Eduard Hovy

Publications


Papers sorted into the following topic areas, in time order:

Distributional and Lexical Semantics, Ontologies, Corpus Annotation, and Text Mining

· Distributional semantics
· Neural network / deep models
· Ontologies and lexical semantics
· Corpus annotation
· Information harvesting, text mining, and paraphrase learning

Natural Language Processing Applications, Text Formatting, and Multimedia Issues

· Information extraction, opinion identification, parsing, and automated text analysis
· Social Media and microblog processing
· Biomedical text processing
· Text summarization and summary evaluation
· Question answering and information retrieval
· Machine translation, MT evaluation, and Interlinguas
· Dialogue and virtual agents
· Coreference and anaphora
· Planning of discourse structure, and discourse structure relations
· Text generation (planning and realization)
· Multimedia issues and text formatting

Digital Government and Homeland Security Research

· Topics in Homeland Security
· Knowledge integration, database access, and data alignment for Digital Government
· Other Digital Government topics

Other topics


Distributional Semantics

Refereed conference paper: Dasigi, P., W. Ammar, C. Dyer, and E.H. Hovy. 2017. Using Ontology-Grounded Token Embeddings to Predict Prepositional Phrase Attachments. Proceedings of the ACL conference. Vancouver, Canada. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Li, J., M.T. Luong, D. Jurafsky, and E.H. Hovy. 2015. When Are Tree Structures Necessary for Deep Learning of Representations? Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Lisbon, Portugal. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Srivastava, S. and E.H. Hovy. 2014. Vector Space Semantics with Frequency-Driven Motifs. Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics conference (ACL) conference. Baltimore, MD. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Dasigi, P. and E.H. Hovy. 2014. Modeling Newswire Events using Neural Networks for Anomaly Detection. Proceedings of the COLING conference. Dublin, Ireland. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Jauhar, S.K. and E.H. Hovy. 2014. Inducing Latent Semantic Relations for Structured Distributional Semantics. Proceedings of the COLING conference. Dublin, Ireland. pdf version

Refereed conference poster: Goyal, K. and E.H. Hovy. 2014. Unsupervised Word Sense Induction using Distributional Statistics. Proceedings of the COLING conference. Dublin, Ireland. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Faruqui, M., J. Dodge, S.K. Jauhar, C. Dyer, E.H. Hovy, and N.A. Smith. 2015. Retrofitting Word Vectors to Semantic Lexicons. Best paper award. Proceedings of the North American ACL conference (HLT-NAACL). Denver, CO. pdf version

Refereed conference poster: Srivastava, S., D. Hovy, and E.H. Hovy. 2013. A Walk-based Semantically Enriched Tree Kernel over Distributed Word Representations. Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Seattle, WA. pdf version

Refereed one-day workshop poster: Goyal, K., S.K. Jauhar, H. Li, M. Sachan, S. Srivastava, and E.H. Hovy. 2013. A Structured Distributional Semantic Model: Integrating Structure with Semantics. Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Continuous Vector Spaces and their Compositionality at the conference of the ACL. Sofia, Bulgaria. pdf version

Refereed conference poster: Goyal, K., S.K. Jauhar, H. Li, M. Sachan, S. Srivastava, and E.H. Hovy. 2013. A Structured Distributional Semantic Model for Event Co-reference. Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics conference (ACL). Sofia, Bulgaria. pdf version

Refereed one-day workshop poster: Hovy, D., S. Srivastava, S.K. Jauhar, M. Sachan, K. Goyal, H. Li, W. Sanders, and E.H. Hovy. 2013. Identifying Metaphorical Word Use with Tree Kernels. Proceedings of the Meta4NLP 2013 workshop at the NAACL-HLT conference. Atlanta, GA. pdf version

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Neural network / deep models

Refereed conference paper: Dai, Z., Q. Xie, and E.H. Hovy. 2018. From Credit Assignment to Entropy Regularization: Two New Algorithms for Neural Sequence Prediction. Proceedings of the ACL conference. Melbourne, Australia. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Ma, X., Z. Hu, J. Liu, N. Peng, G. Neubig, and E.H. Hovy. 2018. Stack-Pointer Networks for Dependency Parsing. Proceedings of the ACL conference. Melbourne, Australia. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Kang, D., T. Khot, A. Sabharwal, and E.H. Hovy. 2018. Adversarial Training for Textual Entailment with Knowledge-Guided Examples. Proceedings of the ACL conference. Melbourne, Australia. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Jhamtani, H., V. Gangal, E.H. Hovy, G. Neubig, and T. Berg-Kirkpatrick. 2018. Learning to Generate Move-by-Move Commentary for Chess Games from Large-Scale Social Forum Data. Proceedings of the ACL conference. Melbourne, Australia. pdf version

Refereed conference poster: Subramanian, A., D. Pruthi, H. Jhamtani, T. Berg-Kirkpatrick, and E.H. Hovy. 2018. SPINE: SParse Interpretable Neural Embeddings. Proceedings of the AAAI conference. New Orleans, LA. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Ma, X. and E.H. Hovy. 2017. Neural Probabilistic Model for Non-projective MST Parsing. Proceedings of 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2017). Taipei, Taiwan. pdf version

Refereed conference short paper: Gangal, V. and E.H. Hovy. 2017. Charmanteau: Character Embedding Models for Portmanteau Creation. Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Copenhagen, Denmark. pdf version

Refereed conference oral paper: Xie, Q., X. Ma, Z. Dai, and E.H. Hovy. 2017. An Interpretable Knowledge Transfer Model for Knowledge Base Completion. Proceedings of the ACL conference. Vancouver, Canada. pdf version

Refereed workshop paper: Jauhar, S.K. and E.H. Hovy. 2017. Embedded Semantic Lexicon Induction with Joint Global and Local Optimization. Proceedings of the *SEM Workshop at the ACL conference. Vancouver, Canada. pdf version

Refereed conference poster: Ma, X., Y. Gao, Z. Hu, Y. Yu, Y. Deng, and E.H. Hovy. 2017. Dropout with Expectation-linear Regularization. Proceedings of the ICLR conference. pdf version

Refereed conference poster: Dai, Z., A. Almahairi, P. Bachman, E.H. Hovy, and A. Courville. 2017. Calibrating Energy-Based Generative Adversarial Networks. Proceedings of the ICLR conference. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Hu, Z., X. Ma, Z. Liu, E.H. Hovy, and E. Xing. 2016. Harnessing Deep Neural Networks with Logic Rules. Outstanding Paper award. Proceedings of the ACL conference. Berlin, Germany. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Ma, X. and E.H. Hovy. 2016. End-to-end Sequence Labeling via Bi-directional LSTM-CNNs-CRF. Proceedings of the ACL conference. Berlin, Germany. pdf version

Refereed conference long oral paper: Li, J., X. Chen, E.H. Hovy, and D. Jurafsky. 2016. Visualizing and Understanding Neural Models in NLP. Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL conference. San Diego, CA. pdf version

Refereed conference long oral paper: Yang, Z., D. Yang, C. Dyer, X. He, A. Smola and E.H. Hovy. 2016. Hierarchical Attention Networks for Document Classification. Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL conference. San Diego, CA. pdf version

Unrefereed paper: Cirik, V., E.H. Hovy, L.P. Morency. 2016. Visualizing and Understanding Curriculum Learning for Long Short-Term Memory Networks. arXiv:1611.06204v1 [cs.CL] pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Dasigi, P. and E.H. Hovy. 2014. Modeling Newswire Events using Neural Networks for Anomaly Detection. Proceedings of the COLING conference. Dublin, Ireland. pdf version

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Ontologies and Lexical Semantics

Refereed conference paper: Kang, D., T. Khot, A. Sabharwal, and E.H. Hovy. 2018. Adversarial Training for Textual Entailment with Knowledge-Guided Examples. Proceedings of the ACL conference. Melbourne, Australia. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Dasigi, P., W. Ammar, C. Dyer, and E.H. Hovy. 2017. Ontology-Aware Token Embeddings for Prepositional Phrase Attachment. Proceedings of the ACL conference. Vancouver, Canada. pdf version

Refereed conference oral paper: Xie, Q., X. Ma, Z. Dai, and E.H. Hovy. 2017. An Interpretable Knowledge Transfer Model for Knowledge Base Completion. Proceedings of the ACL conference. Vancouver, Canada. pdf version

Refereed workshop paper: Jauhar, S. and E.H. Hovy. 2017. Embedded Semantic Lexicon Induction with Joint Global and Local Optimization. Proceedings of the *SEM Workshop at the ACL conference. Vancouver, Canada. pdf version

Refereed workshop paper: Spiliopoulou, E., E.H. Hovy, and T. Mitamura. 2017. Event Detection using a Frame-semantic Parser. Proceedings of the Workshop on Events and Stories in the News at the ACL conference. Vancouver, Canada. pdf version

Refereed conference poster: Jauhar, S.K., C. Dyer, and E.H. Hovy. 2015. Ontologically Grounded Multi-sense Representation Learning for Semantic Vector Space Models. Poster, in Proceedings of the North American ACL conference (HLT-NAACL). Denver, CO. pdf version

Refereed workshop paper: Schulder, M. and E.H. Hovy. 2014. Metaphor Detection through Term Relevance. Proceedings of the Meta4NLP 2014 workshop at the ACL conference. Baltimore, MD.

Refereed workshop poster: Faruqui, M., J. Dodge, S.K. Jauhar, C. Dyer, E.H. Hovy, and N.A. Smith. 2014. Retrofitting Word Vectors to Semantic Lexicons. Poster, in Deep Learning and Representation Learning Workshop at the NIPS conference.

Refereed journal paper: Kozareva, Z. and E.H. Hovy. 2013. Tailoring the Automated Construction of Large-Scale Taxonomies using the Web. Language Resources and Evaluation journal. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Tan, Y. and E.H. Hovy. 2013. Learning Fine-Grained Selectional Restrictions. Proceedings of the 27th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation (PACLIC 27).

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, D., S. Srivastava, S.K. Jauhar, M. Sachan, K. Goyal, H. Li, W. Sanders, and E.H. Hovy. 2013. Identifying Metaphorical Word Use with Tree Kernels. Proceedings of the Meta4NLP 2013 workshop at the North American ACL conference (HLT-NAACL-13). Atlanta. GA. pdf version

Refereed workshop paper: Hovy, E.H., T. Mitamura, M.F. Verdejo, J. Araki, A. Philpot. 2013. Events are Not Simple: Identity, Non-Identity, and Quasi-Identity. Proceedings of the 1st Events Workshop at the the North American ACL conference (HLT-NAACL-13). Atlanta. GA. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Montazeri, N., J.R. Hobbs and E.H. Hovy. 2013. How Text Mining Can Help Lexical and Commonsense Knowledgebase Construction. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Logical Formalization on Commonsense Reasoning (COMMONSENSE 2013).

Refereed workshop paper: Hovy, D. and E.H. Hovy. 2012. Exploiting Partial Annotations with EM Training. Proceedings of the Workshop on Inducing Linguistic Structure at the conference of the North American ACL (HLT-NAACL-12). pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Tratz, S. and E.H. Hovy. 2011. A Fast, Effective, Non-Projective, Semantically-Enriched Parser. Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Edinburgh, Scotland. pdf version

Refereed workshop paper: Kozareva, Z. and E.H. Hovy. 2011. Learning Temporal Information for States and Events. Proceedings of the Workshop on Workshop on Semantic Annotation for Computational Linguistic Resources at the International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC). Palo Alto, CA.

Refereed conference paper: Mulkar-Mehta, R., C. Welty, J.R. Hobbs, and E.H. Hovy. 2011. Using Granularity Concepts for Extracting Causal Relations. Proceedings of the FLAIRS conference. Palm Beach, FL. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Mulkar-Mehta, R., J.R. Hobbs, and E.H. Hovy. 2011. Granularity in Natural Language Discourse. In J. Bos and S. Pulman (eds.), Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2011), pp. 360--364.

Refereed conference paper: Kozareva, Z. and E.H. Hovy. 2010. A Semi-Supervised Method to Learn and Construct Taxonomies using the Web. Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Boston, MA. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Kozareva, Z. and E.H. Hovy. 2010. Learning Arguments and Supertypes of Semantic Relations using Recursive Patterns. Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics conference (ACL). Stockholm, Sweden. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Tratz, S. and E.H. Hovy. 2010. A Taxonomy, Dataset, and Classifier for Automatic Noun Compound Interpretation. Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics conference (ACL). Stockholm, Sweden. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Kozareva, Z. and E.H. Hovy. 2010. Not All Seeds Are Equal: Measuring the Quality of Text Mining Seeds. Proceedings of the Human Language Technology / North American Association of Computational Linguistics conference (HLT-NAACL). Los Angeles, CA. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, E.H., Z. Kozareva, and E. Riloff. 2009. Toward Completeness in Concept Extraction and Classification. Proceedings of the Conference of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Singapore.   pdf version

Refereed multi-day symposium paper: Kozareva, Z., E.H. Hovy, and E. Riloff. 2009. Learning and Evaluating the Content and the Structure of a Term Taxonomy. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium Learning by Reading and Learning to Read. Stanford University, CA. pdf version

Unrefereed book chapter: Weischedel, R., E.H. Hovy, M. Marcus, M. Palmer, R. Belvin, S. Pradhan, L. Ramshaw, N. Xue. 2009. OntoNotes: A Large Training Corpus for Enhanced Processing. In J. Olive, C. Chrisiansen, and J. McCrary (eds), Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation. pdf version

Refereed book chapter: Farwell, D.L., B.J. Dorr, N. Habash, S. Helmreich, E.H. Hovy, R. Green, L. Levin, K. Miller, T. Mitamura, O. Rambow, F. Reeder, and A. Siddharthan. 2009. Interlingual Annotation of Multilingual Text Corpora and FrameNet. In H.C. Boas (ed.), Multilingual FrameNets in Computational Lexicography: Methods and Applications, pp. 287--318. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Refereed conference paper: Zhu, J., H. Wang, and E.H. Hovy. 2008. Multi-Criteria-based Strategy to Stop Active Learning for Data Annotation. Proceedings of the COLING conference. Manchester, UK. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Yu, L.-C., C.- H. Wu, and E.H. Hovy. 2008. OntoNotes: Corpus Cleanup of Mistaken Agreement Using Word Sense Disambiguation. Proceedings of the COLING conference. Manchester, UK. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Kozareva, Z., E. Riloff, and E.H. Hovy. 2008. Semantic Class Learning from the Web with Hyponym Pattern Linkage Graphs. Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics conference (ACL). Columbus, OH. pdf version

Book chapter: Philpot, A., E.H. Hovy, and P. Pantel. 2008. The Omega Ontology. In C.- R. Huang, N. Calzolari, A. Gangemi, A. Lenci, A. Oltramari, L. Prévot (eds), Ontology and the Lexicon, pp. 309--322. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Refereed conference paper: Hartholt, A., T.A. Russ, D. Traum, E.H. Hovy, and S. Robinson. 2008. A Common Ground for Virtual Humans: Using an Ontology in a Natural Language Oriented Virtual Human. Proceedings of the LREC conference. Marrakech, Morocco. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Zhu, J. and E.H. Hovy. 2008. Learning a Stopping Criterion for Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation and Text Classification . Full paper in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on NLP (IJCNLP). Hyderabad, India. pdf version

Refereed conference poster: Feng, D., G.A.P.C. Burns, and E.H. Hovy. 2008. Towards Automated Semantic Analysis on Large Scale Biomedical Text. Poster in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on NLP (IJCNLP). Hyderabad, India.

