11/21/05

Here is a list of refereed publications since 1996.

Journal Articles

P. Xue and F. Popowich (2002). `The Dual Status of Middle Distance Reflexives,' Journal of Linguistics, vol 38, pp71-86

F. Popowich, P. McFetridge, D. Turcato, J. Toole. (2000) Lexicalist Machine Translation of Closed Captions,  Machine Translation, 15(4), 311-341.

T. Heift, J. Toole, P. McFetridge, F. Popowich, S. Tsiplakou (2000). An Interactive Course Support System for Greek. IME Journal of Computer-Enhanced Learning 2(2), 2000. Also available at http://imej.wfu.edu/

C. Vogel and F. Popowich, A Parametric Definition for a Family of Inheritance Reasoners, New Generation Computing, 15(3), 247-292, 1997.

P. McFetridge, F. Popowich, D. Fass.  An Analysis of Compounds in HPSG for Database Queries. Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal 20, 195-209, December, 1996.

J. Andrews, V. Dahl and F. Popowich. Characterizing Logic Grammars: A Substructural Logic Approach. Journal of Logic Programming,  26(3), 233-283, March 1996.

Selected Publications

1.      F. Popowich (2005). Using text mining and natural language processing for health care claims processing. ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter 7(1): 59-66.

G. Z. Shi and F. Popowich (2005). Biological Relationship Networks. Proc. of the First International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine, Daejeon, Korea, November 2005.

Melli, Y. Wang, Y. Liu, M. Mostafavi-Kashani, Z. Shi, B. Gu, A. Sarkar and F. Popowich  (2005). Description of SQUASH, the SFU Question Answering Summary Handler for the DUC-2005 Summarization Task. Proc. Document Understanding Conference 2005 (DUC-2005), Vancouver, B.C., October 2005.

F. Popowich, Use of Text Analytics and Taxonomies for Fraud and Abuse Detection in Medical Insurance, In Proceedings of Semantic Web Symposium of I2LOR-04 Towards the Educational Semantic Web, UQAM, Montreal, November 19, 2004.

Katia Dilkina, Fred Popowich: An Algorithm for Anaphora Resolution in Aviation Safety Reports. Canadian Conference on AI 2004: 534-539

D. Turcato, F. Popowich (2003). What is Example-Based Machine Translation? In M. Carl and A. Way (eds). Recent Advances of EBMT. Kluwer Adacemic Publishers, Dordrecht. Note, revised version of Workshop Paper.

D. Turcato, D. Fass, F. Popowich, G. Tisher(2001). Acquiring Spanish resources for symbolic Natural Language Processing. In Proceedings of The Second International Workshop on Spanish Language Processing and Language Technologies. Jaén, Spain, September 14-15, 2001.

D. Turcato, F. Popowich (2001). What is Example-Based Machine Translation? In Proceedings of the Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation, hosted by MT-Summit VIII. Santiago de Compostela, Spain, September 18-22, 2001.

E. Hagen and F. Popowich (2000). Flexible Speech Act Based Dialogue Management. In the Proceedings of the 1st SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Association for Computational Linguistics, Hong Kong, October 7-8, 2000. (10 pages)

D. Turcato, F. Popowich, J. Toole, D. Fass, D. Nicholson, G. Tisher (2000). Adapting a Synonym Database to Specofic Domains. In Proceedings of ACL'2000 Workshop on Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing, Hong Kong, October, 2000. (11 pages)

M Klawe, I. Cavers, F. Popowich and G. Chen (2000). ARC: A Computer Science Post-Baccalaureate Diploma Program that Appeals to Women. Women Work and Computerization Conference: Charting a Course to the Future, Vancouver, July 2000.

T. Heift, J. Toole, P. McFetridge, F. Popowich and S. Tsiplakou. An Interactive Course-Support System for Greek. In  Proceedings of Ed-MEDIA 2000, World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications,  Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. Montreal, June 2000. Best paper award.

C. Barriere and F. Popowich. Expanding the type hierarchy with nonlexical concepts. In H. Hamilton and Q. Yang (eds), Advances in Artificial Intelligence - Proceedings of the 13th Biennial Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, AI 2000  , 53-68, Montreal, May 2000. Best paper award.

P. Kubon, F. Popowich and G. Tisher, An Extendable Natural Language Interface to a Consumer Service Database. In H. Hamilton and Q. Yang (eds), Advances in Artificial Intelligence - Proceedings of the 13th Biennial Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, AI 2000  , 82-89, Montreal, May 2000.

