Papers

Journal Papers

  1. Bailin Wang, Mirella Lapata, and Ivan Titov. 2021. Structured Reordering for Modeling Latent Alignments in Sequence Transduction. In Proceedings of NeurIPS. 
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  2. Parag Jain and Mirella Lapata. 2021. Memory-Based Semantic Parsing. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 9:1197--1212. 
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  3. Laura Perez-Beltrachini and Mirella Lapata. 2021. Multi-Document Summarization with Determinantal Point Process Attention. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 71:371--399. 
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  4. Jiangming Liu, Shay B. Cohen, Mirella Lapata, and Johan Bos. 2021. Universal Discourse Representation Structure Parsing. Computational Linguistics, 47:2, 445-476. 
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  5. Stefanos Angelidis, Reinald Amplayo, Yoshihiko Suhara, Xiaolan Wang, and Mirella Lapata. 2021. Extractive Opinion Summarization in Quantized Transformer Spaces. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 9:0, 277--293. 
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  6. Ratish Puduppully and Mirella Lapata. 2021. Data-to-text Generation with Macro Planning. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 9:0, 510--527. 
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  7. Shashi Narayan, Shay B. Cohen, and Mirella Lapata. 2019. What is this Article about? Extreme Summarization with Topic-aware Convolutional Neural Networks. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 6:243--278. 
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  8. Yumo Xu and Mirella Lapata. 2019. Weakly Supervised Domain Detection. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 7:581--596. 
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  9. Rui Cai and Mirella Lapata. 2019. Syntax-aware Semantic Role Labeling without Parsing. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 7:343--356. 
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  10. Jianpeng Cheng and Siva Reddy, Vijay Saraswat, and Mirella Lapata. 2019. Learning an Executable Neural Semantic Parser. Computational Linguistics, 45:1, 59--94. 
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  11. Carina Silberer, Jasper Uilings, and Mirella Lapata. 2018. Understanding Visual Scenes. Natural Language Engineering, 24:Special Issue 3, 441--465. 
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  12. Yang Liu and Mirella Lapata. 2018. Learning Structured Text Representations. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 6:63--75. 
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  13. Stefanos Angelidis and Mirella Lapata. 2018. Multiple Instance Learning Networks for Fine-grained Sentiment Analysis. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 6:17--31. 
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  14. Lea Frermann and Shay B. Cohen and Mirella. 2018. Whodunnit? Crime Drama as a Case for Natural Language Understanding. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 6:1--15. 
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  15. Carina Silberer, Vittorio Ferrari, and Mirella Lapata. 2017. Visually Grounded Meaning Representations. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 39:11, 2284--2297. 
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  16. Siva Reddy, Oscar Tackstrom, Michael Collins, Tom Kwiatkowski, Dipanjan Das, Mark Steedman, and Mirella Lapata. 2016. Transforming Dependency Structures to Logical Forms for Semantic Parsing. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 4:127--140. 
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  17. Lea Frermann and Mirella Lapata. 2016. A Bayesian Model of Diachronic Meaning Change. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 4:31--45. 
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  18. Michael Roth and Mirella Lapata. 2015. Context-aware Frame-Semantic Role Labeling. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 3:449--460. 
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  19. Lea Frermann and Mirella Lapata. 2015. Incremental Bayesian Category Learning from Natural Language. To appear in Cognitive Science. 
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  20. Annie Louis and Mirella Lapata. 2015. Which Step Do I Take First? Troubleshooting with Bayesian Models. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 3:73--85. 
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  21. Siva Reddy, Mirella Lapata, and Mark Steedman. 2014. Large-scale Semantic Parsing without Question-Answer Pairs. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2(Oct):377--392. 
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  22. Kristian Woodsend and Mirella Lapata. 2014. Text Rewriting Improves Semantic Role Labeling. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 51:133--164. 
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  23. Joel Lang and Mirella Lapata. 2014. Similarity-Driven Semantic Role Induction via Graph Partitioning . Computational Linguistics Accepted, 40:3, 133--164. 
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  24. Ioannis Konstas and Mirella Lapata. 2013. A Global Model for Concept-to-Text Generation. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 48:305--346. 
