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Publications of L. Kosseim |
2011
Refereed Conference Proceeding:
S. Mithun and L. Kosseim (to appear in 2011) Discourse Structures to Reduce Discourse Incoherence in Blog Summarization. In Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP-2011), September 2011, Hissar, Bulgaria.
S. Mithun and L. Kosseim (2011) BlogSum: A Blog Summarization Approach based on Discourse Relations. In Colloque Traitement automatique des langues : analyses et applications de l'Association francophone pout le savoir (Acfas-2011), May 2011, Sherbrooke, Canada.
S.
Mithun and L. Kosseim (2011) Comparing
Approaches to Tag Discourse Relations.
In Proceedings of
the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and
Computational Linguistics (CICLing-2011), pp. 328-339, February
2011, Tokyo,
Japan.
2010
Refereed Conference Proceeding:
S.
Mithun and L. Kosseim (2010)
A Hybrid Approach to Utilize Rhetorical Relations for
Blog Summarization.
In Proceedings of
TALN-2010.
10 pages, July 2010, Montreal, Canada.
Ishrar
Hussain, Leila Kosseim and Olga Ormandjieva.
Towards
Approximating COSMIC Functional Size from User
Requirements in Agile Development Processes Using Text Mining.
In Proceeding
of Natural
Language Processing and Information Systems -
15th
International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to
Information Systems (NLDB-2010),
LNCS
6177, pp. 80-91, June 2010, Cardiff, UK.
2009
Refereed Conference Proceeding:
El Demerdash, L. Kosseim and S.
Bergler (2009) Semantic
Inter-media Image Retrieval in Photographic Collections.
In Proceeding of IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) 2009, Rio
de Janeiro, October 2009
S.
Mithun and L. Kosseim (2009) Summarizing
Blog Entries versus News Texts.
In Proceedings of Events
in Emerging Text Types (eETTS). A
Workshop of RANLP
2009. 8 pages,
September 2009, Borovets, Bulgaria.
R.
Siblini and L. Kosseim (2009) AORTE
for Recognizing Textual Entailment.
In Proceedings of the 10th
International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and
Computational Linguistics, LNCS
5449, pp. 245–255, Mexico City, Mexico, March 2009.
CICLing-2009.
Non-Refereed Conference Proceeding:
O.
El Demerdash, L. Kosseim, and S. Bergler (2009) Image
Retrieval by Inter-media Fusion and Pseudo-Relevance Feedback,
In C. Peters et al. (Eds). CLEF
2009 Workshop. pp. 605-611, September-October, Corfu, Greece.
2008
Refereed Journal:
Leila
Kosseim and Jamileh Yousefi (2008) Improving
the performance of question answering with semantically equivalent
answer patterns.
Data
and Knowledge Engineering. 66(1): 53-67.
Non-Refereed Conference Proceeding:
R.
Siblini and L. Kosseim (2008) Using
Ontology Alignment for the RTE Challenge.
In Notebook Papers and Results of
the Text Analysis Conference (TAC-2008), pp. 301-309,
Gaithersburg, USA, November 2008.
M.
Razmara and L. Kosseim (2008) Concordia
University at the 2008 QA Track.
In
Notebook Papers and Results of the
Text Analysis Conference (TAC-2008), pp. 125-131, Gaithersburg,
USA, November 2008.
O.
El Demerdash, L. Kosseim, and S. Bergler (2008) CLaC
at ImageCLEFPhoto 2008. In
Proceedings
of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF-2008), 5 pages,
Aarhus, Hungary, Denmark, 2007.
Refereed Conference Proceeding:
I. Hussain, L. Kosseim,
and O. Ormandjieva (2008) Using
Linguistic Knowledge to Classify Non-functional Requirements in SRS
documents.
In E. Kapetanios et al.
(Eds).
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5039, Proceedings
of the 13th International Conference on Applications of Natural
Language to Information Systems (NLDB-2008),
pp. 287-298. London, UK, June 2008. Springer-Verlag.
R.
Siblini and L. Kosseim (2008)
RoDEO:
Reasoning over Dependencies Extracted Online.
In Proceedings
of the 4th Web as Corpus Workshop of Language Resources and
Evaluation (LREC-2008),
pp.
55-62,
Marrakech,
Morocco, June 2008.
