Ann Copestake's publications

Drafts

Ann Copestake. Robust Minimal Recursion Semantics.
Unpublished draft, 2004/2006.

Books

Ann Copestake. Implementing Typed Feature Structure Grammars. CSLI Publications, 2002.

Kees Vermeulen and Ann Copestake (editors). Algebras, Diagrams and Decisions in Language, Logic and Computation
CSLI Publications, 2001.

Ted Briscoe, Ann Copestake and Valeria de Paiva. Inheritance, defaults and the lexicon. Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Papers and Reports

2006

Ann Copestake and Marina Terkourafi. Conventional speech act formulae: from corpus findings to formalization.
Constraints in Discourse, NUI Maynooth, Ireland. 2006.

Ann Copestake and Marina Terkourafi. Conventional speech act formulae in HPSG.
International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Varna, Bulgaria. 2006.

2005

Ann Copestake, Dan Flickinger, Ivan Sag and Carl Pollard. Minimal Recursion Semantics: An introduction
Journal of Research on Language and Computation, 3(2--3), pages 281-332, 2005

Ann Copestake and Ted Briscoe. &lsquo Noun compounds revisited&rsquo
In: Charting a New Course: Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. Essays in Honour of Karen Sparck Jones.
John I. Tait (editor). pages 129--154. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005

Joe Townsend, Ann Copestake, Peter Murray-Rust, Simone Teufel, Chris Waudby
Language Technology for Processing Chemistry Publications
In: Proc. UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Nottingham, UK. 2005

Francis Bond, Stephan Oepen, Melanie Siegel, Ann Copestake and Dan Flickinger
Open Source Machine Translation with DELPH-IN
In: Proc. Open Source MT workshop at MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, 2005.

2004

Advaith Siddharthan and Ann Copestake. Generating referring expressions in open domains
In: Proc. 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2004) pages 408--415. Barcelona, Spain, 2004.

Aline Villavicencio, Ann Copestake, Ben Waldron, Fabre Lambeau. The lexical encoding of multiword expressions
In: Proc. ACL 2004 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: integrating processing. Barcelona, Spain, 2004.

Ann Copestake, Fabre Lambeau, Benjamin Waldron, Francis Bond, Dan Flickinger, Stephan Oepen
A lexicon module for a grammar development environment
In: Proc. Fourth conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2004), Lisbon, Portugal. 2004

2003

David Schlangen, Alex Lascarides and Ann Copestake. Resolving underspecification using discourse information
In: Perspectives on Dialogue in the New Millennium Peter Kuhnlein, Hannes Rieser, Henk Zeevat (editors)
pages 287--307. John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia. 2003.

Ann Copestake. Compounds revisited
In: Proc. Second International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon, Geneva, pages 20-30. 2003.

2002

Ann Copestake. Computational models of the lexicon.
In: Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences. Lynn Nadel (editor). Macmillan. 2002.

Advaith Siddharthan and Ann Copestake, 2002. Generating Anaphora for Simplifying Text
In: Proceedings of the Fourth Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC 2002), Lisbon, Portugal

Aline Villavicencio and Ann Copestake, 2002. Verb-particle constructions in a computational grammar of English,
In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Seoul, South Korea

Ann Copestake, Fabre Lambeau, Aline Villavicencio, Francis Bond, Timothy Baldwin, Ivan Sag, Dan Flickinger, 2002. Multiword Expressions: Linguistic Precision and Reusability,
In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002), Las Palmas, Canary Islands, pp. 1941-7

Ivan Sag, Timothy Baldwin, Francis Bond, Ann Copestake and Dan Flickinger (2002) Multiword Expressions: A Pain in the Neck for NLP, In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLING 2002), Mexico City, Mexico, pp. 1-15

Ted Briscoe, John Carroll, Jonathan Graham, Ann Copestake. Relational evaluation schemes.
In: Proc. Beyond PARSEVAL Workshop at LREC 2002, pages 4--8, 2002.

2001

Ann Copestake, Alex Lascarides and Dan Flickinger, 2001. An Algebra for Semantic Construction in Constraint-based Grammars
In: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2001), Toulouse, France

David Schlangen, Alex Lascarides and Ann Copestake, 2001. Resolving underspecification using discourse information
In: Proceedings of BI-DIALOG 2001: 5th Workshop on Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Bielefeld, Germany.

