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Brown, Keith (editor-in-chief); Anderson, Anne H.; Bauer, Laurie; Berns, Margie; Hirst, Graeme; and Miller, Jim (coordinating editors). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (second edition), 14 volumes, Elsevier Science, December 2005. [Publisher's website]
Hirst, Graeme. Semantic Interpretation and the Resolution of Ambiguity (Studies in natural language processing). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1987 (reprinted 1992). [Publisher's website]
Hirst, Graeme. Anaphora in Natural Language Understanding: A survey (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 119). Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1981. [Publisher's website]
Vishnubhotla, Krishnapriya; Rudzicz, Frank; Hirst, Graeme; and Hammond, Adam. Improving automatic quotation attribution in literary
novels. Proceedings, 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Volume 2: Short Papers, Toronto, July 2023, 737–746. [PDF]
Leung, Yvonne; Ng, Steve, Duan, Lauren; Lam, Claire; Chan, Kenith; Gancarz, Mathew; Rennie, Heather; Tratchenberg, Lianne; Chan, Kai P.,
Adikari, Achini; Fang, Lin; Gratzer, David; Hirst, Graeme; Wong, Jiahui; and Esplen, Mary Jane. Therapist feedback and implications on adoption of an artificial intelligence–based co-facilitator for online cancer support groups: Mixed methods single-arm usability study. JMIR Cancer, 2023, 9:e40113. [PDF]
Hammond, Adam; Vishnubhotla, Krishnapriya; Mohammad, Saif M.; and Hirst, Graeme. Voices speaking to and about one another: Introducing the Project Dialogism Novel Corpus. Book of Abstracts, Digital Humanities Conference 2022, 220–223. [PDF]
Leung, Yvonne W; Park, Bomi; Heo, Rachel; Adikari, Achini; Chackochan, Suja; Wong, Jiahui; Alie, Elyse; Gancarz, Mathew; Kacala, Martyna; Hirst, Graeme; de Silva, Daswin; French, Leon; Bender, Jacqueline; Mishna, Faye; Gratzer, David; Alahakoon, Damminda; Esplen, Mary Jane. Providing care beyond therapy sessions with a natural language processing–based recommender system that identifies cancer patients who experience psychosocial challenges and provides self-care support: Pilot study. JMIR Cancer, 8(3), 29 July 2022, e35893. [PDF]
Vishnubhotla, Krishnapriya; Hammond, Adam; and Hirst, Graeme. The Project Dialogism Novel Corpus: A dataset for quotation attribution in literary texts. Proceedings, 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Marseille, June 2022, 5838–5848. [PDF]
Vishnubhotla, Krishnapriya; Hirst, Graeme; and Rudzicz, Frank. An evaluation of disentangled representation learning for texts. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021, 1939–1951. [PDF]
Leung, Yvonne; Wouterloot, Elise; Adikari, Achini; Hirst, Graeme; de Silva, Daswin; Wong, Jiahui; Bender, Jacqueline; Gancarz, Mathew; Gratzer, David; Alahakoon, Damminda; Esplen, Mary Jane. Natural language processing–based virtual cofacilitator for online cancer support groups: Protocol for an algorithm development and validation study. JMIR Research Protocols, 10(1), January 2021, e21453. [PDF]
Hulpuș, Ioana; Kobbe, Jonathan; Stuckenschmidt, Heiner; and Hirst, Graeme. Knowledge graphs meet moral values. Proceedings, 9th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM-2020), December 2020, 71–80. [PDF]
Paul, Debjit; Optiz, Juri; Becker, Maria; Kobbe, Jonathan; Hirst, Graeme; and Frank, Anette. Argumentative relation classification with background knowledge. In: Prakken, Henry; Bistarelli, Stefano; Santini, Francesco; and Taticchi, Carlo (editors), Computational
Models of Argument: Proceedings of COMMA-2020, IOP Press (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, volume 326), September 2020, 319–330. [PDF]
Abdalla, Mohamed; Abdalla, Moustafa; Hirst, Graeme; and Rudzicz, Frank. Exploring the privacy-preserving properties of word embeddings: Algorithmic validation. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(7), July 2020, e18055. [PDF]
Abdalla, Mohamed; Abdalla, Moustafa; Rudzicz, Frank; and Hirst, Graeme. Using word embeddings to improve the privacy of clinical notes. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 27(6), 2020, 901–907. [PDF]
Xie, Jing Yi; Ferreira Pinto, Renato, Jr; Hirst, Graeme; and Xu, Yang. Text-based inference of moral sentiment change. Proceedings, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Hong Kong, November 2019, 4653–4622. [PDF]
Hulpuș, Ioana; Kobbe, Jonathan; Becker, Maria; Opitz, Juri; Hirst, Graeme; Meilicke, Christian; Nastase, Vivi; Stuckenschmidt, Heiner; and Frank, Anette. Towards explaining natural language arguments with background knowledge. Joint Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Dataset Profiling and Search and the 1st Workshop on Semantic Explainability, Auckland, 27 October 2019, 62–77 [= CEUR Workshop Proceedings, volume 2465.] [PDF]
Yan, Zhaodong; Jeblee, Serena; and Hirst, Graeme. Can character embeddings improve cause-of-death classification for verbal autopsy narratives? Proceedings, BioNLP Workshop, Florence, August 2019, 234–239. [PDF]
Ethayarajh, Kawin; Duvenaud, David; and Hirst, Graeme. Understanding undesirable word embedding associations.Proceedings, 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Florence, July 2019, 1696–1705. [PDF]
Ethayarajh, Kawin; Duvenaud, David; and Hirst, Graeme. Towards understanding linear word analogies. Proceedings, 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Florence, July 2019, 3253–3262. [PDF]
Jeblee, Serena; Gomes, Mireille; Jha, Prabhat; Rudzicz, Frank, and Hirst, Graeme. Automatically determining cause of death from verbal autopsy narratives. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 19:127, 9 July 2019. [Open access]
Vishnubhotla, Krishnapriya; Hammond, Adam; and Hirst, Graeme. Are fictional voices distinguishable? Classifying character voices in modern drama. Proceedings, 3rd Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, Minneapolis, June 2019, 29–34. [PDF]
Abdalla, Mohamed; Sahlgren, Magnus; and Hirst, Graeme. Enriching word embeddings with a regressor instead of labeled corpora. Proceedings, 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19), Honolulu, January 2019, 6188–6195. [PDF]
Jeblee, Serena and Hirst, Graeme. Listwise temporal ordering of events in clinical notes. Proceedings, LOUHI 2018: The Ninth International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis, Brussels, October 2018, 177–182. [PDF]
Naderi, Nona and Hirst, Graeme. Using context to identify the language of face-saving. Proceedings, 5th Workshop on Argument Mining, Brussels, November 2018, 111–120. [PDF]
Naderi, Nona and Hirst, Graeme. Automated fact-checking of claims in argumentative parliamentary debates. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Fact Extraction and Verification (FEVER), Brussels, November 2018, 60–65. [PDF]
Jeblee, Serena; Budhkar, Akshay; Milić, Saša; Pinto, Jeff; Pou-Prom, Chloé, Vishnubhotla, Krishnapriya; Hirst, Graeme; and Rudzicz, Frank. Toronto CL at the CLEF 2018 eHealth Challenge Task 1. CLEF 2018 Evaluation Labs and Workshop: Online Working Notes, September 2018 [= CEUR Workshop Proceedings, volume 2125]. [PDF]
Marinho, Vanessa Q.; Hirst, Graeme; and Amancio, Diego R. Labelled network motifs reveal stylistic subtleties in written texts.
