Ron Artstein – Publications רון ארטשטיין

Publications

Journal articles

Xuchen Yao, Emma Tosch, Grace Chen, Elnaz Nouri, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski, Kenji Sagae, and David Traum. Creating conversational characters using question generation tools. Dialogue and Discourse 3(2): 125-146, 2012. Abstract, PDF (193K)
Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio. Inter-coder agreement for computational linguistics (survey article). Computational Linguistics 34(4): 555-596, 2008. Abstract, Journal preprint (PDF, 41 pages, 304K), Extended version (PDF, 66 pages, 367K)
An earlier version was distributed under the title “Kappa³ = alpha (or beta)” as Technical Report CSM-437, University of Essex Department of Computer Science, September 2005.
Massimo Poesio, Patrick Sturt, Ron Artstein, and Ruth Filik. Underspecification and Anaphora: Theoretical Issues and Preliminary Evidence. Discourse Processes 42(2): 157-175, 2006. Abstract, PDF preprint (150K)
Distributed as Technical report CSM-438, University of Essex Department of Computer Science, October 2005. PDF (143K)
Ron Artstein and Nissim Francez. Plurality and temporal modification. Linguistics and Philosophy 29(3): 251-276, 2006. Abstract, preprint in PDF (85K)
Quantificational arguments in temporal adjunct clauses. Linguistics and Philosophy 28(5): 541-597, 2005. Abstract, preprints in PDF (172K), PostScript (300K)
Coordination of parts of words. Lingua 115(4): 359-393, 2005. Abstract, preprints in PDF (150K), PostScript (238K)
Focus below the word level. Natural Language Semantics 12(1): 1-22, 2004. Abstract, preprints in PDF (135K), PostScript (165K)

Book articles

William Yang Wang, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski, and David Traum. Improving spoken dialogue understanding using phonetic mixture models. In Cross-Disciplinary Advances in Applied Natural Language Processing: Issues and Approaches, edited by Chutima Boonthum-Denecke, Philip M. McCarthy, and Travis A. Lamkin, chapter 15, pages 225–238. IGI Global, Hershey, Pensylvania, 2012. Abstract
Ron Artstein, Sudeep Gandhe, Jillian Gerten, Anton Leuski and David Traum. Semi-formal evaluation of conversational characters. In Languages: From Formal to Natural. Essays Dedicated to Nissim Francez on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5533), edited by Orna Grumberg, Michael Kaminski, Shmuel Katz and Shuly Wintner, pages 22–35. Springer, Heidelberg, 2009. Abstract, PDF preprint (1.05M)

Conference proceedings

Dimmed flags indicate conferences in which I did not participate in person, and the paper was delivered by a co-author.

