Michael White, Ph.D.
Michael White obtained his Ph.D. in computational linguistics
from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. His dissertation
concerned the semantics of aspect and its role in interpretation,
and arose from his participation in a research project on the
parsing and interpretation of natural language instructions in
the context of simulated physical actions.
Since joining CoGenTex in 1994, Dr. White has focused on the
development of practical tools and techniques for dynamic text
generation systems. He has been the principal developer of the
Exemplars framework, which has been successfully deployed in
three commercial systems,
Project Reporter,
Definition Builder,
and
Recommender.
He was also the co-Principal Investigator of RIPTIDES,
CoGenTex's joint project with Cornell University, and part of the
DARPA TIDES program.
Dr. White is currently on research leave at the University of Edinburgh,
but is doing consulting work for CoGenTex.
Caldwell, David and White, Michael (1997).
CogentHelp: A Tool for Authoring Dynamically Generated Help for Java GUIs.
In Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference on
Computer Documentation (SIGDOC '97), Salt Lake City, UT, pp. 17-22.
[Acrobat, 71 Kb]
McCullough, Daryl; Korelsky, Tanya; and White, Michael (1998).
Information Management for Release-based Software Evolution Using EMMA.
In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Software
Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE '98), San Francisco Bay, CA, pp. 219-226.
[Acrobat, 424 Kb]
White, Michael (1998). Designing Dynamic Hypertext.
In
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia
(HYPERTEXT'98), Pittsburgh, USA.
[Acrobat, 47 Kb]
White, Michael and Caldwell, David (1997).
CogentHelp: NLG Meets SE in a Tool for Authoring Dynamically
Generated On-Line Help.
In Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Applied
Natural Language Processing, Washington, DC, pp. 257-264.
[GZipped PostScript, 135 Kb]
White, Michael and Caldwell, Ted (1998). EXEMPLARS:
A Practical, Extensible Framework for Dynamic Text Generation.
In Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on
Natural Language Generation, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, pp. 266-275.
[Acrobat, 79 Kb]
White, Michael and Caldwell, Ted (1999). Beyond XSL:
Generating XML-Annotated Texts with EXEMPLARS.
CoGenTex Technical Report, November 1999.
[Acrobat, 121 Kb]
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]
White, Michael; Korelsky, Tanya; Cardie, Claire; Ng, Vincent; Pierce, David;
and Wagstaff, Kiri (2001).
Multidocument Summarization via Information Extraction.
Proceedings of HLT 2001, Human Language Technology Conference,
San Diego, CA.
[Acrobat, 48 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]
White, Michael (2001).
Text Polishing: Surface-Oriented Smoothing of Generated Text via
Markup-Based Revision Rules.
CoGenTex Technical Report, February 2001.
[Acrobat, 152 Kb]
White, Michael; Cardie, Claire; Ng, Vincent; and McCullough, Daryl (2002).
Detecting Discrepancies in Numeric Estimates Using Multidocument
Hypertext Summaries.
To appear in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on
Human Language Technology Research, San Diego, CA.
[Acrobat, 186 Kb]
White, Michael and Cardie, Claire (2002).
Selecting Sentences for Multidocument Summaries using Randomized Local Search.
To appear in Proceedings of the ACL 2002 Summarization Workshop,
Philadelphia, PA.
[Acrobat, 237 Kb]
White, Michael; Korelsky, Tanya; Cardie, Claire; Ng, Vincent; Pierce, David;
and Wagstaff, Kiri (2001).
Detecting Discrepancies and Improving Intelligibility:
Two Preliminary Evaluations of RIPTIDES.
Proceedings of the 2001 Document Understanding Conference (DUC-2001).
[Acrobat, 136 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]