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  25. Trevor Cohn and Mirella Lapata. 2013. An Abstractive Approach to Sentence Compression. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 4:3, 1--35. 
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  26. Yansong Feng and Mirella Lapata. 2013. Automatic Caption Generation for News Images. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 35:4, 797--812. Supplementary Material
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  27. Hagen Fuerstenau and Mirella Lapata. 2012. Semi-Supervised Semantic Role Labeling via Structural Alignment. Computational Linguistics, 38:1, 135-171. 
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  28. James Clarke and Mirella Lapata. 2010. Discourse Constraints for Document Compression. Computational Linguistics, 36:3, 411--441. 
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  29. Jeff Mitchell and Mirella Lapata. 2010. Composition in Distributional Models of Semantics. Cognitive Science, 34:8, 1388--1439. 
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  30. Roberto Navigli and Mirella Lapata. 2010. An Experimental Study of Graph Connectivity for Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 32:4, 678--692. 
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  31. Sebastian Pado and Mirella Lapata. 2009. Cross-lingual Annotation Projection for Semantic Roles. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 36:307--340. 
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  32. Trevor Cohn and Mirella Lapata. 2009. Sentence Compression as Tree Transduction. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 34:637--674. 
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  33. Trevor Cohn, Chris Callison-Burch, and Mirella Lapata. 2008. Constructing Corpora for Development and Evaluation of Paraphrase Systems. Computational Lingustics, 34:4, 597--614. 
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  34. James Clarke and Mirella Lapata. 2008. Global Inference for Sentence Compression: An Integer Linear Programming Approach. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 31:273--381. 
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  35. Regina Barzilay and Mirella Lapata. 2008. Modeling Local Coherence: An Entity-Based Approach. Computational Linguistics, 34:1, 1-34. 
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  36. Sebastian Pado and Mirella Lapata. 2007. Dependency-based Construction of Semantic Space Models. Computational Linguistics, 33:2, 161--199. 
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  37. Christoph Scheepers, Frank Keller, and Mirella Lapata. 2008. Evidence for Serial Coercion: A Time Course Analysis Using the Visual-World Paradigm. Cognitive Psychology, 56:1--29. 
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  38. Mirella Lapata. 2006. Automatic Evaluation of Information Ordering: Kendall's Tau. Computational Linguistics, 32:4, 471--484. 
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  39. Mirella Lapata and Alex Lascarides. 2006. Learning Sentence-internal Temporal Relations. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 27:85--117. 
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  40. Caroline Sporleder and Mirella Lapata. 2006. Broad Coverage Paragraph Segmentation across Languages and Domains. ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, 3:2, 1--35. 
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  41. Mirella Lapata and Frank Keller. 2005. Web-based Models for Natural Language Processing. ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, 2:1--31. 
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  42. Claire Grover, Mirella Lapata, and Alex Lascarides. 2005. A Comparison of Parsing Technologies for the Biomedical Domain. Natural Language Engineering, 11:1, 25--65. 
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  43. Mirella Lapata and Chris Brew. 2004. Verb Class Disambiguation Using Informative Priors. Computational Linguistics, 30:2, 45--73. 
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  44. Maria Lapata, Frank Keller, and Christoph Scheepers. 2003. Intra-sentential Context Effects on the Interpretation of Logical Metonymy. Cognitive Science, 27:4, 651--670. 
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  45. Frank Keller and Maria Lapata. 2003. Using the Web to Obtain Frequencies for Unseen Bigrams. Computational Linguistics, 29:459--484. 
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  46. Maria Lapata and Alex Lascarides. 2002. A Probabilistic Account of Logical Metonymy. Computational Linguistics, 29:2, 263--317. 
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  47. Maria Lapata. 2002. The Disambiguation of Nominalisations. Computational Linguistics, 28:3, 357--388. 
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  48. Maria Lapata, Frank Keller, and Sabine Schulte im Walde. 2001. Verb Frame Frequency as a Predictor of Verb Bias. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 30:4, 419--435. 
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Conference Papers

  1. Yumo Xu and Mirella Lapata. 2021. Generating Query Focused Summaries from Query-Free Resources. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), 6096--6109. Online. 