Book chapter of workshop paper: Philpot, A., E.H. Hovy, and P. Pantel. 2008. The Omega Ontology. In C.-R. Huang, A. Gangemi, A. Lenci, and N. Calzolari (eds), Ontologies and Lexical Resources for Natural Language Processing. Cambridge University Press.

Refereed workshop paper: Yu, L.C., C.H. Wu, A. Philpot, and E.H. Hovy. 2007. OntoNotes: Sense Pool Verification Using Google N-gram and Statistical Tests. Proceedings of the OntoLex Workshop at the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007). Busan, Korea. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Pradhan, S., E.H. Hovy, M. Marcus, M. Palmer, L. Ramshaw, and R. Weischedel. 2007. OntoNotes: A Unified Relational Semantic Representation. Best paper award. Full paper in Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC-07). Irvine, CA. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Zhu, J. and E.H. Hovy. 2007. Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation with Methods for Addressing the Class Imbalance Problem. Full paper, in Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Prague, Czech Republic. pdf version

Refereed conference short paper / poster: Hovy, E.H., M. Marcus, M. Palmer, S. Pradhan, L. Ramshaw, and R. Weischedel. 2006. OntoNotes: The 90% Solution. Short paper in Proceedings of the Human Language Technology / North American Association of Computational Linguistics conference (HLT-NAACL). New York, NY. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Rambow, O., B. Dorr, D. Farwell, R. Green, N. Habash, S. Helmreich, E.H. Hovy, L. Levin, K. Miller, T. Mitamura, F. Reeder, A. Siddharthan. 2006. Parallel Syntactic Annotation of Multiple Languages. Short paper in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Genoa, Italy. pdf version

Invited abstract for conference keynote talk: Hovy, E.H. 2006. Toward Semantic Corpora: Creating Concepts from Words via Senses, and Storing them in an Ontology. Invited paper in Proceedings of the LREC conference. Genoa, Italy.

Refereed conference paper: Kwon, N. and E.H. Hovy. 2006. Learning Semantic Frames from Multiple Sources. Proceedings of the 6th International conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational (CICLing). Mexico City, Mexico. pdf version

Book chapter of invited conference paper: Hovy, E.H. 2005. Methodologies for the Reliable Construction of Ontological Knowledge. In F. Dau, M.- L. Mugnier, and G. Stumme (eds), Conceptual Structures: Common Semantics for Sharing Knowledge. Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2005). Kassel, Germany. Springer Lecture Notes in AI 3596, pp 91--106. pdf version

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Philpot, A., E.H. Hovy, and P. Pantel. 2005. The Omega Ontology. Proceedings of the ONTOLEX Workshop at the International Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP). Jeju Island, Korea. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Reeder, F., B. Dorr, D. Farwell, N. Habash, S. Helmreich, E.H. Hovy, L. Levin, T. Mitamura, K. Miller, O. Rambow, A. Siddharthan. 2004. Interlingua Development for MT Development. Proceedings of the AMTA conference. Washington, DC. pdf version

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Mitamura, T., K.J. Miller, B.J. Dorr, D.L. Farwell, N. Habash, S. Helmreich, E.H. Hovy, Lori Levin, O. Rambow, F. Reeder, and A. Siddharthan. 2004. Semantic Annotation of Multilingual Text Corpora. Proceedings of the Workshop on Beyond Named Entity Recognition: Semantic Labelling for NLP Tasks at the LREC conference. Portugal.

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Fleischman, M.B. and E.H. Hovy. 2004. Multi-Document Person Name Resolution. Proceedings of the Conference on Reference Resolution and its Applications at the 42nd annual conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Barcelona, Spain. pdf version

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Kwon, N., M.B. Fleischman, and E.H. Hovy. 2004. SENSEVAL Automatic Labeling of Semantic Roles Using Maximum Entropy Models. Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text (SENSEVAL-3) at the 42nd annual conferemnce of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Barcelona, Spain. pdf version

Conference proceedings, invited paper: Philpot, A., M. Fleischman, E.H. Hovy. 2003. Semi-Automatic Construction of a General Purpose Ontology. Proceedings of the International Lisp Conference. New York, NY. pdf version

Journal paper (brief note): Hovy, E.H. 2003. Using an Ontology to Simplify Data Access. Communications of the ACM Special Issue on Digital Government. January.

Refereed conference paper: Fleischman, M., N. Kwon, and E.H Hovy. 2003. Maximum Entropy Models for FrameNet Classification. Proceedings of the EMNLP Conference. Sapporo, Japan. pdf version

Refereed conference paper (short): Fleischman, M. and E.H. Hovy. 2003. A Maximum Entropy Approach to FrameNet Tagging. Supplemental Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL). Edmonton, Canada.

Book chapter: Hovy, E.H. 2002. Comparing Sets of Semantic Relations in Ontologies. In R. Green, C.A. Bean, and S.H. Myaeng (eds), The Semantics of Relationships: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, pp. 91--110. Dordrecht: Kluwer. pdf version

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Agirre, E., O. Ansa, D. Martínez, E.H. Hovy. 2001. Enriching WordNet Concepts with Topic Signatures. Proceedings of the NAACL Conference's Workshop on WordNet. Pittsburgh, PA. pdf version

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Agirre, E., O. Ansa, E.H. Hovy, and D. Martínez. 2000. Enriching Very Large Ontologies using the WWW. Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontology Construction of the European Conference of AI (ECAI). Berlin, Germany. pdf version

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Hovy, E.H. and S. Nirenburg. 1992. Approximating an Interlingua in a Principled Way. Proceedings of the DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop. Arden House, NY. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, E.H. 1998. Combining and Standardizing Large-Scale, Practical Ontologies for Machine Translation and Other Uses. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Granada, Spain. pdf version

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Dalianis, H. and E.H. Hovy. 1998. Integrating STEP Schemata using Automatic Methods. Proceedings of Workshop on Applications of Ontologies and Problem-Solving Methods at the ECAI conference. Brighton, England.

Refereed conference paper: Okumura, A. and E.H. Hovy. 1994. Ontology Concept Association using a Bilingual Dictionary. Proceedings of the 1st AMTA Conference. Columbia, MD.

Refereed conference paper: Okumura, A. and E.H. Hovy. 1994. Building a Japanese-English Dictionary Based on Ontology for Machine Translation. Proceedings of the ARPA Human Language Technology Conference. Princeton, NJ.

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Hovy, E.H. and K. Knight. 1993. Motivation for Shared Ontologies: An Example from the Pangloss Collaboration. Proceedings of Workshop on Knowledge Sharing and Information Interchange at the IJCAI conference. Chambéry, France.

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Corpus Annotation

Refereed conference paper: D. Yang, A. Halfaker, R. Kraut, and E.H. Hovy. 2017. Identifying Semantic Edit Intentions from Revisions in Wikipedia. Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Copenhagen, Denmark.

Refereed conference paper: Wilson, S., F. Schaub, A.A. Dara, F. Liu, S. Cherivirala, P.G. Leon, M. Schaarup Andersen, S. Zimmeck, K.M. Sathyendra, N.C. Russell, T.B. Norton, E.H. Hovy, J. Reidenberg, and N. Sadeh. 2016. The Creation and Analysis of a Website Privacy Policy Corpus. Proceedings of the ACL conference. Berlin, Germany. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, D., A. Berg-Kirkpatrick, A. Vaswani, and E.H. Hovy. 2013. Learning Whom to Trust with MACE. Proceedings of the conference of the North American ACL (HLT-NAACL-13). pdf version

Refereed workshop paper: Hovy, D. and E.H. Hovy. 2012. Exploiting Partial Annotations with EM Training. Proceedings of the Workshop on Inducing Linguistic Structure at the conference of the North American ACL (HLT-NAACL-12). pdf version

Refereed journal paper: Zhu, J., H. Wang, E.H. Hovy, and M. Ma. 2010. Confidence-based Stopping Criteria for Active Learning for Data Annotation. ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing. pdf version

Refereed journal paper: Hovy, E.H. and J.M. Lavid. 2010. Towards a ‘Science’ of Corpus Annotation: A New Methodological Challenge for Corpus Linguistics. International Journal of Translation Studies. pdf version

Unrefereed book chapter: Weischedel, R., E.H. Hovy, M. Marcus, M. Palmer, R. Belvin, S. Pradhan, L. Ramshaw, N. Xue. 2009. OntoNotes: A Large Training Corpus for Enhanced Processing. In J. Olive, C. Chrisiansen, and J. McCrary (eds), Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation. pdf version

Refereed journal paper: Dorr, B., D. Farwell, R. Green, N. Habash, S. Helmreich, E.H. Hovy, L. Levin, K. Miller, T. Mitamura, O. Rambow, F. Reeder, A. Siddharthan. 2010. Interlingual Annotation of Parallel Corpora. Journal of Natural Language Engineering. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Zhu, J., H. Wang, and E.H. Hovy. 2008. Multi-Criteria-based Strategy to Stop Active Learning for Data Annotation. Proceedings of the COLING Conference. Manchester, UK. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Yu, L.C., C.H. Wu, and E.H. Hovy. 2008. OntoNotes: Corpus Cleanup of Mistaken Agreement Using Word Sense Disambiguation. Proceedings of the COLING Conference. Manchester, UK. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Zhu, J. and E.H. Hovy. 2008. Learning a Stopping Criterion for Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation and Text Classification . Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on NLP (IJCNLP). Hyderabad, India. pdf version

Refereed workshop paper: Yu, L.C., C.H. Wu, A. Philpot, and E.H. Hovy. 2007. OntoNotes: Sense Pool Verification Using Google N- gram and Statistical Tests. Proceedings of the OntoLex Workshop at the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007). Busan, Korea. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Pradhan, S., E.H. Hovy, M. Marcus, M. Palmer, L. Ramshaw, and R. Weischedel. 2007. >OntoNotes: A Unified Relational Semantic Representation. Best paper award. Full paper, in Proceedings of the >First IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC-07). Irvine, CA. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Zhu, J. and E.H. Hovy. 2007. Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation with Methods for Addressing the Class Imbalance Problem. Full paper in Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Prague, Czech Republic. pdf version

Refereed conference short paper / poster: Hovy, E.H., M. Marcus, M. Palmer, S. Pradhan, L. Ramshaw, and R. Weischedel. 2006. OntoNotes: The 90% Solution. Short paper. Proceedings of the Human Language Technology / North American Association of Computational Linguistics conference (HLT-NAACL). New York, NY. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Rambow O., O., B. Dorr, D. Farwell, R. Green, N. Habash, S. Helmreich, E.H. Hovy, L. Levin, K. Miller, T. Mitamura, F. Reeder, A. Siddharthan. 2006. Parallel Syntactic Annotation of Multiple Languages.   Short paper. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Genoa, Italy. pdf version

Invited abstract for conference keynote talk: Hovy, E.H. 2006. Toward Semantic Corpora: Creating Concepts from Words via Senses, and Storing them in an Ontology . Invited paper. Proceedings of the LREC conference. Genoa, Italy.

Book chapter of invited conference paper:paper: Hovy, E.H. 2005. Methodologies for the Reliable Construction of Ontological Knowledge. In F. Dau, M.- L. Mugnier, and G. Stumme (eds), Conceptual Structures: Common Semantics for Sharing Knowledge. Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2005). Kassel, Germany. Springer Lecture Notes in AI 3596, pp 91--106.  pdf version

Refereed one-day workshop paper:paper: Mitamura, T., K.J. Miller, B.J. Dorr, D.L. Farwell, N. Habash, S. Helmreich, E.H. Hovy, L. Levin, O. Rambow, F. Reeder, and A. Siddharthan. 2004. Semantic Annotation of Multilingual Text Corpora. Proceedings of the Workshop on Beyond Named Entity Recognition: Semantic Labelling for NLP Tasks at the LREC conference. Portugal.

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Levin, L., T. Mitamura, O. Rambow, A. Siddharthan, E.H. Hovy, F. Reeder, K. Miller, D. Farwell, S. Helmreich, B. Dorr, N. Habash, R. Green, 2004. Multilingual Text Annotation.    Proceedings of the Workshop on Corpus Semantics at LREC conference.   Lisbon, Portugal.

Refereed one-day workshop paper of invited talk: Farwell, D., S. Helmreich, B.J. Dorr, N. Habash, K. Miller, F. Reeder, L. Levin, T. Mitamura, E.H. Hovy, O. Rambow, A. Siddharthan. 2004. Interlingual Annotation of Multilingual Text Corpora. Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus. Boston, MA.

Refereed conference paper: Reeder, F., B. Dorr, D. Farwell, N. Habash, S. Helmreich, E.H. Hovy, L. Levin, T. Mitamura, K. Miller, O. Rambow, A. Siddharthan. 2004. Interlingual Annotation for MT Development. Proceedings of AMTA conference. Washington, DC. pdf version

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Information Harvesting, Text Mining, and Paraphrase Learning

Refereed journal paper: Kozareva, Z. and E.H. Hovy. 2013. Tailoring the Automated Construction of Large-Scale Taxonomies using the Web. Language Resources and Evaluation journal. doi:10.1007/s10579-013-9229-0. pdf version

Refereed short journal paper (squib): Bhagat, R. and E.H. Hovy. 2013. What is a Paraphrase? Journal of Computational Linguistics. doi/abs/10.1162/COLI_a_00166. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Montazeri, N., J.R. Hobbs and E.H. Hovy. 2013. How Text Mining Can Help Lexical and Commonsense Knowledgebase Construction. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Logical Formalization on Commonsense Reasoning (COMMONSENSE 2013).

