Publications

Rob Koeling, Amanda Nicholson, John Carroll and Rosemary Tate (2011). Annotating a corpus of clinical text records for learning to recognize symptoms automatically. In Proceedings of Louhi '11 2011 PDF

Rob Koeling, Rosemary Tate and John Carroll (2011). Automatically estimating the Incidence of Symptoms Recorded in GP Free Text Notes. In Proceedings of MIXHS'11 2011 PDF

Nicholson A, Tate AR, Koeling R, Cassell JA (2011). What does validation of cases in electronic record databases mean? The potential contribution of free text. In Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2011 Mar;20(3):321-4.

Rob Koeling, Marco De-Boni, Martijn Spitters, Jakub Zavrel (2009) Finding paraphrases for dialogue utterances using a multilingual parallel movie subtitle corpus. In Proceedings of IWSDS’09, 1st International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology Workshop, Kloster Irsee, Germany, 2009.

Jin, P., D. McCarthy, R. Koeling and J. Carroll (2009) Estimating and exploiting the entropy of sense distributions. In Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT) 2009 Conference, Boulder, Colorado.

Rob Koeling and Diana McCarthy (2008) From Predicting Predominant Senses to Using Local Context for Word Sense Disambiguation. In Semantics in Text Processing. STEP 2008 Conference Proceedings, Bos, J. and Delmonte, R. (Eds). College Publications. 129-138.

Iida, R., D. McCarthy, and R. Koeling (2008) Gloss-Based Semantic Similarity Metrics for Predominant Sense Acquisition. In: Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing pp 561-568

McCarthy, D., R. Koeling, J. Weeds and J. Carroll, (2007) Unsupervised Acquisition of Predominant Word Senses. Computational Linguistics, 33 (4) pp 553-590

Koeling, R. and D. McCarthy (2007) Sussx: WSD using Automatically Acquired Predominant Senses, In: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval-2007) , Prague, Czech Republic pp 314-317 PDF version available

Koeling, R., D. McCarthy and J. Carroll (2007) Text categorization for improved priors of word meaning In: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLING 2007), Mexico City, Mexico, 3rd Best Paper Award. PDF version available

Koeling, R., D. McCarthy, and J. Carroll (2005) Domain-Specific Sense Distributions and Predominant Sense Acquisition. In: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. HLT/EMNLP 2005 pp 419-426. PDF version available

Atserias, J., Magnini, B., O. Popescu, E. Agirre, A. Atutxa, G. Rigau, J. Carroll and R. Koeling (2004) `Cross-language acquisition of semantic models for verbal predicates'. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Lisbon, Portugal

McCarthy, D., R. Koeling, J. Weeds, and J. Carroll (2004) Automatic identification of infrequent word senses. In: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference of Computational Linguistics, COLING-2004. Geneva, Switzerland. pp 1220-1226 PDF version available

McCarthy, D., R. Koeling, J. Weeds, and J. Carroll, (2004) Finding predominant senses in untagged text. In: Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Barclona, Spain. pp 280-287 PDF version available ACL Best Paper Award.

McCarthy, D., R. Koeling, J. Weeds and J. Carroll (2004) Using automatically acquired predominant senses for word sense disambiguation. Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the ACL SENSEVAL-3 workshop. Barclona, Spain. pp 151-154 PDF version available

McCarthy, D., R. Koeling and J. Weeds (2004) Ranking WordNet Senses Automatically. Technical Report. CSRP 569. Department of Informatics, University of Sussex. PDF version available

A. Kilgarriff and R. Evans and R. Koeling and M. Rundell and D. Tugwell. "WASPBENCH: a lexicographer's workbench supporting state-of-the-art word sense disambiguation"; Research notes and demonstration papers at EACL-2003.

