Publications

2022

Howell, Kristen, Jian Wang, Akshay Hazare, Joe Bradley, Chris Brew, Xi Chen, Matthew Dunn, Beth-Ann Hockey, Andrew Maurer and Dominic Widdows. “Domain-specific knowledge distillation yields smaller and better models for conversational commerce.” Proceedings of The Fifth Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP (ECNLP 5) (2022)

2021

Higgins, Michael, Dominic Widdows, Chris Brew, Gwen Christian, Andrew Maurer, Matthew Dunn, S. Gomathi Mathi, Akshay Hazare, George Bonev, Beth Ann Hockey, Kristen Howell and Joe Bradley. “Actionable Conversational Quality Indicators for Improving Task-Oriented Dialog Systems.” ArXiv abs/2109.11064 (2021)

Widdows, Dominic and Chris Brew. “Language Identification with a Reciprocal Rank Classifier.” ArXiv abs/2109.09862 (2021)

2020

Abusive Language Detection using Syntactic Dependency Graphs

Kanika Narang | Chris Brew

Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms

[Proceedings of the 3rd NLP4IF Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda]{.underline}

Proceedings of the 3rd NLP4IF Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda

2019

Dezhao Song, Frank Schilder, Shai Hertz, Giuseppe Saltini, Charese Smiley, Phani Nivarthi, Oren Hazai, Dudi Landau, Mike Zaharkin, Tom Zielund, Hugo Molina-Salgado, Chris Brew, Dan Bennett: Building and Querying an Enterprise Knowledge Graph. IEEE Trans. Services Computing 12(3): 356-369 (2019)

2018

Brew C. (2018) Digital Operatives at SemEval-2018 Task 8: Using dependency features for malware NLP SemEval-2018 at NAACL 2018, New Orleans, June 5-6, 2018

2017

Dezhao Song, Frank Schilder, Shai Hertz, Giuseppe Saltini, Charese Smiley, Phani Nivarthi, Oren Hazai, Dudi Landau, Mike Zaharkin, Tom Zielund, Hugo Molina-Salgado, Chris Brew, and Dan Bennett. Building and Querying an Enterprise Knowledge Graph.(2017) IEEE Transactions on Services Computing ([IEEE TSC]{.underline}). Special Issue on Data-Centric Big Services.

2016

Brew C. (2016) [Classifying ReachOut posts with a radial basis function SVM]{.underline} Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology, Workshop at NAACL 2016, San Diego, June 16, 2016

Shermis, M. D., Burstein, J., Brew, C., Higgins, D., & Zechner, K. (2016). Recent innovations in machine scoring. In S. Lane, T. Haladyna & M. Raymond (Eds.), Handbook of test development, Second Edition. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis/Routledge

2015

Dezhao Song, Frank Schilder, Charese Smiley, Chris Brew, Tom Zielund, Hiroko Bretz, Robert Martin, Chris Dale, John Duprey, Tim Miller, Johanna Harrison. (2015). [TR Discover: A Natural Language Interface for Querying and Analyzing Interlinked Datasets.]{.underline} Proceedings of the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), pages 21-37.

Dezhao Song, Frank Schilder, Charese Smiley, Chris Brew. (2015). Natural Language Question Answering and Analytics for Diverse and Interlinked Datasets. Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations (NAACL), pages 101-105.

2014

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Derrick Higgins, Chris Brew, Michael Heilman, Ramon Ziai, Lei Chen, Aoife Cahill, Michael Flor, Nitin Madnani, Joel Tetreault, Dan Blanchard, Diane Napolitano, Chong Min Lee & John Blackmore (2014) Is getting the right answer just about choosing the right words? The role of syntactically-informed features in short answer scoring. (http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.0801)

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O. L. Liu, C. Brew, J. Blackmore, L. Gerard, J. Madhok, & M. C. Linn (2014) [Automated Scoring of Constructed-Response Science Items: Prospects and Obstacles]{.underline} Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 19–28, Summer 2014

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2013

Chris Brew and Claudia Leacock (2013) Automated Short Answer Scoring at the Educational Testing Service In Shermis, M.D., & Burstein, J. (2013). Handbook of Automated Essay Evaluation: Current Applications and Future Directions. New York: Routledge.