Journal of Complex Networks, 6(4), 1 August 2018, 620–638. [PDF]
Jeblee, Serena; Gomes, Mireille; and Hirst, Graeme. Multi-task learning for interpretable cause-of-death classification using key phrase prediction. Proceedings, BioNLP 2018, Melbourne, July 2018, 12–17. [PDF]
Tricco, Andrea; Zarin, Wasifa; Lillie, Erin; Jeblee, Serena; Warren, Rachel; Khan, Paul A.; Robson, Reid, Pham, Ba'; Hirst, Graeme; Straus, Sharon E. Utility of social media and crowd-intelligence data for pharmacovigilance: A scoping review. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 18:38, 14 June 2018. [PDF]
Naderi, Nona and Hirst, Graeme. Automatically labeled data generation for classification of reputation defence strategies. In: Fišer, Darja; Eskevich, Maria; and de Jong, Franciska (eds). Proceedings of LREC2018 Workshop ParlaCLARIN: Creating and Using Parliamentary Corpora, Miyazaki, Japan, May 2018, 48–54. [PDF]
Abdalla, Mohamed; Rudzicz, Frank; and Hirst, Graeme. Rhetorical structure and Alzheimer's disease. Aphasiology, 32(1), 2018, 41–60. [PDF]
Abdalla, Mohamed and Hirst, Graeme. Cross-lingual sentiment analysis without (good) translation. Proceedings, 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2017), Taipei, December 2017, 506–515. [PDF]
Naderi, Nona and Hirst, Graeme. Recognizing reputation defence strategies in critical political exchanges. Proceedings, 11th Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Varna, September 2017, 527–535. [PDF]
Naderi, Nona and Hirst, Graeme. Classifying frames at the sentence level in news. Proceedings, 11th Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Varna, September 2017, 536–542. [PDF]
Wachsmuth, Henning; Naderi, Nona; Habernal, Ivan; Hou, Yufang; Hirst, Graeme; Gurevych, Iryna; and Stein, Benno. Argumentation quality assessment: Theory vs. practice. 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Vancouver, August 2017, volume 2, 250–255. [PDF]
Wachsmuth, Henning; Naderi, Nona; Hou, Yufang; Bilu, Yonatan; Prabhakaran, Vinod; Alberdingk Thijm, Timothy; Hirst, Graeme; and Stein, Benno. Computational argumentation quality assessment in natural language. Proceedings, 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Valencia, April 2017, 176–187. [PDF]
Beelen, Kaspar; Alberdingk Thijm, Timothy; Cochrane, Christopher; Halvemaan, Kees; Hirst, Graeme; Kimmins, Michael; Lijbrink, Sander; Marx, Maarten; Naderi, Nona; Rheault, Ludovic; Polyanovsky, Roman; Whyte, Tanya. Digitization of the Canadian parliamentary debates. Canadian Journal of Political Science , 50(3), September 2017, 849–864. [PDF]
Brooke, Julian; Hammond, Adam; and Hirst, Graeme. Using models of lexical style to quantify free indirect discourse in modernist fiction. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 32(2), 2017, 234–250. [PDF]
Naderi, Nona and Hirst, Graeme. Argumentation mining in parliamentary discourse. In: Baldoni, Matteo; Baroglio, Cristina; Bex, Floris; Grasso, Floriana; Green, Nancy; Namazi-Rad, Mohammad-Reza; Numao, Masayuki; Suarez, Merlin Teodosia (editors), Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 9935, 2016, 16–25. [PDF]
Rheault, Ludovic; Beelen, Kaspar; Cochrane, Christopher; and Hirst, Graeme. Measuring emotion in parliamentary debates with automated textual analysis. PLoS ONE, 2016, 11(12): e0168843. [PDF]
Marinho, Vanessa Queiroz; Amancio, Diego Raphael; and Hirst, Graeme. Authorship attribution via network motifs identification.
Proceedings, 5th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS), Recife, Brazil, October 2016, 355–360. [PDF]
Fraser, Kathleen C.; Rudzicz, Frank; and Hirst, Graeme. Detecting late-life depression in Alzheimer's disease through analysis of speech and language. Proceedings, 3rd Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology, San Diego, June 2016, 1–11. [PDF]
Perumal, Krish and Hirst, Graeme. Semi-supervised and unsupervised categorization of posts in Web discussion forums using part-of-speech information and minimal features. Proceedings, 7th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, San Diego, June 2016, 100–108. [PDF]
Fraser, Kathleen C. and Hirst, Graeme. Detecting semantic changes in Alzheimer's disease with vector space models. Proceedings, Workshop on Resources and Processing of Linguistic and Extra-Linguistic Data from People with Various Forms of Cognitive/Psychiatric Impairments (Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings, vol. 128), Portorož, May 2016, 1–8. [PDF]
Brooke, Julian; Hammond, Adam; and Hirst, Graeme. Distinguishing voices in The Waste Land using computational stylistics.
Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, 12(2), 2015. [PDF]
Maziero, Erick Galani; Hirst, Graeme; and Pardo, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro. Adaptation of discourse parsing models for Portuguese language. Proceedings, 4th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS), Natal, Brazil, November 2015, 140–145. [PDF]
Maziero, Erick Galani; Hirst, Graeme; and Pardo, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro. Semi-supervised never-ending learning in discourse parsing. Proceedings, Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), Hissar, Bulgaria, September 2015, 436–442. [PDF]
Wang, Tong; Mohamed, Abdel-rahman; and Hirst, Graeme. Learning lexical embeddings with syntactic and lexicographic knowledge. Proceedings, 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Beijing, July 2015, volume 2, 458–463. [PDF]
Zhang, Muyu; Qin, Bing; Zheng, Mao; Hirst, Graeme; and Liu, Ting. Encoding distributional semantics into triple-based knowledge ranking for document enrichment. Proceedings, 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Beijing, July 2015, volume 1, 524–533. [PDF]
Brooke, Julian; Hammond, Adam; Jacob, David; Tsang, Vivian; Hirst, Graeme; and Shein, Fraser. Building a lexicon of formulaic language for language learners. Proceedings, 11th Workshop on Multiword Expressions, Denver, June 2015, 96–104. [PDF]
Brooke, Julian; Hammond, Adam; and Hirst, Graeme. GutenTag: An NLP-driven tool for digital humanities research in the Project Gutenberg Corpus. Proceedings, Fourth Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, Denver, June 2015, 42–47. [PDF]
Fraser, Kathleen C.; Ben-David, Naama; Hirst, Graeme; Graham, Naida L.; and Rochon, Elizabeth. Sentence segmentation of aphasic speech. Proceedings, 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics — Human Language Technologies, Denver, June 2015, 862–871. [PDF]
Zhang, Muyu; Feng, Vanessa Wei; Qin, Bing; Hirst, Graeme; Liu, Ting; Huang, Jingwen. Encoding world knowledge in the evaluation of local coherence. Proceedings, 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics — Human Language Technologies, Denver, June 2015, 1087–1096. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Overcoming linguistic barriers to the Multilingual Semantic Web. In: Paul Buitelaar and Philipp Cimiano (editors), Towards the Multilingual Semantic Web, Springer, 2015, 1–14. [PDF]
Kolhatkar, Varada and Hirst, Graeme. Resolving shell nouns. Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2014), Doha, Qatar, October 2014, 499–510. [PDF]
Brooke, Julian and Hirst, Graeme. Supervised ranking of co-occurrence profiles for acquisition of continuous lexical attributes.
