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Rada Mihalcea and Dragomir Radev, Graph-based Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval , Cambridge University Press, 2011.

2011
  • Samer Hassan and Rada Mihalcea, Learning to Identify Educational Materials, in the ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, vol.8, no.2, November 2011.
  • Carmen Banea, Rada Mihalcea, and Janyce Wiebe, Multilingual Sentiment and Subjectivity, in Multilingual Natural Language Processing, editors Imed Zitouni and Dan Bikel, Prentice Hall, 2011. [pdf]
  • Louis-Philippe Morency, Rada Mihalcea, and Payal Doshi, Towards Multimodal Sentiment Analysis: Harvesting Opinions from the Web, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Computing (ICMI 2011), Alicante, Spain, November 2011. [pdf]
  • Chee Wee Leong and Rada Mihalcea, Going Beyond Text: A Hybrid Image-Text Approach for Measuring Word Relatedness, in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2011), Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 2011. [pdf]
  • Gozde Ozbal, Carlo Strapparava, Rada Mihalcea and Daniele Pighin. A comparison of unsupervised methods to associate colors with words, in Proceedings of Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2011), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Memphis, October 2011.
  • Chee Wee Leong, Samer Hassan, Ruiz Miguel and Rada Mihalcea, Improving Query Expansion for Image Retrieval via Saliency and Picturability, in Proceedings of the Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation (CLEF 2011) , Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2011. [pdf]
  • Samer Hassan and Rada Mihalcea, Semantic Relatedness Using Salient Semantic Analysis, in Proceedings of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2011), San Francisco, August, 2011. [pdf]
  • Michael Mohler, Razvan Bunescu and Rada Mihalcea, Learning to Grade Short Answer Questions Using Semantic Similarity Measures and Dependency Graph Alignments, in Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2011), Portland, Oregon, 2011. [pdf]
  • Cem Akkaya, Janyce Wiebe, Alexander Conrad, Rada Mihalcea, Improving the Impact of Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation on Contextual Opinion Analysis, in Proceedings of the Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2011), Portland, OR, June, 2011. [pdf]
  • Hakan Ceylan and Rada Mihalcea, An Efficient Indexer for Large N-Gram Corpora, in Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2011), Portland, OR, June, 2011 (paper accompanied by demo).[pdf]
  • Ravi Sinha and Rada Mihalcea, Using Centrality Algorithms on Directed Graphs for Synonym Expansion, in Proceedings of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS 2011), Palm Beach, Florida, 2011. [pdf]
  • Carmen Banea and Rada Mihalcea, Word Sense Disambiguation with Multilingual Features, International Conference on Semantic Computing (IWCS 2011), Oxford, UK, January 2011. [pdf]
  • Chee Wee Leong and Rada Mihalcea, Measuring the semantic relatedness between words and images, International Conference on Semantic Computing (IWCS 2011), Oxford, UK, January 2011. [pdf]
  • Carmen Banea, Rada Mihalcea and Janyce Wiebe, Sense-level Subjectivity in a Multilingual Setting, in Proceedings of the IJCNLP workshop on Sentiment Analysis where AI meets Psychology, Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 2011. [pdf]
  • Tze-I Yang, Andrew Torget and Rada Mihalcea, Topic Modeling on Historical Newspapers, in Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities, Portland, Oregon, June 2011. [pdf]
  • Carlo Strapparava, Oliviero Stock, and Rada Mihalcea. Computational humour. In R. Cowie, P. Petta, and C. Pelachaud, editors, Emotion-Oriented Systems: The HUMAINE Handbook, Cognitive Technologies, chapter 6.4. Springer, March 2011.

