Ralph Grishman

 
1983-present Professor,

(Chairman, 1986-1988)
1978-1983  Associate Professor,
1973-1978 Assistant Professor,

Computer Science Department, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

(1982-83: on assignment at Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence, Washington, D.C.)
1973 Associate Research Scientist, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
1971-1973 Instructor in mathematics, Barnard College, New York
1969-1973 Consultant to Linguistic String Project, New York University.
1968-1971 Associate in Physics, Columbia University, New York.
1968 Consultant to Fides Union Fiduciaire, Zurich
1964-1968 Operations Assistant, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.

Education

A.B. (Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Physics, Columbia College, 1968.

Ph. D., Physics, Columbia University, 1973. (Thesis: Numerical Studies of Self-Avoiding Walks )

Service to Professional Organizations

Association for Computational Linguistics:

Member of the Executive Committee, 1989
Vice President, 1990
President, 1991
Member of the Nominating Committee, 1992-1994
Program Chair, Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, 1997
Member of the Executive Committee, North American Chapter of the ACL, 2000-2001

Service on Government Committees

(Defense) Advanced Research Projects Agency:
Member, ARPA Speech & Natural Language Standing Committee, 1992-1994
Chair, Tipster Phase II Architecture Working Group, 1994-1998
National Institutes of Standards and Technology:
Member, Organizing Committee, Text Analysis Conference, 2010-2015

Publications

Draughon, E., Grishman, R., Schwartz, J., and Stein, A. Programming Considerations for Parallel Computers. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, IMM 362, 1967.

Grishman, R. Assembly Language Programming for the Control Data 6000 Series. Algorithmics Press, first edition, 1968, second edition, 1971, third edition, 1974.

Grishman, R. The Debugging System AIDS. In Proc. Spring Joint Computer Conf., 1970.

Grishman, R., Criteria for a Debugging Language. In Debugging Techniques in Large Systems, Randall Rustin, ed., Prentice-Hall, 1971.

Grishman, R. Implementation of the String Parser of English. In Natural Language Processing, Randall Rustin, ed., Algorithmics Press, 1973.

Grishman, R. Mean Square Endpoint Separation of Off-lattice Self-Avoiding Walks. J. Chemical Physics 58, 220 (1973).

Grishman, R., Sager, N., Raze, C., and Bookchin, B. The Linguistic String Parser. Proc. 1973 National Computer Conf., 427-434, AFIPS Press, Montvale, NJ, 1973.

Grishman, R. Endpoint Distribution of Self-avoiding Walks. J. Chemical Physics 58, 5309 (1973).

Sager, N., and Grishman, R. The Restriction Language for Computer Grammars of Natural Language. Comm. Assn. Computing Machinery 18, 390 (1975).

Hirschman, L., Grishman, R., and Sager, N. Grammatically-based Automatic Word Class Formation. Information Processing and Management 11, 39 (1975).

Grishman, R. (editor) Directions in Artificial Intelligence: Natural Language Processing. Courant Computer Science Report No. 7, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, August 1975.

Grishman, R. A Survey of Syntactic Analysis Procedures for Natural Language. Courant Computer Science Report No. 8, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, August 1975. Published in Am. J. Computational Linguistics, Microfiche 47, 1976.

Hobbs, J. and Grishman, R. The Automatic Transformational Analysis of English Sentences: An Implementation. Intl. J. Computer Mathematics, Section A, 5, 267-283, 1976.

Hirschman, L., Grishman, R., and Sager, N. From Text to Structured Information: Automatic Processing of Medical Reports. Proc. 1976 National Computer Conf., AFIPS Conf. Proc. 45, AFIPS Press, Montvale, NJ, 1976.

Hirschman, L., and Grishman, R. Fact Retrieval from Natural Language Medical Records. Proc. Second World Conf. Medical Informatics (MEDINFO '77), IFIP World Conf. Series on Medical Informatics 2, 247-251, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1977.

Sager, N., Hirschman, L., Grishman, R., and Insolio, C., Computer Programs for Natural Language Files. Proc. 1977 Meeting American Society for Information Science (ASIS), Knowledge Industry Publications, White Plains, N.Y.

Grishman, R. The Simplification of Retrieval Requests Generated by Question-Answering Systems. Proc. Fourth Intl. Conf. Very Large Data Bases, 1978.

Grishman, R. and Hirschman, L. Question Answering from Natural Language Medical Data Bases. Artificial Intelligence 11, 25 (1978).

Grishman, R. The Structure of the PUMA Computer System: Overview and the Central Processor. Report COO-3077-157, Courant Mathematics and Computing Laboratory, New York University, 1978.

Grishman, R. Response Generation in Question-Answering Systems. Proc. 17th Annl. Meeting Assn. Computational Linguistics, 99-101, 1979.

Grishman, R. Conjunctions and Modularity in Language Analysis Procedures. Proc. 8th Intl. Conf. Computational Linguistics, 500-503, Tokyo, Japan, 1980.

Grishman, R. The PUMA Project: Computer Design Automation in the University. Proc. 1980 Annl. Conf. Assn. Computing Machinery, 490-497, 1980.

(panel member, programming languages section) What Can Be Automated, The Computer Science and Engineering Research Study, ed. Bruce Arden. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1980.

Grishman, R., Parsing (position paper for panel on "Perspectives in Parsing Issues"). Proc. 19th Annl. Meeting Assn. Computational Linguistics, 101, 1981.

Gottlieb, A., Grishman, R., Kruskal, C., McAuliffe, K., Rudolph, L., and Snir, M. The NYU Ultracomputer: A General-purpose parallel processor. Proc. S.P.I.E. 1981 Annl. Conf.

Gottlieb, A., Grishman, R., Kruskal, C., McAuliffe, K., Rudolph, L., and Snir, M. The NYU Ultracomputer -- Designing a MIMD, Shared-memory Parallel Machine. Proc. 9th Annl. Intl. Symposium on Computer Architecture, 1982.

