Publications
Journal articles
- Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio.
Inter-coder agreement for computational linguistics
(survey article).
Computational Linguistics
34(4): 555-596, 2008.
Abstract,
Journal preprint (PDF, 41 pages, 304K),
Extended version (PDF, 66 pages, 367K)
An earlier version was distributed under the title
“Kappa3 = alpha (or beta)”
as Technical Report CSM-437,
University of Essex Department of Computer Science, September 2005.
- Massimo Poesio, Patrick Sturt, Ron Artstein, and Ruth Filik.
Underspecification and Anaphora: Theoretical Issues and
Preliminary Evidence.
Discourse Processes 42(2): 157-175, 2006.
Abstract,
PDF preprint (150K)
Distributed as Technical report CSM-438,
University of Essex Department of Computer Science, October 2005.
PDF (143K)
- Ron Artstein and Nissim Francez.
Plurality and temporal modification.
Linguistics and Philosophy
29(3): 251-276, 2006.
Abstract,
preprint in
PDF (85K)
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Quantificational arguments in temporal adjunct clauses.
Linguistics and Philosophy
28(5): 541-597, 2005.
Abstract,
preprints in
PDF (172K),
PostScript (300K)
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Coordination of parts of words.
Lingua 115(4): 359-393, 2005.
Abstract,
preprints in
PDF (150K),
PostScript (238K)
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Focus below the word level.
Natural Language Semantics
12(1): 1-22, 2004.
Abstract,
preprints in
PDF (135K),
PostScript (165K)
Book article
- Ron Artstein, Sudeep Gandhe, Jillian Gerten, Anton Leuski
and David Traum.
Semi-formal evaluation of conversational characters.
In
Languages:
From Formal to Natural. Essays Dedicated to Nissim Francez on the
Occasion of His 65th Birthday
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5533),
edited by Orna Grumberg, Michael Kaminski, Shmuel Katz and
Shuly Wintner, pages 22–35.
Springer, Heidelberg, 2009.
Abstract,
PDF
preprint (1.05M)
Dimmed flags indicate conferences in which I did
not participate in person, and the paper was delivered by a co-author.
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Sudeep Gandhe, Nicolle Whitman, David Traum and Ron Artstein.
An integrated authoring tool for tactical questioning dialogue
systems.
To appear in the proceedings of
the
6th Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical
Dialogue Systems,
Pasadena, California, July 2009.
Abstract,
PDF (577K)
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Ron Artstein, Sudeep Gandhe, Michael Rushforth and David Traum.
Viability of a simple dialogue act scheme for a tactical
questioning dialogue system.
To appear in the proceedings of
DiaHolmia, the
13th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of
Dialogue,
Stockholm, Sweden, June 2009.
Abstract,
PDF (244K)
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Ron Artstein, Jacob Cannon, Sudeep Gandhe, Jillian Gerten,
Joe Henderer, Anton Leuski and David Traum.
Coherence of off-topic responses for a virtual character.
26th Army Science Conference,
Orlando, Florida, December 2008.
Abstract,
PDF (460K)
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Sudeep Gandhe, David DeVault, Antonio Roque, Bilyana Martinovski,
Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski, Jillian Gerten, and David Traum.
From domain specification to virtual humans: An integrated approach
to authoring tactical questioning characters.
Interspeech 2008,
Brisbane, Australia, September 2008.
Abstract,
PDF (427K)
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David DeVault, David Traum and Ron Artstein.
Making grammar-based generation easier to deploy in dialogue
systems.
Proceedings of the
9th
SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue,
pages 198–207.
Columbus, Ohio, June 2008.
Abstract,
PDF (845K)
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David DeVault, David Traum and Ron Artstein.
Practical grammar-based NLG from examples.
Proceedings of the
Fifth
International Natural Language Generation Conference,
pages 77–85.
Salt Fork, Ohio, June 2008.
Abstract,
PDF (376K)
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Massimo Poesio and Ron Artstein.
Anaphoric annotation in the ARRAU corpus.
LREC 2008,
Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008.
Abstract,
PDF (191K)
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Ron Artstein, Sudeep Gandhe, Anton Leuski and David Traum.
Field Testing of an interactive question-answering character.
Proceedings of the ELRA workshop on evaluation,
pages 36–40. Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008.
Abstract,
PDF (1.2M)
- Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio.
Identifying reference to abstract objects in dialogue.
brandial 2006 proceedings,
Potsdam, Germany, September 2006.
Abstract,
PDF (58K)
- Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio.
Bias decreases in proportion to the number of annotators.
In Gerhard Jaeger, Paola Monachesi, Gerald Penn, James Rogers, and
Shuly Wintner (eds.),
Proceedings of FG-MoL 2005, pages 141-150.
