NLP@Pitt

2007

• Kate Forbes-Riley and Diane J. Litman (2007). Investigating Human Tutor Responses to Student Uncertainty for Adaptive System Development.Proceedings Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), Lisbon, Portugal, September..
• Hua Ai and Diane J. Litman (2007). Knowledge Consistent User Simulations for Dialog Systems. Proceeding Interspeech, Antwerp, Belgium, August.
• Hua Ai, Joel R. Tetreault, and Diane J. Litman (2007). Comparing User Simulation Models for Dialog Strategy Learning. Proceedings Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), Rochester, NY, April.
• Joshua Albrecht and Rebecca Hwa (2007). A Re-examination of Machine Learning Approaches for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation. To appear in the Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the ACL, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Joshua Albrecht and Rebecca Hwa ( 2007). Regression for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation with Pseudo References. To appear in the Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the ACL, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Carmen Banea , Rada Mihalcea and Janyce Wiebe (2007). Learning Multilingual Subjective Language via Cross-Lingual Projections (will be available soon). ACL-2007
• Kate Forbes-Riley and Diane J. Litman (2007).Analyzing Dependencies Between Student Certainness States and Tutor Responses in a Spoken Dialogue Corpus. Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue, Laila Dybkjaer and Wolfgang Minker (eds.), Springer (to appear).
• Kate Forbes-Riley, Diane Litman, Amruta Purandare, Mihai Rotaru, and Joel Tetreault (2007). Comparing Linguistic Features for Modeling Learning in Computer Dialogue Tutoring. Proceedings 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) Los Angeles, CA, July.
• Kate Forbes-Riley, Mihai Rotaru, and Diane J. Litman (2007). The Relative Impact of Student Affect on Performance Models in a Spoken Dialogue Tutoring System. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (Special Issue on Affective Modeling and Adaptation) (to appear).
• Kate Forbes-Riley, Mihai Rotaru, Diane J. Litman and Joel Tetreault (2007). Exploring Affect-Context Dependencies for Adaptive System Development. Proceedings Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), Rochester, NY, April (late-breaking news award).
• Kaihong Liu, Wendy Chapman, Rebecca Hwa, and Rebecca Crowley (2007). Heuristic Sample Selection to Minimize Reference Standard Training Set for a Part-of-Speech Tagger. To appear in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
• Markos Mylonakis, Khalil Sima'an, and Rebecca Hwa (2007). Unsupervised Estimation for Noisy-Channel Models. To appear in Proceedings of International Conference of Machine Learning (ICML), Corvallis, Oregon.
• Mihai Rotaru and Diane J. Litman (2007). The Utility of a Graphical Representation of Discourse Structure in Spoken Dialogue Systems. Proceedings 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Prague, Czech Republic, June.
• 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, International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media(ICWSM) March 26-28, 2007, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
• Joel R.Tetreault, Dan Bohus, and Diane J. Litman (2007). Estimating the Reliability of MDP Policies: A Confidence Interval Approach. Proceedings Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), Rochester, NY, April.
• Arthur Ward and Diane Litman (2007).Dialog Convergence and Learning. Proceedings 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Los Angeles, CA, July.

