University of Colorado at Boulder

Martha Palmer

Department of Linguistics
University of Colorado Boulder
 

Recent Journal Papers:

  1. Martha Palmer, Dan Gildea, Paul Kingsbury, The Proposition Bank: An Annotated Corpus of Semantic Roles, draft of paper submitted to Computational Linguistics, December, 2003.
  2. Martha Palmer, Hoa Dang and Christiane Fellbaum, Making Fine-grained and Coarse-grained sense distinctions, both manually and automatically, Journal of Natural Language Engineering, draft of submitted paper.
  3. Nianwen Xue, Fei Xia, Fu-dong Chiou, Martha Palmer, The Penn Chinese Treebank: Phrase Structure Annotation of a Large Corpus, Natural Language Engineering, 10(4):1-30, June, 2004.
  4. Norm Badler, Martha Palmer and Rama Bindiganavale Animation Control for Real-Time Virtual Humans.Communications of the ACM, 42(8):65-73, August 1999.
  5. Martha Palmer, Wu Zhibiao, Verb Semantics for English-Chinese Translation. Machine Translation 10: 59-92, 1995.
  6. Martha Palmer, Carl Weir, Rebecca Passonneau, Tim Finin, The Kernel Text Understanding System. Artificial Intelligence 63: 17-68, Special Issue on Text Understanding, October, 1993.

Computational Lexical Semantics:

  1. Dan Gildea and Martha Palmer The Necessity of Parsing for Predicate Argument Recognition The 40thMeeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL-02, Philadelphia, PA, July 7-12, 2002.
  2. Christiane Fellbaum, Martha Palmer, Hoa Trang Dang, Lauren Delfs, Susannc Wolf Manual and Automatic Semantic Annotation with WordNet, SIGLEX Workshop on WordNet and other Lexical Resources (NAACL-01), Invited Talk, 8 pg., Pittsburgh. PA, June 2,3, 2001.
  3. Martha Palmer, Joseph Rosenzwieg and Scott Cotton, Automatic Predicate Argument Analysis of the Penn TreeBank, Proceedings of HLT 2001, First International nce on Human Language Technology Research, 5pg., J. Allan, ed., Morgan Kaufmann. San Francisco, 2001.
  4. Hoa Trang Dang, Karin Kipper, Martha Palmer. Integrating compositional semantics into a verb lexicon. COLING-2000 Eighteenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 8 pg. Saarbrucken GERMANY, July 31- August 4, 2000.
  5. Paul Kingsbury, Martha Palmer, From Treebank to Propbank, Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-02, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, May 28- June 3, 2002.
  6. Martha Palmer, Ralph Grishman, Nicoletta Calzolari, Antonio Zampolli, Standardizing Multilingual Lexicons, ISLE: Web Based Language Documentation and Description, Philadelphia USA, 12-15 December 2000.
  7. Karin Kipper, Hoa Trang Dang, Martha Palmer, Class Based Construction of a Verb Lexicon, AAAI-2000 Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 8 pg.. Austin TX, July 30 - August 3, 2000.
  8. Martha Palmer, Hoa Trang Dang, Joseph Rosenzweig, Sense Tagging the Penn Tree bank Proceedings of the Second Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC-00, 8 pg. Athens, Greece, June 1-4, 2000.
  9. Kami Kipper, Hoa Trang Dang, William Schuler, Martha Palmer. Building a class based verb lexicon using TAGs. TAG+5 Fifth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms, 8 pg. Paris, FRANCE, May 25-27, 2000.
  10. Matthew Stone, Tonia Bleam, Christine Doran, Martha Palmer. Lexicalized grammars and the description of motion events. TAG+5 Fifth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms, 8 pg. Paris, FRANCE, May 25-27, 2000.
  11. Hoa Trang Dang, Karin Kipper, Martha Palmer, Joseph Rosenzweig, Investigating regular sense extensions based on intersective Levin classes. Coling/ACL-98, 36th ociation of Computational Linguistics Conference, pp 293-300, Montreal CA, August 11-17, 1998.
  12. Martha Palmer, Joseph Rosenzweig, William Schuler, Capturing Motion Verb Generalizations with Synchronous TAGs, Predicative Forms in NLP, pp 250-277, ed by Patrick St. Dizier, Kluwer Press, December, 1998.
  13. Martha Palmer Consistent Criteria for Sense Distinctions Computers and the Humanities, SENSEVAL98: Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Systems, Kluwer, 34: 1-2, 2000, 6 pg.
  14. Gan Kok Wee, Martha Palmer, K. T. Lua, A Statistically Emergent Approach for Language Processing: Application to Modeling Context Effects in Ambiguous Chinese Word Boundary Perception. Computational Linguistics 22:4? 531-553 December, 1996.

