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Journal Articles

  • L. Plaza, M. Stevenson and A. Diaz (2011) Resolving Ambiguity in Biomedical Text to Improve Summarization. Information Processing and Management.

  • M. Stevenson, E. Agirre and A. Soroa (2011) Exploiting Domain Information for Word Sense Disambiguation of Medical Documents. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. (PDF)

  • P. Clough and M. Stevenson (2011) Developing a Corpus of Plagiarised Examples. Language Resources and Evaluation, 45(1):5-24. (PDF) The corpus described in this paper is available here.

  • M. Stevenson and Y. Guo (2010) Disambiguation of Ambiguous Biomedical Terms using Examples Generated from the UMLS Metathesaurus. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 43(5):762-773. (PDF)

  • E. Agirre, A. Sora and M. Stevenson (2010) Graph-based Word Sense Disambiguation of Biomedical Documents. Bioinformatics, 26(22):2889-2896. (PDF) The software described in this paper is available here.

  • L. Specia, M. Stevenson and M. Nunes (2010) Assessing the Contribution of Shallow and Deep Knowledge Sources for Word Sense Disambiguation. Language Resources and Evaluation, 44(4):295-313. (PDF)

  • M. Stevenson and Y. Guo (2010) Disambiguation in the Biomedical Domain: The Role of Ambiguity Type. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 43(6):972-981. (PDF)

  • M. Stevenson and M. Greenwood (2009) Dependency Pattern Models for Information Extraction. Research on Language and Computation, 7(1):13-39. (PDF)

  • M. Stevenson, Y. Guo, R. Gaizauskas and D. Martinez (2008) Disambiguation of Biomedical Text using a Variety of Knowledge Sources. BMC Bioinformatics, 9(Suppl 11):S7. (PDF)

  • Stevenson, M. (2007) Fact Distribution in Information Extraction. Language Resources and Evaluation, 40(2):183-201. (PDF)

  • J. Preiss and M. Stevenson (2004) Introduction to the Special Issue on Word Sense Disambiguation. Computer Speech and Language, 18(3):201-207. (PDF)

  • M. Stevenson and Y. Wilks (2001) The Interaction of Knowledge Sources in Word Sense Disambiguation. Computational Linguistics, 27(3):321-349. (PDF)

  • Y. Wilks and M. Stevenson (1998) The Grammar of Sense: Using part-of-speech tags as a first step in semantic disambiguation. Natural Language Engineering, 4(3):135-144. (PDF)

Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings

  • M. Stevenson, R. Nawab and P. Clough (2012) Retrieving Candidate Plagiarised Documents using Query Expansion. In Proceedings of the 34th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Barcelona, Spain

  • A. Barron-Cedeno, P. Rosso, S. Devi, P. Clough and M. Stevenson (2012) PAN@FIRE: Overview of the Cross-Language !ndian Text Re-Use Detection Competition. In Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) Working Notes, Bombay, India

  • K. Swampillai and M. Stevenson (2011) Information Extraction within and Across Sentences. In Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2011), pages 25-32, Hissar, Bulgaria

  • M. Stevenson and Y. Guo (2010) The Effect of Ambiguity on the Automated Acquisition of WSD Examples. In Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 353-356, Los Angeles, California (PDF)

  • K. Swampillai and M. Stevenson (2010) Inter-sentential Relations in Information Extraction Corpora. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2010), Valetta, Malta

  • P. Clough and M. Stevenson (2009) Designing a Corpus of Plagiarised Academic Texts. In Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics 2009, Liverpool, UK

  • M. Stevenson, A. Alamri, Y. Guo and R. Gaizauskas (2009) A Corpus of Biomedical Abbreviations. In Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics 2009, Liverpool, UK

  • M. Stevenson, Y. Guo and R. Gaizauskas (2008) Acquiring Sense Tagged Examples using Relevance Feedback. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-08), pages 809-816, Manchester, UK (PDF)

  • S. Fernando and M. Stevenson (2008) A Semantic Approach to Paraphrase Identification. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual Research Colloquium of the UK Special-interest group for Computational Lingusitics, pages 45-52, Oxford, England