Grishman, R., Hirschman, L., and Friedman, C. Natural Language Interfaces using Limited Semantic Information. Proc. 9th Intl. Conf. Computational Linguistics, 89-94, 1982.

Su Bogong and Grishman, R. Emulating an MIMD Architecture. Proc. MICRO-15 Conf., Palo Alto, CA, Oct. 1982, 197-199.

Gottlieb, A. Grishman, R., Kruskal, C., McAuliffe, K., Rudolph, L., and Snir, M. The NYU Ultracomputer -- Designing a MIMD, Shared-memory Parallel Machine. IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. C-32, 175-189, 1983.

Grishman, R., Hirschman, L., and Friedman, C. Isolating Domain Dependencies in Natural Language Interfaces. Proc. Conf. Applied Natural Language Processing, Santa Monica, CA, February, 1983.

Grishman, R. Understanding Narrative in Messages and Reports. Proc. Trends and Applications Conf. 1983, Gaithersburg, MD, 85-88, 1983.

Froscher, J., Grishman, R., Bachenko, J., and Marsh, E. A Linguistically Motivated Approach to Automated Analysis of Military Messages. Proc. 1983 Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Rochester, MI, April, 1983.

Grishman, R., and Su Bogong. A Preliminary Evaluation of Trace Scheduling for Global Microcode Compaction. New York University Computer Science Dept. Technical Report 42, May, 1982. IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. C-32, 1191-1194, Dec. 1983.

Grishman, R., Nhan, N. T., and Marsh, E. Tuning Natural Language Grammars for New Domains. Proc. Conf. on Intelligent Systems and Machines, Rochester, MI, April 1984.

Grishman, R., Nhan, N. T., Marsh, E., and Hirschman, L. Automated Determination of Sublanguage Syntactic Usage. Proc. COLING 84 (Tenth Int'l Conf. Computational Linguistics), Stanford, CA, 1984.

Marsh, E., Hamburger, H., and Grishman, R. A Production Rule System for Message Summarization. Proc. 1984 National Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Austin, Texas, 1984.

Grishman, R. Natural Language Processing. J. Am. Soc. Information Science, .B 35 (5) 291-296, Sept. 1984.

Grishman, R., and Hirschman, L. PROTEUS and PUNDIT: Research in Text Understanding. Computational Linguistics .B 12 (2), 141-145, 1986.

Grishman, R., and Kittredge, R. (editors). Analyzing Language in Restricted Domains: Sublanguage Description and Processing. Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc., Hillsdale, NJ, 1986.

Grishman, R. Computational Linguistics: an Introduction. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1986.

Grishman, R., Hirschman, L., and Nhan, N. T. Discovery Procedures for Sublanguage Selectional Patterns: Initial Experiments. Computational Linguistics .B 12 (3), 205-216, 1986.

Davis, E., and Grishman, R. AI Research in Progress at the Courant Institute, New York University. AI Magazine .B 7 (5), 82-86 (1986).

Ksiezyk, T., Grishman, R., and Sterling, J. An equipment model and its role in the interpretation of noun phrases. Proc. Tenth Int'l Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Milan, Italy, August 1987.

Grishman, R., and Peng, P. Responding to Semantically Ill-formed Input. Proc. Applied Natural Language Processing Conf., Austin, Texas, February 1988.

Grishman, R., and Chitrao, M. Evaluation of a Parallel Chart Parser. Proc. Applied Natural Language Processing Conf., Austin, Texas, February 1988.

Grishman, R. Domain Modeling for Language Analysis. In Linguistic Approaches to Artificial Intelligence, ed. A. Kunz and U. Schmitz, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt, 1988 (proceedings of the conference at the University of Duisburg, March 1988).

Teller, V., Kosaka, M., and Grishman, R. A Comparative Study of Japanese and English Sublanguage Patterns. Proc. 2nd Int'l Conf. on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages, Pittsburgh, PA, June 1988.

Kosaka, M., Teller, V., and Grishman, R. A sublanguage approach to Japanese-English machine translation. In New Directions in Machine Translation, ed. D. Maxwell, K. Schubert, and A. P. M. Witkam, Foris Publishers, Dordrecht (proceedings of the conference at Budapest, Hungary, August 18-19, 1988).

Ksiezyk, T., and Grishman, R. Equipment Simulation for Language Understanding. International Journal of Expert Systems, .B 2 (1) 33-78, 1989.

Joskowicz, L., Ksiezyk, T., and Grishman, R. Deep Domain Models for Discourse Analysis. Proc. 1989 AI Systems in Government Conference, Washington, DC, March 1989.

Grishman, R., and Sterling, J. Analyzing Telegraphic Messages. Proc. DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop, Morgan Kaufman, 1989 (proceedings of the conference at Philadelphia, PA, Feb. 21-23, 1989).

Grishman, R., A Very Brief Introduction to Computational Linguistics. Proc. DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop, Morgan Kaufman, 1989 (proceedings of the conference at Philadelphia, PA, Feb. 21-23, 1989).

Grishman, R., and Sterling, J., Preference Semantics for Message Understanding. Proc. DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop, Morgan Kaufman, 1990 (proceedings of the conference at Harwich Port, MA, Oct. 15-18, 1989).

Grishman, R., and Sterling, J., Towards Robust Natural Language Analysis. Position paper for AAAI Symposium on Text-Based Intelligent Systems, March 27-29, 1990.

Chitrao, M., and Grishman, R. Statistical Parsing of Messages. Proc. DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop, Morgan Kaufman (proceedings of the conference at Somerset, PA, June 24-27, 1990).

Grishman, R., and Ksiezyk, T., Causal and Temporal Text Analysis: The Role of the Domain Model. Proc. 13th Int'l Conf. Computational Linguistics (COLING 90), Helsinki, August 20-25, 1990.

