PUBLICATIONS



Journals



Bonnie J. Dorr, Rebecca J. Passonneau, David Farwell, Rebecca Green, Nizar Habash, Stephen Helmreich, Eduard Hovy, Lori Levin, Keith J. Miller, Teruko Mitamura, Owen Rambow and Advaith Siddharthan, 2010. Interlingual annotation of parallel text corpora: a new framework for annotation and evaluation. Natural Language Engineering 16 (3): 197–243.

Walker, Marilyn; Rambow, Owen; and Rogati, Monica. Training a Sentence Planner for Spoken Dialogue Using Boosting Computer Speech and Language, Special Issue on Spoken Language Generation, July 2002.[pdf]

Rambow, Owen; Vijay-Shanker, K; and Weir, David, 2001. D-Tree Substitution Grammars. Computational Linguistics 27(1).

Rambow, Owen and Satta, Giorgio, 1999. Independent Parallelism in Finite Copying Parallel Rewriting Systems. Theoretical Computer Science 223(1-2).

Frank, Robert; Lee, Young-Suk; and Rambow, Owen, 1997. Scrambling, Reconstruction and Subject Binding. Rivista di Grammatica Generativa.

Rambow, Owen, and Young-Suk Lee, 1994. Word Order Variation and Tree Adjoining Grammar. Computational Intelligence 10(4).

Kittredge, Richard; Korelsky, Tanya; and Rambow, Owen, 1991. On the Need for Domain Communication Knowledge. Computational Intelligence 7(4).

Rosenthal, David; Korelsky, Tatiana; McCullough, Daryl; Rambow, Owen; and D.G. Weber, 1988. The Ulysses Integrated Modeling Environment and its Relationship to KBSA. Heuristics 1(2).



Books, Book Chapters, and Invited Contributions



Nasr, Alexis and Rambow, Owen, 2009. Nonlexical Chart Parsing for TAG. In Complexity of Lexical Descriptions and its Relevance to Natural Language Processing: A Supertagging Approach, MIT Press. Edited by Srinivas Bangalore and Aravind Joshi.

Rambow, Owen, 2003. Coherent constructions in German: Lexicon or syntax? In Seuren, Pieter A.M.; and Kempen, Gerard, editors, Verb Constructions in German and Dutch. Benjamins. [pdf]

Rambow,Owen; Dorr, Bonnie J.; Kipper, Karin; Kucerová, Ivona; and Palmer, Martha, 2003. Automatically Deriving Tectogrammatical Labels From Other Resources: A Comparison Of Semantic Labels Across Frameworks. Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, vol. 79-80, pages 23-35. [pdf]

Abeillé, Anne and Rambow, Owen, 2000, editors. Tree Adjoining Grammars: Formalisms, Linguistic Analyses and Processing. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA.

Abeillé, Anne and Rambow, Owen, 2000. Tree Adjoining Grammar: An Overview. In Abeillé, Anne; and Rambow, Owen, editors, Tree Adjoining Grammars: Formalisms, Linguistic Analyses and Processing. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA.

Joshi, Aravind; Becker, Tilman; and Rambow, Owen, 2000. Complexity of Scambling: A New Twist to the Competence-Performance Distinction. In Abeillé, Anne; and Rambow, Owen, editors, Tree Adjoining Grammars: Formalisms, Linguistic Analyses and Processing. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA.

Rambow, Owen and Aravind Joshi, 1997. A Formal Look at Dependency Grammars and Phrase-Structure Grammars, with Special Consideration of Word-Order Phenomena. In Wanner, Leo, editor, Current Issues in Meaning-Text Theory. Pinter, London.
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Rambow, Owen and Joshi, Aravind, 1994. A Processing Model for Free Word Order Languages. In Clifton, C., Jr.; Frazier, L.; and Rayner, K., editors, Perspectives on sentence processing. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.



Refereed Conference and Workshop Proceedings



Yuval Marton; Nizar Habash; and Owen Rambow. Improving Arabic Dependency Parsing with Form-based and Functional Morphological Features. In Proceedings of ACL HLT 2011. [pdf]



Agarwal, Apoorv and Rambow, Owen. Automatic Detection and Classification of Social Events. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP2010). [pdf]

Agarwal, Apoorv; Rambow, Owen; and Passonneau, Rebecca. Annotation Scheme for Social Network Extraction from Text. In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Linguistic Annotation (LAW4).