Fabrizio Morbini, Kartik Audhkhasi, Ron Artstein, Maarten Van Segbroeck, Kenji Sagae, Panayiotis Georgiou, David R. Traum, and Shri Narayanan. A reranking approach for recognition and classification of speech input in conversational dialogue systems. To appear in Fourth IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT). Miami Beach, Forida, December 2012. Abstract
Sunghyun Park, Gelareh Mohammadi, Ron Artstein, and Louis-Philippe Morency. Crowdsourcing micro-level multimedia annotations: The challenges of evaluation and interface. To appear in International ACM Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Multimedia (CrowdMM). Nara, Japan, October 2012. Abstract
David Traum, Priti Aggarwal, Ron Artstein, Susan Foutz, Jillian Gerten, Athanasios Katsamanis, Anton Leuski, Dan Noren, and William Swartout. Ada and Grace: Direct interaction with museum visitors. In Intelligent Virtual Agents: 12th International Conference, IVA 2012, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, September 12–14, 2012 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 7502), pages 245–251. Springer, Heidelberg, September 2012. Abstract
Sin-Hwa Kang, Jonathan Gratch, Candy Sidner, Ron Artstein, Lixing Huang, and Louis-Philippe Morency. Towards building a virtual counselor: Modeling nonverbal behavior during intimate self-disclosure. In Eleventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). Valencia, Spain, June 2012. Abstract
Priti Aggarwal, Ron Artstein, Jillian Gerten, Athanasios Katsamanis, Shrikanth Narayanan, Angela Nazarian, and David Traum. The Twins corpus of museum visitor questions. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), pages 2355–2361. Istanbul, Turkey, May 2012. Abstract PDF (745KB)
Elnaz Nouri, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski and David Traum. Augmenting Conversational Characters with Generated Question-Answer Pairs. In Question Generation: Papers form the AAAI Fall Symposium, pages 49–52. Arlington, Virginia, November 2011. Abstract
Priti Aggarwal, Kevin Feeley, Fabrizio Morbini, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski, David Traum, and Julia Kim. Interactive characters for cultural training of small military units. In Intelligent Virtual Agents: 11th International Conference, IVA 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 15–17, 2011 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6895), pages 426–427. Springer, Heidelberg, 2011. (Poster) Abstract
Sin-Hwa Kang, Candy Sidner, Jonathan Gratch, Ron Artstein, Lixing Hwang, and Louis-Philippe Morency. Modeling nonverbal behavior of a virtual counselor during intimate self-disclosure. In Intelligent Virtual Agents: 11th International Conference, IVA 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 15–17, 2011 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6895), pages 455–457. Springer, Heidelberg, 2011. (Poster) Abstract
Ron Artstein, Michael Rushforth, Sudeep Gandhe, David Traum and Aram Donigian. Limits of simple dialogue acts for tactical questioning dialogues. Proceedings of the 7th IJCAI workshop on knowledge and reasoning in practical dialogue systems, pages 1–8. Barcelona, Spain, July 2011. Abstract, PDF (193KB)
Ron Artstein. Error return plots. Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference: the 12th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 319–324. Portland, Oregon, June 2011. (Poster) Abstract, PDF paper (324KB), PDF poster (508KB)
Kallirroi Georgila, Ron Artstein, Angela Nazarian, Michael Rushforth, David Traum, and Katia Sycara. An annotation scheme for cross-cultural argumentation and persuasion dialogues. Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference: the 12th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 272–278. Portland, Oregon, June 2011. (Poster) Abstract PDF (119KB)
William Yang Wang, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski, and David Traum. Improving spoken dialogue understanding using phonetic mixture models. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, pages 329–334. Palm Beach, Florida, May 2011. (Finalist for best paper award) Abstract, PDF (1MB)
Grace Chen, Emma Tosch, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski, and David Traum. Evaluating conversational characters created through question generation. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, pages 343–344. Palm Beach, Florida, May 2011. (Poster – best poster award) Abstract, PDF paper (57K), PDF poster (135KB)
Julia Campbell, Mark Core, Ron Artstein, Lindsay Armstrong, Arno Hartholt, Cyrus Wilson, Kallirroi Georgila, Fabrizio Morbini, Edward Haynes, Dave Gomboc, Mike Birch, Jonathan Bobrow, H. Chad Lane, Jillian Gerten, Anton Leuski, David Traum, Matthew Trimmer, Rich DiNinni, Matthew Bosack, Timothy Jones, Richard E. Clark, and Kenneth A. Yates. Developing INOTS to support interpersonal skills practice. 2011 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 2011. Abstract
Antonio Roque, Kallirroi Georgila, Ron Artstein, Kenji Sagae, and David Traum. Natural language processing for joint fire observer training. 27th Army Science Conference, Orlando, Florida, December 2010. Abstract, PDF (164K)
Jenny Brusk, Ron Artstein, and David Traum. Don’t tell anyone! Two experiments on gossip conversations. Proceedings of the SIGdial 2010 Conference, pages 193–200. Tokyo, Japan, September 2010. Abstract PDF (244K)
William Swartout, David Traum, Ron Artstein, Dan Noren, Paul Debevec, Kerry Bronnenkant, Josh Williams, Anton Leuski, Shrikanth Narayanan, Diane Piepol, Chad Lane, Jacquelyn Morie, Priti Aggarwal, Matt Liewer, Jen-Yuan Chiang, Jillian Gerten, Selina Chu, and Kyle White. Ada and Grace: Toward realistic and engaging virtual museum guides. In Intelligent Virtual Agents: 10th International Conference, IVA 2010, Philadelphia, PA, USA, September 20–22, 2010 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6356), pages 286–300. Springer, Heidelberg, 2010. Abstract
