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Kathleen R. McKeown

Kathleen R. McKeown

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Computer Science

D-Index
80
Citations
28752
World Ranking
1070
National Ranking
574

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2003 - ACM Fellow For contributions to natural language processing.
  • 1994 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For contributions to natural language generation and integration of language and graphics.

Overview

Kathleen R. McKeown is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and is active in the field of Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and related subfields. The primary domain of their research covers topics such as Topic Modeling, Natural Language Processing Techniques, and Advanced Text Analysis Techniques. Their work also intersects with areas including Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining, Text and Document Classification Technologies, and Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection.

Their recent publications include:

  • Benchmarking Large Language Models for News Summarization, 2024, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Benchmarking Large Language Models for News Summarization, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Faithful or Extractive? On Mitigating the Faithfulness-Abstractiveness Trade-off in Abstractive Summarization, 2022, Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
  • Contextual Analysis of Social Media, 2020, Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI Ethics and Society
  • Timeline Summarization based on Event Graph Compression via Time-Aware Optimal Transport, 2021, Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Frequent co-authors in their collaborations include:

  • Faisal Ladhak
  • Melanie Subbiah
  • Yu Zhou
  • Elsbeth Turcan
  • Desmond U. Patton

Kathleen R. McKeown has published extensively in several venues, most notably:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 66 publications
  • Harvard Dataverse with 5 publications
  • Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics with 2 publications
  • Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing with 2 publications
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence with 2 publications

Their contributions have been recognized through several awards, including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2019
  • ACM Fellow, 2003, for contributions to natural language processing
  • Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 1994, for contributions to natural language generation and integration of language and graphics

Best Publications

  • Predicting the Semantic Orientation of Adjectives

    Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou;Kathleen R. McKeown

  • Text generation

    Kathleen R. McKeown

  • Text generation: using discourse strategies and focus constraints to generate natural language text

    Kathleen R. McKeown

  • Introduction to the special issue on summarization

    Dragomir R. Radev;Eduard Hovy;Kathleen McKeown

  • Translating collocations for bilingual lexicons: a statistical approach

    Frank Smadja;Kathleen R. McKeown;Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou

  • A SURVEY OF TEXT SUMMARIZATION TECHNIQUES

    Ani Nenkova;Kathleen R. McKeown

  • Extracting Paraphrases from a Parallel Corpus

    Regina Barzilay;Kathleen R. McKeown

  • Generating natural language summaries from multiple on-line sources

    Dragomir R. Radev;Kathleen R. McKeown

  • Information Fusion in the Context of Multi-Document Summarization

    Regina Barzilay;Kathleen R. McKeown;Michael Elhadad

  • Generating summaries of multiple news articles

    Kathleen McKeown;Dragomir R. Radev

  • Inferring strategies for sentence ordering in multidocument news summarization

    Regina Barzilay;Noemie Elhadad;Kathleen R. McKeown

  • Discourse Segmentation of Multi-Party Conversation

    Michel Galley;Kathleen R. McKeown;Eric Fosler-Lussier;Hongyan Jing

  • Automating the generation of coordinated multimedia explanations

    Steven K. Feiner;Kathleen R. McKeown

  • Discourse strategies for generating natural-language text

    Kathleen R. McKeown

  • Sentence Fusion for Multidocument News Summarization

    Regina Barzilay;Kathleen R. McKeown

  • Extracting Social Networks from Literary Fiction

    David Elson;Nicholas Dames;Kathleen McKeown

  • Tracking and summarizing news on a daily basis with Columbia's Newsblaster

    Kathleen R. McKeown;Regina Barzilay;David Evans;Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou

  • The Pyramid Method: Incorporating human content selection variation in summarization evaluation

    Ani Nenkova;Rebecca Passonneau;Kathleen McKeown

  • Cut and paste based text summarization

    Hongyan Jing;Kathleen R. McKeown

  • Towards multidocument summarization by reformulation: progress and prospects

    Kathleen R. McKeown;Judith L. Klavans;Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou;Regina Barzilay

Frequent Co-Authors

Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou
Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou Columbia University
Judith L. Klavans
Judith L. Klavans University of Maryland, College Park
Ani Nenkova
Ani Nenkova Adobe Systems (United States)
Min-Yen Kan
Min-Yen Kan National University of Singapore
Steven Feiner
Steven Feiner Columbia University
Rebecca J. Passonneau
Rebecca J. Passonneau Pennsylvania State University
Dragomir R. Radev
Dragomir R. Radev Yale University
Julia Hirschberg
Julia Hirschberg Columbia University
Owen Rambow
Owen Rambow Stony Brook University

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