    2010
  • Lei Shi, Rada Mihalcea, Mingjun Tian, Cross Language Text Classification by Model Translation and Semi-supervised Learning, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2010. [pdf]
  • Rada Mihalcea, Stephen Pulman, Vanja Kovic, Kim Plunkett, Analysing the Human Processing of Verbal Humour through Eye-Tracking Experiments, in Dan Tufis, Corina Forascu (eds.): Multilinguality and Interoperability in Language Processing with Emphasis on Romanian, Romanian Academy Publishing House, 2010.
  • Carlo Strapparava and Rada Mihalcea, Annotating and Identifying Emotions in Text , book chapter in ``Intelligent Information Access'', Editors G. Armano, M. de Gemmis, G. Semeraro, and E. Vargiu, Springer, ``Studies in Computational Intelligence,'' 2010.
  • Carmen Banea, Rada Mihalcea and Janyce Wiebe, Multilingual Subjectivity: Are More Languages Better?, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), Beijing, China, August 2010. [pdf]
  • Chee Wee Leong, Rada Mihalcea and Samer Hassan, Text Mining for Automatic Image Tagging, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), Beijing, China, August 2010. [pdf]
  • Hakan Ceylan, Rada Mihalcea, Umut Ozertem, Elena Lloret and Manuel Palomar, Quantifying the Limits and Success of Extractive Summarization Systems Across Domains, Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NACLO 2010), Los Angeles, June, 2010. [pdf]
  • Rada Mihalcea, Ravi Sinha and Diana McCarthy, SemEval-2010 Task 2: Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution, in Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval 2010), Uppsala, July 2010. [pdf]
  • Cem Akkaya, Alexander Conrad, Janyce Wiebe, Rada Mihalcea, Amazon Mechanical Turk for Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation, in Proceedings of the NAACL 2010 Workshop on Creating Speech and Language Data With Amazon's Mechanical Turk, Los Angeles, California, June 2010. [pdf]
  • Rada Mihalcea, Carlo Strapparava, Stephen Pulman, Computational Models for Incongruity Detection in Humor, in Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing 2010), Iasi, Romania, March 2010. [pdf]
  • Courtney Corley, Rada Mihalcea, Armin Mikler and Antonio Sanfilippo Predicting Individual Affect of Health Interventions to Reduce HPV Prevalence. Book chapter in Software Tools and Algorithms for Biological Systems (book series, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, AEMB), Springer, 2010.

    2009
  • Ravi Sinha and Rada Mihalcea, Combining Lexical Resources for Contextual Synonym Expansion, in Proceedings of the Conference in Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, 2009.
  • Samer Hassan and Rada Mihalcea, Learning to Identify Educational Materials, in Proceedings of the Conference in Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, 2009.
  • Rada Mihalcea and Carlo Strapparava, The Lie Detector: Explorations in the Automatic Recognition of Deceptive Language, to appear in Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2009), pp. 309-312, short paper, Singapore, 2009. [pdf]
  • Samer Hassan and Rada Mihalcea, Cross-lingual Relatedness using Encyclopedic Knowledge, to appear in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2009), pp. 1192-1201, Singapore, August 2009. [pdf]
  • Cem Akkaya, Janyce Wiebe and Rada Mihalcea, Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation, to appear in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2009), 190-199, Singapore, August 2009. [pdf]
  • Kino Coursey and Rada Mihalcea and William Moen, Using Encyclopedic Knowledge for Automatic Topic Identification, in Proceedings of the Conference on Natural Language Learning (CONLL 2009), pp. 210-218, Boulder, Colorado, May 2009. [pdf]
  • Yaw Gyamfi, Janyce Wiebe, Rada Mihalcea, Cem Akkaya, Integrating Knowledge for Subjectivity Sense Labeling , in Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2009), pp. 10-18, Boulder, Colorado, May 2009. [pdf]
  • Kino Coursey and Rada Mihalcea, Topic Identification Using Wikipedia Graph Centrality, in Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2009), short paper, pp.117-120, Boulder, Colorado, May 2009.
  • Michael Mohler and Rada Mihalcea, Text-to-text Semantic Similarity for Automatic Short Answer Grading, in Proceedings of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2009), Athens, Greece, March 2009. [pdf]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Chee Wee Leong, Toward Communicating Simple Sentences using Pictorial Representations, Journal of Machine Translation, Springer, vol.22, no.3, pp. 153-173, April 2009.
  • Carlo Strapparava and Rada Mihalcea, Annotating and Identifying Emotions in Text, book chapter in ``Intelligent Information Access'', Editors G. Armano, M. de Gemmis, G. Semeraro, and E. Vargiu, Springer, ``Studies in Computational Intelligence,'' 2009.
  • Rada Mihalcea and Stephen Pulman, Linguistic Ethnography: Identifying Dominant Word Classes in Text, in Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing 2009), Mexico City, Mexico, March 2009. [pdf]
  • Hakan Ceylan and Rada Mihalcea, The Decomposition of Human-Written Book Summaries, in Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing 2009), Mexico City, Mexico, March 2009.
  • Ravi Sinha and Rada Mihalcea, Unsupervised Graph-based Word Sense Disambiguation, book chapter in ``Current Issues in Linguistic Theory: Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing'', Editors Nicolas Nicolov and Ruslan Mitkov, John Benjamins Publishers, 2009.