Grishman, R., and Sterling, J., Information Extraction and Semantic Constraints. Proc. 13th Int'l Conf. Computational Linguistics (COLING 90), Helsinki, August 20-25, 1990.

Ezra Black, Steven Abney, Dan Flickenger, Claudia Gdaniec, Ralph Grishman, Philip Harrison, Donald Hindle, Robert Ingria Fred Jelinek, Judith Klavans, Mark Liberman and Tomek Strzalkowski. A procedure for quantitatively comparing the syntactic coverage of English. Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language Workshop, Pacific Grove, CA, February, 1991, Morgan Kaufmann, 306-311.

Ralph Grishman, John Sterling, and Catherine Macleod. Description Of The Proteus System As Used For MUC-3. Proceedings of the Third Message Understanding Conference, San Diego, CA, May 1991, Morgan Kaufmann, 183-190.

Ralph Grishman, John Sterling, and Catherine Macleod. MUC-3 Test Results And Analysis. Proceedings of the Third Message Understanding Conference, San Diego, CA, May 1991, Morgan Kaufmann, 95-98.

Lucja Iwanska, Damaris Ayuso, George Krupka, Kathy Dahlgren, Christine Montgomery, Ralph Grishman, Douglas Appelt, and Ellen Rillof. Computational Aspects of Discourse in the Context of MUC-3. Proceedings of the Third Message Understanding Conference, San Diego, CA, May 1991, Morgan Kaufmann, 256-282.

Philip Harrison, Steven Abney, Ezra Black, Dan Flickinger, Claudia Gdaniec, Ralph Grishman, Donald Hindle, Robert Ingria, Mitch Marcus, Beatrice Santorini, and Tomek Strzalkowski. Evaluating Syntax Performance of Parser/Grammars. Proceedings of the Natural Language Processing Systems Evaluation Workshop, Berkeley, CA, June, 1991. Rome Laboratory Technical Report, RL-TR-91-362.

Ralph Grishman and Tomek Strzalkowski, Position Paper: Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing. Invited paper for Workshop on Future Directions in Text Analysis, Retrieval and Understanding, Chicago, IL, Oct. 11-12, 1991.

Ralph Grishman, Catherine Macleod, and John Sterling. Evaluating Parsing Strategies Using Standardized Parse Files. Proc. Third Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing. Trento, Italy, April, 1992.

Ralph Grishman and Michiko Kosaka. Combining Rationalist and Empiricist Approaches to Machine Translation. Proc. Fourth Int'l Conf. on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Montreal, Canada, June, 1992.

Ralph Grishman and John Sterling. Acquisition of Selectional Patterns. Proc. 14th Int'l Conf. on Computational Linguistics (COLING 92), Nantes, France, July 1992.

Ralph Grishman and John Sterling, Smoothing of Automatically Generated Selectional Constraints. Proceedings of the ARPA Human Language Technology Workshop, Plainsboro, NJ, March 21-24, 1993, Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 254-259.

Ralph Grishman, Catherine Macleod, and Susanne Wolff, The COMLEX Syntax Project. Proceedings of the ARPA Human Language Technology Workshop, Plainsboro, NJ, March 21-24, 1993, Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 300-302.

Ralph Grishman, John Sterling, and Catherine Macleod, New York University: Description of the Proteus System as used for MUC-5. Proceedings of the Fifth Message Understanding Conference, Baltimore, MD, August 25-27, 1993, Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 181-194.

Ralph Grishman. Linguistic Knowledge Acquisition from Monolingual and Bilingual Corpora. Proceedings of the ATR International Workshop on Speech Translation. Kyoto, Japan, Nov. 8-9, 1993.

Ralph Grishman. Whither Written Language Evaluation? Proceedings of the ARPA Human Language Technology Workshop, Plainsboro, NJ, March 1994, Morgan Kaufmann.

Catherine Macleod, Ralph Grishman, and Adam Meyers. The Comlex Syntax Project: The First Year. Proceedings of the ARPA Human Language Technology Workshop, Plainsboro, NJ, March 1994, Morgan Kaufmann.

Ralph Grishman. Lexicon Standardization. Proc. Workshop on Large Scale Multilingual Lexical Knowledge Acquisition and Representation. Pisa, Italy, July 1994.

Ralph Grishman. Iterative Alignment of Syntactic Structures in a Bilingual Corpus. Proceedings Second Annual Workshop on Very Large Corpora, Kyoto, Japan, August 1994.

Ralph Grishman and John Sterling, Generalizing Automatically Generated Selectional Patterns. Proc. COLING 94 (Int'l Conference on Computational Linguistics), Kyoto, Japan, August 1994.

Ralph Grishman, Catherine Macleod, and Adam Meyers, Comlex Syntax: Building A Computational Lexicon. Proc. COLING 94 (Int'l Conference on Computational Linguistics), Kyoto, Japan, August 1994.

Catherine Macleod, Ralph Grishman, and Adam Meyers, Creating A Common Syntactic Dictionary of English. Proceedings International Workshop on Sharable Natural Language Resources, Nara, Japan, August 1994.

Catherine Macleod, Ralph Grishman, and Adam Meyers. Developing Multiply Tagged Corpora for Lexical Research. Proceedings International Workshop on Directions of Lexical Research, Beijing, China, August 1994.

Satoshi Sekine, John Sterling, and Ralph Grishman. The NYU/BBN 1994 CSR Evaluation. Proceedings ARPA Spoken Language Technology Workshop, Austin, TX, January 1995.

Catherine Macleod, Adam Meyers, and Ralph Grishman. Tagging as a Means of Refining and Extending Syntactic Classes. Proc. AAAI Spring Symposium on Representation and Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge, Stanford Univ., March, 1995.

