Passonneau, Rebecca; Epstein, Susan; Gordon, Joshua; Ligorio, Tiziana. 2009. Seeing what you said: How wizards use voice search results.Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence. Pasadena, CA, July 12, 2009. (Slides)
Passonneau, Rebecca; Salleb-Aouissi, Ansaf; Ide, Nancy. 2009. Making sense of word sense variation.Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2009 Workshop on Semantic Evalutions: Recent Achievements and Future Directions (SEW-2009), pages 2-9. Boulder, Colorado, June 4, 2009. (Slides)
Lippincott, Thomas and Rebecca Passonneau. 2009. Semantic clustering for a functional text classification text. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing). Mexico City, Mexico. March 1-7, 2009.
Passonneau, Rebecca; Epstein, Susan; Gordon, Joshua. 2009. Help me understand you: Addressing the speech recognition bottleneck.In Proceedings of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Spring Symposium 2009 (SS09), Agents that Learn from Human Teachers. Stanford, CA. March 23-25, 2009. (Slides)
Passonneau, Rebecca J. Accepted for publication. Formal and functional assessment of the pyramid method for summary content evaluation. Natural Language Engineeringpdf
(This paper will appear in revised form inNatural Language Engineering, published by Cambridge University Press; copyright held by Cambridge University Press)
Nenkova, Ani; Passonneau, Rebecca J.; McKeown, Kathleen. 2007. The pyramid method: incorporating human content selection variation in summarization evaluation. ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, volume 4, issue 2. pdf
Passonneau, Rebecca J. and Litman, Diane J. 1997. Discourse Segmentation by Human and Automated Means. Computational Linguistics 23(1): 103-139. Special Issue on Empirical Studies in Discourse Interpretation and Generation. pspdf
Passonneau, Rebecca J. 1995. Using Centering to Relax Informational Constraints on Discourse Anaphoric Noun Phrases. Language and Speech 39, Parts 1-2, Special Issue devoted to Discourse, Syntax and Information. ps pdf
Palmer, Martha; Weir, Carl; Passonneau, Rebecca J.; Finin, Tim. 1993. The KERNEL Text Understanding System. Artificial Intelligence 63: 17-68. pdf
Passonneau, Rebecca J. 1988. A Computational model of tense and aspect. Computational Linguistics, Special Issue on Tense and Aspect 14: 44-60. pdf
Passonneau, Rebecca; Lippincott, Tom; Yano, Tae; Klavans, Judith. 2008. Relation between Agreement Measures on Human Labeling and Machine Learning Performance Results from an Art History Domain. Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). pdf
Madnani, Nitin; Passonneau, Rebecca; Ayan, Necip Fazil; Conroy, John; Dorr, Bonnie; Klavans, Judith; O’Leary, Dianne; Schlesinger, Judith. 2007. Measuring Variability in Sentence Ordering for News Summarization. 11th EuropeanWorkshop on Natural Language Generation. Schoss Dagstuhl, Germany. pdf
Passonneau, Rebecca J.; Goodkind, Adam; Levy, Elena T. 2007. Annotation of Children's Oral Narrations: Modeling Emergent Narrative Skills for Computational Applications. To appear in Proceedings of 20th Annual Meeting of the Florida Artifical Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS-20), Key West. pdf
Levin, Esther and Rebecca Passonneau. 2006. A WOZ variant with contrastive conditions. Proceedings of the Interspeech Sattelite Workshop Dialogue on Dialogues: Multidisciplinary Evaluation of Speech-based Interactive Systems. Pittsburgh, PA. pdf
Passonneau, Rebecca J. 2006. Measuring agreement on set-valued items (MASI) for semantic and pragmatic annotation. In Proceedings of the Fifth Internation al Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). pdf
Nenkova, Ani and Rebecca J. Passonneau. 2004. Evaluating Content Selection in Summarization: the Pyramid Method. NAACL. pspdf
Passonneau, Rebecca J. 2004. Computing Reliability for Coreference Annotation. Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). pspdf
Walker, Marilyn and Passonneau, Rebecca. 2001. DATE: A Dialogue Act Tagging Scheme for Evaluation of Spoken Dialogue Systems. Human Language Technology Conference. San Diego, CA. March, 2001. pdf
Passonneau, Rebecca J. and Diane J. Litman. Empirical Analysis of Three Dimensions of Spoken Discourse: Segmentation, Coherence and Linguistic Devices. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Discourse. Edited by Eduard Hovy and Donia Scott. Springer Verlag. 1996. ps pdf
Passonneau, Rebecca J. Interaction of the Segmental Structure of Discourse with Explicitness of Discourse Anaphora. Proceedings of the Workshop on Centering Theory in Naturally Occurring Discourse. Edited by Ellen Prince, Aarvind Joshi and Marilyn Walker. Oxford University Press. pspdf