Edinburgh, August 2005.
Abstract,
PDF (110K)
- Massimo Poesio and Ron Artstein.
Annotating (anaphoric) ambiguity.
Corpus linguistics,
Birmingham, England, July 2005.
Abstract,
PDF (64K)
- Massimo Poesio and Ron Artstein.
The reliability of anaphoric annotation, reconsidered:
Taking ambiguity into account.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus Annotation II:
Pie in the Sky, pages 76-83. Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005.
Abstract,
PDF (71K)
- Ron Artstein and Nissim Francez.
Plural times and temporal modification.
In Paul Dekker and Robert van Rooy (eds.),
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Amsterdam Colloquium,
pp. 63-68. ILLC, University of Amsterdam, 2003.
Superseded by Plurality and temporal modification, above.
- A focus semantics for echo questions.
In Ágnes Bende-Farkas and Arndt Riester (eds.),
Workshop on Information Structure in Context, pp.
98-107. IMS, University of Stuttgart, 2002.
Abstract,
PDF (88K),
PostScript (112K)
- Coordination of word parts: a surface level account.
In Graham Katz, Sabine Reinhard and Philip Reuter (eds.),
Sinn und Bedeutung 6: Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the
Gesellschaft für Semantik, pp. 1-15.
Institute of Cognitive Science,
University of Osnabrück, 2002.
Superseded by Coordination of parts of words, above.
- Coordination of word parts is interpreted at surface level.
In William Earl Griffin (ed.),
The Role of Agreement in Natural Language: Proceedings of the
Fifth Annual Texas Linguistics Society Conference,
pp. 73-84. Texas Linguistic Forum, Austin, 2003.
Superseded by Coordination of parts of words, above.
- Conjunction weakening and morphological plurality.
In Karine Megerdoomian and Leora A. Bar-el (eds),
WCCFL 20 Proceedings, pp. 29-42.
Cascadilla Press, Somerville, Massachusetts, 2001.
PDF (68K),
PostScript (72K)
- Person, animacy and null subjects.
In Tina Cambier-Langeveld, Anikó Lipták, Michael
Redford and Erik
Jan van der Torre (eds.), Proceedings of Console VII,
pp. 1-15. SOLE, Leiden, 1999.
Abstract,
PDF (75K)
- Group events as means for representing collectivity.
In Benjamin Bruening (ed.),
MITWPL 31: Proceedings of the Eighth Student Conference in
Linguistics, pp. 41-51.
MIT Working Papers
in Linguistics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997.
Abstract,
PDF (37K),
PostScript (128K)
Dissertation
Book review
Edited works
- Massimo Poesio and Ron Artstein (eds.).
Ambiguity and Semantic
Judgments (special issue).
Research on Language and Computation
6(3-4), 2008.
Table
of Contents
- Ron Artstein and Laure Vieu (eds.).
Decalog 2007: Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on the Semantics
and Pragmatics of Dialogue.
Rovereto, Italy, May 2007.
Full
workshop proceedings (PDF, 5.1M);
individual papers can be accessed from the
workshop program.
- Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio (eds.).
Ambiguity in Anaphora Workshop Proceedings.
European Summer School in Language, Logic and Information,
Málaga, Spain, August 2006.
Full
workshop proceedings (PDF, 688K);
individual papers can be accessed from the
workshop program.
- Ron Artstein and Madeline Holler (eds.).
RuLing
Papers 1: Working Papers from Rutgers University.
Rutgers University Department of Linguistics,
New Brunswick, NJ, 1998.
Working papers and technical reports.
- Massimo Poesio, David Day, Ron Artstein, Jason Duncan,
Vladimir Eidelman, Claudio Giuliano, Rob Hall, Janet Hitzeman,
Alan Jern, Mijail Kabadjov, Stanley Yong Wai Keong, Gideon Mann,
Alessandro Moschitti, Simone Ponzetto, Jason Smith, Josef
Steinberger, Michael Strube, Jian Su, Yannick Versley, Xiaofeng
Yang and Michael Wick.
ELERFED: Final Report.
Technical report of the research group on
Exploiting Lexical and Encyclopedic Resources For Entity
Disambiguation,
Summer Workshop on Language Engineering,
Center for Language and Speech Processing,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, October 2007.
PDF (980K)
- The incompatibility of underspecification and markedness
in Optimality Theory.
In Ron Artstein and Madeline Holler (eds.),
RuLing Papers 1: Working Papers from Rutgers
University, pp. 7-13.
Rutgers University Department of Linguistics,
New Brunswick, NJ, 1998.
Abstract,
PDF (25K)
Older unpublished manuscripts