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Papers

This page contains selected research papers on systems CoGenTex has developed, as well as general issues related to text generation and natural language processing. Links to relevant papers in this list can also be found on other pages throughout the site.

Several of these papers are in Adobe Acrobat format — to download the free Acrobat Reader software, click on the image at the left.

CogentHelp

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]

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]

DesignExpert

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]

Ehrhart, Lee Scott; Korelsky, Tanya; McCullough, Daryl; McEnerney, Joe; Overmyer, Scott; Rambow, Owen; Webber, Franklin; Flo, Robert; and White, Douglas (1998). DesignExpert: A Knowledge-Based Tool for Developing System-Wide Properties. Submitted. [Acrobat, 608 Kb] [GZipped PostScript, 661 Kb]

EMMA

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]

EXCLASS

Caldwell, David and Korelsky, Tatiana (1994). Bilingual Generation of Job Descriptions from Quasi-Conceptual Forms. In Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, Stuttgart, Germany, pp. 1-6. [Acrobat, 69 Kb]

Exemplars

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, 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 (2001). Text Polishing: Surface-Oriented Smoothing of Generated Text via Markup-Based Revision Rules. CoGenTex Technical Report, February 2001. [Acrobat, 152 Kb]

LFS

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 (1995). Interlingua for Bilingual Statistical Reports. In Notes of IJCAI-95 Workshop on Multilingual Text Generation, Montréal, Canada, pp. 84-94.

Machine Translation Project

Nasr, Alexis; Rambow, Owen; Palmer, Martha; and Rosenzweig, Joseph (1997). Enriching Lexical Transfer with Cross-Linguistic Semantic Features, or How to Do Interlingua Without Interlingua. In Proceedings of the Interlingua Workshop at the MT Summit, San Diego, CA. [Acrobat, 271 Kb] [PostScript, 163 Kb]

Palmer, Martha; Rambow, Owen; and Nasr, Alexis (1998). Rapid Prototyping of Domain-Specific Machine Translation Systems. In Machine Translation and the Information Soup - Proceedings of the Third Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA '98), Springer Verlag (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence No. 1529), Berlin. [Acrobat, 199 Kb] [PostScript, 833 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]

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]

ModelExplainer

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; 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.

RealPro

RealPro General English Grammar User Manual. [Acrobat, 88 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]

RIPTIDES

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]

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]