Selected publications related to Discourse Processing:

• Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber.
  Realization of Discourse Relations by Other Means: Alternative Lexicalizations
  Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010). Beijing, China, August 2010
• Bonnie Webber, Marcus Egg and Valia Kordoni.
  Discourse Structure: Theory, Practice and Use Tutorial presented at ACL 2010, Uppsala, July 2010.
• Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber.
  Exploiting Scope for Shallow Discourse Parsing
  Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010). Valletta, Malta, May 2010
• Bonnie Webber.
  Genre distinctions for discourse in the Penn TreeBank
  Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. Singapore, August 2009. (The lists of files comprising each genre used in the experiments can be found here, along with corresponding lists based on meta-data found in the ACL/DCI 1989 WSJ corpus.)
• Alan Lee, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber.
  Departures from Tree Structures in Discourse: Shared Arguments in the Penn Discourse Treebank
  Proceedings of the Constraints in Discourse III Workshop. Potsdam, Germany, July-August 2008.
• Bonnie Webber and Rashmi Prasad.
  Sentence-Initial Discourse Connectives, Discourse Structure and Semantics
  Proceedings of the Workshop on Formal and Experimental Approaches to Discourse Particles and Modal Adverbs. Hamburg, Germany, August 2008.
• Rashmi Prasad, Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, Eleni Miltsakaki, Livio Robaldo, Aravind Joshi, and Bonnie Webber.
  The Penn Discourse Treebank 2.0.
  Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008).
• Rashmi Prasad, Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber.
  Attribution and its Annotation in the Penn Discourse TreeBank
  Traitement Automatique des Langues, Special Issue on Computational Approaches to Document and Discourse, Vol.47, n.2.
• Katherine Forbes-Riley, Bonnie Webber and Aravind Joshi.
  Computing Discourse Semantics: The Predicate-Argument Semantics of Discourse Connectives in D-LTAG
  Journal of Semantics, 23(1), February 2006.
• Alan Lee, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi, Nikhil Dinesh and Bonnie Webber.
  Complexity of Dependencies in Discourse: Are Dependencies in Discourse More Complex Than in Syntax?
  Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories. Prague, Czech Republic. December 2006.
• Bonnie Webber.
  Accounting for Discourse Relations: Constituency and Dependency. In M. Butt, M. Dalrymple and T. King, Intelligent Linguistic Architectures, Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2006, pp. 339-360.
• Aravind Joshi, Rashmi Prasad and Bonnie Webber.
  Discourse Annotation: Discourse Connectives and Discourse Relations
  Tutorial at the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, Australia. July 2006.
• Eleni Miltsakaki, Nikhil Dinesh, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber.
  Experiments on Sense Annotations and Sense Disambiguation of Discourse Connectives
  Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT2005), Barcelona, Spain. December 2005.
• Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, Eleni Miltsakaki, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber.
  Attribution and the (Non)-Alignment of Syntactic and Discourse Arguments of Connectives
  Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus Annotation II: Pie in the Sky. Ann Arbor MI. June 2005.
• Bonnie Webber.
  DLTAG: Extending Lexicalized TAG to Discourse. Cognitive Science 28:751-779, 2004.
• Bonnie Webber, Matthew Stone, Aravind Joshi and Alistair Knott.
  Anaphora and Discourse Structure. Computational Linguistics, 29(4), pp. 545-587, 2003.
• Matthew Stone, Christine Doran, Bonnie Webber, Tonia Bleam and Martha Palmer.
  Microplanning with Communicative Intentions: The SPUD System. Computational Intelligence 2003.
• Katherine Forbes, Eleni Miltsakaki, Rashmi Prasad, Anoop Sarkar, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber.
  D-LTAG System: Discourse parsing with a lexicalized tree-adjoining grammar. In ESSLLI'2001 Workshop on Information Structure, Discourse Structure and Discourse Semantics, Helsinki, Finland, August 2001.
• Bonnie Webber.
  Computational Perspectives on Discourse and Dialogue. In Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen and Heidi Hamilton (eds.), The Handbook of Discourse Analysis, Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 2001.
• Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova and Bonnie Webber.
  Concession, Implicature and Alternative Sets. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-4), Tilburg, January 2001.
• Gann Bierner and Bonnie Webber.
  Inference through Alternative-Set Semantics. Journal of Language and Computation 1(2), Spring 2000, 259--274. (Extended version of paper presented at the International Workshop on Computational Semantics (ICoS-99). Amsterdam, August 1999, pp. 39-52.)
• Bonnie Webber, Alistair Knott, Matthew Stone and Aravind Joshi.
  What are Little Texts Made of? A Structural and Presuppositional Account using Lexicalised TAG. International Workshop on Levels of Representation in Discourse (LORID'99), University of Edinburgh, July 1999.
• Bonnie Webber, Alistair Knott, Matthew Stone and Aravind Joshi.
  Discourse Relations: A Structural and Presuppositional Account using Lexicalised TAG. 1999 Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, College Park MD, June 1999.
• Bonnie Webber, Alistair Knott and Aravind Joshi.
  Multiple Discourse Connectives in a Lexicalized Grammar for Discourse. Third International Workshop on Computational Semantics, Tilburg, The Netherlands, January 1999. (This is an updated version, for the collected papers of the conference editted by Harry Bunt.)
• Matthew Stone and Bonnie Webber.
  Textual Economy through Close Coupling of Syntax and Semantics. International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, August 1998.
• Bonnie Webber and Aravind Joshi.
  Anchoring a Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar for Discourse. ACL/COLING Workshop on Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers, Montreal, Canada, 15 August 1998.
• Dan Cristea and Bonnie Webber.
  Expectations in Incremental Discourse Processing. Proc. 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Comptutational Linguistics, Madrid, July 1997.
• Barbara Di Eugenio and Bonnie Webber.
  Pragmatic Overloading in Natural Language Instructions. International Journal of Expert Systems, 1996.
• Bonnie Webber.
  Instructing Animated Agents: Viewing Language in Behavioral Terms.. Proc. International Conference on Cooperative Multi-modal Communication, Eindhoven, Netherlands, May 1995.
• Bonnie Webber.
  Do Nothing 'Till You Hear from Me: Language and Perception. 1995 AAAI Fall Symposium on Embodied Language and Action, Cambridge MA, November 1995.
• Bonnie Webber.
  Structure and Ostension in the Interpretation of Discourse Deixis. Natural Language and Cognitive Processes 6(2), January 1991, pp. 107-135.
• Bonnie Webber and Barbara Di Eugenio.
  Free Adjuncts in Natural Language Instructions, Proceedings COLING-90, Helsinki, Finland, August 1990.