Proceedings, 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2014), Dublin, August 2014, 2172–2183. [PDF]
Brooke, Julian; Tsang, Vivian; Hirst, Graeme; and Shein, Fraser. Unsupervised multiword segmentation of large corpora using prediction-driven decomposition of n-grams. Proceedings, 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2014), Dublin, August 2014, 753–761. [PDF]
Feng, Vanessa Wei; Lin, Ziheng; and Hirst, Graeme. The impact of deep hierarchical discourse structures in the evaluation of text coherence. Proceedings, 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2014), Dublin, August 2014, 940–949. [PDF]
Feng, Vanessa Wei and Hirst, Graeme. Patterns of local discourse coherence as a feature for authorship attribution. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 29(2), 2014, 191–198. [PDF]
Fraser, Kathleen C.; Meltzer, Jed A.; Graham, Naida L.; Leonard, Carol; Hirst, Graeme; Black, Sandra E.; and Rochon, Elizabeth.
Automated classification of primary progressive aphasia subtypes from narrative speech transcripts. Cortex, 55, June 2014, 43–60 [advance publication online, 21 Dec 2012]. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme; Riabinin, Yaroslav; Graham, Jory; Boizot-Roche, Magali; and Morris, Colin. Text to ideology or text to party status? In: Kaal, Bertie; Maks, E. Isa; and van Elfrinkhof, Annemarie M.E. (editors), From Text to Political Positions: Text analysis across disciplines, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2014, 93–115. [PDF]
Fraser, Kathleen C.; Hirst, Graeme; Meltzer, Jed A.; Mack, Jennifer E.; and Thompson, Cynthia K. Using statistical parsing to detect agrammatic aphasia. Proceedings, BioNLP 2014 Workshop, Baltimore, June 2014, 134–142. [PDF]
Fraser, Kathleen C.; Hirst, Graeme; Graham, Naida L.; Meltzer, Jed A.; Black, Sandra E.; and Rochon, Elizabeth. Comparison of different feature sets for identification of variants in progressive aphasia. Proceedings, Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology, Baltimore, June 2014, 17–26. [PDF]
Wang, Tong and Hirst, Graeme. Applying a naive Bayes similarity measure to word sense disambiguation. Proceedings, 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Baltimore, June 2014, 531–537. [PDF]
Feng, Vanessa Wei and Hirst, Graeme. A linear-time bottom-up discourse parser with constraints and post-editing. Proceedings, 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Baltimore, June 2014, 511–521. [PDF]
Kolhatkar, Varada; Zinsmeister, Heike; and Hirst, Graeme. Interpreting anaphoric shell nouns using cataphoric shell nouns as training data. Proceedings, 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Seattle, October 2013, 300–310. [PDF]
Brooke, Julian and Hirst, Graeme. Hybrid models for lexical acquisition of correlated styles. Proceedings, 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Nagoya, October 2013, 82–90. [PDF]
Feng, Vanessa and Hirst, Graeme. Detecting deceptive opinions with profile compatibility. Proceedings, 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Nagoya, October 2013, 338–346. [PDF]
Mohammad, Saif; Dorr, Bonnie; Hirst, Graeme; Turney, Peter. Computing lexical contrast. Computational Linguistics, 39(3), September 2013, 555–590. [PDF]
Feng, Vanessa Wei and Hirst, Graeme. Authorship verification with entity coherence and other rich linguistic features. Proceedings, PAN 2013 Lab: Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship and Social Software Misuse, CLEF 2013 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum: Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visualization, Valencia, September 2013. [PDF]
Kolhatkar, Varada; Zinsmeister, Heike; and Hirst, Graeme. Annotating anaphoric shell nouns with their antecedents. Proceedings, The 7th Linguistic Annotation Workshop & Interoperability with Discourse, Sofia, August 2013, 112–121. [PDF]
Strauss, John; Martínez Peguero, Arturo; and Hirst, Graeme. Machine learning methods for clinical forms analysis in mental health.
Proceedings, 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (MEDINFO 2013), edited by Christoph Ulrich Lehmann, Elske Ammenwerth, and Christian Nøhr, Copenhagen, August 2013, IOS Press, page 1024. [1-page refereed abstract of poster presentation.][PDF]
Cook, Paul and Hirst, Graeme. Automatically assessing whether a text is clichéd, with applications to literary analysis. Proceedings, 9th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2013), Atlanta, June 2013, 52–57. [PDF]
Brooke, Julian and Hirst, Graeme. Using other learner corpora in the 2013 NLI shared task. Proceedings, 8th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, Atlanta, June 2013, 188–196. [PDF]
Hammond, Adam; Brooke, Julian; and Hirst, Graeme. A tale of two cultures: Bringing literary analysis and computational linguistics together. Proceedings, Second ACL Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, Atlanta, June 2013, 1–8. [PDF]
Brooke, Julian; Hirst, Graeme; and Hammond, Adam. Clustering voices in The Waste Land. Proceedings, Second ACL Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, Atlanta, June 2013, 41–46. [PDF]
Brooke, Julian and Hirst, Graeme. A multi-dimensional Bayesian approach to lexical style. Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Atlanta, June 2013, 673–679. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme; Talent, Nadia; and Scharf, Sara. Detecting semantic overlap and discovering precedents in the biodiversity research literature. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Semantics for Biodiversity [= CEUR Workshop Proceedings, volume 979], Montpellier, France, 27 May 2013. [PDF]
Brooke, Julian and Hirst, Graeme. Native language detection with ‘cheap’ learner corpora. In: Granger, Sylviane; Gilquin, Gaëtanelle; and Meunier, Fanny (editors), Twenty Years of Learner Corpus Research: Looking back, moving ahead. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2013, 37–47. [PDF]
Kennedy, Alistair and Hirst, Graeme. Measuring semantic relatedness across languages. Proceedings, xLiTe: Cross-Lingual Technologies Workshop, Neural Information Processing Systems Conference, 2012, December, Lake Tahoe, NV. [PDF]
Brooke, Julian and Hirst, Graeme. Robust, lexicalized native language identification. Proceedings, 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2012), Mumbai, December 2012, 391–408. [PDF]
Brooke, Julian and Hirst, Graeme. Paragraph clustering for intrinsic plagiarism detection using a stylistic vector-space model with extrinsic features. Proceedings, PAN 2012 Lab: Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship and Social Software Misuse, CLEF 2012 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum: Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visual Analytics, Rome, September 2012. [PDF]
Morris, Colin and Hirst, Graeme. Identifying sexual predators by SVM classification with lexical and behavioral features. Proceedings, PAN 2012 Lab: Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship and Social Software Misuse, CLEF 2012 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum: Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visual Analytics, Rome, September 2012. [PDF]
Rudzicz, Frank; Hirst, Graeme; and van Lieshout, Pascal. Vocal tract representation in the recognition of cerebral palsied speech.