Ann Copestake, 2001. The semi-generative lexicon: limits on lexical productivity
In: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon, Geneva.

Ann Copestake, John Carroll, Dan Flickinger, Rob Malouf and Stephan Oepen
Using an open-source unification-based system for CL/NLP teaching
In: Proc. ACL Workshop on Sharing Tools and Resources for Research and Education, pages 35--38, Toulouse, France. 2001.

2000

Rob Malouf, John Carroll and Ann Copestake, 2000. Efficient feature structure operations without compilation
Natural Language Engineering 6:1.
Also in Collaborative Language Engineering: A Case Study in Efficient Grammar-based Processing, edited by Stephan Oepen, Daniel Flickinger, Hans Uszkoreit and J-I. Tsujii CSLI Publications, 2003

Ann Copestake, 2000. Definitions of Typed Feature Structures
Natural Language Engineering (appendix to special issue on efficient processing with HPSG) 6:1.
Also in Collaborative Language Engineering: A Case Study in Efficient Grammar-based Processing, edited by Stephan Oepen, Daniel Flickinger, Hans Uszkoreit and J-I. Tsujii CSLI Publications, 2003

Guido Minnen, Francis Bond, Ann Copestake, 2000. Memory-based learning for article generation ( PDF )
In: Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2000), Lisbon

Ann Copestake and Dan Flickinger, 2000. An open-source grammar development environment and broad-coverage English grammar using HPSG
In: Proceedings of the Second conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2000), Athens, Greece

Dan Flickinger, Ann Copestake, Ivan A. Sag. HPSG Analysis of English
In: Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-to-Speech Translation Wolfgang Wahlster (editor), pages 254-263, Springer, Berlin. 2000.

Ulrich Callmeier, Ann Copestake, Dan Flickinger, Rob Malouf, Stephan Oepen
Scalable grammar software for computational linguists: building, testing and running grammars large and small
Software demonstration at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2000), Hong Kong, 2000.

1999

Ted Briscoe and Ann Copestake, 1999. Lexical rules in constraint-based grammar
Computational Linguistics 25:4, 487-526.

Ann Copestake, 1999. The (new) LKB system. Online version removed, replaced by Implementing typed feature structure grammars

Ann Copestake and Dan Flickinger, 1999. Evaluation of NLP technology for AAC using logged data.
In: Filip Loncke, John Clibbens, Helen Arvidson and Lyle Lloyd, Augmentative and Alternative Communication: new directions in research and practice, 123-132. Whurr Publishers, London.

Alex Lascarides and Ann Copestake, 1999. Default representation in constraint-based frameworks ( PDF)
Computational Linguistics 25:1, 55-105.

John Carroll, Ann Copestake, Dan Flickinger and Victor Poznanski, 1999. An Efficient Chart Generator for (Semi-)Lexicalist Grammars
In: Proceedings of the 7th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (EWNLG'99), Toulouse.

1998

Alex Lascarides and Ann Copestake, 1998. Pragmatics and word meaning. ( PDF)
Journal of Linguistics, 34, 387-414.
Earlier version appeared in the Proceedings of SALT V, Cornell University, 1995

Ann Copestake and Dan Flickinger, 1998. Enriched language models for flexible generation in AAC systems.
In: Proceedings of the Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference (CSUN-98). Los Angeles, CA.

1997

Ann Copestake, 1997. Augmented and alternative NLP techniques for augmentative and alternative communication
In: Proceedings of the ACL workshop on Natural Language Processing for Communication Aids, Madrid, 37-42.

Ann Copestake and Alex Lascarides, 1997. Integrating symbolic and statistical representations: the lexicon-pragmatics interface ( PDF )
In: 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 (ACL-EACL 97), Madrid, 136-143.

1996

Ann Copestake, 1996. Applying Natural Language Processing Techniques to Speech Prostheses
In: Working Notes of the 1996 AAAI Fall Symposium on Developing Assistive Technology for People with Disabilities

Ann Copestake and Ted Briscoe, 1996. Controlling the application of lexical rules
In: Proceedings of the SIGLEX Workshop on Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons, Santa Cruz, CA, pages 7-19.