Xuchen Yao, Pravin Bhutada, Kallirroi Georgila, Kenji Sagae, Ron Artstein, and David Traum. Practical evaluation of speech recognizers for virtual human dialogue systems. LREC 2010, Valetta, Malta, May 2010. (Poster) Abstract, PDF (400K)
Michael Rushforth, Sudeep Gandhe, Ron Artstein, Antonio Roque, Sarrah Ali, Nicolle Whitman, and David Traum. Varying personality in spoken dialogue with a virtual human. In Intelligent Virtual Agents: 9th International Conference, IVA 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 14–16, 2009 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 5773), pages 541–542. Springer, Heidelberg, 2009. (Poster) Abstract, PDF Abstract (68K)
An extended version is available as Technical Report ICT-TR-03-2009 (PDF, 228K), USC Institute for Creative Technologies, May 2009.
Sudeep Gandhe, Nicolle Whitman, David Traum and Ron Artstein. An integrated authoring tool for tactical questioning dialogue systems. In 6th Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, Pasadena, California, July 2009. Abstract, PDF (577K)
Ron Artstein, Sudeep Gandhe, Michael Rushforth and David Traum. Viability of a simple dialogue act scheme for a tactical questioning dialogue system. In DiaHolmia 2009: Proeedings of the 13th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, pages 43–50. Stockholm, Sweden, June 2009. Abstract, PDF (244K)
Ron Artstein, Jacob Cannon, Sudeep Gandhe, Jillian Gerten, Joe Henderer, Anton Leuski and David Traum. Coherence of off-topic responses for a virtual character. 26th Army Science Conference, Orlando, Florida, December 2008. Abstract, PDF (460K)
Sudeep Gandhe, David DeVault, Antonio Roque, Bilyana Martinovski, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski, Jillian Gerten, and David Traum. From domain specification to virtual humans: An integrated approach to authoring tactical questioning characters. Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008. Abstract, PDF (427K)
David DeVault, David Traum and Ron Artstein. Making grammar-based generation easier to deploy in dialogue systems. Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 198–207. Columbus, Ohio, June 2008. Abstract, PDF (845K)
David DeVault, David Traum and Ron Artstein. Practical grammar-based NLG from examples. Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference, pages 77–85. Salt Fork, Ohio, June 2008. Abstract, PDF (376K)
Massimo Poesio and Ron Artstein. Anaphoric annotation in the ARRAU corpus. LREC 2008, Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008. Abstract, PDF (191K)
Ron Artstein, Sudeep Gandhe, Anton Leuski and David Traum. Field Testing of an interactive question-answering character. Proceedings of the ELRA workshop on evaluation, pages 36–40. Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008. Abstract, PDF (1.2M)
Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio. Identifying reference to abstract objects in dialogue. brandial 2006 proceedings, Potsdam, Germany, September 2006. Abstract, PDF (58K)
Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio. Bias decreases in proportion to the number of annotators. In Gerhard Jaeger, Paola Monachesi, Gerald Penn, James Rogers, and Shuly Wintner (eds.), Proceedings of FG-MoL 2005, pages 141-150. Edinburgh, August 2005. Abstract, PDF (110K)
Massimo Poesio and Ron Artstein. Annotating (anaphoric) ambiguity. Corpus linguistics, Birmingham, England, July 2005. Abstract, PDF (64K)
Massimo Poesio and Ron Artstein. The reliability of anaphoric annotation, reconsidered: Taking ambiguity into account. Proceedings of the Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus Annotation II: Pie in the Sky, pages 76-83. Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005. Abstract, PDF (71K)
Ron Artstein and Nissim Francez. Plural times and temporal modification. In Paul Dekker and Robert van Rooy (eds.), Proceedings of the Fourteenth Amsterdam Colloquium, pp. 63-68. ILLC, University of Amsterdam, 2003. Superseded by Plurality and temporal modification, above.
A focus semantics for echo questions. In Ágnes Bende-Farkas and Arndt Riester (eds.), Workshop on Information Structure in Context, pp. 98-107. IMS, University of Stuttgart, 2002. Abstract, PDF (88K), PostScript (112K)
Coordination of word parts: a surface level account. In Graham Katz, Sabine Reinhard and Philip Reuter (eds.), Sinn und Bedeutung 6: Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Semantik, pp. 1-15. Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, 2002. Superseded by Coordination of parts of words, above.
Coordination of word parts is interpreted at surface level. In William Earl Griffin (ed.), The Role of Agreement in Natural Language: Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Texas Linguistics Society Conference, pp. 73-84. Texas Linguistic Forum, Austin, 2003. Superseded by Coordination of parts of words, above.
Conjunction weakening and morphological plurality. In Karine Megerdoomian and Leora A. Bar-el (eds), WCCFL 20 Proceedings, pp. 29-42. Cascadilla Press, Somerville, Massachusetts, 2001. PDF (68K), PostScript (72K)
Person, animacy and null subjects. In Tina Cambier-Langeveld, Anikó Lipták, Michael Redford and Erik Jan van der Torre (eds.), Proceedings of Console VII, pp. 1-15. SOLE, Leiden, 1999. Abstract, PDF (75K)
Group events as means for representing collectivity. In Benjamin Bruening (ed.), MITWPL 31: Proceedings of the Eighth Student Conference in Linguistics, pp. 41-51. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997. Abstract, PDF (37K), PostScript (128K)

