Research Publications

Books

New Directions in Empirical Translation Process Research: Exploring the CRITT TPR-DB. with M. Carl, M. Schaeffer (eds), Springer, 2015.
Natural Language Generation in Interactive Systems , with A. Stent (eds), Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Supertagging: Using Complex Lexical Descriptions in Natural Language Processing, with A. Joshi (eds), MIT Press, 2010.

Tutorials

Speech and Language Processing for a Mobile World, ICON, Chennai, India, 2011.
Speech and multimodal interaction in mobile search, with J. Feng and M. Johnston, World Wide Web, Hyderabad, India, 2011.
Multimodality in Human-Computer Interfaces, with M. Johnston, ICASSP, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2007
Multimodal Language Processing, with M. Johnston, ACL-Coling, Sydney, Australia, 2006.

Book Chapters

Syntactic Variance and Priming Effects in Translation'', with B. Behrens, M. Carl, M. Ghankot, A. Heilmann, J. Nitzke, M. Schaeffer, A. Sturm. In New Directions in Empirical Translation Process Research: Exploring the CRITT TPR-DB, M. Carl, S. Bangalore, M. Schaeffer (eds), Springer, 2015.
``The CRITT Translation Process Research Database'', with M. Carl, M. Schaeffer. In New Directions in Empirical Translation Process Research: Exploring the CRITT TPR-DB, M. Carl, S. Bangalore, M. Schaeffer (eds), Springer, 2015.
``Introduction and Overview to Emprical Translation Process Research'', with M. Carl, M. Schaeffer. In New Directions in Empirical Translation Process Research: Exploring the CRITT TPR-DB, M. Carl, S. Bangalore, M. Schaeffer (eds), Springer, 2015.
``Statistical Machine Translation through Global Lexical Selection and Sentence Reconstruction'', with S. Kanthak and P. Haffner. In Learning Machine Translation, C. Goutte, N. Cancedda, M. Dymetman and G. Foster, MIT Press, 2008.
``Dependency and Valency in other theories: Tree Adjoining Grammar'', with O. Rambow and A.K. Joshi. In Dependency and Valency: An International Handbook of Contemporary Research, V. Agel, L.M. Eichinger, H.W. Eroms et. al.(eds.), Portico Publications, 2003.
``Localizing Dependencies and SuperTagging'', In Data-Oriented Parsing, Rens Bod, Remko Scha and Khalil Sima'an (eds.), CSLI Publications, 2003.
``A computational model of the grammatical aspects of word recognition as supertagging'', with A.E. Kim and John Trueswell. In The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing: Formal, computational and experimental issues, Paola Merlo and Suzanne Stevenson (eds.), John Benjamins, 2002.
``Glean: Using Syntactic Information in Document Filtering'', with R. Chandrasekar, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Volume 71, A. Kent (ed). Marcel Dekker, 2002.
``Glean: Using Syntactic Information in Document Filtering'', with R. Chandrasekar, Encyclopedia of Microcomputers, Volume 28, A. Kent and J.G. Williams (eds). Marcel Dekker, 2002.
``Performance Evaluation of Supertagging for Partial Parsing'', Advances in Probabilistic and Other Parsing Technologies, Harry Bunt and Anton Nijholt (eds.), Kluwer, 2000.
``Developing a Wide-Coverage CCG System'' with C. Doran, CSLI Lecture Notes, A. Abeille and O. Rambow (eds.), 2000.
``Status of the XTAG System'' with C. Doran, B.A. Hockey, A. Sarkar and F. Xia CSLI Lecture Notes, A. Abeille and O. Rambow (eds.), 2000.
``Explanation-based Learning and Finite State Transducers: Application for Parsing Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammars'', In Extended finite state models of language , András Kornai, editor, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
``Using Parsed Corpora for Circumventing Parsing'', with Aravind Joshi, In Symbolic, Connectionist and Statistical Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing , S. Wermter, E. Riloff and G. Scheler (Eds), Springer Verlag, 1996.

Journal papers

``Enriching machine-mediated speech-to-speech translation using contextual information'', with V. Rangarajan Sridhar and S. Narayanan, Computer Speech and Language, Vol. 27, No. 2, 2013.
``Speech and Multimodal Interaction in Mobile Search'', with J. Feng and M. Johnston, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 28, No. 4, July 2011.
