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14573
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1990 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Overview

Bonnie Webber is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and works primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their research focuses heavily on Artificial Intelligence, with other interests spanning Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and Communication.

Their research contributions are notably concentrated on several main topics, including:

  • Topic Modeling
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Text Readability and Simplification
  • Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Software Engineering Research
  • Digital Marketing and Social Media

Bonnie Webber has published extensively, with a significant volume appearing on arXiv (Cornell University). Other frequent publication venues include Computational Linguistics, the Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and Language Resources and Evaluation.

Representative recent publications include:

  • "Annotation Error Detection: Analyzing the Past and Present for a More Coherent Future," 2022, Computational Linguistics
  • "Have We Solved The Hard Problem? It's Not Easy! Contextual Lexical Contrast as a Means to Probe Neural Coherence," 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • "Reducing Quantity Hallucinations in Abstractive Summarization," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Frustratingly Simple but Surprisingly Strong: Using Language-Independent Features for Zero-shot Cross-lingual Semantic Parsing," 2021, Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  • "Rant or rave: variation over time in the language of online reviews," 2023, Language Resources and Evaluation

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bonnie Webber include Zheng Zhao, Wanqiu Long, Shay B. Cohen, Jan-Christoph Klie, and Iryna Gurevych.

Bonnie Webber was recognized as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 1990.

Best Publications

  • The Penn Discourse TreeBank 2.0.

    Rashmi Prasad;Nikhil Dinesh;Alan Lee;Eleni Miltsakaki

  • Simulating humans: computer graphics animation and control

    Norman I. Badler;Cary B. Phillips;Bonnie Lynn Webber

  • The Penn Discourse Treebank 2.0 Annotation Manual

    Rashmi Prasad;Eleni Miltsakaki;Nikhil Dinesh;Alan Lee

  • A Formal Approach to Discourse Anaphora

    Bonnie Lynn Webber

  • Structure and ostension in the interpretation of discourse deixis

    Bonnie Lynn Webber

  • Tense as discourse anaphor

    Bonnie Lynn Webber

  • Anaphora and Discourse Structure

    Bonnie Webber;Matthew Stone;Aravind Joshi;Alistair Knott

  • Readings in natural language processing

    Barbara J. Grosz;Karen Sparck-Jones;Bonnie Lynn Webber

  • The Penn Discourse Treebank

    Eleni Miltsakaki;Rashmi Prasad;Aravind K. Joshi;Bonnie L. Webber

  • The Penn Discourse TreeBank 1.0 Annotation Manual

    Rashmi Prasad;Eleni Miltsakaki;Nikhil Dinesh;Alan Lee

  • Knowledge representation for syntactic/semantic processing

    Robert J. Bobrow;Bonnie L. Webber

  • DISCOURSE DEIXIS: REFERENCE TO DISCOURSE SEGMENTS

    Bonnie Lynn Webber

  • D‐LTAG: extending lexicalized TAG to discourse

    Bonnie L. Webber

  • Discourse structure and language technology

    B. Webber;M. Egg;V. Kordoni

  • Grounding spatial named entities for information extraction and question answering

    Jochen L. Leidner;Gail Sinclair;Bonnie Webber

  • Readings in Artificial Intelligence

    Bonnie Lynn Webber;Nils J. Nilsson

  • So what can we talk about now

    B Webber

  • User participation in the reasoning processes of expert systems

    Martha E. Pollack;Julia Hirschberg;Bonnie Webber

  • CoNLL 2016 Shared Task on Multilingual Shallow Discourse Parsing

    Nianwen Xue;Hwee Tou Ng;Sameer Pradhan;Attapol Rutherford

  • Discourse Relations: A Structural and Presuppositional Account Using Lexicalised TAG

    Bonnie Webber;Alistair Knott;Matthew Stone;Aravind Joshi

  • Computational Perspectives on Discourse and Dialog

    Bonnie Lynn Webber

  • Proceedings of the 18th Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care

    J R Clarke;Bonnie Webber;A Gertner;J Kaye

Frequent Co-Authors

Aravind K. Joshi
Aravind K. Joshi University of Pennsylvania
Rashmi Prasad
Rashmi Prasad University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Norman I. Badler
Norman I. Badler University of Pennsylvania
Matthew Stone
Matthew Stone Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Oliver Lemon
Oliver Lemon Heriot-Watt University
Johan Bos
Johan Bos University of Groningen
Mark Steedman
Mark Steedman University of Edinburgh
Sophia Ananiadou
Sophia Ananiadou University of Manchester
Jörg Tiedemann
Jörg Tiedemann University of Helsinki
Dina Demner-Fushman
Dina Demner-Fushman National Institutes of Health

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