Mohamed Altantawy, Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow and Ibrahim Saleh, 2010. Morphological Analysis and Generation of Arabic Nouns: A Morphemic Functional Approach. In Proceedings of LREC 2010.

Archna Bhatia, Rajesh Bhatt, Bhuvana Narasimhan, Martha Palmer, Owen Rambow, Dipti Misra Sharma, Michael Tepper, Ashwini Vaidya and Fei Xia, 2010. Empty Categories in a Hindi Treebank. In Proceedings of LREC 2010.

Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar; Rambow, Owen; and Diab, Mona. Automatic Committed Belief Tagging. In Proceedings of Coling 2010. [pdf]

Rambow, Owen. The Simple Truth about Dependency and Phrase Structure Representations: An Opinion Piece. In Human Language Technologies 2010: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL HLT 2010); Companion Volume, Short Papers. [pdf]

Yves Scherrer and Owen Rambow. Natural Language Processing for the Swiss German dialect area. In Proceedings of KONVENS 2010.

Yves Scherrer and Owen Rambow. Word-based dialect identification with georeferenced rules. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP2010). [pdf]



Agarwal, Apoorv; Rambow, Owen; and Bhardwaj, Nandini. Predicting Interests of People on Online Social Networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Social Computing Applications. [pdf]

Bangalore, Srinivas; Boullier, Pierre; Nasr, Alexis; Rambow Owen; and Sagot, Benoît, 2009. MICA: A Probabilistic Dependency Parser Based on Tree Insertion Grammars. In Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Short Papers. [pdf]

Bhatt, Rajesh; Narasimhan, Bhuvana; Palmer, Martha; Rambow, Owen; Sharma; Dipti Misra; and Xia, Fei, 2009. A Multi-Representational and Multi-Layered Treebank for Hindi/Urdu. In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Linguistic Annotation (LAW3). [pdf]

Coyne, Robert and Rambow, Owen, 2009. Meaning-Text-Theory and Lexical Frames. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory (MTT'09).

Coyne, Robert and Rambow, Owen, 2009. LexPar: A Freely Available English Paraphrase Lexicon Automatically Extracted from FrameNet. In Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2009).

Diab, Mona T.; Levin, Lori; Mitamura, Teruko; Rambow, Owen; Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar; and Guo, Weiwei. Committed Belief Annotation and Tagging. In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Linguistic Annotation (LAW3). [pdf]

Hu, Jun; Passonneau, Rebecca J.; Rambow, Owen. 2009. Contrasting the interaction structure of an email and a telephone corpus: A machine learning approach to annotation of dialogue function units. In Proceedings of the 10th SIGDIAL on Dialogue and Discourse. London, UK. [pdf]

Xia, Fei; Rambow, Owen; Bhatt, Rajesh; Palmer, Martha; and Sharma; Dipti Misra, 2009. Towards a multi-representational treebank. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 7). [pdf]



Alonso Ramos, Margarita; Rambow, Owen; and Wanner, Leo, 2008. Using Semantically Annotated Corpora to Build Collocation Resources. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2008). Marrakesh, Morocco. [pdf]

Farber, Benjamin; Freitag, Dayne; Habash, Nizar; and Rambow, Owen, 2008. Improving NER in Arabic Using a Morphological Tagger. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2008). Marrakesh, Morocco. [pdf]

Habash, Nizar; Rambow, Owen; Diab, Mona; and Kanjawi-Faraj, Reem, 2008. Guidelines for Annotation of Arabic Dialectness. In Proceedings of the LREC Workshop on HLT & NLP within the Arabic world. Marrakesh, Morocco.

Lerman, Kevin and Rambow, Owen. Is Coordination Quantification? In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms (TAG+9). Tübingen, Germany.

Roth, Ryan; Rambow, Owen; Habash, Nizar; Diab, Mona; and Rudin, Cynthia, 2008. Arabic Morphological Tagging, Diacritization, and Lemmatization Using Lexeme Models and Feature Ranking. In Proceedings of ACL-08:HLT (Short Papers). [pdf]



Blair-Goldensohn, Sasha; McKeown, Kathleen; and Rambow, Owen. 2007. Building and Refining Rhetorical-Semantic Relation Models. In Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL HLT 2007); Proceedings of the Main Conference. [pdf]

Habash, Nizar and Rambow, Owen, 2007. Arabic Diacritization through Full Morphological Tagging In Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL HLT 2007); Companion Volume, Short Papers. [pdf]

Habash, Nizar; Gabbard, Ryan; Rambow, Owen; Kulick, Seth; and Marcus, Mitch, 2007. Determining Case in Arabic: Learning Complex Linguistic Behavior Requires Complex Linguistic Features. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL 2007). [pdf]

Kirchhoff, Katrin; Owen Rambow; Nizar Habash; and Mona Diab, 2007. Semi-Automatic Error Analysis for Large-Scale Statistical Machine Translation Systems. In Proceedings of the Machine Translation Summit (MT-Summit 2007), Copenhagen, Denmark.