Dzikovska, M.O., Nielsen, R., Brew, C., Leacock, C., Giampiccolo, D., Bentivogli, L., Clark, P., Dagan, I. and Dang, H.T. (2013) "SemEval-2013 Task 7: The Joint Student Response Analysis and 8th Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge". In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2013), in conjunction with the Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2013). Association for Computational Linguistics. Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 13-14 June.

2012

Markus Dickinson, Chris Brew, Detmar Meurers (2012) Language and Computers

Wiley-Blackwell; (November 13, 2012 in USA; October 5, 2012 in Germany and UK) Textbook for general audience undergraduate course in computational linguistics

Dennis N. Mehay and Chris Brew (2012) CCG Syntactic Reordering Models for Phrase-based Machine Translation. In Proceedings of WMT-2012, Montreal, Canada.

Myroslava O. Dzikovska, Rodney D. Nielsen, Chris Brew (2012) "Towards Effective Tutorial Feedback for Explanation Questions: A Dataset and Baselines." In Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2012). Jun 4-6, 2012. Montreal, Canada.

John P. Pestian, Pawel Matykiewicz, Michelle Linn-Gust, Brett South, Ozlem Uzuner, Jan Wiebe, K. Bretonnel Cohen, John Hurdle, and Christopher Brew (2012) Sentiment analysis of suicide notes: A shared task. Biomedical Informatics Insights 2012:5 (Suppl. 1) 1-14.

Preethi Raghavan, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Chris Brew, and Albert Lai. (2012) Medical Event Coreference Resolution using the UMLS Metathesaurus and Temporal Reasoning.ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium, IHI 2012.

2011

Preethi Raghavan, Chris Brew, Albert Lai. (2011) Leveraging Natural Language Processing of Clinical Narratives for Clinical Phenotype Modeling. Poster at Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing, OCWIC, Feb 2011.

Stephen Boxwell, Chris Brew, Jason Baldridge, Dennis Mehay and Sujith Ravi. 2011. [Semantic Role Labeling for CCG Without Treebanks?]{.underline} Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP). Chiang Mai, Thailand.

2010

Stephen A. Boxwell, Dennis Mehay, and Chris Brew. 2010. What a Parser can Learn from a Semantic Role Labeler and Vice-Versa. 2010 Conference on Emperical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2010). MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Boxwell, Stephen and Chris Brew (2010): A Pilot Arabic CCGbank. 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Valetta, Malta, 17-20 May 2010

Jianguo Li and Chris Brew (2010) A "Class-based Approach to Disambiguating Levin Verbs" Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Special Issue on Distributional Lexical Semantics

C.Anton Rytting, J. Eric Fosler-Lussier and Chris Brew (2010) Segmenting words from natural speech: Subsegmental variation in segmental cues, Journal of Child Language special issue on Simulations

2009

Boxwell, Stephen, Dennis Mehay and Chris Brew (2009) A Semantic Role Labeling System Incorporating CCG, CFG, and Dependency Features Joint conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009

Timothy Weale; Chris Brew; Eric Fosler-Lussier (2009) Using the Wiktionary Graph Structure for Synonym Detection; ACL Workshop on Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources, Singapore

Kirk Baker and Chris Brew (2009) Multilingual Animacy Classification by Sparse Logistic Regression, Ohio State University Working Papers in Linguistics

Ilana Heintz, J. Eric Fosler-Lussier and Chris Brew (2009):Discriminative Input Stream Combination for Conditional Random Field Phone Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Language Processing, 17:8, pp 1533-1546, 2009.

2008

I. Heintz, E. Fosler-Lussier, and C. Brew, (2008) "Latent Phonetic Analysis: Use of Singular Value Decomposition to Determine Features for CRF Phone Recognition," International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008), Las Vegas, Nevada, 2008.

