Shane Bergsma
Shane Bergsma
Ph.D. Student
Department of Computing Science
University of Alberta
Interest: Natural Language Processing
Supervisors: Dekang Lin and Randy Goebel
Support: NSERC, Alberta Ingenuity, iCORE
Office:
Athabasca Hall,
Room 1-02.
Call: (780) 492-2737 or
E-mail.
Profile -
Publications -
Long-bio -
Short-bio
JHU Research Workshops
Publications
2010
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Dekang Lin,
Ken Church, Heng Ji, Satoshi Sekine, David Yarowsky,
Shane Bergsma,
Kailash Patil, Emily Pitler, Rachel Lathbury, Vikram Rao, Kapil
Dalwani and Sushant Narsale,
New Tools for Web-Scale N-grams,
In
LREC 2010, Valleta, Malta, May 19-21, 2010, to appear.
2009
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Shane Bergsma,
Dekang Lin and
Randy Goebel,
Web-Scale N-gram Models for Lexical Disambiguation,
In
IJCAI 2009, Pasadena, California, July 11-17, 2009, pages 1507-1512.
[PDF]
[BIB]
[Presentation]
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Qing Dou,
Shane Bergsma,
Sittichai Jiampojamarn and
Grzegorz Kondrak,
A Ranking Approach to Stress Prediction for Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion,
In ACL-IJCNLP 2009,
Singapore, August 2-7, 2009, pages 118-126.
[PDF]
[BIB]
- Nominated, ACL-IJCNLP Best Paper Award
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Shane Bergsma,
Dekang Lin and
Randy Goebel,
Glen, Glenda or Glendale: Unsupervised and Semi-supervised Learning of English Noun Gender,
In
CoNLL 2009, Boulder, Colorado, June 4-5, 2009, pages 120-128.
[PDF]
[BIB]
2008
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Shane Bergsma,
Dekang Lin and
Randy Goebel,
Discriminative Learning of Selectional Preference from Unlabeled Text,
In
EMNLP 2008, Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 25-27, 2008, pages 59-68.
[PDF]
[BIB]
[Presentation]
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Shane Bergsma,
Dekang Lin and
Randy Goebel,
Distributional Identification of Non-Referential Pronouns,
In
ACL-HLT 2008, Columbus, Ohio, June 16-18, 2008, pages 10-18.
[PDF]
[BIB]
[Presentation]
2007
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Shane Bergsma and
Grzegorz Kondrak,
Alignment-Based Discriminative String Similarity,
In
ACL 2007, Prague, Czech Republic, June 25-27, 2007, pages 656-663.
[PDF]
[BIB]
[Presentation]
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Shane Bergsma and
Qin Iris Wang,
Learning Noun Phrase Query Segmentation,
In
EMNLP-CoNLL 2007, Prague, Czech Republic, June 28-30, 2007, pages 819-826.
[PDF]
[BIB]
[Presentation]
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Shane Bergsma and
Grzegorz Kondrak,
Multilingual Cognate Identification using Integer Linear Programming,
In
RANLP Workshop on Acquisition and Management of Multilingual Lexicons
(AMML 2007), Borovetz, Bulgaria, September 30, 2007, pages 11-18.
[PDF]
[BIB]
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Christopher Pinchak and
Shane Bergsma,
Automatic Answer Typing for How-Questions,
In
NAACL-HLT 2007, Rochester, NY, April 22-27, 2007, pages 516-523.
[PDF]
[BIB]
[Presentation]
2006
2005
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Shane Bergsma,
Automatic Acquisition of Gender Information for Anaphora Resolution,
In Canadian AI 2005,
(LNCS,3501,
© Springer Verlag),
Victoria, BC, May 9-11, 2005, pages 342-353.
[PDF]
[BIB]
- Winner, AI'2005 Best Paper Award
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Colin Cherry and
Shane Bergsma,
An Expectation Maximization Approach to Pronoun Resolution,
In CoNLL 2005,
Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 29-30, 2005, pages 88-95.
[PDF]
[BIB]
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Shane Bergsma,
Corpus-Based Learning for Pronominal Anaphora Resolution,
University of Alberta M.Sc. Thesis.
Edmonton, Alberta, 2005
[PDF]
Data
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Noun Gender and Number Data for Anaphora Resolution:
[gender].
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Noun Phrase Query Segmentation: Segmented Query and Feature Data:
[queries].
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American National Corpus articles with Annotated Anaphora Resolutions:
[instructions].
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It-Bank: An online repository of labelled instances of the pronoun "it":
[It-Bank].
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Alignment-Based Discriminative String Similarity: Cognate Data used in Experiments:
[cognates].