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  2. Tom Hosking and Mirella Lapata. 2021. Factorising Meaning and Form for Intent-Preserving Paraphrasing. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), 1405--1418. Online. 
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  3. Bailin Wang and Mirella Lapata and Ivan Titov. 2021. Learning from Executions for Semantic Parsing. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2747--2759. Online. 
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  4. Yang Liu and Sheng Shen and Mirella Lapata. 2021. Noisy Self-Knowledge Distillation for Text Summarization. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 692--703. Online. 
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  5. Jiangming Liu and Shay B. Cohen and Mirella Lapata. 2021. Text Generation from Discourse Representation Structures. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 397--415. Online. 
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  6. Bailin Wang and Mirella Lapata and Ivan Titov. 2021. Meta-Learning for Domain Generalization in Semantic Parsing. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 366--379. Online. 
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  7. Reinald Kim Amplayo and Mirella Lapata. 2021. Informative and Controllable Opinion Summarization. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, 2662--2672. Online. 
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  8. Yonatan Bisk and Ari Holtzman and Jesse Thomason and Jacob Andreas and Yoshua Bengio, Joyce Chai and Mirella Lapata and Angeliki Lazaridou and Jonathan May and Aleksandr Nisnevich, and Nicolas Pinot and Joseph Turian. 2020. Experience Grounds Language. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 8718--8735. Online. 
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  9. Sudipta Kar, Gustavo Aguilar, Mirella lapata, and Thamar Solorio. 2020. Multi-view Story Characterization from Movie Plot Synopses and Reviews. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 5629--5646. Online. 
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  10. Arthur Brazinskas and Mirella Lapata and Ivan Titov. 2020. Few-Shot Learning for Opinion Summarization. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 4119--4135. Online. 
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  11. Jonathan Mallinson and Rico Sennrich and Mirella Lapata. 2020. Zero-Shot Crosslingual Sentence Simplification. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 5109--5126. Online. 
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  12. Rui Cai and Mirella Lapata. 2020. Alignment-free Cross-lingual Semantic Role Labeling. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 3883--3894. Online. 
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  13. Yumo Xu and Mirella Lapata. 2020. Coarse-to-Fine Query Focused Multi-Document Summarization. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 3632--3645. Online. 
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  14. Tom Sherborne and Yumo Xu and Mirella Lapata. 2020. Bootstrapping a Crosslingual Semantic Parser. In Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, 499--517. Online. 
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  15. Arthur Brazinskas and Mirella Lapata and Ivan Titov. 2020. Unsupervised Opinion Summarization as Copycat-Review Generation. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 5151--5169. Online. 
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  16. Jiangming Liu and Shay B. Cohen and Mirella Lapata. 2020. {D}scorer: A Fast Evaluation Metric for Discourse Representation Structure Parsing. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 4547--4554. Online. 
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  17. Reinald Kim Amplayo and Mirella Lapata. 2020. Unsupervised Opinion Summarization with Noising and Denoising. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1934--1945. Online. 
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  18. Pinelopi Papalampidi, Frank Keller, Lea Frermann, and Mirella Lapata. 2020. Screenplay Summarization Using Latent Narrative Structure. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1920--1933. Online. 
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  19. Bailin Wang, Ivan Titov, and Mirella Lapata. 2019. Learning Semantic Parsers from Denotations with Latent Structured Alignments and Abstract Programs. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), 3774--3785. Hong Kong, China. 
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  20. Yang Liu and Mirella Lapata. 2019. Text Summarization with Pretrained Encoders. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), 3730--3740. Hong Kong, China. 
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  21. Federico Fancellu, Sorcha Gilroy, Adam Lopez, and Mirella Lapata. 2019. Semantic graph parsing with recurrent neural network {DAG} grammars. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), 2769--2778. Hong Kong, China. 
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  22. Nikos Papsarantopoulos, Lea Frermann, Mirella Lapata, and Shay B. Cohen. 2019. Partners in Crime: Multi-view Sequential Inference for Movie Understanding. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), 2057--2067. Hong Kong, China. 
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  23. Pinelopi Papalampidi, Frank Keller, and Mirella Lapata. 2019. Movie Plot Analysis via Turning Point Identification. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), 1707--1717. Hong Kong, China. 