Refereed conference paper: Kozareva, Z. and E.H. Hovy. 2011. Insights from Network Structure for Text Mining. Full paper in Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics conference (ACL). pdf version Portland, OR.

Refereed workshop paper: Metzler, D. and E.H. Hovy. 2011. Mavuno: A Scalable and Effective Hadoop-Based Paraphrase Harvesting System. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Large-scale Data Mining: Theory and Applications (LDMTA) at the SIGKDD conference. San Diego, CA. pdf version

Refereed conference poster: Metzler, D., E.H. Hovy, and C. Zhang. 2011. An Empirical Evaluation of Data-Driven Paraphrase Generation Techniques. Short paper in Proceedings of the conference of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL). Portland, OR.   pdf version  

Refereed conference paper: Kozareva, Z. and E.H. Hovy. 2010. A Semi-Supervised Method to Lean and Construct Taxonomies using the Web. Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Boston, MA.

Refereed conference poster: Peñas, A. and E.H. Hovy. 2010. Filling Knowledge Gaps in Text for Machine Reading. Poster in Proceedings of the COLING conference. Beijing, China.

Refereed conference poster: Hovy, D., S. Tratz, and E.H. Hovy. 2010. What’s in a Preposition? -- Dimensions of Sense Disambiguation for an Interesting Word Class. Poster in Proceedings of the COLING conference. Beijing, China.

Refereed conference paper: Kozareva, Z. and E.H. Hovy. 2010. Learning Arguments and Supertypes of Semantic Relations using Recursive Patterns. Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics conference (ACL). Stockholm, Sweden. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Bhagat, R. and E.H. Hovy. 2009. Acquiring Paraphrases from Text Corpora.   Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP). Redondo Beach, CA.

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, E.H., Z. Kozareva, and E. Riloff. 2009. Toward Completeness in Concept Extraction and Classification. Proceedings of the Conference of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Singapore. pdf version

Refereed multi-day symposium paper: Kozareva, Z., E.H. Hovy, and E. Riloff. 2009. Learning and Evaluating the Content and the Structure of a Term Taxonomy. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium (Learning by Reading and Learning to Read). Stanford University, CA. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Kozareva, Z., E. Riloff, and E.H. Hovy. 2008. Semantic Class Learning from the Web with Hyponym Pattern Linkage Graphs. Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics conference (ACL). Columbus, OH. pdf version

Refereed conference poster: Bhagat, R., P. Pantel and E.H. Hovy. 2007. LEDIR: An Unsupervised Algorithm for Learning Directionality of Inference Rules. Poster in Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Prague, Czech Republic. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Pantel, P., R. Bhagat, B. Coppola, T. Chklovski and E.H. Hovy. 2007. ISP: Learning Inferential Selectional Preferences. Proceedings of the Human Language Technology / North American Association of Computational Linguistics conference (HLT-NAACL 2007). Rochester, NY. pdf version

Refereed conference paper (poster): Feng, D. and E.H. Hovy. 2005. Handling Biographical Questions with Implicature. Proceedings of the Human Language Technology / Empirical Methods in NLP conference (HLT-EMNLP). Vancouver, Canada.   pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Ravichandran, D., P. Pantel, and E.H. Hovy. 2005. Randomized Algorithms and NLP: Using Locality Sensitive Hash Functions for High Speed Noun Clustering. Proceedings of the conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Ann Arbor, MI. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Pantel, P., D. Ravichandran, and E.H. Hovy. 2004. Towards Terascale Knowledge Acquisition. Proceedings of the COLING conference. Geneva, Switzerland. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Fleischman, M., A. Echihabi, and E.H. Hovy. 2003. Offline Strategies for Online Question Answering: Answering Questions Before They Are Asked.    Proceedings of the ACL Conference. Sapporo, Japan. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Ravichandran, D. and E.H. Hovy. 2002. Learning Surface Text Patterns for a Question Answering System. Proceedings of the 40th ACL conference. Philadelphia, PA. pdf version

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Information Extraction, Opinion Identification, Parsing, and Automated Text Analysis

Refereed conference paper: Ma, X., Z. Hu, J. Liu, N. Peng, G. Neubig, and E.H. Hovy. 2018. Stack-Pointer Networks for Dependency Parsing. Proceedings of the ACL conference. Melbourne, Australia. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Obaja Muis, A., N. Otani, N. Vyas, R. Xu, Y. Yang, T. Mitamura, and E.H. Hovy. 2018. Low-resource Cross-lingual Event Type Detection in Documents via Distant Supervision with Minimal Effort. Proceedings of the COLING conference. Santa Fe, NM. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Ma, X. and E.H. Hovy. 2017. Neural Probabilistic Model for Non-projective MST Parsing. Proceedings of 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2017). Taipei, Taiwan. pdf version

Unrefereed workshop paper: Ma, X., N. Fauceglia, Y.Lin, and E.H. Hovy. 2017. CMU System for Entity Discovery and Linking at TAC-KBP 2017. Notebook of the TAC 2017 Workshop. Baltimore, MD. pdf version

Refereed workshop paper: Burns, G.A., P. Dasigi, and E.H. Hovy. 2017. Extracting Evidence Fragments for Distant Supervision of Molecular Interactions. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Enabling Open Semantic Science (SemSci), pp. 7–14. pdf version

arXiv paper: Dasigi, P., G.A.P.C. Burns, E.H. Hovy, and A. de Waard. 2017. Experiment Segmentation in Scientific Discourse as Clause-level Structured Prediction using Recurrent Neural Networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.05398

Refereed conference paper: Burns, G., A. de Waard, P. Dasigi, and E.H. Hovy. 2016. Cycles of Scientific Investigation in Discourse. Proceedings of the Biocreative conference. Corvallis, OR. pdf version

Refereed journal article: Burns, G., P. Dasigi, A. de Waard, and E.H. Hovy. 2016. Automated Detection of Discourse Segment and Experimental Types from the Text of Cancer Pathway Results Sections. Database, doi:10.1093/database/baw122. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Ma, X. and E.H. Hovy. 2015. Efficient Inner-to-outer Greedy Algorithm for Higher-order Labeled Dependency Parsing. Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Lisbon, Portugal. pdf version

Refereed workshop paper: Fauceglia, N., Y.C. Lin, X. Ma, and E.H. Hovy. 2015. Word Sense Disambiguation via PropStore and OntoNotes for Event Mention Detection. Proceedings of the EVENTS Workshop at the HLT-NAACL conference. Denver, CO.

Unrefereed book paper: Li, J. and E.H. Hovy. 2015. Reflections on Sentiment/Opinion Analysis. In D. Das (ed.), Sentiment Analysis. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Tratz, S. and E.H. Hovy. 2013. Automatic Interpretation of the English Possessive. Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics conference (ACL). Sofia, Bulgaria. pdf version

Refereed workshop paper: Hovy, E.H., T. Mitamura, M.F. Verdejo, J. Araki, A. Philpot. 2013. Events are Not Simple: Identity, Non-Identity, and Quasi-Identity. Proceedings of the 1st Events Workshop at the conference of the HLT-NAACL. Atlanta. GA. pdf version

Refereed journal paper: Tan, Y. and E.H. Hovy. 2013. Applying CRFs and SVMs to Textual Entailment Recognizing. Journal of Information and Computational Science. pdf version

Refereed conference poster: Wang, H., A. Philpot, E.H. Hovy, and M. Latonero. 2012. Data Mining and Integration to Combat Child Trafficking. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o). College Park, MD. pdf version

Refereed workshop paper: Tratz, S. and E.H. Hovy. 2011. A Fast, Effective, Non-Projective, Semantically-Enriched Parser. Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Edinburgh, Scotland. pdf version

Refereed workshop paper: Kozareva, Z. and E.H. Hovy. 2011. Learning Temporal Information for States and Events. Proceedings of the Workshop on Workshop on Semantic Annotation for Computational Linguistic Resources at the International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC-11). Palo Alto, CA. pdf version

Refereed conference poster: Hovy, D., A. Vaswani, S. Tratz, D. Chiang, and E.H. Hovy. 2011. Models and Training for Unsupervised Preposition Sense Disambiguation. Short paper in Proceedings of the conference of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL). Portland, OR. pdf version  

Refereed workshop paper: Pokkunuri, S., C. Ramakrishnan, E. Riloff, E.H. Hovy, and G. Burns. 2011. The Role of Information Extraction in The Design of a Document Triage Application for Biocuration. Proceedings of the BioNLP workshop at the conference of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL). Portland, OR.

Refereed conference poster: Hovy, D., E.H. Hovy, A. Peñas, and C. Zheng. 2011. Unsupervised Discovery of Domain-Specific Knowledge from Text. Poster in Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics conference (ACL). Portland, OR.

Refereed conference poster: Mulkar-Mehta, R., J.R. Hobbs, and E.H. Hovy. 2011. Applications and Discovery of Granularity Structures in Natural Language Discourse.    Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning at the AAAI Spring Symposium.

Refereed conference poster: Mulkar-Mehta, R., C. Welty, J.R. Hobbs, and E.H. Hovy. 2011. Using Granularity Concepts for Extracting Causal Relations. Proceedings of the FLAIRS conference. Palm Beach, FL. pdf version>

Refereed conference poster: Mulkar-Mehta, R., J.R. Hobbs, and E.H. Hovy. 2011. Granularity in Natural Language Discourse. In J. Bos and S. Pulman (eds.), Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2011), pp. 360--364.    

Refereed workshop paper: Ramakrishnan, C., W.A. Baumgartner Jr., J. Blake, G.A.P.C. Burns, K. Bretonnel Cohen, H. Drabkin, J. Eppig, E.H. Hovy, C. Hsu, L.E. Hunter, T. Ingulfsen, K. Livingston, H. Onda, S. Pokkunuri, E. Riloff, C. Roeder, K. Verspoor. 2007. Building the Scientific Knowledge Mine (SciKnowMine): A Community-Driven Framework for Text Mining Tools in Direct Service to Biocuration. Proceedings of the Workshop on New Challenges for NLP Frameworks at the LREC conference. Malta.

Refereed conference poster: Feng, D., G.A.P.C. Burns, and E.H. Hovy. 2008. Towards Automated Semantic Analysis on Large Scale Biomedical Text. Poster in the Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on NLP (IJCNLP). Hyderabad, India.

Refereed book chapter: Burns, G.A.P.C., D. Feng, and E.H. Hovy. 2007.   Intelligent Approaches to Mining the Primary Research Literature: Techniques, Systems, and Examples. In A. Kelemen, A. Abraham, Y. Chen, and Y. Liang (eds.), Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics. Springer Verlag series Studies in Computational Linguistics. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Kwon, N. and E.H. Hovy. 2007. Information Acquisition using Multiple Classifications. Proceedings of the K-CAP07 conference. Banff, Canada. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Porter, B., K. Barker, E.H. Hovy, J.R. Hobbs, R. Mulkar. 2007. Learning by Reading: A Prototype System, Performance Baseline, and Lessons Learned. Proceedings of the AAAI conference. Vancouver, Canada. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Feng, D., G.A.P.C. Burns and E.H. Hovy. 2007. Extracting Data Records from Unstructured Biomedical Full Text. Full (oral) paper in Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Prague, Czech Republic. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Kim, S.-M. and E.H. Hovy. 2007. CRYSTAL: Analyzing Predictive Opinions on the Web. Full (oral) paper in Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Prague, Czech Republic. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Mulkar, R., J.R. Hobbs, and E.H. Hovy. 2007. Learning from Reading Syntactically Complex Biology Texts. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium Commonsense'07. Stanford University, CA. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Kwon, N., E.H. Hovy, and S.W. Shulman. 2007. Identifying and Classifying Subjective Claims. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o). Philadelphia, PA. pdf version

Refereed workshop paper: Burns, G.A.P.C., D. Feng, T. Ingulfsen, E.H. Hovy. 2007. Infrastructure for Annotation-Driven Information Extraction from the Primary Scientific Literature: Principles and Practice. Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Service Oriented Technologies for Biological Databases and Tools (SOBDAT 2007) at the ICWS/SCC conference. Salt Lake City, UT. pdf version

Refereed workshop paper: Mulkar, R., J.R. Hobbs, E.H. Hovy, H. Chalupsky, and C.-Y. Lin. 2007. Learning by Reading: Two Experiments. Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning for Answering Questions (KRAQ). Hyderabad, India. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Kwon, N., S. Shulman, and E.H. Hovy. 2006. Multidimensional Text Analysis for eRulemaking. Full paper in Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government (dg.o). San Diego, CA. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Kim, S.-M. and E.H. Hovy. 2006. Identifying and Analyzing Judgment Opinions. Full paper in Proceedings of the Human Language Technology / North American Association of Computational Linguistics conference (HLT-NAACL). New York, NY. pdf version

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Kim, S.-M. and E.H. Hovy. 2006. Extracting Opinions Expressed in Online News Media Text with Opinion Holders and Topics. Proceedings of the Workshop on Sentiment and Subjectivity in Text at the joint COLING-ACL conference. Sydney, Australia. pdf version

Refereed conference poster: Kim, S-M. and E.H. Hovy. 2006. Automatic Identification of Pro and Con Reasons in Online Reviews. Poster in the Companion Proceedings of the conference of the ACL. Sydney, Australia. pdf version

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Feng, D. and E.H. Hovy. 2005. MRE: A Study on Evolutionary Language Understanding. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science (NLUCS). Miami, FL.

Refereed one-day workshop proceedings paper: Kim, S.-M. and E.H. Hovy. 2005. Identifying Opinion Holders for Question Answering in Opinion Texts. Proceedings of the Workshop on Question Answering in Restricted Domain at the Conference of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Pittsburgh, PA.

Project highlight in conference proceedings: Shulman, S. J. Callan, E.H. Hovy, and S. Zavestoski. 2005. Language Processing Technology for Electronic Rulemaking. Proceedings of NSF’s national conference on Digital Government (dg.o). Atlanta, GA. pdf version

Book chapter: Filatova, E. and E.H. Hovy. 2005. Assigning Time-Stamps to Event-Clauses. In I. Mani, J. Pustejovsky, and R. Gaizauskas (eds.), The Language of Time: A Reader, pp. 523--523. Oxford University Press. pdf version

Journal article (short note): Shulman, S. J. Callan, E.H. Hovy, and S. Zavestoski. 2004. SGER Collaborative: A Testbed for eRulemaking Data. Journal of E-Government 1(1), pp. 123--127. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Kim, S.-M. and E.H. Hovy. 2004. Determining the Sentiment of Opinions. Proceedings of the COLING conference. Geneva, Switzerland. pdf version

Project highlight in conference proceedings: Shulman, S., J. Callan, E.H. Hovy, and S. Zavestoski. 2004. SGER Collaborative: A Testbed for eRulemaking Data. Proceedings of NSF’s national conference on Digital Government (dg.o).   Seattle, WA.