2006

• Hua Ai and Diane Litman (2006). Comparing Real-Real, Simulated-Simulated, and Simulated-Real Spoken Dialogue Corpora. Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Statistical and Empirical Approaches for Spoken Dialogue Systems, Boston, MA.
• Hua Ai, Diane Litman, Kate Forbes-Riley, Mihai Rotaru, Joel Tetreault, and Amruta Purandare (2006). Using System and User Performance Features to Improve Emotion Detection in Spoken Tutoring Dialogs. Proceedings of Interspeech 2006 ICSLP, Pittsburgh, PA.
• Kate Forbes-Riley and Diane Litman. 2006. Modelling User Satisfaction and Student Learning in a Spoken Dialogue Tutoring System with Generic, Tutoring, and User Affect Parameters. Proceedings of the Human Language Technology/North American Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT/NAACL), New York City.
• Kate Forbes-Riley, Diane Litman, Scott Silliman and Joel Tetreault. 2006. Comparing Synthesized versus Pre-Recorded Tutor Speech in an Intelligent Tutoring Spoken Dialogue System. Proceedings 19th International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS), Melbourne Beach, Florida.
• 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).
• Diane J. Litman and Kate Forbes-Riley. 2006. Recognizing Student Emotions and Attitudes on the Basis of Utterances in Spoken Tutoring Dialogues with both Human and Computer Tutors. Speech Communication, 48(5): 559-590.
• Diane J. Litman and Kate Forbes-Riley. 2006. Correlations betweeen Dialogue Acts and Learning in Spoken Tutoring Dialogues. Natural Language Engineering, 12(2): 161-176.
• Diane Litman, Carolyn Penstein Rose, Kate Forbes-Riley, Kurt VanLehn, Dumisizwe Bhembe and Scott Silliman. Spoken Versus Typed Human and Computer Dialogue Tutoring. 2006. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 16: 145-170.
• Greg Nicholas, Mihai Rotaru, and Diane J. Litman.Exploiting Word-level Features for Emotion Prediction. Proceedings of IEEE/ACL Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT). Aruba.
• Amruta Purandare and Diane Litman Humor: Prosody Analysis and Automatic Recognition for F * R * I * E * N * D * S * Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2006 (EMNLP), Sydney, Australia.
• Jason Riesa, Behrang Mohit, Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu, 2006. Building an English-Iraqi Arabic Machine Translation System for Spoken Utterances with Limited Resources. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech 2006), Pittsburgh, USA 2006
• Mihai Rotaru and Diane J. Litman. 2006. Discourse Structure and Speech Recognition Problems. Proceedings of Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, USA.
• Mihai Rotaru and Diane J. Litman. 2006. Exploiting Discourse Structure for Spoken Dialogue Performance Analysis. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Sydney, Australia.
• Mihai Rotaru and Diane J. Litman. 2006. Dependencies between Student State and Speech Recognition Problems in Spoken Tutoring Dialogues. Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics (Coling/ACL), Sydney, Australia.
• Swapna Somasundaran, Janyce Wiebe, Paul Hoffmann, and Diane Litman. 2006. Manual Annotation of Opinion Categories in Meetings. ACL Workshop: Frontiers in Linguistically Annotated Corpora(Coling/ACL 2006), Sydney, Australia.
• Joel Tetreault and Diane Litman. 2006. Using Reinforcement Learning to Build a Better Model of Dialogue State. Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), Trento, Italy.
• Joel Tetreault and Diane Litman. 2006. Comparing the Utility of State Features in Spoken Dialogue Using Reinforcement Learning. To appear in the Proceedings of the Human Language Technology/North American Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT/NAACL '06). New York City.
• Arthur Ward and Diane Litman. 2006. Cohesion and Learning in a Tutorial Spoken Dialog System Proceedings 19th International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS), Melbourne Beach, Florida.
• Janyce Wiebe and Rada Mihalcea. 2006. Word sense and subjectivity. COLING-ACL-2006.
• Theresa Wilson, Janyce Wiebe and Rebecca Hwa (2006). Recognizing strong and weak opinion clauses. Computational Intelligence, 22 (2), pp. 73-99.

