Rebecca J. Passonneau

Research methods involving synergy between empirical research and computational models

• Experimental Design
• Novel metrics for presenting results

Intersection of linguistic knowledge and context

• Discourse structure across modalities (speech, text), genres (spoken narrative, task-oriented dialog), and interaction status (dialog, monolog)
• Nominal and temporal reference in discourse
• Verb tense and aspect

Corpus analysis, including human and machine annotations of corpora

Evaluation methods

• Assessing wide range of NLP technologies
• Assessing annotated corpora

Consolidated Edison Company of New York: Secondary Events

Loqui: a wizard ablation dialog system project [ppt]

• Transcription guidelines: for transcribing a corpus of patron/librarian phone calls

CLiMB 2: Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building

• Guidelines: for annotating functional semantic categories in art history survey text
• AntArt: ANaTomy of ARt Text: Interface for annotating texts about art historical images with functional semantic categories
• Python package for computing interannotator agreement (written by Tom Lippincott)

MASC: Manually Annotated Subcorpus of the American National Corpus

Identifying Dialog Function Units (DFUs) in Varying Interaction Types (by modality, register/formality, number of interactants)

TENS: Tracking Emergent Narrative Skills