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, E.H., A. Philpot, J.L. Klavans, U. Germann, P.T. Davis, S.D. Popper. 2003. Extending Metadata Definitions by Automatically Extracting and Organizing Glossary Definitions. Proceedings of the dg.o conference. Boston, MA. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Fleischman, M. and E.H. Hovy. 2003. Recommendations Without User Preferences: A Natural Language Processing Approach. Proceedings of the 7the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). Miami Beach, FL. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Kwon, N., M.B. Fleischman, and E.H. Hovy. 2004. FrameNet-based Semantic Parsing using Maximum Entropy Models. Proceedings of the COLING conference. Geneva, Switzerland. pdf version

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Filatova, E. and E.H. Hovy. 2001. Assigning Time-Stamps to Event-Clauses. Proceedings of the Workshop on Temporal and Spatial Reasoning at the Conference of the ACL. Toulouse, France. pdf version

Refereed conference paper (poster): Gallippi, A. and E.H. Hovy. 1997. A Machine Learning Approach to Multilingual Proper Name Recognition. Proceedings of the Conference of the Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium (NLPRS). Phuket, Thailand.

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Kasper, R. and E.H. Hovy. 1990. Integrated Semantic and Syntactic Parsing using Classification. Proceedings of the DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop. Pittsburgh, PA.

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Social Media and Microblog Processing

Refereed workshop paper: Yang, D., A. Halfaker, R. Kraut, and E.H. Hovy. 2016. Who does What: Editor Role Identification in Wikipedia. Proceedings of the ICWSM conference. Cologne, Germany. pdf version

Refereed workshop paper: Wang, H., E.H. Hovy, and M. Dredze. 2015. The Hurricane Sandy Twitter Corpus. Proceedings of the W3PHI 2015 Workshop held in conjunction with AAAI 2015. Austin, TX. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Li, J., M. Ott, C. Cardie, and E.H. Hovy. 2014. Towards a General Rule for Identifying Deceptive Opinion Spam. Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics conference (ACL) conference. Baltimore, MD. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Li, J., A. Ritter, and E.H. Hovy. 2014. Weakly Supervised User Profile Extraction from Twitter. Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics conference (ACL) conference. Baltimore, MD. pdf version

Refereed conference poster: Jain, S., A. Bhatia, A. Rein, and E.H. Hovy. 2014. A Corpus of Participant Roles in Contentious Discussions. Proceedings of the LREC conference. Reykjavik, Iceland. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Sachan, M., A. Dubey, S. Srivastava, E.P. Xing, and E.H. Hovy. 2014. Spatial Compactness meets Topical Consistency: Jointly modeling Links and Content for Community Detection. Proceedings of the WSDM conference. New York, NY. pdf version

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Jain, S. and E.H. Hovy. 2013. Determining Leadership in Contentious Discussions. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Social Multimedia Research (SMMR 2013) at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2013). San Jose, CA. pdf version

Refereed conference poster: Wang, H., A. Philpot, E.H. Hovy, C. Cai, M. Latonero, and D. Metzler. 2012. Data Integration from Open Internet Sources to Combat Sex Trafficking of Minors. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o). College Park, MD.

Refereed conference poster: Metzler, D., C. Cai, and E.H. Hovy. 2012. Structured Event Retrieval over Microblog Archives. Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL conference. Montreal, Canada. pdf version

Refereed conference poster: Metzler, D., C. Cai, and E.H. Hovy. 2012. Microblog Event Retrieval using Temporal Query Expansion. Proceedings of the SIGIR Conference. Beijing, China.

Refereed workshop paper: Gouws, S., D. Metzler, C. Cai, and E.H. Hovy. 2011. Contextual Bearing on Linguistic Variation in Social Media. Proceedings of the Workshop on Language in Social Media at the Association of Computational Linguistics conference (ACL). Portland, OR. pdf version

Refereed workshop paper: Kim, J., G. Chern, D. Feng, E. Shaw, E.H. Hovy. 2007. Mining and Assessing Discussions on the Web through Speech Act Analysis. Proceedings of the Web Content Mining with Human Language Technologies with Human Language Technologies Workshop at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC). Athens, GA.

Refereed conference paper: Feng, D. and E.H. Hovy. 2006. Learning to Detect Conversation Focus of Threaded Discussions. Full paper in Proceedings of the Human Language Technology / North American Association of Computational Linguistics conference (HLT-NAACL). New York, NY. pdf version

Refereed conference poster: Kim, S-M. and E.H. Hovy. 2006. Automatic Identification of Pro and Con Reasons in Online Reviews. Poster in the Companion Proceedings of the conference of the ACL. Sydney, Australia. pdf version

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Biomedical Text Processing

Refereed workshop paper: Burns, G.A., P. Dasigi, and E.H. Hovy. 2017. Extracting Evidence Fragments for Distant Supervision of Molecular Interactions. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Enabling Open Semantic Science (SemSci), pp. 7–14. pdf version

arXiv paper: Dasigi, P., G.A.P.C. Burns, E.H. Hovy, and A. de Waard. 2017. Experiment Segmentation in Scientific Discourse as Clause-level Structured Prediction using Recurrent Neural Networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.05398

Paper and corpus: Burns, G., E.H. Hovy, and P. Dasigi. 2017. Molecular Interaction Evidence Fragment Corpus. Figshare: Paper and corpus

Refereed journal article: Burns, G.A.P.C., P. Dasigi, A. de Waard and E.H. Hovy. 2016. Automated Detection of Discourse Segment and Experimental Types from Cancer Pathway Results Sections. Database, doi:10.1093/database/baw122. pdf version

Refereed conference poster: Burns, G., A. de Waard, P. Dasigi, and E.H. Hovy. 2016. Cycles of Scientific Investigation in Discourse. Proceedings of the Biocreative conference. Corvallis, OR. pdf version

Refereed workshop poster: Rajagopal, D., E.H. Hovy, and T. Mitamura. 2016. Unsupervised Event Coreference for Abstract Words. Proceedings of the Uphill Battles in Language Processing Workshop at the EMNLP conference. Austin, TX.

Refereed journal paper: Ramakrishnan, C., A. Patnia, E.H. Hovy, and G.A.P.C. Burns. 2012. Accurate Layout-Aware Text Extraction from Full-Text PDF of Scientific Articles.   Source Code for Biology and Medicine 7:7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0473-7-7

Refereed journal paper: Russ, T.A., C. Ramakrishnan, E.H. Hovy, M. Bota, and G.A.P.C. Burns. 2011. Knowledge Engineering Tools for Reasoning with Scientific Observations and Interpretations: A Neural Connectivity Use Case. BMC Bioinformatics 12:351, doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-351.

Refereed workshop paper: Pokkunuri, S., C. Ramakrishnan, E. Riloff, E.H. Hovy, and G. Burns. 2011. The Role of Information Extraction in The Design of a Document Triage Application for Biocuration. Proceedings of the BioNLP workshop at the conference of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL). Portland, OR.

Refereed journal paper. Clarke, P., S. Evans, and E.H. Hovy. 2010. Indigenous Message Tailoring Increases Consumption of Fresh Vegetables by Clients of Community Pantries. Health Communication 26:6, pp. 571--582. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2011.558337

Refereed workshop paper: Ramakrishnan, C., W.A. Baumgartner Jr., J. Blake, G.A.P.C. Burns, K. Bretonnel Cohen, H. Drabkin, J. Eppig, E.H. Hovy, C. Hsu, L.E. Hunter, T. Ingulfsen, K. Livingston, H. Onda, S. Pokkunuri, E. Riloff, C. Roeder, K. Verspoor. 2007. Building the Scientific Knowledge Mine (SciKnowMine): A Community-Driven Framework for Text Mining Tools in Direct Service to Biocuration. Proceedings of the Workshop on New Challenges for NLP Frameworks at the LREC conference. Malta.

Refereed workshop paper: DiMarco, C., D. Wiljer, and E.H. Hovy. 2009. Self-Managed Access to Personalized Healthcare through Automated Generation of Tailored Health Educational Materials from Electronic Health Records. Proceedings of the Virtual Healthcare Interaction workshop (VHI) at the AAAI Fall Symposium. Washington DC.

Refereed conference poster: Feng D., G.A.P.C. Burns, and E.H. Hovy. 2008. Towards Automated Semantic Analysis on Large Scale Biomedical Text. Poster in the Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on NLP (IJCNLP). Hyderabad, India.

Unrefereed conference poster: Burns G.A.P.C., E.H. Hovy, and T. Ingulfsen. 2008. Biomedical Knowledge Engineering Approaches Driven by Processing the Primary Experimental Literature. Poster at the Frontiers in Neuroinformatics conference. Abstract: Neuroinformatics 2008. doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.11.2008.01.011.

Refereed book chapter: Burns, G.A.P.C., D. Feng, and E.H. Hovy. 2007.   Intelligent Approaches to Mining the Primary Research Literature: Techniques, Systems, and Examples. In A. Kelemen, A. Abraham, Y. Chen, and Y. Liang (eds.), Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics. Springer Verlag series: Studies in Computational Intelligence. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Feng, D., G.A.P.C. Burns and E.H. Hovy. 2007. Extracting Data Records from Unstructured Biomedical Full Text. Full (oral) paper in Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Prague, Czech Republic. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: DiMarco, C., H.D. Covvey, P. Bray, D. Cowan, V. DiCiccio, E.H. Hovy, J. Lipa, and D. Mulholland. 2007. The Development of a Natural Language Generation System for Personalized e-Health Information. Proceedings of the12th International Health (Medical) Informatics Congress (Medinfo). Brisbane, Australia. pdf version

Symbol;mso-ansi-language:DE' Refereed workshop paper: Burns, G.A.P.C., D. Feng, T. Ingulfsen, E.H. Hovy. 2007. Infrastructure for Annotation-Driven Information Extraction from the Primary Scientific Literature: Principles and Practice. Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Service Oriented Technologies for Biological Databases and Tools (SOBDAT) at the ICWS/SCC conference. Salt Lake City, UT. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: DiMarco, C., P. Bray, H.D. Covvey, D.D. Cowan, V. DiCiccio, E.H. Hovy, J. Lipa, and C. Yang. 2006. Authoring and Generation of Individualized Patient Education Materials. Proceedings of the Conference of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). Washington DC. pdf version

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: DiMarco, C., D. Cowan, P. Bray, D. Covvey, V. Di Ciccio, E.H. Hovy, J. Lipa, and D. Mulholland. 2006. A Physician's Authoring Tool for Generation of Personalized Health Education in Reconstructive Surgery. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Argumentation for Consumers of Healthcare. Stanford University, CA.

Refereed one-day workshop paper: DiMarco, C., P. Bray, D. Covvey, D. Cowan, V. DiCiccio, J. Lipa, and E.H. Hovy. 2005. Authoring and Generation of Tailored Preoperative Patient Education Materials. Proceedings of the Workshop on Personalisation for e-Health at the User Modeling (UM) Conference. Edinburgh, UK.

Conference abstract: Burns, G.A.P.C. and E.H. Hovy. 2006. The NeuroScholar System as a Natural Language Processing Platform for the Neuroscience Literature. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Atlanta, GA.

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Text Summarization and Summary Evaluation

Refereed conference demo description: Cai, C. and E.H. Hovy. 2010. Summarizing Textual Information about Locations in a Geo-Spatial Information Display System. Proceedings of the demos of the conference on Human Language Technology of the North American chapter of the ACL (HLT-NAACL). Los Angeles, CA.

Refereed conference paper: Cai, C. and E.H. Hovy. 2011. Summarizing Textual Information about Locations. Full paper in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computing for Geospatial Research and Application (GEO.com). Washington, DC. pdf version

Refereed workshop paper: Tratz, S. and E.H. Hovy. 2008. Summarization Evaluation Using Transformed Basic Elements. Proceedings of Text Analytics Conference (TAC). NIST, Gaithersburg, MD. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Zhou, L. N. Kwon, and E.H. Hovy. 2007. A Semi-Automated Evaluation Scheme: Automated Nuggetization for Manual Annotation. Proceedings of the Human Language Technology / North American Association of Computational Linguistics conference (HLT-NAACL). Rochester, NY. pdf version

Refereed conference demo description: Zhou, L., N. Kwon, and E.H. Hovy. 2007. A Semi-Automatic Evaluation Scheme: Automated Nuggetization for Manual Annotation. Demo paper, in Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology of the North American chapter of the ACL (HLT-NAACL). Rochester, NY.

Refereed conference paper: Zhou, L. and E.H. Hovy. 2006. A Semi-Automatic Evaluation Scheme. Proceedings of the DARPA GALE PI workshop. San Francisco, CA. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Zhou, L., D. Munteanu, C.-Y. Lin, E.H. Hovy. 2006. ParaEval: Using Paraphrases to Evaluate Summaries Automatically. Full paper in the Proceedings of the Human Language Technology / North American Association of Computational Linguistics conference (HLT-NAACL). New York, NY. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, E.H., C.- Y. Lin, L. Zhou, and J. Fukumoto. 2006. Automated Summarization Evaluation with Basic Elements. Full paper in the Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Genoa, Italy.   pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Zhou, L., C.- Y. Lin, and E.H. Hovy. 2006. Summarizing Answers for Complicated Questions. Full paper in the Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Genoa, Italy. pdf version

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Zhou, L. and E.H. Hovy. 2006. On the Summarization of Dynamically Introduced Information: Online Discussions and Blogs. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs. Stanford, CA. pdf version

Unrefereed report: Lin, C.-Y., L. Zhou, E.H. Hovy, and H.T. Dang. 2005. Multilingual Summarization Evaluation 2005: Automatic Evaluation Report. Report for Multilingual Summarization Evaluation workshop 2005 (MSE2005).

Encyclopedia entry: Hovy, E.H. 2005. Automated Text Summarization. In R. Mitkov (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics, pp. 583--598. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pdf version

Refereed system demo in conference proceedings: Zhou, L., E. Shaw, C.- Y. Lin, and E.H. Hovy. 2005. Classummary TR'>: Introducing Discussion Summarization to Online Classrooms.   Demonstration; short paper in Companion Proceedings of the Human Language Technology / Empirical Methods in NLP conference (HLT-EMNLP). Vancouver, Canada.

