Selected Publications

• Chris Dyer, Smaranda Muresan, and Philip Resnik, Generalizing Word Lattice Translation, ACL 2008, to appear.

• Yuval Marton and Philip Resnik, Soft Syntactic Constraints for Hierarchical Phrased-Based Translation, ACL 2008, to appear.

• Daniel Zeman and Philip Resnik, Cross-Language Parser Adaptation between Related Languages, Proceedings of IJCNLP 2008 Workshop on NLP for Less Privileged Languages. Hyderabad, India, 2008.

• Philip Resnik, Review of Treebanks: Building and Using Parsed Corpora, Language 83(4), 2007, pp. 876-879.

• Nitin Madnani, Necip Fazil Ayan, Philip Resnik, and Bonnie Dorr. Using Paraphrases for Parameter Tuning in Statistical Machine Translation. 2007. ACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Prague.

• Saif Mohammad, Graeme Hirst, and Philip Resnik, "Distributional profiles of concepts for Unsupervised Word Sense Disambigution", In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text (SemEval-07), June 2007, Prague, Czech Republic.

• Anita Komlodi, Jade Alburo, Jenny Preece, Allison Druin, Weimin Hou, Sabrina Liao, Aaron Elkiss, and Philip Resnik, ``Evaluating a Cross-Cultural Children's Online Book Community: Lessons Learned for Sociability, Usability, and Cultural Exchange'', Interacting with Computers, Volume 19, Issue 4, July 2007, pp. 494-511.

• NLP (Natural Language Processing) from a CAC (Computer Assisted Coding) Perspective, and Vice Versa, 79th AHIMA Convention and Exhibit, American Hospital Information Management Association, October 7, 2007.

• Adam Lopez and Philip Resnik, "Word-Based Alignment, Phrase-Based Translation: What's the Link?", AMTA 2006, Cambridge, MA.

• Grazia Russo-Lassner, Jimmy Lin, and Philip Resnik. A Paraphrase-Based Approach to Machine Translation Evaluation. Technical Report LAMP-TR-125/CS-TR-4754/UMIACS-TR-2005-57, University of Maryland, College Park, August 2005.

• Okan Kolak and Philip Resnik, "OCR Post-Processing for Low Density Languages", HLT/EMNLP 2005, Vancouver, October 2005.

• David Chiang, Adam Lopez, Nitin Madnani, Christof Monz, Philip Resnik, and Michael Subotin, "The Hiero Machine Translation System: Extensions, Evaluation, and Analysis", HLT/EMNLP 2005, Vancouver, October 2005.

• Adam Lopez and Philip Resnik, "Pattern Visualization for Machine Translation Output", Demonstration session of HLT/EMNLP 2005, Vancouver, October 2005.

• Clara Cabezas and Philip Resnik, ``Using WSD Techniques for Lexical Selection in Statistical Machine Translation'', Technical report CS-TR-4736/LAMP-TR-124/UMIACS-TR-2005-42, July 2005.

• Tapas Kanungo, Philip Resnik, Song Mao, Doe-Wan Kim, and Qigong Zheng, "The Bible and Multilingual Optical Character Recognition", Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM) 48(6), pp. 124-130, June 2005

• Adam Lopez and Philip Resnik, ``Improved HMM Alignment Models for Languages with Scarce Resources''. In P. Koehn et al., eds., Proceedings of the ACL 2005 Workshop on Parallel Text, June 29-30 2005, pp. 83-86.

• Rebecca Hwa, Philip Resnik, Amy Weinberg, Clara Cabezas, and Okan Kolak, "Bootstrapping Parsers via Syntactic Projection across Parallel Texts", Natural Language Engineering, Volume 11, Issue 03, September 2005, pp 311-325.

• Gina-Anne Levow, Douglas W. Oard, and Philip Resnik, "Dictionary-Based Techniques for Cross-Language Information Retrieval", Information Processing and Management, 41, May 2005, pp. 523-547.

• Philip Resnik and Aaron Elkiss, "The Linguist's Search Engine: An Overview". Proceedings of ACL 2005 (Demonstration Section), 2005.

• Philip Resnik, Aaron Elkiss, Ellen Lau, and Heather Taylor, "The Web in Theoretical Linguistics Research: Two Case Studies Using the Linguist's Search Engine", 31st Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 2005, pp. 265-276. [paper, presentation]

• Philip Resnik, "Word Sense Disambiguation in NLP Applications", in Eneko Agirre and Philip Edmonds (eds.), Word Sense Disambiguation: Algorithms and Applications, Kluwer (2006).

• Rebecca Green, Bonnie Dorr, and Philip Resnik, ``Inducing Frame Semantic Verb Classes from WordNet and LDOCE'', Proceedings of ACL-2004, July 2004.

• Philip Resnik, ``Exploiting Hidden Meanings: Using Bilingual Text for Monolingual Annotation''. In Alexander Gelbukh (ed.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2945: Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, Springer, 2004, pp. 283-299.