M. Razmara and L. Kosseim
(2008) Answering List
Questions using Co-occurrence and Clustering.
In Proceedings
of Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2008),
pp. 3218-3222, Marrakech, Morocco, June 2008.
2007
Refereed Conference Proceeding:
O.
El Demerdash, L. Kosseim, and S. Bergler (2008)
Text-Based Clustering of the ImageCLEFphoto Collection for Augmenting
the Retrieved Results.
In C. Peters et al. (Eds). Lecture
Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5152, Advances in
Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval, pp. 562-568.
Springer-Verlag.
O.
El Demerdash, L. Kosseim, and S. Bergler (2007) Experiments
with Clustering the Collection at ImageCLEF 2007.
In Proceedings
of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF-2007) ,
4 pages, Budapest, Hungary, September 2007.
S. Mithun, L. Kosseim and
V. Haarslev (2007) Resolving
Quantifier and Number Restriction to Question OWL ontologies. 6
pages. In Proceedings of The First International Workshop on Question
Answering (QA2007). a Workshop associated with The
3rd International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid
(SKG2007). October 2007, Xi’an, China.
I.
Hussain, O. Ormandjieva and L. Kosseim (2007) Automatic
Quality Assessment of SRS
Text
by Means of a Decision-Tree-Based Text Classifier.
Proceedings of The
Seventh International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC-2007).
pp. 209-218. October 2007, Portland.
A.
K. Lamjiri, L. Kosseim and T. Radakrishnan (2007) A
Syntactic Candidate Ranking Method for Answering Questions with a
Main Content Verb.
Proceedings
of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP-2007). 7
pages, September 2007, Borovets Bulgaria.
O.
Ormandjieva, L. Kosseim and I. Hussain (2007) Toward
a Text Classification System for the Quality Assessment of Software
Requirements Written in Natural Language.
Proceedings
of the Fourth
International Workshop on Software Quality Assurance (SOQUA 2007),
pp. 39-45, September 2007, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
A. K. Lamjiri, J. Dubuc,
L. Kosseim and S. Bergler (2007) Indexing
Low Frequency Information for Answering Complex Questions.
Proceedings of
RIAO-2007,
6 pages, May 2007, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
M. Razmara and L. Kosseim
(2007) A little known
fact is… Answering Other questions using interest-markers
. Lecture
Notes in Computer Science Volume 4394, Proceedings of the
8th
International Conference on
Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics
(CICLing-2007), pp.
518-529, Mexico, February 2007. Springer-Verlag
A. K. Lamjiri, L. Kosseim
and T. Radakrishnan (2007) A
Hybrid Unification Method for Question Answering in Closed Domains.
In Proceedings of the
3rd International Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning for Answering
Questions (KRAQ-2007) -- A Workshop of the 20th International Joint
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2007),
pp. 36-42. January 2007, Hyderabad, India.
A. K. Lamjiri, L. Kosseim
and T. Radakrishnan (2007) Comparing
the Contribution of Syntactic and Semantic Features in Closed versus
Open Domain Question Answering.
Proceedings of the IEEE
International Conference on Semantic Computing ICSC2007, pp.
679-685, September 2007, Irvine, California, USA.
Non-Refereed Conference Proceeding:
M. Razmara, A. Fee and L.
Kosseim (2007) Concordia
University at the TREC 2007 QA Track.
In Proceedings of the 16th Text
Retrieval Conference (TREC-16), 10 pages, November 2007,
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
2006
Refereed Journal:
H.
Doan-Nguyen and L. Kosseim (2006) Using
Terminology and a Concept Hierarchy for Restricted-Domain
Question-Answering..
Research in Computing
Science, Special issue on Advances in Natural Language Processing.
Volume 18, p. 183-194. A. Gelbukh (ed.)
Refereed Conference Proceeding:
L. Kosseim, R. Siblini,
C. Baker and S. Bergler (2006) Using
Selectional Restrictions to Query an OWL Ontology..
In Proceedings of the
2nd International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information
Systems (FOIS-2006), pp. 360-372, Baltimore, Maryland (USA),
November 2006.
J.
Yousefi and L. Kosseim (2006) Using
Semantic Constraints to Improve Question Answering. C.
