General Research Interests
Natural Language Processing
Formal Pragmatics
Discourse Coherence
Formal Semantics
Intonation & Pragmatic Meaning

Publications

  • Kehler, Appelt, Taylor and Simma. 2004. "The (Non)Utility of Predicate-Argument Frequencies for Pronoun Resolution." Proceedings of HLT/NAACL 2004. Boston, MA, May 2004.

  • Kehler, Appelt, Taylor and Simma. 2004. "Competitive Self-Trained Pronoun Interpretation." Proceedings of HLT/NAACL 2004, pp. 33-36. Boston, MA, May 2004.

  • Arvaniti, Amalia and Lara Taylor. 2002. "On the origins and scope on final lowering." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 112: 2443.

    Dissertation Topic
    Generating pronouns vs. full NPs in discourse

    Past Research Projects
    Discovering Properties for Semantic Role Labeling
    Computational Model for Identifying Pleonastic It
    Discourse Coherence for Ordering Information
    Interaction of Information Structure and Discourse Coherence Relations
    Epistemic Interpretation of Cause-Effect Relations
    Maximum Entropy Model of Pronoun Resolution

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