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  24. Rui Cai and Mirella Lapata. 2019. Semi-Supervised Semantic Role Labeling with Cross-View Training. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), 1018--1027. Hong Kong, China. 
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  25. Laura Perez-Beltrachini and Yang Liu and Mirella Lapata. 2019. Generating Summaries with Topic Templates and Structured Convolutional Decoders. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 5107--5116. Florence, Italy. 
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  26. Hao Zheng and Mirella Lapata. 2019. Sentence Centrality Revisited for Unsupervised Summarization. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 6236--6247. Florence, Italy. 
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  27. Yang Liu and Mirella Lapata. 2019. Hierarchical Transformers for Multi-Document Summarization. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 5070--5081. Florence, Italy. 
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  28. Ratish Puduppully and Li Dong and Mirella Lapata. 2019. Data-to-text Generation with Entity Modeling. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023--2035. Florence, Italy. 
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  29. Rik Koncel-Kedziorski and Dhanush Bekal and Yi Luan and Mirella Lapata and Hannaneh Hajishirzi. 2019. {T}ext {G}eneration from {K}nowledge {G}raphs with {G}raph {T}ransformers. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North {A}merican Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers), 2284--2293. Minneapolis, Minnesota. 
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  30. Yan Liu, Ivan Titov, and Mirella Lapata. 2019. Single Document Summarization as Tree Induction. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North {A}merican Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers), 1745--1755. Minneapolis, Minnesota. 
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  31. Ratish Pudupully, Li Dong, and Mirella Lapata. 2019. Data-to-Text Generation with Content Selection and Planning Code. In Proceedings of the of the 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 6908--6915. Honolulu, Hawaii. 
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  32. Stefanos Angelidis and Mirella Lapata. 2018. Summarizing Opinions: Aspect Extraction Meets Sentiment Prediction and They Are Both Weakly Supervised. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 3675--3686. Brussels, Belgium. 
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  33. Jonathan Mallinson and Rico Sennrich and Mirella Lapata. 2018. Sentence Compression for Arbitrary Languages via Multilingual Pivoting. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2453--2464. Brussels, Belgium. 
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  34. Shashi Narayan, Shay B. Cohen, and Mirella Lapata. 2018. Don't Give Me the Details, Just the Summary! Topic-Aware Convolutional Neural Networks for Extreme Summarization. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 1797--1807. Brussels, Belgium. 
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  35. Yang Liu and Matt Gardner, and Mirella Lapata. 2018. Structured Alignment Networks for Matching Sentences. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 1554--1564. Brussels, Belgium. 
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  36. Xingxing Zhang and Mirella Lapata and Furu Wei, and Ming Zhou. 2018. Neural Latent Extractive Document Summarization. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 779--784. Brussels, Belgium. 
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  37. Shashi Narayan, Ronald Cardenas, Nikos Papasarantopoulos, Shay B. Cohen, Mirella Lapata, Jiansheng Yu, and Yi Chang. 2018. Document Modeling with External Attention for Sentence Extraction. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2020--2030. Melbourne, Australia. 
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  38. Li Dong and Mirella Lapata. 2018. Coarse-to-Fine Decoding for Neural Semantic Parsing. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 731--742. Melbourne, Australia. 
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  39. Li Dong, Chris Quirk, and Mirella Lapata. 2018. Confidence Modeling for Neural Semantic Parsing. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 743--753. Melbourne, Australia. 
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  40. Jiangming Liu, Shay B. Cohen, and Mirella Lapata. 2018. Discourse Representation Structure Parsing. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 429--439. Melbourne, Australia. 
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  41. Shashi Narayan, Shay B. Cohen, and Mirella Mirella Lapata. 2018. Ranking Sentences for Extractive Summarization with Reinforcement Learning. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers), 1747--1759. New Orleans, Louisiana. 
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  42. Philip John Gorinski and Mirella Lapata. 2018. What's This Movie About? A Joint Neural Network Architecture for Movie Content Analysis. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers), 1770--1781. New Orleans, Louisiana. 
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  43. Laura Perez-Beltrachini and Mirella Lapata. 2018. Bootstrapping Generators from Noisy Data. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers), 1516--1527. New Orleans, Louisiana. 
