The KAML Group:
recent publications

Papers in refereed journals

K. Barker, T. Copeck, S. Delisle and S. Szpakowicz (1997) "Systematic Construction of a Versatile Case System", J. Natural Language Engineering, vol. 3, no. 4, 279-315.

T. Copeck, K. Barker, S. Delisle, S. Szpakowicz and J.-F. Delannoy (1997) "What is Technical Text?", Language Sciences, vol. 19, no. 4, 391-424.

S. Delisle, K. Barker, T. Copeck and S. Szpakowicz (1996) "Interactive Semantic Analysis of Technical Texts", Computational Intelligence vol. 12, no. (2), 273-306.

M. Swidzinski and S. Szpakowicz (1994) "Sentence Schemata for the Universal Basic Dictionary of Contemporary Polish". Int. J. of Lexicography, vol. 7, no. 1, 1-30.

Papers in refereed conference proceedings

K. Barker and S. Szpakowicz (1998). "Semi-Automatic Recognition of Noun Modifier Relationships". Proc Joint COLING-ACL Conf, Montreal, August 1998 (to appear).

K. Barker(1998) "A Trainable Bracketer for Noun Modifiers". Proc AI'98, Twelfth Canadian Conf on Artificial Intelligence. Vancouver, May 1998 (to appear).

K. Barker, S. Delisle and S. Szpakowicz (1998) "Test-driving TANKA: Evaluating a semi-automatic system of text analysis for knowledge acquisition". Proc AI'98, Twelfth Canadian Conf on Artificial Intelligence. Vancouver, May 1998 (to appear).

J.-F. Delannoy, K. Barker, T. Copeck, M. Laplante, S. Matwin and S. Szpakowicz (1998) "Flexible Summarization". AAAI Spring Symposium Workshop on Intelligent Text Summarization. Stanford, March, 1998, 93-100.

S. Delisle, S. Szpakowicz (1997) "Extraction of Predicate-Argument Structures from Texts". Proc Conf on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing RANLP97, Bulgaria, September 1997, 318-323.

X. Li, S. Szpakowicz, S. Matwin (1995) "A WordNet-based Algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation". Proc IJCAI-95, 1368-1374.

K. Barker and S. Szpakowicz (1995), "Interactive Semantic Analysis of Clause-Level Relationships", PACLING'95, 22-30.

S. Delisle and S. Szpakowicz (1995) "Realistic Parsing: Practical Solutions of Difficult Problems", PACLING'95, 59-68.

L. Yang and S. Szpakowicz (1994) "Path-Finding in Networks". J. Computing and Information, vol. 1, no. 1. Special Issue: Proc 6th International Conference on Computing and Information (to appear on CD).

S. Delisle, K. Barker, J.-F. Delannoy, S. Matwin and S. Szpakowicz (1994) "From Text to Horn Clauses: Combining Linguistic Analysis and Machine Learning". R. Elio (ed.), Proc Tenth Canadian Conf on AI, CSCSI, Banff, 9-16.

C. Feng, T. Copeck, S. Szpakowicz and S. Matwin (1994) "Semantic Clustering. Acquisition of Partial Ontologies from Public Domain Lexical Sources". Proc AAAI Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop. Banff, 1-1--1-16.

Technical reports

K. Barker (1997) "Noun Modifier Relationship Analysis in the TANKA System". TR-97-02, Department of Computer Science, University of Ottawa.

K. Barker (1996) "The Assessment of Semantic Cases Using English Positional, Prepositional and Adverbial Case Markers". TR-96-08, Department of Computer Science, University of Ottawa.

K. Barker, T. Copeck, J.-F. Delannoy, S. Matwin and S. Szpakowicz (1996) "Validation of a Text Summarization Algorithm". TR-96-04, Department of Computer Science, University of Ottawa.

S. Szpakowicz, S. Matwin and K. Barker (1996) "WordNet-based Word Sense Disambiguation That Works For Short Texts". TR-96-03, Department of Computer Science, University of Ottawa.

K. Barker, and S. Delisle (1996) "Experimental Validation of a Semi-Automatic Text Analyzer". TR-96-01, Department of Computer Science, University of Ottawa.