2005

• Kate Forbes-Riley and Diane Litman. Correlating Student Acoustic-Prosodic Profiles with Student Learning in Spoken Tutoring Dialogues. Proceedings 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Interspeech-2005/Eurospeech), Lisbon, Portugal.
• Kate Forbes-Riley and Diane J. Litman. Using Bigrams to Identify Relationships Between Student Certainness States and Tutor Responses in a Spoken Dialogue Corpus. Proceedings of 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Kate Forbes-Riley, Diane Litman, Alison Huettner and Arthur Ward. Dialogue-Learning Correlations in Spoken Dialogue Tutoring. Proceedings 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Education (AIED), Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• Rebecca Hwa, Philip Resnik, Amy Weinberg, Clara Cabezas, and Okan Kolak. 2005. Bootstrapping Parsers via Syntactic Projection across Parallel Texts. Special Issue of the Journal of Natural Language Engineering on Parallel Texts, Eds. Rada Mihalcea and Michel Simard. 11:3, pp. 311-325.
• Diane Litman and Kate Forbes-Riley. Speech Recognition Performance and Learning in Spoken Dialogue Tutoring. Proceedings 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Interspeech-2005/Eurospeech), Lisbon, Portugal.
• Behrang Mohit and Rebecca Hwa. Syntax-based Semi-Supervised Named Entity Tagging. Proceedings of the ACL 2005 (companion volume), Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• Carol Nichols and Rebecca Hwa. Word Alignment and Cross-Lingual Resource Acquisition. Proceedings of the ACL 2005 (companion volume), Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• Mihai Rotaru and Diane J. Litman. Improving Question Answering for Reading Comprehension Tests by Combining Multiple Systems. Proceedings of the AAAI 2005 Workshop on Question Answering in Restricted Domains, Pittsburgh, PA.
• Mihai Rotaru and Diane J. Litman. Using Word-level Pitch Features to Better Predict Student Emotions during Spoken Tutoring Dialogues. Proceedings 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Interspeech-2005/Eurospeech), Lisbon, Portugal.
• Mihai Rotaru, Diane J. Litman, and Katherine Forbes-Riley. Interactions between Speech Recognition Problems and User Emotions. Proceedings 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Interspeech-2005/Eurospeech), Lisbon, Portugal.
• Arthur Ward and Diane Litman. Predicting Learning in Tutoring with the Landscape Model of Memory. Proceedings of the ACL Second Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using Natural Language Processing, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• Janyce Wiebe, Theresa Wilson and Claire Cardie. 2005. Annotating expressions of opinions and emotions in language. Language Resources and Evaluation (formerly Computers and the Humanities), 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.
• 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.
• Janyce Wiebe and Ellen Riloff. 2005. Creating subjective and objective sentence classifiers from unannotated texts. Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing-2005) [Invited talk by Ellen Riloff]
• Veselin Stoyanov, Claire Cardie, and Janyce Wiebe. 2005. Multi-Perspective Question Answering Using the OpQA Corpus. HLT-EMNLP-2005.
• Ellen Riloff, Janyce Wiebe, and William Phillips. 2005. Exploiting subjectivity classification to improve information extraction. Proc. 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2005).
• Chenhai Xi and Rebecca Hwa. A Backoff Model for Bootstrapping Resources for Non-English Languages. In The Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP-05, Vancouver, Canada. (NB: this version has a few typos corrected).

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.
• Kate Forbes-Riley and Diane Litman. 2004. Predicting Emotion in Spoken Dialogue from Multiple Knowledge Sources. Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference: 4th Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT/NAACL), Boston, MA.
• Julia Hirschberg, Diane Litman, and Marc Swerts. Prosodic and Other Cues to Speech Recognition Failures. Speech Communication, Volume 43, Issues 1-2, June 2004, Pages 155-175.
• Rebecca Hwa. 2004. Sample selection for statistical parsing. Computational Linguistics vol. 30, number 3.
• Diane Litman and Kate Forbes-Riley. 2004. Annotating Student Emotional States in Spoken Tutoring Dialogues. Proceedings of 5th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Boston, MA.
• Diane J. Litman and Kate Forbes-Riley. 2004. Predict ing Student Emotions in Computer-Human Tutoring Dialogues. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Barcelon, Spain.
• Diane J. Litman, Carolyn P. Rose, Kate Forbes-Riley, Kurt VanLehn, Dumisizwe Bhembe, and Scott Silliman. 2004. Spoken Versus Typed Human and Computer Dialogue Tutoring. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), Maceio, Brazil.
• Diane Litman and Scott Silliman. 2004. ITSPOKE: An Intelligent Tutoring Spoken Dialogue System. Companion Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference: 4th Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT/NAACL), Boston, MA.
• Beatriz Maeireizo, Diane Litman and Rebecca Hwa.  2004. Co-training for Predicting Emotions with Spoken Dialogue Data.  Companion Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, Spain.
• Ves Stoyanov, Claire Cardie, Diane Litman, and Janyce Wiebe. 2004. Evaluating an Opinion Annotation Scheme Using a New Multi-Perspective Question and Answer Corpus. Working Notes - Exploring Attitude and Affect in Text: Theories and Applications (AAAI Spring Symposium Series), Stanford, CA.
• 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).

