Publications
Jump to papers on: applied NLP, semantics, or discourse structure.
Applied NLP/Information access:
- A cascaded machine learning approach to interpreting temporal expressions. 2007. David D. Ahn, Joris van Rantwijk, and Maarten de Rijke. Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2007).
- Data-driven type checking in open domain question answering. 2007. Stefan Schlobach, David D. Ahn, Maarten de Rijke, and Valentin Jijkoun. Journal of Applied Logic. vol. 5. pp. 121-143.
- Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on NLP and XML: Multi-Dimensional Markup in Natural Language Processing (NLPXML-2006). April, 2006. David D. Ahn and Erik Tjong Kim Sang and Graham Wilcock.
- The stages of event extraction. 2006. Proceedings of the Workshop on Annotating and Reasoning about Time and Events. pp. 1-8.
- Supporting temporal question answering: Strategies for offline data collection. 2006. David D. Ahn, Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, and Etienne E. Kerre. 5th International Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics.
- Representing and Querying Multi-dimensional Markup for Question Answering. 2006. David D. Ahn, Wouter Alink, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke, Peter Boncz, and Arjen de Vries. NLPXML-2006. EACL 2006 Workshop on Multi-dimensional Markup in Natural Language Processing.
- Towards an Offline XML-based Strategy for Answering Questions. 2006. David D. Ahn, Valentin Jijkoun, Karin Müller, Maarten de Rijke, and Erik Tjong Kim Sang. Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories. pp. 449-456.
- Towards a Multi-Stream Question Answering-As-XML-Retrieval Strategy. 2006. David D. Ahn, Sisay Fissaha Adafre, Valentin Jijkoun, Karin Müller, Maarten de Rijke, and Erik Tjong Kim Sang.. The Fourteenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2005).
- Question answering with imperfect temporal information. 2006. Steven Schockaert, David D. Ahn, Martine De Cock, and Etienne E. Kerre. 7th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS 2006). pp. 647-658.
- The University of Amsterdam at CLEF. 2006. Valentin Jijkoun, Joris van Rantwijk, David D. Ahn, Erik Tjong Kim Sang, and Maarten de Rijke. Working Notes CLEF 2006.
- Extracting temporal information from open domain text: A comparative exploration. 2005. David D. Ahn, Sisay Fissaha Adafre, and Maarten de Rijke. Proceedings of the 5th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR'05).
- Making Stone Soup: Evaluating a Recall-Oriented Multi-Stream Question Answering System for Dutch. 2005. David D. Ahn, Valentin Jijkoun, Karin Müller, Maarten de Rijke, Stefan Schlobach, and Gilad Mishne. Proceedings of the 2004 Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2004).
- Extracting temporal information from open domain text: A comparative exploration. 2005. David D. Ahn, Sisay Fissaha Adafre, and Maarten de Rijke. Journal of Digital Information Management. 3 (1). pp. 14-20.
- Towards task-based temporal extraction and recognition. 2005. David D. Ahn, Sisay Fissaha Adafre, and Maarten de Rijke. Proceedings of the Dagstuhl Workshop on Annotating, Extracting, and Reasoning about Time and Events.
- Using Wikipedia at the TREC QA track. 2005. David D. Ahn, Valentin Jijkoun, and Gilad Mishne, Karin Müller, Maarten de Rijke, and Stefan Schlobach. The Thirteenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2004).
- Recognizing and Interpreting Temporal Expressions in Open Domain Texts. We Will Show Them: Essays in Honour of Dov Gabbay, Vol 1. 2005. David D. Ahn, Sisay Fissaha Adafre, and Maarten de Rijke. Editted by S. Artemov and H. Barringer and A. S. d'Avila Garcez and L. C. Lamb and J. Woods. College Publcations. pp. 31-50.
- The University of Amsterdam at TREC 2005. 2005. David D. Ahn, Leif Azzopardi, Krisztian Balog, Sisay Fissaha Adafre, Valentin Jijkoun, Jaap Kamps, Karin Müller, Maarten de Rijke, and Erik Tjong Kim Sang. TREC 2005 Working Notes.
