Recent Publications of the CHORUS project

2006

Alexander Koller and Stefan Thater:
An improved redundancy elimination algorithm for underspecified descriptions
Proceedings of COLING/ACL-2006, Sydney. [PDF]

Marco Kuhlmann and Joakim Nivre:
Mildly Non-Projective Dependency Structures
COLING/ACL-2006, Sydney. (Accepted for presentation as a poster.) [PDF]

Alexander Koller and Stefan Thater:
Towards a redundancy elimination algorithm for underspecified descriptions
Proceedings of the 5th Intl. Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS-5), Buxton, England. [PDF]

Ralph Debusmann and Gert Smolka:
Multi-dimensional Dependency Grammar as Multigraph Description
The 19th International FLAIRS Conference, FLAIRS-19, Melbourne Beach, Florida [PDF]

2005

Manuel Bodirsky, Marco Kuhlmann, Mathias Möhl:
Well-Nested Drawings as Models of Syntactic Structure
10th Conference on Formal Grammar and Ninth Meeting on Mathematics of Language, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2005. [PDF]

Ralph Debusmann, Denys Duchier, Marco Kuhlmann:
Multi-Dimensional Graph Configuration for Natural Language Processing
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 3438, Springer-Verlag, 2005. [PDF]

Ralph Debusmann, Oana Postolache and Maarika Traat:
A Modular Account of Information Structure in Extensible Dependency Grammar
Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, CICLING 2005, Mexico City [PDF]

Dan Flickinger, Alexander Koller, and Stefan Thater:
A new well-formedness criterion for semantics debugging
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on HPSG, Lisbon. [PDF]

Robert Grabowski, Marco Kuhlmann, Mathias Möhl:
Lexicalised Configuration Grammars
Second International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Language Processing, Sitges, Spain, 2005. [PDF]

Alexander Koller and Stefan Thater:
The Evolution of Dominance Constraint Solvers
Proceedings of the ACL-05 Workshop on Software, Ann Arbor. [PDF]

Alexander Koller and Stefan Thater:
Efficient solving and exploration of scope ambiguities
Proceedings of the ACL-05 Demo Session. [PDF]

2004

Ralph Debusmann, Denys Duchier and Joachim Niehren:
The XDG Grammar Development Kit
Second International Mozart/Oz Conference, MOZ 2004, Charleroi [PDF]

Ralph Debusmann, Denys Duchier, Alexander Koller, Marco Kuhlmann, Gert Smolka, and Stefan Thater:
A Relational Syntax-Semantics Interface Based on Dependency Grammar
Proceedings of the 20th COLING, Geneva. [PS]

Ralph Debusmann, Denys Duchier, Marco Kuhlmann, Stefan Thater:
TAG as Dependency Grammar.
Seventh International Workshop on TAG and Related Formalisms, Vancouver, Canada, 2004. [PDF]

Ralph Debusmann, Denys Duchier, Alexander Koller, Marco Kuhlmann, Gert Smolka and Stefan Thater:
A Relational Syntax-Semantics Interface Based on Dependency Grammar
The 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2004, Geneva [PDF]

Ralph Debusmann:
Multiword expressions as dependency subgraphs
42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2004, Workshop: Multiword Expressions: Integrating Processing, Barcelona [PDF]

Markus Egg:
Mismatches at the syntax-semantics interface
In Stefan Müller (ed.): Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 119-139. [PDF]

Alexander Koller:
Constraint-based and graph-based resolution of ambiguities in natural language
PhD Thesis, Universität des Saarlandes. [PDF]

Ruth Fuchss, Alexander Koller, Joachim Niehren, and Stefan Thater:
Minimal Recursion Semantics as Dominance Constraints: Translation, Evaluation, and Analysis.
Proceedings of the 42nd ACL, Barcelona. [PS]

2003

Ralph Debusmann:
A Parser System for Extensible Dependency Grammar
Workshop: Prospects and Advances in the Syntax-Semantics Interface, Nancy [PDF]

Ralph Debusmann:
Dependency Grammar as Graph Description
Workshop: Prospects and Advances in the Syntax-Semantics Interface, Nancy [PDF]

Peter Dienes, Alexander Koller, and Marco Kuhlmann:
Statistical A* Dependency Parsing.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Prospects and Advances in the Syntax/Semantics Interface, Nancy. [PS]

Markus Egg:
Beginning novels and finishing hamburgers - remarks on the semantics of to begin
Journal of Semantics 20, 163-191. [PS]

Markus Egg:
Type coercion from a natural language generation point of view.
In Holden Härtl and Heike Tappe (eds): Mediating between Concepts and Grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (with K. Striegnitz), 323-348. [PS]

Alexander Koller, Joachim Niehren, and Stefan Thater:
Bridging the Gap Between Underspecification Formalisms: Hole Semantics as Dominance Constraints.
Proceedings of the 11th EACL, Budapest. [PS]

Ernst Althaus, Denys Duchier, Alexander Koller, Kurt Mehlhorn, Joachim Niehren, and Sven Thiel:
An Efficient Graph Algorithm for Dominance Constraints.
Journal of Algorithms. To appear. [PS]

2002

Markus Egg:
Semantic construction for reinterpretation phenomena.
Linguistics 40, 579-609. [PS]

Markus Egg and Katrin Erk:
A compositional account of VP ellipsis.
In Frank Van Eynde, Lars Hellan, and Dorothee Beermann (eds): Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Stanford: CSLI Publications, 162-179. [PDF]

Markus Egg, Alexander Koller and Joachim Niehren:
The Constraint Language for Lambda Structures.
Journal of Logic, Language, and Information 10, 457-485 [PS]

Katrin Erk:
Parallelism constraints in underspecified semantics.
PhD Thesis, Universität des Saarlandes. [PDF]

Katrin Erk, Alexander Koller, and Joachim Niehren:
Processing Underspecified Semantic Descriptions in the Constraint Language for Lambda Structures.
Journal of Language & Computation. To appear. [PS]

Michael Kohlhase and Alexander Koller:
Resource-Adaptive Model Generation as a Performance Model.
Journal of Language and Computation. To appear. [PS]

Alexander Koller and Kristina Striegnitz:
Generation as Dependency Parsing.
Proceedings of the 40th ACL, Philadelphia. [PS]

Christian Korthals and Ralph Debusmann:
Linking syntactic and semantic arguments in a dependency-based formalism
The 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2002, Taipei [PDF]

Marco Kuhlmann:
Towards a Constraint Parser for Categorial Type Logics.
Master's thesis, Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 2002. [PDF]