Publications of the SALSA Project

2010

A. Palmer and C. Sporleder.
Evaluating FrameNet-style semantic parsing: the role of coverage gaps in FrameNet. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), August, 23-27, 2010, Beijing, China.

I. Rehbein, J. Ruppenhofer and Alexis Palmer.
Bringing Active Learning to Life. The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), August 23-27, 2010, Beijing, China.

J. Ruppenhofer, C. Sporleder, R. Morante, C. Baker, and M. Palmer.
SemEval-2010 Task 10: Linking Events and Their Participants in Discourse,The ACL Workshop SemEval-2010: 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations, July 15-16, 2010, Uppsala, Sweden.

J. Ruppenhofer, C. Sporleder, and F. Shirokov.
Speaker Attribution in Cabinet Protocols, The seventh international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), May 19-21, 2010, Valletta, Malta.

I. Rehbein and J. Ruppenhofer.
There's No Data Like More Data? Revisiting the Impact of Data Size on a Classification Task , The seventh international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). May 19-21, 2010, Valletta, Malta.

J. Ruppenhofer, J. Sunde and M. Pinkal.
Generating FrameNets of various granularities: The FrameNet Transformer , The seventh international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). May 19-21, 2010, Valletta, Malta.

L. Li and C. Sporleder.
Linguistic Cues for Distinguishing Literal and Non-Literal Usage, In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), August, 23-27, 2010, Beijing, China.

L. Li, B. Roth and C. Sporleder. Topic Models for Word Sense Disambiguation and Token-Based Idiom Detection, Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010), July 11-16, 2010, Uppsala, Sweden.

L. Li and C. Sporleder. Using Gaussian Mixture Models to Detect Figurative Language in Context, Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2010) Short Papers, June 1-6, 2010, Los Angeles.

C. Sporleder, L. Li and A. Palmer. Cohesive Links with Literal and Idiomatic Expressions in Discourse: An Empirical and Computational Study, Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse 2010 (MAD 2010), March 17-20, 2010, Moissac, FranceMarch 17-20, 2010, Moissac, France.

2009

A. Burchardt, K. Erk, A. Frank, A. Kowalski, S. Pado, and M. Pinkal: FrameNet for the semantic analysis of German: Annotation, representation and automation (preprint). In Hans C. Boas (ed.): Multilingual FrameNets in Computational Lexicography: Methods and Applications. Mouton de Guyter, 2009.

I. Rehbein, J. Ruppenhofer and J. Sunde.
MaJo - A Toolkit for Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation and Active Learning. Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 8), Milano, Italy, December 4-5, 2009.

Y. Versley and I. Rehbein.
Scalable Discriminative Parsing for German. International Conference on Parsing Technology (IWPT'09) , Paris, France, October 7-9, 2009.

I. Rehbein, J. Ruppenhofer and C. Sporleder. Assessing the benefits of partial automatic pre-labeling for frame-semantic annotation. In Proceedings of the ACL 2009 Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW III), Singapore, August 6-7, 2009.

I. Rehbein and J. van Genabith.
Automatic acquisition of LFG resources for German - as good as it gets. Proceedings of the 14th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference (LFG'09) Cambridge, UK, July 13-16, 2009.

J. Ruppenhofer, C. Sporleder, R. Morante, C. Baker and M. Palmer. SemEval-2010 Task 10: Linking Events and Their Participants in Discourse. In Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2009 Workshop on Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions (SEW-09), Boulder, Colorado, USA, June 4, 2009.

H. Fürstenau and M. Lapata. Graph Alignment for Semi-Supervised Semantic Role Labeling. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2009). Singapore, 2009.

H. Fürstenau and M. Lapata. Semi-Supervised Semantic Role Labeling. In Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2009). Athens, Greece, 2009.

J. Ruppenhofer and L. A. Michaelis. Frames Predict Null-Complement Interpretations. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, July 28-August 3, 2009, Berkeley, 2009.

C. Sporleder and L. Li. Unsupervised Recognition of Literal and Non-Literal Use of Idiomatic Expressions. In Proceedings of EACL 2009, Athens, Greece, March 30--April 3, 2009.

S. Kübler, I. Rehbein and J. van Genabith.
TePaCoC - A Testsuite for Testing Parser Performance on Complex German Grammatical Constructions. Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 7) , Groningen, Netherlands, January 23-24, 2009.

L. Li and C. Sporleder. Classifier Combination for Contextual Idiom Detection Without Labelled Data. Proceedings of EMNLP 2009, Singapore, August 6-7, 2009.

A. Burchardt, M. Pennacchiotti, S. Thater, M. Pinkal. Assessing the Impact of Frame Semantics on Textual Entailment. To appear in Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Special Issue on Textual Entailment,2009 ,pp 459 - 582 .

2008

A. Burchardt. Modeling textual entailment with role-semantic information. PhD thesis, Saarland University, 2008.

H. Fürstenau. Enriching Frame Semantic Resources with Dependency Graphs. In Proceedings of the 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2008). Marrakech, Morocco, 2008.

