Bonnie L. Webber

Orcid: 0000-0002-4284-8216

Affiliations:
  • University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics
  • University of Pennsylvania, Department of Computer and Information Science
  • Bolt, Beranek and Newman


According to our database1, Bonnie L. Webber authored at least 167 papers between 1976 and 2024.

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2024
Superlatives in Context: Explicit and Implicit Domain Restrictions for Superlative Frames.
CoRR, 2024

Syntactic Preposing and Discourse Relations.
Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024

Multi-Label Classification for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024

2023
Rant or rave: variation over time in the language of online reviews.
Lang. Resour. Evaluation, September, 2023

Annotation Error Detection: Analyzing the Past and Present for a More Coherent Future.
Comput. Linguistics, March, 2023

Findings of the WMT 2023 Shared Task on Discourse-Level Literary Translation: A Fresh Orb in the Cosmos of LLMs.
Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Machine Translation, 2023

A Joint Matrix Factorization Analysis of Multilingual Representations.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023

2022
Revisiting Shallow Discourse Parsing in the PDTB-3: Handling Intra-sentential Implicits.
CoRR, 2022

Facilitating Contrastive Learning of Discourse Relational Senses by Exploiting the Hierarchy of Sense Relations.
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022

2021
Kathy McKeown Interviews Bonnie Webber.
Comput. Linguistics, 2021

Frustratingly Simple but Surprisingly Strong: Using Language-Independent Features for Zero-shot Cross-lingual Semantic Parsing.
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021

Refocusing on Relevance: Personalization in NLG.
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021

Have We Solved The Hard Problem? It's Not Easy! Contextual Lexical Contrast as a Means to Probe Neural Coherence.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021

2020
Querent Intent in Multi-Sentence Questions.
CoRR, 2020

Extending Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition to the PDTB-3.
CoRR, 2020

Reducing Quantity Hallucinations in Abstractive Summarization.
CoRR, 2020

Shallow Discourse Annotation for Chinese TED Talks.
Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2020

Reducing the Frequency of Hallucinated Quantities in Abstractive Summaries.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, 2020

TED-CDB: A Large-Scale Chinese Discourse Relation Dataset on TED Talks.
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2020

2019
Representation of sentence meaning (A JNLE Special Issue).
Nat. Lang. Eng., 2019

A survey of cross-lingual features for zero-shot cross-lingual semantic parsing.
CoRR, 2019

Discourse Processing for Text Analysis: Recent Successes, Current Challenges.
Proceedings of the 4th Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL 2019) co-located with the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019), 2019

Can Models of Author Intention Support Quality Assessment of Content?
Proceedings of the 4th Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL 2019) co-located with the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019), 2019

Classifying Author Intention for Writer Feedback in Related Work.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, 2019

Ambiguity in Explicit Discourse Connectives.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics, 2019

GECOR: An End-to-End Generative Ellipsis and Co-reference Resolution Model for Task-Oriented Dialogue.
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2019

A Framework for Annotating 'Related Works' to Support Feedback to Novice Writers.
Proceedings of the 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, 2019

2018
Neural Networks for Cross-lingual Negation Scope Detection.
CoRR, 2018

Talking to myself: self-dialogues as data for conversational agents.
CoRR, 2018

Aravind K. Joshi.
Comput. Linguistics, 2018

Evaluating Machine Translation Performance on Chinese Idioms with a Blacklist Method.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2018

NegPar: A parallel corpus annotated for negation.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2018

Getting to "Hearer-old": Charting Referring Expressions Across Time.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Brussels, Belgium, October 31, 2018

Discourse Coherence: Concurrent Explicit and Implicit Relations.
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018

2017
Edina: Building an Open Domain Socialbot with Self-dialogues.
CoRR, 2017

Universal Dependencies to Logical Forms with Negation Scope.
CoRR, 2017

Exploring Substitutability through Discourse Adverbials and Multiple Judgments.
Proceedings of the IWCS 2017 - 12th International Conference on Computational Semantics - Long papers, Montpellier, France, September 19, 2017

Discourse Relations and Conjoined VPs: Automated Sense Recognition.
Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017

Detecting negation scope is easy, except when it isn't.
Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017