Ralph Grishman and Beth Sundheim, Design of the MUC-6 Evaluation. Proc. Sixth Message Understanding Conference (MUC-6), Columbia, MD, November 1995, Morgan Kaufmann. Also in Proc. Tipster Text Program 24-month Conference, May 1996.

Ralph Grishman, The NYU System for MUC-6 or Where's the Syntax? Proc. Sixth Message Understanding Conference (MUC-6), Columbia, MD, November 1995, Morgan Kaufmann. (Revised and condensed version published as "The role of syntax in Information Extraction" in Advances in Text Processing: Tipster Program Phase II, Morgan Kaufmann 1996.)

Satoshi Sekine, John Sterling, and Ralph Grishman. NYU Language Modeling Experiments for the 1995 CSR Evaluation. Proc. ARPA Spoken Language Systems Technology Workshop, Harrison, NY, February, 1996.

Ralph Grishman, Building an Architecture: a CAWG Saga. Advances in Text Processing: Tipster Program Phase II, Morgan Kaufmann, 1996.

Ralph Grishman, The Role of Syntax in Information Extraction. Proc. Tipster Text Program 24-month Conference, May 1996.

Ralph Grishman and the Tipster Contrators' Architecture Working Group. Tipster Phase II Architecture Design Document (ver. 2.01). Proc. Tipster Text Program 24-month Conference, May 1996.

Adam Meyers, Roman Yangarber, and Ralph Grishman. Alignment of Shared Forests for Bilingual Corpora. Proc. 16th Int'l Conf. on Computational Linguistics (COLING-96), Copenhagen, August 1996. pp. 460-465.

Ralph Grishman and Beth Sundheim, Message Understanding Conference - 6: A Brief History. Proc. 16th Int'l Conf. on Computational Linguistics (COLING-96), Copenhagen, August 1996. pp. 466-471. (Expanded version published as "Design of the MUC-6 Evaluation" in Advances in Text Processing: Tipster Program Phase II, Morgan Kaufmann 1996. and in Proceedings of Sixth Message Understanding Conference (MUC-6).)

Catherine Macleod, Adam Meyers, and Ralph Grishman. The Influence of Tagging on the Classification of Lexical Complements. Proc. 16th Int'l Conf. on Computational Linguistics (COLING-96), Copenhagen, August 1996. pp. 472-477.

Adam Meyers, Catherine Macleod, and Ralph Grishman. Standardization of the Complement/Adjunct Distinction. Proc. EURALEX 96 (Int'l Conf. on Lexicography), Gothenberg, Sweden, August, 1996.

Catherine Macleod, Ralph Grishman, and Adam Meyers. COMLEX Syntax: An On-line Dictionary for Natural Language Processing. Proc. EURALEX 96 (Int'l Conf. on Lexicography), Gothenberg, Sweden, August, 1996.

1997

Satoshi Sekine, Andrew Borthwick, and Ralph Grishman. NYU Language Modeling Experiment for 1996 CSR Evaluation. Proceedings of the DARPA Speech Recognition Workshop, Chantilly, Virginia, 1997.

Ralph Grishman. Information Extraction: Techniques and Challenges Information Extraction (International Summer School SCIE-97), ed. Maria Teresa Pazienza, Springer-Verlag, 1997.

Roman Yangarber and Ralph Grishman. Customization of Information Extraction Systems. Proceedings of International Workshop on Lexically Driven Information Extraction, Frascati, Italy, July 16, 1997.

Catherine Macleod, Adam Meyers, Ralph Grishman, Leslie Barrett, Ruth Reeves. Designing a dictionary of derived nominals. Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), Tzgov Chark, Bulgaria, 11-13 September 1997.

1998

Catherine Macleod, Ralph Grishman, and Adam Meyers,  COMLEX Syntax: A Large Syntactic Dictionary for Natural Language
Processing. Computers and the Humanities, Vol. 31 (1997/1998) No. 6.

Ralph Grishman. Information Extraction and Speech Recognition. Proceedings of the Broadcast News Transcription and Understanding Workshop, Lansdowne, VA, February 1998.

Andrew Borthwick, John Sterling, Eugene Agichtein, and Ralph Grishman. Description of the MENE Named Entity System as used in MUC-7. Proceedings of the Seventh Message Understanding Conference (MUC-7), Fairfax, Virginia, 29 April - 1 May, 1998.

Roman Yangarber and Ralph Grishman. NYU: Description of the Proteus/PET System as used for MUC-7 ST. Proceedings of the Seventh Message Understanding Conference (MUC-7), Fairfax, Virginia, 29 April - 1 May, 1998.

Catherine Macleod, Ralph Grishman, Adam Meyers. Dictionaries and Balanced Corpora: The Dependence of Resources.  Proc. First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Granada, Spain 28-30 May 1998.

Catherine Macleod, Adam Meyers, Ralph Grishman. The Syntactic Classification of Adverbs as an Update to COMLEX Syntax.  Proc. ALLC/ACH'98, Debrecen, Hungary, July,1998.

Catherine Macleod, Ralph Grishman, Adam Meyers, Leslie Barrett, Ruth Reeves. NOMLEX: A Lexicon of Nominalizations. Proc. EURALEX 98.

Adam Meyers, Roman Yangarber, Ralph Grishman, Catherine Macleod and Antonio Moreno--Sandoval. Deriving Transfer Rules from Dominance-Preserving Alignments. Proc. 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 36th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Coling-ACL98), Montreal, Canada 10-14 August 1998.

Andrew Borthwick, John Sterling, Eugene Agichtein, and Ralph Grishman. Exploiting Diverse Knowledge Sources via Maximum Entropy in Named Entity Recognition. Proc. Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora, Montreal, Canada, August 1998.

Satoshi Sekine, Ralph Grishman and Hiroyuki Shinnou. A Decision Tree Method for Finding and Classifying Names in Japanese Texts.  Proc. Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora, Montreal, Canada, August 1998.