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 55(4), August 2012, 1190–1207. [PDF]
Kolhatkar, Varada and Hirst, Graeme. Resolving ‘this-issue’ anaphora. 2012 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL 2012), 1255–1265, July 2012, Jeju, Korea. [PDF]
Feng, Vanessa Wei and Hirst, Graeme. Text-level discourse parsing with rich linguistic features. Proceedings, 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Jeju, Korea, July 2012, 60–68. [PDF]
Wang, Tong and Hirst, Graeme. Exploring patterns in dictionary definitions for synonym extraction. Natural Language Engineering, 18(3), July 2012, 313–342. [PDF]
Cook, Paul and Hirst, Graeme. Do Web-corpora from top-level domains represent national varieties of English? Actes des 11es Journées internationales d'analyse statistique des données textuelles / Proceedings, 11th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data (JADT 2012), Liège, June 2012, 281–293. [PDF]
Brooke, Julian; Hammond, Adam; and Hirst, Graeme. Unsupervised stylistic segmentation of poetry with change curves and extrinsic features. Proceedings, Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, Montreal, June 2012, 26–35. [PDF]
Brooke, Julian; Tsang, Vivian; Jacob, David; Shein, Fraser; and Hirst, Graeme. Building readability lexicons with unannotated corpora.
Proceedings, Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations, Montreal, June 2012, 33–39. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme and Feng, Vanessa Wei. Changes in style in authors with Alzheimer's disease. English Studies (special issue on stylometry and authorship attribution), 93(3), May 2012, 357–370. [PDF]
Brooke, Julian and Hirst, Graeme. Measuring interlanguage: Native language identification with L1-influence metrics. Proceedings, 8th ELRA Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), Istanbul, May 2012. [PDF]
Feng, Vanessa Wei and Hirst, Graeme. Extending the entity-based coherence model with multiple ranks. Proceedings, 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Avignon, April 2012, 315–324. [PDF]
Cook, Paul and Hirst, Graeme. Automatic identification of words with novel but infrequent senses. Proceedings, 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, Singapore, December 2011, 265–274. [PDF]
Brooke, Julian; Wang, Tong; and Hirst, Graeme. Predicting word clipping with latent semantic analysis. Proceedings, 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Chiang Mai, November 2011, 1392–1396. [PDF]
Wang, Tong and Hirst, Graeme. Refining the notions of depth and density in WordNet-based semantic similarity measures. 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Edinburgh, July 2011, 1003–1011. [PDF]
Le, Xuan; Lancashire, Ian; Hirst, Graeme; and Jokel, Regina. Longitudinal detection of dementia through lexical and syntactic changes in writing: A case study of three British novelists. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 26(4), December 2011, 435–461. [PDF]
Feng, Vanessa Wei and Hirst, Graeme. Classifying arguments by scheme. Proceedings, 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Portland, Oregon, June 2011, 987–996. [PDF]
Wang, Tong and Hirst, Graeme. Near-synonym lexical choice in latent semantic space. Proceedings, 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), Beijing, August 2010, 1182–1190. [PDF]
Brooke, Julian; Wang, Tong; and Hirst, Graeme. Automatic acquisition of lexical formality. Proceedings, 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), Beijing, August 2010, Poster volume pages 90–98. [PDF]
Brooke, Julian; Wang, Tong; and Hirst, Graeme. Inducing lexicons of formality from corpora. Workshop on Methods for the Automatic Acquisition of Language Resources and their Evaluation Methods, 7th Lexical Resources and Evaluation Conference, Valetta, Malta, May 2010, 17–22. [PDF] [Conference poster with updated results]
Hirst, Graeme; Riabinin, Yaroslav; and Graham, Jory. Party status as a confound in the automatic classification of political speech by ideology. Proceedings, 10th International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Textual Data / Actes des 10es Journées internationales d'Analyse statistique des Données Textuelles (JADT 2010), Rome, June 2010, 731–742. [PDF]
Marathe, Meghana and Hirst, Graeme. Lexical chains using distributional measures of concept distance. Proceedings, 11th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2010), Iaşi, Romania, March 2010, (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6008), Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2010, 291–302. [PDF]
Wang, Tong and Hirst, Graeme. Extracting synonyms from dictionary definitions. Proceedings, Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, September 2009, Borovets, Bulgaria, 470–476. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Limitations of the philosophy of language understanding implicit in computational linguistics. Proceedings, 7th European Conference on Computing and Philosophy, Barcelona, July 2009, 108–109. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Ontology and the lexicon. In: Staab, Steffen and Studer, Rudi (editors), Handbook on Ontologies (second edition), Berlin: Springer Verlag (International Handbooks on Information Systems), 2009, 269–292. (Revision of the 2004 version from the first edition of the book.) [PDF]
Rudzicz, Frank; van Lieshout, Pascal; Hirst, Graeme; Penn, Gerald; Shein, Fraser; and Wolff, Talya. Towards a comparative database of dysarthric articulation. Proceedings of the 8th International Speech Production Seminar (ISSP 2008), Strasbourg, France, December 2008, 285–288. [PDF]
Mohammad, Saif; Dorr, Bonnie J.; Hirst, Graeme. Computing word-pair antonymy. Proceedings, 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2008), Honolulu, October 2008, 982–991. [PDF]
Wilcox-O'Hearn, Amber; Hirst, Graeme; and Budanitsky, Alexander. Real-word spelling correction with trigrams: A reconsideration of the Mays, Damerau, and Mercer model. In: Gelbukh, Alexander (editor), Proceedings, 9th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2008) [Haifa, February 2008], (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4919), Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2008, 605–616. Award for best poster. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme and Feiguina, Ol'ga. Bigrams of syntactic labels for authorship discrimination of short texts. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 22(4), 2007, 405–417. [PDF]
Niu, Yun and Hirst, Graeme. Identifying cores of semantic classes in unstructured text with a semi-supervised learning approach.