  • L. Specia, M. Stevenson and G. Nunes (2007) Learning Expressive Models for Word Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of 45th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2007), pages 41-48, Prague, Czech Republic (PDF)

  • L. Specia, M. Nunes and M. Stevenson (2006) Translation Context Sensitive WSD. In Proceedings of the European Association for Machine Transaltion 11th Annual Conference (EAMT-2006), pages 227-232, Oslo, Norway

  • M. Stevenson and M. Greenwood (2006) Learning Information Extraction Patterns using WordNet. In Third International Global WordNet Conference (GWNC-2006), pages 52-60, Jeju Island, Korea

  • M. Stevenson and M. Greenwood (2005) A Semantic Approach to IE Pattern Induction. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-05), pages 379-386, Ann Arbour, MI (PDF)

  • L. Specia, M. Nunes and M. Stevenson (2005) Exploiting Rules for Word Sense Disambiguation in Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Congreso de la Sociedad Espanola para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, XIX SEPLN, pages 171-178, Granada, Spain

  • L. Specia, M. Nunes and M. Stevenson (2005) Exploiting Parallel Texts to Produce a Multilingual Sense Tagged Corpus for Word Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP-05), pages 525-531, Borovetz, Bulgaria

  • P. Clough and M. Stevenson (2004) Evaluating the Contribution of EuroWordNet and Word Sense Disambiguation to Cross-language Retrieval. In Second International Global WordNet Conference (GWC-2004), pages 97-105, Brno, Czech Republic

  • P. Clough and M. Stevenson (2004) Cross-language Information Retrieval using EuroWordNet and Word Sense Disambiguation. In European Conference on Information Retreieval (ECIR '04), pages 327-337, Sunderland, UK

  • M. Stevenson and P. Clough (2004) EuroWordNet as a Resource for Cross-language Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, pages 777-780, Lisbon, Portugal

  • Stevenson, M. (2004) Information Extraction from Single and Multiple Sentences. In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-04), pages 875-881, Geneva, Switzerland (PDF)

  • T. Rose, M. Stevenson and M. Whitehead (2002) The Reuters Corpus -- from Yesterday's News to Tomorrow's Language Resources. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-02), pages 827-832, Las Palmas, Canary Islands (PDF)

  • Stevenson, M. (2002) Augmenting Noun Taxonomies by Combining Lexical Similarity Metrics. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-02), pages 953-959, Taipei, Taiwan (PDF)

  • Stevenson, M. (2001) Adding Thesaural Information to Noun Taxonomies (poster). In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP-01), pages 297-299, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria

  • M. Stevenson and R. Gaizauskas (2000) Using corpus-derived name lists for named entity recognition. In Proceedings of the Sixth Applied Natural Langauge Processing Conference and the First Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ANLP-NAACL-2000), pages 290-295, Seattle, WA (PDF)

  • M. Stevenson and R. Gaizauskas (2000) Experiments on Sentence Boundary Detection. In Proceedings of the Sixth Applied Natural Langauge Processing Conference and the First Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ANLP-NAACL-2000), pages 84-89, Seattle, Washington (PDF)

  • M. Stevenson and Y. Wilks (1999) Combining Weak Knowledge Sources for Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference for Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-99), pages 884-889, Stockholm, Sweden

  • Stevenson, M. (1999) A Corpus-Based Method for Deriving Lexical Mappings (poster). In Proceedings of the Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-99), pages 285-286, Bergen, Norway (PDF)

  • M. Stevenson, H. Cunningham and Y. Wilks (1998) Sense Tagging and Language Engineering. In Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-98), pages 185-189, Brighton, UK

  • H. Cunningham, M. Stevenson and Y. Wilks (1998) Implementing a Sense Tagger within a General Architecture for Text Engineering. In Proceedings of the New Methods in Language Processing Conference (NeMLaP-3), pages 59-72, Sydney, Australia

  • Stevenson, M. (1998) Extracting Syntactic Relations using Heuristics. In Proceedings of the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-98), pages 248-256, Saarbrucken, Germany

  • Y. Wilks and M. Stevenson (1998) Word Sense Disambiguation using Optimised Combinations of Knowledge Sources. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING-ACL-98), pages 1398-1402, Montreal, Canada (PDF)

