Computer Science Dept, University of Rochester, New York
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James F. Allen, Mary Swift and William de Beaumont. Deep Semantic Analysis for Text Processing. Symposium on Semantics in Systems for Text Processing (STEP 2008) Shared Task: Comparing Semantic Representations. Venice, Italy, September 22-24, 2008.
Mehdi Hafezi Manshadi, James Allen and Mary Swift. Toward a Universal Underspecifed Semantic Representation. Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Formal Grammar (FG 2008), Hamburg, Germany, August 9-10, 2008.
Carlos Gomez Gallo, T. Florian Jaeger, James Allen and Mary Swift. Production in a Multimodal Corpus: How Speakers Communicate Complex Actions. 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2008), Morocco, May 28-30, 2008.
Hyuckchul Jung, James Allen, Lucian Galescu, Nathanael Chambers, Mary Swift and William Taysom. Utilizing Natural Language for One-Shot Task Learning. Journal of Logic and Computation 18/3:475-493 , Oxford University Press, 2008.
Myroslava Dzikovska, James Allen, Mary Swift. Linking semantic and knowledge representations in a multi-domain dialogue system. Journal of Logic and Computation 18/3:405-430, Oxford University Press, 2008.
James Allen, Nathanael Chambers, George Ferguson, Lucian Galescu, Hyuckchul Jung, Mary Swift and William Taysom. PLOW: A Collaborative Task Learning Agent. In Proceedings of the 22nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), Vancouver, British Columbia, July 2007. Outstanding paper award winner.[pdf]
Gregory Aist, James Allen, Ellen Campana, Carlos Gomez-Gallo, Scott Stoness, Mary Swift and Michael Tanenhaus. Incremental dialogue system faster than and preferred to its nonincremental counterpart. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci-07), Nashville Tennessee, August 2007.
James Allen, Myroslava Dzikovska, Mehdi Manshadi, Mary Swift. Deep linguistic processing for spoken dialogue systems. Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Workshop on Deep Linguistic Processing, pp. 49-56, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007.
Gregory Aist, James Allen, Ellen Campana, Carlos Gomez-Gallo, Scott Stoness, Mary Swift and Michael Tanenhaus. Incremental understanding in human-computer dialogue and experimental evidence for advantages over nonincremental methods. In Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (DECALOG), Rovereto, Italy, May 30-1 June, 2007.
Carlos Gomez-Gallo, Gregory Aist, James Allen, William de Beaumont, Sergio Coria, Whitney Gegg-Harrison, Joana Paulo Pardal and Mary Swift . Annotating Continuous Understanding in a Multimodal Dialogue Corpus. In Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (DECALOG), Rovereto, Italy, May 30-1 June, 2007.
James Allen, Nathanael Chambers, George Ferguson, Lucian Galescu, Hyuckchul Jung, Mary Swift and William Taysom. Demonstration of PLOW: A Dialogue System for One-Shot Task Learning. In Proceedings of the NAACL Interactive Poster and Demonstration Sessions, at the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT-2007), Rochester, NY, April 2007.
Myroslava Dzikovska, Mary Swift, and James Allen. 2007. Customizing meaning: Building domain-specific semantic representations from a generic lexicon. In Harry Bunt and Reinhard Muskens (eds.), Computing Meaning, Volume 3, pp. 213-231. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 83, Springer.
James Allen, George Ferguson, Nate Blaylock, Donna Byron, Nathanael Chambers, Myroslava Dzikovska, Lucian Galescu, Mary Swift. Chester: Towards a Personal Medication Advisor. Journal of Biomedical Informatics 39, pp. 500-513.
Gregory Aist, James Allen, Ellen Campana, Lucian Galescu, Carlos Gomez-Gallo, Scott Stoness, Mary Swift, Michael Tanenhaus. Software architectures for incremental understanding of human speech. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech 2006 - ICSLP), Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006.
Huayan Zhong, Amanda Stent, Mary Swift. Modeling dative alternation with automatically extracted features. In Proceedings of Workshop on Empirical and Statistical Approaches for Spoken Dialogue Systems at the Twenty-first National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI06), Boston, MA, July 2006.
Benoit Crabbe, Myroslava Dzikovska, William de Beaumont, Mary Swift. Extending the coverage of a domain independent dialog lexicon with VerbNet. In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding (ScaNLU06) at HLT-NAACL 2006, New York, New York, June 2006. [pdf]
Hyuckchul Jung, James Allen, Nathanael Chambers, Lucian Galescu, Mary Swift, William Taysom. One-Shot Procedure Learning from Instruction and Observation. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS06), Melbourne Beach FL, May 2006.
Mary Swift. 2006. State change and temporal reference in Inuktitut child language. In Veerle van Geenhoven, editor, Semantics in Acquisition, pages 193-218, Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, Vol 35, Springer, The Netherlands.
Micha Elsner, Mary Swift, James Allen and Daniel Gildea. Online statistics for a unification-based dialogue parser. In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT05), Vancouver BC, October 2005.
Myroslava Dzikovska, Mary Swift, James Allen and William de Beaumont. Generic parsing for multi-domain semantic interpretation. In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT05) , Vancouver BC, October 2005.