``Finite-state models for speech-based search on mobile devices'', with T. Mishra, Journal of Natural Language Engineering, October, 2010.
``Robust Understanding in Multimodal Interfaces'', with M. Johnston, Computational Linguistics, May 2009.
``Discriminative Machine Translation using Global Lexical Selection'', with S. Venkatapathy, ACM TALIP, Volume 8, Issue 2, No. 8, 2009.
``Combining lexical, syntactic and prosodic cues for improved online dialog act tagging'', with V. Rangarajan and S. Narayanan, Computer Speech and Language, Volume 23, No. 4, 2009.
``Learning the Structure of Task-driven Human-Human Dialogs'', with A. Stent and G. diFabrizzio, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language, 16(7), 2008.
``Exploiting acoustic and syntactic features for automatic prosody labeling in a maximum entropy framework'', with V. Rangarajan and S. Narayanan, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language, 16(4), 2008.
``Introduction to the Special Issue on Spoken Language Understanding in Conversational Systems'', with D. Hakkani-Tur and G. Tur, In Journal of Speech Communication Special Issue on Spoken Language Understanding, Vol. 48, No. 3-4, pp. 233-238, 2006.
``Automated Extraction of Tree-Adjoining Grammars from Treebanks'', with J. Chen and K. Vijayshanker, In Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 2005.
``The AT\&T; Spoken Language Understanding System'', with N.Gupta, D.Tur, G.Tur, G.Riccardi, M.Rahim, In IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 2005.
``Finite-state Multimodal Integration and Understanding'', with Michael Johnston, In Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
``Extracting Clauses for Spoken Language Understanding in Conversational Systems'', with Narendra Gupta, In TAL Journal, Special Issue on Spoken corpus processing, Hermes Science, 2004.
``Stochastic Finite-State Models for Spoken Language Machine Translation'', with Giuseppe Riccardi, In Machine Translation, Kluwer Publications, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2002.
``A Lightweight Dependency Analyzer for Partial Parsing'', In Natural Language Engineering, Cambridge University Press, Vol 6:113-138, 2000.
``Head Transducer Models for Speech Translation and their Automatic Acquisition from Bilingual Data'', with H.~Alshawi and S.~Douglas, In Machine Translation, 2000.
``Learning Dependency Translation Models as Collections of Finite State Head Transducers'', with H.~Alshawi and S.~Douglas, In Computational Linguistics, Vol 26, No. 1, March 2000, MIT Press.
``Supertagging: An Approach to Almost~Parsing'', with A.K.~Joshi, In Computational Linguistics, Vol 25, No. 2, June 1999, MIT Press.
``Glean: Using Syntactic Information in Document Filtering'', with R.~Chandrasekar Information Processing and Management, Vol. 34, No. 5, (1998), Elsevier Science.
``Automatic Induction of Rules for Text Simplification'', with R.~Chandrasekar Knowledge Based Systems, Vol. 10 (1997), Elsevier Science.
``Explanation-based Learning and Finite State Transducers : Applications to Parsing Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars'', Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Vol.2, No. 4, Cambridge University Press.

Conference papers

``Investigating the downstream impact of Grapheme-based Acoustic Modeling on Spoken Utterance Classification'', with R. Price, B. Srinivas, S. Singhal, In IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2018.
``Corpus and Annotation Towards NLU for Customer Ordering Dialogs'', with J. Chen, R. Prasad, S. Stoyanchev, E. Selfridge, and M. Johnston, In IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2018.
``The SLT-Interactons Parsing System'', with R. Bhat and I. Bhat, In CONLL, 2018.
``Intent Discovery through Unsupervised Semantic Text Clustering'', with Padmasundari, In Interspeech, 2018.
``Bootstrapping Multilingual Intent Models via Machine Translation for Dialog Automation'', with N. Ruiz and J.Chen, In EAMT, 2018.
``Spoken Language Understanding without Speech Recognition'', with Y. Chen and R. Price, In ICASSP, 2017.
``Predicting Interaction Quality in Customer Service Dialogs'', with S. Stoyanchev, S. Maiti, In IWSDS 2017.
``Underspecification in Natural Language Understanding for Dialog Automation'', with J. Chen, In RANLP, 2017.