    2008
  • Andras Csomai and Rada Mihalcea, Linking Documents to Encyclopedic Knowledge, IEEE Intelligent Systems, special issue on "Natural Language Processing for the Web," 2008.
  • Dragomir Radev and Rada Mihalcea, Networks and Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence Magazine, September 2008.
  • Carmen Banea, Rada Mihalcea, Janyce Wiebe and Samer Hassan, Multilingual Subjectivity Analysis Using Machine Translation, in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2008), Honolulu, Hawaii, October 2008. [pdf]
  • Andras Csomai and Rada Mihalcea, Linguistically Motivated Features for Enhanced Back-of-the-book Indexing, in Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2008), Columbus, Ohio, June 2008. [pdf]
  • Kino Coursey, Rada Mihalcea and William Moen, Automatic Keyword Extraction for Learning Object Repositories, in Proceedings of the Conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST 2008), Columbus, Ohio, October 2008. [pdf]
  • Carmen Banea, Rada Mihalcea and Janyce Wiebe, A Bootstrapping Method for Building Subjectivity Lexicons for Languages with Scarce Resources, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluations (LREC 2008), Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008. [pdf]
  • Michael Mohler and Rada Mihalcea, Babylon: Parallel Text Builder: Gathering Parallel Texts for Low-Density Languages, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluations (LREC 2008), Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008. [pdf]
  • Carlo Strapparava and Rada Mihalcea, Learning to Identify Emotions in Text, in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Applied Computing ACM-SAC 2008, Fortaleza, Brazile, March 2008. [pdf]
  • Rada Mihalcea, Review of "The Text Mining Handbook: Advanced Approaches to Analyzing Unstructured Data" by Ronen Feldman and James Sanger, Computational Linguistics March 2008, Vol. 34, No. 1.

    2007
  • Rada Mihalcea, Word Sense Disambiguation, Encyclopedia of Machine Learning, Springer, 2007.
  • Rada Mihalcea, Carmen Banea and Jan Wiebe, Learning Multilingual Subjective Language via Cross-Lingual Projections, in Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2007), Prague, June 2007. [pdf]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Andras Csomai, Linking Documents to Encyclopedic Knowledge, in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2007), pp. 233-242, Lisbon, Portugal, November 2007. [pdf]
  • Andras Csomai and Rada Mihalcea, Linking Educational Materials to Encyclopedic Knowledge, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2007), pp. 557-559, Los Angeles, CA, July 2007. [pdf]
  • Ravi Sinha and Rada Mihalcea, Unsupervised Graph-based Word Sense Disambiguation Using Measures of Word Semantic Similarity, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2007), Irvine, CA, September 2007. [pdf]
  • Samer Hassan, Rada Mihalcea and Carmen Banea, Random-Walk Term Weighting for Improved Text Classification, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2007), Irvine, CA, September 2007. Best student paper award. [pdf]
  • Andras Csomai and Rada Mihalcea, Linking Educational Materials to Encyclopedic Knowledge, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2007), Los Angeles, CA, July 2007. [pdf]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Hakan Ceylan, Explorations in Automatic Book Summarization, in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2007), Prague, June 2007. [pdf]
  • Rada Mihalcea, Using Wikipedia for Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation, in Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2007), Rochester, April 2007. [pdf]
  • Andras Csomai and Rada Mihalcea, Investigations in Unsupervised Back-of-the-Book Indexing, in Proceedings of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS 2007), Key West, May 2007. Best paper in track. [pdf]
  • Hugo Liu and Rada Mihalcea, Of Men, Women, and Computers: Data-Driven Gender Modeling for Improved User Interfaces, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Boulder, Colorado, March 2007. [pdf]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Stephen Pulman, Characterizing Humour: An Exploration of Features in Humorous Texts, in Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing), Springer, Mexico City, February 2007. 2nd best paper award. [pdf]
  • Samer Hassan, Andras Csomai, Carmen Banea, Ravi Sinha and Rada Mihalcea, UNT: SubFinder: Combining Knowledge Sources for Automatic Lexical Substitution, in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on the Semantic Evaluations (SemEval 2007), Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007. [pdf]
  • Rada Mihalcea, Andras Csomai and Massimiliano Ciaramita, UNT-Yahoo: SuperSenseLearner: Combining SenseLearner with SuperSense and other Coarse Semantic Features, in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on the Semantic Evaluations (SemEval 2007), Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007. [pdf]
  • Carlo Strapparava and Rada Mihalcea, SemEval-2007 Task 14: Affective Text, in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on the Semantic Evaluations (SemEval 2007), Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007. [pdf]
  • Rada Mihalcea, Multidisciplinary Facets of Research on Humour, invited paper, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Cross-Language Information Processing, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 2007.

