Stefan Riezler's papers

Selected Publications

Query Rewriting using Monolingual Statistical Machine Translation. Stefan Riezler and Yi Liu. In Computational Linguistics, 36:3 (.pdf)
Learning Dense Models of Query Similarity from User Click Logs. Fabio DeBona, Stefan Riezler, Keith Hall, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Amac Herdagdelen, Maria Holmqvist. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2010), Los Angeles, CA. (.pdf)
Generalized syntactic and semantic models of query reformulation. Amac Herdagdelen, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Daniel Mahler, Maria Holmqvist, Keith Hall, Stefan Riezler, Enrique Alfonseca. In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM SIGIR Conference, Geneva, Switzerland. (.pdf)

Simple Risk Bounds for Position-Sensitive Max-Margin Ranking Algorithms. Stefan Riezler and Fabio DeBona. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Advances in Ranking at the 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS'09), Whistler, Canada. (.pdf)

Translating Queries into Snippets for Improved Query Expansion. Stefan Riezler, Yi Liu, Alexander Vasserman. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'08), Manchester, England. (.pdf)
Wide-Coverage Deep Statistical Parsing using Automatic Dependency Structure Annotation. Aoife Cahill, Michael Burke, Ruth O'Donovan, Stefan Riezler, Josef van Genabith, Andy Way. In Computational Linguistics, 34:1: 81-124. (.pdf)

Statistical Machine Translation for Query Expansion in Answer Retrieval. Stefan Riezler, Alexander Vasserman, Ioannis Tsochantaridis, Vibhu Mittal, Yi Liu. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'07), Prague, Czech Republic. (.pdf)

Book Review of New Developments in Parsing Technology , by Harry Bunt, John Carroll, and Giorgio Satta (eds.), Dortrecht (Kluwer), 2004. Stefan Riezler. In Computational Linguistics , Vol. 32, No. 3: 439-442. (.pdf)
Grammatical Machine Translation. Stefan Riezler and John Maxwell. In Proceedings of Human Language Technology conference - North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting (HLT-NAACL'06) , New York, NY. (.pdf)
(An extended version appeared in Miriam Butt, Mary Dalrymple, and Tracy Holloway King (Eds.) Intelligent Linguistic Structures: Variations on themes by Ronald M. Kaplan, CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA. (.pdf))

On Some Pitfalls in Automatic Evaluation and Significance Testing for MT. Stefan Riezler and John Maxwell. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Methods for MT and Summarization (MTSE) at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'05), Ann Arbor, Michigan.(.pdf)

Incremental Feature Selection and l₁ Regularization for Relaxed Maximum-Entropy Modeling. Stefan Riezler and Alexander Vasserman. In Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'04)), Barcelona, Spain. (.pdf)
Speed and Accuracy in Shallow and Deep Stochastic Parsing. Ron Kaplan, Stefan Riezler, Tracy King, John Maxwell, Alexander Vasserman, Richard Crouch. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and the 4th Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL'04), Boston, MA.(.pdf)

Statistical Sentence Condensation using Ambiguity Packing and Stochastic Disambiguation Methods for Lexical-Functional Grammar. Stefan Riezler, Tracy H. King, Richard Crouch, Annie Zaenen. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and the 3rd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL'03), Edmonton, Canada. (.pdf)
The PARC 700 Dependency Bank. Stefan Riezler, Tracy H. King, Richard Crouch, Mary Dalrymple, Ronald M. Kaplan. In Proceedings of the Workshop on "Linguistically Interpreted Corpora" at the 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (LINC'03), Budapest, Hungary. (.pdf)

Parsing the Wall Street Journal using a Lexical-Functional Grammar and Discriminative Estimation Techniques. Stefan Riezler, Tracy H. King, Ronald M. Kaplan, Richard Crouch, John T. Maxwell, Mark Johnson. In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'02), Philadephia, PA. (.pdf)
A Comparison of Evaluation Metrics for a Broad Coverage Stochastic Parser. Richard Crouch, Ronald M. Kaplan, Tracy H. King, Stefan Riezler. In Proceedings of the Workshop on "Parseval and Beyond" at the 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'02), 2000, Las Palmas, Spain. (.pdf)

Statistical Grammar Models and Lexicon Acquisition. Stefan Riezler, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Helmut Schmid, Mats Rooth, Detlef Prescher. In Christian Rohrer, Anje Rossdeutscher, Hans Kamp (Eds.) Linguistic Form and its Computation, 2001, CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA. (.pdf)
Statistical Models of Language Learning and Use. Mark Johnson and Stefan Riezler. In Cognitive Science 26:3. (.pdf)

Lexicalized Stochastic Modeling of Constraint-Based Grammars using Log-Linear Measures and EM Training. Stefan Riezler, Detlef Prescher, Jonas Kuhn, Mark Johnson. In Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'00) , 2000, Hong Kong. (.pdf)
Exploiting Auxiliary Distributions in Stochastic Unification-Based Grammars. Mark Johnson and Stefan Riezler. In Proceedings of the 1st Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ANLP-NAACL 2000), 2000, Seattle, WA. (.pdf)
Using a Probabilistic Class-Based Lexicon for Lexical Ambiguity Resolution. Detlef Prescher, Stefan Riezler, Mats Rooth. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2000), 2000, Saarbrücken. (.pdf)

Estimators for Stochastic Unification-Based Grammars. Mark Johnson, Stuart Geman, Stephen Canon, Zhiyi Chi, Stefan Riezler. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'99), 1999, College Park, MD. (.pdf)
Inducing a Semantically Annotated Lexicon via EM-Based Clustering. Mats Rooth, Stefan Riezler, Detlef Prescher, Glenn Carroll, Franz Beil. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'99), 1999, College Park, MD. (.pdf)
Inside-Outside Estimation of a Lexicalized PCFG for German. Franz Beil, Glenn Carroll, Detlef Prescher, Stefan Riezler, Mats Rooth. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'99), 1999, College Park, MD. (.pdf)

Quantitative Constraint Logic Programming for Weighted Grammar Applications. Stefan Riezler. In Christian Retoré (Ed.), Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics (LACL'96) , pp. 346-365. 1997. Berlin:Springer. LNCS/LNAI 1328. 20 pp. ( .pdf ).

Probabilistic Constraint Logic Programming. Stefan Riezler. Ph. D. thesis, Universität Tübingen, 1998, AIMS Report 5(1), 1999, IMS, Universität Stuttgart ( .pdf)