Baker, Kirk and Chris Brew (2008) Statistical Identification of English Loanwords in Korean Using Automatically Generated Training Data, The Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008). Marrakech, Morocco. May 28-30, 2008.

Li, Jianguo Kirk Baker and Chris Brew (2008). A Corpus Study of Levin's Verb Classification. American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL 2008). Provo, Utah. March 13-15, 2008.

Li, Jianguo & Chris Brew (2008). Which are the Best Features for Automatic Verb Classification. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Columbus, Ohio, June 2008.

Martha Palmer, Chris Brew and Fei Xia 2008, Proceedings of the Association for Association for Computational Linguistics’ Effective Tools and Methodologies for Teaching Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing June 2008, Columbus, Ohio available on-line and in paper form from the Association for Computational Linguistics.

2007

Li, Jianguo and Chris Brew. (2007) Disambiguating Levin Verbs without Using Hand-tagged Data Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing September 27-29, 2007, Borovets, Bulgaria

John P. Pestian; Chris Brew; Pawel Matykiewicz; DJ Hovermale; Neil Johnson; K. Bretonnel Cohen; Wlodzislaw Duch (2007) A shared task involving multi-label classification of clinical free text Proceedings of the Workshop on Biological, Translational, and Clinical Language Processing June 29, 2007 Prague, Czech Republic

Mehay, Dennis and Chris Brew (2007) BLEUATRE: Flattening Syntactic Dependencies for MT Evaluation The 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI-07)

2006

Chris Brew 2006 "Language Processing, statistical methods" In Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Ed. Edited by Keith Brown Elsevier: Oxford ISBN 0-08-044299-4

Park, Jihyun and Chris Brew (2006) A Finite-State Model of Human Sentence Processing, Proceedings of Coling/ACL2006, Sydney, Australia

Park, Jihyun and Chris Brew (2006) A Finite-State Model of Human Sentence Processing, Proceedings of AMLAP2006, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Li, Jianguo and Chris Brew. (2006) Parsing and Subcategorization Data In Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006,515–522 Sydney, Australia

Feldman, Anna, Jiri Hana, and Chris Brew (2006) A cross-language approach to rapid creation of new morpho-syntactically annotated resources. In Proceedings of the fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006) . Genoa, Italy

Jiri Hana, Anna Feldman, Luiz Amaral, and Chris Brew. (2006) Tagging Portuguese with a Spanish Tagger Using Cognates. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cross-language Knowledge Induction hosted in conjunction with the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-2006). Trento, Italy.

Anna Feldman, Jiri Hana, and Chris Brew (2006) Experiments in morphological annotation transfer Proceedings of Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, CICLing, A. Gelbukh (editor), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2006.

2005

Feldman, Anna, Jiri Hana, and Chris Brew. (2005) Buy one, get one free or what to do when your linguistic resources are limited”. To appear in Proceedings of the third international seminar on Computer Treatment of Slavic and East-European Languages (Slovko 2005). Bratislava, Slovakia.

Li, Jianguo, Chris Brew and Eric Fosler-Lussier 2005 Robust Extraction of Subcategorization Data from Spoken Language International Workshop on Parsing Technologies Vancouver, Canada

Brew. Chris and Markus Dickinson and W. Detmar Meurers (2005) ”Language and Computers”: Creating an Introduction for a General Undergraduate Audience Proceedings of the Workshop on “Effective Tools and Methodologies for Teaching Natural Language Processing And Computational Linguistics” 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-05) Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Li, Jianguo and Chris Brew. (2005) Automatic extraction of subcategorisation frames from spoken corpora In Katrin Erk,Alissa Melinger and Sabine Schulte im Walde Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Identification and Representation of Verb Features and Verb Classes Saarland University, Germany

Brew,Chris and Dragomir Radev (eds) 2005 Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics’ Effective Tools and Methodologies for Teaching Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing June 2005, Ann Arbor, Michigan available on-line and in paper form from the Association for Computational Linguistics.