    2006
  • Rada Mihalcea, Courtney Corley, Carlo Strapparava, Corpus-based and Knowledge-based Measures of Text Semantic Similarity, in Proceedings of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2006), Boston, July 2006. [pdf] [ps]
  • Jan Wiebe and Rada Mihalcea, Word Sense And Subjectivity, in Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Linguistics / Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING/ACL-06), Sydney, Australia, July 2006. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Ben Leong, Toward Communicating Simple Sentences Using Pictorial Representations, in Proceedings of the Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2006), Boston, August 2006. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Carlo Strapparava, Technologies that Make You Smile: Adding Humour to Text-based Applications, in IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2006.
  • Rada Mihalcea, Knowledge Based Methods for Word Sense Disambiguation, book chapter in Word Sense Disambiguation: Algorithms, Applications, and Trends, Editors Phil Edmonds and Eneko Agirre, Kluwer, 2006.
  • Rada Mihalcea and Samer Hassan, Text summarization for improved text classification, book chapter in Current Issues in Linguistic Theory: Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Editors Nicolas Nicolov and Ruslan Mitkov, John Benjamins Publishers, 2006.
  • Rada Mihalcea and Carlo Strapparava, Learning to Laugh (Automatically): Computational Models for Humor Recognition, in Journal of Computational Intelligence, 2006.
  • Courtney Corley, Andras Csomai and Rada Mihalcea, A Knowledge-based Approach to Text-to-Text Similarity, book chapter in Current Issues in Linguistic Theory: Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Editors Nicolas Nicolov and Ruslan Mitkov, John Benjamins Publishers, 2006.
  • Rada Mihalcea and Hugo Liu, A corpus-based approach to finding happiness, in the AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Approaches to Weblogs, March 2006. [pdf] [ps]
  • Andras Csomai and Rada Mihalcea, Creating a Testbed for the Evaluation of Automatically Generated Back-of-the-book Indexes, in Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing), LNCS, Mexico City, February 2006. [pdf] [ps] [data]
  • Rada Mihalcea, Hugo Liu, Henry Lieberman, NLP (Natural Language Processing) for NLP (Natural Language Programming), in the 7th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, LNCS, Mexico City, February 2006. [pdf] [ps]