Parameterized Action Representation (PAR):

  1. Jan Allbeck, Karin Kipper, Charles Adams, William Schuler, Elena Zoubanova, Norman Badler, Martha Palmer, Aravind Joshi. ACUMEN: Amplifying Control and Understanding of Multiple Entities AAMAS 2002, First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Bologna, Italy , July 15-19, 2002.
  2. Rama Bindiganavale, William Schuler, Jan Allbeck, Norm Badler, Aravind Joshi, Martha Palmer, Dynamically altering agent behaviors using natural language instructions. In Proceedings of Autonomous Agents 2000, 8 pg., August, 2000
  3. Norm Badler, Rama Bindiganavale, Jan Allbeck, William Schuler, Liwei Zhao, Martha Palmer. A Parameterized Action Representation for Virtual Human Agents. In Embodied Conversational Agents, pgs. 256-284. MIT Press, 2000.
  4. N. Badler, J. Allbeck, R. Bindiganavale, J. Bourne, M. Palmer, J. Shi, Real-Time Virtual Humans, Proceedings of Digital Media Futures British Computer Society, ord, UK, April, 1999.
  5. N. Badler, R. Bindiganavale, J. Bourne, M. Palmer, J. Shi, W. Schuler, A Parameterized Action Representation for Virtual Human Agents, 7 pg, Workshop on Embodied Conversational Characters, WECC98, Lake Tahoe, CA, Oct 12-15, 1998.

Machine Translation (MT):

  1. Chunghye Han, Benoit Lavoie, Martha Palmer, Owen Rambow, Richard Kittredgc, Tanya Korelsky, Nari Kim and Myunghee Kim, Handling Structural Divergences and Recovering Dropped Arguments in a Korean/English Machine Translation System Proceedings of the Association for Machine Translation in the Arnericas 2000, Published in Lecture Notes in AI series of Springer Verlag, 8 pg., October 10-14. 2000.
  2. Karin Kipper and Martha Palmer, Representation of Actions as an Interlingua, Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Applied Interlinguas, held in conjunction with ANLP-NAACL 2000, 6 pg. Seattle, Wa., April, 2000.
  3. Martha Palmer, Owen Rambow, Alexis Nasr, Rapid Prototyping of Domain Specific Machine Translation Systems, 8 pg., AMTA-98, Langhorne, PA, Oct 28-31, 1998.
  4. Alexis Nasr, Owen Rambow, Martha Palmer, Joseph Rosenzweig, Enriching lexical transfer with cross linguistic semantic features. In Proceedings of the Interlingua hop at the MT Summit, 8pg, San Diego, California, Oct 28, 1997.
  5. Chunghye Han, Fei Xia, Martha Palmer, Joseph Rosenzweig, Capturing Language Specific Constraints on Lexical Selection with Feature Based Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars, Proceedings of the International Conference on Chinese Computing, 8pg Singapore, June 4-7, 1996.
  6. Dania Egedi, Martha Palmer, Hyun Seok Park, Aravind Joshi, Korean to English Translation Using Synchronous TAGs. In the Proceedings for the First Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 8pg, Columbus, Maryland, October, 1994.
  7. Dania Egedi, Martha Palmer, Constraining Lexical Selection Across Languages Using TAGs, Colloque Internationale sur les grammaires d'Arbres Adjoints (TAG+3), 4pg, Technical Report TALANA-RG-94-01, TALANA, Universite de Paris, August, 1994.

Treebanks:

  1. Chunghye Han, Narae Han, Eonsuk Ko, Martha Palmer, Korean Treebank: Development and Evaluation The Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-02, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, May 28- June 3, 2002.
  2. Fei Xia, Chunghye Han, Martha Palmer, and Aravind Joshi, Automatically Extracting and Comparing Lexicalized Grammars for Different Languages, Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (IJCAI-2001), 8 pg.. Seattle, Washington, 2001
  3. Fei Xia and Martha Palmer, Converting Dependency Structures to Phrase Structures, Proceedings of HLT 2001, First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, 5pg., J. Allan, ed., Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, 2001.
  4. Fu-Dong Chiou, David Chiang, and Martha Palmer, Facilitating Treebank Annotation Using a Statistical Parser, Proceedings of HLT 2001, First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, 4 pg., J. Allan, ed., Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, 2001, pg. 117-123.
  5. Fei Xia, Martha Palmer, Nianwen Xue, Mary Ellen Ocurowski, John Kovarik, Fu-Dong Chiou, Shizhe Huang, Tony Kroch, Mitch Marcus, Developing Guidelines and Ensuring Consistency for Chinese Text Annotation, Proceedings of the Second Language Resources and Evaluation Conference LREC-00, 8 pg. Athens, Greece, June 1-4, 2000.

Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG):

  1. Fei Xia, Martha Palmer. Comparing and integrating tree adjoining grammars. TAG+5 Fifth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms, 4 pg. Paris, FRANCE, May 25-27, 2000.
  2. Fei Xia, Martha Palmer, K. Vijay Shanker, Joseph Rosenzweig, Consistent Grammar Development Using Partial Tree Descriptions for Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar. TAG 4 Workshop, 4pg, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 1 - 3, 1998.