Adam Meyers, Michiko Kosaka, and Ralph Grishman.  A Multilingual Procedure for Dictionary-Based Sentence Alignment.  Machine Translation and the Information Soup:  Proc. Third Conf. Assn. for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA '98, Langhorne, PA, October 1998.

1999

Lynette Hirschman, Erica Brown, Nancy Chinchor, Aaron Douthat, Lisa Ferro, Ralph Grishman, Patricia Robinson, and Beth Sundheim. Event99:  A Proposed Event Indexing Task for Broadcast News. Proc. Broadcast News Transcription and Understanding Workshop, Herndon, Virginia, February 28-March3, 1999.

2000

Ralph Grishman and Roman Yangarber.  Issues in Corpus-Trained Information Extraction.
International Symposium on Spontaneous Speech:  Corpus and Processing Technology, Tokyo, February-March, 2000.

Roman Yangarber, Ralph Grishman, Pasi Tapanainen, and Silja Huttunen.  Unsupervised Discovery of Scenario-Level Patterns for Information Extraction. Proc. Sixth Applied Natural Language Processing Conf., Seattle, WA,  April-May, 2000, 282-289.

Roman Yangarber and Ralph Grishman.  Extraction Pattern Discovery through Corpus Analysis.  Proc. of the Workshop, Information Extraction meets Corpus Linguistics,  Second Int'l Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2000),  Athens, Greece, May 30, 2000, 31-35.

Antonio Moreno, Ralph Grishman, Susana López, Fernando Sánchez, and Satoshi Sekine.  A Treebank of Spanish and its Application to Parsing.  Proc. Second Int'l Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2000),  Athens, Greece, May-June 2000, 107-111.

Catherine Macleod, Nancy Ide, and Ralph Grishman.  The American National Corpus: A Standardized Resource for American English.  Proc. Second Int'l Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2000),  Athens, Greece, May-June 2000, 831-834.

Adam Meyers, Michiko Kosaka, and Ralph Grishman.  Chart-Based Transfer Rule Application in Machine Translation.  Proc. 18th Int'l Conf. on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2000),  Saarbrücken, Germany, July-August 2000, 537-543.

Roman Yangarber, Ralph Grishman, Pasi Tapanainen, and Silja Huttunen.  Automatic Acquisition of Domain Knowledge for Information Extraction. Proc. 18th Int'l Conf. on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2000),  Saarbrücken, Germany, July-August 2000, 940-946.

Catherine Macleod and Ralph Grishman.  The Influence of Corpora on Lexicons:  Corpora Use in the Creation of COMLEX Syntax and NOMLEX. Proc. Ninth EURALEX Int'l Congress (EURALEX 2000), Stuttgart, Germany, August 2000, 141-148.

Roman Yangarber and Ralph Grishman.  Machine Learning of Extraction Patterns from Un-annotated Corpora.  Proc. Workshop on Machine Learning for Information Extraction, 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence: ECAI-2000, Berlin, Germany, August 2000.

2001

Kiyoshi Sudo, Satoshi Sekine, and Ralph Grishman.  Automatic Pattern Acquisition for Japanese Information Extraction.  Proc. of HLT 2001, Human Language Technology Conference, San Diego, California, March 2001.

Adam Meyers, Michiko Kosaka, Ralph Grishman, and Shubin Zhao.  Covering Treebanks with GLARF.  Proc. Workshop on Sharing Tools and Resources for Research and Education, ACL / EACL 2001, Toulouse, France, July 2001.

Ralph Grishman.  Adaptive Information Extraction and Sublanguage Analysis. (invited paper)  Proc. Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining, Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2001), Seattle, Washington, August 5, 2001.

Adam Meyers, Michiko Kosaka, Satoshi Sekine, Ralph Grishman, and Shubin Zhao.  Parsing and GLARFing.  Proc. of RANLP - 2001, Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, September 2001.

2002

Ralph Grishman, Silja Huttunen, and Roman Yangarber. Real-Time Event Extraction for Infectious Disease Outbreaks.  Proc. of HLT 2002 (Human Language Technology Conference),  San Diego, California, March 2002.

Yusuke Shinyama, Satoshi Sekine, Kiyoshi Sudo, and Ralph Grishman.  Automatic Paraphrase Acquisition from News Articles.  Proc. of HLT 2002 (Human Language Technology Conference), San Diego, California, March 2002.

Sue Atkins, Nuria Bel, Francesca Bertagna, Pierrette Bouillon, Nicoletta Calzolari, Christiane Fellbaum, Ralph Grishman, Alessandro Lenci, Catherine Macleod, Martha Palmer, Gregor Thurmair, Marta Villegas, and Antonio Zampolli.  From Resources to Applications.  Designing the Multilingual ISLE Lexical Entry.  Proc. Third Int'l Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, May 2002, 687-693.

Adam Meyers, Ralph Grishman, and Michiko Kosaka.  Formal Mechanisms for Capturing Regularizations.  Proc. Third Int'l Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, May 2002, 723-730.

Silja Huttunen, Roman Yangarber, and Ralph Grishman.  Diversity of Scenarios in Information Extraction.  Proc. Third Int'l Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, May 2002, 1443-1450.

Chikashi Nobata, Satoshi Sekine, Hitoshi Isahara, and Ralph Grishman.  Summarization System Integrated with Named Entity Tagging and IE Pattern Discovery.  Proc. Third Int'l Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, May 2002, 1742-1745.

Nicoletta Calzolari, Charles Fillmore, Ralph Grishman, Nancy Ide, Alessandro Lenci, Catherine Macleod, and Antonio Zampolli.
Towards Best Practice for Multiword Expressions in Computational Lexicons. Proc. Third Int'l Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, May 2002, 1934-1940.

Roman Yangarber, Winston Lin, and Ralph Grishman.  Unsupervised Learning of Generalized Names.  Proc. Nineteenth Int'l Conf. on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002), Taipei, Taiwan, August 2002.