A. Kilgarriff and R. Koeling "An evaluation of a lexicographer's workbench incorporating word sense disambiguation" Also published in Proceedings of CICLING 3, Mexico City, Springer Verlag, 2003

Rob Koeling and Adam Kilgarriff "Evaluating the WASPbench, a lexicography tool incorporating word sense disambiguation" In Proc. ICON, December 2002, Mumbai. Vikas Publishing, New Delhi,pp. 165-174

Rob Koeling Dialogue-Based Disambiguation: Using Dialogue Status to Improve Speech Understanding. PhD thesis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, December 2001.

Sylvia Knight, Genevieve Gorrell, Manny Rayner, David Milward, Rob Koeling, Ian Lewin "Comparing grammar-based and robust approaches to speech understanding: a case study" In: proceedings of Eurospeech 2001, pp. 1779-1783

John Nerbonne, Anja Belz, Nicola Cancedda, Hervé Déjean, James Hammerton, Rob Koeling, Stasinos Konstantopoulos, Miles Osborne, Franck Thollard and Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang "Learning Computational Grammars", In: Walter Daelemans and Rémi Zajac (eds.) Proceedings of CoNLL-2001, pp. 97-104.

Rob Koeling "Text chunking using Maximum Entropy models" In: Proceedings ConLL (contribution to shared task), Lisbon, 2000

Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang, Walter Daelemans, Herve Dejean, Rob Koeling, Yuval Krymolowski, Vasin Punyakanok, Dan Roth "Applying System Combination to Base Noun Phrase Identification" In: proceedings of Coling, Saarbruecken, Germany, 2000

Rob Koeling "Using dialogue information for parsing in a spoken dialogue system" In: proceedings of Gotalog, Gotheborg, Sweden, 2000

Gertjan van Noord, Gosse Bouma, Rob Koeling, and Mark-Jan Nederhof. "Robust grammatical analysis for spoken dialogue systems." In: Natural Language Engineering. Volume 5; Number 1; Pages 45-93; 1999

Rob Koeling. "A Maximum Entropy Model for using dialogue information in speech parsing" Technical Report 97, NWO Priority Programme Language and Speech Technology, 29 sept 1999, Groningen

Gertjan van Noord, Remko Bonnema, Rens Bod, Rob Koeling, Remko Scha "Cooperation Data-oriented and Grammar-based Natural Language Processing", Technical Report 53, NWO Priority Programme Language and Speech Technology, 11 feb 1998, Amsterdam/Groningen.

Rob Koeling. "Moving on the dialogue game board." In: Proceedings of the second Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, Tbilisi, 1997.

Mark-Jan Nederhof, Gosse Bouma, Rob Koeling, and Gertjan van Noord. "Grammatical analysis in the OVIS spoken-dialogue system." In: Proceedings of the ACL/EACL Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems, Madrid, Spain, 1997

Gertjan van Noord, Gosse Bouma, Rob Koeling, and Mark-Jan Nederhof. "Conventional natural language processing in the NWO priority programme on language and speech technology." October 1996 Deliverables. Technical Report 28, NWO Priority Programme Language and Speech Technology, 1996.

Rob Koeling. "Using higher order unification for disambiguation." In: AnneMarie Mineur, editor, Proceedings of the first ESSLLI student session, Prague, 1996

Gertjan van Noord, Mark-Jan Nederhof, Rob Koeling, and Gosse Bouma. "Conventional natural language processing in the NWO priority programme on language and speech technology." January 1996 Deliverables. Technical Report 22, NWO Priority Programme Language and Speech Technology, 1996.

Rob Koeling. "Quantification and Scoping: Representing scope-ambiguities by means of Underspecification" In: Proceedings of Clin VI Antwerpen, 1996

Gosse Bouma, Rob Koeling, Mark-Jan Nederhof, and Gertjan van Noord. "Grammatical analysis in a spoken dialog system." In: Roel Jonkers, Edith Kaan, and Anko Wiegel (eds), Language and Cognition 5. Yearbook 1995, pages 27-44. University of Groningen, Groningen, 1996.