Mark Dras, Debbie Richards, Meredith Taylor and Mary Gardiner [2010] Deceptive Agents and Language. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2010). Short paper. Accepted 19/12/2009.
Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Robert Dale and Cecile Paris [2010] Spanning Tree Aproaches for Statistical Sentence Generation. In E. Krahmer and M. Theune (eds.), Empirical Methods in Natural Language Generation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5980. Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg.
Sze-Meng Jojo Wong and Mark Dras [2009] Contrastive Analysis and Native Language Identification. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA 2009), 53-61. Hobart, Australia. PDF version
Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Robert Dale and Cecile Paris [2009] Improving Grammaticality in Statistical Sentence Generation: Introducing a Dependency Spanning Tree Algorithm with an Argument Satisfaction Model. Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-09), 852-860. Athens, Greece. PDF version.
Maxim Khalilov, José A. R. Fonollosa and Mark Dras [2009] A New Subtree-Transfer Approach to Syntax-Based Reordering for Statistical Machine Translation. Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT), 197-204. Barcelona, Spain. PDF version.
Maxim Khalilov, José A. R. Fonollosa and Mark Dras [2009] Coupling Hierarchical Word Reordering and Decoding in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-3), 78-86. Boulder, Colorado, US. PDF version.
Elena Akhmatova and Mark Dras [2009] Using Hypernymy Acquisition to Tackle (Part of) Textual Entailment Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Applied Textual Inference (TextInfer), 52-60. Singapore. PDF version.
Simon Zwarts and Mark Dras [2008] Morphosyntactic Target Language Matching in Statistical Machine Translation. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA 2008), 31-39. Hobart, Australia. PDF version
Stephen Wan, Robert Dale, Mark Dras and Cecile Paris [2008] Seed and Grow: Augmenting Statistically Generated Summary Sentences using Schematic Word Patterns. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2008), 543-552. Hawaii, USA. PDF version
Simon Zwarts and Mark Dras [2008] Choosing the Right Translation: A Syntactically Informed Classification Approach. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2008), 1153-1160. Manchester, UK. PDF version
Debbie Richards, Nicolas Szilas, Manolya Kavakli and Mark Dras [2008] Impacts of Visualisation, Interaction and Immersion on Learning using an Agent-Based Training Simulation. International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications, 3(1): 43-60. (Extended version of ABSHL paper.)
Bhavna Orgun, Mark Dras, Abhaya Nayak and Geoff James [2008] Approaches for semantic interoperability between domain ontologies. Expert Systems, 25(3): 179-196.
Andrew Mutton, Mark Dras, Stephen Wan and Robert Dale [2007] GLEU: Automatic Evaluation of Sentence-Level Fluency. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2007), 344-351. Prague, Czech Republic. PDF version
Mary Gardiner and Mark Dras [2007] Corpus Statistics Approaches to Discriminating Among Near-Synonyms. Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING 2007), 31-39. Melbourne, Australia. PDF version
Stephen Wan, Robert Dale, Mark Dras and Cecile Paris [2007] Global Revision in Summarisation: Generating Novel Sentences with Prim's Algorithm. Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING 2007), 226-235. Melbourne, Australia. PDF version
Simon Zwarts and Mark Dras [2007] Syntax-Based Word Reordering in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation: Why Does it Work? Proceedings of MT Summit XI, 559-566. Copenhagen, Denmark. PDF version
Elena Akhmatova and Mark Dras [2007] Entailment due to Syntactically Encoded Semantic Relationships. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA 2007), 4-12. Sydney, Australia. PDF version
Mary Gardiner and Mark Dras [2007] Exploring Approaches to Discriminating among Near-Synonyms. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA 2007), 31-39. Sydney, Australia. PDF version
Simon Zwarts and Mark Dras [2007] Statistical Machine Translation of Australian Aboriginal Languages: Morphological Analysis with Languages of Differing Morphological Richness. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA 2007), 134-142. Sydney, Australia. PDF version
Manolya Kavakli, Debbie Richards, Mark Dras and John Porte [2007] An Immersive Virtual Reality Training Simulation for Risk Management. SimTecT 2007. Brisbane, Australia.
