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2004. Bringing together children and books: An initial descriptive study of children's book searching and selection behavior in a digital library. Proceedings of the American Society for Information science and Technology. 41(1):339-348.
1992. Wordnet and distributional analysis: A class-based approach to lexical discovery. AAAI workshop on statistically-based natural language processing techniques. :56-64.
1996. Selectional constraints: an information-theoretic model and its computational realization. Cognition. 61(1-2):127-159.
2005. The linguist's search engine: an overview. Proceedings of the ACL 2005 on Interactive poster and demonstration sessions. :33-36.
1997. Semi-automatic acquisition of domain-specific translation lexicons. Proceedings of the fifth conference on Applied natural language processing. :340-347.
1998. Parallel strands: A preliminary investigation into mining the web for bilingual text. Machine Translation and the Information Soup. :72-82.
1993. Semantic classes and syntactic ambiguity. Proceedings of the workshop on Human Language Technology. :278-283.
1992. Probabilistic tree-adjoining grammar as a framework for statistical natural language processing. Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics-Volume 2. :418-424.
1992. Left-corner parsing and psychological plausibility. Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics-Volume 1. :191-197.
1992. A class-based approach to lexical discovery. Proceedings of the 30th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics. :327-329.
2005. The web in theoretical linguistics research: Two case studies using the Linguist’s Search Engine. 31st Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. :265-276.
1999. Creating a parallel corpus from the book of 2000 tongues. Computers and the Humanities. 33:1-2.
1999. The Bible as a parallel corpus: Annotating the ‘Book of 2000 Tongues’. Computers and the Humanities. 33(1):129-153.
2000. Measuring verb similarity. Proceedings of the Twenty-second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society: August 13-15, 2000, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. :399-399.
1997. A perspective on word sense disambiguation methods and their evaluation. Proceedings of the ACL SIGLEX workshop on tagging text with lexical semantics: Why, what, and how. 86
1993. Structural ambiguity and conceptual relations. Proceedings of the Workshop on Very Large Corpora: Academic and Industrial Perspectives. :58-64.
2011. Semantic similarity in a taxonomy: An information-based measure and its application to problems of ambiguity in natural language. Arxiv preprint arXiv:1105.5444.
1999. Distinguishing systems and distinguishing senses: New evaluation methods for word sense disambiguation. Natural language engineering. 5(2):113-133.
1997. Selectional preference and sense disambiguation. Proceedings of the ACL SIGLEX Workshop on Tagging Text with Lexical Semantics: Why, What, and How. :52-57.
1999. Mining the web for bilingual text. Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics. :527-534.
1995. Using information content to evaluate semantic similarity in a taxonomy. Arxiv preprint cmp-lg/9511007.
2010. Improving translation via targeted paraphrasing. Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. :127-137.
2001. Improved cross-language retrieval using backoff translation. Proceedings of the first international conference on Human language technology research. :1-3.