Koller, Alexander and Rambow, Owen. Relating Dominance Formalisms. In Proceedings of the Conference on Formal Grammar (FG2007). [pdf]

McKeown, Kathleen; Shrestha, Lokesh; and Rambow, Owen, 2007. Using Question-Answer Pairs in Extractive Summarization of Email Conversations. Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (Proceedings of CICLing 2007), Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4394, pp. 542-550.

Muresan, Smaranda and Rambow, Owen, 2007. Grammar Approximation by Representative Sublanguage: A New Model for Language Learning. In Proceedings of the 45th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'07). [pdf]



Chiang, David; Diab, Mona; Habash, Nizar; Rambow, Owen; and Sharif, Safiullah, 2006. Parsing Arabic Dialects. In Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Trento, Italy. [pdf]

Chiang, David and Rambow, Owen, 2006. The Hidden TAG Model: Synchronous Grammars for Parsing Resource-Poor Languages. In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms (TAG+8). Sydney, Australia. [pdf]

Habash, Nizar and Rambow, Owen, 2006. Morphological Analysis for Arabic Dialects. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-Coling'06). Sydney, Australia. [pdf]

Kinyon, Alexandra; Rambow, Owen; Scheffler, Tatjana; Yoon, SinWon; and Joshi, Aravind K., 2006. The Metagrammar Goes Multilingual: A Cross-Linguistic Look at the V2-Phenomenon. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms (TAG+8). Sydney, Australia. [pdf]

Maamouri, Mohamed; Bies, Ann; Buckwalter, Tim; Diab, Mona; Habash, Nizar; Rambow, Owen; Tabessi, Dalila. Developing and Using a Pilot Dialectal Arabic Treebank. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2006). Genoa, Italy.

Nasr, Alexis and Rambow, Owen, 2006. Parsing with Lexicalized Probabilistic Recursive Transition Networks. In Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing, Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Commputer Science. [pdf]

Passonneau, Rebecca; Habash, Nizar; and Rambow, Owen. Interannotator Agreement on a Multilingual Semantic Annotation Task. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2006). Genoa, Italy.

Rambow, Owen; Dorr, Bonnie; Farwell, David; Green, Rebecca; Habash, Nizar; Helmreich, Stephen; Hovy, Eduard; Levin, Lori; Miller, Keith J.; Mitamura, Teruko; Reeder; Florence; Siddharthan, Advaith, 2006. Parallel Syntactic Annotation of Multiple Languages. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2006). Genoa, Italy. [pdf]



Habash, Nizar and Rambow, Owen, 2005. Arabic Tokenization, Part-of-Speech Tagging and Morphological Disambiguation in One Fell Swoop. In Proceedings of the 43rd Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'05). [pdf]

Habash, Nizar; Rambow, Owen; and Kiraz, George, 2005. Morphological Analysis and Generation for Arabic Dialects. In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Semitic Languages. [pdf]

Harnly, Aaron; Nenkova, Ani; Passonneau, Rebecca; and Rambow, Owen, 2005. Automation of Summary Evaluation by the Pyramid Method. In Proceedings of the International Conference RANLP - 2005 (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing). [pdf]



Dorr, Bonnie J.; Rebecca Green; Lori Levin; Owen Rambow; David Farwell; Nizar Habash; Stephen Helmreich; Eduard Hovy; Keith J. Miller; Teruko Mitamura; Florence Reeder; and Advaith Siddharthan, 2004. Semantic Annotation and Lexico-Syntactic Paraphrase, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Building Lexical Resources from Semantically Annotated Corpora, LREC, Portugal. [pdf]

Farwell, David; Stephen Helmreich; Florence Reeder; Keith Miller; Bonnie Dorr; Nizar Habash; Eduard Hovy; Lori Levin; Teruko Mitamura; Owen Rambow; and Advaith Siddharthan, 2004. Interlingual Annotation of Multilingual Text Corpus. In Proceedings of the NAACL/HLT Workshop: New Frontiers in Corpus Annotation, Boston, MA. [pdf]

Habash, Nizar and Rambow, Owen, 2004. Extracting a Tree Adjoining Grammar from the Penn Arabic Treebank. In Actes du Congrès TALN 2004, Session Spéciale: Traitement Automatique de la Langue Arabe Écrite et Parlée.