James Allen, George Ferguson, Mary Swift, Amanda Stent, Scott Stoness, Lucian Galescu, Nathan Chambers, Ellen Campana and Gregory Aist. Two diverse systems built using generic components for spoken dialogue (Recent progress on TRIPS). In Proceedings of the ACL Interactive Poster and Demonstration Sessions, pp. 85-88, at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2005), Ann Arbor Michigan, June 2005.[pdf]
Gregory S. Aist, Ellen Campana, James Allen, Mike Rotondo, Mary Swift and Michael Tanenhaus. Variations along the Contextual Continuum in Task-Oriented Speech. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy, July 2005.[pdf]
Scott C. Stoness, James Allen, Gregory Aist and Mary Swift. Using real-world reference to improve spoken language understanding. In Proceedings of Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding, AAAI05, Pittsburg, PA, July 2005.[pdf]
Mary Swift. Towards automatic verb acquisition from VerbNet for spoken dialog processing. In Proceedings of Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Identification and Representation of Verb Features and Verb Classes, edited by Katrin Erk, Alissa Melinger & Sabine Schulte im Walde, pp. 115-120. Saarbruecken, Germany, February 2005.[pdf]
Mary Swift, James Allen and Dan Gildea. Skeletons in the parser: Using a shallow parser to improve deep parsing. In Proceedings of The 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'04), Vol. 1 pp. 383-389. Geneva, August 2004. [pdf]
Juergen Bohnemeyer & Mary Swift. Event realization and aspectual interpretation. Linguistics and Philosophy, 27(3): 263-296. [Errata corrections]
Mary Swift. Time in child Inuktitut: A developmental study of an Eskimo-Aleut language. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter. [Book details]
Mary Swift, Myroslava Dzikovska, Joel Tetreault, and James Allen. Semi-automatic syntactic and semantic corpus annotation with a deep parser. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'04), Vol. IV, pp. 1463-1466. Lisbon, May 2004.[pdf]
Myroslava Dzikovska, Mary Swift, and James Allen. Building a computational lexicon and ontology with FrameNet. In Proceedings of Workshop on Building Lexical Resources with Semantically Annotated Corpora at The 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'04), pp. 53-60, Lisbon, May 2004. [pdf]
Joel Tetreault, Mary Swift, Preethum Prithviraj, Myroslava Dzikovska, and James Allen. Discourse annotation in the Monroe Corpus. In Workshop on Discourse Annotation, at The 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'04), pp. 103-109. Barcelona, July 2004.[pdf]
Myroslava O. Dzikovska, James F. Allen, Mary D. Swift. Integrating linguistic and domain knowledge for spoken dialogue systems in multiple domains. In Proceedings of Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems at The Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2003), pp. 25-35. Acapulco, Mexico, August 2003. [pdf]
Myroslava O. Dzikovska, Mary D. Swift, and James F. Allen. Constructing custom semantic representations from a generic lexicon. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Computational Semantics, pp. 92-105. Tilburg, The Netherlands, January 15-17, 2003. [pdf]
Mary Swift. Early time reference in Inuktitut child language: The role of event realization and aspectual interpretation. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics / Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on the Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas (SULA 2), Jan Anderssen, Paula Menendez-Benito and Adam Werle (eds.), Vancouver, BC: 193-202. GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Mary D. Swift, Ellen Campana, James F. Allen, & Michael K. Tanenhaus. Monitoring eye movements as an evaluation of synthesized speech. In Proceedings of the IEEE 2002 Workshop on Speech Synthesis, pp. 19-22. Santa Monica, CA, 11-13 September. [pdf]
Mary D. Swift, Ellen Campana, James F. Allen, & Michael K. Tanenhaus. Eye fixation as a measure of real-time processing of synthesized words. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-2002), ed. by John H.L. Hansen & Bryan Pellom, pp. 1277-1280. Causal Productions Pty Ltd: Denver, CO.
Mary D. Swift, Ellen Campana, James F. Allen, & Michael K. Tanenhaus. Incremental referential domain circumscription during processing of natural and synthesized speech. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Cognitive Science Society, ed. by Wayne D. Gray & Christian D. Schunn, pp. 867-871, George Mason University, USA.
Mary D. Swift & Shanley E. M. Allen. 2002. Verb base elision in Inuktitut conversational discourse. International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol 68(2) pp. 133-156.
Juergen Bohnemeyer & Mary Swift. 2002. Default aspect: The semantic interaction of aspectual viewpoint and telicity. In van Hout, A., H. de Swart & H. Verkuyl (eds.) Proceedings from the Perspectives on Aspect Conference, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Mary D. Swift & Shanley E. M. Allen. 2002. Contexts of verbal inflection dropping in Inuktitut child speech. Proceedings from the 26th Annual Boston Conference on Language Development, ed. by Barbora Skarabela, Sarah Fish & Anna H.-J. Do, Vol. 2, pp. 689-700. Cascadilla Press, Somerville, MA.
Mary D. Swift. 2002. The morphological encoding of degrees of temporal remoteness in Inuktitut. In Andronis, Mary, Christopher Ball, Heidi Elston & Sylvain Neuvel (eds.) CLS 37: The Panels. Papers from the 37th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Vol. 2, pp. 289-304. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.