Kop et al. (Eds). Lecture
Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3999, Proceedings of
the 11th
International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to
Information Systems (NLDB-2006), pp. 118-128. May 31 – June
2, 2006 Klagenfurt, Austria. Springer-Verlag.
J.
Chelin, L. Kosseim and T. Radakrishnan (2006) Using
Natural Language Processing to Assist the Visually Handicapped in
Writing Compositions. Lecture
Notes in Computer Science Volume 4013, Proceedings of The Ninth
Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-2006), pp.
300-311, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. May 2006.
.
Yousefi and L. Kosseim (2006) Automatic
acquisition of question reformulations for question answering.
Lecture
Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3878, Proceedings of
the 7th
International Conference
on Intelligent Text Processing
and Computational Linguistics (CICLing-2006),
pp. 441-452, Mexico, February 2006. Springer-Verlag.
Non-Refereed Conference Proceeding:
L.
Kosseim, A. Beaudoin, A. K. Lamjiri and M. Razmara (2006)
Concordia
University at the TREC-QA Track..
In Proceedings of the 15th Text
Retrieval Conference (TREC-15), 10 pages, November 2006,
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
2005
Refereed Journal:
N.
Stratica , L. Kosseim and B. Desai (2005). Using
semantic templates for a natural language interface to the CINDI
virtual library, Data
& Knowledge Engineering Journal.
Volume 55, Issue 1, October
2005, p. 4-19. Elsevier.
Refereed Conference Proceeding:
O.
El Demerdash, S. Bergler, L. Kosseim and PK Langshaw (2005)
Developing
AMIE: an Adaptive Multimedia Integrated Environment, in: Adaptive
Multimedia Retrieval: User, Context, and Feedback. Third
International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2005),
July 28-29, Glasgow, UK. Lecture
Notes in Computer Science
Volume
3877. M. Detyniecki, J.M. Jose, A. Nurnberger and C.J. van Rijsbergen
(Eds). pp. 65-78. Springer.
O. Demerdash, S. Bergler,
L. Kosseim and PK Langshaw (2005) Generating
Adaptive Multimedia Presentations Based on a Semiotic Framework
. Balázs Kégl,
Guy Lapalme (Eds.): Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings
of the
18th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of
Intelligence, pp. 417-421, Canadian AI 2005, Victoria, Canada,
May 9-11, 2005, Proceedings. Lecture
Notes in Computer Science 3501
Springer.
2004
Refereed Conference Proceeding:
A. K. Lamjiri, O.
Demerdash and L. Kosseim (2004) Experiments
in Statistical Word Sense Disambiguation: The CLaC System at
Senseval-3.
Proceedings of the Workshop Computational Linguistics in the
North-East (CLiNE 2004). pp. 37-44, Montreal, Canada. August 2004.
S.
Methenitis and L. Kosseim (2004) Working
Towards a Greek-English Cross-Language Question-Answering System.
Proceedings of the
Workshop Computational Linguistics in the North-East (CLiNE2004). pp.
53-57, Montreal, Canada. August 2004.
S.
Winikoff and L. Kosseim
(2004) Is
Context Actually Helpful? Preliminary Experiments in Contextual
Question Answering
Proceedings of the Workshop Computational Linguistics in the
North-East (CLiNE 2004). pp.
64-66.
A.
Lamjiri , O. El Demerdash and L. Kosseim (2004)Simple
Features for Statistical Word Sense Disambiguation.
Proceedings the 2004 -- Third
International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic
Analysis of Text (Senseval-3)(2004).
H.
Doan-Nguyen and L. Kosseim (2004) The
Problem of Precision on Restricted-Domain Question Answering.
Proceedings the
2004 Workshop on Question Answering in Restricted Domains (2004).
A workshop of the ACL 2004 conference, Barcelona, Spain.
H.
Doan-Nguyen and L. Kosseim (2004) Using
Semantic Information to Improve the Performance of a
Restricted-Domain Question-Answering System..
Proceedings the QA workshop of Traitement Automatique de la Langue
Naturelle (TALN-2004),
pp. 441-450 (volume RECITAL), Fez, Morocco, April 2004.
L.
Kosseim and J. Yousefi (2004)
Filtering Out Bad
Answers with Semantic Relations in a Web-Based Question-Answering
System.. Proceedings
the QA workshop of Traitement Automatique de la Langue Naturelle
(TALN-2004) ,
pp. 423-430 (volume RECITAL).
