Steven Abney

Also published as: S. Abney, Steve Abney, Steven P. Abney


2020

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A Summary of the First Workshop on Language Technology for Language Documentation and Revitalization
Graham Neubig | Shruti Rijhwani | Alexis Palmer | Jordan MacKenzie | Hilaria Cruz | Xinjian Li | Matthew Lee | Aditi Chaudhary | Luke Gessler | Steven Abney | Shirley Anugrah Hayati | Antonios Anastasopoulos | Olga Zamaraeva | Emily Prud’hommeaux | Jennette Child | Sara Child | Rebecca Knowles | Sarah Moeller | Jeffrey Micher | Yiyuan Li | Sydney Zink | Mengzhou Xia | Roshan Sharma | Patrick Littell
Proceedings of the 1st Joint Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages (SLTU) and Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages (CCURL)

Despite recent advances in natural language processing and other language technology, the application of such technology to language documentation and conservation has been limited. In August 2019, a workshop was held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, USA to attempt to bring together language community members, documentary linguists, and technologists to discuss how to bridge this gap and create prototypes of novel and practical language revitalization technologies. The workshop focused on developing technologies to aid language documentation and revitalization in four areas: 1) spoken language (speech transcription, phone to orthography decoding, text-to-speech and text-speech forced alignment), 2) dictionary extraction and management, 3) search tools for corpora, and 4) social media (language learning bots and social media analysis). This paper reports the results of this workshop, including issues discussed, and various conceived and implemented technologies for nine languages: Arapaho, Cayuga, Inuktitut, Irish Gaelic, Kidaw’ida, Kwak’wala, Ojibwe, San Juan Quiahije Chatino, and Seneca.

2018

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A bidirectional mapping between English and CNF-based reasoners
Steven Abney
Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL) 2018

2014

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Experiments in Sentence Language Identification with Groups of Similar Languages
Ben King | Dragomir Radev | Steven Abney
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Applying NLP Tools to Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects

2013

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Labeling the Languages of Words in Mixed-Language Documents using Weakly Supervised Methods
Ben King | Steven Abney
Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

2011

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Towards a Data Model for the Universal Corpus
Steven Abney | Steven Bird
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora: Comparable Corpora and the Web

2010

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The Human Language Project: Building a Universal Corpus of the World’s Languages
Steven Abney | Steven Bird
Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

2008

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Using Syntax to Improve Word Alignment Precision for Syntax-Based Machine Translation
Victoria Fossum | Kevin Knight | Steven Abney
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation

2007

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Aspect marker generation in English-to-Chinese machine translation
Yang Ye | Karl-Michael Schneider | Steven Abney
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XI: Papers

2006

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Latent Features in Automatic Tense Translation between Chinese and English
Yang Ye | Victoria Li Fossum | Steven Abney
Proceedings of the Fifth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing

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How and Where do People Fail with Time: Temporal Reference Mapping Annotation by Chinese and English Bilinguals
Yang Ye | Steven Abney
Proceedings of the Workshop on Frontiers in Linguistically Annotated Corpora 2006

2005

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Automatically Inducing a Part-of-Speech Tagger by Projecting from Multiple Source Languages Across Aligned Corpora
Victoria Fossum | Steven Abney
Second International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: Full Papers

2004

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Understanding the Yarowsky Algorithm
Steven Abney
Computational Linguistics, Volume 30, Number 3, September 2004

2002

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Information Extraction from Voicemail Transcripts
Martin Jansche | Steven Abney
Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2002)

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Bootstrapping
Steven Abney
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

2000

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Answer Extraction
Steven Abney | Michael Collins | Amit Singhal
Sixth Applied Natural Language Processing Conference

1999

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Relating Probabilistic Grammars and Automata
Steven Abney | David McAllester | Fernando Pereira
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Boosting Applied to Tagging and PP Attachment
Steven Abney | Robert E. Schapire | Yoram Singer
1999 Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora

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Hiding a Semantic Hierarchy in a Markov Model
Steven Abney | Marc Light
Unsupervised Learning in Natural Language Processing

1997

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Stochastic Attribute-Value Grammars
Steven P. Abney
Computational Linguistics, Volume 23, Number 4, December 1997

1995

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Seventh Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Steven P. Abney | Erhard W. Hinrichs
Seventh Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1993

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Measures and Models for Phrase Recognition
Steven Abney
Human Language Technology: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Plainsboro, New Jersey, March 21-24, 1993

1992

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Parameter Estimation for Constrained Context-Free Language Models
Kevin Mark | Michael Miller | Ulf Grenander | Steve Abney
Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Harriman, New York, February 23-26, 1992

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Prosodic Structure, Performance Structure and Phrase Structure
Steven Abney
Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Harriman, New York, February 23-26, 1992

1991

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A Procedure for Quantitatively Comparing the Syntactic Coverage of English Grammars
E. Black | S. Abney | D. Flickenger | C. Gdaniec | R. Grishman | P. Harrison | D. Hindle | R. Ingria | F. Jelinek | J. Klavans | M. Liberman | M. Marcus | S. Roukos | B. Santorini | T. Strzalkowski
Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Pacific Grove, California, February 19-22, 1991