Bonnie Webber's Home Page

"Gillian Parkin sighed. She was an intelligent, enthusiastic 24-year old, and it always depressed her when people hadn't heard of her thesis topic."
[Robert Barnard, A Gathering of Vultures]

This is me comparing apples and oranges at Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, where I lived for many years before moving to Edinburgh.

Address:

Bonnie Webber

Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation

School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh
10 Crichton Street
Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Scotland

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My most recent papers are:

• Reflections on the Penn Discourse TreeBank, Comparable Corpora and Complementary Annotation. Rashmi Prasad, Bonnie Webber and Aravind Joshi.
  Computational Linguistics, doi:10.1162/COLI_a_00204.
• What excludes an Alternative in Coherence Relations? Proc. 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics, Potsdam, Germany. March 2013.
• Structured and Unstructured Cache Models for Domain Adaptation. Annie Louis and Bonnie Webber.
  Proc. Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Gothenburg, Sweden, April 2014.
• Applying the semantics of negation to SMT through n-best list re-ranking. Federico Fancellu and Bonnie Webber. Proc. Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Gothenburg, Sweden, April 2014,
• Discourse Structure and Language Technology Bonnie Webber, Markus Egg and Valia Kordoni.
  Natural Language Engineering, 18(4), October 2012, pp. 437-490.
• Discourse Structure and Computation: Past, Present and Future. Bonnie Webber and Aravind Joshi.
  Proc. 50th Annual Meeting, Association for Computational Linguistics, Workshop on Rediscovering Fifty Years of Discoveries, Jeju Island, Korea. August 2012.

Pointers to other recent papers can be found here.

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Pointers to some of my favorite quotes can be found here.

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At Edinburgh, I work on discourse phenomena, collaborating on the development and use of the Penn Discourse TreeBank. I am also interested in discourse in the context of machine translation and the stability of language technology tools across changes in genre.

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My current PhD students are:

• Dominikus Wetzel
• Liane Guillou
• Silvia Pareti

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Recently graduated PhD students include:

• Philipp Petrenz
• Annette Leonhard, Chief Scientific Officer, Social Artisan Ltd
• Silke Scheible, Google, Ireland
• Michael Kaisser, AGT Group GmbH (Germany)
• Kisuh Ahn, Samsung Electronics (Korea)

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  For information about applying to study for an MSc or PhD degree in Informatics at Edinburgh, look here.

  Bonnie Webber / firstname.lastname at ed.ac.uk / revised October 2011