  • Y. Wilks and M. Stevenson (1997) Combining Independent Knowledge Sources for Word Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP-97), pages 1-7, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria

Papers in Refereed Workshop Proceedings

  • E. Agirre, O. Lopez de Lacalle, P. Clough and M. Stevenson (2011) PATHS: Personalised Access To cultural Heritage Spaces. In Proceedings of 4th Conference of Tratamiento de Informacion Multilingue y Multimodal (PLN-TIMM-2011), Jaen, Spain

  • R. Nawab, M. Stevenson and P. Clough (2011) Extrinsic Plagiarism Detection using Information Retrieval and Sequence Alignment: Notebook for PAN at CLEF 2011. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse

  • M. Stevenson (2011) Disambiguating Medline Abstracts using Topic Models. In Proceedings of Fifth ACM Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Bioinformatics, pages 59-62, Glasgow, Scotland

  • P. Clough, N. Ford and M. Stevenson (2011) Personalising access to cultural heritage collections using pathways. In PATCH 2011 : 3rd International Workshop on Personalized Access To Cultural Heritage, pages 12-19

  • S. Fernando and M. Stevenson (2010) Aligning WordNet Synsets and Wikipedia Articles. In Proceedings of the AAAI-2010 Workshop on Collaboratively-built Knowledge Sources and Artificial Intelligence, pages 54-56, Atlanta, Georgia

  • R. Nawab, M. Stevenson and P. Clough (2010) University of Sheffield: Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse

  • S. Reddy, A. Inumella, D. McCarthy and M. Stevenson (2010) IIITH: Domain Specific Word Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 387-391, Uppsala, Sweden (PDF)

  • P. McMinn, M. Stevenson and M. Harman (2010) Reducing Qualitative Human Oracle Costs Associated with Automatically Generated Test Data. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Software Test Output Validation held in conjunction with the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2010), pages 1-4, Trento, Italy

  • L. Plaza, M. Stevenson and A. Diaz (2010) Improving Summarization of Biomedical Documents using Word Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, pages 55-63, Uppsala, Sweden (PDF)

  • M. Stevenson, Y. Guo, A. Alamri and R. Gaizauskas (2009) Disambiguation of Biomedical Abbreviations. In Proceedings of the BioNLP 2009 Workshop, pages 71--79, Boulder, Colorado (PDF)

  • M. Stevenson, Y. Guo, R. Gaizauskas and D. Martinez (2008) Knolwedge Sources for Word Sense Disambiguation of Biomedical Text. In Proceedings of the workshop ``BioNLP 2008" held in conjunction with the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 80-87, Columbus, OH. (PDF)

  • M. Greenwood and M. Stevenson (2007) A Task-based Comparison of Information Extraction Pattern Models. In Proceedings of the Workshop ``Deep Linguistic Processing'' held in conjunction with the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 81--88 (PDF)

  • M. Greenwood and M. Stevenson (2007) A Semi-supervised Approach to Learning Relevant Protein-Protein Interaction Articles. In Proceedings of BioCreative II workshop, pages 175-177, Madrid, Spain

  • M. Stevenson and M. Greenwood (2006) Comparing Information Extraction Pattern Models. In Proceedings of the Workshop ``Information Extraction Beyond The Document'' held in conjunction with 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 12-19, Sydney, Australia (PDF)

  • M. Greenwood and M. Stevenson (2006) Improving Semi-supervised Acquisition of Relation Extraction Patterns. In Proceedings of the Workshop ``Information Extraction Beyond The Document'' held in conjunction with 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 29-35, Sydney, Australia (PDF)

  • L. Specia, G. Ribeiro, M. Stevenson and M. Nunes (2006) The Need for Application-Dependent WSD Strategies: a Case Study in MT. In Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Computational Processing of Written and Spoken Portugese (PROPOR 2006), Rio de Janiero, Brasil

  • L. Specia, M. Nunes, M. Stevenson and G. Ribeiro (2006) Multilingual versus Monolingual WSD. In Proceedings of the workshop "Making Sense of Sense" held in conjunction with the Eleventh Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Lingusitics, pages 33-40, Trento, Italy (PDF)

  • L. Specia, M. Nunes and M. Stevenson (2005) Mining Rules for Word Sense Disambiguation. In III TIL - Workshop em Tecnologia da Informacao e da Linguagem Humana, XXV Congresso da SBC, Sao Leopoldo, Brasil