    2005
  • Rada Mihalcea and Chris Loza, Building a Parallel Corpus for Quechua-Spanish, in Proceedings of the Conference on Indigeneous Languages from Latin America, Austin, October 2005.
  • Rada Mihalcea, Unsupervised Large-Vocabulary Word Sense Disambiguation with Graph-based Algorithms for Sequence Data Labeling, in Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Human Language Technology / Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP), Vancouver, October, 2005. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Carlo Strapparava, Making Computers Laugh: Investigations in Automatic Humor Recognition, in Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Human Language Technology / Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP), Vancouver, October, 2005. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Paul Tarau, An Algorithm for Language Independent Single and Multiple Document Summarization, in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), Korea, October 2005. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Michel Simard, Parallel Texts, in Journal of Natural Language Engineering, special issue on "Parallel Texts", September 2005.
  • Rada Mihalcea and Samer Hassan, Using the Essence of Texts to Improve Document Classification, in Proceedings of the Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), Borovetz, Bulgaria, September 2005. [pdf] [ps]
  • Courtney Corley and Andras Csomai and Rada Mihalcea, Text Semantic Similarity, with Applications, in Proceedings of the Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), Borovetz, Bulgaria, September 2005. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Carlo Strapparava, Computational Laughing: Automatic Recognition of Humorous One-liners, in Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Conference (CogSci), Stresa, Italy, July 2005.
  • Rada Mihalcea and Andras Csomai, SenseLearner: Word Sense Disambiguation for All Words in Unrestricted Text, in Proceedings of the 43nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, companion volume (ACL 2005), Ann Arbor, MI, June 2005.[pdf] [ps] [software]
  • Rada Mihalcea Language Independent Extractive Summarization, in Proceedings of the 43nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, companion volume (ACL 2005), Ann Arbor, MI, June 2005 (demo). Also demonstrated at the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2005), Intelligent System Demonstrations, Pittsburgh, PA, July 2005. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Paul Tarau, Multi-Document Summarization with Iterative Graph-based Algorithms, in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Analysis Methods and Tools (IA 2005), McLean, VA, May 2005.
  • Paul Tarau, Rada Mihalcea and Elizabeth Figa, Semantic Document Engineering with WordNet and PageRank, in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Applied Computing (ACM-SAC 2005), New Mexico, March 2005.
  • Andy Borman, Rada Mihalcea, Paul Tarau, PicNet: Pictorial Representations for Illustrated Semantic Networks, in Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Knowledge Collection from Volunteer Contributors, Stanford, CA, March 2005. [pdf] [ps]
  • Lei Shi and Rada Mihalcea, Putting Pieces Together: Combining FrameNet, VerbNet and WordNet for Robust Semantic Parsing, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Mexico, 2005 [pdf] [pdf] [data]
  • Joel Martin, Rada Mihalcea, Ted Pedersen, Word Alignment for Languages with Scarce Resources, in Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Building and Exploiting Parallel Texts: Data Driven Machine Translation and Beyond, Ann Arbor, MI, June 2005 [pdf] [ps]
  • Courtney Corley and Rada Mihalcea, Measures of Text Semantic Similarity, in Proceedings of the ACL workshop on Empirical Modeling of Semantic Equivalence, Ann Arbor, MI, June 2005 [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Carlo Strapparava, Bootstrapping for Fun: Web-based Construction of Large Data Sets for Humor Recognition, in Proceedings of the Workshop on the Analysis of Informal and Formal Information Exchange during Negotiations FINEXIN 2005, Ottawa, Canada, May 2005.