Mitamura, Teruko; Keith J. Miller; Bonnie J. Dorr; David Farwell; Nizar Habash; Lori Levin; Stephen Helmreich; Eduard Hovy; Lori Levin; Owen Rambow; Reeder, Florence; and Advaith Siddharthan, 2004. Semantic Annotation of Multilingual Text Corpora. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Beyond Named Entity Recognition: Semantic Labelling for NLP Tasks, LREC, Portugal, 2004. [pdf]

Nasr, Alexis and Rambow, Owen, 2004. SuperTagging and Full Parsing. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms (TAG+7). [pdf]

Nasr, Alexis and Rambow, Owen, 2004. A Simple String-Rewriting Formalism for Dependency Grammar. In Recent Advances in Dependency Grammar: Proceedings of the Coling Worshop. [pdf]

Rambow, Owen; Shrestha, Lokesh; Chen, John; and Lauridsen, Chirsty, 2004. Summarizing Email Threads In Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2004. [pdf]

Reeder, Florence, Bonnie Dorr, David Farwell, Nizar Habash, Stephen Helmreich, Eduard Hovy, Lori Levin, Teruko Mitamura, Keith Miller, Owen Rambow, and Advaith Siddharthan, 2004. Interlingual Annotation for MT Development. In Proceedings of the 6th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA-2004), Georgetown University, Washington DC. [pdf]



Chen, John and Rambow, Owen, 2003. Labeling Syntactic Structure With Semantic Tags. In Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP03), Sapporo, Japan.

Joshi, Aravind and Rambow, Owen, 2003. A Formalism for Dependency Grammar Based on Tree Adjoining Grammar. In Proceedings of the Conference on Meaning-Text Theory, Paris, France. [pdf]

Kinyon Alexandra and Rambow, Owen, 2003. The MetaGrammar: a Cross-Framework and Cross-Language Test-Suite Generation Tool. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora European Association for Computational Linguistics, Budapest, Hungary. [pdf]



Chen John; Bangalore, Srinivas; Collins, Michael; and Rambow, Owen, 2002. Reranking an N-Gram Supertagger. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks (TAG+6), Venice, Italy. [pdf]

Chen, John; Bangalore, Srinivas; Rambow, Owen; and Walker, Marilyn, 2002. Towards Automatic Generation of Natural Language Generation Systems. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002), Taipei, Taiwan.

MacLachlan, Anna and Rambow, Owen. Cross-Serial Dependencies in Tagalog, 2002. In Proceedings the Sixth Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars (TAG+ 6), Venice, Italy. [pdf]

Nasr, Alexis; Rambow, Owen; Chen, John; and Bangalore, Srinivas, 2002. Context-Free Parsing of a Tree Adjoining Grammar Using Finite-State Machines. In Proceedings the Sixth Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars (TAG+ 6), Venice, Italy. [ps]

Rambow, Owen; Bangalore, Srinivas; Butt, Tahir; Nasr, Alexis; and Sproat, Richard, 2002. Creating a Finite-State Parser with Application Semantics. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002), Taipei, Taiwan.

Rambow, Owen; Creswell, Cassandre; Szekely, Rachel; Taber, Harriet; and Walker, Marilyn, 2002. A Dependency Treebank for English. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2002), Las Palmas, Spain. [pdf]



Bangalore, Srinivas; Chen, John; and Rambow, Owen, 2001. Impact of Quality and Quantity of Corpora on Stochastic Generation. In Proceedings of the 2001 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP01), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2001. [pdf]

Hardt, Daniel and Rambow, Owen, 2001. Generating VP Ellipsis. In Proceedings of the 39th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'01), Toulouse, France. [pdf]

Hirschberg, Julia and Rambow, Owen, 2001. Learning Prosodic Features using a Tree Representation. In Proceedings of Eurospeech 2001, Aalborg, Denmark. [ps]

Overmyer, Scott; Lavoie, Benoit; and Rambow, Owen, 2001. Conceptual Modeling through Linguistic Analysis Using LIDA. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2001), Toronto, Canada. [pdf]