2016
Findings of the 2016 WMT Shared Task on Cross-lingual Pronoun Prediction.
Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation, 2016

Inconsistency Detection in Semantic Annotation.
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2016, 2016

CoNLL 2016 Shared Task on Multilingual Shallow Discourse Parsing.
Proceedings of the 20th SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: Shared Task, 2016

Annotating Discourse Relations with the PDTB Annotator.
Proceedings of the COLING 2016, 2016

A Discourse-Annotated Corpus of Conjoined VPs.
Proceedings of the 10th Linguistic Annotation Workshop held in conjunction with ACL 2016, 2016

Filling in the Blanks in Understanding Discourse Adverbials: Consistency, Conflict, and Context-Dependence in a Crowdsourced Elicitation Task.
Proceedings of the 10th Linguistic Annotation Workshop held in conjunction with ACL 2016, 2016

Neural Networks For Negation Scope Detection.
Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016

2015
Translating Negation: Induction, Search And Model Errors.
Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Syntax, 2015

Recovering discourse relations: Varying influence of discourse adverbials.
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Linking Computational Models of Lexical, 2015

Bridging Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics through Clausal Adjuncts.
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Linking Computational Models of Lexical, 2015

A Maximum Entropy Classifier for Cross-Lingual Pronoun Prediction.
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation, 2015

Analysing ParCor and its Translations by State-of-the-art SMT Systems.
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation, 2015

2014
Reflections on the Penn Discourse TreeBank, Comparable Corpora, and Complementary Annotation.
Comput. Linguistics, 2014

Discourse for Machine Translation.
Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 2014

ParCor 1.0: A Parallel Pronoun-Coreference Corpus to Support Statistical MT.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2014

Structured and Unstructured Cache Models for SMT Domain Adaptation.
Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014

Applying the semantics of negation to SMT through n-best list re-ranking.
Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014

2013
Discourse Relations, Discourse Structure, Discourse Semantics.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, 2013

What excludes an Alternative in Coherence Relations?
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics, 2013

Implicitation of Discourse Connectives in (Machine) Translation.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation, 2013

Evaluating a City Exploration Dialogue System with Integrated Question-Answering and Pedestrian Navigation.
Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013

Concurrent Discourse Relations.
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop, 2013

2012
Discourse structure and language technology.
Nat. Lang. Eng., 2012

Discourse Processing Manfred Stede University of Potsdam Morgan & Claypool (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, edited by Graeme Hirst, volume 15), 2011, ix+155 pp; paperbound, ISBN 978-1-60845-734-2, $40.00; ebook, ISBN 978-1-60845-735-9, $30.00 or by subscription.
Comput. Linguistics, 2012

Discourse Structure and Computation: Past, Present and Future.
Proceedings of the Special Workshop on Rediscovering 50 Years of Discoveries@ACL 2012, 2012

2011
Stable Classification of Text Genres.
Comput. Linguistics, 2011

Invited Paper: Discourse Structures and Language Technologies.
Proceedings of the 18th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics, 2011

2010
Exploiting Scope for Shallow Discourse Parsing.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2010

Realization of Discourse Relations by Other Means: Alternative Lexicalizations.
Proceedings of the COLING 2010, 2010

2009
Special issue on interactive question answering: Introduction.
Nat. Lang. Eng., 2009

Genre distinctions for discourse in the Penn TreeBank.
Proceedings of the ACL 2009, 2009

2008
Themes in biomedical natural language processing: BioNLP08.
BMC Bioinform., 2008

The Penn Discourse TreeBank 2.0.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2008

A Discourse Resource for Turkish: Annotating Discourse Connectives in the METU Corpus.
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Asian Language Resources, 2008

2007
Answer comparison in automated question answering.
J. Appl. Log., 2007

Questions and Answers: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives.
J. Appl. Log., 2007

Breaking News: Changing Attitudes and Practices.
Comput. Linguistics, 2007

Nexus: a real time QA system.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2007

Marking time in developmental biology.
Proceedings of the Biological, translational, and clinical language processing, 2007

Discourse Annotation Working Group Report.
Proceedings of the Linguistic Annotation Workshop, 2007