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  44. Siva Reddy, Oscar Tackstrom, Slav Petrov, Mark Steedman, and Mirella Lapata. 2017. Universal Semantic Parsing. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 89--101. Copenhagen, Denmark. 
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  45. Spandana Gella, Rico Sennrich, Frank Keller, and Mirella Lapata. 2017. Image Pivoting for Learning Multilingual Multimodal Representations. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2829--2835. Copenhagen, Denmark. 
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  46. Yang Liu and Mirella Lapata. 2017. Learning Contextually Informed Representations for Linear-Time Discourse Parsing. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 1300--1309. Copenhagen, Denmark. 
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  47. Li Dong, Jonathan Mallinson, Siva Reddy, and Mirella Lapata. 2017. Learning to Paraphrase for Question Answering. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 886--897. Copenhagen, Denmark. 
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  48. Xingxing Zhang and Mirella Lapata. 2017. Sentence Simplification with Deep Reinforcement Learning. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 595--605. Copenhagen, Denmark. 
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  49. Jianpeng Cheng, Adam Lopez, and Mirella Lapata. 2017. A Generative Parser with a Discriminative Recognition Algorithm. In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), 118--124. Vancouver, Canada. 
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  50. Jianpeng Cheng, Siva Reddy, Vijay Saraswat, and Mirella Lapata. 2017. Learning Structured Natural Language Representations for Semantic Parsing. In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 44--55. Vancouver, Canada. 
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  51. Jonathan Mallinson, Rico Sennrich, and Mirella Lapata. 2017. Paraphrasing Revisited with Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers, 881--893. Valencia, Spain. 
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  52. Xingxing Zhang, Jianpeng Cheng, and Mirella Lapata. 2017. Dependency Parsing as Head Selection. In Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers, 665--676. Valencia, Spain. 
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  53. Jianpeng Cheng, Li Dong, and Mirella Lapata. 2016. Long Short-Term Memory-Networks for Machine Reading. In Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 551--561. Austin, Texas. 
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  54. Michael Roth and Mirella Lapata. 2016. Neural Semantic Role Labeling with Dependency Path Embeddings. In Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 1192--1202. Berlin, Germany. 
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  55. Li Dong and Mirella Lapata. 2016. Language to Logical Form with Neural Attention. In Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 33--43. Berlin, Germany. 
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  56. Jianpeng Cheng and Mirella Lapata. 2016. Neural Summarization by Extracting Sentences and Words. In Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 484--494. Berlin, Germany. 
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  57. Xingxing Zhang, Liang Lu, and Mirella Lapata. 2016. Top-down Tree Long Short-Term Memory Networks. In Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 310--320. San Diego, California. 
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  58. Spandana Gella, Mirella Lapata, and Frank Keller. 2016. Unsupervised Visual Sense Disambiguation for Verbs using Multimodal Embeddings. In Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 182--192. San Diego, California. 
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  59. Kristian Woodsend and Mirella Lapata. 2015. Distributed Representations for Unsupervised Semantic Role Labeling. In Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2482--2491. Lisbon, Portugal. 
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  60. Lea Frermann and Mirella Lapata. 2015. A Bayesian Model for Joint Learning of Categories and their Features. In Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 1576--1586. Denver, Colorado. 
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  61. Luis Gilberto Mateos Ortiz, Clemens Wolff, and Mirella Lapata. 2015. Learning to Interpret and Describe Abstract Scenes. In Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 1505--1515. Denver, Colorado. 
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  62. Philip John Gorinski and Mirella Lapata. 2015. Movie Script Summarization as Graph-based Scene Extraction. In Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 1066--1076. Denver, Colorado. 
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  63. Xingxing Zhang and Mirella Lapata. 2014. Chinese Poetry Generation with Recurrent Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 670--680. Doha, Qatar. 
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  64. Ioannis Konstas, Frank Keller, Vera Demberg, and Mirella Lapata. 2014. Incremental Semantic Role Labeling with Tree Adjoining Grammar. In Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 301--312. Doha, Qatar. 
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  65. Carina Silberer and Mirella Lapata. 2014. Learning Grounded Meaning Representations with Autoencoders. In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 721--732. Baltimore, Maryland. 