• Philip Resnik and Aaron Elkiss. The Linguist's Search Engine: Getting Started Guide. Technical Report: LAMP-TR-108/CS-TR-4541/UMIACS-TR-2003-109, University of Maryland, College Park, November 2003. [Abstract; figures are most readable in the .doc version, but the report is also available as PDF] Important note: The detailed instructions in this techreport are out of date. See the LSE project page for updates.

• Nicol, Tamara; Landau, Barbara; & Resnik, Philip. 2003. Discovering the Invisible: Children's Acquisition of the Implicit Object Construction. Poster presented at Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston, MA, October 31-November 2.

• Nicol, Tamara; Landau, Barbara; & Resnik, Philip. 2003. The Role of Object Typicality in 2- to 4-Year-Old Children's Acquisition of the Implicit Object Construction. Paper presented at ICCS/ASCS Joint International Conference on Cognitive Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, July 13-17.

• Philip Resnik and Noah A. Smith, " The Web as a Parallel Corpus", Computational Linguistics 29(3), pp. 349-380, September 2003. (Earlier version appeared as University of Maryland technical report UMIACS-TR-2002-61, July 2002.)

• Oard, Douglas W., David Doermann, Bonnie Dorr, Daqing He, Philip Resnik, Amy Weinberg, William Byrne, Sanjeev Khudanpur David Yarowsky, Anton Leuski, Philipp Koehn, and Kevin Knight, "Desperately Seeking Cebuano", Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL Conference, Late Breaking Results, Edmonton, Canada, pp. 76--78, 2003.

• Okan Kolak, Philip Resnik, and William Byrne, ``A Generative Probabilistic OCR Model for NLP Applications'', Proceedings of HLT-NAACL, May 2003.

• Philip Resnik, "Word Sense Ambiguity". International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd edition. William J. Frawley, editor. Oxford University Press: Oxford, England, 2003.

• Philip Resnik and Judith L. Klavans "Applications of Language Technology". International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd edition. William J. Frawley, editor. Oxford University Press: Oxford, England, 2003.

• Douglas Oard, Dina Demner-Fushman, Jan Hajic, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Samuel Gustman, William Byrne, Dagobert Soergel, Bonnie Dorr, Philip Resnik, and Michael Picheny, ``Cross-Language Access to Recorded Speech in the MALACH Project'', Fifth International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue (TSD 2002), Brno, Czech Republic, September 9-12, 2002.

• Rebecca Hwa, Philip Resnik, Amy Weinberg, and Okan Kolak, ``Evaluating Translational Correspondence using Annotation Projection'' 40th Anniversary Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-02), Philadelphia, July, 2002.

• Mona Diab and Philip Resnik, ``An Unsupervised Method for Word Sense Tagging using Parallel Corpora'' , 40th Anniversary Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-02), Philadelphia, July, 2002. [postscript version]

• Rebecca Hwa, Philip Resnik, and Amy Weinberg, ``Breaking The Resource Bottleneck For Multilingual Parsing'' , Workshop on ``Linguistic Knowledge Acquisition and Representation: Bootstrapping Annotated Language Data'', Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2000), Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, June 1, 2002.

• Adam Lopez, Michael Nossal, Rebecca Hwa, and Philip Resnik, ``Word-Level Alignment For Multilingual Resource Acquisition'', Workshop on ``Linguistic Knowledge Acquisition and Representation: Bootstrapping Annotated Language Data'', Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2000), Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, June 1, 2002.

• Okan Kolak and Philip Resnik, ``OCR Error Correction Using a Noisy Channel Model'', Poster and notebook paper, Human Language Technology Conference (HLT 2002), March 24-27, 2002, San Diego.

• John Drury, Philip Resnik, Amy Weinberg, Silvia Gennari, and Sachiko Aoshima, Argument Structure Saturation in a Constraint Based Model, The 15th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, March 2002.

• Clara Cabezas, Philip Resnik, and Jessica Stevens, ``Supervised Sense Tagging using Support Vector Machines'', Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Systems (SENSEVAL-2), Toulouse, France, 5-6 July 2001.

• Clara Cabezas, Bonnie Dorr, and Philip Resnik, ``Spanish Language Processing at University of Maryland: Building Infrastructure for Multilingual Applications''. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Spanish Language Processing and Language Technologies (SLPLT-2), Jaen, Spain, September 2001.

• Rebecca Green, Lisa Pearl, Bonnie J. Dorr, and Philip Resnik, ``Mapping Lexical Entries in a Verbs Database to WordNet Senses'', Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2001), Toulouse, France, July 9-11, 2001.

• Philip Resnik, Douglas Oard, and Gina-Anne Levow, ``Improved Cross-Language Retrieval using Backoff Translation'', Human Language Technology Conference (HLT-2001), San Diego, March 18-21, 2001.

• Gina-Anne Levow, Douglas Oard, and Philip Resnik, "Rapidly Retargetable Interactive Translingual Retrieval", Human Language Technology Conference (HLT-2001), San Diego, March 18-21, 2001.

