Benoit Lavoie holds a Master's degree in computer science and a
bachelor's degree majoring in linguistics, both from the University of
Montreal. His master's thesis concerned the text planning of
bilingual text summaries in several areas of economic statistics
using interlingual representations and their mapping to English
and French semantic representations for surface generation in these languages.
He has worked with CoGenTex since 1990, initially with our Montreal affiliate.
He has led the R&D efforts involving the development or integration
with linguistic resources for English, Arabic, and Korean:
lexical, morphological, syntactic, and semantic knowledge bases
and software components.
Bethem, Thomas; Burton, Janet; Caldwell, Ted; Evans, Mike; Kittredge, Richard; Lavoie, Benoit; and Werner, Jennifer (2005).
Generation of Real-time Narrative Summaries for Real-time Water Levels and Meteorological Observations in PORTS®.
In Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Sciences (AMS-2005),
San Diego, California.
[Acrobat, 84 Kb]
Kittredge, Richard; and Lavoie, Benoit (1998).
MeteoCogent: A Knowledge-Based Tool For Generating Weather Forecast Texts.
In Proceedings of the American Meteorological Society AI Conference (AMS-98),
Phoenix, Arizona.
[Acrobat, 86 Kb]
Barzilay, Regina; McCullough, Daryl; Rambow, Owen;
DeCristofaro, Jonathan; Korelsky, Tanya; and Lavoie, Benoit (1998).
A New Approach to Expert System Explanations.
In Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on
Natural Language Generation, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, pp. 78-87.
[Acrobat, 269 Kb]
[PostScript, 575 Kb]
Lavoie, Benoit; Rambow, Owen; and Reiter, Ehud (1997).
Customizable Descriptions of Object-Oriented Models.
In Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Applied
Natural Language Processing,
Washington, DC, pp. 265-268.
[Acrobat, 207 Kb]
[PostScript, 1322 Kb]
Lavoie, Benoit; and Rambow, Owen (1997).
A Fast and Portable Realizer for Text Generation Systems.
In Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Applied
Natural Language Processing, Washington, DC.
[Acrobat, 183 Kb]
[PostScript, 144 Kb]
Iordanskaja, Lidja; Kim, Myunghee; Kittredge, Richard; Lavoie, Benoit;
and Polguère, Alain (1992). Generation of Extended Bilingual
Statistical Reports. In Proceedings of the 15th International
Conference on Computational Linguistics, Nantes, France, pp. 1019-1023.
Lavoie, Benoit (1994). Étude sur la planification de texte:
application au sous-domaine de la population active.
Mémoire de maîtrise, Département d’Informatique et de Recherche
Opérationnelle, Université de Montréal.
Lavoie, Benoit (1995). Interlingua for Bilingual Statistical Reports.
In Notes of IJCAI-95 Workshop on Multilingual Text Generation,
Montréal, Canada, pp. 84-94.
Lavoie, Benoit; Rambow, Owen; and Reiter, Ehud (1996).
The ModelExplainer. In Demonstration Notes of the International
Natural Language Generation Workshop (INLG-96),
Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex, UK, pp. 9-12.
Lavoie, Benoit, and Rambow, Owen (1998). A Framework for
Customizable Generation of Multi-Modal Presentations.
In Proceedings of the 36th Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL '98), Montreal, Canada, pp. 718-722.
White, Michael; Cardie, Claire; Han, Chung-hye; Kim, Nari;
Lavoie, Benoit; Palmer, Martha; Rambow, Owen; and Yoon Juntae (2000).
Towards Translingual Information Access
using Portable Information Extraction.
In Proceedings of the ANLP/NAACL 2000 Workshop on
Embedded Machine Translation Systems, Seattle, WA, pp. 31-37.
[Acrobat, 97 Kb]
Han, Chung-hye; Lavoie, Benoit; Palmer, Martha; Rambow, Owen;
Kittredge, Richard; Korelsky, Tanya; Kim, Nari; and Kim, Myunghee (2000).
Handling Structural Divergences and Recovering Dropped
Arguments in a Korean-English Machine Translation System.
In Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the Association for
Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2000), Misión Del Sol, Mexico.
[Acrobat, 204 Kb]
[PostScript, 789 Kb]
Lavoie, Benoit; Kittredge, Richard; Korelsky, Tanya; and Rambow, Owen (2000).
A Framework for MT and Multilingual NLG Systems Based on
Uniform Lexico-Structural Processing.
In Proceedings of ANLP/NAACL 2000, Seattle, Washington.
[Acrobat, 66 Kb]
[PostScript, 313 Kb]
Lavoie, Benoit; White, Michael; and Korelsky, Tanya (2001).
Inducing Lexico-Structural Transfer Rules from Parsed Bi-texts.
Proceedings of ACL 2001 Workshop on Data-driven Machine
Translation, Toulouse, France, pp. 17-24.
[Acrobat, 56 Kb]
Overmyer, Scott; Lavoie, Benoit; and Rambow, Owen (2001).
Conceptual Modeling through Linguistic Analysis Using LIDA.
In Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering
(ICSE 2001), Toronto, Canada.
[Acrobat, 250 Kb]
Lavoie, Benoit; White, Michael; and Korelsky, Tanya (2002).
Learning Domain-Specific Transfer Rules: An Experiment with
Korean to English Translation.
In Proceedings of the COLING 2002 Workshop on Machine
Translation in Asia, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 60-66.
[Acrobat, 35 Kb]
Korelsky, Tanya; Lavoie, Benoit; and Caldwell, Ted (2003).
Ontology-based Multimodal User Interface in MOQA.
In Proceedings of the AQUAINT 18-Month Workshop,
San Diego, California.
[PowerPoint, 848 Kb]
Beale, Stephen; Lavoie, Benoit; McShane, Marjorie; Nirenburg, Sergei; and Korelsky, Tanya (2004).
Question Answering Using Ontological Semantics.
In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Text Meaning and Interpretation of ACL 2004,
Barcelona, Spain, pp. 41-48.
[Acrobat, 1067 Kb]