F. M. Zanzotto, M. Pennacchiotti, A. Moschitti. Machine Learning for Recognizing Textual Entailment. To appear in Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Special Issue on Textual Entailment, 2008.

M. Pennacchiotti, D. De Cao, R. Basili, D. Croce, M. Roth. Automatic induction of FrameNet lexical units. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2008.

F. M. Zanzotto, M. Pennacchiotti, A. Moschitti. Combining Semi-Supervised Acquisition of Corpora and Supervised Learning of Textual Entailment Rules. NSF Symposium on Semantic knowledge discovery, organization and use.

M. Pennacchiotti, P. Pantel. Automatically Harvesting and Ontologizing Semantic Relations. In Ontology Learning and Population: Bridging the Gap between Text and Knowledge, P. Buitelaar and P. Cimiano (Ed.), Series: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press, 2008.

D. De Cao, D. Croce, M. Pennacchiotti, R. Basili. Combining word sense and usage for modeling frame semantics In Proceedings of STEP 2008. Venice, Italy. September, 2008.

M. Pennacchiotti, D. De Cao, P. Marocco, R. Basili. Towards a Vector Space Model for FrameNet-like Resources. In Proceedings of LREC 2008. Marrakech Morocco. May, 2008.

S. Pado, M. Pennacchiotti and C. Sporleder. Semantic role assignment for event nominalisations by leveraging verbal data, Proceedings of Coling 2008, Manchester, UK, August 18--22, 2008.

A. Burchardt and M. Pennacchiotti. FATE: A FrameNet-Annotated Corpus for Textual Entailment. Proceedings of LREC 2008, Marrakech, Morocco.

M. T. Pazienza, M. Pennacchiotti, A. Stellato. A Web Browser Extension for growing-up Ontological Knowledge from Traditional Web Content. In Proceedings of LREC 2008. Marrakech Morocco. May, 2008.

A. Burchardt, S. Pado, D. Spohr, A. Frank, and U. Heid. Constructing Integrated Corpus and Lexicon Models for Multi-Layer Annotations in OWL DL. Linguistic Issues in Language Technology 1, 1-33.

D. Spohr, A. Burchardt, S. Pado, A. Frank, and U. Heid. Formalising Multi-layer Corpora in OWL DL -- Lexicon Modelling, Querying and Consistency Control. Proceedings of the 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2008). Hyderabad, India.

2007

Sebastian Pado. Cross-Lingual Annotation Projection Models for Role-Semantic Information. PhD thesis, Saarland University, 2007.

A. Burchardt, N. Reiter, S. Thater and A. Frank. A Semantic Approach to Textual Entailment: System Evaluation and Task Analysis. Proceedings of the ACL-PASCAL Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing. Prague, Czech Republic.

K. Erk and S. Padó
Towards a Computational Model of Gradience in Word Sense.
Proceedings of IWCS-7, Tilburg, The Netherlands.

S. Padó and U. Padó and K. Erk
Flexible, Corpus-Based Modelling of Human Plausibility Judgements.
To appear in Proceedings of EMNLP-CoNLL 2007. Prague, Czech Republic.

S. Padó and G. Pitel
Annotation précise du français en sémantique de rôles par projection cross-linguistique.
Proceedings of TALN 2007, Toulouse, France.

S. Padó
Translational Equivalence and Cross-lingual Parallelism: The Case of FrameNet Frames.
Proceedings of the NODALIDA Workshop on Building Frame Semantics Resources for Scandinavian and Baltic Languages, Tartu, Estonia.

D. Spohr, A. Burchardt, S. Padó, A. Frank, and U. Heid
Inducing a Computational Lexicon from a Corpus with Syntactic and Semantic Annotation.
Proceedings of IWCS-7, Tilburg, The Netherlands.

2006

A. Burchardt and A. Frank
Approximating Textual Entailment with LFG and FrameNet Frames.
Proceedings of the Second Recognising Textual Entailment Workshop, 2006, Venice, Italy.

A. Burchardt, K. Erk, A. Frank, A. Kowalski, S. Padó and M. Pinkal
The SALSA Corpus: a German Corpus Resource for Lexical Semantics.
Proceedings of LREC 2006, Genoa, Italy.

A. Burchardt, K. Erk, A. Frank, A. Kowalski and S. Padó
SALTO -- A Versatile Multi-Level Annotation Tool.
Proceedings of LREC 2006, Genoa, Italy.

A. Burchardt, K. Erk, A. Frank, A. Kowalski, S. Padó and M. Pinkal
Consistency and Coverage: Challenges for exhaustive semantic annotation. DGfS-06, Bielefeld.

A. Burchardt, K. Erk, A. Frank, A. Kowalski, S. Padó and M. Pinkal
Challenges in lexical semantics: Non-compositionality in SALSA corpus annotation. DGfS-06, Bielefeld.

Katrin Erk
Unknown word sense detection as outlier detection.
Proceedings of NAACL-06, New York.

