Nianwen Xue

Title

Assistant Professor of Language and Linguistics in 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
Office:	Volen National Center for Complex Systems, 136

Courses Taught

COSI	137b	Information Extraction
COSI	216a	Topics in Natural Language Processing
COSI	217b	Natural Language Processing Systems
LING	131a	Programming for Linguistics

Scholarship

Xue, Nianwen and Yaqin Yang. "Dependency-based empty category detection via phrase structure trees." Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2013, Atlanta, Georgia. 2013. (forthcoming)

Xue, Nianwen, Rint Sybesma. "The Penn Chinese Treebank." Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. 2013. (forthcoming)

Nianwen Xue, Yuchen Zhang and Yaqin Yang. "Distant annotation of Chinese tense and modality." Proceedings of the Workshop on Annotation of Modal Meaning in Natural Language (WAMM), Potsdam, Germany. 2013.

Bai, Xiaopeng and Xue, Nianwen. "Building a Chinese Lexical Taxonomy." The 2nd CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing (CLP-2012), Tianjin, China. 2012.

Cheng, Yao, Peter Anick, Nianwen Xue and Pengyu Hong. "Temporal Relation Discovery between Events and Temporal Expressions Identified in Clinical Narrative." The 2012 i2b2 Shared-Tasks and Workshop on Challenges in Natural Language Processing for Clinical Data, Chicago, IL. October.

Sammeer Pradhan, Alessandro Moschitti, and Nianwen Xue, Olga Uryupina, Yuchen Zhang. "Modeling multilingual unrestricted coference in OntoNotes." EMNLP-CoNLL 2012 Shared Task, Jeju Island, Korea. 2012.

Verspoor K., Cohen, K.B., Lanfranchi, A., Warner, C., Johnson, H. L., Roeder, C., Choi, J.D., Funk, C. Malenkiy, Y., Eckert, M., Xue, N., Baumgartner Jr., W.A., Bada, M., Palmer, M., Hunter L.E.. "A corpus of full-text journal articles is a robust evaluation tool for revealing differences in performance of biomedical natural language processing tools." BMC Bioinformatics (2012).

Warner, Jeremy, Peter Anick, Kenneth Roach, Nianwen Xue, Robin Joyce, Charles Safran and Pengyu Hong. "Towards an Annotation Schema for Cancer Trajectory State Detection." AMIA Proceedings Poster, Chicago, IL. 2012.

Xuansong Li, Stephanie Strassel, Stephen Grimes, Safa Ismael, Mohamed Maamouri, Ann Bies and Nianwen Xue. "Parallel Aligned Treebanks at LDC: New Challenges Interfacing Existing Infrastructures." LREC-2012, Istanbul, Turkey. 2012.

Xue, Nianwen. "Elizabeth Baran, Yaqin Yang and Nianwen Xue." Annotating dropped pronouns in Chinese newswire text, LREC-2012. 2012.

Yaqin Yang and Nianwen Xue. "Chinese comma disambiguation for discourse analysis." ACL-2012, Jeju Island, Korea. 2012.

Yuping Zhou and Nianwen Xue. "Exploring temporal vagueness via Mechanical Turk." Proceedings of LAW VI, Jeju Island, Korea. 2012.

Yuping Zhou and Nianwen Xue. "PDTB-style discourse annotation of Chinese text." ACL-2012, Jeju Island, Korea. 2012.

Zhang, Xiuhong and Xue, Nianwen. "Extending and Scaling up the Chinese Treebank Annotation." The 2nd CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing (CLP-2012), Tianjin, China. 2012.

Adam Meyers, Michiko Kosaka, Shasha Liao and Nianwen Xue. "Improving MT Word Alignment Using Aligned Multi-Stage Parses." SSST-2011, Portland, Oregon. 2011.

Elizabeth Baran and Nianwen Xue. "Singular or Plural? Exploiting Parallel Corpora for Chinese Number Prediction." Machine Translation Summit XIII, Xiamen, China. 2011.

Jeremy Warner, Peter Anick, Pengyu Hong and Nianwen Xue. "Natural Language Processing and the Oncologic History: Is There a Match?." Journal of Oncological Practice 7. 4 (2011).

Keh-Jiann Chen, Qun Liu, Nianwen Xue and Le Sun. "Introduction to the Special Issue on Chinese Language Processing." ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing 10. 3 (2011).

Peter Anick, Pengyu Hong, Nianwen Xue and Yaqin Yang. "2B2 2011 Challenge: Coreference Resolution for Electronic Medical Records." The Fifth I2B2/VA Workshop on Challenges in Natural Language Processing for Clinical Data, Washington, D. C.. 2011.

Ralph Weischedel, Eduard Hovy, Mitchell Marcus, Martha Palmer, Robert Belvin, Sameer Pradan, Lance Ramshaw and Nianwen Xue. "OntoNotes: A Large Training Corpus for Enhanced Processing." Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation. Ed. Joseph Olive, Caitlin Christianson and John McCary. Springer, 2011

Sameer Pradhan, Lance Ramshaw, Mitchell Marcus, Martha Palmer, Ralph Weischedel and Nianwen Xue. "CoNLL-2011 Shared Task: Modeling Unrestricted Coreference in OntoNotes." CoNLL-2011, Portland, Oregon. 2011.

Xue, Nianwen and Yaqin Yang. "Chinese sentence segmentation as comma disambiguation." The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (Short Papers), Portland, Oregon. 2011.

Xue, Nianwen. "Book review of Natural Language Processing with Python." Rev. of Natural Language Processing with Python, by Steven Bird, Ewan Klein and Edward Loper. vol. 17 of 3 2011: 419-424.

Xue, Nianwen. "The Impact of Word Segmentation on Chinese Parsing." Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation. Ed. Joseph Olive, Caitlin Christianson and John McCary. Springer, 2011

Yaqin Yang, Nianwen Xue and Peter Anick. "A Machine Learning-Based Coreference Detection System for OntoNotes." CoNLL-2011, Portland, Oregon.. 2011.

Yuping Zhou and Nianwen Xue. "Discourse-constrained Temporal Annotation." The Fifth Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW V), Oregon, Portland. 2011.

Jena D. Hwang, Archna Bhatia, Claire Bonial, Aous Mansouri, Ashwini Vaidya, Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. "Propbank Annotation of Multilingual Light Verb Constructions." The Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW IV), Uppsala, Sweden. 2010.

Martha Palmer and Nianwen Xue.. "Linguistic Annotation." Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. Ed. Clark, Fox and Lappin. Blackwell, 2010

Martha Palmer, Daniel Gildea, and Nianwen Xue. Semantic Role Labeling. 1st ed. Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2010.

Xue, Nianwen and Zhou, Yuping. "Applying syntactic, semantic and discourse constraints to Chinese temporal annotation." The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Beijing, China. 2010.

Yang, Yaqin and Xue, Nianwen. "Chasing the ghost: recovering empty categories in the Chinese Treebank." The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Beijing China. 2010.

Adam Meyers, Michico Kosaka, Heng Ji, Nianwen Xue, Mary Harper, Ang Sun, Wei Sun and Shasha Liao. "Transducing Logic Relations from Automatic and Manual Annotation." Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Singapore. 2009.

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.

Jinho D. Choi, Martha Palmer and Nianwen Xue. "Using Parallel Propbanks to enhance Word-alignments.." Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Singapore. 2009.

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

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 Martha Palmer. Annotating Propositions in the Penn Chinese Treebank. 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, 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.

Xue, Nianwen and Fei Xia. The Bracketing Guidelines for the Chinese Treebank. IRCS technical report, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: 2001.

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