``Predicting Source Gaze Fixation Duration: A Machine Learning Approach'', with T. Saikh, M. Carl, S. Bandyopadhyay, In International Conference on Cognitive Computing and Information Processing, Noida, India, 2015.
``Visualization of Translation Processes through Progression : And Gaze Connectivity Graphs'', with A. Minocha, A. Koglin, M. Carl. In Proceedings of IATIS Conference: Innovation Paths in Translation and Intercultural Studies, 2015.
``A Framework for Translating SMS Messages'', with V. Rangarajan Sridhar, J. Chen, R. Shacham, Coling, Dublin, Ireland, 2014.
``SEECAT: Speech and Eye-tracking Enabled Computer Assisted Translation'', with M. Garcia, K. Singla, A. Tammewar, B. Mesa-Lao, A. Thakur, M.A. Anusuya, M. Carl, EAMT, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2014.
``Recognition of translator expertise using sequences of fixations and keystrokes'', with P. Martinez-Gomez, A. Minocha, J. Huang, M. Carl, A. Aizawa, ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, Safety Harbor, Florida, 2014.
``Mutual Disambiguation of Eye Gaze and Speech for Sight Translation and Reading'', with R. Kulkarni, K. Jain, H. Bansal, M. Carl ICMI, Sydney, 2013.
``Enhancing ASR by MT using Semantic information from Hindi WordNet'', with K. Singla, A. Tammewar, M. Carl ICON, Noida, India, 2013.
``Incremental Segmentation and Decoding Strategies for Simultaneous Translation'', with V. Rangarajan Sridhar, M. Yarmohammadi, B. Sankaran IJCNLP, Nagoya, Japan, 2013.
``Corpus Analysis of Simultaneous Interpretation Data for Improving Real Time Speech Translation'', with V. Rangarajan Sridhar, J. Chen Interspeech, Lyon, France, 2013.
``Multilingual Web Conferencing Using Speech-to-Speech Translation'', with J. Chen, S. Wen, V. Rangarajan Sridhar, Interspeech, Lyon, France, 2013.
``Segmentation Strategies for Streaming Speech Translation'', with V. Rangarajan Sridhar, J. Chen, A. Ljolje, R. Chengalvarayan, NAACL-HLT, Atlanta, USA, 2013
``Thinking Outside the Box for Natural Language Processing'', CICLing, No. 1, 2012, pages 1-16.
``Harvesting parallel text in multiple languages with limited supervision'', with L. Barbosa, V. Rangarajan Sridhar, M. Yarmohammadi, COLING, Mumbai, India, 2012.
``Real-time Incremental Speech-to-Speech Translation of Dialogs'', with V. Rangarajan Sridhar, P. Kolan, L. Golipour, and A. Jimenez, HLT-NAACL, Montral, Canada, 2012.
``Weakly supervised neural networks for part-of-speech tagging'', with S. Chopra, ICASSP, Kyoto, Japan, 2012.
``A Dataset Search Engine for the Research Document Corpus'', with M. Lu, G. Cormode, M. Hadjieleftheriou, and D. Srivastava, ICDE, Washington, USA, 2012.
``SPECTRA: A Speech-to-speech translation system in the cloud'', with V. Rangarajan Sridhar, A. Jimenez, L. Golipour, and P. Kolan, IEEE International Conference on Emerging Signal Processing Applications, Las Vegas, USA, 2012.
``Crawling Back and Forth: Using Back and Out Links to Locate Bilingual Sites'', with V. Rangarajan, L. Barbosa, IJCNLP, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2011.
``Focusing on Novelty: A Crawling Strategy to Build Diverse Language Models'', with L. Barbosa, Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Glasgow, 2011.
``Enriching text-to-speech synthesis using automatic dialog act tags'', with V. Rangarajan, A. Conkie, A. Syrdal, Interspeech, Florence, Italy, 2011.
``A scalable approach for building a parallel corpus from the Web'', with V. Rangarajan, L. Barbosa, Interspeech, Florence, Italy, 2011.
``Predicting Relative Prominence in Noun-Noun Compounds'', with T. Mishra, ACL-HLT 2011, Portland, USA, 2011.
``Non-linear tagging models with localist and distributed word representations'', with S. Chopra, ICASSP 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, 2011.
``Interaction between dialog structure and coreference resolution'', with A. Stent, IEEE SLT 2010, Berkeley, USA, 2010.