Conference paper: Zhou, L. and E.H. Hovy. 2005. Digesting Virtual "Geek" Culture: The Summarization of Technical Internet Relay Chats.    Proceedings of the conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Ann Arbor, MI. pdf version

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Hovy, E.H., C.-Y. Lin, and L. Zhou. 2005. A BE-based Multi-document Summarizer with Sentence Compression. Proceedings of the Multilingual Summarization Evaluation Workshop at the ACL conference. Ann Arbor, MI. pdf version

Technical report: Lin, C.-Y., L. Zhou, E.H. Hovy, and H.T. Dang. 2005. Multilingual Summarization Evaluation 2005: Automatic Evaluation Report. Report of the Multilingual Summarization Evaluation 2005 effort (MSE2005).

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Zhou, L. and E.H. Hovy. 2005. Fine-grained Clustering for Summarizing Chat Logs. Proceedings of the Workshop on Beyond Threaded Conversation, held at the Computer-Human Interaction conference (CHI). Portland OR.

Refereed conference paper (poster): Zhou, L., M. Ticrea, and E.H. Hovy. 2004. Multi-Document Biography Summarization. Proceedings of the conference on Empirical Methods in NLP (ENMLP). Barcelona Spain. pdf version

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Zhou, L. and E.H. Hovy. 2004. Template-Filtered Headline Summarization.   Proceedings of the Workshop on Automated Text Summarization at the ACL conference. Barcelona, Spain.   pdf version

Journal paper: Leuski, A., C.- Y. Lin, L. Zhou, U. Germann, F.J. Och, and E.H. Hovy. 2003. Cross-lingual C*ST*RD: English Access to Hindi Information.   ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP) Special Issue on the Surprise Language Exercise Part II, 2(3), pp. 245--269. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Lin, C.-Y. and E.H. Hovy. 2003. Automatic Evaluation of Summaries Using N-gram Co-Occurrence Statistics.    Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL). Edmonton, Canada.   pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Zhou, L. and E.H. Hovy. 2003. A Web-Trained Extraction Summarization System. Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL). Edmonton, Canada.

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Zhou, L. and E.H. Hovy. 2003. Headline Summarization at ISI. Proceedings of the Document Understanding Conference DUC-03, at the HLT-NAACL Conference. Edmonton, Canada.

System demo in conference proceedings: Leuski, A., C.-Y. Lin, and E.H. Hovy. 2003. iNeATS: Interactive Multi-Document Summarization. Companion Proceedings of the ACL Conference. Sapporo, Japan. pdf version

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Lin, C.-Y. and E.H. Hovy. 2003. The Potential and Limitations of Automatic Sentence Extraction for Summarization. Proceedings of the Workshop on Automatic Summarization (DUC03), held at the HLT-NAACL conference. Edmonton, Canada. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Lin, C.-Y. and E.H. Hovy. 2002. From Single to Multi-document Summarization: A Prototype System and its Evaluation. Proceedings of the ACL conference. Philadelphia, PA. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Lin, C.-Y. and E.H. Hovy. 2002. Automated Multi-Document Summarization in NeATS. Proceedings of the Human Language Technology conference (HLT). San Diego, CA. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Lin, C.-Y. and E.H. Hovy. 2000. The Automated Acquisition of Topic Signatures for Text Summarization. Proceedings of the COLING Conference. Saarbrücken, Germany. pdf version

Conference paper, invited: Hovy, E.H. and C.-Y. Lin. 2000. Automated Text Summarization and the SUMMARIST System. Proceedings of the TIPSTER Text Program, Phase III, pp. 197--214.

Magazine paper: Radev, D.R. and E.H. Hovy. 1999. Report on AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Text Summarization. AI Magazine 20(3), p. 84. Fall issue.

Book chapter: Hovy, E.H. and C.-Y. Lin. 1998. Automated Text Summarization in SUMMARIST. In M. Maybury and I. Mani (eds.), Advances in Automatic Text Summarization. Cambridge: MIT Press. pdf version

Refereed multi-day workshop paper: Hovy, E.H. and C.-Y. Lin. 1998. Automated Text Summarization and the SUMMARIST System. Proceedings of the TIPSTER Workshop. Baltimore, MD.

Refereed conference paper: Lin, C.-Y. and E.H. Hovy. 1997. Identifying Topic by Position. Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP). Washington, DC.

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Hovy, E.H. and C.-Y. Lin. 1997. Automated Text Summarization in SUMMARIST. Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Text Summarization at the ACL/EACL conference. Madrid, Spain. pdf version

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Question Answering and Information Retrieval

Refereed journal article: Sutcliffe, R., E.H. Hovy, T. Collins, and S. Wan. 2019. Searching for Musical Features using Natural Language Queries: The C@merata Evaluations at MediaEval. Journal of Language Resources and Evaluation (LRE). (to appear early 2019).

Refereed conference paper: Xiong, C., Z. Liu, J. Callan and E.H. Hovy. 2017. JointSem: Combining Query Entity Linking and Entity Based Document Ranking. Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) conference. Singapore. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Lai, G., Q. Xie, H. B, Y Yang, and E.H. Hovy. 2017. RACE: Large-scale ReAding Comprehension Dataset from Examinations. Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Copenhagen, Denmark.

Refereed conference paper: Jauhar, S.K., P. Turney, and E.H. Hovy. 2016. Tables as Semi-structured Knowledge for Question Answering. Proceedings of the ACL conference. Berlin, Germany. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Sutcliffe, R., T. Crawford, C. Fox, D.L. Root, E.H. Hovy, and R. Lewis. 2015. Relating Natural Language Text to Musical Passages. Proceedings of the 16th ISMIR conference. Málaga, Spain. pdf version

Unrefereed book chapter: Peñas, A., E.H. Hovy, P. Forner, Á. Rodrigo, R. Sutcliffe, and R. Morante. 2013. QA4MRE 2011-2013: Overview of Question Answering for Machine Reading Evaluation. In P. Forner et al. (eds.), CLEF 2013, Springer Lecture Notes in CS series 8138, pp. 303–320. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Yu, L.-C., C.-H. Wu, C.-Y. Lin, E.H. Hovy, and C.-L. Lin. 2007. Topic Analysis for Psychiatric Document Retrieval. Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics conference (ACL). Prague, Czech Republic. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Feng, D., D. Ravichandran, E.H. Hovy. 2006. Mining and Re-ranking for Answering Biographical Queries on the Web. Full paper, poster presentation in Proceedings of the conference of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). .    Boston, MA.   pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Feng, D., E. Shaw, J. Kim, and E.H. Hovy. 2006. An Intelligent Discussion-Bot for Answering Student Queries in Threaded Discussions. Proceedings of the Intelligent User Interface conference (IUI). Sydney, Australia.   pdf version

Invited book chapter: Echihabi, A., U. Hermjakob, E.H. Hovy, D. Marcu, E. Melz, and D. Ravichandran. 2005. How to Select an Answer String?    In T. Strzalkowski and S. Harabagiu (eds.), Advances in Textual Question Answering. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pdf version

Refereed journal article: Khan, L., D. McLeod, E.H. Hovy. 2005. A Framework for Effective Annotation of Information from Closed Captions Using Ontologies. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems 25(2), pp. 181--205. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Refereed journal article: Khan, L., D. McLeod, and E.H. Hovy. 2004. Retrieval Effectiveness of an Ontology-Based Model for Information Selection. Journal for Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 13(1), pp. 71--85. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Fleischman, M.B. and E.H. Hovy. 2003. Recommendations Without User Preferences: A Natural Language Processing Approach. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). Miami Beach, FL. pdf version

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Ravichandran, D., E.H. Hovy, and F.J. Och. 2003. Statistical QA—Classifier vs. Re-ranker: What’s the Difference?    Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Multilingual Summarization and Question Answering -- Machine Learning and Beyond. Sapporo, Japan.

Refereed journal article: Leuski, A., C.- Y. Lin, L. Zhou, U. Germann, F.J. Och, and E.H. Hovy. 2003. Cross-lingual C*ST*RD: English Access to Hindi Information.   ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP) Special Issue on the Surprise Language Exercise Part II, 2(3), pp. 245--269. pdf version

Newsletter article, invited: Hovy, E.H., A. Leuski, and C.- Y. Lin. 2003. CuSTaRD: Integrating Language Technologies for Hindi. TIDES Newsletter, July issue.

Refereed conference paper: Fleischman, M., A. Echihabi, and E.H. Hovy. 2003. Offline Strategies for Online Question Answering: Answering Questions Before They Are Asked.    Proceedings of the ACL Conference. Sapporo, Japan. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Ravichandran, D. and E.H. Hovy. 2002. Learning Surface Text Patterns for a Question Answering System. Proceedings of the 40th ACL conference. Philadelphia, PA. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, E.H., L. Gerber, U. Hermjakob, C.-Y. Lin, and D. Ravichandran. 2001. Toward Semantics-Based Answer Pinpointing. Proceedings of the DARPA Human Language Technology Conference (HLT). San Diego, CA. pdf version

Conference paper: Hovy, E.H., L. Gerber, U. Hermjakob, M. Junk, and C.-Y. Lin. 2001. Question Answering in Webclopedia. Proceedings of the TREC-9 Conference. NIST, Gaithersburg, MD. pdf version   

Multi-day workshop paper, invited (one-page system demo description): Lin, C.-Y. and E.H. Hovy. 1999. Multilingual Information Access: The MuST System and its Integration with Systran. Proceedings of the DARPA IM/IC&V Meeting. San Diego, CA.

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Machine Translation, MT Evaluation, and Interlinguas

Refereed journal article: Littell, P., T. Tian, R. Xu, Z. Sheikh, D. Mortensen, L.S. Levin, F. Tyers, H. Hayashi, G. Horwood, S. Sloto, E. Tagtow, A.W. Black, Y. Yang, T. Mitamura, and E.H. Hovy. 2018. The ARIEL-CMU Situation Frame detection Pipeline for LoReHLT16: A Model Translation Approach vol 32(1--2). Journal of Machine Translation.

Refereed conference poster: Echizen’ya, H., K. Araki, and E.H. Hovy. 2014. Application of Prize based on Sentence Length in Chunk-based Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation. Proceedings of the Workshop on Machine Translation (WMT) at the ACL conference. Baltimore, MD. pdf version

Refereed conference poster: Echizen'ya, H., K. Araki, and E.H. Hovy. 2013. Automatic Sentence Length-Independent Evaluation Metric for Machine Translation. Proceedings of RANLP Conference. Hissar, Bulgaria.

Refereed workshop paper: Echizen’ya, H., K. Araki, and E.H. Hovy. 2012. Optimization for Efficient Determination of Chunks in Automatic Evaluation for Machine Translation. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Optimization Techniques for Human Language Technology at the COLING conference. Bombay, India.

Refereed journal article: Dorr, B., D. Farwell, R. Green, N. Habash, S. Helmreich, E.H. Hovy, L. Levin, K. Miller, T. Mitamura, O. Rambow, F. Reeder, A. Siddharthan. 2010.   Interlingual Annotation of Parallel Corpora. Journal of Natural Language Engineering. pdf version

Refereed workshop paper: Tratz, S. and E.H. Hovy. 2008. BEwT-E: Basic Elements with Transformations for Evaluation. Proceedings of the Metrics-MATR Workshop at the EMNLP Conference. Honolulu, HI. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Bhagat, R. and E.H. Hovy. 2007. Phonetic Models for Generating Spelling Variants. Full (oral) paper in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Hyderabad, India. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Zhou, L., C.-Y. Lin, and E.H. Hovy. 2006. Re-evaluating Machine Translation Results with Paraphrase Support. Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Sydney, Australia. pdf version

Invited encyclopedia entry: Dorr, B.J., E.H. Hovy, and L. Levin. 2005. Interlinguas in Machine Translation. Entry under Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed. (ELL2).   pdf version

Refereed journal article: Hovy, E.H., M. King, and A. Popescu-Belis. 2003. Principles of Context-Based Machine Translation Evaluation. Machine Translation 17(1), pp. 43--75. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Reeder, F., B. Dorr, D. Farwell, N. Habash, S. Helmreich, E.H. Hovy, L. Levin, T. Mitamura, K. Miller, O. Rambow, and A. Siddharthan. 2004. Interlingual Annotation for MT Development. Proceedings of the AMTA conference. Washington, DC. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Dinh, D., H. Kiem, and E.H. Hovy. 2003. BTL: a Hybrid Model for English-Vietnamese Machine Translation. Proceedings of the Machine Translation Summit IX. New Orleans, LA.

Refereed conference paper: King, M., A. Popescu-Belis, and E.H. Hovy. 2003. FEMTI: Creating and Using a Framework for MT Evaluation. Proceedings of the Machine Translation Summit IX. New Orleans, LA. pdf version

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Levin, L., T. Mitamura, O. Rambow, A. Siddharthan, E.H. Hovy, F. Reeder, K. Miller, D. Farwell, S. Helmreich, B. Dorr, N. Habash, R. Green, 2004. Multilingual Text Annotation.    Proceedings of the Workshop on Corpus Semantics at LREC conference. Lisbon, Portugal.

Refereed one-day workshop paper of invited talk: Farwell, D., S. Helmreich, B.J. Dorr, N. Habash, K. Miller, F. Reeder, L. Levin, T. Mitamura, E.H. Hovy, O. Rambow, and A. Siddharthan. 2004. Interlingual Annotation of Multilingual Text Corpora. Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus. Boston, MA.   

Report: Hovy, E.H., E. Filatova, M. King, and B. Maegaard. 2001. The ISLE Classification of Machine Translation Evaluations. See http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/mteval/.

Panel statement in conference proceedings: King, M., E.H. Hovy, B.K. T'sou, J. White, and Y. Zaharin. 1999. MT Evaluation (panel statements). Proceedings of the Seventh MT Summit. Singapore.

Multi-day workshop paper, invited (one-page system demo description): Lin, C.-Y. and E.H. Hovy. 1999. Multilingual Information Access: The MuST System and its Integration with Systran. Proceedings of the DARPA IM/IC&V Meeting. San Diego, CA.

Workshop paper, unrefereed : Hovy, E.H. 1999. Toward Finely Differentiated Evaluation Metrics for Machine Translation. EAGLES Handbook, EAGLES Advisory Group. Pisa, Copenhagen, Geneva.