Rambow, Owen; Bangalore, Srinivas; and Walker, Marilyn, 2001. Natural Language Generation in Dialog Systems. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research (HLT2001), San Diego, USA. [pdf] [ps]

Rambow, Owen; Rogati, Monica; and Walker, Marilyn, 2001. Evaluating a trainable sentence planner for a spoken dialogue system. In Proceedings of the 39th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'01), Toulouse, France. [pdf] [ps]

Walker, Marilyn; Rambow, Owen; and Rogati, Monica, 2001. SPoT: a trainable sentence planner. In 2nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL'01), Pittsburgh, PA. [ps]



Bangalore, Srinivas and Rambow, Owen, 2000. Corpus-Based Lexical Choice in Natural Language Generation. In Proceedings of the 38th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'00), Hongkong, China. [ps]

Bangalore, Srinivas and Rambow, Owen, 2000. Exploiting a Probabilistic Hierarchical Model for Generation. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2000), Saarbrücken, Germany. [ps]

Bangalore, Srinivas and Rambow, Owen, 2000. Using TAG, a Tree Model, and a Language Model for Generation. In Proceedings the Fifth Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars (TAG+ 5), Paris, France. [ps]

Bangalore, Srinivas; Rambow, Owen; and Whittaker, Steven. Evaluation Metrics for Generation. In Proceedings of the First International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG2000), Mitzpe Ramon, Israel. [ps]

Han, Chung-hye; Lavoie, Benoit; Palmer, Martha; Rambow, Owen; Kittredge, Richard; Korelsky, Tanya; Kim, Nari; and Kim, Myunghee, 2000. Handling Structural Divergences and Recovering Dropped Arguments in a Korean-English Machine Translation System. In Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2000), Misión Del Sol, Mexico. [pdf] [ps]

Han, Chung-hye and Rambow Owen, 2000. The Sino-Korean light verb construction and lexical argument structure. In Proceedings the Fifth Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars (TAG+ 5), Paris, France. [ps]

Lavoie, Benoit; Kittredge, Richard; Korelsky, Tanya; and Rambow, Owen, 2000. A Framework for MT and Multilingual NLG Systems Based on Uniform Lexico-Structural Processing. In Proceedings of ANLP/NAACL 2000, Seattle, Washington. [pdf] [ps]

White, Michael; Cardie, Claire; Han, Chung-hye; Kim, Nari; Lavoie, Benoit; Palmer, Martha; Rambow, Owen; and Yoon, Juntae, 2000. Towards Translingual Information Access using Portable Information Extraction. In Proceedings of the ANLP/NAACL 2000 Workshop on Embedded Machine Translation Systems, Seattle, WA, pp. 31-37. [pdf]



Rambow, Owen, 1999. Extended Discourse Plan Operators. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Levels of Representation in Discourse, Edinburgh, Scotland. [pdf]



Barzilay Regina; Daryl McCullough; Owen Rambow; Jonathan di Christofaro; Tanya Korelsky; Benoit Lavoie, 1998. A New Approach to Expert System Explanations. In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. [pdf] [ps]

Kahane, Sylvain; Alexis Nasr; and Owen Rambow, 1998. Pseudo-Projectivity: A Polynomially Parsable Non-Projective Dependency Grammar. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Montréal, Canada.

Lavoie, Benoit and Owen Rambow, 1998. A Framework for Customizable Generation of Multi-Modal Presentations. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Montréal, Canada.

Nasr, Alexis; Owen Rambow; and Richard Kittredge, 1998. A Linguistic Framework for Controlled Language Systems. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Controled Languages (CLAW98), Pittsburgh, PA.[pdf]

Palmer, Martha; Rambow, Owen; and Nasr, Alexis, 1998. Rapid Prototying of Domain-Specific Machine Translation Systems. In Machine Translation and the Information Soup - Proceedings of the Third Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas AMTA'98, Springer Verlag (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence No. 1529), Berlin. [pdf] [ps]

Rambow, Owen and K. Vijay-Shanker. Island Effects in TAG and Related Formalisms. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG+4), Philadelphia, PA.



Doran, Christine; Beth Hockey; Philip Hopely; Joseph Rosenzweig; Anoop Sarkar; B. Srinivas; Fei Xia; Alexis Nasr and Owen Rambow, 1997. Maintaining the Forest and Burning out the Underbrush in XTAG. In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Computational Environments for Grammar Development and Language Engineering (ENVGRAM), Madrid, Spain.