Dissertation

Parts of Words: Compositional Semantics for Prosodic Constituents.

Book review

Review of Kadmon (2001), Formal Pragmatics. Research in Language 1: 197-202, 2003 (Łódź University Press, Łódź, Poland). PDF (24K), PostScript (44K)

Edited works

Ron Artstein, Mark Core, David DeVault, Kallirroi Georgila, Elsi Kaiser and Amanda Stent (eds.). Semdial 2011 (Los Angelogue): Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. Los Angeles, September 2011. Full workshop proceedings (PDF, 14 MB); individual papers can be accessed from the workshop program.
Massimo Poesio and Ron Artstein (eds.). Ambiguity and Semantic Judgments (special issue). Research on Language and Computation 6(3-4), 2008. Table of Contents
Ron Artstein and Laure Vieu (eds.). Decalog 2007: Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. Rovereto, Italy, May 2007. Full workshop proceedings (PDF, 5.1M); individual papers can be accessed from the workshop program.
Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio (eds.). Ambiguity in Anaphora Workshop Proceedings. European Summer School in Language, Logic and Information, Málaga, Spain, August 2006. Full workshop proceedings (PDF, 688K); individual papers can be accessed from the workshop program.
Ron Artstein and Madeline Holler (eds.). RuLing Papers 1: Working Papers from Rutgers University. Rutgers University Department of Linguistics, New Brunswick, NJ, 1998.

Working papers and technical reports.

Massimo Poesio, David Day, Ron Artstein, Jason Duncan, Vladimir Eidelman, Claudio Giuliano, Rob Hall, Janet Hitzeman, Alan Jern, Mijail Kabadjov, Stanley Yong Wai Keong, Gideon Mann, Alessandro Moschitti, Simone Ponzetto, Jason Smith, Josef Steinberger, Michael Strube, Jian Su, Yannick Versley, Xiaofeng Yang and Michael Wick. ELERFED: Final Report. Technical report of the research group on Exploiting Lexical and Encyclopedic Resources For Entity Disambiguation, Summer Workshop on Language Engineering, Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, October 2007. PDF (980K)
The incompatibility of underspecification and markedness in Optimality Theory. In Ron Artstein and Madeline Holler (eds.), RuLing Papers 1: Working Papers from Rutgers University, pp. 7-13. Rutgers University Department of Linguistics, New Brunswick, NJ, 1998. Abstract, PDF (25K)

Older unpublished manuscripts

Case constraints and empty categories in Optimality Theory parsing, April 2000. (24 pp.) PDF (139K), PostScript (114K)
Hierarchies, May 1998. (22 pp.) PDF (135K), PostScript (113K)
Antecedent-contained deletion within NPs, December 1997. (5 pp.) PDF (19K), PostScript (24K)