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  66. Lea Frermann and Mirella Lapata. 2014. Incremental Bayesian Learning of Semantic Categories. In Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 249--258. Gothenburg, Sweden. 
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  67. Oier Lacalle and Mirella Lapata. 2013. Unsupervised Relation Extraction with General Domain Knowledge. In Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 415--425. Seattle, Washington, USA. 
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  68. Ioannis Konstas and Mirella Lapata. 2013. Inducing Document Plans for Concept-to-Text Generation. In Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 1503--1514. Seattle, Washington, USA. 
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  69. Carina Silberer, Vittorio Ferrari, and Mirella Lapata. 2013. Models of Semantic Representation with Visual Attributes. In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 572--582. Sofia, Bulgaria. 
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  70. William Blacoe, Elham Kashefi, and Mirella Lapata. 2013. A Quantum-Theoretic Approach to Distributional Semantics. In Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 847--857. Atlanta, Georgia. 
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  71. Rui Yan, Han Jiang, Mirella Lapata, Shou-De Lin, Xueqiang Lv, and Xiaoming Li. 2013. i, Poet: Automatic Chinese Poetry Composition through a Generative Summarization Framework under Constrained Optimization. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2197--2203. Beijing, China. 
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  72. Kristian Woodsend and Mirella Lapata. 2012. Multiple Aspect Summarization Using Integer Linear Programming. In Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, 233--243. Jeju Island, Korea. 
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  73. Rui Yan, Xiaojun Wan, Mirella Lapata, Wayne Xin Zhao, Pu-Jen Cheng, and Xiaoming Li. 2012. Visualizing timelines: evolutionary summarization via iterative reinforcement between text and image streams. In Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management, 275--284. New York, NY, USA. 
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  74. Carina Silberer and Mirella Lapata. 2012. Grounded Models of Semantic Representation. In Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, 1423--1433. Jeju Island, Korea. 
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  75. William Blacoe and Mirella Lapata. 2012. A Comparison of Vector-based Representations for Semantic Composition. In Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, 546--556. Jeju Island, Korea. 
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  76. Ioannis Konstas and Mirella Lapata. 2012. Unsupervised Concept-to-text Generation with Hypergraphs. In Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 752--761. Montr\'{e}al, Canada. 
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  77. Trevor Fountain and Mirella Lapata. 2012. Taxonomy Induction Using Hierarchical Random Graphs. In Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 466--476. Montr\'{e}al, Canada. 
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  78. Rui Yan, Mirella Lapata, and Xiaoming Li. 2012. Tweet Recommendation with Graph Co-Ranking. In Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 516--525. Jeju Island, Korea. 
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  79. Ioannis Konstas and Mirella Lapata. 2012. Concept-to-text Generation via Discriminative Reranking. In Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 369--378. Jeju Island, Korea. 
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  80. Trevor Fountain and Mirella Lapata. 2011. Incremental Models of Natural Language Category Acquisition. In Proceedings of the 33nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. 
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  81. Kristian Woodsend and Mirella Lapata. 2011. Learning to Simplify Sentences with Quasi-Synchronous Grammar and Integer Programming. In Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 409--420. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. 
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  82. Joel Lang and Mirella Lapata. 2011. Unsupervised Semantic Role Induction via Split-Merge Clustering. In Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 1117--1126. Portland, Oregon, USA. 
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  83. Joel Lang and Mirella Lapata. 2011. Unsupervised Semantic Role Induction with Graph Partitioning. In Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 1320--1331. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.. 
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  84. Kristian Woodsend and Mirella Lapata. 2011. WikiSimple: Automatic Simplification of Wikipedia Articles. In Proceedings of the 25th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 927--932. San Francisco, CA. 
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  85. Kristian Woodsend and Mirella Lapata. 2011. Learning to Simplify Sentences with Quasi-Synchronous Grammar and Integer Programming. In Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 409--420. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.. 
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  86. Jeff Mitchell, Mirella Lapata, Vera Demberg, and Frank Keller. 2010. Syntactic and Semantic Factors in Processing Difficulty: An Integrated Measure. In Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 196--206. Uppsala, Sweden. 