Invited encyclopedia article: Hovy, E.H. 1998. Machine Translation. Entry for MIT Encyclopedia of Computer Science (MITECS). Cambridge: MIT Press. pdf version

Book: Farwell, D., L. Gerber, and E.H. Hovy (editors). 1998. Machine Translation and the Information Soup. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence number 1529.

Refereed conference paper: Gerber, L. and E.H. Hovy. 1998. Improving Machine Translation Quality by Manipulating Sentence Length. In D. Farwell, L. Gerber, and E.H. Hovy (eds.), Machine Translation and the Information Soup: Proceedings of the 3rd AMTA Conference. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer- Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence number 1529.

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, E.H. 1998. Creating Useful Evaluation Metrics for Machine Translation. Presented at the 1st International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Granada, Spain.

Invited unrefereed article: Hovy, E.H. 1998. Evaluating Machine Translation. Article in elsenews 7.3 (Newsletter of the European Network in Language and Speech), July 1998.

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, E.H. and L. Gerber. 1997. MT at the Paragraph Level: Improving English Synthesis in Systran. Proceedings of the 4th Conference of Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation,TMI. Santa Fe, NM.

Magazine article: Hovy, E.H. 1996. Deepening Wisdom or Compromised Principles? The Hybridization of Statistical and Symbolic MT Systems. Statement in Point-Counterpoint Debate Forum, IEEE Magazine, pp. 16--18. April 1996.

Refereed conference paper: Knight, K., I. Chander, M. Haines, V. Hatzivassiloglou, E.H. Hovy, M. Iida, S.K. Luk, R.A. Whitney, and K. Yamada. 1995. Filling Knowledge Gaps in a Broad-Coverage MT System. Proceedings of the 14th IJCAI Conference. Montreal, Canada.

Invited magazine article: Hovy, E.H. 1995. Machine Translation Today. AI Expert Special Issue: The Hitchhiker's Guide to AI, pp. 51--57. June 1995.

Unrefereed one-day workshop paper: Hovy, E.H. 1995. Lexis Across Languages: Tailoring Interlinguas to Suit. Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics of Verbs. Philadelphia, PA.

Refereed conference paper: Knight, K., I. Chander, M. Haines, V. Hatzivassiloglou, E.H. Hovy, M. Iida, S.K. Luk, A. Okumura, R.A. Whitney, and K. Yamada. 1994. Integrating Knowledge Bases and Statistics in MT.   Proceedings of the 1st AMTA Conference. Columbia, MD.

Refereed conference paper: Frederking, R., S. Nirenburg, D. Farwell, S. Helmreich, E.H. Hovy, K. Knight, S. Beale, C. Domashnev, D. Attardo, D. Grannes, and R. Brown. 1994. The Pangloss Mark III Machine Translation System.   Proceedings of the 1st AMTA Conference. Columbia, MD.

Technical report: Farwell, D., R. Frederking, S. Helmreich, E.H. Hovy, K. Knight, L. Levin, S. Nirenburg. 1994. The Pangloss Mark III Machine Translation System. Unpublished joint Technical Report, CMU/CMT, NMSU/CRL, USC /ISI.

Refereed journal article: Church, K.W. and E.H. Hovy. 1993. Good Applications for Crummy Machine Translation. Machine Translation 8, pp. 239--258. pdf version

Invited magazine article: Hovy, E.H. 1993. How MT Works. Byte Magazine (January 1993) Special Feature on Machine Translation, pp. 167--176.

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, E.H. 1993. Syntax, Semantics, or What? Approaching an Interlingua for Language Translation by Computer using Generalizations from Grammars. Presented at the 18th International Conference of Systemic Linguistics. Victoria, Canada. Also presented at the International Workshop of Systemic Linguistics. Madrid, Spain.

Invited magazine article: Hovy, E.H. 1993. MT at Your Service. Byte Magazine (January 1993) Special Feature on Machine Translation, p. 160.

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Hovy, E.H. and S. Nirenburg. 1992. Approximating an Interlingua in a Principled Way. Proceedings of the DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop. Arden House, NY. pdf version

Report: Brown, P.F. and E.H. Hovy. 1992. DARPA’s Boston MT Party: The DARPA Workshop on MT. MT News October 1992.

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Church, K.W. and E.H. Hovy. 1991. Good Applications for Crummy Machine Translation. Proceedings of the Natural Language Processing Systems Evaluation Workshop, at the ACL conference, pp. 147--157. Berkeley, CA. Proceedings also appears as Rome Laboratory Technical Report RL-TR-91-362, December 1991.

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Hovy, E.H. 1989. New Possibilities in Machine Translation. Proceedings of the DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop. Harwichport, MA.

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Dialogue and Virtual Agents

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, D., G.P. Anumanchipalli, A. Parlikar, C. Vaughn, A. Lammert, E.H. Hovy, and A.W. Black. 2013. Analysis and Modeling of "Focus" in Context. Proceedings of the Interspeech 2013 conference. Lyon, France.

Refereed conference paper: Hartholt, A., T.A. Russ, D. Traum, E.H. Hovy, and S. Robinson. 2008. A Common Ground for Virtual Humans: Using an Ontology in a Natural Language Oriented Virtual Human. Proceedings of the LREC conference. Marrakech, Morocco. pdf version

Refereed workshop paper: Kim, J., G. Chern, D. Feng, E. Shaw, E.H. Hovy. 2007. Mining and Assessing Discussions on the Web through Speech Act Analysis. Proceedings of the Web Content Mining with Human Language Technologies with Human Language Technologies Workshop at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC). Athens, GA.

Refereed conference paper: Feng, D., J. Kim, E. Shaw, E.H. Hovy. 2006. Towards Modeling Threaded Discussions through Ontology-based Analysis. Full paper, oral presentation in the Proceedings of the conference of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Boston, MA.   pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Feng, D. and E.H. Hovy. 2006. Learning to Detect Conversation Focus of Threaded Discussions. Full paper in Proceedings of the Human Language Technology / North American Association of Computational Linguistics conference (HLT-NAACL). New York, NY. pdf version

Refereed magazine article: Swartout, W.R., J. Gratch, R. Hill, E.H. Hovy, S. Marsella, J. Rickel, D. Traum. 2006. Toward Virtual Humans. AI magazine pp. 96--108. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Fleischman, M. and E.H. Hovy. 2006. Taking Advantage of the Situation: Non-Linguistic Context for Natural Language Interfaces to Interactive Virtual Environments. Proceedings of the Intelligent User Interface conference (IUI). Sydney, Australia,.   pdf version

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Zhou, L. and E.H. Hovy. 2006. On the Summarization of Dynamically Introduced Information: Online Discussions and Blogs. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs. Stanford, CA. pdf version

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Kim, J., E. Shaw, D. Feng, C. Beal, E.H. Hovy. 2006. Modeling and Assessing Student Activities in On-Line Discussions. Proceedings of the Workshop on Educational Data Mining at the conference of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Boston, MA.

Refereed conference paper: Feng, D., E. Shaw, J. Kim, and E.H. Hovy. 2006. An Intelligent Discussion-Bot for Answering Student Queries in Threaded Discussions. Proceedings of the Intelligent User Interface conference (IUI). Sydney, Australia.   pdf version

Book chapter: Swartout, W.R., J. Gratch, R. Hill, E.H. Hovy, R. Lindheim, S. Marsella, J. Rickel, and D. Traum. 2005. Simulation in Hollywood: Integrating Graphics, Sound, Story and Character for Immersive Simulation.    In O. Stock and M. Zancanaro (eds.), Multimodal Intelligent Information Presentation.   Springer Verlag.

Magazine article and refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Swartout, B., J. Gratch, R. Hill, E.H. Hovy, S. Marsella, J. Rickel, and D. Traum. 2005. Towards Virtual Humans. AI Magazine. Earlier version in Proceedings of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence Fall Symposium on Achieving Human-Level Intelligence Through Integrated Systems and Research. Washington, DC. pdf version

Refereed one-day workshop paper (poster): Bhagat, R. A. Leuski, and E.H. Hovy. 2005. Statistical Shallow Semantic Parsing despite Little Training Data.   Poster in Proceedings of the Workshop on Parsing Technology (IWPT) at the Human Language Technology / Empirical Methods in NLP conference (HLT-EMNLP). Vancouver, Canada.

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Traum, D., M. Fleischman, E.H. Hovy. 2003. NL Generation for Virtual Humans in a Complex Social Environment.    Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Natural Language Generation in Spoken and Written Dialogue. Palo Alto, CA. pdf version

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Coreference and Anaphora

Refereed conference paper: Liu, Z., T. Mitamura, and E.H. Hovy. 2018. Graph Based Decoding for Event Sequencing and Coreference Resolution. Proceedings of the COLING conference. Santa Fe, NM.

Refereed workshop paper: Liu, Z., J. Araki, T. Mitamura, and E.H. Hovy. 2016. CMU-LTI at KBP 2016 Event Nugget Track. Proceedings of Text Analytics Conference (TAC-16). NIST, Gaithersburg, MD.

Refereed conference short oral paper: Ma, X., Z. Liu, and E.H. Hovy. 2016. Unsupervised Ranking Model for Entity Coreference Resolution. Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL conference. San Diego, CA. pdf version

Refereed workshop poster: Rajagopal, D., E.H. Hovy, and T. Mitamura. 2016. Unsupervised Event Coreference for Abstract Words. Proceedings of the Uphill Battles in Language Processing Workshop at the EMNLP conference. Austin, TX.

Refereed conference paper: Sachan, M. and E.H. Hovy. 2015. An Active Learning Approach to Coreference Resolution. Proceedings of the International Joint AI conference (IJCAI). Buenos Aires, Argentina. pdf version

Refereed workshop paper: Liu, Z., T. Mitamura, and E.H. Hovy. 2015. Evaluation Algorithms for Event Nugget Detection: A Pilot Study. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Events at the North American Association of Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT) conference. Denver, CO. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Luo, X., S. Pradhan, M. Recasens, and E.H. Hovy. 2014. An Extension of BLANC to System Mentions. Short paper, in Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) conference. Baltimore, MD. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Pradhan, S., X. Luo, M. Recasens, E.H. Hovy, V. Ng, and M. Strube. 2014. Scoring Coreference Partitions of Predicted Mentions: A Reference Implementation. Short paper, in Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) conference. Baltimore, MD. pdf version

Refereed workshop paper: Araki, J., E.H. Hovy, and T. Mitamura. 2014. Evaluation for Partial Event Coreference. Proceedings of the 2nd Events workshop at the ACL conference. Baltimore, MD. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Liu, Z., J. Araki, E.H. Hovy, and T. Mitamura. 2014. Supervised Within-Document Event Coreference using Information Propagation. Proceedings of the LREC conference. Reykjavik, Iceland. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Araki, J., Z. Liu, E.H. Hovy, and T. Mitamura. 2014. Detecting Subevent Structure for Event Coreference Resolution. Proceedings of the LREC conference. Reykjavik, Iceland. pdf version

Refereed conference poster: Goyal, K., S.K. Jauhar, H. Li, M. Sachan, S. Srivastava, and E.H. Hovy. 2013. A Structured Distributional Semantic Model for Event Co-reference. Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics conference (ACL). Sofia, Bulgaria. pdf version

Refereed journal article: Recasens, M., E.H. Hovy, and M.A. Martí. 2011. Identity, Non-identity, and Near-identity: Addressing the Complexity of Coreference.   Lingua 121(6), pp. 1138--1152. pdf version

Refereed journal article: Recasens, M. and E.H. Hovy. 2010. BLANC: Implementing the Rand Index for Coreference Evaluation. Journal of Natural Language Engineering. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Recasens, M. and E.H. Hovy. 2010. Coreference Resolution across Corpora: Languages, Coding Schemes, and Preprocessing Information. Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics conference (ACL).   Stockholm, Sweden. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Recasens, M. and E.H. Hovy. 2009. A Deeper Look into Features for Coreference Resolution. In S. Lalitha Devi, A. Branco, and R. Mitkov (eds.), Anaphora Processing and Applications (DAARC). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in AI LNAI 5847:29-42. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Recasens, M. and E.H. Hovy. 2010. A Typology of Near-Identity Relations for Coreference (NIDENT). Proceedings of the LREC conference. Malta. pdf version

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Planning of Discourse Structure, and Discourse Structure Relations

Refereed conference paper: Li, J. and E.H. Hovy. 2014. A Model of Coherence Based on Distributed Sentence Representation. Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. pdf version

Book: Hovy, E.H. and D.R. Scott (eds.). 1996. Computational and Conversational Discourse: Burning Issues in Discourse. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag NATO Series F, no. 151.

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Hovy, E.H. 1995. The Multifunctionality of Discourse Markers. Presented at the Workshop on Discourse Markers. Egmond-aan-Zee, The Netherlands, pdf version, relations, in ps

Unpublished ms : Hovy, E.H. and E. Maier. 1995. Parsimonious or Profligate: How Many and Which Discourse Structure Relations? Unpublished ms. pdf version

Refereed journal article: Hovy, E.H. 1993. Automated Discourse Generation Using Discourse Structure Relations. Artificial Intelligence 63(1--2) Special Issue on Natural Language Processing, pp. 341--386.

Book chapter: Hovy, E.H. 1993. From Interclausal Relations to Discourse Structure -- A Long Way Behind, a Long Way Ahead. In H. Horacek and M. Zock (eds.), New Concepts in Natural Language Generation: Planning, Realization, and Systems, pp. 57--68. London: Pinter.

Invited jook chapter: Maier, E. and E.H. Hovy. 1993. Organizing Discourse Structure Relations using Metafunctions. In H. Horacek and M. Zock (eds.), New Concepts in Natural Language Generation: Planning, Realization, and Systems, pp. 69--86. London: Pinter.

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Hovy, E.H. 1993. In Defense of Syntax: Informational, Intentional, and Rhetorical Structures in Discourse. Proceedings of Workshop on Intentionality and Structure in Discourse Relations at the ACL conference. Columbus, OH.

Book chapter: Hovy, E.H., J. Lavid, E. Maier, V. Mittal, and C.L. Paris. 1992. Employing Knowledge Resources in a New Text Planning Architecture. In R. Dale, E. Hovy, D. Rösner, and O. Stock (eds.) Aspects of Automated Natural Language Generation. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in AI number 587, pp. 57--72. Presented at the 6th International Workshop on Language Generation. Trento, Italy.