Alex Lascarides, Ted Briscoe, Nicholas Asher and Ann Copestake, 1996. Order Independent and Persistent Typed Default Unification (Revised version of ACQUILEX II WP NO. 40)
Linguistics and Philosophy 19:1, 1-89.

Alex Lascarides, Ann Copestake and Ted Briscoe, 1996. Ambiguity and coherence
Journal of Semantics, 13:2, 41--65.

1995

Ann Copestake, 1995. The representation of group denoting nouns in a lexical knowledge base. (PDF) (ACQUILEX WP NO. 37: 1992)
In: P. St. Dizier and E. Viegas (editors), Computational Lexical Semantics, Cambridge University Press.
Earlier version in Proceedings of the Second Seminar on Computational Lexical Semantics, Toulouse, France. January 1992.
Notes: Describes the use of the LKB in representing group denoting nouns and the extent to which the information can be extracted from MRDs and corpora.

Ted Briscoe, Ann Copestake and Alex Lascarides, 1995. Blocking (ACQUILEX II WP NO. 2: 1993)
In: P. St. Dizier and E. Viegas (editors), Computational Lexical Semantics, Cambridge University Press.

Ann Copestake and Ted Briscoe, 1995. Semi-productive Polysemy and Sense Extension (PDF) (Revised version of ACQUILEX II WP NO. 23)
Journal of Semantics, 12, 15-67.

Ann Copestake, Ted Briscoe, Piek Vossen, Alicia Ageno, Irene Castellon, Francesc Ribas, German Rigau, Horacio Rodriguez, Anna Samiotou, 1995. Acquisition of Lexical Translation Relations from MRDs Machine Translation, 9:3, 183--219.

Ann Copestake, Dan Flickinger, Rob Malouf, Susanne Riehemann and Ivan Sag, 1995. Translation using Minimal Recursion Semantics (ACQUILEX II WP NO. 61)
In: Proceedings of The Sixth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI95) Leuven, Belgium

Ann Copestake, 1995 Semantic transfer for Verbmobil ACQUILEX II WP NO. 62 and Verbmobil report No. 93

Ann Copestake, 1995 Representing Lexical Polysemy (ACQUILEX II WP NO. 64)
In: Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on representation and acquisition of lexical knowledge: polysemy, ambiguity and generativity, Stanford, CA.

1993

Ann Copestake and Antonio Sanfilippo, 1993. Multilingual Lexical Representation (ACQUILEX II WP NO. 3)
Presented at: AAAI Spring Symposium on Building lexicons for machine translation, Stanford CA.
Notes: Actually quite different from the earlier paper of the same name ... Discusses the use of tlinks (i.e. bilexicon representation device in the LKB) to represent generalisations about translation mismatches etc.

Ann Copestake, 1993. The Compleat LKB
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Technical report No. 316 and ACQUILEX-II Deliverable, 3.1
Notes: One figure missing from an appendix in the online version

Ann Copestake, Antonio Sanfilippo, Ted Briscoe and Valeria de Paiva. The ACQUILEX LKB: an introduction.
In: Inheritance, defaults and the lexicon, Ted Briscoe, Ann Copestake and Valeria de Paiva. pages 148-163, Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Ann Copestake. Defaults in lexical representation.
In: Inheritance, defaults and the lexicon, Ted Briscoe, Ann Copestake and Valeria de Paiva. pages 223-245, Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Piek Vossen and Ann Copestake. Untangling definition structure into knowledge representation
In: Inheritance, defaults and the lexicon, Ted Briscoe, Ann Copestake and Valeria de Paiva. pages 246-274, Cambridge University Press, 1993.

1992

Ann Copestake, 1992. The Representation of Lexical Semantic Information
Doctoral dissertation, University of Sussex. Cognitive Science Research Paper CSRP 280, 1993.