2003

• Claire Cardie, Janyce Wiebe, Theresa Wilson and Diane Litman. 2003. Combining Low-Level and Summary Representations of Opinions for Multi-Perspective Question Answering. Working Notes - New Directions in Question Answering (AAAI Spring Symposium Series), Stanford, CA.
• Bonnie Dorr, Necip Fazil Ayan, Nizar Habash, Nitin Madnani, and Rebecca Hwa. Rapid Porting of DUSTer to Hindi, ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), 2:3, 2003.
• Rebecca Hwa, Miles Osborne, Anoop Sarkar, and Mark Steedman. Corrected Co-training for Statistical Parsers. Proceedings of the Workshop on the Continuum from Labeled to Unlabeled Data in Machine Learning and Data Mining, International Conference of Machine Learning, Washington D.C., 2003.
• Diane Litman and Kate Forbes. 2003. Recognizing Emotions from Student Speech in Tutoring Dialogues. Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.
• Diane Litman, Kate Forbes, and Scott Silliman. 2003. Towards Emotion Prediction in Spoken Tutoring Dialogues. Companion Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference: 3rd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT/NAACL), Edmonton, Canada.
• Ellen Riloff and Janyce Wiebe. 2003. Learning Extraction Patterns for Subjective Expressions. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-03), pages 105-112, Sapporo, Japan.
• Ellen Riloff, Janyce Wiebe, and Theresa Wilson. 2003. Learning Subjective Nouns Using Extraction Pattern Bootstrapping. Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), pages 25-32, Edmonton, Canada.
• Carolyn P. Rose, Diane Litman, Dumisizwe Bhembe, Kate Forbes, Scott Silliman, Ramesh Srivastava, and Kurt VanLehn. 2003. A Comparison of Tutor and Student Behavior in Speech Versus Text Based Tutoring . Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using Natural Language Processing, Edmonton, Canada.
• Mihai Rotaru and Diane J. Litman. 2003. Exceptionality and Natural Language Learning. Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), Edmonton, Canada.
• Mark Steedman, Rebecca Hwa, Stephen Clark, Miles Osborne, Anoop Sarkar, Julia Hockenmaier, Paul Ruhlen, Steven Baker, and Jeremiah Crim. 2003. Example Selection for Bootstrapping Statistical Parsers. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Edmonton, Canada.
• Mark Steedman, Miles Osborne, Anoop Sarkar, Stephen Clark, Rebecca Hwa, Julia Hockenmaier, Paul Ruhlen, Steven Baker, and Jeremiah Crim. 2003. Bootstrapping Statistical Parsers from Small Datasets. Proceedings of the Tenth Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL, Budapest, Hungary.
• Janyce Wiebe, Eric Breck, Chris Buckley, Claire Cardie, Paul Davis, Bruce Fraser, Diane Litman, David Pierce, Ellen Riloff, Theresa Wilson, David Day, and Mark Maybury. 2003. Recognizing and Organizing Opinions Expressed in the World Press, Working Notes - New Directions in Question Answering (AAAI Spring Symposium Series), Stanford, CA.
• Theresa Wilson and Janyce Wiebe. 2003. Annotating Opinions in the World Press. Proceedings of 4th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial-03), pages 13-22, Sapporo, Japan.

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