Refereed journal article: Hovy, E.H. 1991. Recent Trends in Computational Research on Monologic Discourse Structure. Computational Intelligence 7(4) Special Issue on Language Generation, pp. 363--366.

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Maier, E. and E.H. Hovy. 1991. A Metafunctionally Motivated Taxonomy for Discourse Structure Relations. Proceedings of the 3rd European Workshop on Language Generation. Innsbruck, Austria. ps version

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Hovy, E.H. 1991. Explanation Generation in Historical Context: Two Methodologies of Investigating Discourse Structure. Presented at the Workshop on Comparative Analysis of Explanation Planning Architectures at the AAAI conference. Anaheim, CA.

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Hovy, E.H. 1990. Parsimonious and Profligate Approaches to the Question of Discourse Structure Relations. Proceedings of 5th International Workshop on Language Generation. Pittsburgh, PA.

Invited book chapter: Hovy, E.H. 1990. Approaches to the Planning of Coherent Text. In C.L. Paris, W.R. Swartout, and W.C. Mann (eds.), Natural Language in Artificial Intelligence and Computational Linguistics. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers. First presented at the 4th International Workshop on Language Generation, Santa Catalina Island, CA. Also available as USC/Information Sciences Institute Research Report ISI/RS-89-245. Also available as USC/Information Sciences Institute Research Report ISI/RS-89-245.

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper and book chapter: Hovy, E.H. 1989. Unresolved Issues in Paragraph Planning. In R. Dale, C. Mellish, and M. Zock (eds.), Current Research in Natural Language Generation, pp. 17--45. New York: Academic Press. First presented at the 2nd European Workshop on Natural Language Generation. Edinburgh, Scotland.

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, E.H. and K.F. McCoy. 1989. Focusing Your RST: A Step toward Generating Coherent Multisentential Text. Proceedings of the 11th Cognitive Science Conference. Ann Arbor, MI.

Report: Hovy, E.H. 1989. Notes on Dialogue Management and Text Planning in the LILOG Project. Unpublished manuscript, LILOG Project, IBM Deutschland, Stuttgart, Germany.

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, E.H. 1988. Planning Coherent Multisentential Text. Proceedings of the 26th ACL Conference. Buffalo, NY. Also available as USC/Information Sciences Institute Research Report ISI/RS-88-209. pdf version

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Text Generation (Planning and Realization)

Refereed conference paper: Kang, D., V. Gangal, and E.H. Hovy. 2017. Detecting and Explaining Causes From Text For a Time Series Event. Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Copenhagen, Denmark.

Refereed workshop paper (oral presentation): Harsh, J., V. Gangal, and E.H. Hovy. 2017. Shakespearizing Modern Language Using Copy-Enriched Sequence to Sequence Models. Proceedings of the Workshop on Stylistic Variation at the EMNLP conference. Copenhagen, Denmark.

Refereed workshop paper: DiMarco, C., D. Wiljer, and E.H. Hovy. 2009. Self-Managed Access to Personalized Healthcare through Automated Generation of Tailored Health Educational Materials from Electronic Health Records. Proceedings of the Virtual Healthcare Interaction (VHI) workshop at the AAAI Fall Symposium. Washington DC.

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, E.H. and J. Lavid. 2007. Classifying Clause-Initial Phenomena in English: Insights for Microplanning in NLG. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SNLP). Pattaya, Thailand. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: DiMarco, C., H.D. Covvey, P. Bray, D. Cowan, V. DiCiccio, E.H. Hovy, J. Lipa, and D. Mulholland. 2007. The Development of a Natural Language Generation System for Personalized e-Health Information. Proceedings of the12th International Health (Medical) Informatics Congress (Medinfo). Brisbane, Australia. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: DiMarco, C., P. Bray, H.D. Covvey, D.D. Cowan, V. DiCiccio, E.H. Hovy, J. Lipa, and C. Yang. 2006. Authoring and Generation of Individualized Patient Education Materials. Proceedings of the Conference of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). Washington DC. pdf version  

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: DiMarco, C., D. Cowan, P. Bray, D. Covvey, V. Di Ciccio, E.H. Hovy, J. Lipa, and D. Mulholland. 2006. A Physician's Authoring Tool for Generation of Personalized Health Education in Reconstructive Surgery. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Argumentation for Consumers of Healthcare. Stanford University, CA.

Refereed one-day workshop paper: DiMarco, C., P. Bray, D. Covvey, D. Cowan, V. DiCiccio, J. Lipa, and E.H. Hovy. 2005. Authoring and Generation of Tailored Preoperative Patient Education Materials. Proceedings of the Workshop on Personalisation for e-Health at the User Modeling (UM) conference. Edinburgh, UK.

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Traum, D., M. Fleischman, and E.H. Hovy. 2003. NL Generation for Virtual Humans in a Complex Social Environment.    Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Natural Language Generation in Spoken and Written Dialogue. Palo Alto, CA. pdf version

Invited encyclopedia article: Hovy, E.H. 2000. Language Generation. Entry for Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. London: McMillan. pdf version

Invited encyclopedia article: Hovy, E.H. 1998. Natural Language Generation. Entry for MIT Encyclopedia of Computer Science (MITECS). Cambridge: MIT Press. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Hirst, G., C. DiMarco, E.H. Hovy, and K. Parsons. 1997. Authoring and Generating Health-Education Documents that are Tailored to the Needs of the Individual Patient. In A. Jameson, C. Paris, and C. Tasso (eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on User Modeling (UM97), pp. 107--118. Sardinia, Italy. Vienna and New York: Springer Verlag.   http://um.org

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: DiMarco, C., G. Hirst, and E.H. Hovy. 1997. Generation by Selection and Repair as a Method for Adapting Text for the Individual Reader. Proceedings of the Workshop on Flexible Hypertext at the 8th ACM International Hypertext conference. Southampton, England.

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Dalianis, H. and E.H. Hovy. 1997. On Lexical Aggregation and Ordering. Proceedings of the Sixth European Workshop on Natural Language Generation. Duisburg, Germany. Abbreviated version in Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation. Brighton, England (July 1996).

Invited magazine article: Hovy, E.H. 1997. Natural Language Generation: Current and Future Status. (Translated into Chinese.) Invited paper for Chinese Journal of the International Electronics Information Series Network Communications and Multimedia 3, September 1997, Hong Kong.

Invited book chapter: Dalianis, H. and E.H. Hovy. 1996. Aggregation in Natural Language Generation. In G. Adorni and M. Zock (eds.), Trends in Natural Language Generation: An Artificial Intelligence Perspective.   Springer Verlag Lecture Notes series.

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Wanner, L. and E.H. Hovy. 1996. The HealthDoc Sentence Planner. Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation. Brighton, England.

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Hovy, E.H. and L. Wanner. 1996. Managing Sentence Planning Requirements. Proceedings of workshop on New Directions in Planning and Natural Language Generation at the ECAI-96 conference. Budapest, Hungary.

Invited workshop paper: Hovy, E.H. 1996. An Overview of Natural Language Generation. Invited for presentation at a workshop on Language Generation in Shanghai, China.

Invited encyclopedia/review article: Hovy, E.H. 1996. A Review of Natural Language Generation. In Cole, R., J. Mariani, H. Uszkoreit, A. Zaenen, and V. Zue (eds.), Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology. Report commissioned by the NSF (Washington, DC) and LRE (Brussels, Belgium). http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CSLU/HLTsurvey/

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Hovy, E.H. and J.M. Lavid. 1994. Toward a Multidimensional Framework of Text Types to Guide the Automated Generation of Text. Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Language Generation. Kennebunkport, ME.

Invited magazine article: De Smedt, K., E.H. Hovy, D.D. McDonald, and M. Meteer. 1995. The Seventh International Workshop on Natural Language Generation. AI Magazine 16(3), pp. 67–-68.

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Dalianis, H. and E.H. Hovy. 1993. Aggregation in Natural Language Generation. Proceedings of the 4th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation. Pisa, Italy. Also in G. Adorni and M. Zock (eds.), Trends in Natural Language Generation: An Artificial Intelligence Perspective. Springer Verlag Lecture Notes series.

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Hovy, E.H. 1993. Automated Discourse Planning and Generation. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Text and Discourse. San Diego, CA.

Invited book article of panel statement: Hovy, E.H. 1993. On the Generator Input of the Future. Panel presentation published in H. Horacek and M. Zock (eds.) New Concepts in Natural Language Generation: Planning, Realization, and Systems, pp. 283–-287. London: Pinter.

Book: Dale, R., E.H. Hovy, D. Rösner, and O. Stock (editors). 1992. Aspects of Automated Natural Language Generation. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in AI number 587.

Refereed journal article: Hovy, E.H. 1992. On the Methodology for Constructing Models of People Using Language Generation. (Translated into French by J. Anis, entitled Sur la Méthodologie pour Construire des Modèles de l'être Humain à Travers la Génération de Langage). Langages 106, Special Issue on Language Generation, pp. 75–91.

Refereed journal article: Hovy, E.H. 1992. A New Level of Natural Language Generation Technology: Capabilities and Possibilities. IEEE Expert 7(2), pp. 12--17.

Invited book chapter: Bateman, J.A. and E.H. Hovy. 1992. An Overview of Computational Text Generation. In C. Butler (ed.), Computers and Texts: An Applied Perspective, pp. 53-–74. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Unrefereed workshop paper: Hovy, E.H. 1992. Sentence Planning Requirements for Automated Explanation Generation. Proceedings of the Workshop on Explanation Facilities for Model-Based Expert Systems, DIAMOD-Bericht no. 23. Sankt Augustin, Germany.

Refereed journal article: Hovy, E.H. 1990. Pragmatics and Natural Language Generation. Artificial Intelligence 43(2), pp. 153-–198. Also available as USC/Information Sciences Institute Research Report ISI/RS-89-233.   pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, E.H. 1990. Pragmatics and Natural Language Processing. Proceedings of the Rocky Mountain AI Conference on Pragmatics. Las Cruces, NM.

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, E.H. 1990. A New Level of Natural Language Generation Technology: Capabilities and Possibilities. Proceedings of the 5th AI Systems in Government Conference. Washington, DC.

Invited magazine article: Hovy, E.H., D.D. McDonald, and S. Young. 1989. Current Issues in Natural Language Generation: An Overview of the AAAI Workshop on Text Planning and Realization. AI Magazine 10(3).

Invited book review: Hovy, E.H. 1989. Book review of Systemic Text Generation as Problem Solving, by T. Patten. Computational Linguistics 15(2).

Unrefereed workshop paper: Hovy, E.H. 1989. New Possibilities of Natural Language Generation Systems. Presented at the 7th Intelligence Community Symposium on AI, Washington, DC.

Book: Hovy, E.H. 1988. Generating Natural Language under Pragmatic Constraints. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, E.H. 1988. Two Types of Planning in Language Generation.  Proceedings of 26th ACL Conference. Buffalo, NY. Also available as USC/Information Sciences Institute Research Report ISI/RS-88-208.

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Hovy, E.H. 1988. On the Study of Text Planning and Realization. Proceedings of Workshop on Text Planning and Realization at the AAAI conference. St. Paul, MN.

Invited book chapter: Hovy, E.H. 1988. Generating Language with a Phrasal Lexicon.   In D.D. McDonald and L. Bolc (eds.), Natural Language Generation Systems, pp. 353-–384. New York: Springer Verlag.

Unrefereed conference paper: Hovy, E.H. 1988. Pauline: An Experiment in Interpersonal, Ideational, and Textual Language Generation by Computer. Presented at the 15th International Systemics Congress. East Lansing, MI.

Refereed journal article: Hovy, E.H. 1987. Generating Natural Language under Pragmatic Constraints. Journal of Pragmatics 11(6), pp. 689-–719.

Invited book chapter: Hovy, E.H. 1987. Some Pragmatic Decision Criteria in Generation. In G. Kempen (ed.), Natural Language Generation: New Results in Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, and Linguistics. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Ph.D. dissertation: Hovy, E.H. 1987. Generating Natural Language under Pragmatic Constraints. Ph.D. dissertation. Yale University Technical Report YALEU/CSD/RR#521.

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, E.H. 1987. Interpretation in Generation. Proceedings of the 6th AAAI Conference. Seattle, WA. Also available as USC/Information Sciences Institute Research Report ISI/RS-88-186.

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, E.H. 1987. What Makes Language Formal? Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Seattle, WA.

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Hovy, E.H. 1987. Some Pragmatic Decision Criteria in Generation. In G. Kempen (ed.), Natural Language Generation: New Results in Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, and Linguistics. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers. First presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Language Generation, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Aug 1986.

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, E.H. 1986. Putting Affect into Text. Proceedings of the 8th Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Amherst, MA.

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, E.H. 1985. Integrating Text Planning and Production in Generation. Proceedings of the 9th IJCAI Conference. Los Angeles, CA.

Invited book chapter: Hovy, E.H. and R.C. Schank. 1984. Language Generation by Computer. In B.G. Bara and G. Guida (eds.), Natural Language Processing, pp. 165–-196 Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company.

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Multimedia Issues and Text Formatting

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: DiMarco, C., E.H. Hovy, and M.E. Foster. 1999. Layout Generation using Selection and Repair in Adapting Text for the Individual Reader. Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Text Formatting.

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Hovy, E.H. and Y. Arens. 1996. Virtual Devices: An Approach to Standardizing Multimedia System Components. Proceedings of the workshop on Multimedia System Standardization at the ECAI conference. Budapest, Hungary.

Refereed journal article: Arens, Y. and E.H. Hovy. 1995. The Design of a Model-Based Multimedia Interaction Manager. AI Review 9(3), Special Issue on Natural Language and Vision. pdf version

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Arens, Y. and E.H. Hovy. 1993. The Planning Paradigm Required for Automated Multimedia Presentation Planning. In Human-Computer Collaboration: Reconciling Theory, Synthesizing Practice. Papers from the 1993 Fall Symposium Series, AAAI Technical Report FS-93-05. Presented at the AAAI Fall Symposium on Human-Computer Collaboration. Raleigh, NC.

Invited book chapter: Arens, Y., E.H. Hovy, and M. Vossers. 1993. On the Knowledge Underlying Multimedia Presentations. In M. Maybury (ed.), Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces, pp. 280-–306. Menlo Park: AAAI/MIT Press. Also in: M. Maybury and W. Wahlster (eds.), Readings in Intelligent User Interfaces (1998), pp. 157–-171. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann.

Refereed conference paper: Arens, Y. E.H. Hovy, and S. Van Mulken. 1993. Structure and Rules in Automated Multimedia Presentation Planning. Proceedings of 13th IJCAI Conference. Chambéry, France.