S. McDonald, D. Turcato, P. McFetridge, F. Popowich and J. Toole. Collocation Discovery for Optimal Bilingual Lexicon Development. In H. Hamilton and Q. Yang (eds), Advances in Artificial Intelligence - Proceedings of the 13th Biennial Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, AI 2000,  , 126-137, Montreal, May 2000.

D. Turcato, F. Popowich, P. McFetridge, D. Nicholson, J. Toole. Preprocessing Closed Captions for Machine Translation. In C. Van Ess-Dykema, C. Voss, F. Reeder (eds.),  Proceedings of the Workshop on Embedded Machine Translation Systems , 38-45, Seattle, May 2000.

D. Turcato, F. Popowich, P. McFetridge, J. Toole. Creating high-quality, large-scale bilingual knowledge bases using minimal resources. In D. O Cróinín (ed.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Developing language resources for Minority Languages , Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Athens, May, 2000.

D. Turcato, P. McFetridge, F. Popowich and J. Toole (1999). A Bootstrap Approach to Automatically Generating Lexical Transfer Rules. In Proceedings of MT SUMMIT-VII, Singapore: 404-411.

D. Turcato, P. McFetridge, F. Popowich, J. Toole (1999). A Unified Example-Based and Lexicalist Approach to Machine Translation, In <i>Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation<i>, Chester: 33-43.

J. Toole, F. Popowich, D. Nicholson, D. Turcato (1999). Explanation-based Learning for Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Chester: 161-171.

Fred Popowich, Davide Turcato, Paul McFetridge, Lexicalist Machine Translation of Colloquial Text, In Proceedings of the Third Workshop in the Treatment of Written and Spoken Portuguese, Porto Alegre, Brasil, 1-4 November, 1998.

Janine Toole, Davide Turcato, Fred Popowich, Dan Fass, and Paul McFetridge. Time-Constrained Machine Translation. In D. Farwell. L. Gerber and E. Hovy (eds), Machine Translation and the Information Soup,  Proceedings of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA-98), 28-31 October 1998, Langhorne, PA, Springer, pp 103-112, 1998.

D. Turcato, F. Popowich, O. Laurens, P. McFetridge. Re-use of linguistic resources in MT, First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Granada, Spain, May 28-30, 1998.

Davide Turcato, Olivier Laurens, Paul McFetridge and Fred Popowich. Inflectional Information in Transfer for Lexicalist MT, Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'97), September 1997.

Fred Popowich, Davide Turcato, Olivier Laurens, Paul McFetridge, J. Devlan Nicholson, Patrick McGivern, Scott MacDonald, Maricela Corzo-pena. A lexicalist approach for translation of colloquial text,  7th International Conference on   Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI-97), July 1997.

Gary Hall, Fred Popowich, Dan Fass. Natural Language Edit Controls: Constrained Natural Language Devices in User Interfaces.  16th International Conference on Tools for Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI96), Toulouse, France, November 1996.

Caroline Barriere and Fred Popowich, A Dynamic Lexical Knowledge Base for Natural Language Processing, AAAI Fall 1996 Symposium on KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION SYSTEMS BASED ON NATURAL LANGUAGE, November 1996.

Caroline Barriere and Fred Popowich. Concept Clustering and Knowledge Integration from a Children's Dictionary.  16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING96), 65-70, Copenhagen, Denmark 5-9 August, 1996.

Caroline Barriere and Fred Popowich. Building a Noun Taxonomy from a Children's Dictionary.  Proceedings of the Seventh Euralex International Congress (EURALEX '96), Goteborg, Sweden, 13-18 August 1996.

Fred Popowich. A Chart Generator for Shake and Bake Machine Translation. In G. McCalla (ed) Advances in Artificial Intelligence - Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, AI'96, 97-108, Toronto, 21-24 May 1996. Note: this paper presents a different algorithm than the one presented in (Popowich, 1995)

Dan Fass, Gary Hall, Olivier Laurens, Paul McFetridge, Fred Popowich, and Malte von Ruden. A distributed Intelligent Information System with Natural Language Input for Ad Hoc Knowledge Discovery in  Databases. In Proceedings of Energy Week 1996, Houston TX, January 1996.

Paul McFetridge, Fred Popowich and Dan Fass (1995). An Analysis of Compounds in HPSG for Database Queries. Proceedings of First Workshop on Applications of Natural Language to Data Bases. Versailles, France. pp. 13-24, July 1995.

Fred Popowich (1995a) Improving the Efficiency of a Generation Algorithm for Shake and Bake Machine Translation Using Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. In Proceedings of the Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming V, 85-96, Lisbon, Portugal, 29-31 May 1995.