Nianwen Xue

Current Activities

• The 2nd Linguistic Annotation Workshop (The LAW II)

Research Interests

Teaching

• Computational Corpus Linguistics

Projects

• The Chinese Treebank
• The Chinese Propbank
• GALE OntoNotes

Recent Publications

2008:
• Semantic Role Labeling. In preparation with Martha Palmer and Daniel Gildea. To be published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers.

• Linguistic Annotation. In preparation with Martha Palmer. Chapter in Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.

• Nianwen Xue, Hua Zhong and Kai-Yun Chen. 2008. Annotating "tense" in a tense-less language. In Proceedings of LREC 2008. Marrakech. Morocco

• Nianwen Xue. 2008. Labeling Chinese Predicates with Semantic roles. Computational Linguistics, 34(2):225-255. [Available here]

  2007:

• Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. Adding semantic roles to the Chinese Treebank. Under revision for Natural Language Engineering.

• Nianwen Xue. 2007. Tagging the implicit information for the PS to DS conversion of the Chinese Treebank. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistics Theories. Bergen, Norway. pdf | slides

• Vicky Lai, Meiyu Chang,Cecily Duffield, Jena D. Hwang, Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. 2007. Defining a Methodology for Mapping Chinese & English Sense Inventories. In Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop 2007. Hong Kong, China.

  2006:

• Nianwen Xue. 2006. A Chinese lexicon of roles and senses. Journal of Language Resources and Evaluation, 40:395-403. on-line publication

• Nianwen Xue, Jinying Chen and Martha Palmer. 2006. Aligning features with sense distinction dimensions. Proceedings of ACL/COLING 2006. Sydney, Australia.

• Nianwen Xue. 2006. Semantic Role Labeling of nominalized predicates in Chinese, in Proceedings of HTL-NAACL 2006. New York City. pdf

• Nianwen Xue. 2006. Annotating the predicate-argument structure of Chinese nominalizations, in Proceedings of the LREC 2006, pages 1382-1387. Genoa, Italy.

• A. Meyers, A. C. Fang, L. Ferro, S. Kübler, T. Jia-Lin, M. Palmer, M. Poesio, A. Dolbey, K. K. Schuler, E. Loper, H. Zinsmeister, G. Penn, N. Xue, E. Hinrichs, J. Wiebe, J. Pustejovsky, D. Farwell, E. Hajicova, B. Dorr, E. Hovy, B. A. Onyshkevych and L. Levin (2006). Annotation Compatibility Working Group Report. ACL 2006 Workshop: Frontiers in Linguistically Annotated Corpora 2006: A Merged Workshop with 7th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-2006) and Frontiers in Corpus Annotation III, Sydney Australia pdf

  2005:

• Nianwen Xue. 2005. Annotating discourse connectives in the Chinese Treebank, in Proceedings of the ACL Workshop in Frontiers in Annotation II: Pie in the Sky . Ann Arbor, Michigan.

• Martha Palmer, Nianwen Xue, Olga B Babko-Malaya, Jinying Chen and Benjamin Snyder. 2005. A Parallel Proposotion Bank II for Chinese and English, in Proceedings of the ACL Workshop in Frontiers in Annotation II: Pie in the Sky . Ann Arbor, Michigan.

• Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. 2005. Automatic Semantic Role Labeling for Chinese Verbs, in Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Edinburgh, Scotland. pdf

• Nianwen Xue, Fei Xia, Fu-Dong Chiou and Martha Palmer. 2005. The Penn Chinese Treebank: Phrase Structure Annotation of a Large Corpus. Natural Language Engineering, 11(2):207-238.
2004
• Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. 2004. Calibrating Features for Semantic Role Labeling, in Proceedings of 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing , in conjunction with ACL'04. Barcelona, Spain. pdf
• Paul Kingsbury, Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. 2004. Propbanking in Parallel, in Proceedings of the Workshop on "the Amazing Utility of Parallel and Comparable Corpora", in conjunction with LREC'04. Lisbon, Portugal.
• Olga Babko-Malaya, Martha Palmer, Nianwen Xue, Aravind Joshi and Seth Kulick. 2004. Proposition Bank II: Delving Deeper, In Proceedings of the Frontiers in Corpus Annotation Workshop 2004, in conjunction with NAACL-HLT'04. Boston, Massacusetts.
• Nianwen Xue. 2004. Handling Dislocated and Discontinuous Constituents in Chinese Semantic Role Labeling, In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Asian Language Resources, ALR04. Hainan Island, China. pdf
• Jinying Chen, Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. 2004. Using a Smoothing Maximum Entropy Model for Chinese Nominal Tagging, In Proceedings of the 1st International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. Hainan Island, China. pdf
2003
• Nianwen Xue and Seth Kulick. 2003. Automatic Predicate Argument Structure Analysis of the Penn Chinese Treebank. Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit IX (MTIX 2003). pdf
• Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. 2003. Annotating Propositions in the Penn Chinese Treebank, In Proceedings of the 2nd SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, in conjunction with ACL'03. Sapporo, Japan. pdf
• Nianwen Xue and Libin Shen. 2003. Chinese Word Segmentation as LMR Tagging, In Proceedings of the 2nd SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, in conjunction with ACL'03. Sapporo, Japan. pdf
• Nianwen Xue. 2003. Chinese Word Segmentation as Character Tagging. International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, 8(1):29-48.
• Nianwen Xue and Susan Converse, 2002. Combining Classifiers for Chinese Word Segmentation. In Proceedings of the 1st SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, in conjunction with COLING'02, Taipei, Taiwan, 2002. pdf
2002
• Nianwen Xue, Fu-Dong Chiou and Martha Palmer, 2002, Building a Large-Scale Annotated Chinese Corpus. In Proceedings of the 19th. International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002), Taipei, Taiwan, 2002. pdf
2001
• Nianwen Xue, 2001. Defining and Automatically Identifying Words in Chinese. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Delaware. pdf
• Fei Xia, Martha Palmer, Nianwen Xue, Mary Ellen Okurowski, John Kovarik, Fu-Dong Chiou, Shizhe Huang, Tony Kroch, and Mitch Marcus. Designing guidelines and ensuring consistency for Chinese text annotation. In Proceedings on the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2000), Athens, Greece.
2000
• Nianwen Xue, Fei Xia, Shizhe Huang and Tony Kroch 2000. The Bracketing Guidelines for the Chinese Treebank, IRCS technical report, University of Pennsylvania.