Silja Huttunen, Roman Yangarber, and Ralph Grishman.  Complexity of Event Structure in IE Scenarios.  Proc. Nineteenth Int'l Conf. on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002), Taipei, Taiwan, August 2002.

Ralph Grishman, Silja Huttunen, and Roman Yangarber.  Information Extraction for Enhanced Access to Disease Outbreak Reports.  Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Vol. 35, No. 4 (August 2002), 236 - 246.

2003

Ralph Grishman.  Information Extraction.  The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics, Ruslan Mitkov, editor, Oxford University Press, 2003, Chapter 30.

Ralph Grishman.  Discovery Methods for Information Extraction.  Proc. ISCA & IEEE Workshop on Spontaneous Speech Processing and Recognition, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, April 13-16, 2003.

Winston Lin, Roman Yangarber and Ralph Grishman.  Bootstrapped Learning of Semantic Classes from Positive and Negative Examples.  Proc. ICML-2003 Workshop on The Continuum from Labeled to Unlabeled Data,  Washington, D.C., August 2003.

Kiyoshi Sudo, Satoshi Sekine and Ralph Grishman.  pre-CODIE -- Crosslingual On-Demand Information Extraction.  Proc. NAACL/HLT 2003 (Demonstrations), Edmonton, Canada.

Kiyoshi Sudo, Satoshi Sekine and Ralph Grishman.  An Improved Extraction Pattern Representation Model for Automatic IE Pattern Acquisition.  Proc. 41st Annual Meeting Assn. Computational Linguistics (ACL 2003);  Sapporo, Japan.

2004

Adam Meyers, Ruth Reeves, Catherine Macleod, Rachel Szekely, Veronika Zielinska, Brian Young, and Ralph Grishman. Annotating Noun Argument Structure for NomBank. Proc. Fourth Int'l Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004), Lisbon, Portugal, May 2004.

Adam Meyers, Ruth Reeves, Catherine Macleod, Rachel Szekely, Veronika Zielinska, Brian Young, and Ralph Grishman. The NomBank Project: An Interim Report. HLT-NAACL 2004 Workshop: Frontiers in Corpus Annotation, Boston, MA, May 2004, pp. 24-31.

Takaaki Hasegawa, Satoshi Sekine, Ralph Grishman. Discovering Relations among Named Entities from Large Corpora. Proc. Annual Meeting Assn. Computational Linguistics (ACL 2004); Barcelona, Spain, July 2004, pp. 415-422.

Heng Ji and Ralph Grishman.  Applying Coreference to Improve Name Recognition.  Proc. ACL 2004 Workshop on Reference Resolution and Its Applications; Barcelona, Spain, July 2004, pp. 32-39/

Shubin Zhao, Adam Meyers and Ralph Grishman.  Discriminative Slot Detection Using Kernel Methods.  Proc. 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistices (COLING-04), Geneva, Switzerland, August 2004.

Kiyoshi Sudo, Satoshi Sekine, Ralph Grishman.  Cross-lingual Information Extraction System Evaluation.  Proc. 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistices (COLING-04), Geneva, Switzerland, August 2004.

2005

Heng Ji and Ralph Grishman.  Improving Name Tagging by Reference Resolution and Relation Detection.  Proc. Annual Meeting Assn. Computational Linguistics, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005.

Shubin Zhao and Ralph Grishman.  Extracting Relations with Integrated Information Using Kernel Methods.  Proc. Annual Meeting Assn. Computational Linguistics, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005.

Takaaki Hasegawa, Satoshi Sekine, Ralph Grishman.  Paraphrase Acquisition using Unsupervised Relation Discovery.  Proc. 11th Annual Meeting Japanese Assn for Natural Language Processing,  Takamatsu, Japan., 2005.

Heng Ji, David Westbrook and Ralph Grishman.  Using Semantic Relations to Refine Coreference Decisions.  Proc. HLT/EMNLP 05 (Human Language Technology / Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing), Vancouver, B.C., Canada, Oct. 2005.

Ralph Grishman.  NLP:  An Information Extraction Perspective.  Proc. Int'l Conf. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), Borovets, Bulgaria, Sept. 2005.

2006

Heng Ji and Ralph Grishman. Analysis and Repair of Name Tagger Errors. Proc. Int'l Conf. Computational Linguistics and Annual Meeting Assn. Computational Linguistics (COLING-ACL06), Sydney, Australia, July 2006.

Heng Ji and Ralph Grishman. Data Selection in Semi-supervised Learning for Name Tagging. Proc. ACL 06 Workshop on Information Extraction beyond the Document. Sydney, Australia, July 2006.

Heng Ji, Cynthia Rudin and Ralph Grishman. Re-Ranking Algorithms for Name Tagging. Proc. HLT/NAACL 06 Workshop on Computationally Hard Problems and Joint Inference in Speech and Language Processing, New York, New York, June 2006.

Dustin Hillard, Zhongqiang Huang, Heng Ji, Ralph Grishman, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Mary Harper, Mari Ostendorf, and Wen Wang. Impact of Automatic Comma Prediction on POS/Name Tagging of Speech. Proc. IEEE/ACL 06 Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Aruba, 2006.

2007

Heng Ji, Matthias Blume, Dayne Freitag, Ralph Grishman, Shahram Khadivi and Richard Zens. NYU-Fair Isaac-RWTH Chinese to English Entity Translation 07 System. Proc. ACE ET 2007 PI/Evaluation Workshop. Washington, 2007.

Barry Schiffman, Kathleen McKeown, Ralph Grishman, and James Allan.  Question Answering Using Integrated Information Retrieval and Information Extraction.  Proc. Human Language Technology 2007: Conf. of the North American Chapter of the Assn. for Computational Linguistics, Rochester, New York, April 2007.