    2004
  • Rada Mihalcea, Making Sense Out of the Web, invited paper in the Workshop on Lexical Resources and the Web for Word Sense Disambiguation, IBERAMIA, Puebla, Mexico, November 2004. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Timothy Chklovski, Teaching Computers: Building Multilingual Linguistic Resources with Volunteer Contributions over the Web, in The LISA Newsletter - Globalization Insider, September 2004. [online]
  • Rada Mihalcea, Paul Tarau and Elizabeth Figa, PageRank on Semantic Networks, with application to Word Sense Disambiguation, in Proceedings of The 20st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2004), Switzerland, Geneva, August 2004. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea, Voted Co-training for Bootstrapping Sense Classifiers, in Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2004), Valencia, Spain, August 2004.
  • Rada Mihalcea and Paul Tarau, TextRank: Bringing Order into Texts, in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2004), Barcelona, Spain, July 2004. [pdf] [ps]
  • Paul Tarau, Rada Mihalcea, and Elizabeth Figa, A Logic Programming Framework for Semantic Interpretation with WordNet and PageRank. In Proceedings of the Fourth Colloquium on Implementation of Constraint and Logic Programming Systems (CICLOPS 2004), Saint-Malo, France, September 2004.
  • Rada Mihalcea, Graph-based Ranking Algorithms for Sentence Extraction, Applied to Text Summarization, in Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, companion volume (ACL 2004), Barcelona, Spain, July 2004.[pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Timothy Chklovski, Building Sense Tagged Corpora with Volunteer Contributions over the Web, book chapter in Current Issues in Linguistic Theory: Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Editors Nicolas Nicolov and Ruslan Mitkov, John Benjamins Publishers, 2004.
  • Rada Mihalcea, Unsupervised Natural Language Disambiguation Using Non-Ambiguous Words, book chapter in Current Issues in Linguistic Theory: Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Editors Nicolas Nicolov and Ruslan Mitkov, John Benjamins Publishers, 2004.
  • Rada Mihalcea, Co-training and Self-training for Word Sense Disambiguation, in Proceedings of the Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2004), Boston, May 2004. [pdf] [ps]
  • Lei Shi and Rada Mihalcea, Semantic Parsing Using FrameNet and WordNet, in Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference, companion volume (HLT/NAACL 2004), Boston, May 2004. [pdf] [ps]
  • Vivi Nastase and Rada Mihalcea, Finding Semantic Associations on Express Lane, in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluations (LREC 2004), Lisbon, Portugal, May 2004. [pdf] [ps]
  • Lei Shi and Rada Mihalcea, An Algorithm for Open Text Semantic Parsing, in Proceedings of the ROMAND 2004 workshop on ``RObust Methods in Analysis of Natural language Data'', Geneva, Switzerland, August 2004. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Ehsanul Faruque, SenseLearner: Minimally Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation for All Words in Open Text, in Proceedings of ACL/SIGLEX Senseval-3, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004. [pdf] [ps] [software]
  • Rada Mihalcea, Timothy Chklovski and Adam Killgariff, The Senseval-3 English Lexical Sample Task, in Proceedings of ACL/SIGLEX Senseval-3, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004. [pdf] [ps] [data]
  • Timothy Chklovski, Rada Mihalcea, Ted Pedersen, Amruta Purandare, The Senseval-3 Multilingual English-Hindi Lexical Sample Task, in Proceedings of ACL/SIGLEX Senseval-3, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004. [pdf] [ps] [data]
  • Rada Mihalcea, Vivi Nastase, Timothy Chklovski, Doina Tatar, Dan Tufis, Florentina Hristea, An Evaluation Exercise for Romanian Word Sense Disambiguation, in Proceedings of ACL/SIGLEX Senseval-3, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004. [pdf] [ps] [data]

    2003
  • Rada Mihalcea, Turning WordNet into an Information Retrieval Resource , in International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI), 2003.
  • Rada Mihalcea and Vivi Nastase, An Automatic Method for Diacritics Reinsertion in Romanian Texts, book chapter in Romanian Language in the Information and Knowledge Society, Ed. Dan Tufis, Florin Gh. Filip, Romanian Academy, 2003.
  • Rada Mihalcea, The Role of Non-Ambiguous Words in Natural Language Disambiguation, in Proceedings of the Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2003), Borovetz, Bulgaria, September 2003. [pdf] [ps]
  • Timothy Chklovski and Rada Mihalcea, Exploiting Agreement and Disagreement of Human Annotators for Word Sense Disambiguation, in Proceedings of the Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2003), Borovetz, Bulgaria, September 2003. [pdf] [ps] [demo] [data]
  • Nathaniel Ayewah, Rada Mihalcea, and Vivi Nastase, Building Multilingual Semantic Networks with Non-Expert Contributions over the Web, in Proceedings of the KCAP 2003 Workshop on Distributed and Collaborative Knowledge Capture, Sanibel Island, Florida, November 2003. [pdf] [ps] [demo]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Ted Pedersen, An Evaluation Exercise for Word Alignment, in Proceedings of the HLT/NAACL Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data Driven Machine Translation and Beyond, Edmonton, Canada, May 2003. [pdf] [ps] [data & evaluation software]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Timothy Chklovski, Open Mind Word Expert: Creating Large Annotated Data Collections with Web Users' Help, in Proceedings of the EACL 2003 Workshop on Linguistically Annotated Corpora (LINC 2003), Budapest, April 2003. [pdf] [ps] [data]
  • Rada Mihalcea, Performance Analysis of a Part of Speech Tagging Task, in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLING 2003), Mexico City, Mexico, February 2003.