Proceedings, International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, September 2007, Borovets, Bulgaria, 418–424. [PDF]
Feiguina, Ol'ga and Hirst, Graeme. Authorship attribution for small texts: Literary and forensic experiments. Proceedings, International Workshop on Plagiarism Analysis, Authorship Identification, and Near-Duplicate Detection, 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR '07), Amsterdam, July 2007. [PDF]
Mohammad, Saif; Hirst, Graeme; and Resnik, Philip. TOR, TORMD: Distributional profiles of concepts for unsupervised word sense disambiguation. Proceedings, SemEval-2007: 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations, Prague, June 2007, 326–333. [PDF]
Mohammad, Saif; Gurevych, Iryna; Hirst, Graeme; and Zesch, Torsten. Cross-lingual distributional profiles of concepts for measuring semantic distance. 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL 2007), Prague, June 2007, 571–580. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Views of text-meaning in computational linguistics: Past, present, and future. In: Dodig Crnkovic, Gordana and Stuart, Susan (editors), Computation, Information, Cognition -- The Nexus and the Liminal, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2007, 270–279. [PDF]
Niu, Yun; Zhu, Xiaodan; and Hirst, Graeme. Using outcome polarity in sentence extraction for medical question-answering.
Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association 2006 Annual Symposium, Washington, D.C., November 2006, 599–603. [PDF]
Mohammad, Saif and Hirst, Graeme. Distributional measures of concept-distance: A task-oriented evaluation. Proceedings, 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2006), Sydney, Australia, July 2006, 35–43. [PDF]
Inkpen, Diana and Hirst, Graeme. Building and using a lexical knowledge-base of near-synonym differences. Computational Linguistics, 32(2), June 2006, 223–262. [PDF]
Mohammad, Saif and Hirst, Graeme. Determining word sense dominance using a thesaurus. Proceedings of the 11th conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-2006), April 2006, Trento, Italy, 121–128. [PDF]
Budanitsky, Alexander and Hirst, Graeme. Evaluating WordNet-based measures of lexical semantic relatedness. Computational Linguistics, 32(1), March 2006, 13–47. [PDF]
Graham, Neil; Hirst, Graeme; and Marthi, Bhaskara. Segmenting documents by stylistic character. Natural Language Engineering, 11(4), December 2005, 397–415. [PDF]
Niu, Yun; Zhu, Xiaodan; Li, Jianhua; and Hirst, Graeme. Analysis of polarity information in medical text. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association 2005 Annual Symposium, Washington, D.C., October 2005, 570–574. [PDF]
Morris, Jane and Hirst, Graeme. The subjectivity of lexical cohesion in text. In: Shanahan, James G.; Qu, Yan; and Wiebe, Janyce (eds.) Computing Attitude and Affect in Text: Theory and Applications, Dordrecht: Springer, 2005, 41–48. [PDF]
Inkpen, Diana; Feiguina, Ol'ga; and Hirst, Graeme. Generating more-positive and more-negative text. In: Shanahan, James G.; Qu, Yan; and Wiebe, Janyce (eds.) Computing Attitude and Affect in Text: Theory and Applications, Dordrecht: Springer, 2005, 187–198. [PDF]
Li, Jianhua and Hirst, Graeme. Semantic knowledge in a word completion task. Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS-2005), Baltimore, October 2005, 121–128. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme and Budanitsky, Alexander. Correcting real-word spelling errors by restoring lexical cohesion. Natural Language Engineering, 11(1), March 2005, 87–111. [PDF]
Niu, Yun and Hirst, Graeme. Analysis of semantic classes in medical text for question answering. Workshop on Question Answering in Restricted Domains, 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, July 2004, 54–61. [PDF]
Morris, Jane and Hirst, Graeme. Non-classical lexical semantic relations. Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics, Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Boston, May 2004, 46–51. Reprinted in: Hanks, Patrick (editor), Lexicology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, Routledge, 2007. [PDF]
Morris, Jane and Hirst, Graeme. The subjectivity of lexical cohesion in text. AAAI Spring Symposium: Exploring Attitude and Affect in Text: Theories and Applications (published as AAAI Technical report SS-04-07), Stanford, March 2004, 102–105. [PDF]
Inkpen, Diana Zaiu; Feiguina, Ol'ga; and Hirst, Graeme. Generating more-positive and more-negative text. AAAI Spring Symposium: Exploring Attitude and Affect in Text: Theories and Applications (published as AAAI Technical report SS-04-07), Stanford, March 2004, 83–89. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Ontology and the lexicon. In: Staab, Steffen and Studer, Rudi (editors), Handbook on Ontologies, Berlin: Springer Verlag (International Handbooks on Information Systems), 2004, 209–229. [Superseded by revised version]
Inkpen, Diana Zaiu and Hirst, Graeme. Near-synonym choice in natural language generation. Fourth Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP-2003), September 2003, Borovets, Bulgaria, 204–211. Reprinted, slightly abridged, in: Nicolov, Nicolas; Bontcheva, Kalina; Angelova, Galia; and Mitkov, Ruslan (editors). Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing III: Selected Papers from RANLP 2003, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004, 141–150. [PDF]
Graham, Neil and Hirst, Graeme. Segmenting a document by stylistic character. Workshop on Computational Approaches to Style Analysis and Synthesis, 18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Acapulco, August 2003, 47–54. [PDF]
Niu, Yun; Hirst, Graeme; McArthur, Gregory; and Rodriguez-Gianolli, Patricia. Answering clinical questions with role identification.