2006
Attribution and its annotation in the Penn Discourse TreeBank.
Trait. Autom. des Langues, 2006

Computing Discourse Semantics: The Predicate-Argument Semantics of Discourse Connectives in D-LTAG.
J. Semant., 2006

Experiments at the University of Edinburgh for the TREC 2006 QA Track.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2006

2005
Extracting Genetic Pathways From Text and Grounding at the Spatio-Temporal Level.
BMC Bioinform., 2005

Automated Terminological and Structural Analysis of Human-Mouse Anatomical Ontology Mappings.
BMC Bioinform., 2005

Text-mining, milk proteins and nutraceutical potential - the MilkER project.
BMC Bioinform., 2005

COBrA: a bio-ontology editor.
Bioinform., 2005

Question Answering with QED at TREC 2005.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2005

Attribution and the (Non-)Alignment of Syntactic and Discourse Arguments of Connectives.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus Annotations II: Pie in the Sky@ACL 2005, 2005

Tense as Discourse Anaphor.
Proceedings of the Language of Time - A Reader., 2005

2004
D-LTAG: extending lexicalized TAG to discourse.
Cogn. Sci., 2004

TREC Genomics 2004.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2004

Question Answering with QED and Wee at TREC 2004.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2004

Part-of Relations in Anatomy Ontologies: A Proposal for RDFS and OWL Formalisations.
Proceedings of the Biocomputing 2004, 2004

Annotating Discourse Connectives and Their Arguments.
Proceedings of the Workshop Frontiers in Corpus Annotation@HLT-NAACL 2004, 2004

The Penn Discourse Treebank.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2004

Classification from Full Text: A Comparison of Canonical Sections of Scientific Papers.
Proceedings of the International Joint Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine and its Applications, 2004

2003
D-LTAG System: Discourse Parsing with a Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar.
J. Log. Lang. Inf., 2003

Anaphora and Discourse Structure.
Comput. Linguistics, 2003

Microplanning with Communicative Intentions: The SPUD System.
Comput. Intell., 2003

Edinburgh-Stanford TREC-2003 Genomics Track.
Proceedings of The Twelfth Text REtrieval Conference, 2003

QED: The Edinburgh TREC-2003 Question Answering System.
Proceedings of The Twelfth Text REtrieval Conference, 2003

Automatic Multi-Layer Corpus Annotation for Evaluation Question Answering Methods: CBC4Kids.
Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora, 2003

2002
Research Paper: Combining Geometric and Probabilistic Reasoning for Computer-based Penetrating-Trauma Assessment.
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2002

A Semantic Account of Adverbials as Discourse Connectives.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2002 Workshop, 2002

Enhanced natural language access to anatomically-indexed data.
Proceedings of the ACL 2002 Workshop on Natural Language Processing in the Biomedical Domain, 2002

2001
Towards the Use of Automated Reasoning in Discourse Disambiguation.
J. Log. Lang. Inf., 2001

2000
Using Bayesian Networks for Diagnostic Reasoning in Penetrating Injury Assessment.
Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2000), 2000

TraumaSCAN: assessing penetrating trauma with geometric and probabilistic reasoning.
Proceedings of the AMIA 2000, 2000

1999
Discourse Relations: A Structural and Presuppositional Account Using Lexicalised TAG.
Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1999

1998
TraumaTIQ: Online Decision Support for Trauma Management.
IEEE Intell. Syst., 1998

Anchoring a Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar for Discourse
CoRR, 1998

Exploiting Multiple Goals and Intentions in Decision Support for the Management of Multiple Trauma: A Review of the TraumAID Project.
Artif. Intell., 1998

Describing discourse semantics.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks, 1998

Textual Economy Through Close Coupling Of Syntax And Semantics.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, 1998

Probabilistically Predicting Penetrating Injury for Decision Support.
Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS '98), 1998

1997
Brief Review: Natural Language Generation in Health Care.
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 1997

Structure and Ostension in the Interpretation of Discourse Deixis
CoRR, 1997

Natural Language Generation in Healthcare: Brief Review
CoRR, 1997

On-line quality [corrected] assurance in the initial definitive management of multiple trauma: evaluating system potential.
Artif. Intell. Medicine, 1997

