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Publications

Books

• Armstrong, S., Church, K., P. Isabelle, E. Tzoukermann and D. Yarowsky (Eds.), Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.

Journal Articles

• Yarowsky, D. `` Hierarchical Decision Lists for Word Sense Disambiguation.'' Computers and the Humanities, 34(2):179-186, 2000.

• Resnik, P. and D. Yarowsky. `` Distinguishing Systems and Distinguishing Senses: New Evaluation Methods for Word Sense Disambiguation.'' Natural Language Engineering, 5(2), pp. 113-133, 2000.

• Gale, W., K. Church, and D. Yarowsky. ``Discrimination Decisions for 100,000 Dimensional Spaces.'' Annals of Operations Research , 55, 323-344, 1995.

• Gale, W., K. Church, and D. Yarowsky. ``A Method for Disambiguating Word Senses in a Large Corpus.'' Computers and the Humanities. 26, pp. 415-439, 1992.

Book Chapters

• Yarowsky, D. `` Homograph Disambiguation in Speech Synthesis.'' In J. van Santen, R. Sproat, J. Olive and J. Hirschberg (eds.), Progress in Speech Synthesis. Springer-Verlag, pp. 159-175, 1996.

• Yarowsky, D. `` Corpus-based Techniques for Restoring Accents in Spanish and French Text.'' In Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora. Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 99-120, 1999.

• Yarowsky, D. ``Word Sense Disambiguation.'' In R. Dale, H. Moisl and H. Somers (eds.) The Handbook of Natural Language Processing. New York: Marcel Dekker, pp. 629-654, 2000.

• Gale, W., K. Church, and D. Yarowsky. `` Discrimination Decisions for 100,000-Dimensional Spaces.'' In A. Zampoli, N. Calzolari and M. Palmer (eds.), Current Issues in Computational Linguistics: In Honour of Don Walker. Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 429-450, 1994.

Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings

• Yarowsky, D. and G. Ngai, ``Inducing Multilingual POS Taggers and NP Bracketers via Robust Projection Across Aligned Corpora.'' In Proceedings of NAACL-2001 (ISBN: 1-55860-775-7), pp. 200-207, 2001.

• Mann, G. and D. Yarowsky, ``Multipath Translation Lexicon Induction via Bridge Languages.'' In Proceedings of NAACL-2001 (ISBN: 1-55860-775-7), pp. 151-158, 2001.

• Yarowsky, D., G. Ngai and R. Wicentowski, `` Inducing Multilingual Text Analysis Tools via Robust Projection across Aligned Corpora.'' In Proceedings of HLT 2001, First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research (ISBN: 1-55860-786-2), 2001.

• Yarowsky, D. and R. Wicentowski, `` Minimally supervised morphological analysis by multimodal alignment.'' Proceedings of ACL-2000, Hong Kong, pages 207-216, 2000.

• Ngai, G. and D. Yarowsky, ``Rule Writing or Annotation: Cost-efficient Resource Usage for Base Noun Phrase Chunking.'' Proceedings of ACL-2000, Hong Kong, pages 117-125, 2000.

• Cucerzan, S. and D. Yarowsky, `` Language independent minimally supervised induction of lexical probabilities.'' Proceedings of ACL-2000, Hong Kong, pages 270-277, 2000.

• Yarowsky, D. and R. Florian. `` Taking the load off the conference chairs: towards a digital paper-routing assistant.'' In Proceedings, 1999 Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in NLP and Very Large Corpora, pp. 220-230, 1999.

• Cucerzan, S. and D. Yarowsky. ``Language Independent Named Entity Recognition Combining Morphological and Contextual Evidence.'' In Proceedings, 1999 Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in NLP and Very Large Corpora, pp. 90-99, 1999.

• Florian, R. and D. Yarowsky. ``Dynamic Nonlocal Language Modeling via Hierarchical Topic-Based Adaptation.'' In Proceedings, 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 167-174, 1999.

• Resnik, P. and D. Yarowsky. `` A Perspective on Word Sense Disambiguation Methods and Their Evaluation.'' In Proceedings of SIGLEX '97, Washington, DC, pp. 79-86, 1997.

• Yarowsky, D. `` Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Rivaling Supervised Methods.'' In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Cambridge, MA, pp. 189-196, 1995.

• Yarowsky, D. `` Decision Lists for Lexical Ambiguity Resolution: Application to Accent Restoration in Spanish and French.'' In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Las Cruces, NM, pp. 88-95, 1994.

• Yarowsky, D. ``A Comparison of Corpus-based Techniques for Restoring Accents in Spanish and French Text.'' In Proceedings, 2nd Annual Workshop on Very Large Corpora. Kyoto, pp. 19-32, 1994.

• Yarowsky, D. ``Homograph Disambiguation in Speech Synthesis.'' In Proceedings, 2nd ESCA/IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis. New Paltz, NY, pp. 244-247, 1994.

• Yarowsky, D. ``One Sense Per Collocation.'' In Proceedings, ARPA Human Language Technology Workshop. Princeton, pp. 266-271, 1993.

• Yarowsky, D. `` Word-Sense Disambiguation Using Statistical Models of Roget's Categories Trained on Large Corpora.'' In Proceedings, COLING-92. Nantes, pp. 454-460, 1992.

• Sproat, R., J. Hirschberg and D. Yarowsky. ``A Corpus-based Synthesizer.'' In Proceedings, International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. Banff, pp. 563-566, 1992.

• Gale, W., K. Church, and D. Yarowsky. ``One Sense Per Discourse.'' In Proceedings of the 4th DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop. pp. 233-237, 1992.

• Gale, W., K. Church, and D. Yarowsky. ``On Evaluation of Word-Sense Disambiguation Systems.'' In Proceedings, 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Columbus, OH, pp. 249-256, 1992.

• Gale, W., K. Church, and D. Yarowsky. ``Work on Statistical Methods for Word Sense Disambiguation.'' In Proceedings, AAAI Fall Symposium on Probabilistic Approaches to Natural Language. Cambridge, MA, pp. 54-60, 1992.

• Gale, W., K. Church, and D. Yarowsky. ``Using Bilingual Materials to Develop Word Sense Disambiguation Methods.'' In Proceedings, Fourth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation. Montreal, pp. 101-112, 1992.

Patents

• Patent 5541836 - K. Church, W. Gale and D. Yarowsky, Word Disambiguation Apparatus and Methods.