Some Recent Publications by Mark Steedman


The following papers can be found at http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/steedman/papers/ and/or ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/steedman/ or http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/

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Here is a brief CV: (PDF). Here is a not so brief one: (PDF).


Books
Surface Structure and Interpretation. (Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No.30), MIT Press, 1996.
The Syntactic Process, MIT Press/Bradford Books, 2000.
Taking Scope, MIT Press, 2012.


Papers
Romantics and Revolutionaries: What Theoretical and Computational Linguists Need to Know about Each Other* (*But were Afraid to Ask) (2011), Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, 6 unpaged. (PDF)
Lexical Generalization in CCG Grammar Induction for Semantic Parsing (2011), (With Tom Kwiatkowksi and Luke Zettlemoyer and Sharon Goldwater), in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Edinburgh UK, 1512-1523. (PDF)
A Bayesian Mixture Model for PoS Induction Using Multiple Features (2011), (With Chris Christodoulopoulos and Sharon Goldwater), in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Edinburgh UK, 638-647. (PDF)
Semi-supervised CCG Lexicon Extension (2011), (With Emily Thomforde), in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Edinburgh UK, 1246-1256. (PDF)
Inducing Probabilistic CCG Grammars from Logical Form with Higher-Order Unification (2010), (With Tom Kwiatkowksi and Luke Zettlemoyer and Sharon Goldwater), in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Cambridge MA, 1223-1233. (PDF)
Two Decades of Unsupervised POS tagging---How Far Have We Come? (2010), (With Chris Christodoulopoulos and Sharon Goldwater), in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Cambridge MA, 575-584. (PDF)
A Bottom-Up Parsing Model of Local Coherence Effects (2010), (With Emily Morgan and Frank Keller), in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland OR, (to appear). (PDF)
The NXT-Format Switchboard Corpus: A Rich Resource for Investigating the Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Prosody of Dialog (2010), (with Sasha Calhoun et al.) to appear in Language Resources and Evaluation, 44, 387-419. (PDF)
Unbounded Dependency Recovery for Parser Evaluation (2009), (With Laura Rimell and Stephen Clark), in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 813-821. (PDF)
Combinatory Categorial Grammar (2011), (With Jason Baldridge) Draft 7.0, to appear in: R. Borsley and K. Borjars (eds.) Non-Transformational Syntax, 181-224, Blackwell. (PDF)
On Becoming a Discipline (2008), Computational Linguistics, 34 137-144. (PDF)
CCGbank: A Corpus of CCG Derivations and Dependency Structures Extracted from the Penn Treebank (2007), (with Julia Hockenmaier)---a revised version is to appear in Computational Linguistics, 33 355-396. (PDF)
On "The Computation" (2007), Draft 2.0, to appear in: G.Ramchand and C. Reiss (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces, 575-611, Oxford University Press. (PostScript)(PDF)
Planning Dialog Actions (2007) (with Ron Petrick) {\em Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue}, Antwerp, Sept. 2007, 265-272. (PDF)
Surface-Compositional Scope-Alternation Without Existential Quantifiers (2006), Draft 5.2, Sept 2007, for comments. (PostScript)(PDF) (This paper replaces earlier drafts entitled "Syntactic Constraints on Quantifier Scope Alternation" and "Scope Alternation and the Syntax-Semantics Interface")
Categorial Grammar and the Semantics of Contextual Prepositional Phrases (2006), (with Nissim Francez)---a revised version is to appear in Linguistics and Philosophy, 29 381-417. (PostScript)(PDF)
The Productions of Time Draft tutorial notes about temporal semantics, Draft 5.0, May 2005, for comments. (PostScript)(PDF)
Wide-Coverage Semantic Representations from a CCG Parser(2004)(with Johan Bos, Stephen Clark, James R. Curran and Julia Hockenmaier), in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING '04) , Geneva, Switzerland (PDF)
Object-Extraction and Question-Parsing using CCG(2004)(with Stephen Clark and James Curran), in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Barcelona, 111 - 118. (PDF)
Where Does Compositionality Come From?(2004), to appear in Compositional Connectionism in Cognitive Science, Papers from the 2004 AAAI Fall Symposium, Technical report FS-04-03, 59-62, AAAI Press. (PDF)(PS)
Corrected Co-training for Statistical Parsers(2003)(with Rebecca Hwa, Miles Osborne and Anoop Sarkar), in Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Workshop "The Continuum from Labeled to Unlabeled Data", Washington DC, 2003, 95-102 (PS)
Example Selection for Bootstrapping Statistical Parsers(2003)(with Rebecca Hwa, Stephen Clark, Miles Osborne, Anoop Sarkar , Julia Hockenmaier, Paul Ruhlen, Steven Baker and Jeremiah Crim), in Proceedings of the Joint Conference of Human Language Technologies and the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Edmonton, Canada, 236-243. (PDF)
Bootstrapping Statistical Parsers from Small Datasets(2003)(with Miles Osborne, Anoop Sarkar, Stephen Clark, Rebecca Hwa, Julia Hockenmaier, Paul Ruhlen, Steven Baker and Jeremiah Crim), in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the European Chapter of the ACL, Budapest, Hungary, 331-338 (PDF)
