Publications
To appear
Ines Rehbein, Josef Ruppenhofer, and Caroline Sporleder. "Is it worth the effort? Assessing the benefits of partial automatic pre-labeling for frame-semantic annotation", to appear in Language Resources and Evaluation (published online 19. Nov. 2011).
[LRE Online First]
2011
Chenhua Chen, Alexis Palmer and Caroline Sporleder. Enhancing Active Learning for Semantic Role Labeling via Compressed Dependency Trees. Proceedings of IJCNLP 2011, Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 8-13, 2011.
[pdf]
Josef Ruppenhofer, Philip Gorinski and Caroline Sporleder. "In search of missing arguments: A linguistic approach." Proceedings of RANLP 2011, Hissar, Bulgaria, September 12-14, 2011.
[pdf]
Alexis Palmer, Afra Alishahi and Caroline Sporleder. "Robust Semantic Analysis for Unseen Data in FrameNet." Proceedings of RANLP 2011, Hissar, Bulgaria, September 12-14, 2011.
[pdf]
Caroline Sporleder, Antal van den Bosch and Kalliopi Zervanou. "Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences and Humanities: Chances and Challenges." In: Caroline Sporleder, Antal van den Bosch and Kalliopi Zervanou (eds.) Language Technology for Cultural Heritage. Selected Papers from the LaTeCH Workshop Series. Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing. Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.
[ book website]
Caroline Sporleder, Antal van den Bosch and Kalliopi Zervanou (eds.) Language Technology for Cultural Heritage. Selected Papers from the LaTeCH Workshop Series. Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing. Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.
[ book website]
2010
Caroline Sporleder. "Natural Language Processing for Cultural Heritage Domains", in Language and Linguistics Compass, Vol 4, Issue 9, September 2010, pp. 750-768, Wiley-Blackwell.
Alexis Palmer and Caroline 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.
[pdf]
Linlin Li and Caroline Sporleder. "Linguistic Cues for Distinguishing Literal and Non-Literal Usage", Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), August, 23-27, 2010, Beijing, China.
[pdf]
Ines Rehbein, Josef Ruppenhofer and Alexis Palmer. "Bringing Active Learning to Life." Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), August 23-27, 2010, Beijing, China.
[pdf]
Michael Backes, Markus Dürmuth, Sebastian Gerling, Manfred Pinkal, and Caroline Sporleder. "Acoustic side-channel attacks on printers", Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Security Symposium, August 11-13, 2010, Washington, DC, USA.
Linlin Li, Benjamin Roth and Caroline Sporleder. "Topic Models for Word Sense Disambiguation and Token-Based Idiom Detection", Proceedings of ACL 2010, July 11-16, 2010, Uppsala, Sweden.
[pdf]
Caroline Sporleder, Linlin Li and Alexis 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.
[pdf]
Linlin Li and Caroline Sporleder. "Using Gaussian Mixture Models to Detect Figurative Language in Context", Proceedings NAACL-2010 Short Papers, June 1-6, 2010, Los Angeles.
[pdf]
Josef Ruppenhofer, Caroline Sporleder, Roser Morante, Collin Baker, and Martha 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.
[pdf]
Caroline Sporleder, Linlin Li, Philip Gorinski, and Xaver Koch. "Idioms in Context: The IDIX Corpus", The seventh international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), May 19-21, 2010, Valletta, Malta.
[pdf]
Rui Wang and Caroline Sporleder. "Constructing a Textual Semantic Relation Corpus Using a Discourse Treebank", The seventh international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), May 19-21, 2010, Valletta, Malta.
[pdf]
Josef Ruppenhofer, Caroline Sporleder, and Fabian Shirokov. "Speaker Attribution in Cabinet Protocols", The seventh international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), May 19-21, 2010, Valletta, Malta.
[pdf]
2009
Jason Baldridge and Alexis Palmer. "How well does active learning actually work? Time-based evaluation of
cost-reduction strategies for language documentation". To appear in Proceedings of EMNLP 2009, Singapore, August 6-7, 2009.
[pdf (and slides from Alexis' FEAST talk on that topic)]
Linlin Li and Caroline Sporleder. "Classifier Combination for Contextual Idiom Detection Without Labelled Data". Proceedings of EMNLP 2009, Singapore, August 6-7, 2009.
[pdf]
Caroline Sporleder and Linlin Li. "Unsupervised Recognition of Literal and Non-Literal Use of Idiomatic Expressions". Proceedings of EACL 2009, Athens, Greece, March 30--April 3, 2009.
[pdf]
Ines Rehbein, Josef Ruppenhofer and Caroline Sporleder. "Assessing the benefits of partial automatic pre-labeling for frame-semantic annotation". Proceedings of the ACL 2009 Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW III), Singapore, August 6-7, 2009.
[pdf]
Linlin Li and Caroline Sporleder. "A Cohesion Graph Based Approach for Unsupervised Recognition of Literal and Nonliteral Use of Multiword Expressions". Proceedings of the ACL 2009 Workshop TextGraphs-4: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing, Singapore, August 7, 2009.
[pdf]
Alexis Palmer, Taesun
Moon and Jason Baldridge. "Evaluating automation strategies in
language documentation". Proceedings of the
NAACL-HLT 2009 Workshop on Active Learning for
NLP, Boulder, Colorado, USA, June 5, 2009.
[pdf]
Josef Ruppenhofer, Caroline Sporleder, Roser Morante, Collin Baker and Martha Palmer. "SemEval-2010 Task 10: Linking Events and Their Participants in Discourse". Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2009 Workshop on Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions (SEW-09), Boulder, Colorado, USA, June 4, 2009.
[pdf]
Antal van den Bosch, Marieke van Erp, and Caroline Sporleder. "Making a Clean Sweep of Cultural Heritage", IEEE Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on AI and Cultural Heritage, March/April 2009 (vol. 25 no. 2), pp. 54-63.
Caroline Sporleder. "Semantic Argument Structure In DiscoursE: The SEASIDE Project", Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS-8), Tilburg, The Netherlands, January 7--9, 2009.
2008
Caroline Sporleder and Alex Lascarides. "Using Automatically Labelled Examples to Classify Rhetorical Relations: An Assessment", Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Volume 14, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 369-416.
[pdf] (preprint)
Caroline Sporleder. "Lexical
Models to Identify Unmarked Discourse Relations: Does WordNet help?",
Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics, 24:2, December 2008.
[pdf]
Sebastian Pado, Marco Pennacchiotti and Caroline Sporleder. "Semantic role assignment for event nominalisations by leveraging verbal data", Proceedings of Coling 2008, Manchester, UK, August 18--22, 2008.
[pdf] [data sets used in the experiments]