    2002
  • Rada Mihalcea, Word Sense Disambiguation Using Pattern Learning and Automatic Feature Selection, in Journal of Natural Language and Engineering (JNLE), December 2002.[pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea, Going Beyond Explicit Knowledge for Improved Semantic Based Information Retrieval, in International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) , December 2002.
  • Rada Mihalcea, Classifiers Stacking and Voting for Text Classification, in Proceedings of the 11th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2002), Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 2002.[pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea, Instance Based Learning with Automatic Feature Selection Applied to Word Sense Disambiguation, in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002), Taiwan, August 2002. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Vivi Nastase, Letter Level Learning for Language Independent Diacritics Restoration, in Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2002), Taiwan, September 2002. [pdf] [ps]
  • Timothy Chklovski and Rada Mihalcea, Building a Sense Tagged Corpus with Open Mind Word Expert, in Proceedings of the ACL 2002 Workshop on "Word Sense Disambiguation: Recent Successes and Future Directions", Philadelphia, July 2002. [pdf] [ps] [data]
  • Timothy Chklovski and Rada Mihalcea, Open Mind Word Expert: Creating Large Data Collections with Web Users' Help, DLib Magazine, June 2002. [online]
  • Rada Mihalcea, The Semantic Wildcard, in Proceedings of the LREC 2002 Workshop on "Using Semantics for Information Retrieval and Filtering: State of the Art and Future Research", Las Palmas, Spain, May 2002. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea, Bootstrapping Large Sense Tagged Corpora, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Languages Resources and Evaluations (LREC 2002), Las Palmas, Spain, May 2002. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea, Diacritics Restoration: Learning from Letters versus Learning from Words, in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLING 2002), Mexico City, Mexico, February 2002. [pdf] [ps]

    2001
  • Rada Mihalcea, Turning Implicit Knowledge into Explicit Knowledge via Word Semantics: a Model for Information Retrieval, PhD Thesis, November, 2001
  • Rada Mihalcea and Silvana Mihalcea, Word Semantics for Information Retrieval: moving one step closer to the Semantic Web, in International Conference on Tools in Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2001), Dallas, TX, November 2001. [pdf] [ps]
  • Sanda Harabagiu, Dan Moldovan, Marius Pasca, Mihai Surdeanu, Rada Mihalcea, Roxana Girju, Vasile Rus, Finley Lacatusu, Paul Morarescu and Razvan Bunescu, Answering Complex, List and Context Questions with LCC's Question-Answering Server, in Proceedings of the 10th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2001), Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 2001. [pdf] [ps]
  • Sanda Harabagiu, Dan Moldovan, Marius Pasca, Rada Mihalcea, Mihai Surdeanu, Razvan Bunescu, Roxana Girju, Vasile Rus and Paul Morarescu, The Role of Lexico-Semantic Feedbacks in Open-Domain Textual Question Answering, in Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2001), Toulouse, France, July 2001. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, eXtended WordNet: Progress Report, in Proceedings of NAACL Workshop on WordNet and Other Lexical Resources, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2001. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, Automatic Generation of a Coarse Grained WordNet, in Proceedings of NAACL Workshop on WordNet and Other Lexical Resources, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2001. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, EZ.WordNet: Principles for Automatic Generation of a Coarse Grained WordNet, in Proceedings of Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2001), Key West, FL, May 2001.
  • Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, A Highly Accurate Bootstrapping Algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation, in International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, vol.10, no.1-2, 2001. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, Document Indexing using Named Entities, in Studies in Informatics and Control, vol.10, no.1, January 2001. [pdf] [ps]

