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
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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]
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; 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]