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Invited Talks
Presentation 		From Once Upon a Time to Happily Ever After: Tracking Emotions in Books and Mail.
  • February, 2012: Big Data and Social Media Workshop, Communications Security Establishment Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
  • July 2011: Amazon, Social Media group and Digital Books group, Seattle, OR.
  • June 2011: Social Media - "Big Data" Analysis Workshop, Defence R&D Canada, Ottawa, Canada..

Presentation
by Saif Mohammad.

“Crowdsourcing the creation of an emotion lexicon.” Saif Mohammad and Peter Turney.
  • July 2010: Department of Computational Linguistics at the University of Heidelberg and the NLP group from HITS gGmbH, Heidelberg, Germany.
  • July 2010: Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany.
  • August 2010: Microsoft Research, Bangalore, India.
  • August 2010: IBM Research, Bangalore, India.
Presentation
by Saif Mohammad.
 "Hybrid approaches to semantic closeness and oppositeness", Saif Mohammad and Graeme Hirst.
  • June 2009: The Text Analysis and Machine Learning Group, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
  • June 2009: National Research Council - The Institute for Information Technology (NRC-IIT), Ottawa, Canada.

Presentation
by Graeme Hirst.

 "Semantic distance measures with distributional profiles of coarse-grained concepts", Graeme Hirst and Saif Mohammad.
  • May 2009: Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
  • May 2009: Centre for Research in Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
  • November 2008: Center for Cognitive Science, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.
Presentation
 by Saif Mohammad.
 "Hybrid approaches to semantic closeness and semantic oppositeness", Saif Mohammad and Graeme Hirst. Yahoo! Research, Santa Clara, CA. October 2008.
  • October 2008: Text Mining Sciences, Yahoo! Research, Santa Clara, CA.
  • October 2008: Human Language Technology Research Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX.
  • October 2008: University of North Texas, Dallas, TX.
Presentation
by Graeme Hirst.
 "Lexical chains and semantic distance, within and across languages", Graeme Hirst and Saif Mohammad. Division of Chinese, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. April 2008.
 
Presentation
by Graeme Hirst.
 "Semantic distance measures with distributional profiles of coarse-grained concepts", Graeme Hirst and Saif Mohammad. Conference on Processing Text-Technological Resources, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. March 2008.
 
Presentation
by Bonnie Dorr.
 "TTO3 Update: Representational Analysis, Consensus, Utility," Bonnie Dorr, Saif Mohammad, David Yarowsky, and Keith Hall. Human Language Technology Center of Excellence (HLT/COE) Quarterly Technical Exchange, Johns Hopkins HLT/COE, Baltimore, MD. March 2008.
 
Presentation
by Saif Mohammad.
 "Determining Degree of Antonymy: Step 1 for Detecting Erroneous Coreference Links by Contradiction," Saif Mohammad and Bonnie Dorr. Human Language Technology Center of Excellence (HLT/COE) Quarterly Technical Exchange, Johns Hopkins HLT/COE, Baltimore, MD. March 2008.
   
   
  Conference Papers
   
  #Emotional Tweets, Saif Mohammad, In Proceedings of the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*Sem), June 2012, Montreal, Canada.
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  Portable Features for Classifying Emotional Text, Saif Mohammad, In Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, June 2012, Montreal, Canada.
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  Even the Abstract have Colour: Consensus in WordColour Associations, Saif Mohammad, In Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, June 2011, Portland, OR.
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  Generating High-Coverage Semantic Orientation Lexicons From Overtly Marked Words and a Thesaurus, Saif Mohammad, Bonnie Dorr, and Cody Dunne, In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2009), August 2009, Singapore.
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  Estimating semantic distance using soft semantic constraints in knowledge-source–corpus hybrid models, Yuval Marton, Saif Mohammad, and Philip Resnik, In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2009), August 2009, Singapore.
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  Using Citations to Generate Surveys of Scientific Paradigms, Saif Mohammad, Bonnie Dorr, Melissa Egan, Ahmed Hassan, Pradeep Muthukrishan, Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir Radev, and David Zajic, In Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT-2009), May 2009, Boulder, Colorado.
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  Computing Word-Pair Antonymy, Saif Mohammad, Bonnie Dorr , and Graeme Hirst, In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-2008), October 2008, Waikiki, Hawaii.
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  Cross-lingual distributional profiles of concepts for measuring semantic distance, Saif Mohammad, Iryna Gurevych, Graeme Hirst, and Torsten Zesch, In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP/CoNLL-2007), June 2007, Prague, Czech Republic.
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  Distributional measures of concept-distance: A task-oriented evaluation, Saif Mohammad and Graeme Hirst, In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2006), July 2006, Sydney, Australia.
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  Determining Word Sense Dominance Using a Thesaurus, Saif Mohammad and Graeme Hirst, In Proceedings of the 11th conference of the European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-2006), April 2006, Trento, Italy.
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Combining Lexical and Syntactic Features for Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation, Saif Mohammad and Ted Pedersen, In Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2004), May, 2004, Boston, MA.
 