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Arens, Y. and E.H. Hovy. 1993. The Planning Paradigm Required for Automated Multimedia Presentation Planning. Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction. Charlotte, NC.

Invited book chapter: Hovy, E.H. and Y. Arens. 1991. Automatic Generation of Formatted Text. In M. Maybury and W. Wahlster (ed), Readings in Intelligent User Interfaces (1998), pp. 256-–262. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann.

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, E.H. and Y. Arens. 1991. Automatic Generation of Formatted Text. Proceedings of the 9th AAAI Conference. Anaheim, CA. pdf version

Refereed one-day workshop paper: Arens, Y., E.H. Hovy, and M. Vossers. 1991. Categorizing the Knowledge Used in Multimedia Presentations. Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces at the AAAI conference. Anaheim, CA.

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Arens, Y. and E.H. Hovy. 1990. Text Layout as a Problem of Modality Selection. Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Knowledge-Based Specification, pp. 87--94. RADC Workshop, Syracuse, NY

Refereed conference paper: Arens, Y. and E.H. Hovy. 1990. How to Describe What? Towards a Theory of Modality Utilization. Proceedings of the 12th Cognitive Science Conference. Cambridge, MA. pdf version

Refereed multi-day workshop proceedings paper: Hovy, E.H. and Y. Arens. 1990. When is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? -- Allocation of Modalities in Multimedia Communication. Presented at the AAAI Spring Symposium on Human-Computer Interactions. Palo Alto, CA. pdf version

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Topics in Homeland Security

Unrefereed conference paper: Singh, R., J. Keshet, and E.H. Hovy. 2016. Profiling Hoax Callers. Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST 2016). Waltham, MA. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Roberts, F., H. Chalupsky, R. Demarco, E.H. Hovy, P. Kantor, A. Matlin, P. Mitra, B. Ozbas, J. Wojtowicz, and M. Xie. 2013. Estimating Violation Risk for Fisheries Regulations. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT). Brussels, Belgium.

Refereed conference paper: Chalupsky, H. and E.H. Hovy. 2013. RIPTIDE -- Learning Violation Prediction Models from Boarding Activity Data. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security. Waltham, MA. pdf version.

Refereed conference paper: Wang, H., A. Philpot, E.H. Hovy, and M. Latonero. 2012. Data Mining and Integration to Combat Child Trafficking. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2012). College Park, MD.

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Knowledge integration, database access, and data alignment for Digital Government

Invited book chapter: Hovy, E.H. 2007. Data and Knowledge Integration for eGovernment. In H. Chen et al. (eds.), Digital Government: Advanced Research and Case Studies. Springer Verlag. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, E.H., A. Philpot, and P. Pantel. 2006. Matching and Integration across Heterogeneous Data Sources. Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government (dg.o). San Diego, CA. pdf version

Refereed conference demo description: Pantel, P., A. Philpot, E.H. Hovy. 2007. Data Integration in the Wild: From Instances to Concept Catalogs. System demonstration paper, Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government (dg.o). Philadelphia, PA.

Project note in conference proceedings: Hovy, E.H., A. Philpot, and P. Pantel. 2006. Entity Consolidation and Alignment in Semi-Structured Data Sources. Project Note in Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government (dg.o). San Diego, CA.

Journal paper: Pantel, P., A. Philpot, and E.H. Hovy. 2005. Data Alignment and Integration Within and Across Data Collections. IEEE Computer 38(12), pp. 43–-51. pdf version

Conference paper: Pantel, P., A. Philpot, and E.H. Hovy. 2005. An Information Theoretic Model for Database Alignment. Proceedings of the IEEE international conference on Statistical Sciences and Database Management (SSDBM). San Diego, CA.    pdf version

Conference paper: Pantel, P., A. Philpot, and E.H. Hovy. 2005. An Information Theoretic Model for Database Alignment. Proceedings of NSF’s national conference on Digital Government (dg.o). Atlanta, GA. pdf version

System demo in conference proceedings: Philpot, A., E.H. Hovy, and P. Pantel. 2005. SIFT: Automating the Integration of Heterogeneous Air Quality Databases.   Proceedings of NSF's national conference on Digital Government (dg.o). Atlanta, GA. pdf version

Project note in conference proceedings: Philpot, A., P. Pantel. and E.H. Hovy. 2005. Significance Information for Translation: Air Quality Data Integration. Proceedings of the national conference on Digital Government (dg.o) Atlanta, GA. pdf version

Conference paper: Hovy, E.H., A. Philpot, and S. Falke. 2004. Air Quality Data Integration from Heterogeneous Sources. Proceedings of NSF’s national conference on Digital Government (dg.o). Seattle, WA. pdf version

System demo in conference proceedings: Philpot, A., E.H. Hovy, and L. Ding. 2004. Multilingual DGRC AskCal : Querying Energy Time Series in English, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of NSF’s national conference on Digital Government (dg.o). Seattle, WA. pdf version

Journal paper (brief note): Hovy, E.H. 2003. Using an Ontology to Simplify Data Access. Communications of the ACM Special Issue on Digital Government. January. pdf version

Conference paper: Hovy, E.H., A. Philpot, J.L. Klavans, U. Germann, P.T. Davis, S.D. Popper. 2003. Extending Metadata Definitions by Automatically Extracting and Organizing Glossary Definitions. Proceedings of NSF’s national conference on Digital Government (dg.o). Boston, MA. pdf version

Conference paper: Hovy, E.H., J.L. Ambite, and A. Philpot. 2003. Addressing a Bottleneck in Data Integration using Automated Learning Techniques. Proceedings of the U.S. EPA Emission Inventory Conference. San Diego, CA.

Conference paper: Philpot, A., E.H. Hovy, and J.L. Ambite. 2002. DGRC AskCal : Natural Language Question Answering for Energy Time Series. Proceedings of the NSF’s national conference on Digital Government (dg.o). Los Angeles, CA. pdf version

Conference paper: Hovy, E.H., A. Philpot, J.- L. Ambite, Y. Arens, J.L. Klavans, W. Bourne, and D. Saroz. 2001. Data Acquisition and Integration in the DGRC's Energy Data Collection Project. Proceedings of the NSF’s national conference on Digital Government (dg.o). Los Angeles, CA. pdf version

One-day workshop paper: Ambite, J.- L., Y. Arens, E.H. Hovy, J.L. Klavans, and A. Philpot. 2001. Scalable Access and Integration of Statistical Data for Digital Government. Proceedings of the AFCEA Federal Database Colloquium and Exposition. San Diego, CA.

Magazine article: Ambite, J.- L., Y. Arens, E.H. Hovy, A. Philpot, L. Gravano, V. Hatzivassiloglou, and J.L. Klavans. 2001. Simplifying Data Access: The Energy Data Collection Project. IEEE Computer 34(2), February. pdf version

Unrefereed project note: Ambite, J.- L., Y. Arens, L. Gravano, V. Hatzivassiloglou, E.H. Hovy, J.L. Klavans, A. Philpot, U. Ramachandran, J. Sandhaus, A. Singla, and B. Whitman. 2000. The EDC Project. Proceedings of the first NSF national conference on Digital Government (dg.o). Los Angeles, CA.

Unrefereed multi-day conference paper: Ambite, J.- L., Y. Arens, L. Gravano, V. Hatzivassiloglou, E.H. Hovy, J.L. Klavans, A. Philpot, U. Ramachandran, J. Sandhaus, A. Singla, and B. Whitman. 2000. Building Ontologies and Integrating Data from Multiple Agencies: A Case Study Using Gasoline. Procedings of the 2000 Joint Statistical Meetings, Paper 1941. Indianapolis, IN.

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Other Digital Government topics

Unrefereed conference paper: Singh, R., J. Keshet, and E.H. Hovy. 2016. Profiling Hoax Callers. Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST 2016). Waltham, MA. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Ribeiro-Silva, D., A. Philpot, A. Sundararajan, N. Bryan, and E.H. Hovy. 2014. Data Integration from Open Internet Sources and Network Detection to Combat Underage Sex Trafficking. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o). Aguascalientes, Mexico. pdf version.

Refereed conference paper: Klaper, D. and E.H. Hovy. 2014. A Taxonomy and a Knowledge Portal for Cybersecurity. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o). Aguascalientes, Mexico. pdf version.

Refereed conference paper: Chalupsky, H. and E.H. Hovy. 2013. RIPTIDE -- Learning Violation Prediction Models from Boarding Activity Data. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security. Waltham, MA. pdf version.

Refereed conference paper: Wang, H., A. Philpot, E.H. Hovy, and M. Latonero. 2012. Data Mining and Integration to Combat Child Trafficking. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o). College Park, MD. pdf version.

Invited book chapter: Hovy, E.H. 2007. Outlines for the Foundations of Digital Government. In H. Chen et al. (eds.), Digital Government: Advanced Research and Case Studies. Springer Verlag. pdf version.

Book: Chen, H., L. Brandt, V. Gregg, R. Traunmüller, S. Dawes, E.H. Hovy, A. Macintosh, and C.A. Larson (editors). 2007. Digital Government: Advanced E-Government Research and Case Studies. Springer Verlag.

Refereed conference paper: Kwon, N. and E.H. Hovy. 2007. Information Acquisition using Multiple Classifications. Proceedings of the K-CAP07 conference. Banff, Canada. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Kwon, N., E.H. Hovy, and S.W. Shulman. 2007. Identifying and Classifying Subjective Claims. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o). Philadelphia, PA. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Callan , J., E.H. Hovy, and E. Huisman, N. Kwon, S.W. Shulman, and H. Yang. 2007. Tools for Rules: Technology Transfer and Electronic Rulemaking. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o). Philadelphia, PA. pdf version

Conference paper: Kwon, N., S. Shulman, and E.H. Hovy. 2006. Multidimensional Text Analysis for eRulemaking. Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government (dg.o). San Diego, CA. pdf version

Project note in conference proceedings: Shulman, S., J. Callan, E.H. Hovy, and S. Zavestoski. 2006. Progress in Language Processing Technology for Electronic Rulemaking. Project Note in Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government (dg.o). San Diego, CA.

Invited book chapter: Cushing, J.B. and T. Wilson, with numerous other authors, including E.H. Hovy. 2005. Eco-Informatics for Decision Makers: Advancing a Research Agenda. In L. Raschid and B. Ludaescher (eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences(DILS). San Diego, CA. Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics. pdf version

Project note in conference proceedings: Shulman, S., J. Callan, E.H. Hovy, and S. Zavestoski. 2005. Language Processing Technologies for Electronic Rulemaking. Proceedings of NSF’s national conference on Digital Government (dg.o). Atlanta, GA. pdf version

Journal article (short note):Shulman, S. J. Callan, E.H. Hovy, and S. Zavestoski. 2004. SGER Collaborative: A Testbed for eRulemaking Data. Journal of E-Government 1(1), pp. 123--127. pdf version

Chapter in Digital Government workshop report: Hovy, E.H. and B.S. Noveck. 2003. Appendix A: IT Research Questions in eRulemaking. In C. Coglianese (ed.), eRulemaking: Information Technology and Regulatory Policy -- New Directions in Digital Government Research. Report prepared for the NSF. full report in pdf

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Refereed conference poster: Kang, D., W. Ammar, R. Schwartz, B. Dalvi, M. van Zuylen, S. Kohlmeier, and E.H. Hovy. 2018. A Dataset of Peer Reviews (PeerReaD): Collection, Insights and NLP Applications. Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT conference. New Orleans, LA.

Refereed conference paper: Yang, D., A. Halfaker, E.H. Hovy, and R. Kraut. 2016. Edit Categories and Editor Role Identification in Wikipedia. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) conference. Portoroz, Slovenia. pdf version

Unrefereed workshop paper: Mitamura, T., Z. Liu, and E.H. Hovy. 2016. Overview of the TAC KBP 2016 Event Nugget Track. KBP TAC 2016 Notebook.

Unrefereed workshop paper: Mitamura, T., Z. Liu, and E.H. Hovy. 2015. Overview of the TAC KBP 2015 Event Nugget Track. KBP TAC 2015 Notebook.

Refereed conference paper: Yang, D., A. Lavie, C. Dyer, and E.H. Hovy. 2015. Humor Recognition and Humor Anchor Extraction. Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Lisbon, Portugal. pdf version.

Refereed conference paper: Klaper, D. and E.H. Hovy. 2014. A Taxonomy and a Knowledge Portal for Cybersecurity. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o). Aguascalientes, Mexico. pdf version.

Refereed conference paper: Hovy, D., G.P. Anumanchipalli, A. Parlikar, C. Vaughn, A. Lammert, E.H. Hovy, and A.W. Black. 2013. Analysis and Modeling of "Focus" in Context. Proceedings of the Interspeech 2013 conference. Lyon, France.

Refereed conference poster: Sachan, M., D. Hovy, and E.H. Hovy. 2013. Solving Electrical Networks to incorporate Supervision in Random Walks. Poster, in Proceedings of the International World Wide Web conference (www 2013). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. pdf version

Refereed conference paper: Bhagat, R. and E.H. Hovy. 2007. Phonetic Models for Generating Spelling Variants. Full (oral) paper, in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Hyderabad, India. pdf version

Book chapter: Cushing, J.B. and T. Wilson, with numerous other authors, including E.H. Hovy. 2005. Eco-Informatics for Decision makers: Advancing a Research Agenda. In L. Raschid and B. Ludaescher (eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS-2005), Springer Verlang Lecture Notes Bioinformatics. San Diego, CA. pdf version

Technical report: Shin, H.W., E.H. Hovy, D. McLeod, and L. Pryor. 2005. Generality: A New Criterion for Measuring Generality of Documents. Tech Report 05-849, University of Southern California Department of Computer Science.  

Book: Hovy, E.H., N. Ide, R.E. Frederking, J. Mariani, and A. Zampolli (editors). 2001. Multilingual Information Management. Pisa, Italy: Giardini Editori e Stampatori and Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Invited multi-day workshop paper: Hovy, E.H. 1999. Natural Language Processing for the Hearing Impaired. Proceedings of the TAO TV Closed Captions Workshop for the Hearing Impaired. Tokyo, Japan.

Book review: Hovy, E.H. 1995. Book review of Challenges in Natural Language Processing by M. Bates and R. Weischedel. Computational Linguistics 21(1), pp. 120–-123.

Invited magazine article: Hovy, E.H. 1990. Natural Language Processing at ISI. The Finite String 16(4), pp. 37-–42.

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