Using APML to Specify Intonation (2004), Unpublished Tutorial Paper. (PostScript)(PDF)
CLSP WS-02 Final Report: Semi-Supervised Training for Statistical Parsing (2003), (with Steven Baker, Stephen Clark, Jay Crim, Julia Hockenmaier, Rebecca Hwa, Miles Osborne, Paul Ruhlen, and Anoop Sarkar), (PostScript)(PDF)
Discourse and Information Structure, (with Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, 2003), Journal of Logic, Language and Information, Vol. 12, 249-259. (PostScript)(PDF)
Generative Models for Statistical Parsing with Combinatory Grammars, (with Julia Hockenmaier, 2002), Proceedings of the 40th Meeting of the ACL, Philadelphia, 335-342. (PostScript)(PDF)
Building Deep Dependency Structures using a Wide-Coverage CCG Parser, (with Stephen Clark and Julia Hockenmaier, 2002), Proceedings of the 40th Meeting of the ACL, Philadelphia, 327-334. (PostScript)(PDF)
Information-Structural Semantics for English Intonation, (2003), Paper to LSA Summer Institute Workshop on Topic and Focus, Santa Barbara July 2001, Draft 2.2, to appear in Chungmin Lee et al., (eds.), 2007 Topic and Focus: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Meaning and Intonation. Springer, Dordrecht, 245-264.. (PostScript)(PDF)
Plans, Affordances, and Combinatory Grammar, (2002), Draft 2 May 17th---a revised version is to appear in Linguistics and Philosophy, 25. (PostScript)(PDF)
Formalizing Affordance, (2002), Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Fairfax VA, August, 834-839. (PostScript)(PDF)
Connectionist and Symbolic Representations of Language, (2002 revised article to appear in Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Nature Publishing Group, Macmillan. (PostScript)(PDF)
Information Structure and the Syntax-Phonology Interface, (2000), Draft 6.0 July 2000. A revised version is to appear in Linguistic Inquiry, 31.4, 649-689 (PostScript)
Alternating Quantifier Scope in CCG, Proceedings of 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, June 1999, 301-308. (PostScript)(PDF)
Connectionist Sentence Processing in Perspective, (1999), Draft 2.0. A revised version is to appear in Cognitive Science, 23, 615-634. (PostScript)
Categorial Grammar, (1999) A short encyclopedia entry for MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences, R. Wilson and F. Keil (eds.), attempting balance and doubtless pleasing no-one, least of all me. (PostScript)
Implications of Binding for Lexicalized Grammars To appear in Anne Abeill\'{e} and Owen Rambow, (eds.), 2000, Tree Adjoining Grammars: Formalisms, Linguistic Analysis, and Processing, CSLI Publications, Stanford CA., 283-301. (PostScript)
Does Grammar Make Use of Bound Variables? To appear in M. B\"ottner and W. Th\"ummel (eds.), 2000, Variable Free Semantics, Secolo, Osnabr\"uck, 200-209. (PostScript)
The Role of Prosody and Semantics in the Acquisition of Syntax, (1996) In James Morgan and Katherine Demuth, (eds.), Signal to Syntax, Erlbaum, NJ., 331-342. (PostScript)
Representing Discourse Information for Spoken Dialogue Generation (PostScript) Proceedings of International Symposium on Spoken Dialogue, International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (held in conjunction with ICSLP-96), Philadelphia Sept 1996, 89-92.
Temporality, (1997) In J. van Benthem and A. ter Meulen, (eds.), Handbook of Logic and Language, Elsevier North Holland, 1997, 895-935. (PostScript)---Subsumed by The Productions of time above.
Specifying Intonation from Context for Speech Synthesis, (1994), (with Scott Prevost) (PostScript) Speech Communication, 15, 1994, 139-153. (Speech files (for WAVES) can be found at ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/steedman/speech/)
Animated Conversation: Rule-based Generation of Facial Expressions, Gesture, and Spoken Intonation for Multiple Conversational Agents (with Justine Cassell, Catherine Pelachaud, Scott Prevost), Norm Badler, Brett Douville, and Matthew Stone. (PostScript) Computer Graphics (SIGRAPH '94), 1994, 413-420.
The Blues and the Abstract Truth: Music and Mental Models ,(1996), (PostScript) In A. Garnham and J. Oakhill, (eds.), Mental Models In Cognitive Science. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum 1996, 305-318.
The Well-Tempered Computer, (1994), (PostScript)(pdf) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, 349, 1994, 115-131.
Helmholtz' and Longuet-Higgins' Theories of Consonance and Harmony (PostScript)(PDF) Unpublished Tutorial Paper
Syntax, Intonation and `Focus', (1991) In Ewan Klein and Frank Veltman, (eds.), Natural Language and Speech Erlbaum, NJ, 331-342. (PostScript)
Structure and Intonation, (1991) Language, 67, 260-296. (pdf)
Type-Raising and Directionality in Combinatory Grammar, (1991) Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Berkeley CA, 71-79. (PDF)
Gapping as Constituent Coordination, (1990) A revised version appears in Linguistics and Philosophy, 13, 207-264. (PostScript)
(With Marc Moens) Temporal Ontology and Temporal Reference, (1988) Computational Linguistics, 14, 15-28. (PDF)
(With Marc Moens) Temporal Ontology in Natural Language, (1987) Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Stanford CA, 1-7. (PDF)

