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Presentations

• Course on Information Extraction and Question Answering at ALTSS 2003, Melbourne, December 2003
[ Lecture 1] [ Lecture 2] [ Lecture 3]

Research Papers

Question Answering and Answer Extraction

• L.A. Pizzato and D. Mollá. Indexing on Semantic Roles for Question Answering (2008). Proceedings COLING workshop on Information Retrieval for Question Answering (IR4QA), 8 pages. Manchester.
• D. Mollá, M. van Zaanen and S. Cassidy. Named Entity Recognition in Question Answering of Speech Data (2007). Proceedings ALTA 2007, 57-65, Melbourne. [poster]
• L.A. Pizzato and D. Mollá. Question Prediction Language Model (2007). Proceedings ALTA 2007, 92-99, Melbourne.
• M. van Zaanen and D. Mollá. A Named Entity Recogniser for Question Answering (2007). Proceedings PACLING 2007, 8 pages, Melbourne.
• M. van Zaanen and D. Mollá. AnswerFinder at QA @ CLEF 2007 (2007). Working Notes for the CLEF 2007 Workshop, 9 pages, Budapest.
• D. Mollá, S. Cassidy and M. van Zaanen. AnswerFinder at QAst 2007: Named Entity Recognition for QA on Speech Transcripts (2007). Working Notes for the CLEF 2007 Workshop, 9 pages, Budapest.
• D. Mollá and J. L. Vicedo. Question Answering in Restricted Domains: An Overview (2007). Computational Linguistics, 33(1):41-61.
• D. Mollá and M. van Zaanen. AnswerFinder at TREC 2006 (2007). The Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006), 8 pages.
• D. Mollá, M. van Zaanen, and D. Smith. Named Entity Recognition for Question Answering (2006). Proceedings ALTW 2006, Sydney.
• L.A. Pizzato, D. Mollá, and C. Paris. Pseudo Relevance Feedback Using Named Entities for Question Answering (2006). Proceedings ALTW 2006, 8 pages, Sydney.
• E. Akhmatova and D. Mollá. Recognizing Textual Entailment via Atomic Propositions (2006). In Machine Learning Challenges, LNCS 3944/2006, Springer, pp385-403.
• D. Mollá and S. Wan. Macquarie University at DUC 2006: Question Answering for Summarisation (2006) . Proceedings DUC 2006, 62-69.
• D. Mollá. Learning of Graph-based Question Answering Rules (2006). Proceedings HLT/NAACL 2006 Workshop on Graph Algorithms for Natural Language Processing, 37-44.
• D. Mollá and M. van Zaanen. AnswerFinder at TREC 2005 (2006). The Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2005), 9 pages.
• L.A. Pizzato and D. Mollá. Extracting Exact Answers using a Meta Question Answering System (2005) . Proc. ALTW05, pp. 105-111, Sydney, December 2005 [poster].
• D. Mollá and M. van Zaanen. Learning of Graph Rules for Question Answering (2005). Proc. ALTW05, 9 pages, Sydney, December 2005.
• M. van Zaanen, L.A. Pizzato and D. Mollá. Classifying Sentences Using Induced Structure (2005) . Proc. Twelfth Edition of the Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE2005), pp. 139-150, Buenos Aires, November 2005.
• M. van Zaanen, L.A. Pizzato and D. Mollá. Question Classification by Structure Induction (2005) . In Leslie Pack Kaelbling (ed.), Proc. Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI05), poster presentation, Edinburgh, July 2005. ISBN 0-938075-93-4.
• D. Mollá and M. Gardiner. AnswerFinder at TREC 2004 (2005). The Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2004), 8 pages.
• D. Mollá and M. Gardiner. AnswerFinder - Question Answering by Combining Lexical, Syntactic and Semantic Information (2004). Proc. ALTW04, 9-16, Sydney, December 2004.
• F. Rinaldi, M. Hess, J. Dowdall, D. Mollá, R. Schwitter. Question Answering in Terminology-rich Technical Domains (2004). In Mark Maybury (Ed.) New Directions in Question Answering. AAAI Press, 71-82.
• D. Mollá. Hacia el Uso de la Información Sináctica y Semántica en los Sistemas de Búsqueda de Respuestas (2004). Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 33:17-24.
• D. Mollá. AnswerFinder in TREC 2003 (2004). The Twelth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2003), 7 pages, http://trec.nist.gov/pubs.html.
• D. Mollá. Towards Semantic-Based Overlap Measures for Question Answering (2003). Proc. ALTW03, 8 pages, Melbourne, December 2003.
• F. Rinaldi, J. Dowdall, M. Hess, D. Mollá, R. Schwitter, and K. Kaljurand. Knowledge-Based Question Answering (2003). Proc. KES'2003 -- Seventh International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, 3-5 September 2003, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2773, pp. 785-792, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.
• D, Mollá, F. Rinaldi, R. Schwitter, J. Dowdall and M. Hess. ExtrAns: Extracting Answers from Technical Texts (2003). IEEE Intelligent Systems 18(4):12-17.
• F. Rinaldi, J. Dowdall, K. Kaljurand, M. Hess, D. Mollá. Exploiting Paraphrases in a Question Answering System (2003). Proc. Workshop in Paraphrasing at ACL2003, pp. 25-32. July 11, Sapporo, Japan.
• D. Moll�, R. Schwitter, F. Rinaldi, J. Dowdall, M. Hess. Anaphora Resolution in ExtrAns (2003). Proc. 2003 International Symposium on Reference Resolution and Its Applications to Question Answering and Summarization, June 23-25, Venice, Italy.
• D. Moll� and B. Hutchinson. Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Evaluations of Parsing Systems (2003). Proceedings European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), workshop on Evaluation Initiatives in Natural Language Processing, pp. 43-50. Budapest, 14 April 2003.
• D. Moll�, R. Schwitter, F. Rinaldi, J. Dowdall, M. Hess. Natural Language Processing for Answer Extraction in Technical Domains (2003). Proceedings European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), workshop on Natural Language Processing for Question Answering, pp. 5-12. Budapest, 14 April.
• D. Mollá and B. Hutchinson. Dependency-based semantic interpretation for answer extraction (2002). Proc. 2002 Australasian NLP Workshop (ANLP'02), pp. 25-32, Canberra.
• F. Rinaldi, J. Dowdall, M. Hess, D. Mollá and Rolf Schwitter Towards Answer Extraction: An Application to Technical Domains (2002). In F. van Harmelen (ed.), ECAI 2002, Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 460-464. IOS Press, Amsterdam.
• F. Rinaldi, M. Hess, D. Mollá, R. Schwitter, J. Dowdall, G. Schneider, R. Fournier. Answer Extraction in Technical Domains (2002). In A. Gelbukh (ed.), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 3rd International Conference CICLing-2002. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 360-369.
• R. Schwitter, D. Mollá, R. Fournier, and M. Hess. Answer extraction: Towards better evaluation of NLP systems (2000). Proc. Workshop on Reading Comprehension Texts, ANLP-NAACL2000. Seattle.
• D. Mollá, R. Schwitter, M. Hess, and R. Fournier. ExtrAns, an answer extraction system (2000). Traitement Automatique de Langues, 41(2):495-519.
• D. Mollá, G. Schneider, R. Schwitter, and M. Hess. Answer extraction using a dependency grammar in ExtrAns (2000). Traitement Automatique de Langues, 41(1):127-156.
• D. Mollá and M. Hess. Dealing with ambiguities in an answer extraction system (2000). Proc. ATALA Workshop on Representation and Treatment of Ambiguity in Natural Language Processing. Paris.
• D. Mollá and M. Hess. On the scalability of the answer extraction system ``ExtrAns'' (1999). Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB'99), Klagenfurt, Austria. 219-224.
• D. Mollá, J. Berri, and M. Hess. A real world implementation of answer extraction (1998). In Proc. of the 9th International Conference and Workshop on Database and Expert Systems. Workshop ``Natural Language and Information Systems'' (NLIS'98), Vienna. 143-148
• J. Berri, D. Mollá, and M. Hess. Extraction automatique de réponses: implémentation du système ExtrAns (1998). In Proc. of the 5e Conférence Annuelle sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 1998), Paris. 12-21.

