Peer Reviewed Journal, Conference and Workshop Papers

Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz (2014). Evaluation of Automatic Updates of Roget’s Thesaurus. Journal of Language Modelling 2 (1), 1–49.

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Alistair Kennedy, Graeme Hirst (2012). Measuring Semantic Relatedness Across Languages. In the Proceedings of xLiTe: Cross-Lingual Technologies workshop at NIPS 2012, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA.

Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz (2012). Supervised Distributional Semantic Relatedness. In the Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue TSD 2012, Brno, Czech Republic.

Alistair Kennedy, Anna Kazantseva, Diana Inkpen, Stan Szpakowicz (2012). Getting Emotional About News Summarization. In the proceedings of Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 25th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Canadian AI 2012, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 28-30. 121-132

Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz (2011). A Supervised Method of Feature Weighting for Measuring Semantic Relatedness. In Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 24th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Canadian AI 2011, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, May 25-27, 222-233.

Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz (2010). Evaluation of a Sentence Ranker for Text Summarization Based on Roget’s Thesaurus. In the Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue TSD 2010, Brno, Czech Republic. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6231, 101-108.

Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz (2010). Towards a Gold Standard for Extractive Text Summarization. In Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 23rd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian, AI 2010, Ottawa, Canada, May 31 - June 2, 2010, 51-62.

Alistair Kennedy(2010). Automatically Expanding the Lexicon of Roget’s Thesaurus. In Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 23rd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian, AI 2010, Ottawa, Canada, May 31 - June 2, 2010, 410-411.

Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz (2008). Evaluating Roget’s Thesaurus. In Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, Columbus, Ohio, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, 416-424.

Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz (2007). Disambiguating Hypernym Relations for Roget’s Thesaurus. In the Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue TSD 2007, Plzeň, Czech Republic, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4629, Springer, 66-75.

Alistair Kennedy, Diana Inkpen (2006). Sentiment Classification of Movie Reviews Using Contextual Valence Shifters. Computational Intelligence (special issue), Vol. 22, No. 2 . pp 110-125.

Alistair Kennedy, Diana Inkpen (2005). Sentiment Classification of Movie and Product Reviews Using Contextual Valence Shifters. Workshop on the Analysis of Formal and Informal Information Exchange during Negotiations. pp 11-22.

Alistair Kennedy, Michael Shepherd (2005). Automatic Identification of Home Pages on the Web. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05). Hawaii, 3-6 January 2005.

Michael Shepherd, Carolyn Watters, Alistair Kennedy (2004). Cybergenre: Automatic Identification of Home Pages on the Web. Journal of Web Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 3&4. pp. 236-251. 2004.

Miscellaneous Peer-reviewed Material

John Strauss, James Kennedy, Alistair Kennedy (2015). Identifying Patient Weight Changes in Medical Records. In American Medical Informatics Association, AMIA (Poster)

Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz (2012). Fast Semantic Relatedness: WordNet::Similarity vs Roget's Thesaurus. In Tiny Transactions on Computer Science, Volume 1. (Micro-journal)

Alistair Kennedy, Michael Shepherd, Carolyn Watters (2004). Exploring the Role of Genre in Web Searching. Proceedings of The American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) 2004. (Poster)

System Reports (Not Peer-reviewed)

Alistair Kennedy, Anna Kazantseva, Saif Mohammad, Terry Copeck, Diana Inkpen, Stan Szpakowicz (2011). Getting Emotional About News. Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 2011, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 2011.

Alistair Kennedy, Terry Copeck, Diana Inkpen, Stan Szpakowicz (2010). Entropy-based Sentence Selection with Roget’s Thesaurus. Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 2010, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 2010.

Terry Copeck, Alistair Kennedy, Martin Scaiano, Diana Inkpen, Stan Szpakowicz (2009). Summarizing with Roget’s and with FrameNet. Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 2009, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 2009.

Terry Copeck, Anna Kazantseva, Alistair Kennedy, Alex Kunadze, Diana Inkpen, Stan Szpakowicz (2008). Update Summary Update. Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 2008, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 2008.

Terry Copeck, Diana Inkpen, Anna Kazantseva, Alistair Kennedy, Darren Kipp, Stan Szpakowicz (2007). Catch What You Can. Document Understanding Conference (DUC) 2007, Rochester, New York, USA, May 2007.

Terry Copeck, Diana Inkpen, Anna Kazantseva, Alistair Kennedy, Darren Kipp, Vivi Nastase, Stan Szpakowicz (2006). Leveraging DUC. Document Understanding Conference (DUC) 2006, New York, New York, USA, June 2006.

Workshop Co-Chair

Workshop on Text Summarization TS11 at Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Saint John’s, Newfoundland, 2011
Co-chairs: Anna Kazantseva, Alistair Kennedy, Guy Lapalme and Stan Szpakowicz.

Presentations

Measuring Semantic Relatedness Across Languages. Presented at Dalhousie University on February 12, 2013.

PhD Thesis

Alistair Kennedy (2012). Automatic Supervised Thesauri Construction with Roget's Thesaurus. University of Ottawa.

Masters Thesis

Alistair Kennedy (2007). Analysis and Construction of Noun Hypernym Hierarchies to Enhance Roget's Thesaurus. University of Ottawa.

Honours Thesis

Alistair Kennedy (2004). Automatic Genre Classification Home Pages on the Web. Dalhousie University.