Ralph Grishman.  Extracting Information and Answering Questions.  Proc. First International Symposium on Universal Communication. Kyoto, Japan, June 2007.

Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Heng Ji and Ralph Grishman Information Extraction to Improve Cross-lingual Document Retrieval. Proc. RANLP workshop on Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization. Borovets, Bulgaria. Sept 2007.

Heng Ji and Ralph Grishman. Collaborative Entity Extraction and Translation. Proc. International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2007. Borovets, Bulgaria. Sept 2007.

2008

Mari Ostendorf, Benoit Favre, Ralph Grishman, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Mary Harper, Dustin Hillard, Julia B. Hirschberg, Heng Ji, Jeremy G Kahn, Yang Liu, Evgeny Matusov, Hermann Ney, Elizabeth Shriberg, Wen Wang, Chuck Wooters. Speech Segmentation and spokken document processing. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 25 (3) 59-69, May 2008.

Benoit Favre, Ralph Grishman, Dustin Hillard, Heng Ji, Dilek Hakkani-Tur and Mari Ostendorf. Punctuating Speech for Information Extraction. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Heng Ji and Ralph Grishman. Refining Event Extraction Through Unsupervised Cross-document Inference. Proc. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2008). Columbus, Ohio, June 2008.

Cristina Mota and Ralph Grishman. Is this NE tagger getting old? Proceedings of the Sixth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2008). Marrakech, Morocco.

Dan Wu, Daqing He, Heng Ji and Ralph Grishman. A Study of Using an Out-Of-Box Commercial MT System for Query Translation in CLIR. Proceedings of the 2nd International ACM Workshop on Improving Non-English Web Searching (iNEWS 2008).

Dan Wu, Daqing He, Heng Ji and Ralph Grishman. The Effects of High Quality Translations of Named Entities in Cross-Language Information Exploration. Proceedings of the IEEE Conf. Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE-NLPKE 2008).

Heng Ji, Ralph Grishman and Wen Wang. Phonetic Name Matching for Cross-lingual Spoken Sentence Retrieval. Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology. Goa, India, December 2008.

2009

Heng Ji, Ralph Grishman, Zheng Chen and Prashant Gupta. Cross-document Event Extraction and Tracking: Task, Evaluation, Techniques and Challenges. Proc. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2009, Borovets, Bulgaria, September 2009.

Wei Xu and Ralph Grishman. A Parse-and-Trim Approach with Information Significance for Chinese Sentence Compression. Proc. ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Workshop:  Language Generation and Summarization (UCNLG+Sum 2009), Singapore, August 2009.

Cristina Mota and Ralph Grishman. Updating a Name Tagger Using Contemporary Unlabeled Data. Proc. 47th Annual Meeting Assn. for Computational Linguistics (ACL-IJCNLP 2009), Singapore, August 2009.

Kristen Parton; Kathleen R. McKeown; Bob Coyne; Mona T. Diab; Ralph Grishman; Dilek Hakkani-Tur; Mary Harper; Heng Ji; Wei Yun Ma; Adam Meyers; Sara Stolbach; Ang Sun; Gokhan Tur; Wei Xu; and Sibel Yaman. Who, What, When, Where, Why? Comparing Multiple Approaches to the Cross-Lingual 5W Task. Proc. 47th Annual Meeting Assn. for Computational Linguistics (ACL-IJCNLP 2009), Singapore, August 2009.

2010

Heng Ji, Zheng Chen, Jonathan Feldman, Antonio Gonzalez, Ralph Grishman and Vivek Upadhyay. Utility Evaluation of Cross-document Information Extraction. Proc. NAACL/HLT (Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Assn. for Computational Linguistics), 2010.

Ralph Grishman. The Impact of Task and Corpus on Event Extraction Systems. Proc. 2010 Language Resource and Evaluation Conferencei.

Shasha Liao and Ralph Grishman. Using Document Level Cross-Event Inference to Improve Event Extraction. Proc. ACL (Annual Meeting of the Assn. for Computational Linguistics), 2010.

Shasha Liao and Ralph Grishman. Filtered Ranking for Bootstrapping in Event Extraction. Proc. COLING 2010 (23rd Int'l Conference on Computational Linguistics).

Ang Sun and Ralph Grishman. Semi-supervised Semantic Pattern Discovery with Guidance from Unsupervised Pattern Clusters. Proc. COLING 2010 (23rd Int'l Conference on Computational Linguistics).

Shasha Liao and Ralph Grishman. Large Corpus-based Semantic Feature Extraction for Pronoun Coreference. Proc. Second Int'l Workshop on NLP Challenges in the Information Explosion Era (at COLING 2010).

H. Ji, R. Grishman, H.T. Dang, K. Griffit, and J. Ellis. Overview of the TAC 2010 Knowledge Base Population Track. Proc. 2010 Text Analysis Conference.

R. Grishman and B. Min. New York University KBP 2010 Slot-Filling System. Proc. 2010 Text Analysis Conference.

R. Grishman, Chapter "Information Extraction" in Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, ed. A. Clark, C. Fox, and S. Lappin. Wiley - Blackwell, 2010.

2011

Heng Ji and Ralph Grishman. Knowledge Base Population: Successful Approaches and Challenges. Proc. ACL (Annual Meeting of the Assn. for Computational Linguistics), 2011.

Ang Sun, Ralph Grishman, and Satoshi Sekine. Semi-supervised Relation Extraction with Large-scale Word Clustering. Proc. ACL (Annual Meeting of the Assn. for Computational Linguistics), 2011.

Shasha Liao and Ralph Grishman. Can Document Selection Help Semi-supervised Learning? A Case Study on Event Extraction. Proc. ACL (Annual Meeting of the Assn. for Computational Linguistics), 2011.