``Feature-rich continuous language models for speech recognition'', with P. Mirowski, S. Chopra, S. Balakrishnan, IEEE SLT 2010, Berkeley, USA, 2010.
``Speech-Driven Access to the Deep Web on Mobile Devices'', with T. Mishra, ACL 2010, Uppsala, Sweden, 2010.
``Qme! : A Speech-based Question-Answering system on Mobile Devices'', with T. Mishra, HLT-NAACL 2010, Los Angeles, USA, 2010.
``Speech-driven query retrieval for question-answering'', with T. Mishra, ICASSP 2010, Dallas, USA, 2010.
``K-best machine translation reranking using a superior lexical selection model'', with S. Venkatapathy and K. Gali, ICON, 2009, Hyderabad, India, 2009.
``Role of Natural Language Understanding in Voice Local Search'', with J. Feng and M. Gilbert, Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK, 2009.
``MICA: A Probabilistic Dependency Parser Based on Tree Insertion Grammars'', with P. Boullier, A. Nasr, O. Rambow and B. Sagot, NAACL-HLT 2009, Boulder, Colorado, 2009.
``Tightly coupling Speech Recognition and Search'', with T. Mishra, NAACL-HLT 2009, Boulder, Colorado, 2009.
``Incremental Parsing Models for Dialog Task Structure'', with A. Stent, European ACL 2009, Athens, Greece, 2009.
``Effects of Word Confusion Networks on Voice Search'', with J. Feng, European ACL 2009, Athens, Greece, 2009.
``Query Parsing for Voice-enabled Mobile Local Search'', with J. Feng, ICASSP, Taipei, Taiwan, 2009.
``Incorporating discourse context in spoken language translation through dialog acts'', with V. Rangarajan and S. Narayanan, IEEE SLT 2008, Goa, India, 2008.
``Statistical Shared Plan-Based Dialog Management'', with A. Stent, Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia, 2008.
``Factored translation models for enriching spoken language translation with prosody'', Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia, 2008.
``Enriching spoken language translation with dialog acts'', with V. Rangarajan and S. Narayanan, ACL, Columbus, Ohio, 2008.
``Referring Expression Generation Using Speaker-based Attribute Selection and Trainable Realization'', with A. Stent and G. diFabbrizio, INLG, Salt Fork, OH, 2008.
``Modeling the Intonation of Discourse Segments for Improved online Dialog Act Tagging'', with V. Rangarajan and S. Narayanan, ICASSP, Las Vegas, 2008.
``Where Do The Words Come From? Learning Models for Lexical Selection and Word Ordering from Spoken Dialog Corpora'', with A. Stent and G. diFabbrizio, ICASSP, Las Vegas, 2008.
``Exploiting prosodic features for dialog act tagging in a discriminative modeling framework'', with V. Rangarajan and S. Narayanan, Interspeech, Antwerp, 2007.
``Statistical Machine Translation through Global Lexical Selection and Sentence Reconstruction'', with S. Kanthak and P. Haffner, ACL, Prague, Czech Republic, 2007.
``Exploiting acoustic and syntactic features for prosody labeling in a maximum entropy framework'', with V. Rangarajan and S. Narayanan, HLT-NAACL, Rochester, 2007.
``Acoustic-Syntactic Maximum Entropy Model for Automatic Prosody Labeling'', with V. Rangarajan and S. Narayanan, IEEE-ACL Conference on Spoken Language Technology, Aruba, 2006.
``Sequence Classification for Machine Translation'', with P. Haffner and S. Kanthak, ICSLP, Pittsburgh, USA, 2006.
``Learning the Structure of Task-driven Human-Human Dialogs'', with G. Di Fabbrizio and A. Stent, ACL-Coling, Sydney, Australia, 2006.
``Edit Machines for Robust Multimodal Language Processing'', with M. Johnston, EACL, Trento, Italy, 2006.
`` Learning Edit Machines for Robust Multimodal Understanding'', with M. Johnston, ICASSP, Toulouse, France, 2006.
``Towards Learning to Converse: Structuring Task-Oriented Human-Human Dialogs'', with G. di Fabbrizio and A. Stent, ICASSP, Toulouse, France, 2006.
``Automatic Diacritization of Arabic Transcripts for Automatic Speech Recognition'', with S. Ananthakrishnan and S. Narayanan, International Conference on Natural Language Processing, Kanpur, India, 2005.
