UU ML Group: List of Publications

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1. Generative Models for Semantic Role Labeling
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   Cynthia A. Thompson and Siddharth Patwardhan and Carolin Arnold
   Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text, Barcelona, Spain, 2004.

2. Finding Educational Resources on the Web: Exploiting Automatic Extraction of Metadata
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   Cynthia A. Thompson and Joseph Smarr and Huy Nguyen and Christopher Manning
   Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining, Croatia, 2003.

3. A Generative Model for Semantic Role Labeling
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   Cynthia A. Thompson and Roger Levy Christopher Manning
   14th European Conference on Machine Learning, Croatia, 2003.

4. A Personalized System for Conversational Recommendations
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   Cynthia A. Thompson and Mehmet H. Goker and Pat Langley
   Submitted to the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2002.

5. Identifying Events Using Similarity and Context
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   Dominic Jones and Cynthia Thompson
   Seventh Conference on Natural Language Learning, Edmonton, Canada, 2003.

6. Acquiring Word-Meaning Mappings for Natural Language Interfaces
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   Cynthia A. Thompson and Raymond J. Mooney
   Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2003.

7. Evaluating a personalized conversational recommendation system
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   Cynthia A. Thompson
   Unpublished Technical Note, March 2002.

8. Personalized Conversational Case-Based Recommendation
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   Mehmet Goker and Cynthia Thompson
   Proceedings of the 5th European Workshop on Case Based Reasoning, Trento, Italy, September 2000.

9. The Adaptive Place Advisor: A Conversational Recommendation System
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   Mehmet Goker and Cynthia Thompson
   Proceedings of the 8th German Workshop on Case Based Reasoning, Lammerbuckel, Germany, March 2000.

10. Learning to Suggest: The Adaptive Place Advisor
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    Cynthia Thompson and Mehmet Goker
    Proceedings of the 2000 AAAI Spring Symposium on Adaptive User Interfaces, Menlo Park, California, March 2000.

11. Theoretically Grounded Conversational Interfaces to Digital Information
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    Yookyung Kim, Amy Perfors, Stanley Peters, and Cynthia Thompson
    Unpublished Manuscript, Stanford, California, Dec, 1999.

12. An Adaptive Conversational Interface for Destination Advice
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    Pat Langley, Cynthia Thompson, Renee Elio, and Afsaneh Haddadi
    Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, Uppsala, Sweden, August 1999.

13. Active Learning for Natural Language Parsing and Information Extraction
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    Cynthia A. Thompson, Mary Elaine Califf, and Raymond J. Mooney
    Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Machine Learning Conference, Bled, Slovenia, June 1999. (ICML-99)

14. Automatic Construction of Semantic Lexicons for Learning Natural Language Interfaces
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    Cynthia A. Thompson and Raymond J. Mooney
    Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Orlando, FL, July, 1999. (AAAI-99)

15. Adaptive Conversational Agents for Task-Oriented Dialogues
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    Cynthia A. Thompson
    Proceedings of Communicative Agents: The use of natural language in embodied systems at Autonomous Agents '99 Seattle, WA, May 1999.

16. Semantic Lexicon Acquisition for Learning Natural Language Interfaces
    Cynthia A. Thompson
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    Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, December 1998.
    Also appears as Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Technical Report AI99-278

17. Semantic Lexicon Acquisition for Learning Natural Language Interfaces
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    Cynthia A. Thompson and Raymond J. Mooney
    Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora.

18. Learning to Parse Natural Language Database Queries into Logical Form
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    Cynthia A. Thompson Raymond J. Mooney, and Lappoon R. Tang
    Proceedings of the ML-97 Workshop on Automata Induction, Grammatical Inference, and Language Acquisition.

19. Corpus-Based Lexical Acquisition For Semantic Parsing
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    Cynthia A. Thompson
    Ph.D. proposal

20. Inducing Logic Programs without Explicit Negative Examples
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    John M. Zelle, Cynthia A. Thompson, Mary Elaine Califf, and Raymond J. Mooney
    the Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Inductive Logic Programming.

21. Acquisition of a Lexicon from Semantic Representations of Sentences
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    Cynthia A. Thompson 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics, pp. 335-337, Boston, MA July 1995.

22. Inductive Learning For Abductive Diagnosis
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    Cynthia A. Thompson and Raymond J. Mooney
    Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference on AI, Seattle, WA, July 1994. (AAAI-94)

23. Inductive Learning For Abductive Diagnosis
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    Cynthia A. Thompson
    M.A. Thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, July 1993.