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Guaranteed Pre-Tagging for the Brill Tagger, Saif Mohammad and Ted Pedersen, In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing-2003), February 2003, Mexico City.

 

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Theses
   
  Measuring Semantic Distance using Distributional Profiles of Concepts, Saif Mohammad, Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, January 2008, Toronto, Canada.
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  Combining Lexical and Syntactic Features for Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation, Saif Mohammad, Master's thesis, University of Minnesota, August 2003, Minnesota.
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  Journal Papers
   
  From Once Upon a Time to Happily Ever After: Tracking Emotions in Mail and Books, Saif Mohammad, Decision Support Systems, In press.
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  Binary Classifiers and Latent Sequence Models for Emotion Detection in Suicide Notes. Colin Cherry, Saif Mohammad, and Berry de Bruijn. Journal of Biomedical Informatics Insights, 5 (Suppl. 1), 147--154, January 2012.
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  Crowdsourcing a Word-Emotion Association Lexicon, Saif Mohammad and Peter Turney, To Appear in Computational Intelligence, Wiley Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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  Associations of Words with Emotion, Polarity, and Colour: Crowdsoursing a Lexicon, Saif Mohammad and Peter Turney, Technical Report, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
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  Measuring Semantic Distance using Distributional Profiles of Concepts, Saif Mohammad and Graeme Hirst. Submitted.
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Distributional Measures as Proxies for Semantic Distance: A Survey, Saif Mohammad and Graeme Hirst.
 
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Distributional Measures as Proxies for Semantic Relatedness, Saif Mohammad and Graeme Hirst.
 
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  Symposium Papers
   
  Cross-Document Coreference Resolution: A Key Technology for Learning by Reading, James Mayfield, Bonnie Dorr, Jason Eisner, Tim Finin, Saif Mohammad, Douglas Oard, Ralph Weischedel, David Yarowsky, and others. March 2009. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Learning by Reading and Learning to Read (AAAI-09), Menlo Park, CA.
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Workshop Papers
   
  SemEval-2012 Task 2: Measuring Degrees of Relational Similarity, David Jurgens, Saif Mohammad, Peter Turney and Keith Holyoak, In Proceedings of the 2012 SemEval-2012 : Semantic Evaluation Exercises, June 2012, Montreal, Canada.
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  Getting Emotional About News. Alistair Kennedy, Anna Kazantseva, Saif Mohammad, Terry Copeck, Diana Inkpen, Stan Szpakowicz. Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference (TAC-2011), November 2011, Gaithersburg, MD.
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  Tracking Sentiment in Mail: How Genders Differ on Emotional Axes, Saif Mohammad and Tony Yang, In Proceedings of the ACL 2011 Workshop on ACL 2011 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (WASSA), June 2011, Portland, OR.
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  From Once Upon a Time to Happily Ever After: Tracking Emotions in Novels and Fairy Tales, Saif Mohammad, In Proceedings of the ACL 2011 Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH), June 2011, Portland, OR.
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  Colourful Language: Measuring Word-Colour Associations, Saif Mohammad, In Proceedings of the ACL 2011 Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL), June 2011, Portland, OR.
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  "Emotions Evoked by Common Words and Phrases: Using Mechanical Turk to Create an Emotion Lexicon", Saif Mohammad and Peter Turney, In Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2010 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Analysis and Generation of Emotion in Text, June 2010, LA, California.
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  "Multiple alternative sentence compressions and word-pair antonymy for automatic text summarization and recognizing textual entailment.", Saif Mohammad, Bonnie Dorr, Melissa Egan, Jimmy Lin, and David Zajic. Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference (TAC-2008), November 2008, Gaithersburg, MD.
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  "Towards Antonymy-Aware Natural Language Applications", Saif Mohammad, Bonnie Dorr, and Graeme Hirst. Proceedings of the Symposium on Semantic Knowledge Discovery, Organization and Use (SKDOU-2008), November 2008, New York, NY.
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  "From Linguistic Annotations to Knowledge Objects", Bonnie Dorr, Saif Mohammad, and Boyan Onyshkevych. Proceedings of the Symposium on Semantic Knowledge Discovery, Organization and Use (SKDOU-2008), November 2008, New York, NY.
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"Distributional profiles of concepts for Unsupervised Word Sense Disambigution", Saif Mohammad, Graeme Hirst, and Philip Resnik, 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.
 
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"Complementarity of Lexical and Simple Syntactic Features: The SyntaLex Approach to Senseval-3", Saif Mohammad and Ted Pedersen, In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text (SensEval-3), July 2004, Barcelona, Spain.
 
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Last Updated: June 2012