``Classification of Structured Descriptions'', with O. Rambow, ICASSP, Philadelphia, PA, 2005.
``Supertagging Nodes of a Dependency Tree'', with R. Bhimavarapu and O. Rambow, International Conference on Natural Language Processing, Hyderabad, India, 2004.
``Question-Answering in WebTalk: An Evaluation Study'', with J. Feng and M. Rahim, ICSLP 2004, Korea, 2004.
``Compiling Boostexter Rules into a Finite-state Transducer'', Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL-2004), Barcelona, Spain, 2004.
``MATCHkiosk: A Multimodal Interactive City Guide'', with M. Johnston, Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL2004), Barcelona, Spain, 2004.
``Question-answering in webtalk: an evaluation study'', with J. Feng and M. Rahim, In Proceedings of Interspeech, 2004.
``Balancing Data-driven and Rule-based Approaches in the Context of a Multimodal Conversational System'', with M. Johnston, NAACL 2004, Boston, 2004.
``Robust Multimodal Understanding'', with M. Johnston, ICASSP 2004, Montreal, Canada, 2004.
``Creating a Finite-State Parser with Application Semantics'', with O. Rambow, T. Butt, A. Nasr and R.Sproat, International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002), Taipei,Taiwan, 2002.
``Towards Automatic Generation of Natural Language Generation Systems'', with J. Chen, O. Rambow and M. Walker, International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002), Taipei,Taiwan, 2002.
``Bootstrapping Bilingual Data using Consensus Translation for a Multilingual Instant Messaging System'', with V. Murdock and G. Riccardi, International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002), Taipei, Taiwan, 2002.
``MATCH: An Architecture for Multimodal Dialogue System'', with M. Johnston, et.al, Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2002), Philadelphia, 2002.
``Extracting Clauses for Spoken Language Understanding in Conversational Systems'', with N. Gupta and M. Rahim, International Conference on Speech and Language Processing 2002 (ICSLP-2002), Colorado, 2002.
``A Finite-State Approach to Machine Translation'', with G. Riccardi, North American Association of Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2001), Pittsburgh, USA, May 2001.
``Impact of Quality and Quantity of Corpora on Stochastic Generation'', with J. Chen and O. Rambow, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Pittsburgh, May 2001.
``Finite-State Models for Lexical Reordering in Spoken Language Translation'', with G. Riccardi, International Conference on Speech and Language Processing 2000 (ICSLP-2000), Beijing, China, October 2000.
``Tight-coupling of Multimodal Language Processing with Speech Recognition'', with M. Johnston, International Conference on Speech and Language Processing 2000 (ICSLP-2000), Beijing, China, October 2000.
``Corpus-Based Lexical Choice in Natural Language Generation'', with O. Rambow, Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2000), Hongkong, China, October 2000.
``Exploiting a Probabilistic Hierarchical Model for Generation'', with O. Rambow, International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2000), Saarbrucken, Germany, August 2000.
``Finite-state Multimodal Parsing and Understanding'', with M. Johnston, International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2000), Saarbrucken, Germany, August 2000.
``Evaluation Metrics for Generation'', with O. Rambow and S. Whittaker, International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2000), Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, July 2000.
``New Models for Improving Supertag Disambiguation'', with J. Chen and K. Vijay-Shanker, European Association of Computational Linguistics (EACL 99), Bergen, Norway, June 1999.
``Learning Phrase-based Head Transduction Models for Translation of Spoken Utterances'', with H. Alshawi and S. Douglas, International Conference on Speech and Language Processing 98 (ICSLP-98), Sydney, Australia, October 1998 .
``Automatic Acquisition of Hierarchical Transduction Models for Machine Translation'', with H. Alshawi and S. Douglas, Proceedings of the 36th Conference of Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 98), Montreal, Canada, August 1998.
``Using Supertags in Document Filtering: The Effect of Increased Context on Information Retrieval Effectiveness.'', with R. Chandrasekar, Recent Advances in NLP'97 (RANLP'97), Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, September 1997.
``Incremental Processing Using Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar: Symbolic and Connectionist Approaches'', with Albert Kim and John Trueswell, Conference on Computational Psycholinguistics, Berkeley, California, August 1997.
``EAGLE: An Extensible Architecture for General Linguistic Engineering'', with B. Baldwin, C. Doran, J.C. Reynar, M. Niv and M. Wasson, RIAO'97, Montreal, Quebec, June 1997.