H.
Doan-Nguyen and L. Kosseim (2004) Improving
the Precision of a Closed-Domain Question-Answering System with
Semantic Information.
Proceedings of
Recherche d'Information Assistée par Ordinateur (RIAO-2004),
pp. 850-859, Avignon, France, April 2004.
H.
Doan-Nguyen and L. Kosseim (2004) Amélioration
de la précision dans un système de question-réponse
de domaine fermé..
Actes des 7èmes
Journées internationales d'Analyse statistique des Données
Textuelles (JADT-2004), pp. 325-333. Louvain-la-Neuve,
Belgium, March 2004.
Refereed Conference Proceeding:
O.
El Dermerdash, PK Langshaw and L. Kosseim (2003) Toward
the Production of Adaptive Multimedia Presentations. Proceedings
of the Ninth International
Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM 2003). H.
Thwaites (Ed.). pp. 428-436, Montreal, October 2003.
L.
Kosseim, Luc Plamondon et
Guy Lapalme (2003)
La
réponse automatique comme solution a la gestion des relations
avec la clientèle - Une application de la question-réponse.
Revue
des sciences et technologies de l'information. série
Ingénierie des systèmes d'information (ISI) numéro
spécial Système d'information et langage naturel, 8(3),
2003. E. Métais et I. Comyn-Wattiau (Ed.), Lavoisier, Paris.
pp. 91-114.
L.
Kosseim, L. Plamondon and L.J. Guillemette (2003) Answer
Formulation for Question-Answering.
Yang Xiang, Brahim Chaib-draa (Eds.): Advances in Artificial
Intelligence, Proceedings of the
16th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of
Intelligence, AI 2003, Halifax , Canada, June 11-13, 2003,
Lecture
Notes in Computer Science
2671
Springer 2003.
G. B. Anaya and L.
Kosseim (2003) Generation
of natural responses through syntactic patterns. Actes
de la 10ème conférence annuelle sur le Traitement
Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN'2003). June
2003. Batz-sur-Mer.
N.
Stratica , L. Kosseim and B.C. Desai (2003) NLIDB
Templates for Semantic Parsing. Proceedings
of Applications of Natural Language to Data Bases (NLDB 2003). pp.
235-241, June 2003.
L.
Plamondon and L. Kosseim (2003) Le
Web et la question-réponse: transformer une question en
réponse. Actes
des Journées
Francophones de la Toile (JFT-2003). June 2003. Tours, France.
G.
Lapalme and L. Kosseim (2003) Mercure:
Towards an Automatic E-mail Follow-up System.
The
IEEE Computational Intelligence Bulletin, vol. 2, no. 1, June
2003.
Refereed Conference Proceeding:
L.
Plamondon and L. Kosseim (2002) QUANTUM:
A Function-Based Question Answering System. Proceedings
of The Fifteenth Canadian
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'2002), R. Cohen and B.
Spencer (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence no. 2338, pp
281-292, Springer-Verlag. Berlin . May 2002.
Non-Refereed Conference Proceeding:
L.
Plamondon, G. Lapalme and L. Kosseim (2002)
The QUANTUM
Question-Answering System at TREC-11.
Proceedings of the
11th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-11), November 2002.
N.
Stratica , L. Kosseim and B.C. Desai (2002) A
Natural Language Processor for Querying Cindi..
Proceedings
of International Conference Advances in Infrastructure for
e-Business, e-Education, e-Science, and e-Medicine on the Internet
(SSGRR 2002s).
Refereed Journal:
L.
Kosseim, S. Beauregard and G. Lapalme (2001) Using
Information Extraction and Natural Language Generation to Answer
E-mail. Data
and Knowledge Engineering Journal (38) 2001. pp. 85-100.
Elsevier.
Refereed Conference Proceeding:
T.
Poibeau and L. Kosseim (2001) Proper
Name Extraction from Non-Journalistic Texts. Computational
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2000: Selected Papers from the
Eleventh CLIN Meeting, W. Daelemans, K. Sima'an , J. Veenstra and J.
Zavrel (Eds), pp. 144-157. Rodopi.
L.
