing and domain adaptation with LR models and parser ensembles. Proceedings of the CoNLL 2007 Shared Task. Joint Conferences on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL'07). Prague, Czech Republic.
Wang, M., Sagae, K. and Lavie A. 2006. A fast, accurate deterministic parser for Chinese. Proceedings of the 43rd Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'06). Sydney, Australia.
Sagae, K. and Lavie, A. 2005. A classifier-based parser with linear run-time complexity. Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'05). Vancouver, BC.
Sagae, K. and Lavie, A. 2003. Combining rule-based and data-driven techniques for grammatical relation extraction in spoken language. Proceedings of the Eigth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'03). Nancy, France.

Parser Ensembles

Sagae, K., Tsujii, J. 2007. Dependency parsing and domain adaptation with LR models and parser ensembles. Proceedings of the CoNLL 2007 Shared Task. Joint Conferences on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL'07). Prague, Czech Republic.
Sagae, K. and Lavie, A. 2006. Parser combination by reparsing. Proceedings of the 2006 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - short papers (HLT-NAACL'06). New York, NY.

HPSG Parsing

Sagae, K., Miyao, Y. and Tsujii, J. 2007. HPSG Parsing with shallow dependency constraints. Proceedings of the 44th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'07). Prague, Czech Republic.

Grammar-driven parsing/Rule-based robust parsing

Sagae, K., MacWhinney, B. and Lavie, A. 2004. Automatic parsing of parental verbal input In Behavior Research Methods, Instruments and Computers, 36(1):113-126.
Sagae, K. and Lavie, A. 2003. Combining rule-based and data-driven techniques for grammatical relation extraction in spoken language. Proceedings of the Eigth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'03). Nancy, France.
Sagae, K., Lavie, A. and MacWhinney, B. 2001. Parsing the CHILDES database: methodology and lessons learned. Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'01). Beijing, China.

Parser evaluation and syntactic representation

Sagae, K., Miyao, Y. and Tsujii, J. 2008. Challenges in Mapping of Syntactic Representations for Framework-Independent Parser Evaluation. Proceedings of the Workshop on Automated Syntatic Annotations for Interoperable Language Resources at the First International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources (ICGL'08). Hong Kong. Best paper award.
Miyao, Y., Saetre, R., Sagae, K., Matsuzaki, T. and Tsujii, J. 2008. Task-oriented Evaluation of Syntactic Parsers and Their Representations. Proceedings of the 45th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'08:HLT). Columbus, Ohio.
Tateisi, Y., Miyao, Y., Sagae, K. and Tsujii, J. 2008. GENIA-GR: a Grammatical Relation Corpus for Parser Evaluation in the Biomedical Domain. Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08).
Miyao, Y., Sagae, K. and Tsujii, J. 2007. Towards framework-independent evaluation of deep linguistic parsers. Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Grammar Engineering across Frameworks. Stanford University.
Sagae, K., MacWhinney, B. and Lavie, A. 2004. Adding syntactic annotations to transcripts of parent-child dialogs. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'04). Lisbon, Portugal.

Bioinformatics

Miyao, Y., Sagae, K., Saetre, R., Matsuzaki, T. and Tsujii, J. 2009. Evaluating contributions of natural language parsers to protein-protein interaction extraction. Bioinformatics, 25(3):394-400.
Miyao, Y., Saetre, R., Sagae, K., Matsuzaki, T. and Tsujii, J. 2008. Task-oriented Evaluation of Syntactic Parsers and Their Representations. Proceedings of the 45th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'08:HLT). Columbus, Ohio.
Tateisi, Y., Miyao, Y., Sagae, K. and Tsujii, J. 2008. GENIA-GR: a Grammatical Relation Corpus for Parser Evaluation in the Biomedical Domain. Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08).
Saetre, R., Sagae, K. and Tsujii, J. 2007. Syntactic features for protein-protein interaction extraction. Short Paper Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM2007). Singapore.

Machine Translation evaluation

Lavie, A., Sagae, K. and Jayaraman, S. 2004. The significance of recall in automatic metrics for MT evaluation. Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA'04). Washington, DC.