Lavoie, Benoit and Rambow, Owen, 1997. A Fast and Portable Realizer for Text Generation Systems. In Fifth Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, Washington, DC. [pdf] [ps]

Lavoie, Benoit; Rambow, Owen; and Reiter, Ehud, 1997. Customizable Descriptions of Object-Oriented Models. In Fifth Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, Washington, DC. [pdf] [ps]

Nasr, Alexis; Rambow, Owen; Palmer, Martha; and Rosenzweig, Joseph, 1997. Enriching Lexical Transfer With Cross-Linguistic Semantic Features. In Proceedings of the AMTA/SIG-IL First Workshop on Interlingua, San Diego, CA. Published as New Mexico State University Computing Research Laboratory technical report MCCS-97-314.

Rambow, Owen, 1997. A Polynomial Model for Unrestricted Functional Uncertainty. In Proceedings of the Fifth Meeting of Mathematic of Language (MOL5), Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany.



Korelsky, Tanya; Rambow, Owen; and Michael White, 1996. Interactive Generation of Natural Language Text. In Proceedings of the Dual-Use Technologies and Applications Conference.

Lavoie, Benoit; Rambow, Owen; and Reiter, Ehud, 1996. The ModelExplainer. In Demonstration Notes of the International Natural Language Generation Workshop (INLG-96), Hermonceux Castle, Sussex, UK.

Rambow, Owen, 1996. Imposing Vertical Context Conditions on Derivations. In Jürgen Dassow, editor, Proceedings of the Second International Conference ``Developments in Language Theory'', World Scientific, Singapore.

Rambow, Owen, 1996. Word Order, Clause Union, and the Formal Machinery of Syntax. In Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King, editors, Proceedings of the First LFG Conference. [ps]

Rambow, Owen and Satta, Giorgio. Synchronous Models of Language. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Santa Cruz, CA.



Becker, Tilman and Rambow, Owen, 1995. Parsing Non-Immediate Dominance Links. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies. Prague and Karlovy Vara, Czech Republic.

Rambow, Owen, 1995. Coherent Constructions in German: Lexicon or Syntax? In Glyn Morrill and Richard T. Oehrle, editors, Formal Grammar. Barcelona.

Rambow, Owen and Santorini, Beatrice, 1995. Incremental Phrase Structure Generation and a Universal Theory of V2. In Proceedings of NELS 25. GLSA, Amherst, MA. [pdf]

Rambow, Owen; Vijay-Shanker, K.; and Weir, David, 1995. D-Tree Grammars. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Cambridge, MA.

Vijay-Shanker, K.; Weir, David; and Rambow, Owen, 1995. Parsing D-Tree Grammars. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies. Prague and Karlovy Vara, Czech Republic.



Becker, Tilman and Rambow, Owen, 1994. Parsing Free Word-Order Languages. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar. Paris, France.

Kroch, Anthony and Rambow, Owen, 1994. Some Linguistic Uses of Quasi Trees. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar. Paris, France.

Rambow, Owen, 1994. Multiset-Valued Linear Index Grammars. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Las Cruces, NM.

Rambow, Owen and Satta, Giorgio, 1994. A Rank Hierarchy for Deterministic Tree-Walking Transducers. In Sophie Tison, editor, Proceedings of CAAP'94 - Colloquium on Trees in Algebra and Programming. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 787.

Rambow, Owen, and Satta, Giorgio, 1994. A Non-Local Formalism that is Mildly Context Sensitive. In C. Martín-Vide, editor, Current Trends in Mathematical Linguistics. Elsevier-North Holland.

Walker, Marilyn, and Rambow, Owen, 1994. The Role of Cognitive Modeling in Achieving Communicative Intentions. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation. Kennebunkport, ME.



Korelsky, Tanya; McCullough, Daryl; and Rambow, Owen, 1993. Knowledge Requirements for the Automatic Generation of Project Management Reports. In Proceedings of the 6th Conference for Knowledge-Based Software Engineering. IEEE.

Rambow, Owen, 1993. Rhetoric as Knowledge. In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Intentionality and Structure in Discourse Relations. Columbus, OH.



Frank, Robert; Lee, Young-Suk; and Rambow, Owen, 1992. Scrambling as Non-Operator Movement and the Special Status of Subjects. In LCJL (Leiden Conference for Junior Linguists) 3 Proceedings.