Katrin Erk and Sebastian Padó
Shalmaneser - a flexible toolbox for semantic role assignment.
Proceedings of LREC-06, Genoa.

Sebastian Padó and Mirella Lapata
Optimal Constituent Alignment with Edge Covers for Semantic Projection.
Proceedings of ACL-COLING 06, Sydney.

2005

Sebastian Padó and Mirella Lapata
Cross-linguistic projection of role-semantic information.
Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP 2005, Vancouver, Canada.

Katrin Erk and Sebastian Padó
Analyzing models for semantic role assignment using confusability.
Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP 2005, Vancouver, Canada.

Sebastian Padó and Katrin Erk
To cause or not to cause: Cross-lingual semantic matching for paraphrase modelling.
Proceedings of the Cross-Language Knowledge Induction Workshop, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Sebastian Padó and Mirella Lapata
Cross-lingual bootstrapping for Semantic Lexicons: The case of FrameNet.
Proceedings of AAAI-05, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Aljoscha Burchardt, Katrin Erk, and Anette Frank
A WordNet Detour to FrameNet.
Proceedings of the GLDV 2005 Workshop GermaNet II, Bonn.

Aljoscha Burchardt, Anette Frank, and Manfred Pinkal
Building Text Meaning Representations from Contextually Related Frames -- A Case Study.
Proceedings of IWCS-6, Tilburg, The Netherlands.

Katrin Erk
Frame assignment as word sense disambiguation.
Proceedings of IWCS 6, Tilburg.

Sabine Schulte im Walde and Katrin Erk
A comparison of German semantic verb classifications.
Proceedings of IWCS 6, Tilburg.

Katrin Erk, Alissa Melinger and Sabine Schulte im Walde (eds.)
Verb Workshop 2005: Interdisciplinary workshop on the Identification and Representation of Verb Features and Verb Classes.
Proceedings of a workshop held in Saarbrücken

2004

Ulrike Baldewein, Katrin Erk, Sebastian Padó and Detlef Prescher
Semantic Role Labelling with Similarity-Based Generalization Using EM-based Clustering
Proceedings of Senseval'04, Barcelona.

Ulrike Baldewein, Katrin Erk, Sebastian Padó and Detlef Prescher
Semantic Role Labelling for Chunk Sequences
Proceedings of the CoNLL'04 shared task, Boston.

Peter Baumgartner and Aljoscha Burchardt
Logic Programming Infrastructure for Inferences on FrameNet
In: José Alferes and Joao Leite, editors, Logics in Artificial Intelligence, Ninth European Conference, JELIA'04, volume 3229 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 591-603. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New-York, 2004.

Katrin Erk and Sebastian Padó
A powerful and versatile XML Format for representing role-semantic annotation
Proceedings of LREC-2004, Lisbon.

Michael Ellsworth, Katrin Erk, Paul Kingsbury and Sebastian Padó
PropBank, SALSA, and FrameNet: How Design Determines Product
Proceedings of the LREC 2004 Workshop on Building Lexical Resources from Semantically Annotated Corpora, Lisbon.

Anette Frank
Generalisations over Corpus-induced Frame Assignent Rules
Proceedings of the LREC 2004 Workshop on Building Lexical Resources from Semantically Annotated Corpora, Lisbon.

Anette Frank and Katrin Erk
Towards an LFG Syntax-Semantics Interface for Frame Semantics Annotation
in: Alexander Gelbukh (ed): Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg.

Anette Frank and Jiri Semecky
Corpus-based Induction of an LFG Syntax-Semantics Interface for Frame Semantic Processing
in: S. Hansen-Schirra, S. Oepen and H. Uszkoreit (eds): Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora, LINC 2004, Geneva, Switzerland.

Ulrich Heid, Holger Voormann, Jan-Thorsten Milde, Ulrike Gut, Katrin Erk and Sebastian Padó
Querying both time-aligned and hierarchical corpora with NXT search
Proceedings of LREC-2004, Lisbon.

Charles Fillmore, Manfred Pinkal, Collin Baker and Katrin Erk (eds.)
Building lexical resources from semantically annotated corpora.
Proceedings of a workshop held at LREC, Lisbon, 2004

2003

Sebastian Padó and Gemma Boleda Torrent.
Towards a better understanding of frame element assignment errors.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Prospects and Advances in the Syntax/Semantics Interface, Nancy.

Katrin Erk, Andrea Kowalski and Sebastian Padó.
The SALSA Annotation Tool.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Prospects and Advances in the Syntax/Semantics Interface, Nancy.

Katrin Erk, Andrea Kowalski, Sebastian Padó and Manfred Pinkal.
Towards a Resource for Lexical Semantics: A Large German Corpus with Extensive Semantic Annotation.
Proceedings of ACL 2003, Sapporo.

Katrin Erk, Andrea Kowalski, Sebastian Padó and Manfred Pinkal.
Building a Resource for Lexical Semantics.
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of Linguists (CIL), Prague.

Katrin Erk, Andrea Kowalski and Manfred Pinkal,
A Corpus Resource for Lexical Semantics.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS), Tilburg.