Towards Personalities for Animated Agents with Reactive and Planning Behaviors.
Proceedings of the Creating Personalities for Synthetic Actors, 1997

Probabilistic predictions of penetrating injury to anatomic structures.
Proceedings of the AMIA 1997, 1997

Expectations in Incremental Discourse Processing.
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 8th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1997

1996
Casualty Modeling for Real-Time Medical Training.
Presence Teleoperators Virtual Environ., 1996

Decision Networks for Integrating the Behaviors of Virtual Agents and Avatars.
Proceedings of the 1996 Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium, 1996

A Bias towards Relevance: Recognizing Plans where Goal Minimization Fails.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Eighth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, 1996

1995
The Center for Human Modeling and Simulation.
Presence Teleoperators Virtual Environ., 1995

Instructions, Intentions and Expectations.
Artif. Intell., 1995

Instructing Animated Agents: Viewing Language in Behavioral Terms.
Proceedings of the Multimodal Human-Computer Communication, 1995

1994
Research in Natural Language Processing.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology, 1994

Upholding the Maxim of Relevance during Patient-Centered Activities.
Proceedings of the 4th Applied Natural Language Processing Conference, 1994

1993
Progressive horizon planning-planning exploratory-corrective behavior.
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern., 1993

Instructions: Language and Behavior.
Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Chambéry, France, August 28, 1993

1992
Flexible support for trauma management through goal-directed reasoning and planning.
Artif. Intell. Medicine, 1992

Natural Language Research.
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Harriman, 1992

Accommodating Context Change.
Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 28 June, 1992

1991
Task Communication Through Natural Language and Graphics - Workshop Report.
AI Mag., 1991

1990
Narrated Animation: A Case for Generation.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, 1990

Free Adjuncts In Natural Language Instructions.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1990

1989
Natural Language I.
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Cape Cod, 1989

Elements of a Computational Model of Cooperative Response Generation.
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Philadelphia, 1989

1988
Integration Discontinuity: Interfacing Users and Systems.
ACM SIGCHI Bull., 1988

The Design of a Cooperative Respondent.
ACM SIGCHI Bull., 1988

Tense as Discourse Anaphor.
Comput. Linguistics, 1988

Discourse Deixis: Reference to Discourse Segments.
Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1988

1987
Position Paper: Event Reference.
Proceedings of the Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing 3, 1987

The Interpretation of Tense in Discourse.
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1987

1986
Natural language interactions with artificial experts.
Proc. IEEE, 1986

Research in Natural Language Processing.
Proceedings of the Strategic Computing, 1986

1985
Questions, Answers and Responses: Interacting with Knowledge-Base Systems.
Proceedings of the On Knowledge Base Management Systems: Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Database Technologies, 1985

A Natural Language Processing: A Survey.
Proceedings of the On Knowledge Base Management Systems: Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Database Technologies, 1985

1984
Default Reasoning in Interaction.
Proceedings of the Non-Monotonic Reasoning Workshop, 1984

Preventing False Inferences.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1984

Living Up To Expectations: Computing Expert Responses.
Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Austin, 1984

1983
Logic and Natural Language.
Computer, 1983

Varieties of User Misconceptions: Detection and Correction.
Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Karlsruhe, 1983

A Panel on AI and Databases.
Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Karlsruhe, 1983

1982
Taking the Initiative in Natural Language Data Base Interactions: Monitoring as Response.
Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1982

Taking the Initiative in Natural Language Data Base Interactions: Justifying Why.
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1982

User Participation in the Reasoning Processes of Expert Systems.
Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1982

1981
Natural Language Interaction With Dynamic Knowledge Bases: Monitoring as Response.
Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1981

Some Issues in Parsing and Natural Language Understanding.
Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, June 29, 1981

1980
Interactive Discourse: Looking to the Future.
Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1980

Knowledge Representation for Syntactic/Semantic Processing.
Proceedings of the 1st Annual National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1980

1978
On Deriving Aspectual Sense.
Cogn. Sci., 1978

Description Formation and Discourse Model Synthesis.
Proceedings of the Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing-2, 1978

1977
Anaphora and Logical Form: On Formal Meaning Representations for Natural Language.
Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Cambridge, 1977

1976
Uses of higher level knowledge in a speech understanding system: A progress report.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1976


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