Rambow, Owen, 1992. Immediate Dominance, Linear Precedence, and the Representation of Syntax. In Proceedings of the 2nd International TAG+ Workshop. Philadelphia, PA.

Rambow, Owen, 1992. A Linguistic and Computational Analysis of the German Third Construction. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Student Session. Newark, DE.

Rambow, Owen and Joshi, Aravind, 1992. A Formal Look at Dependency Grammars and Phrase-Structure Grammars, with Special Consideration of Word-Order Phenomena. In International Workshop on The Meaning-Text Theory. Darmstadt. Arbeitspapiere der GMD 671.

Rambow, Owen and Korelsky, Tanya, 1992. Applied Text Generation. In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Trento, Italy.

Rambow, Owen and Satta, Giorgio, 1992. Formal Properties of Non-Locality. In Proceedings of the TAG+ Workshop. Philadelphia, PA.



Becker, Tilman; Joshi, Aravind; and Rambow, Owen, 1991. Long Distance Scrambling and Tree Adjoining Grammars. In Proceedings of the 5th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Berlin, Germany.

Rambow, Owen, 1991. Long-distance scrambling as underspecification: an analysis based on Tree Adjoining Grammars. In Penn Review of Linguistics.



Rambow, Owen, 1990. Domain Communication Knowledge. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Natural Language Generation. Dawson, PA.



Rambow, Owen, 1989. Machine-User Communication: Planning the Flow of Information from the Computer to the User. In Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Advanced Interfaces. Detroit, MI.



Carcagno, Denis; Kittredge, Richard; and Rambow, Owen, 1988. Text Planning for Report Generation. In Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Text Planning and Generation. St. Paul, MN.

Rambow, Owen, 1988. Teaching a Second Language to a Computer. In 4. Österreichische Artificial Intelligence Tagung: Proceedings. Springer, Berlin.



Invited and Refereed Conference and Workshop Presentations



Rambow, Owen and Satta, Giorgio, 1995. Synchronous String Rewriting. Fourth Meeting on Mathematics of Language (MOL4), Philadelphia.

Rambow, Owen; Vijay-Shanker, K.; and Weir, David, 1995. Formal Properties of D-Tree Grammars. Fourth Meeting on Mathematics of Language (MOL4), Philadelphia.

Rambow, Owen and Joshi, Aravind, 1993. An Automaton Account of Long-Distance Scrambling. Sixth Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Amherst, MA.

Lee, Young-Suk and Rambow, Owen, 1992. Scrambling in Korean: a TAG Analysis. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.

Rambow, Owen; Becker, Tilman; and Niv, Michael, 1992. Scrambling is Beyond LCFRS. 3rd Workshop on the Mathematics of Language (MOL3), Austin, Texas, November 1992.

Becker, Tilman and Rambow, Owen, 1991. Long-Distance Scrambling, TAGs and HPSG. Workshop on HPSG and German, Saarbrücken.



Theses and Technical Reports



Rambow, Owen; Chiang, David; Diab, Mona; Habash, Nizar; Hwa, Rebecca; Sima'an, Khalil; Lacey, Vincent; Levy, Roger; Nichols, Carol; and Shareef, Safiullah, 2005. Parsing Arabic Dialects. Final Report, JHU Summer Workshop. [pdf]

Rambow, Owen, 1994. Formal and Computational Aspects of Natural Language Syntax. Dissertation. IRCS Technical Report, University of Pennsylvania. [ps]

Rambow, Owen, 1993. Natural Language Syntax and Formal Systems. Dissertation Proposal. IRCS Technical Report, University of Pennsylvania.

Becker, Tilman; Rambow, Owen; and Niv, Michael, 1992. The Derivational Generative Power of Formal Systems, or Scrambling is Beyond LCFRS. IRCS Technical Report, University of Pennsylvania. [ps]

DeBellis, M.; Miriyala, K.; Bhat, S.; Sasso, B.; and Rambow, Owen, 1992. KBSA (Knowledge-Based Software Assistant) Concept Demo Final Report. Technical Report, Rome Laboratory.

Rambow, Owen, 1992. Immediate Dominance, Linear Precedence, and the Representation of Syntax. IRCS Technical Report, University of Pennsylvania.



Unpublished Papers



Rambow, Owen, 1993. Pragmatic Aspects of Scrambling and Topicalization in German: A Centering Approach. University of Pennsylvania. [ps]