    2000
  • Sanda Harabagiu, Dan Moldovan, Marius Pasca, Rada Mihalcea, Mihai Surdeanu, Razvan Bunescu, Roxana Girju, Vasile Rus and Paul Morarescu, Falcon - Boosting Knowledge for Answer Engines in Proceedings of the 9th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2000), Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 2000. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan Semantic Indexing using WordNet Senses, in Proceedings of ACL Workshop on IR & NLP, Hong Kong, October, 2000. [pdf] [ps]
  • Dan Moldovan, Sanda Harabagiu, Marius Pasca, Rada Mihalcea, Roxana Girju, Richard Goodrum and Vasile Rus, The Structure and Performance of an Open-Domain Question Answering System, in Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2000), Hong Kong, October, 2000. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea, A Semi-Complete Disambiguation Algorithm for Open Text, in Proceedings of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2000), Austin, TX, July 2000.
  • Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, An Iterative Approach to Word Sense Disambiguation, in Proceedings of Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2000), [pg.219-223] Orlando, FL, May 2000. Best Paper Award. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, AutoASC - A System for Automatic Acquisition of Sense tagged Corpora , in International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI), vol.14, no.1, January 2000.
  • Dan Moldovan and Rada Mihalcea, Using WordNet and Lexical Operators to improve Internet Searches in IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 4 no. 1, January 2000. [pdf] [ps]

    1999
  • Dan Moldovan, Sanda Harabagiu, Marius Pasca, Rada Mihalcea, Richard Goodrum, Roxana Girju and Vasile Rus, LASSO: A Tool for Surfing the Answer Net, in Proceedings of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 1999), November, 1999. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, An Automatic Method for Generating Sense Tagged Corpora, in Proceedings of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 1999), Orlando, FL, July 1999. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, A Method for Word Sense Disambiguation of Unrestricted Text, in Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 1999), College Park, MA, June 1999. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea, Word Sense Disambiguation and its Application to Internet Search, Master's Thesis, April 13, 1999.
  • Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, Automatic Acquisition of Sense Tagged Corpora, in Proceedings of Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 1999), Orlando, FL, May 1999. Best Paper Award

    1998
  • Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, Word Sense Disambiguation Based on Semantic Density, in Proceedings of COLING-ACL '98 Workshop on Usage of WordNet in Natural Language Processing Systems , Montreal, Canada, August 1998. [pdf] [ps]
  • Dan Moldovan and Rada Mihalcea A WordNet-Based Interface to Internet Search Engines in Proceedings of Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 1998), May 1998, Sanibel Island, FL. [pdf] [ps]




















    • Sentiment Analysis
  • Rada Mihalcea, Carmen Banea and Jan Wiebe, Learning Multilingual Subjective Language via Cross-Lingual Projections, in Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2007), Prague, June 2007. [pdf]
  • Hugo Liu and Rada Mihalcea, Of Men, Women, and Computers: Data-Driven Gender Modeling for Improved User Interfaces, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Boulder, Colorado, March 2007. [pdf]
  • Carlo Strapparava and Rada Mihalcea, SemEval-2007 Task 14: Affective Text, in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on the Semantic Evaluations (SemEval 2007), Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007. [pdf]
  • Jan Wiebe and Rada Mihalcea, Word Sense And Subjectivity, in Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Linguistics / Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING/ACL-06), Sydney, Australia, July 2006. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Hugo Liu, A corpus-based approach to finding happiness, in the AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Approaches to Weblogs, March 2006. [pdf] [ps]





    Computational Humour
  • Rada Mihalcea and Stephen Pulman, Characterizing Humour: An Exploration of Features in Humorous Text, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Mexico City, Mexico, February 2007, 2nd best paper award. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea, Multidisciplinary Facets of Research on Humour, invited paper, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Cross-Language Information Processing, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 2007.
  • Rada Mihalcea and Carlo Strapparava, Technologies that Make You Smile: Adding Humour to Text-based Applications, in IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2006. [What's New @ IEEE in Computing] [ACM TechNews]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Carlo Strapparava, Learning to Laugh (Automatically): Computational Models for Humor Recognition, in Journal of Computational Intelligence, 2006.
  • Rada Mihalcea and Carlo Strapparava, Making Computers Laugh: Investigations in Automatic Humor Recognition, in Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Human Language Technology / Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP), Vancouver, October, 2005. [pdf] [ps]
  • Rada Mihalcea and Carlo Strapparava, Computational Laughing: Automatic Recognition of Humorous One-liners, in Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Conference (CogSci), Stresa, Italy, July 2005.