Proceedings, Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine, 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sapporo, Japan, July 2003, 73–80. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Natural language processing, Disambiguation in, Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Nature Publishing Group (Macmillan), 2003, Vol. 3, 181–188. [PDF]
Fazly, Afsaneh and Hirst, Graeme. Testing the efficacy of part-of-speech information in word completion. Workshop on Language Modeling for Text Entry Methods, 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Budapest, April 2003, 9–16. [PDF]
Inkpen, Diana Zaiu and Hirst, Graeme. Automatic sense disambiguation of the near-synonyms in a dictionary entry. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing-2003), Mexico City, February 2003, (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin: Springer-Verlag), 258–267. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Negotiation, compromise, and collaboration in interpersonal and human-computer conversations. Workshop on Meaning Negotiation, 18th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2002), Edmonton, 28 July 2002, 1–4. [PDF]
Inkpen, Diana Zaiu and Hirst, Graeme. Acquiring collocations for lexical choice between near-synonyms. SIGLEX Workshop on Unsupervised Lexical Acquisition, 40th meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Philadelphia, 12 July 2002, 67–76. [PDF]
Edmonds, Philip and Hirst, Graeme. Near-synonymy and lexical choice. Computational Linguistics, 28(2), June 2002, 105–144. [PDF]
Budanitsky, Alexander and Hirst, Graeme. Semantic distance in WordNet: An experimental, application-oriented evaluation of five measures. Workshop on WordNet and Other Lexical Resources, Second meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Pittsburgh, June 2001, 29–34. [PDF]
Inkpen, Diana Zaiu and Hirst, Graeme. Building a lexical knowledge-base of near-synonym differences. Workshop on WordNet and Other Lexical Resources, Second Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Pittsburgh, June 2001, 47-52. [PDF]
Inkpen, Diana Zaiu and Hirst, Graeme. Experiments on extracting knowledge from a machine-readable dictionary of synonym differences. In: Gelbukh, Alexander (editor), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing [Proceedings of the Second International Conference, Mexico City, February 2001], (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2004), Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2001, 264–278. [PDF]
Baljko, Melanie and Hirst, Graeme. The importance of subjectivity in computational stylistic assessment. Text Technology, 9(1), Spring 1999 [published April 2000], 5–17. [PDF]
Edmonds, Philip and Hirst, Graeme. Reconciling fine-grained lexical knowledge and coarse-grained ontologies in the representation of near-synonyms. Workshop on Semantic Approximation, Granularity, and Vagueness, Breckenridge, Colorado, April 2000. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Context as a spurious concept. Proceedings, Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Mexico City, February 2000, 273–287. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. What exactly are lexical concepts? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22(1), February 1999, 45–46. [PDF]
Ansari, Daniel and Hirst, Graeme. Generating warning instructions by planning accidents and injuries. Proceedings, 9th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, August 1998, 118–127. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme and St-Onge, David. Lexical chains as representations of context for the detection and correction of malapropisms. In: Christiane Fellbaum (editor), WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1998, 305–332. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme; DiMarco, Chrysanne; Hovy, Eduard; and Parsons, Kimberley. Authoring and generating health-education documents that are tailored to the needs of the individual patient. In: Jameson, Anthony; Paris, Cécile; and Tasso, Carlo (editors), User Modeling: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference, UM97 (Chia Laguna, Sardinia, Italy), Vienna and New York: Springer Wien New York, June 1997, 107–118. [PDF]
DiMarco, Chrysanne; Hirst, Graeme; and Hovy, Eduard. Generation by selection and repair as a method for adapting text for the individual reader. Proceedings of the Flexible Hypertext Workshop (held in conjunction with the 8th ACM International Hypertext Conference, Southampton, April 1997). [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme and DiMarco, Chrysanne. Automatic customization of health-education brochures for individual patients. Proceedings, Information Technology and Community Health Conference (ITCH-96), Victoria, B.C., November 1996, 222–228. [PDF]
Marcu, Daniel and Hirst, Graeme. A formal and computational characterization of pragmatic infelicities. Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Budapest, August 1996, 587–591. [PDF]
Glover, Angela and Hirst, Graeme. Detecting stylistic inconsistencies in collaborative writing. In: Sharples, Mike and van der Geest, Thea (editors), The New Writing Environment: Writers at Work in a World of Technology. London: Springer-Verlag, 1996. 147–168. [PDF]
Wiebe, Janyce M.; Hirst, Graeme; and Horton, Diane. Language use in context. Communications of the ACM, 39(1), January 1996, 102–111. [PDF]
McRoy, Susan and Hirst, Graeme. The repair of speech act misunderstandings by abductive inference. Computational Linguistics, 21(4), December 1995, 435–478. [PDF]
Marcu, Daniel and Hirst, Graeme. A uniform treatment of pragmatic inferences in simple and complex utterances and sequences of utterances. Proceedings, 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Cambridge, MA, June 1995, 144–150. [PDF]
Heeman, Peter and Hirst, Graeme. Collaborating on referring expressions. Computational Linguistics, 21(3), September 1995, 351–382. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Near-synonymy and the structure of lexical knowledge. AAAI Symposium on Representation and Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge: Polysemy, Ambiguity, and Generativity, Stanford University, March 1995, 51–56. [PDF]
DiMarco, Chrysanne; Hirst, Graeme; Wanner, Leo; and Wilkinson, John. HealthDoc: Customizing patient information and health education by medical condition and personal characteristics. Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Patient Education, Glasgow, August 1995. [PDF]
Marcu, Daniel and Hirst, Graeme. An implemented formalism for computing linguistic presuppositions and existential commitments.
Proceedings, International Workshop on Computational Semantics, Tilburg, The Netherlands, December 1994, 141–150. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme; McRoy, Susan; Heeman, Peter; Edmonds, Philip; and Horton, Diane. Repairing conversational misunderstandings and non-understandings. Speech Communication, 15(3-4), December 1994, 213–229. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Natural language analysis by computer. The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (R.E. Asher, editor-in-chief), Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1994. Vol 5, 2730–2736. [PDF]
Mellish, C.S. and Hirst, Graeme. Natural language processing. The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (R.E. Asher, editor-in-chief), Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1994. Vol 5, 2748. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Reference and anaphor resolution in natural language processing. The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (R.E. Asher, editor-in-chief), Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1994. Vol 7, 3487–3489. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Semantic interpretation in natural language processing. The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (R.E. Asher, editor-in-chief), Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1994. Vol 7, 3801–3804. [PDF]
McRoy, Susan and Hirst, Graeme. Misunderstanding and the negotiation of meaning. AAAI Fall Symposium on Human–Computer Collaboration, Raleigh, NC, October 1993, 57–62. [PDF]
DiMarco, Chrysanne and Hirst, Graeme. Usage notes as the basis for a representation of near-synonymy for lexical choice.
Proceedings, 9th Annual Conference of the University of Waterloo Centre for the New Oxford English Dictionary and Text Research, Oxford, September 1993, 33–43. [PDF]
DiMarco, Chrysanne and Hirst, Graeme. A computational theory of goal-directed style in syntax. Computational Linguistics, 19(3), September 1993, 451–499. [PDF]
DiMarco, Chrysanne; Hirst, Graeme; and Makuta-Giluk, Marzena. A goal-based grammar of rhetoric. Proceedings, Workshop on Intentionality and Structure in Discourse Relations, Ohio State University, June 1993, 15–18. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme and Wu, Dekai. Not all reflexive reasoning is deductive. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16(3), September 1993, 462–463. [PDF]
McRoy, Susan and Hirst, Graeme. Abductive explanations of dialogue misunderstandings. Proceedings, 6th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Utrecht, April 1993, 277–286. [PDF]
Horton, Diane and Hirst, Graeme. Knowledge about planning: On the meaning and representation of plan decomposition. AAAI Spring Symposium on Reasoning about Mental States: Formal Theories and Applications, Stanford, CA, March 1993, 74–78. [PDF]
DiMarco, Chrysanne; Hirst, Graeme; and Stede, Manfred. The semantic and stylistic differentiation of synonyms and near-synonyms. AAAI Spring Symposium on Building Lexicons for Machine Translation, Stanford, CA, March 1993, 114–121. [PDF]
Payette, Julie and Hirst, Graeme. An intelligent computer assistant for stylistic instruction. Computers and the Humanities, 26(2), 1992, 87–102. [PDF] [Alternative PDF]
Hirst, Graeme and Ryan, Mark. Mixed-depth representations for natural language text. In: Jacobs, Paul S. (editor). Text-Based Intelligent Systems, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1992, 59–82. [PDF]
Dick, Judy and Hirst, Graeme. A case-based representation of legal text for conceptual retrieval. Workshop on Language and Information Processing, American Society for Information Science, Washington, DC, October 1991. [PDF]
Horton, Diane and Hirst, Graeme. Discrepancies in discourse models and miscommunication in conversation. AAAI Fall Symposium on Discourse Structure in Natural Language Understanding and Generation, Pacific Grove, California, November 1991, 31–32. [PDF]
McRoy, Susan and Hirst, Graeme. An abductive account of repair in conversation. AAAI Fall Symposium on Discourse Structure in Natural Language Understanding and Generation, Pacific Grove, California, November 1991, 52–57. [PDF]
McRoy, Susan and Hirst, Graeme. Repairs in communication are abductive inferences. AAAI Fall Symposium on Knowledge and Action at the Social and Organizational Levels, Pacific Grove, California, November 1991, 89–91. [PDF]
Regoczei, Stephen and Hirst, Graeme. The corporation as mind: Lessons for AI. AAAI Fall Symposium on Knowledge and Action at the Social and Organizational Levels, Pacific Grove, California, November 1991, 95–97. [PDF]
Dick, Judy and Hirst, Graeme. Intelligent text retrieval. Text retrieval: Workshop notes from the Ninth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-91), Anaheim, California, July 1991. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Existence assumptions in knowledge representation. Artificial Intelligence, 49, May 1991, 199–242. (This issue of the journal was reprinted as: Brachman, Ronald J.; Levesque, Hector J.; and Reiter, Raymond (editors). Knowledge Representation. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1992.) [PDF]
Payette, Julie and Hirst, Graeme. Computer-assisted instruction in syntactic style, Proceedings, ACH/ALLC '91, Making connections [International Conference on Computers and the Humanities], Tempe, Arizona, March 1991. 333–340. [PDF]
Morris, Jane and Hirst, Graeme. Lexical cohesion computed by thesaural relations as an indicator of the structure of text.
