I am a research fellow in the Human Communication Research Centre and the Institute for Communicating and Collaborating Systems at the University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics. I completed my doctorate at the Intelligent Systems Program at the University of Pittsburgh. I have a masters in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh and a bachelors in Computer Science from the College of Wooster in Ohio.

If you'd like to know more about my professional career up to this point, here is my (slightly outdated) C.V.

I am interested in computational linguistics and natural language processing, in particular, using corpus-based and empirical methods to learn about and to develop systems for processing human language. My research focuses on subjectivity analysis, recognizing and characterizing opinions, sentiments, and emotions in text.

My Ph.D Dissertation, Fine-grained Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis: Recognizing the Intensity, Polarity, and Attitudes of Private States, is available here.

Sebastian Germesin and Theresa Wilson (2009). Agreement Detection in Multiparty conversation. To appear at ICMI-MLMI 2009.

Theresa Wilson, Janyce Wiebe, and Paul Hoffmann (2009). Recognizing Contextual Polarity: An exploration of features for phrase-level sentiment analysis. Computational Linguistics, 35:3, pages 399-433.

Stephan Raaijmakers, Khiet Troung, and Theresa Wilson (2008). Multimodal Subjectivity Analysis of Multiparty Conversation. Proceedings of EMNLP 2008.

Theresa Wilson and Stephan Raaijmakers (2008). Comparing word, character, and phoneme n-grams for subjective utterance recognition. Proceedings of Interspeech 2008.

Andrei Popescu-Belis, Erik Boertjes, Jonathan Kilgour, Peter Poller, Sandro Castronovo, Theresa Wilson, Alejandro Jaimes, and Jean Carletta (2008). The AMIDA Automatic Content Linking Device: Just-in-Time Document Retrieval in Meetings. Proceedings of 5th Joint Workshop on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction (MLMI-08)

Theresa Wilson (2008). Annotating Subjective Content in Meetings. Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC-2008). Here is a corrected version.

Sharon Givon and Theresa Wilson (2008). An Automatic Classification of Book Texts to User-Defined Tags. Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-2008).

Swapna Somasundaran, Theresa Wilson, Janyce Wiebe and Veselin Stoyanov (2007). QA with Attitude: Exploiting Opinion Type Analysis for Improving Question Answering in On-line Discussions and the News. Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-2007).

Wei-Hao Lin, Theresa Wilson, Janyce Wiebe and Alexander Hauptmann (2006). Which Side are You on? Identifying Perspectives at the Document and Sentence Levels. Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-X).

Theresa Wilson, Janyce Wiebe and Rebecca Hwa (2006). Recognizing strong and weak opinion clauses. Computational Intelligence, 22 (2), pp. 73-99.

Theresa Wilson, Janyce Wiebe and Paul Hoffmann (2005). Recognizing Contextual Polarity in Phrase-Level Sentiment Analysis. Proceedings of Human Language Technologies Conference/Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP 2005), Vancouver, Canada.

• Our coding manual for annotating contextual polarity is here.
• To download the version of the MPQA Opinion Corpus with contextual polarity judgments follow this link.

Janyce Wiebe, Theresa Wilson and Claire Cardie (2005). Annotating expressions of opinions and emotions in language. Language Resources and Evaluation, volume 39, issue 2-3, pp. 165-210.

Theresa Wilson and Janyce Wiebe (2005). Annotating Attributions and Private States. Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus Annotation II: Pie in the Sky, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Janyce Wiebe, Theresa Wilson, Rebecca Bruce, Matthew Bell, Melanie Martin (2004). Learning Subjective Language. Computational Linguistics 30 (3).

Theresa Wilson, Janyce Wiebe, and Rebecca Hwa (2004). Just how mad are you? Finding strong and weak opinion clauses. Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2004).

Claire Cardie, Janyce Wiebe, Theresa Wilson, and Diane Litman (2004). Low Level Annotations and Summary Representations of Opinions for Multi-Perspective Question Answering. In New Directions in Question Answering, Mark Maybury, editor. AAAI Press: Menlo Park, California.

Theresa Wilson and Janyce Wiebe (2003). Annotating Opinions in the World Press (revised). 4th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial-03).

Ellen Riloff, Janyce Wiebe, and Theresa Wilson (2003). Learning Subjective Nouns Using Extraction Pattern Bootstrapping. Seventh Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-03). ACL SIGNLL.

Janyce Wiebe, Eric Breck, Chris Buckley, Claire Cardie, Paul Davis, Bruce Fraser, Diane Litman, David Pierce, Ellen Riloff, Theresa Wilson, David Day, Mark Maybury (2003). Recognizing and Organizing Opinions Expressed in the World Press. 2003 AAAI Spring Symposium on New Directions in Question Answering.

Claire Cardie, Janyce Wiebe, Theresa Wilson, and Diane Litman (2003). Combining Low-Level and Summary Representations of Opinions for Multi-Perspective Question Answering. 2003 AAAI Spring Symposium on New Directions in Question Answering.

Janyce Wiebe and Theresa Wilson (2002). Learning to disambiguate potentially subjective expressions. Sixth Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2002). ACL SIGNLL. Taipei, Taiwan, August 2002.

Janyce Wiebe, Rebecca Bruce, Matthew Bell, Melanie Martin, and Theresa Wilson (2001). A Corpus Study of Evaluative and Speculative Language. Proceedings of the 2nd ACL SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue (SigDIAL-2001). Aalborg, Denmark, September 2001.

Janyce Wiebe, Theresa Wilson and Matthew Bell (2001). Identifying Collocations for Recognizing Opinions. Proceedings of the ACL 01 Workshop on Collocation. Toulouse, France, July 2001.