• John Drury, Philip Resnik, and Amy Weinberg, "Plausibility, Reciprocality, and Modularity", Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP'2000), Leiden, The Netherlands, September 20-23, 2000.

• Philip Resnik and Mona Diab, "Measuring Verb Similarity", Twenty Second Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI2000), Philadelphia, August 2000. (PDF version)

• Philip Resnik and David Yarowsky, "Distinguishing Systems and Distinguishing Senses: New Evaluation Methods for Word Sense Disambiguation", Natural Language Engineering 5(2), pp. 113-133.

• I. Dan Melamed and Philip Resnik, "Tagger Evaluation Given Hierarchical Tag Sets", Computers and the Humanities, 34(1-2), 2000.

• Philip Resnik, "Semantic Similarity in a Taxonomy: An Information-Based Measure and its Application to Problems of Ambiguity in Natural Language", Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 11, pp. 95-130, 1999.

• Philip Resnik, "Disambiguating Noun Groupings with Respect to WordNet Senses", in S. Armstrong, K. Church, P. Isabelle, S. Manzi, E. Tzoukermann and D. Yarowsky (eds.), Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, pp. 77-98. (Slightly revised version; the original paper appeared in the Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Very Large Corpora, MIT, 30 June 1995: on-line version of the workshop paper.)

• Philip Resnik, "Mining the Web for Bilingual Text", 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'99), College Park, Maryland, June 1999.

• Douglas W. Oard and Philip Resnik, "Support for Interactive Document Selection in Cross-Language Information Retrieval", Information Processing and Management, 35(3), pp. 363-379, July, 1999.

• Philip Resnik, Mari Broman Olsen, and Mona Diab, "The Bible as a Parallel Corpus: Annotating the `Book of 2000 Tongues'", Computers and the Humanities, 33(1-2), pp. 129-153, 1999.

• Tapas Kanungo and Philip Resnik, "The Bible, Truth, and Multilingual OCR Evaluation", In Proc. of SPIE Conference on Document Recognition and Retrieval (VI), San Jose, CA, 27-28 January, 1999.

• Philip Resnik, "Parallel Strands: A Preliminary Investigation into Mining the Web for Bilingual Text", in D. Farwell, L. Gerber, and E. Hovy (eds.), Machine Translation and the Information Soup: Third Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA-98), Langhorne, PA, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1529, Springer, October, 1998.

• Philip Resnik, Mari Broman Olsen, and Mona Diab, "Creating a Parallel Corpus from the Book of 2000 Tongues", Text Encoding Initiative 10th Anniversary User Conference (TEI-10), Providence, November 1997

• Gary Adams and Philip Resnik, "A Language Identification Application Built on the Java Client/Server Platform", ACL 97/EACL 97 workshop, "From Research to Commercial Applications: Making NLP Technology Work in Practice", Madrid, July 12, 1997.

• Mari Broman Olsen and Philip Resnik, "Implicit Object Constructions and the (In)Transitivity Continuum", 33rd Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, April, 1997, pp. 327-336.
  Note: this paper was prepared using MS Word on the Macintosh, and sometimes comes out looking strange when previewed using ghostview; however, it appears to print out normally on many postscript printers. An alternative would be to look at the short abstract, which was prepared using LaTeX and dvips, or the whole paper in PDF format (2.8megabytes).

• Philip Resnik, "Selectional preference and sense disambiguation", presented at the ACL SIGLEX Workshop on Tagging Text with Lexical Semantics: Why, What, and How?, held April 4-5, 1997 in Washington, D.C., USA in conjunction with ANLP-97.

• Philip Resnik and David Yarowsky, A perspective on word sense disambiguation methods and their evaluation", position paper presented at the ACL SIGLEX Workshop on Tagging Text with Lexical Semantics: Why, What, and How?, held April 4-5, 1997 in Washington, D.C., USA in conjunction with ANLP-97.

• Philip Resnik and I. Dan Melamed, "Semi-Automatic Acquisition of Domain-Specific Translation Lexicons", Proceedings of the 5th ANLP Conference, 1997.

• Philip Resnik, "Evaluating Multilingual Gisting of Web Pages", presentation at the AAAI Symposium on Natural Language Processing for the World Wide Web, Stanford, CA, March 1997.

• Judith Klavans and Philip Resnik, editors, The Balancing Act: Combining Symbolic and Statistical Approaches to Language, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1996.

• Philip Resnik, `Selectional Constraints: An Information-Theoretic Model and its Computational Realization'', Cognition, 61:127-159, November 1996.

• Philip Resnik, "Using Information Content to Evaluate Semantic Similarity in a Taxonomy", Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 1995.

• Eric Brill and Philip Resnik, "A Rule-Based Approach To Prepositional Phrase Attachment Disambiguation", Proceedings of COLING-1994.

• Philip Resnik, Selection and Information: A Class-Based Approach to Lexical Relationships, Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1993. [pdf,postscript]

• Philip Resnik, Left-Corner Parsing and Psychological Plausibility, Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING '92), Nantes, France, 1992.

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