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Machine Translation

 

A New String-to-Dependency Machine Translation Algorithm with a Target Dependency Language Model [pdf, slides]

Libin Shen, Jinxi Xu and Ralph Weischedel

in Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Columbus, OH, USA, June 15 - 20, 2008.

 

 

Discriminative Reranking for Machine Translation [pdf, slides]

Libin Shen, Anoop Sarkar and Franz Josef Och

in Proceedings of Human Language Technology conference / North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting (HLT/NAACL). Boston, USA. May 2 - 7, 2004.

 

 

A Smorgasbord of Features for Statistical Machine Translation [pdf]

Franz Josef Och, Daniel Gildea, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Anoop Sarkar, Kenji Yamada, Alex Fraser, Shankar Kumar, Libin Shen, David Smith, Katherine Eng, Viren Jain, Zhen Jin and Dragomir Radev

in Proceedings of Human Language Technology conference / North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting (HLT/NAACL). Boston, USA. May 2 - 7, 2004.

 

 

Parsing

 

Incremental LTAG parsing [pdf, slides]

Libin Shen and Aravind K. Joshi

in Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference / Conference of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP). Vancouver, Canada. Oct. 6 - 8, 2005.

 

 

LTAG Based Features in Parse Reranking [pdf, slides]

Libin Shen, Anoop Sarkar and Aravind K. Joshi

in Proceedings of Conference of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Sapporo, Japan. July 11 - 12, 2003.

 

 

An SVM Based Voting Algorithm with Application to Parse Reranking [pdf, slides]

Libin Shen and Aravind K. Joshi

in Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL).Edmonton, Canada, May 31- June 1, 2003.

 

 
Chunking and Labelling

 

Guided Learning for Bidirectional Sequence Classification [pdf, slides]

Libin Shen, Giorgio Satta and Aravind K. Joshi

in Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Prague, Czech, June 24 - 29, 2007.

 

 

Discriminative Learning of Supertagging

Libin Shen

Book chapter to appear in Complexity of Lexical Descriptions and its Relevance to Natural Language Processing: A Supertagging Approach, Eds. Srinivas Bangalore and Aravind Joshi.

 

 

A SNoW Based Supertagger with Application to NP Chunking [pdf, slides]

Libin Shen and Aravind K. Joshi

in Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Sapporo, Japan. July 7 - 12, 2003.

 

 

Chinese Word Segmentation as LMR Tagging [pdf, slides]

Nianwen Xue and Libin Shen

in Proceedings of the 2nd ACL SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, Sapporo, Japan. July 11 - 12, 2003.

 

Machine Learning

Ranking and Reranking with Perceptron [pdf]

Libin Shen and Aravind K. Joshi

Machine Learning, Special Issue on Learning in Speech and Language Technologies, Volume 60, Numbers 1-3, pp 73-96, September 2005.

 

 

Flexible Margin Selection for Reranking with Full Pairwise Samples [pdf, slides]

Libin Shen and Aravind K. Joshi

in Proceedings of the 1st International Joint Conference of Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), LNAI Vol. 3248, pp 446-455. Hainan Island, China. March 22 - 24, 2004. 

 

 

Language Resources

 

LTAG-spinal and the Treebank: A new resource for incremental, dependency and semantic parsing [springer online, draft]

Libin Shen, Lucas Champollion and Aravind K. Joshi

Language Resources and Evaluation, Volume 42, Number 1, pp 1-19, March, 2008.

 

 

Issues in Synchronizing the English Treebank and Propbank [pdf]

Olga Babko-Malaya, Ann Bies, Ann Taylor, Szuting Yi, Martha Palmer, Mitch Marcus, Seth Kulick and Libin Shen

in Preceedings of Coling/ACL Workshop on Frontiers in Linguistically Annotated Corpora, Sydney, Australia. July 22, 2006.

 

 

Extracting Deeper Information from Richer Resource: EM Models for LTAG Treebank Induction [pdf, slides]

Libin Shen and Aravind K. Joshi

in IJCNLP Workshop: Beyond Shallow Analyses - Formalisms and Statistical Modeling for Deep Analyses. Hainan Island, China. March 21, 2004.

 

 

LTAG Derivation Tree Extraction [pdf]

Libin Shen

in Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms (TAG 7). Vancouver, Canada. May 20 - 22, 2004.


 

Dissertation


Statistical LTAG Parsing [pdf]

Libin Shen

Supervisor: Aravind K. Joshi

Defense: May 22, 2006