- Extracting, representing, and grounding events for temporal question answering (abstract). 2005. David D. Ahn, Steven Schockaert, Maarten de Rijke, Martine De Cock, and Etienne E. Kerre. 16th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN 2005).
- The University of Amsterdam at QA. 2005. Valentin Jijkoun, Erik Tjong Kim Sang, David D. Ahn, Karin Müller, and Maarten de Rijke. Working Notes for the CLEF 2005 Workshop.
- A recall oriented approach to open domain question answering (abstract). 2004. David D. Ahn, Valentin Jijkoun, Gilad Mishne, Karin Müller, Maarten de Rijke, and Stefan Schlobach. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN 2004).
- The University of Amsterdam at Senseval-3: Semantic roles and logic forms. 2004. David D. Ahn, Fissaha Adafre, Sisay, Valentin Jijkoun, and Maarten de Rijke. Proceedings of Senseval-3: Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text. pp. 49-53.
- The University of Amsterdam at TREC 2004. 2004. David D. Ahn, Valentin Jijkoun, Jaap Kamps, Gilad Mishne, Karin Müller, Maarten de Rijke, and Stefan Schlobach. TREC 2004 Conference Notebook. NIST.
- Temporal expression extraction using Conditional Random Fields (abstract). 2004. Fissaha Adafre, Sisay, David D. Ahn, and Maarten de Rijke. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN 2004).
- The University of Amsterdam at QA (at) CLEF 2004. 2004. Valentin Jijkoun, Gilad Mishne, Maarten de Rijke, Stefan Schlobach, David D. Ahn, and Karin Müller. Working Notes for the CLEF 2004 Workshop. pp. 321-324.
- Text categorization of low quality images. 1995. David J. Ittner, David D. Lewis, and David D. Ahn. Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval. ISRI, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. pp. 301-315.
Semantics:
- Presupposition incorporation in quantifier domains (abstract). 2004. Sinn und Bedeutung 9. Gesellschaft für Semantik.
- The Role of Situations and Presuppositions in Restricting Adverbial Quantification. 2004. PhD thesis. University of Rochester.
- A binary modality for reasoning about conjoined situations in a hybrid logic. 2003. David D. Ahn and Lenhart K. Schubert. Proceedings of Methods for Modalities 3 (M4M-3).
- Presupposition incorporation in adverbial quantification. 2003. Modeling and Using Context: Proceedings of CONTEXT 2003. pp. 1-14.
- A dynamic situation logic. 2003. Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-5).
- The role of presuppositions and situations in the interpretation of adverbial quantifiers. November, 2002. University of Rochester Computer Science Department. 793.
- Computing adverbial quantifier domains. 2001. Proceedings of the 6th ESSLLI Student Session. pp. 1-12.
- Ellipsis and opaque contexts: Higher-order unification in Intensional Logic. 1997. Senior thesis. Harvard University.
Discourse Structure:
- Sentential structure and discourse parsing. 2004. Livia Polanyi, Chris Culy, Martin van den Berg, Gian Lorenzo Thione, and David D. Ahn. Proceedings of the ACL 2004 Workshop on Discourse Annotation.
- A rule based approach to discourse parsing. 2004. Livia Polanyi, Chris Culy, Martin van den Berg, Gian Lorenzo Thione, and David D. Ahn. Proceedings of the 5th SIGdial Workshop in Discourse and Dialogue. pp. 108-117.
- Discourse structure and sentential information structure: an initial proposal. 2003. Livia Polanyi, Martin van den Berg, and David D. Ahn. Journal of Logic, Language and Information. 12 (3). pp. 337-350.
- A note on the relationship of discourse structure to information structure. 2001. Livia Polanyi, Martin van den Berg, and David D. Ahn. Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2001 Workshop on Information Structure, Discourse Structure, and Discourse Semantics. pp. 11-14.
- Instructions for annotating discourse. September, 1995. Christine H. Nakatani, Barbara J. Grosz, David D. Ahn, and Julia Hirschberg. Center for Research in Computing Technology, Harvard University. TR-21-95.
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