Prof. Lonneke van der Plas

Prof. Lonneke van der Plas

Prof. Lonneke van der Plas

  M.Phil.(Cantab.),Ph.D.(Groningen)

Affiliate Associate Professor

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GATT, A., TANTI, M., MUSCAT, A., PAGGIO, P., FARRUGIA, R.A., BORG, C., CAMILLERI, K.P., ROSNER, M. and VAN DER PLAS, L., 2018. Face2Text: collecting an annotated image description corpus for the generation of rich face descriptions, 2018.

CONSTANT, M., ERYIĞIT, G., MONTI, J., VAN DER PLAS, L., RAMISCH, C., ROSNER, M. and TODIRASCU, A., 2017. Multiword expression processing: A survey. Computational Linguistics, 43(4), pp. 837-892.

JAGFELD, G., ZIERING, P. and VAN DER PLAS, L., 2017. Evaluating Compound Splitters Extrinsically with Textual Entailment, Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) 2017, pp. 58-63.

IORDACHIOAIA, G., VAN DER PLAS, L. and JAGFELD, G., 2016. The Grammar of English Deverbal Compounds and their Meaning, Proceedings of the Workshop on Grammar and Lexicon: interactions and interfaces (GramLex) 2016, pp. 81-91.

TIEDEMANN, J. and VAN DER PLAS, L., 2016. Bootstrapping a dependency parser for Maltese–a real-world test case. Mining for Parsing Failures, .

ZIERING, P., MÜLLER, S. and VAN DER PLAS, L., 2016. Top a splitter: Using distributional semantics for improving compound splitting, Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Multiword Expressions 2016, pp. 50-55.

ZIERING, P. and VAN DER PLAS, L., 2016. Towards unsupervised and language-independent compound splitting using inflectional morphological transformations, Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies 2016, pp. 644-653.

JAGFELD, G. and VAN DER PLAS, L., 2015. Towards a better semantic role labeling of complex predicates, Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop 2015, pp. 33-39.

ZIERING, P. and VAN DER PLAS, L., 2015. From a Distance: Using Cross-lingual Word Alignments for Noun Compound Bracketing, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics 2015, pp. 82-87.

ZIERING, P. and VAN DER PLAS, L., 2015. One Tree is not Enough: Cross-lingual Accumulative Structure Transfer for Semantic Indeterminacy, Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2015, pp. 739-746.

VAN DER PLAS, L. and APIDIANAKI, M., 2014. Cross-lingual word sense disambiguation for predicate labelling of french, 2014, pp. 46-55.

VAN DER PLAS, L., APIDIANAKI, M. and CHEN, C., 2014. Global methods for cross-lingual semantic role and predicate labelling, Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers 2014, pp. 1279-1290.

ZIERING, P. and VAN DER PLAS, L., 2014. What good are 'nominalkomposita' for 'noun compounds': multilingual extraction and structure analysis of nominal compositions using linguistic restrictors, Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers 2014, pp. 1047-1058.

ZIERING, P., VAN DER PLAS, L. and SCHUETZE, H., 2013. Bootstrapping semantic lexicons for technical domains, Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing 2013, pp. 1321-1329.

ZIERING, P., VAN DER PLAS, L. and SCHÜTZE, H., 2013. Multilingual lexicon bootstrapping-improving a lexicon induction system using a parallel corpus, Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing 2013, pp. 844-848.

VAN DER PLAS, L., MERLO, P. and HENDERSON, J., 2011. Scaling up automatic cross-lingual semantic role annotation, Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: short papers-Volume 2 2011, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 299-304.

VAN DER PLAS, L., SAMARDŽIĆ, T. and MERLO, P., 2010. Cross-lingual validity of PropBank in the manual annotation of French, Proceedings of the Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop 2010, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 113-117.

MERLO, P. and VAN DER PLAS, L., 2009. Abstraction and generalisation in semantic role labels: PropBank, VerbNet or both? Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP: Volume 1-Volume 1 2009, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 288-296.

VAN DER PLAS, L., HENDERSON, J. and MERLO, P., 2009. Domain adaptation with artificial data for semantic parsing of speech, Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Short Papers 2009, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 125-128.

VAN DER PLAS, L., BOUMA, G. and MUR, J., 2008. Automatic Acquisition of Lexico-Semantic Knowledge for QA (chapter). Ontologies and Lexical Resources for Natural Language Processing, .

VAN DER PLAS, L., 2008. Automatic lexico-semantic acquisition for question answering. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.

VAN DER PLAS, L. and TIEDEMANN, J., 2006. Finding synonyms using automatic word alignment and measures of distributional similarity, Proceedings of the COLING/ACL on Main conference poster sessions 2006, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 866-873.

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