Talks
Coordination and the Theory of Grammar, (2000), Slides for a talk on syntax, Tokyo, September 2000. (PostScript)
The Productions of Time, (2000), Slides for a talk on temporal semantics and knowledge representation, given at Sinn und Bedeutung VI, Osnabrueck, October, 2001. (PostScript)
Formal Grammars for Computational Musical Analysis, (2004), Slides for a talk on music, Music Informatics and Cognition Workshop, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast, April 2004. (PostScript)(PDF)
Intonation, Grammar, and Spoken Language Processing, (2002), Slides for a talk on intonation in speech recognition and production, Toronto, Mar 2002. (PostScript)(PDF)
(with Stephen Clark and Julia Hockenmaier) Parsing with CCG, (2002), Slides for a tutorial on wide-coverage statistical parsing for CCG, CLSP Summer Workshop, July-August, 2002. (PostScript)(PDF)
(with Steven Baker, Stephen Clark, Jay Crim, Julia Hockenmaier, Rebecca Hwa, Miles Osborne, Paul Ruhlen, and Anoop Sarkar) Semi-Supervised Training for Statistical Parsing, (2002), Slides for Final Presentation of a Project on Co-Training carried out at CLSP Summer Workshop, July-August, 2002. (PDF)
(with others) Combinatory Categorial Grammars for Robust Natural Language Processing (2009), Slides for EACL tutorial, Athens, April, 2009. (PostScript)(PDF)
Formal Grammar and Psycholinguistic Theory (2009), Slides for a Keynote talk, IX Simposio de Psicoling\"u\'{\i}stica, Santiago de Compostela, April, 2009. (PostScript)(PDF)