``Using Syntactic Information in Document Filtering: A Comparative Study of Part-of-speech Tagging and Supertagging'', with R. Chandrasekar, RIAO'97, Montreal, Quebec, June 1997.
``Automatic Induction of Rules for Text Simplification'', with R. Chandrasekar, International Conference on Knowledge-based Computer Systems, Mumbai, India, December 1996.
``Almost Parsing Technique for Language Modeling'', International Conference on Speech and Language Processing 96 (ICSLP-96), Philadelphia, PA, USA, October 1996.
``Motivations and Methods for Text Simplification'', with R. Chandrasekar and C. Doran, International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 96), Copenhagen, August 1996.
``Exploiting Supertag Representation for Fast Coreference Resolution'', with B. Baldwin, International Conference on NLP+IA/TAL+AI 96, Moncton, NB, Canada, June 1996.
``Novel Applications of Explanation-based Learning for Parsing Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammars'', with Aravind Joshi, Proceedings of the 33rd$ Conference of Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 95), MIT, Boston, June 1995.
``Lexicalization and Grammar Development'', with C. Doran, D. Egedi and T. Becker, KONVENS 94, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, September 1994.
``Integration of Structural and Statistical Information: Role of Complexity of Description of Primitives'', with Aravind Joshi, New Methods in Language Processing, UMIST, Manchester, United Kingdom, September 1994.
``XTAG System -- A Wide Coverage Grammar for English'', with C. Doran, D. Egedi, B.A. Hockey and M. Zaidel, International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 94), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, August 1994.
``Disambiguation of Super Parts of Speech (or Supertags): Almost Parsing'', with Aravind Joshi, International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 94), Kyoto University, Japan, August 1994.
``Feature-based TAG in place of Multi-Component Adjunction: Computational Implication'', with B.A. Hockey, Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan, December 1993.

Workshop papers

`Predicting Post-Editor Profiles from the Translation Process'', with K. Singla, D.O. Carmona, A.R. Gonzales, M. Carl, AMTA Workshop on Interactive and Adaptive Machine Translation, Vacouver, 2014.
``AT\&T;: The Tag\&Parse; Approach to Semantic Parsing of Robot Spatial Commands'', S. Stoyanchev, H. Jung, J. Chen, Semeval, Dublin, Ireland, 2014.
``Role of Pausing in Text-to-Speech Synthesis for Simultaneous Interpretation'', with V. Rangarajan Sridhar, J. Chen, A. Conkie, Speech Synthesis Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, 2013.
``Learning Query Expansion in Question Answering Systems'', with P. Haffner, S. Jafarpour, H. Karloff, and T. Mishra, NYAS, 2010.
``Three models for discriminative machine translation using Global Lexical Selection and Sentence Reconstruction'', with S. Venkatapathy, HLT-NAACL workshop, Rochester, USA, 2007.
``Finite-State Transducer-based Statistical Machine Translation using Joint Probabilities'', with P. Haffner and S. Kanthak, IWSLT, Kyoto, Japan, 2006.
``Combining Stochastic and Grammar-based Methods with Finite-state Edit Machines'', with M. Johnston, ASRU-2005, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2005.
``WebTalk: Mining Websites for Automatically Building Dialog Systems'', with J. Feng and M. Rahim, ASRU, December 2003.
``Segmenting Spoken Language Utterances into Clauses for Semantic Classification'', with N. Gupta, ASRU, December 2003.
``Balancing data-driven and rule-based approaches in the context of a Multimodal Conversational System'', with M. Johnston, ASRU, December 2003.
``Extracting Clauses for Spoken Language Understanding in Conversational Systems'', with N. Gupta, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2002 (EMNLP-2002), Philadelphia, June 2002.
``Reranking an N-gram SuperTagger'', with J.Chen, M. Collins, O.Rambow, Sixth International Workshop on Tree-Adjoining Grammars (TAG+6), Italy, May 2002.
``Context-free parsing of a Tree-Adjoining Grammar using Finite-State Machines, with A. Nasr, O. Rambow, and J.Chen, Sixth International Workshop on Tree-Adjoining Grammars (TAG+6), Italy, May 2002.
``MATCH: Multimodal Access To City Help'', with M. Johnston, Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Italy, December 2001.