Flat Logical Forms

• K. Böttger, R. Schwitter, D. Mollá, and D. Richards. Towards Reconciling Use Cases via Controlled Language and Graphical Models (2003). In O. Bartenstein, U. Geske, M. Hannebauer, O. Yoshie (eds.), Web-Knowledge Management and Decision Support, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2543, pp. 115-128, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.
• D. Mollá and R. Schwitter. From plain English to controlled English (2001). Proc. 2001 Australasian Natural Language Processing Workshop. Sydney.
• D. Mollá. Towards incremental semantic annotation (2001). Proc. First International Workshop on Multimedia Annotation (MMA-2001). Tokyo.
• D. Mollá. Ontologically promiscuous flat logical forms for NLP (2001). Proc. Fourth International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-4), pp. 249-265. Tilburg.

Teaching/Curriculum

• R. Dale, D. Moll�, R. Schwitter. Natural Language Processing in the Undergraduate Curriculum (2003). Proc. Fifth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2003), Adelaide, Australia.
• R. Dale, D. Mollá, R. Schwitter. Evangelising Language Technology: A practically-focussed undergraduate program (2002). Proc. ACL 2002 Workshop on Effective Tools and Methodologies for Teaching NLP and Computational Linguistics, Philadelphia.

Web

• W. Vasconcelos, R. Schwitter, D. Mollá, J. Cavalcanti. Implementing Prolog-Run WWW Sites (2000). Proc. 13th International Conference on Applications of Prolog (INAP2000), pp. 60-65. Waseda University, Tokyo.

Tense/Aspect

• D. Mollá. Aspectual Composition and Sentence Interpretation: A formal approach (1997). PhD thesis. The University of Edinburgh.
• D. Mollá. Aspectual composition and our (linguistic) interpretation of the world (1996). Departmental Conference of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Edinburgh. On-line publication.
• D. Mollá. On the aspectual interactions between verbs and NPs (1996). The 5th Manchester University Postgraduate Linguistics Conference. In Papers in Linguistics from the University of Manchester, Vol.1(1), Manchester University.
• D. Mollá. On the influences of noun phrases in the determination of the sentence aspectual class (1994). Proceedings of the Edinburgh Linguistics Department Conference '94. Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh.
• D. Mollá. Integrating time into DRT: A Computational Approach. Final dissertation of the Msc on Speech and Language Processing at the University of Edinburgh.

Note on encoding

Most of the papers have been formatted in postscript, and compressed with the gzip compressing tool. I think that the web server over here automatically delivers the files uncompressed, but I'm not sure about it now. If you need to uncompress the files, you can download gzip. The resulting postscript file can be printed directly on any postscript printer. If you want to preview the files, you can always use ghostscript.

Papers formatted in PDF are not compressed (PDF contains a compression algorithm). A popular free previewer of PDF files is Acrobat Reader.

If you have trouble in downloading any of the papers, or you cannot uncompress/print/view them, I will be happy to send you the papers in your preferred format (that is, if I can do it!). Just send me an e-mail.

Diego Mollá Aliod

(diego@ics.mq.edu.au)