Temporal information in natural language
Annotation of temporal information in texts: date, time, events, and relations between such entities. Cf:- Pascal Denis and Philippe Muller.
Predicting globally-coherent temporal structures via endpoint inference and graph decomposition
IJCAI 2011 - Xavier Tannier and Philippe Muller. Evaluating Temporal Graphs Built from Texts via Transitive Reduction. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, (40):375-413, 2011. [.pdf]
- Denis, P., and Muller, P. Comparison of different algebras for inducing the temporal structure of texts. In Proceedings of Coling 2010 (Beijing, 2010), pp. 250-258. [ bib | .pdf ]
- P. Muller and X. Tannier. Annotating and measuring temporal relations in texts. In Proceedings of Coling 2004, volume I, pages 50-56, Genève, 2004, Association for Computational Linguistics. [.pdf]
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Discourse and dialogue modelling
Discourse and dialogue interpretation, semantics and pragmatics phenomena, automatic annotation. cf- Discourse annotation in the Annodis project, more details on the project page and the publication page.
- Lexical and discourse analysis (Voiladis project), more details on the project page and the publication page.
- Afantenos, S. D., Denis, P., Muller, P., and Danlos, L. Learning recursive segments for discourse parsing. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010 (Valletta, Malta, 2010). [ bib | .html ]
- P. Muller and L. Prévot. Grounding information in route explanation dialogues. In K. R. Coventry, T. Tenbrink, and J. Bateman, editors, Spatial Language and Dialogue. Oxford University Press, 2009. [http ]
- Philippe Muller Nicolas Maudet and Laurent Prévot. Social constraints on rhetorical relations in dialogue. In Anton Benz & Peter Kuhnlein Candy Sidner, John Harpur, editor, Proceedings of the Workshop on Constraints in Discourse, Maynooth, Ireland, 2006.
Lexical semantics
Study of lexical relations, in dictionaries, distributional data or parallel corpora:- P. Muller and P. Langlais. Comparing distributional and mirror translation similarities for extracting synonyms. In Cory Butz and Pawan Lingras, editors, Proceedings of the 24th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, LNAI, St John's, Canada, pages 323-334, 2011. Springer
- Philippe Muller, Nabil Hathout, and Bruno Gaume. Synonym extraction using a semantic distance on a dictionary. In D. Boguraev and R. Mihalcea, editors, Proceedings of the HLT/NAACL workshop Textgraphs, New York, NY, 2006. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- B. Gaume, N. Hathout, and P. Muller. Word sense disambiguation using a dictionary for sense similarity measure. In Proceedings of Coling 2004, volume II, pages 1194-1200, Genève, 2004, Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Muller, Philippe, The Temporal Essence of Spatial Objects. In The Categorization of Spatial Entities in Language and Cognition, Aurnague, Michel, Maya Hickmann and Laure Vieu (eds.), 459 ff, John Benjamins Publishing, 2007.
- P. Denis and P. Muller. A semantics for temporally dependent referring expressions. In O. Bonami and P. Cabredo Hofherr, editors, Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 5\ , Papers from Cssp 2003, pages 45-62, 2004. http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/eiss5/.
Spatial and temporal reasoning
Older Artificial Intelligence/Knowledge representation work, cf:- P. Muller Topological Spatio-Temporal Reasoning and Representation. 2002. Computational Intelligence, 18(3):420-450.
- Muller, P. and V. Dugat. chapter Représentations en logique classique in "Raisonnements sur l'espace et le temps", F. Le Ber, G. Ligozat and O. Papini (eds.), Hermès, 2007.
