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Research InterestsMy research interests are in Natural Language
Processing, Machine Learning, and Information Retrieval. Specifically, I
work on the problems of Word Sense Disambiguation and Semantic Based Information
Retrieval. I am also working on methods for building annotated corpora for
(mono|multi)lingual NLP tasks.
Recent Program Committees
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Association for Computational Linguistics
ACL 2003, Sapporo, Japan, August 2003.
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Computational Natural Language Learning
CoNLL 2003, Edmonton, Alberta, May 2003.
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European Association for Computational Linguistics 2003, main program
EACL, Budapest, April 2003.
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European Association for Computational Linguistics 2003, research notes
EACL, Budapest, April 2003.
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Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society, 2003
FLAIRS, St.Augustine, May 2003.
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SemaNet'02: Building and Using Semantic Networks, COLING 2002
COLING 2002 Workshop, Taipei, September 2002.
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Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2002
EMNLP, Philadelphia, July 2002.
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Portugal for Natural Language
Processing
PorTAL 2002, Faro, Portugal, June, 2002.
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Word Sense
Disambiguation: Recent Advances and Future Directions, ACL 2002
ACL 2002 Workshop, Philadelphia, June, 2002.
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Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society, 2002
FLAIRS, Pensacola, May 2002.
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Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, 2001
RANLP, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, September 2001.
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Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2001
EMNLP, Pittsburgh, June 2001.
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WordNet and Other Lexical Resources, NAACL 2001
NAACL 2001 Workshop, Pittsburgh, June 2001.
Recent Talks
Conferences and Workshops
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Co-chair for the HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop on "Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data Driven Machine Translation and Beyond", Edomonton, May 2003.
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Co-chair for the ACL 2002 Workshop on "Word Sense Disambiguation: Recent Advances and Future Directions", Philadelphia, July 2002.
Publications
Theses
Journals
- Rada Mihalcea, Going Beyond Explicit Knowledge for Improved Semantic Based Information Retrieval, to appear in International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, December 2002.
- Rada Mihalcea, Word Sense Disambiguation Using Pattern Learning and Automatic Feature Selection,
to appear in Journal of Natural Language and Engineering, December 2002.
- 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, [pg.5-21], 2001.
- Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, Document Indexing using Named Entities, in Studies in Informatics and Control, vol.10, no.1, [pg.21-27], 2001.
- Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, AutoASC - A System for Automatic Acquisition of Sense tagged Corpora , in International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, [pg.3-17], vol.14, no.1, 2000.
- Dan Moldovan and Rada Mihalcea Using WordNet and Lexical Operators to improve Internet Searches in IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 4 no. 1, [pg.34-43], 2000.
Magazines
Conference and Workshop Proceedings
2002
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, pp. 339-348.
2001
- Rada Mihalcea and Silvana Mihalcea, Word Semantics for Information Retrieval: moving one step closer to the Semantic Web, to appear in International Conference on Tools in Artificial Intelligence ICTAI 2001, Dallas, TX, November 2001.
- 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-10, Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 2001.
- 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), [pg.274-281], Toulouse, France, July 2001.
- Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, eXtended WordNet: Progress Report, in Proceedings of NAACL Workshop on WordNet and Other Lexical Resources, [pg.95-100], Pittsburgh, PA, June 2001.
- Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, Automatic Generation of a Coarse Grained WordNet, in Proceedings of NAACL Workshop on WordNet and Other Lexical Resources, [pg.35-41], Pittsburgh, PA, June 2001 (this is an updated version of the Flairs 2001 paper).
- Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, EZ.WordNet: Principles for Automatic Generation of a Coarse Grained WordNet, in Proceedings of Flairs 2001, [pg.454-459] Key West, FL, May 2001.
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-9), Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 2000.
- Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan Semantic Indexing using WordNet Senses, in Proceedings of ACL Workshop on IR & NLP, Hong Kong, October, 2000.
- 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 ACL 2000, Hong Kong, October, 2000.
- Rada Mihalcea, A Semi-Complete Disambiguation Algorithm for Open Text, in Proceedings of AAAI 2000, [pg.1085], Austin, TX, July 2000.
- Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, An Iterative Approach to Word Sense Disambiguation, in Proceedings of Flairs 2000, [pg.219-223] Orlando, FL, May 2000. Best Paper Award
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-8), November, 1999.
- Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, An Automatic Method for Generating Sense Tagged Corpora, in Proceedings of AAAI '99, [pg.461-466], Orlando, FL, July 1999.
- Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, A Method for Word Sense Disambiguation of Unrestricted Text, in Proceedings of ACL '99, [pg.152-158], Maryland, NY, June 1999.
- Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, Automatic Acquisition of Sense Tagged Corpora, in Proceedings of Flairs '99, Orlando, FL, May 1999. Best Paper Award
1998
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