Nianwen Xue

Title

Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Language & Linguistics Program and the Department of Computer Science

Computer Science
Language and Linguistics

Degrees

University of Delaware, Ph.D.

Nankai University, M.A.

Nankai University, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	xuen@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-2728

Courses Taught

COSI	216a	Topics in Natural Language Processing
COSI	217b	Natural Language Processing Systems
LING	131a	Algorithms for Computational Linguistics

Scholarship

Adam Meyers, Michiko Kosaka, Nianwen Xue, Heng Ji, Ang Sun, Shasha Liao and Wei Xue. Automatic Recognition of Logical Relations for English, Chinese and Japanese. SEW-2009. Proc. of Semantic Evaluation Workshop. Boulder, Colorado: SEW-2009, 2009.

Jan Hajic, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Richard Johansson, Daisuke Kawahara, Maria Antonia Marti, Lluis Marquez, Adam Meyers, Joakim Nivre, Sebastian Pado, Jan Stepanek, Pavel Stranak, Mihai Surdeanu, Nianwen Xue and Yi Zhang.. The CoNLL-2009 Shared Task: Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies in Multiple languages. Proc. of The 13th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2009). Boulder, Colorado: ACL, 2009.

Xue, Nianwen and Martha Palmer. "Adding semantic roles to the Chinese Treebank." Natural Language Engineering 15. 1 (2009): 143-172.

Xue, Nianwen and Martha Palmer. Annotating Propositions in the Penn Chinese Treebank. Proc. of the 2nd SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing. Sapporo, Japan: SIGHAN, 2009.

Xue, Nianwen, Hua Zhong and Kai-Yun Chen. Annotating ``tense'' in a tense-less language. Proc. of LREC-2008. Marrakech, Morocco: LREC, 2008.

Xue, Nianwen. "Labeling Chinese predicates with semantic roles." Computational Linguistics 24. 2 (2008): 225-255.

Xue, Nianwen. Automatic inference of the temporal location of situations in Chinese text. Proc. of EMNLP-2008. Honolulu, Hawaii: EMNLP, 2008.

Vicky Lai, Meiyu Chang,Cecily Duffield, Jena D. Hwang, Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. Defining a Methodology for Mapping Chinese \& English Sense Inventories. Proc. of Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop. Hong Kong, China: CLSW, 2007.

Xue, Nianwen. Tapping the implicit information in the PS to DS conversion of the Chinese Treebank. Proc. of Sixth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories. Bergen, Norway: TLT, 2007.

A. Meyers, A. C. Fang, L. Ferro, S. Kler, T. Jia-Lin, M. Palmer, M. Poesio, A. Dolbey, K. K. Schuler, E. Loper, H. Zinsmeister, G. Penn, N. Xue, E. Hinrichs, J. Wiebe, J. Pustejovsky, D. Farwell, E. Hajicova, B. Dorr, E. Hovy, B. A. Onyshkevych and. Annotation Compatibility Working Group Report. Proc. of ACL 2006 Workshop: Frontiers in Linguistically Annotated Corpora. Sydney, Australia: ACL, 2006.

Nianwen Xue, Jinying Chen and Martha Palmer. Aligning features with sense distinction dimensions. Proc. of Proceedings of ACL/COLING, Poster Session. Sydney, Australia: ACL, 2006.

Xue, Nianwen. "A Chinese lexicon of roles and senses." Journal of Language Resources 40. 1-2 (2006): 395-403.

Xue, Nianwen. Annotating the predicate-argument structure of Chinese nominalizations. Proc. of LREC-2006. Genoa, Italy: LREC, 2006.

Xue, Nianwen. Semantic Role Labeling of nominalized predicates. Proc. of HLT-NAACL. New York City: ACL, 2006.

Martha Palmer, Nianwen Xue, Olga B Babko-Malaya, Jinying Chen and Benjamin Snyder.. A Parallel Proposition Bank II for Chinese and English. Proc. of the ACL Workshop in Frontiers in Annotation II: Pie in the Sky. Ann Arbor, Michigan: ACL, 2005.

Xue, Nianwen and Martha Palmer. Automatic Semantic Role Labeling for Chinese Verbs. Proc. of IJCAI'05. Edinburgh, Scotland: IJCAI, 2005.

Xue, Nianwen, Fei Xia, Fu-Dong Chiou and Martha Palmer. "The Penn Chinese Treebank: Phrase Structure Annotation of a Large Corpus." Natural Language Engineering 11. 2 (2005): 207-238.

Xue, Nianwen. Annotating discourse connectives in the Chinese Treebank. Proc. of The ACL Workshop in Frontiers in Annotation II: Pie in the Sky. Ann Arbor, Michigan: ACL, 2005.

Jinying Chen, Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. Using a Smoothing Maximum Entropy Model for Chinese Nominal Entity Tagging. Proc. of the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. Hainan Island, China: IJCNLP, 2004.

Olga Babko-Malaya, Martha Palmer, Nianwen Xue, Aravind Joshi and Seth Kulick. Proposition Bank II: Delving Deeper. Proc. of the Frontiers in Corpus Annotation Workshop. Boston, MA: NAACL, 2004.

Xue, Nianwen and Martha Palmer. Propbanking in Parallel. Proc. of the Workshop on "the Amazing Utility of Parallel and Comparable Corpora, in conjunction with LREC'04. Lisbon, Portugal: LREC, 2004.

Xue, Nianwen. Handling Dislocated and Discontinuous Constituents in Chinese Semantic Role Labeling. Proc. of the 4th Workshop on Asian Language Resources. Hainan Island, China: ALR, 2004.

Xue, Nianwen and Libin Shen. Word Chinese Segmentation as LMR Tagging. Proc. of the 2nd SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing. Sapporo, Japan: SIGHAN, 2003.

Xue, Nianwen and Seth Kulick. Automatic Predicate Argument Structure Analysis of the Penn Chinese Treebank. Proc. of Machine Translation Summit IX. New Orleans, Louisiana: AMTA, 2003.

Xue, Nianwen. "Chinese Word Segmentation as Character Tagging." International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing 8. 1 (2003): 29-48.

Nianwen Xue, Fu-Dong Chiou and Martha Palmer. Building a Large-Scale Annotated Chinese Corpus. Proc. of the 19th. International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Taipei, Taiwan: COLING, 2002.

Xue, Nianwen and Susan Converse. Combining Classifiers for Chinese Word Segmentation. Proc. of the 1st SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing. Taipei, Taiwan: SIGHAN, 2002.

Fei Xia, Martha Palmer, {\bf Nianwen Xue, Mary Ellen Okurowski, John Kovarik, Fu-Dong Chiou, Shizhe Huang, Tony Kroch, and Mitch Marcus. Designing guidelines and ensuring consistency for Chinese text annotation. Proc. of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Athens, Greece: LREC, 2001.

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