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  87. Yansong Feng and Mirella Lapata. 2010. How Many Words Is a Picture Worth? Automatic Caption Generation for News Images. In Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1239--1249. Uppsala, Sweden. 
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  88. Neil McIntyre and Mirella Lapata. 2010. Plot Induction and Evolutionary Search for Story Generation. In Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1562--1572. Uppsala, Sweden. 
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  89. Georgiana Dinu and Mirella Lapata. 2010. Measuring Distributional Similarity in Context. In Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 1162--1172. Cambridge, MA. 
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  90. Yansong Feng and Mirella Lapata. 2010. Visual Information in Semantic Representation. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 91--99. Los Angeles, California. 
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  91. Yansong Feng and Mirella Lapata. 2010. Topic Models for Image Annotation and Text Illustration. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 831--839. Los Angeles, California. 
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  92. Joel Lang and Mirella Lapata. 2010. Unsupervised Induction of Semantic Roles. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 939--947. Los Angeles, California. 
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  93. Jeff Mitchell and Mirella Lapata. 2009. Language Models Based on Semantic Composition. In Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 430--439. Singapore. 
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  94. Hagen Furstenau and Mirella Lapata. 2009. Graph Alignment for Semi-Supervised Semantic Role Labeling. In Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 11--20. Singapore. 
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  95. Neil McIntyre and Mirella Lapata. 2009. Learning to Tell Tales: A Data-driven Approach to Story Generation. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP, 217--225. Singapore. 
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  96. Hagen Furstenau and Mirella Lapata. 2009. Semi-Supervised Semantic Role Labeling. In Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL, 220--228. Athens, Greece. 
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  97. Samuel Brody and Mirella Lapata. 2009. Bayesian Word Sense Induction. In Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL 2009), 103--111. Athens, Greece. 
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  98. Samuel Brody and Mirella Lapata. 2008. Good Neighbors Make Good Senses: Exploiting Distributional Similarity for Unsupervised WSD. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2008), 65--72. Manchester, UK. 
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  99. Trevor Cohn and Mirella Lapata. 2008. Sentence Compression Beyond Word Deletion. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2008), 137--144. Manchester, UK. 
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  100. Jeff Mitchell and Mirella Lapata. 2008. Vector-based Models of Semantic Composition. In Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, 236--244. Columbus, Ohio. 
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  101. Yansong Feng and Mirella Lapata. 2008. Automatic Image Annotation Using Auxiliary Text Information. In Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, 272--280. Columbus, Ohio. 
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  102. Dan Shen and Mirella Lapata. 2007. Using Semantic Roles to Improve Question Answering. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and on Computational Natural Language Learning, 12--21. Prague. 
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  103. James Clarke and Mirella Lapata. 2007. Modelling Compression with Discourse Constraints. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and on Computational Natural Language Learning, 1--11. Prague. EMNLP Best Paper Award
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  104. Trevor Cohn and Mirella Lapata. 2007. Large Margin Synchronous Generation and its Application to Sentence Compression. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and on Computational Natural Language Learning, 73--82. Prague. 
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  105. Trevor Cohn and Mirella Lapata. 2007. Machine Translation by Triangulation: Making Effective Use of Multi-Parallel Corpora. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 728--735. Prague. 
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  106. Mirella Lapata and Frank Keller. 2007. An Information Retrieval Approach to Sense Ranking. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 348--355. Rochester, New York. 
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  107. Roberto Navigli and Mirella Lapata. 2007. Graph Connectivity Measures for Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1683-1688. Hyderabad, India. 
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  108. Sebastian Pado and Mirella Lapata. 2006. Optimal Constituent Alignment with Edge Covers for Semantic Projection. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1161--1168. Sydney, Australia. 
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  109. Samuel Brody, Roberto Navigli, and Mirella Lapata. 2006. Ensemble Methods for Unsupervised WSD. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Assocaition for Computational Linguistics, 97--104. Sydney, Australia. 
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  110. James Clarke and Mirella Lapata. 2006. Constraint-based Sentence Compression: An Integer Programming Approach. In Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions, 144--151. Sydney, Australia. 
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  111. James Clarke and Mirella Lapata. 2006. Models for Sentence Compression: A Comparison across Domains, Training Requirements and Evaluation Measures. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 377--384. Sydney, Australia. 