``Computing Consensus Translation from Multiple Machine Translation Systems'', with G. Riccardi and G. Bordel, Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Italy, December 2001.
``Finite-state Methods for Multimodal Parsing and Integration'', with M. Johnston, In Finite State Methods in Natural Language Processing, Helsinki, August 2001.
``Natural Language Generation in Dialog Systems'', with O. Rambow and M. Walker, In Workshop on Human Language Technology (HLT), San Diego, March 2001.
``Using TAG, a Tree Model, and a Language Model for Generation'', with O. Rambow, Fifth International Workshop on Tree-Adjoining Grammars (TAG+), TALANA, Paris, May 2000.
``Stochastic Finite-State models for Spoken Language Machine Translation'', with G. Riccardi, Workshop on Embedded Machine Translation Systems, Seattle, April 2000.
``Learning Head-dependency Relations From Unannotated Corpora'', with G. Riccardi and P. Sarin, Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Keystone, Colorado, December 1999.
``Automatic Acquisition of Phrase Grammars for Stochastic Language Modeling'', with G. Riccardi, Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora, Montreal, Canada, August 1998.
``Transplanting Supertags from English to Spanish'', Workshop on Tree-Adjoining Grammars, Philadelphia, August 1998.
``Grammar \& Parser Evaluation in the xtag Project'', with C. Doran, B.A. Hockey and A. Sarkar, Workshop on the Evaluation of Parsing Systems, Granada, Spain, May 1998.
``Catering to the needs of Web users: Integrating Retrieval and Browsing'', with Z. Lacroix, A. Sahuguet and R. Chandrasekar, Workshop on Conceptual Modelling in Multimedia Information Seeking, ER97, Los Angeles, California, November 1997.
``Performance Evaluation of SuperTagging for Partial Parsing'', Fifth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, Boston, September 1997.
``Catering to the Web User's Needs: Integrating Retrieval and Browsing'', with Z. Lacroix and A. Sahuguet, Third International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, Como, Italy, September 1997.
``Mother of Perl: A Multi-tier Pattern Description Language'', with B. Baldwin, C. Doran, J.C. Reynar and M. Niv, International Workshop on Lexically Driven Information Extraction, Frascati, Italy, July 1997.
``Maintaining the forest and burning out the underbrush in XTAG'', with C. Doran, B. Hockey, P. Hopely, J. Rosenzweig, A. Sarkar, F. Xia, A. Nasr and O. Rambow, Workshop on Computational Environments for Practical Grammar Development (ENVGRAM '97), Madrid, July 1997.
``Gleaning information from the Web: Using Syntax to Filter out Irrelevant Information'', with R. Chandrasekar, Workshop on Natural Language Processing for the World Wide Web, AAAI Spring Symposium, Stanford University, California, March 1997.
``An Approach to Robust Partial Parsing and Evaluation Metrics'', with C. Doran, B.A. Hockey, and A.K. Joshi, Workshop on Robust Parsing, European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), August 1996.
``Explanation-Based Learning and Finite State Transducers: Applications to Parsing Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammars'', Workshop on Extended Finite State Models of language, Budapest, Hungary, August 1996.
``University of Pennsylvania: Description of the University of Pennsylvania System used for MUC-6'', with B. Baldwin, J.C. Reynar, M. Collins, J. Eisner, A. Ratnaparkhi, J. Rosenzweig and A. Sarkar, Sixth Message Understanding Conference (MUC-6), Maryland, October 1995.
``Parse Ranking and Heuristics'', with C. Doran and S. Kulick, Fourth International Workshop on Parsing Technology (IWPT 95), Prague, September 1995.
``Using Parsed Corpora for Circumventing Parsing'', with Aravind Joshi, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence workshop on New Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing, Montreal, August 1995.
``Status of the XTAG System'', with C. Doran, D. Egedi and B.A. Hockey, Third International Workshop on Tree-Adjoining Grammars (TAG+), TALANA, Paris, September 1994.
``Bootstrapping a Wide-coverage CCG from FB-LTAG'', with C. Doran, Third International Workshop on Tree-Adjoining Grammars (TAG+), TALANA, Paris, September 1994.
``Complexity of Description of Primitives: Relevance to Local Statistical Computations'', with Aravind Joshi, Balancing Act Workshop, Las Cruces, New Mexico, June 1994.