Yoon, Kyuchul and Chris Brew (2005) A linguistically motivated approach to grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for Korean. Computer Speech and Language. (SCI Expanded Journal List, ISSN:0885-2308)

2004

McDonald,Scott and Chris Brew, (2004), “A distributional model of semantic context effects in lexical processing”. 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ,Barcelona, Spain July 21-26, 2004

Hana, Jiri, Anna Feldman and Chris Brew (2004) A Resource-light Approach to Russian Morphology: Tagging Russian using Czech resources In 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2004), Barcelona Spain, 25–26 July 2004

Lapata, Mirella and Chris Brew (2004) Verb Class Disambiguation using Informative Priors Computational Linguistics: (3)0:1, 45-73

2003

Brew C. (2003) Review of Huddleston and Pullum’s Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language Computational Linguistics 29 (1): 144-147

2002

Radev, Dragomir and Chris Brew (2002) Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics’ Effective Tools and Methodologies for Teaching Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing July 2002

Brew, Chris and Sabine Schulte im Walde. (2002). Spectral Clustering for German Verbs. In Hajic and Matsumoto Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Philadelphia, PA., pages 117–124.

Schulte im Walde, Sabine and Chris Brew. (2002). Inducing German Semantic Verb Classes from Purely Syntactic Subcategorisation Information. In ACL Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Philadelphia., pages 223–230.

Davis, Paul C. and Chris Brew. (2002). Stone Soup Translation. In Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI-2002), pages 31–41, Keihanna, Japan.

Wong, Wai Yi Peggy, Chris Brew, Shui-Duen Chan, and Mary Beckman. (2002). Using the Segmentation Corpus to define an inventory of concatenative units for Cantonese speech synthesis”. In Proceedings of the First SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing in conjunction with the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

(Papers presented at the First SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing), pages 119–123. Taipei, Taiwan.

Yoon, Kyuchul, Chris Brew, and Mary Beckman. (2002). Letter-to-sound- rules for Korean. In IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis Santa Monica, CA, 11–13 September.

2001

Penoff, Brad and Chris Brew. (2001). TREX-Q: A query language based on XML schema. In Proceedings of Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Workshop on Linguistic Databases, pages 200–209, Philadelphia,PA.

McDonald, Scott and Chris Brew. (2001). A rational analysis of semantic processing by the left cerebral hemisphere. In First Workshop on Cognitively Plausible Models of Semantic Processing, Edinburgh, July.

McDonald, Scott, Richard Shillcock, and Chris Brew. 2001. Low-level predictive inference in reading: Using distributional statistics to predict eye movements. In 7th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing.

Brew C. (2001) Review of Harry Bunt and Anton Nijholt’s Advances in Probabilistic and other Parsing Technologies Computational Linguistics 27 (3):459-461

Brew C. (2001) Review of Graeme Kennedy’s An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics Machine Translation 15: 259-266, 2001.

2000

Ide, Nancy and Chris Brew. (2000). Requirements Tools and Architectures for Annotated Corpora. In Proceedings of Data Architectures and Software Support for Large Corpora, pages 1–5, Paris, France

Oberlander, Jon and Chris Brew. (2000) Stochastic Natural Language Generation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 358(1769):1373–1388, April.

1999

Lapata, Maria and Chris Brew. (1999). Using subcategorization to resolve verb class ambiguity. In Pascale Fung and Joe Zhou, editors, Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in NLP and Very Large Corpora, pages 397–404, College Park, MD

Brew, Chris (1999). An extensible visualization tool to aid treebank exploration. In Hans Uszkoreit, (editor), Linguistically Interpreted Corpora, Bergen

1998

Poesio, Massimo, Sabine Schulte im Walde, and Chris Brew. (1998). Lexical clustering and definite description interpretation. In J.Choi and N.Green, editors, AAAI Spring Symposium on Learning for Discourse Interpretation, pages 82–89, Stanford, March. American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Hockenmaier, Julia and Chris Brew. (1998) Error-driven segmentation of Chinese. In Jin Guo, Kim Teng Lua, and Jie Xu, editors, 12th Pacific Conference on Language and Information, pages 218–229, Singapore, February. Chinese and Oriental Languages Processing Society.