Computational Linguistics, 17(1), March 1991, 21–48. [PDF]
Catt, Mark and Hirst, Graeme. An intelligent CALI system for grammatical error diagnosis. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 3, November 1990, 3–26. [PDF]
Regoczei, Stephen and Hirst, Graeme. The meaning triangle as a tool for the acquisition of abstract, conceptual knowledge.
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 33(5), November 1990, 505–520. [PDF]
DiMarco, Chrysanne and Hirst, Graeme. Accounting for style in machine translation. Third International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Machine Translation, Austin, June 1990. [PDF]
Lyons, Dan and Hirst, Graeme. A frame-based semantics for focusing subjuncts. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Pittsburgh, June 1990, 54-61. Also published as technical report ACT-NL-109-90, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, Texas, July 1990. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Mixed-depth representations for natural language text. AAAI Spring Symposium on Text-Based Intelligent Systems, Stanford, March 1990, 25–29. [PDF]
McRoy, Susan Weber and Hirst, Graeme. Race-based parsing and syntactic disambiguation. Cognitive Science, 14(3), July–September 1990, 313–353. [PDF]
Regoczei, Stephen and Hirst, Graeme. Sortal analysis with SORTAL, a software assistant for knowledge acquisition. Proceedings, Fourth Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems, Banff, October 1989. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Ontological assumptions in knowledge representation. Proceedings, First International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Toronto, May 1989. San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 157–169. [PDF]
Regoczei, Stephen and Hirst, Graeme. On ‘Extracting knowledge from text’: Modelling the architecture of language users.
Proceedings, Third European Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems, Paris, July 1989, 196–211. [PDF]
Horton, Diane and Hirst, Graeme. Presuppositions as beliefs. 12th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-88), Budapest, August 1988, 255–260. [PDF]
DiMarco, Chrysanne and Hirst, Graeme. Stylistic grammars in language translation. 12th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-88), Budapest, August 1988, 148–153. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Resolving lexical ambiguity computationally with spreading activation and Polaroid Words. In: Small, Steven; Cottrell, Garrison and Tanenhaus, Michael (editors). Lexical Ambiguity Resolution, Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1988, 73–107. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Semantic interpretation and ambiguity. Artificial Intelligence, 34(2), March 1988, 131–177. [PDF]
Selman, Bart and Hirst, Graeme. Parsing as an energy minimization problem. In: Davis, Lawrence (editor). Genetic Algorithms and Simulated Annealing (Research notes in artificial intelligence), Pitman, 1987, 141–154. [At Amazon] Revised version appears in: Adriaens, Geert and Hahn, Udo (editors). Parallel Natural Language Processing. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing, 1994, 238–254. [At Google Books]. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Semantics. In: Shapiro, Stuart Charles and Eckroth, David (editors). Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence. New York: Wiley-Interscience / John Wiley, 1987, 1024–1029. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Why dictionaries should list case structures. Advances in Lexicology: Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of the University of Waterloo Centre for the New Oxford English Dictionary. University of Waterloo, November 1986, 147–162. [PDF]
Fawcett, Brenda and Hirst, Graeme. The detection and representation of ambiguities of intension and description. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, New York, June 1986, 192–199. [PDF]
Selman, Bart and Hirst, Graeme. A rule-based connectionist parsing system. Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Irvine, August 1985, 212–221. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. A semantic process for syntactic disambiguation. Proceedings, Fourth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-84), Austin, August 1984, 148–152. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Jumping to conclusions: Psychological reality and unreality in a word disambiguation program. Proceedings, Sixth Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boulder, June 1984, 179–182. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. A foundation for semantic interpretation. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Cambridge, Mass., June 1983, 64–73. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme and Charniak, Eugene. Word sense and case slot disambiguation. Proceedings of the Second National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-82), Pittsburgh, August 1982, 95–98. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. An evaluation of evidence for innate sex differences in linguistic ability. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 11(2), March 1982, 95–113. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Discourse-oriented anaphora resolution in natural language understanding: A review. American Journal of Computational Linguistics, 7(2), April–June 1981, 85–98. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme and Talent, Nadia. What should Computer Scientists read? Proceedings of the Eighth Australian Computer Conference, Canberra, August 1978, 1707–1716. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Discipline impact factors: A method for determining core journal lists. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 29(4), July 1978, 171–172. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme and Talent, Nadia. Computer Science journals — An iterated citation analysis. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, PC-20(4), December 1977, 233–238. [PDF]
Ethayarajh, Kawin; Duvenaud, David; and Hirst, Graeme. Towards understanding linear word analogies. arXiv:1810.04882, 11 October 2018 (v5, 24 December 2018). [PDF]
Hammond, Adam; Brooke, Julian; and Hirst, Graeme. Modeling modernist dialogism: Close reading with big data. In: Ross, Shawna and O’Sullivan, James (editors), Reading Modernism with Machines: Digital humanities and modernist literature. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 49–77. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme and Feng, Vanessa Wei. Automatic exploration of argument and ideology in political texts. In: Mohammed, Dima and Lewiński, Marcin (editors), Argumentation and Reasoned Action: Proceedings of the First European Conference on Argumentation, Lisbon, 9–12 June 2015, volume II, College Publications (Studies in Logic and Argumentation, volume 52), 2016, 493–504. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme; Feng, Vanessa Wei; Cochrane, Christopher; and Naderi, Nona. Argumentation, ideology, and issue framing in parliamentary discourse. Proceedings of the Workshop on Frontiers and Connections between Argumentation Theory and Natural Language Processing, Forlì-Cesena, Italy, July 2014. [= CEUR Workshop Proceedings, volume 1341.] [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Computational Linguistics. In: Allan, Keith (editor), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics, Oxford University Press, 2013, 707–726. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Overcoming linguistic barriers to the multilingual Semantic Web [extended abstract]. In: Buitelaar, Paul; Choi, Key-Sun; Cimiano, Philipp; and Hovy, Eduard H. (editors), The Multilingual Semantic Web (Dagstuhl Seminar 12362), Dagstuhl Reports, 2(9), 2013. 44–45. [PDF]