Kosseim and T. Poibeau (2001) Extraction
de noms propres à partir de textes variés:
problématique et enjeux. Actes
de la 8ème conférence annuelle sur le Traitement
Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN-2001), pp. 365-371, July
2001, Tours, France.
L.
Kosseim and G. Lapalme (2001) Critères
de sélection d'une approche pour le suivi automatique du
courriel.
Actes de la 8ème conférence annuelle sur le Traitement
Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN-2001), pp. 357-363, July
2001, Tours, France.
Non-Refereed Conference Proceeding:
L.
Plamondon, L. Kosseim and G. Lapalme (2001) The
QUANTUM Question-Answering System. Proceedings
of the
10th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-X), November 2001.
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
Refereed Journal:
L.
Kosseim and G. Lapalme (2000) Choosing
Rhetorical Structures to Plan Instructional Texts. Computational
Intelligence: An International Journal.
vol
16, no 3, pp. 408-445, August 2000. Blackwell .
Non-Refereed Conference Proceeding:
M.
Laszlo , L. Kosseim and G. Lapalme (2000) Goal-driven
Answer Extraction. Proceedings
of the 9th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-9). pp. 452-464,
November 2000.
Internal Report:
L.
Kosseim (2000) Systèmes
de réponse automatique: État de l'art.
Rapport
interne, Département d'informatique et de recherche
opérationnelle, Université de Montréal. 40
pages. March 2000.
Refereed Conference Proceeding:
L. Kosseim and G. Lapalme
(1998) Exibum: Un
système expérimental d'extraction d'information
bilingue. Actes de la
Rencontre Internationale sur l'extraction, le filtrage et le résumé
automatiques (RIFRA-98). pp. 129-140. November. Sfax. Tunisia.
1997
Invited Paper:
L.
Kosseim (1997) Génération
de structures sémantiques et rhétoriques dans les
textes procéduraux. Actes
du Workshop Le texte procédural: texte, action et cognition.
pp. 249-263. May.
1996
Refereed Conference Proceeding:
L.
Kosseim, A. Tutin, R. Kittredge and G. Lapalme (1996) Generating
Grammatical and Lexical Anaphora in Assembly Instructional Texts.
Trends
in Natural Language Generation, An Artificial Intelligence
Perspective, G. Adorni and M. Zock (Eds), Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence no. 1036, pp 260-275, Springer. Berlin.
1995
Refereed Conference Proceeding:
L.
Kosseim and G. Lapalme (1995) Choosing
Rhetorical Relations in Instructional Texts: The Case of Effects and
Guidances.
Proceedings
of The Fifth European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, pages
207-218.
Thesis:
L.
Kosseim (1995) Planification
de textes d'instructions: Sélection du contenu et de la
structure rhétorique.
Thèse de doctorat (PhD Thesis), Département
d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle. Université
de Montréal.
1994
Refereed Conference Proceeding:
L. Kosseim and G. Lapalme
(1994) Content and
Rhetorical Status Selection in Instructional Texts.
Proceedings of The Seventh
International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, pages 53-60,
Kennebunkport, Maine.
1993
Refereed Conference Proceeding:
L.
Kosseim, A. Tutin, R. Kittredge and G. Lapalme (1993) Generating
Anaphora in Assembly Instruction Texts. Proceedings
of The Fourth European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, pages
43-54, Pisa, Italy.
1992
Thesis:
L.
Kosseim (1992) Génération
de procédés anaphoriques dans les textes d'assemblage.
Mémoire
de maitrise (Master's Thesis), Département d'informatique et
de recherche opérationnelle. Université de Montréal.
Non-Refereed Conference Proceeding:
L.
Kosseim and G. Lapalme (1992) Un
système de génération d'anaphores dans les
textes d'assemblage.Texte
et Ordinateur: Les Mutations du Lire--Ecrire. Anis J. et Lebrave
J.-L. pp. 215-232. Volume hors série de la revue
LINX.Publication du Centre de Recherches Linguistiques de Paris X
Naterre.
G.
Lapalme, R. Kittredge, M. Fasciano, L. Kosseim, M. Gagnon, N.
Tourigny and A. Tutin (1992).
Le
projet de génération de texte SCRIPTUM.
ICO Intelligence Artificielle et Sciences Cognitives au Québec,
4(1-2):56-64.