Wei Xu, Joel Tetreault, Martin Chodorow, Ralph Grishman and Le Zhao. Exploiting Syntactic and Distributional Information for Spelling Correction with Web-Scale N-gram Models. Proc. EMNLP (Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing) 2011.

Ang Sun and Ralph Grishman. Cross-Domain Bootstrapping for Named Entity Recognition. Proceedings of SIGIR 2011 Workshop on Entity-Oriented Search.

Shasha Liao and Ralph Grishman Acquiring Topic Features to improve Event Extraction: in Pre-selected and Balance d Collections. Proc. RANLP (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) 2011.

Bonan Min and Ralph Grishman. Fine-grained Entity Set Refinement with User Feedback. Proceedings of RANLP 2011 Workshop on Information Extraction and Knowledge Acquis.

Shasha Liao and Ralph Grishman. Using Prediction from Sentential Scope to Build a Pseudo Co-Testing Learner for Event Extraction. Proc. IJCNLP (Int'l Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing) 2011.

Wei Xu, Ralph Grishman and Le Zhao. Passage Retrieval for Information Extraction using Distant Supervision. Proc. IJCNLP (Int'l Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing) 2011.

Ang Sun, Ralph Grishman, Wei Xu, and Bonan Min. New York University 2011 System for KBP Slot Filling. Proc. 2011 Text Analysis Conference.

2012

Bonan Min and Ralph Grishman. Compensating for Annotation Errors in Training a Relation Extractor. Proc. EACL (Conf. of the European Chapter of the Assn. for Computational Linguistics) 2012.

Bonan Min and Ralph Grishman Challenges in the Knowledge Base Population Slot Filling Task. Proc. LREC (Language Resources and Evaluation Conference) 2012.

Ralph Grishman. Structural Linguistics and Unsupervised Information Extraction. Proc. AKBC-WEKEX (Workshop on Automatic Knowledge Base Construction and Web-scale Knowledge Extraction) 2012.

Bonan Min, Shuming Shi, Ralph Grishman, and Chin-Yew Lin. Ensemble Semantics for Large-scale Unsupervised Relation Extraction. Proc. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL) 2012.

Ang Sun and Ralph Grishman. Active Learning for Relation Type Extension with Local and Global Data Views. Proc. 21st ACM International Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012).

Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Bill Dolan, Ralph Grishman, and Colin Cherry. Paraphrasing for Style. COLING (Int'l Conf on Computational Linguistics) 2012.

Bonan Min, Xiang Li, Ralph Grishman, and Ang Sun. 2012. New York University 2012 System for KBP Slot Filling. Proc. 2012 Text Analysis Conference.

Ang Sun, Xin Wang, Sen Xu, Yigit Kiran, Shakthi Poornima, Andrew Borthwick, and Ralph Grishman. Intelius-NYU TAC-KBP2012 Cold Start System. Proc. 2012 Text Analysis Conference.

2013

Bonan Min, Ralph Grishman, Li Wan, Chang Wang, and David Gondek. Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction with an Incomplete Knowledge Base. NAACL-HLT (Annl Meeting North American Assn. Comp. Linguistics) 2013.

Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Oren Etzioni, and Ralph Grishman. A Preliminary Study of Tweet Summarization using Information Extraction. NAACL-Workshop on Language Analysis in Social Media-2013.

Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, and Ralph Grishman. Gathering and Generating Paraphrases from Twitter with Application to Normalization. Proc. ACL 2013 Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora.

Wei Xu, Raphael Hoffmann, Le Zhao, and Ralph Grishman. Filling Knowledge Base Gaps for Distant Supervision of Relation Extraction. Proc. 51st Annual Meeting of the Assn. Comp. Linguistics (ACL 2013).

Xiang Li, Yifan He, Adam Meyers and Ralph Grishman. Towards Fine-grained Citation Function Classification Proc. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP) 2013.

Xiang Li and Ralph Grishman. Confidence Estimation for Knowledge Base Population. Proc. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP) 2013.

Ralph Grishman. Off to a Cold Start: New York University's 2013 Knowledge Base Population Systems. Text Analysis Conference, Nov. 2013.

2014

Maria Pershina, Bonan Min, Wei Xu and Ralph Grishman. Infusion of Labeled Data into Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction Proc. 52nd Annual Meeting of the Assn. Comp. Linguistics (ACL 2014).

Thien Nguyen and Ralph Grishman. Employing Word Representations and Regularization for Domain Adaptation of Relation Extraction Proc. 52nd Annual Meeting of the Assn. Comp. Linguistics (ACL 2014).

Adam Meyers, Zachary Glass, Angus Grieve-Smith, Yifan He, Shasha Liao and Ralph Grishman. Jargon-Term Extraction by Chunking. Workshop on Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches to Analyzing Technical Language at COLING 2014.

Ralph Grishman. An Information Extraction Customizer. Proc. TSD Conference 2014 (Springer LNCS), Brno, Czech Republic.

Thien Huu Nguyen, Yifan He, Maria Pershina, Xiang Li, Ralph Grishman. New York University 2014 Knowledge Base Population Systems. Proc. 2014 Text Analysis Conference.

2015

Maria Pershina, Yifan He, and Ralph Grishman. Personalized Page Rank for Named Entity Disambiguation. 2015 NAACL (Annual Meeting North American Assn. Computational Linguistics).

Thien Nguyen and Ralph Grishman. Relation Extraction: Perspective from Convolutional Neural Networks. Workshop on Vector Space Modeling for NLP at NAACL 2015.

Yifan He and Ralph Grishman. ICE: Rapid Information Extraction Customization for NLP Novices. 2015 NAACL Demos (Annual Meeting North American Assn. Computational Linguistics).

Thien Nguyen, Barbara Plank, and Ralph Grishman. Semantic Representations for Domain Adaptation: A Case Study on the Tree Kernel-based Method for Relation Extraction. Proc. 53rd Annual Meeting Assn. Computational Linguistics (ACL 2015).