Brooke, Julian and Hirst, Graeme. Lexicalizing computational stylistics for language learner feedback. Proceedings, Conference on Stylistics Across Disciplines, Leiden, June 2011. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme and Mohammad, Saif. Semantic distance measures with distributional profiles of coarse-grained concepts. In: Mehler, Alexander; Kühnberger, Kai-Uwe; Lobin, Henning; Lüngen, Harald; Storrer, Angelika; and Witt, Andreas (editors), Modeling, Learning, and Processing of Text Technological Data Structures. Springer (Studies in Computational Intelligence series, vol. 370), 2011, 61–79. [PDF]
Niu, Yun and Hirst, Graeme. Analyzing the text of clinical literature for question answering. In: Prince, Violaine and Roche, Mathieu (editors), Information Retrieval in Biomedicine, IGI Global, 2009, 190–220. [Publisher's website]
Hirst, Graeme. The future of text-meaning in computational linguistics. In: Sojka, Petr; Horák, Aleš; Kopeček, Ivan; and Pala, Karel (editors), Proceedings, 11th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2008) [Brno, Czech Republic, September 2008], (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 5246), Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2008, 1–9. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Foreword. In: Eneko Agirre and Philip Edmonds (editors), Word Sense Disambiguation, 2006. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Association for Computational Linguistics. In: Brown, Keith (editor-in-chief); Anderson, Anne H.; Bauer, Laurie; Berns, Margie; Hirst, Graeme; and Miller, Jim (coordinating editors). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (second edition), Elsevier Science, December 2005. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Human language technology. In: Brown, Keith (editor-in-chief); Anderson, Anne H.; Bauer, Laurie; Berns, Margie; Hirst, Graeme; and Miller, Jim (coordinating editors). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (second edition), Elsevier Science, December 2005. [PDF]
Morris, Jane; Beghtol, Clare; and Hirst, Graeme. Term relationships and their contribution to text semantics and information literacy through lexical cohesion. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 30 May – 1 June 2003, 153–168. [PDF]
DiMarco, Chrysanne; Hirst, Graeme; Wanner, Leo; and Wilkinson, John. HealthDoc: Customizing patient information and health education by medical condition and personal characteristics. Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Patient Education, Glasgow, August 1995. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Natural-language processing. In: Bitter, Gary G. (editor). The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Computers. New York: Macmillan, 1992, 699–703. [PDF]
Ryan, Mark; DiMarco, Chrysanne; and Hirst, Graeme. Focus shifts as indicators of style in paragraphs. In DiMarco, Chrysanne et al,
Four Papers on Computational Stylistics. Research report CS-92-35, Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, June 1992. [PDF]
Regoczei, Stephen and Hirst, Graeme. Knowledge and knowledge acquisition in the computational context. In: Hoffmann, Robert R. (editor). The Psychology of Expertise: Cognitive research and empirical AI. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1992, 12–25. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Planning the future of natural language research (even in Canada). Canadian Artificial Intelligence, number 26, February 1991, 10–13. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Computational models of ambiguity resolution. In: Gorfein, David S. (editor). Resolving Semantic Ambiguity (Cognitive science series), Springer-Verlag, 1989, 255–275. [PDF]
Regoczei, Stephen and Hirst, Graeme. Knowledge acquisition as knowledge explication by conceptual analysis. Technical report CSRI-205, Computer Systems Research Institute, University of Toronto, January 1988. [PDF]
Levesque, Hector. Functional Programming in Lisp (revised and edited by Graeme Hirst). Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, April 1987. [PDF]
Horton, Diane and Hirst, Graeme. Presuppositions as beliefs: A new approach. In: Geller, James and Bettinger, Keith (editors).
UBGCSS-87: Proceedings of the Second UB Graduate-Conference on Computer Science. Technical report 87-04, Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, March 1987, 30–38. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Review of: Clark, Alexander; Fox, Chris; and Lappin, Shalom (editors), The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. In: Language, 87(4), December 2011, 897–899. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Review of: Scott, Mike and Thompson, Geoff (editors), Patterns of Text: In Honour of Michael Hoey, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2001. In: Computational Linguistics, 28(4), December 2002, 560–564. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Review of: Biber, Douglas; Johansson, Stig; Leech, Geoffrey; Conrad, Susan; and Finegan, Edward, Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English, Harlow, Essex: Pearson Education Ltd, 1999. In: Computational Linguistics, 27(1), March 2001, 132–139. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Review of: Vossen, Piek (editor). EuroWordNet: A Multilingual Database with Lexical Semantic Networks, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. In: Computational Linguistics, 25(4), December 1999, 628–630. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Does Conversation Analysis have a role in computational linguistics? [Review of: Luff, Paul; Gilbert, Nigel; and Frohlich, David (editors). Computers and Conversation. London: Academic Press, 1990.] Computational linguistics, 17(2), June 1991, 211–227. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Review of: Cottrell, Garrison W. A Connectionist Approach to Word Sense Disambiguation (Research notes in artificial intelligence). London: Pitman and San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1989. In: Computational Linguistics, 16(4), December 1990, 241–242. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Review of: Bátori, István S.; Lenders, Winfried; and Putschke, Wolfgang (editors). Computational Linguistics: An International Handbook on Computer Oriented Language Research and Applications / Computerlinguistik: Ein internationales Handbuch zur computergestützten Sprachforschung und ihrer Anwendungen (Handbooks of linguistics and communication science 4 / Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1989. In: Computational Linguistics, 16(2), June 1990, 121–123. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Review of: Butler, Christopher. Computers in Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell, 1985. In: Computational Linguistics, 13(3–4), July–September 1987, 335–336. [PDF]
Hirst, Graeme. Review of: van Bakel, Jan. Automatic Semantic Interpretation: A Computer Model of Understanding Natural Language, Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1984. In: Computational Linguistics, 11(2–3), April–September 1985, 185–186. [PDF]
Rudzicz, Frank; Hirst, Graeme; Van Lieshout, Pascal; Penn, Gerald; Shein, Fraser; Namasivayam, Aravind Kumar; Wolff, Talya. The TORGO database of dysarthric articulation. Catalog number LDC2012S02, Linguistic Data Consortium, 2012.
Hirst, Graeme; Jokel, Regina; Lancashire, Ian; and Le, Xuan. Method and system of longitudinal detection of dementia though lexical and syntactic changes in writing. U.S. patent 9514281 B2, 6 December 2016; Canadian patent CA2776140C, 19 June 2018.
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