Ann Copestake, 1992. The ACQUILEX LKB: Representation Issues in the Semi-automatic Acquisition of Large Lexicons. (ACQUILEX WP NO. 36)
In: Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, Trento, Italy.
Also in: Antonio Sanfilippo (editor), 1992, The (other) Cambridge ACQUILEX papers, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Technical report No. 253
Notes: figures are missing in the online version. This paper gives an overview of the LKB and its use in ACQUILEX. More detail is found in The Compleat LKB

Ann Copestake, Bernie Jones, Antonio Sanfilippo, Horacio Rodriguez, Piek Vossen, Simonetta Montemagni and Elizabeth Marinai, 1992. Multilingual Lexical Representation (ACQUILEX WP NO. 43)
In: Antonio Sanfilippo (editor), The (other) Cambridge ACQUILEX papers, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Technical report No. 253
Notes: one figures is missing in the online version. Describes tlinks (i.e. bilexicon representation) and how they might be extracted semi-automatically from bilingual dictionaries.

1991

Ann Copestake and Ted Briscoe, 1991. Lexical Operations in a Unification Based Framework (ACQUILEX WP NO. 21)
Proceedings of ACL SIGLEX Workshop on Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation, Berkeley, California, pp 88-101.
Also in: Antonio Sanfilippo (editor), 1992, The (other) Cambridge ACQUILEX papers, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Technical report No. 253
Also in: J. Pustejovsky and S. Bergler (editors), 1992, Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Notes: Describes the LKB lexical rule mechanism and its use in the representation of sense extensions or regular polysemy.

Ted Briscoe and Ann Copestake, 1991. Sense Extensions as Lexical Rules (ACQUILEX WP NO. 22)
In: D. Fass, E. Hinkelman and J. Martin (eds) Computational approaches to non-literal language: metaphor, metonymy, idiom, speech acts, implicature. Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Computational Approaches to Non-Literal Language, Sydney, Australia, pp.12-20.
Also in: Antonio Sanfilippo (editor), 1992, The (other) Cambridge ACQUILEX papers, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Technical report No. 253
Notes: This paper is similar to the one above but also discusses conventional metaphor and how MRDs represent some sense extensions.

1990

Ann Copestake, 1990. An approach to building the hierarchical element of a lexical knowledge base from a machine readable dictionary (ACQUILEX WP NO. 8.)
In: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Inheritance in Natural Language Processing, Tilburg, pp. 19-29.
Also in: Antonio Sanfilippo (editor), 1992, The (other) Cambridge ACQUILEX papers. University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Technical report No. 253
Notes: Discusses the construction of taxonomies and some ideas about their representation. See my thesis for later work

Ann Copestake, 1990. Some Notes on Mass Terms and Plurals University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Technical report No. 190.

Ann Copestake and Karen Sparck Jones, 1990. Natural language interfaces to databases
In: Knowledge Engineering Review, 5:4, 225--249.

Ted Briscoe, Ann Copestake and Bran Boguraev. Enjoy the paper: lexical semantics via lexicology.
In: Proc. 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-90), Helsinki, pages 42-47, 1990.

1989

Ann Copestake and Karen Sparck Jones, 1990. Inference in a Natural Language Front End for Databases
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Technical report No. 163

1988

Bran Boguraev, Ann Copestake and Karen Sparck Jones. Inference in natural language front ends.
In: Data and Knowledge. R.A. Meersman and A.C.Sernadas (editors). North Holland, Amsterdam, 1988.

Teaching and tutorials

LaTeX source is included for some papers here, for convenience in extracting references.

Slides for three lectures on NLP with constraint-based grammars, Graduate School in Language Technology, Gøteborg, September 2002. ps and pdf

Handout for a course on the lexicon in computational linguistics from the 1999 Linguistic Institute

Bibliography for computational lexical semantics (version distributed at ACL 1996 tutorial on lexical semantics) LaTeX

Slides for ACL 1996 tutorial on lexical semantics

Bibliography for work on the lexicon in MT (version distributed at AMTA 96 tutorial on the lexicon in MT) LaTeX

Slides for AMTA 1996 tutorial

Slides for ESSLLI '96 course on integrating the lexicon and pragmatics

Inheritance in lexical representation (short introductory paper) LaTeX

Other papers

Computational Lexical Semantics in Review by Ted Briscoe, 1996. Part of FraCaS deliverable, included here for convenience.