  • M. Greenwood, M. Stevenson, Y. Guo, H. Harkema and A. Roberts (2005) Automatically Acquiring a Linguistically Motivated Genic Interaction Extraction System. In Proceedings of the workshop ``Learning Language in Logic (LLL 05)'' held in conjunction the 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 05), Bonn, Germany

  • L. Specia, S. Neto, M. Nunes and M. Stevenson (2005) An Automatic Approach to Creating a Sense Tagged Corpus for Word Sense Disambiguation in Machine Translation. In Second Workshop Organised by the MEANING project (MEANING-2005), pages 31-36, Trento, Italy

  • Stevenson, M. (2004) Unsupervised Induction of IE Domain Knowledge using an Ontology. In Proceedings of the ``Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining'' workshop at the Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04), pages 86-92, San Jose, CA

  • Stevenson, M. (2004) An Unsupervised WordNet-based Algorithm for Relation Extraction. In Proceedings of the ``Beyond Named Entity'' workshop at the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evalutaion (LREC-04), pages 37-42, Lisbon, Portugal

  • P. Cimiano, F. Ciravegna, J. Domingue, S. Handschuh, A. Lavelli, S. Staab and M. Stevenson (2003) Requirements for Information Extraction for Knowledge Management. In Knowledge Management and Semantic Annotation Workshop at Second International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-2003), pages 89-94, Sanibel, FL.

  • M. Stevenson and F. Ciravegna (2003) Information Extraction as a Semantic Web Technology: Requirements and Promises. In Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2003) workshop ``Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining'', Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Croatia

  • Stevenson, M. (2002) Combining Disambiguation Techniques to Enrich an Ontology. In Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-02) workshop ``Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for Ontology Engineering'', pages 43-50, Lyon, France

  • M. Stevenson and R. Gaizauskas (2000) Improving Named Entity Recognition using Annotated Corpora. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2000) workshop ``Information Extraction meets Corpus Linguistics'', pages 26-32, Athens, Greece

  • S. Renals, Y. Goto, R. Gaizauskas and M. Stevenson (1999) Baseline IE-NE Experiments using the SPRACH/LASIE System. In Proceedings of the DARPA HUB-4 Workshop, pages 47-50, Herndon, Virginia

  • R. Basili, R. Catizone, M. Pazienza, M. Stevenson, P. Velardi and Y. Wilks (1998) An Empirical Approach to Lexical Tuning. In First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-98) Workshop on Adapting Lexical and Corpus Resources to Sublanguages and Applications, pages 27-33, Granada, Spain

  • Y. Wilks and M. Stevenson (1997) Sense Tagging: Semantic Tagging with a Lexicon. In Fifth Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP-1997) Workshop ``Tagging Text with Lexical Semantics: Why, What and How?'', pages 47-51, Washington, D.C. (PDF)

Chapters in Edited Collections

  • T. Rose and M. Stevenson (2009) Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. In Davies, J. and Goker, A. and Graham, M. Information Retrieval: Searching in the 21st Century, pages 215-232. Wiley.

  • P. Rayson and M. Stevenson (2008) Sense Tagging. In Ludeling, A. and Kyto, M. and McEnery, T. Handbook of Corpus Linguistics . Mouton de Gruyter.

  • E. Agirre and M. Stevenson (2005) Knowledge Sources for Word Sense Disambiguation. In Agirre, E. and Edmonds, P. Word Sense Disambiguation: Algorithms, Applications and Trends , pages 271-253. Kluwer.

  • M. Stevenson and Y. Wilks (2003) Word Sense Disambiguation. In Mitkov, R. Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics , pages 249-265. Oxford University Press.

  • Y. Wilks and M. Stevenson (2000) Combining Independent Knowledge Sources for Word Sense Disambiguation. In Nicolov, N. and Mitkov, R. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, pages 74-86. John Benjamins Publishers.

  • M. Stevenson and Y. Wilks (1999) Large Vocabulary Word Sense Disambiguation. In Ravin, Y. and Leacock, C. Polysemy: Theoretical and Computational Contributions , pages 161-177. Oxford University Press.