I have now moved to the University of Potsdam as Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. But I will keep updating this page.
Publications
Copestake, A. and Herbelot, A. Exciting and interesting: issues in the generation of binomials. In Proceedings of the UCNLG+Eval: Language Generation and Evaluation Workshop. Edinburgh, UK, July 2011. Pages 45-53.
Herbelot, A. and Copestake, A. Formalising and specifying underquantification In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Semantics. Oxford, UK, 2011.
Copestake, A. and Herbelot, A. Synonymy in an approach to combined distributional and compositional
semantics. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Re-Thinking Synonymy: Workshop on Computational Approaches to Synonymy. Helsinki, Finland, 2010.
Herbelot, A. and Copestake, A. Underquantification: an application to mass terms. In Proceedings of Empirical, Theoretical and Computational Approaches to Countability in Natural Language, Bochum, Germany, 2010.
Herbelot, A. and Copestake, A. Annotating Underquantification. In Proceedings of The Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW IV) at ACL'10, Uppsala, Sweden, 2010.
Associated Material:
Test set for annotation task.
Annotation Scheme.
Herbelot, A. Finding Word Substitutions Using a Distributional Similarity Baseline and Immediate Context Overlap. In Proceedings of the Student Session of EACL'09, Athens, Greece, 2009.
Herbelot, A. and Copestake, A. Annotating Genericity: How Do Humans Decide? (A Case Study in Ontology Extraction). In: Featherston, Sam and Winkler, Susanne (eds.) The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics. Volume 1: Process. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2008.
Associated Material:
Genericity Annotation Development Corpus.
Genericity Annotation Scheme.
Herbelot, A. and Copestake, A. Acquiring Ontological Relationships from Wikipedia using RMRS. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Web content Mining with Human Language Technologies, 2006, ISWC'06.
Thesis
My thesis, entitled Underspecified Quantification can be found here.
Non-Published Talks at Conferences
Herbelot, A. Extracting Entailing Words from Small Corpora for Ontology Building. At CLUK 2007.
Herbelot, A. Ontological Clustering: Battling with the Concept of Concept. At FLATLANDS Meeting 2007.
In 2009, I took part in the Johns Hopkins University summer workshop, working on Large-Scale Syntactic Processing: Parsing the Web. The final report, including my chapter on improving the parsing of coordination with distributional methods, can be found here
Reviewing
EMNLP 2011
ACL 2011
ACL 2009 Student Workshop
CLUK 2008
Computational Linguistics (Journal)
Language Resources and Evaluation (Journal)
Work on medieval literature
Le Roman de Fauvel de Chaillou de Pesstain (manuscrit fr. BN 146) - Etude des processus de la creation
These de Maitrise - Soutenue a l'Universite de Savoie, Chambery, France, 1998
(in French).
I have also edited a book of computer-generated poetry entitled discourse.cpp. Check out the Peer Press website for more info.