Derrick Higgins

According to our database, Derrick Higgins authored at least 20 papers between 1998 and 2016.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of five.
• Erdős number of four.

2016

An Unsupervised System for Visual Exploration of Twitter Conversations.

Derrick Higgins, Michael Heilman, Adrianna Jelesnianska, Keith Ingersoll

Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, 2016

2014

Is getting the right answer just about choosing the right words? The role of syntactically-informed features in short answer scoring.

Derrick Higgins, Chris Brew, Michael Heilman, Ramon Ziai, Lei Chen, Aoife Cahill, Michael Flor, Nitin Madnani, Joel R. Tetreault, Daniel Blanchard, Diane Napolitano, Chong Min Lee, John Blackmore

CoRR, 2014

2012

Measuring the Use of Factual Information in Test-Taker Essays.

Beata Beigman Klebanov, Derrick Higgins

Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using NLP, 2012

2011

A three-stage approach to the automated scoring of spontaneous spoken responses.

Derrick Higgins, Xiaoming Xi, Klaus Zechner, David M. Williamson

Comput. Speech Lang., 2011

Non-English Response Detection Method for Automated Proficiency Scoring System.

Su-Youn Yoon, Derrick Higgins

Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2011

2010

Using Amazon Mechanical Turk for Transcription of Non-Native Speech.

Keelan Evanini, Derrick Higgins, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Creating Speech and Language Data with Amazon's Mechanical Turk, 2010

2009

Automatic scoring of non-native spontaneous speech in tests of spoken English.

Klaus Zechner, Derrick Higgins, Xiaoming Xi, David M. Williamson

Speech Commun., 2009

Adapting the acoustic model of a speech recognizer for varied proficiency non-native spontaneous speech using read speech with language-specific pronunciation difficulty.

Klaus Zechner, Derrick Higgins, René Lawless, Yoko Futagi, Sarah Ohls, George Ivanov

Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

2007

Speechrater^TM: a construct-driven approach to scoring spontaneous non-native speech.

Klaus Zechner, Derrick Higgins, Xiaoming Xi

Proceedings of the Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2007

Reliability of human annotation of semantic roles in noisy text.

Derrick Higgins

Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2007), 2007

2006

Identifying off-topic student essays without topic-specific training data.

Derrick Higgins, Jill Burstein, Y. Attali

Nat. Lang. Eng., 2006

2005

Advanced Capabilities for Evaluating Student Writing: Detecting Off-Topic Essays Without Topic-Specific Training.

Jill Burstein, Derrick Higgins

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2005

2004

Evaluating Multiple Aspects of Coherence in Student Essays.

Derrick Higgins, Jill Burstein, Daniel Marcu, Claudia Gentile

Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2004

A transformation-based approach to argument labeling.

Derrick Higgins

Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2004

2003

A Machine Learning Approach to Modeling Scope Preferences.

Derrick Higgins, Jerrold M. Sadock

Comput. Linguistics, 2003

A machine learning approach to the identification of WH gaps.

Derrick Higgins

Proceedings of the EACL 2003, 2003

2000

Automatic Morphology (Summary).

John A. Goldsmith, Svetlana Soglasnova, Derrick Higgins

Proceedings of the Working Notes for CLEF 2000 Workshop co-located with the 4th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2000), 2000

Automatic Language-Specific Stemming in Information Retrieval.

John A. Goldsmith, Derrick Higgins, Svetlana Soglasnova

Proceedings of the Cross-Language Information Retrieval and Evaluation, 2000

The use of error tags in ARTFL's Encyclopédie: Does good error identification lead to good error correction?

Derrick Higgins

Proceedings of the 6th Applied Natural Language Processing Conference, 2000

1998

Parsing Parallel Grammatical Representation.

Derrick Higgins

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1998