• Webber, B.L., Carberry, S., Clarke, J.R., Gertner, A., Harvey, T., Rymon, R., Washington, R.
  Exploiting Multiple Goals and Intentions in Decision Support for the Management of Multiple Trauma: A Review of the TraumAID Project. Artificial Intelligence 105 (1998), pp. 263-293.
• Abigail Gertner, Bonnie Webber and John R. Clarke.
  On-Line Quality Assurance in the Initial Definitive Management of Multiple Trauma: Evaluating System Potential. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 9:261-282, 1997.
• Abigail Gertner and Bonnie Webber.
  A Bias towards Relevance:Recognizing plans where goal minimization fails. Proceedings of the 13th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Portland, OR. August 1996.
• Abigail Gertner and Bonnie Webber.
  Reasoning about plans for effective communication of decision support. in Proc. AAAI Spring Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Applications of Current Technologies Stanford, CA. March 1996.
• Clarke, J.R., Webber, B.L., Gertner, A., Kaye, J., Rymon, R.
  On-line Decision Support for Emergency Trauma Management. Electronic poster session for the Eighteenth Symposium on Computer Applications for Medical Care (SCAMC-94), November 1994, p.1028.
• Gertner, A., Webber, B.L. and Clarke, J.R.,br> Upholding the Maxim of Relevance during Patient-Centered Activities Proc. 4th Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, Stuttgart, Germany, October 1994.

Publications related to both Language Processing and Medical Informatics:

• Alison Cawsey, Bonnie Webber and Ray Jones. Natural Language Generation in Healthcare . Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 4(6), November-December 1997, pp. 473-482.