Hockenmaier, Julia and Chris Brew. 1998. Error-Driven Segmentation of Chinese. International Journal of the Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society, 8(1):69–84, June 1998.

McKelvie, David, Chris Brew, and Henry Thompson. 1998. Using SGML as a basis for Data-Intensive NLP. Computers and the Humanities, 31(5):367–388.

1997

McKelvie, David , Chris Brew, and Henry Thompson (1997) Using SGML as a basis for data-intensive NLP. In Proceedings 5th Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, Stuttgart, Germany

1996

Brew, Chris and David McKelvie. (1996). Word-pair extraction for lexicography. In Kemal Oflazer and Harold Somers, editors, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on New Methods in Language Processing, pages 45–55, Ankara, September. Bilkent University.

1995

Brew, Chris (1995). Stochastic HPSG. In Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 83–89, Dublin, Ireland, March 28–31. University College Dublin.

Grover, C., Brew, C., Manandhar, S., Moens, M., and Schoter, A. (1995). Priority union and generalization in discourse grammar. In A. Schoter and C. Vogel, editors, Edinburgh Working Papers in Cognitive Science, Vol. 10: Nonclassical feature system, pages 157–196. University of Edinburgh.

1994

Brew, Chris and Henry S. Thompson. (1994). Automatic evaluation of computer generated text: a progress report on the Texteval project. In Clifford Weinstein, editor, Proceedings of the Workshop on Human Language Technology, pages 108–113. ARPA/ISTO, March.

Grover, Claire, Chris Brew, Marc Moens, and Suresh Manandhar (1994) Priority union and generalisation in discourse grammar. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 17–24, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Brew, Chris 1994. Comments on Eisele: types and clauses: two styles of probabilistic processing in CUF. In Jochen Dorre,editor, Computational Aspects of Constraint-Based Linguistic Description, Vol. II. ILLC/Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, pages 23–28. DYANA-2 Deliverable R1.2.B.

1993

Brew, Chris 1993. Adding preferences to CUF. In Jochen Dörre, editor, Computational Aspects of Constraint-Based Linguistics Description, Vol. 1. ILLC/Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, August. DYANA-2 Deliverable R1.2.A.

1992

Brew, Chris (1992). Letting the Cat out of the Bag: generation for shake-and-bake MT. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 610–616, Nantes, France.

1991

Brew, Chris 1991. Systemic classification and its efficiency. Computational Linguistics, 17(4):375–408.

Bard, E. G., Cooper, L., Kowtko, J. C., and Brew, C. (1991). Psycholinguistic studies on the incremental recognition of speech: A revised and extended introduction to the messy and the sticky. DYANA Report R1.3.B, University of Edinburgh.

Brew, C. and Isard, S. D. (1991). Modelling the intonation contours of informal speech. DYANA Report R1.4.B, University of Edinburgh.

Brew, Chris (1991). Bottom-up phonology: Modelling prosodic categories. In S. Bird, editor, Integrating Phonology, pages 35–55. Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh. DYANA Report R1.2.G.

Brew, Chris (1991). Systemic classification and its efficiency. Research Paper HCRC/RP-18, University of Edinburgh.

1990

Brew, Chris (1990). Systemic Grammar and Partial Descriptions. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, volume 1, pages 36–41, Helsinki, Finland.

Brew, C. and Isard, S. D. (1990). Principles for the automatic labelling of intonation contours. DYANA Report R1.4.A, University of Edinburgh.

Brew, C. and Isard, S. D. (1990). Principles of intonation contour labelling. In Edinburgh Working Papers in Linguistics. Department of Linguistics, Edinburgh.

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