Debbie Richards, Nicolas Szilas, Manolya Kavakli and Mark Dras [2007] Impacts of Visualisation, Interaction and Immersion on Learning with An Agent-Based Training Simulation. Proceedings of the Workshop on Agent-Based Systems for Human Learning (ABSHL), 1-8. Hawaii, USA.
Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Robert Dale and Cecile Paris [2006] Using Dependency-based Features to Take the "Para-farce" out of Paraphrase. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2006 (ALTW 2006), 131-138. Sydney, Australia. PDF version
Simon Zwarts and Mark Dras [2006] This Phrase-Based SMT System is Out of Order: Generalised Word Reordering in Machine Translation. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2006 (ALTW 2006), 149-156. Sydney, Australia. PDF version
Stephen Gilmour and Mark Dras [2006] Kernelization as Heuristic Structure for the Vertex Cover Problem. In M. Dorigo, L.M. Gambardella, M. Birattari, A. Martinoli, R. Poli, T. Stuetzle (eds.), Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, 5th International Workshop (ANTS2006), 452-459. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4150. Springer Verlag. PDF version
Debbie Richards, Jason Barles, Nicolas Szilas, Manolya Kavakli and Mark Dras [2006] Human and Software Agents Learning Together. Proceedings of the Workshop on Agent-Based Systems for Human Learning (ABSHL), 14-21. Hakodate, Japan.
Jason Barles, Mark Dras, Manolya Kavakli, Debbie Richards and Anders Tychsen [2005] An Overview of Training Simulation Research and Systems. Proceedings of the Workshop on Agent-Based Systems for Human Learning. Utrecht, The Netherlands. URL: http://agents.cs.columbia.edu/abshl
Mark Dras and Steve Cassidy [2005] Formal Grammars for Linguistic Treebank Queries. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2005 (ALTW 2005), 96--104. Sydney, Australia. PDF version
Mark Dras, Manolya Kavakli and Debbie Richards [2005] Training for High Risk Situations. Proceedings of the Workshop on Agent-Based Systems for Human Learning (ABSHL). Utrecht, The Netherlands. URL: http://agents.cs.columbia.edu/abshl
Stephen Gilmour and Mark Dras [2005] A Two-Pronged Attack on the Dragon of Intractability. Proceedings of the 28th Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC-2005), 183-192. Newcastle, Australia. PDF version
Stephen Gilmour and Mark Dras [2005] Understanding the Pheromone System Within Ant Colony Optimization. Proceedings of the 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2005), 786-789. Sydney, Australia. PDF version
Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Robert Dale and Cécile Paris [2005] Towards statistical paraphrase generation: preliminary evaluations of grammaticality. Proceedings of The 3rd International Workshop on Paraphrasing (IWP2005), 88-95. Jeju Island, South Korea. PDF version
Stephen Wan, Robert Dale, Mark Dras and Cécile Paris [2005] Statistically Generated Summary Sentences: A Preliminary Evaluation of Verisimilitude using Precision of Dependency Relations. Proceedings of the Workshop on Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation (UCNLG'05), 33-40. Birmingham, UK. PDF version
Stephen Wan, Robert Dale, Mark Dras, and Cecile Paris [2005] Searching for Grammaticality: Propagating Dependencies in the Viterbi Algorithm. Proceedings of the 10th European Natural Language Generation Workshop, 211-216. Aberdeen, Scotland. PDF version
Mark Dras and Chung-hye Han [2004] Non-Contiguous Tree Parsing. Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI-04), 30-39. Baltimore, MD, USA. PDF version
Mark Dras, David Chiang and William Schuler [2004] On Relations of Constituency and Dependency Grammars. Research on Language and Computation 2(2), 281-305. Hermes Science Publishers, Paris, France. PDF version
Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Cecile Paris and Robert Dale [2003] Using Thematic Information in Statistical Headline Generation. Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual Summarization and Question Answering. Sapporo, Japan.
Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Cecile Paris and Robert Dale [2003] Straight to the point: Discovering themes for summary generation 2003 Australasian Language Technology Workshop, 122-129. Melbourne, Australia.
Mark Dras, David Harrison and Berk Kapicioglu [2002] Emergent Behavior in Phonological Pattern Change. Proceedings of Artificial Life VIII, 390--393. Sydney, Australia. PDF version
Mark Dras and Chung-hye Han [2002] Korean-English MT and S-TAG. Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+6), 206--219. Venice, Italy. PDF version
David Harrison, Mark Dras and Berk Kapicioglu [2002] Agent-Based Modeling of the Evolution of Vowel Harmony. Proceedings of North East Linguistic Society 32 (NELS32), 217--236. New York, NY, USA. PDF version
William Schuler, David Chiang and Mark Dras [2000] Multi-Component TAG and Notions of Formal Power. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'00), 448--455. Hong Kong, China. Postscript version
Mark Dras, David Chiang and William Schuler [2000] A Multi-Level TAG Approach to Dependency. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Linguistic Theory and Grammar Implementation, 33--46. Birmingham, UK. Postscript version
Mark Dras and Tonia Bleam [2000] How Problematic are Clitics for S-TAG Translation? In Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+5), 241--244. Paris, France. Postscript version
David Chiang, William Schuler and Mark Dras [2000] Some Remarks on an Extension of Synchronous TAG. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+5), 61--66. Paris, France. Postscript version
Mark Dras [1999] Tree Adjoining Grammar and the Reluctant Paraphrasing of Text. PhD thesis, Macquarie University, Australia. Postscript version (gzipped)
Mark Dras [1999] A Meta-Level Grammar: Redefining Synchronous TAG for Translation and Paraphrase. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'99), 80--87. Maryland, USA. Postscript version (corrected from proceedings)
Mark Dras [1999] Synchronous Parallelism Between Different Grammar Formalisms. In Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting on the Mathematics of Language, 237--250. Orlando, USA. Postscript version
Mark Dras [1998] Search in Constraint-Based Paraphrasing. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Industrial Applications, 213--219. Moncton, Canada. Postscript version
Mark Dras [1997] Representing Paraphrases Using Synchronous Tree Adjoining Grammars. In Proceedings of the 1997 Australasian NLP Summer Workshop, 17--24. Sydney, Australia. Postscript version.
Mark Dras [1997] Representing Paraphrases Using STAGs. In Proceedings of Proceedings of the Thirty Fifth Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the Eighth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-EACL'97), 516--518. Madrid, Spain. Postscript version.
Mark Dras [1997] Reluctant Paraphrase: Textual Restructuring under an Optimisation Model. In Proceedings of the Fifth Biannual Meeting of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING'97), 98--104. Ohme, Japan. Available electronically from cmp-lg/9707001
Mark Dras and Mike Johnson[1996] Death and Lightness: Using a Demographic Model to Find Support Verbs In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing. Dublin, Ireland. Available electronically from cmp-lg/9610001
Mark Dras [1995] Automatic Identification of Support Verbs: A Step Towards a Definition of Semantic Weight In Proceedings of the Eighth Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 451--458. Canberra, Australia. World Scientific Press. Available electronically from cmp-lg/9510007
Mark Lauer and Mark Dras [1994] A Probabilistic Model of Compound Nouns. In Proceedings of the Seventh Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 474--481. Armidale, Australia. World Scientific Press. Available electronically from cmp-lg/9409003
Mark Dras and Mark Lauer [1993] Lexical Preference Estimation Incorporating Case Information. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Processing, Sixth Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Melbourne, Australia.
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