Mirella Lapata

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Journal Papers
  1. James Clarke and Mirella Lapata. 2010. Discourse Constraints for Document Compression. Computational Linguistics, 36(3), 411--441.

  2. Jeff Mitchell and Mirella Lapata. 2010. Composition in Distributional Models of Semantics. To appear in Cognitive Science.

  3. Roberto Navigli and Mirella Lapata. 2010. An Experimental Study of Graph Connectivity for Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation. In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 32(4), 678--692.

  4. Sebastian Padó and Mirella Lapata. 2009. Cross-lingual Annotation Projection of Semantic Roles. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 36, 307--340.

  5. Trevor Cohn and Mirella Lapata. 2009. Sentence Compression as Tree Transduction. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 34, 637-674.

  6. Trevor Cohn, Chris Callison-Burch and Mirella Lapata. 2008. Constructing Corpora for Development and Evaluation of Paraphrase Systems. Computational Linguistics, 34(4), 597-614.

  7. James Clarke and Mirella Lapata. 2008. Global Inference for Sentence Compression: An Integer Linear Programming Approach. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 31, 273-318.

  8. Regina Barzilay and Mirella Lapata. 2008. Modeling Local Coherence: An Entity-based Approach.Computational Linguistics. 34:1, 1-34.

  9. Sebastian Padó and Mirella Lapata. 2007. Dependency-based Construction of Semantic Space Models. Computational Linguistics, 33:2, 161-199.

  10. Scheepers, Christoph, Frank Keller, and Mirella Lapata. 2007. Evidence for Serial Coercion: A Time Course Analysis Using the Visual-World Paradigm. Cognitive Psychology, 56:1, 1-29.

  11. Mirella Lapata. 2006. Automatic Evaluation of Information Ordering: Kendall's Tau. Computational Linguistics 32:4, 471-484.

  12. Mirella Lapata and Alex Lascarides. 2006. Learning Sentence-internal Temporal Relations. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 27, 85-117.

  13. Sporleder, Caroline and Mirella Lapata. 2006. Broad Coverage Paragraph Segmentation across Languages and Domains. ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing 3:2, 1-35.

  14. Mirella Lapata, and Frank Keller. 2005. Web-based Models for Natural Language Processing. ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing 2:1, 1-31.

  15. Grover, Claire, Mirella Lapata, and Alex Lascarides. 2005. A Comparison of Parsing Technology for the Biomedical Domain. Natural Language Engineering 11:01, 27-65.

  16. Lapata, Mirella and Chris Brew. 2004. Verb Class Disambiguation Using Informative Priors. Computational Linguistics 30:1, 45-73.

  17. Lapata, Mirella, Frank Keller, and Christoph Scheepers. 2003. Intra-sentential Context Effects on the Interpretation of Logical Metonymy. Cognitive Science 27:4, 651-670.

  18. Keller, Frank and Mirella Lapata. 2003. Using the Web to Obtain Frequencies for Unseen Bigrams. Computational Linguistics 29:3, 459-484.

  19. Lapata, Maria and Alex Lascarides. 2003. A Probabilistic Account of Logical Metonymy. Computational Linguistics 29:2, 263-317.

  20. Lapata, Maria. 2002. The Disambiguation of Nominalisations. Computational Linguistics 28:3, 357-388.

  21. Lapata, Maria, 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.


Conference Papers
  1. Yansong Feng and Mirella Lapata. 2010. Visual Information in Semantic Representation. In Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 91-99. Los Angeles, CA.

  2. Yansong Feng and Mirella Lapata. 2010. Topic Models for Image Annotation and Text Illustration. In Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 831-839. Los Angeles, CA.

  3. Joel Lang and Mirella Lapata. 2010. Unsupervised Induction of Semantic Roles. In Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 939-947. Los Angeles, CA.

  4. 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.

  5. Hagen Fürstenau 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.

  6. 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.

  7. Hagen Fürstenau 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.

  8. Samuel Brody and Mirella Lapata. 2009. Bayesian Word Sense Induction. In Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL, 103--111. Athens, Greece.

  9. 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, 65--72. Manchester, UK.

  10. Trevor Cohn and Mirella Lapata. 2008. Sentence Compression Beyond Word Deletion. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 137--144. Manchester, UK.
  11. Jeff Mitchell and Mirella Lapata. 2008. Vector-based Models of Semantic Composition In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 236-244. Columbus, OH.

  12. Yansong Feng and Mirella Lapata. 2008. Automatic Image Annotation Using Auxiliary Text Information. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 272-280. Columbus, OH.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. Lapata, Mirella 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.

  18. 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.

  19. Sebastian Padó 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.

  20. 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 Association for Computational Linguistics, 97-104. Sydney, Australia.

  21. 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.

  22. 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.

  23. 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 of Computational Linguistics, 359-366. New York, NY.

  24. Sebastian Padó and Mirella Lapata. 2005. Cross-lingual projection of Role-semantic Information. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 859-866. Vancouver.

  25. Caroline Sporleder and Mirella Lapata. 2005. Discourse Chunking and its Application to Sentence Compression. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 257-264. Vancouver.

  26. Regina Barzilay and Mirella Lapata. 2005. Collective Content Selection for Concept-To-Text Generation. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 331-338. Vancouver.

  27. Sebastian Padó and Mirella Lapata. 2005. Cross-lingual Bootstrapping of Semantic Lexicons: The Case of FrameNet. In Proceedings of the 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Pittsburgh.

  28. 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.

  29. 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, MI.

  30. Sporleder, Caroline 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.

  31. Lapata, Mirella 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.

  32. Lapata, Mirella and Alex Lascarides. 2004. Inferring Sentence-internal Temporal Relations. In Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Assocation of Computational Linguistics, 153-160. Boston

  33. Mirella Lapata. 2003 Probabilistic Text Structuring: Experiments with Sentence Ordering. In Proceedings of the 41st Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 545-552. Sapporo.

  34. Sebastian Padó and Mirella Lapata. 2003 Constructing Semantic Space Models from Parsed Corpora. In Proceedings of the 41st Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 128-135. Sapporo.

  35. Mirella Lapata and Alex Lascarides. 2003 Detecting Novel Compounds: The Role of Distributional Evidence. In Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter for the Association of Computational Linguistics, 235-242. Budapest.

  36. 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.

  37. Keller, Frank, 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.

  38. Lapata, Maria. 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.

  39. Lapata, Maria, 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.

  40. Lapata, Maria. 2000. The Automatic Interpretation of Nominalizations. In Proceedings of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 716-721. Austin, TX.

  41. Lapata, Maria, 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.

  42. Lapata, Maria. 1999. Acquiring Lexical Generalizations from Corpora: A Case Study for Diathesis Alternation. In Proceedings of the 37th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 266-274. College Park, MD.

  43. Lapata, Maria. 1999. Corpus-Based Induction of Lexical Representation and Meaning. In Proceedings of the 16th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 948. Orlando, FL.

  44. Lapata, Maria 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, 397-404. College Park, MD.


PhD Thesis

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