Publications

Journal articles

Published

• 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)
• Quantificational arguments in temporal adjunct clauses. Linguistics and Philosophy 28(5): 541-597, 2005. Abstract, preprints in PDF (172K), PostScript (300K)
• Coordination of parts of words. Lingua 115(4): 359-393, 2005. Abstract, preprints in PDF (150K), PostScript (238K)
• Focus below the word level. Natural Language Semantics 12(1): 1-22, 2004. Abstract, preprints in PDF (135K), PostScript (165K)

Accepted for publication

• Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio. Inter-coder agreement for computational linguistics (survey article). To appear in Computational Linguistics. Abstract, Journal version (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.

Conference proceedings

• Massimo Poesio and Ron Artstein. Anaphoric annotation in the ARRAU corpus. LREC 2008, Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008. Abstract, PDF (191K)
• Ron Artstein, Sudeep Gandhe, Anton Leuski and David Traum. Field Testing of an interactive question-answering character. ELRA workshop on evaluation, 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, MA, 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, MA, 1997. Abstract, PDF (37K), PostScript (128K)

Dissertation

• Parts of Words: Compositional Semantics for Prosodic Constituents.

Book review

• Review of Kadmon (2001), Formal Pragmatics. Research in Language 1: 197-202, 2003 (Łódź University Press, Łódź, Poland). PDF (24K), PostScript (44K)

Edited works

• Massimo Poesio and Ron Artstein (eds.). Ambiguity and Semantic Judgment. Special issue of Research on Language and Computation (Springer), in preparation.
• 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

• 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

• Case constraints and empty categories in Optimality Theory parsing, April 2000. (24 pp.) PDF (139K), PostScript (114K)
• Hierarchies, May 1998. (22 pp.) PDF (135K), PostScript (113K)
• Antecedent-contained deletion within NPs, December 1997. (5 pp.) PDF (19K), PostScript (24K)

Last updated 10 April 2008; maintained by Ron Artstein, last_name [at] ict.usc.edu