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  112. Regina Barzilay and Mirella Lapata. 2006. Aggregation via Set Partitioning for Natural Language Generation. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 359--366. New York, NY. 
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  113. Sebastian Pado and Mirella Lapata. 2005. Cross-linguistic Projection of Role-Semantic Information. In Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 859--866. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 
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  114. Caroline Sporleder and Mirella Lapata. 2005. Discourse Chunking and its Application to Sentence Compression. In Proceedings of the HLT/EMNLP, 257--264. Vancouver. 
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  115. Regina Barzilay and Mirella Lapata. 2005. Collective Content Selection for Concept-To-Text Generation. In Proceedings of the HLT/EMNLP, 331--338. Vancouver. 
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  116. Sebastian Pado and Mirella Lapata. 2005. Cross-lingual Bootstrapping for Semantic Lexicons: The case of FrameNet. In Proceedings of the 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1087--1092. Pittsburgh. 
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  117. Mirella Lapata and Regina Barzilay. 2005. Automatic Evaluation of Text Coherence: Models and Representations. In Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1085-1090. Edinburgh. 
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  118. Regina Barzilay and Mirella Lapata. 2005. Modeling Local Coherence: An Entity-based Approach. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 141-148. Ann Arbor. 
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  119. Caroline Sporleder and Mirella Lapata. 2004. Automatic Paragraph Identification: A Study across Languages and Domains. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 72--79. Barcelona. 
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  120. Mirella Lapata and Frank Keller. 2004. The Web as a Baseline: Evaluating the Performance of Unsupervised Web-based Models for a Range of NLP Tasks. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 121--128. Boston. 
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  121. Mirella Lapata and Alex Lascarides. 2004. Inferring Sentence-internal Temporal Relations. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 153--160. Boston. 
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  122. Mirella Lapata. 2003. Probabilistic Text Structuring: Experiments with Sentence Ordering. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 545--552. Sapporo, Japan. 
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  123. Sebastian Pado and Mirella Lapata. 2003. Constructing Semantic Space Models from Parsed Corpora. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 126--135. Sapporo, Japan. 
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  124. Mirella Lapata and Alex Lascarides. 2003. Detecting Novel Compounds: The Role of Distributional Evidence. In Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 235--242. Budapest. 
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  125. Carsten Brockmann and Mirella Lapata. 2003. Evaluating and Combining Approaches to Selectional Preference Acquisition. In Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 27--34. Budapest. 
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  126. Frank Keller, Maria Lapata, and Olga Ourioupina. 2002. Using the Web to Overcome Data Sparseness. In Jan Hajic and Yuji Matsumoto, eds., Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 230--237. Philadelphia. EMNLP Best Paper Award
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  127. Maria Lapata. 2001. A Corpus-based Account of Regular Polysemy: The Case of Context-sensitive Adjectives. In Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 63--70. Pittsburgh, PA. 
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  128. Maria Lapata, Frank Keller, and Scott McDonald. 2001. Evaluating Smoothing Algorithms against Plausibility Judgments. In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 346--353. Toulouse. 
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  129. Maria Lapata. 2000. The Automatic Interpretation of Nominalizations. In Proceedings of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 716--721. Austin, TX. 
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  130. Maria Lapata, Scott McDonald, and Frank Keller. 1999. Determinants of Adjective-Noun Plausibility. In Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 30--36. Bergen. 
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  131. Maria Lapata. 1999. Acquiring Lexical Generalizations from Corpora: A Case Study for Diathesis Alternations. In Proceedings of the 37th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 266-274. College Park, MD. 
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  132. Maria Lapata. 1999. Corpus-Based Induction of Lexical Representation and Meaning. In Proceedings of the 16th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 948. Orlando, Florida. 
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  133. Maria Lapata and Chris Brew. 1999. Using Subcategorization to Resolve Verb Class Ambiguity. In Proceedings of the Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora, 266--274. College Park, MD. 
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PhD Thesis

  1. Maria Lapata. 2001. The Acquisition and Modeling of Lexical Knowledge: A Corpus-based Investigation of Systematic Polysemy. PhD Thesis, University of Edinburgh. 
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