Eleni Miltsakaki

PhD Thesis

2003 The Syntax-Discourse Interface: Effects of the Main-Subordinate Distinction on Attention Structure.
PhD thesis. Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania.
Thesis co-advisors: Ellen Prince and Aravind Joshi.

Journals

2004 Evaluation of Text Coherence for Electronic Essay Scoring Systems. (draft version)
(With K. Kukich) In Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 10(1).

2003 D-LTAG System - Discourse Parsing with a Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar.
(With K. Forbes, R. Prasad, A. Sarkar, A. Joshi and B. Webber)
In Journal of Language, Logic and Information, 12(3): 261-279.
2002 Towards an Aposynthesis of Topic Continuity and Intrasentential Anaphora.
In Computational Linguistics, Vol. 28(3).

Book chapters

To appear Not All Subjects Are Born Equal: A Look at Complex Sentence Structure.
In E. Gibson and N. Perlmutter (eds),
The Processing and Acquisition of Reference.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

2006 Centering Theory on Greek Narratives and Newspaper Articles (paper written in Greek). (With Nikiforos Karamanis)
From Written to Electronic Discourse: A Collection of Articles in Honor of G. Babiniotis.

2005 Anaphora Resolution: A Centering Approach.
(With Aravind Joshi and Rashmi Prasad)
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition .
Elsevier.

2004 The Predicate-Argument Structure of Connectives: A Corpus-based Study.
(With Cassandre Creswell, Katherine Forbes, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber)
In A. Branco, T. McEnery, and R. Mitkov (eds),
Anaphora Processing: Linguistic, Cognitive and Computational Modelling.
John Benjamins Publishing Company.

System Demos

2009 Eleni Miltsakaki.
Demo of Antelogue: Pronoun Resolution for Dialogues.
Demo session of Third IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC '09), Berkeley, U.S.A. .

2009 Eleni Miltsakaki.
Matching Readers' Preferences and Reading Skills with Web Text.
Demo session of 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL '09), Athens, Greece. .

Conferences

2010 Livio Robaldo, Eleni Miltsakaki and Alessia Bianchini.
Sources of Expectation in Concession.pdf
Proceedings of Conference on Semantics and Formal Modelling (JSM '10), Nancy, France. .

2010 Livio Robaldo, Eleni Miltsakaki and Alessia Bianchini.
Corpus-based Semantics of Concession: Where do Expectations Come from?
Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Language, Resources and Evaluation (LREC '10), Malta, Italy. .

2009 Eleni Miltsakaki.
Referential Properties of Dropped Subjects and Pronouns in Greek. pdf of presentation
Proceedings of the International Conference on Greek Linguistics 9, Chicago, U.S.A. .

2008 Timothee Cour, Chris Jordan, Eleni Miltsakaki, and Ben Taskar.
Movie/Script: Alignment and Parsing of Video and Text Transcription.
Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2008, Marseille. .

2008 Rashmi Prasad, Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, Eleni Miltsakaki, Livio Robaldo, Aravind Joshi, and Bonnie Webber.
The Penn Discourse Treebank 2.0. pdf
Proceedings of the the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008), Marrakech, Morocco. .

2008 Eleni Miltsakaki, Livio Robaldo, Alan Lee, and Aravind Joshi.
Sense Annotation in the Penn Discourse Treebank. pdf
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Haifa, Israel. .

2007 Eleni Miltsakaki and Audrey Troutt.
Read-X: Automatic Evaluation of Reading Difficulty of Web Text.
In Proceedings of E-Learn 2007, sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. Quebec, Canada.
2007 Eleni Miltsakaki.
A Rethink of the Mapping between Salience and Referring Expression.
Presented at the 20th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing,La Jolla, California .

2007 Stella Tsaklidou and Eleni Miltsakaki.
The Role of Animacy in the Ranking of Entities in Complex NPs: Evidence from Greek.
Presented at the 31st Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Philadelphia.

2007 Eleni Miltsakaki.
A Rethink of the Relationship between Salience and Anaphora Resolution.
In Proceedings of the 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, Lagos, Portugal.

2006 The (Non)-Tension between Structural and Semantic Focusing: Evidence from Greek
(With Martha Lambropoulou and Athanasios Koutroupis)
Poster presentation, in Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP 2006),Nijmegen, Netherlands .

2004 The Penn Discourse Treebank
(With Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber)
In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004), Lisbon.

2004 Structural vs Semantic Focusing: Distributional Evidence from Referential Forms in Adverbial Clauses
To be presented at 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Maryland, College Park.

2004 A Centering Analysis of Relative Clauses in English and Greek
To appear in Proceedings of the 28th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

2003 An Empirical Investigation of Discourse Coherence, Salience, and Reference in Greek Relative Clauses
6th International Conference of Greek Linguistics, Rethymno, Greece..
2003 Reference in Relative Clauses: The Significance of Marking Low Salience and Its Implications for 'Recency' and 'Subjecthood'
Presented at the 16th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, MIT, Cambridge.

2003 Anaphoric Arguments of Discourse Connectives: Semantic Properties of Antecedents Versus Non-antecedents.
(With C. Creswell, K. Forbes, A. Joshi and B. Webber)
In Proceedings of the Computational Treatment of Anaphora Workshop, EACL 2003, Budabest.
2003 The Syntax-Discourse Interface: Reference in Subordinate Clauses.
Presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2003), Atlanta.

2002 The Discourse Anaphoric Properties of Connectives.
(With C. Creswell, K. Forbes, R. Prasad, A. Joshi and B. Webber)
In Proceedings of the 4th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC 2002), Lisbon.

2002 Effects of Subordination on Referential Form and Interpretation.
In Proceedings of the 26th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Philadelphia.

2001 On the Interpretation of Weak and Strong Pronominals in Greek. (.doc file)
In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Sorbonne.

2001 Centering in Greek.
In Proceedings of 15th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Thessaloniki. Also in .pdf

2000 The Role of Centering Theory's Rough-Shift in the Teaching and Evaluation of Writing Skills.
(With K. Kukich) Also in .pdf
In Proceedings of ACL 2000, Hong-Kong.

1999 A Study on Greek Questions Conveying Disagreement. Presented at PRAGMA '99, Tel-Aviv.

Workshops

2008 Livio Robaldo, Eleni Miltsakaki and Jerry Hobbs.
Refining the Meaning of Sense Labels in PDTB: "Concession".
Proceedings of Symposium on Semantics in Text Processing, STEP 2008, Venice. .

2008 Eleni Miltsakaki and Audrey Troutt.
Real Time Web Text Classification and Analysis of Reading Difficulty. pdf
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, at the 46th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Human Language Technologies, Columbus, OH. .

2006 Animacy Effects on Discourse Prominence in Greek Complex NPs
(With Stella Tsaklidou)
Poster presentation, in Proceedings of ISCA Tutorial and Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, Athens.

2006 Effects of Structural Prominence on Anaphora: The Case of Relative Clauses
(With Paschalia Patsala)
Poster presentaiton, in Proceedings of ISCA Tutorial and Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, Athens.

2005 Experiments on Sense Annotations and Sense Disambiguation of Discourse Connectives
(With Nikhil Dinesh, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber)
In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT2005), Barcelona.

2005 The Penn Discourse TreeBank as a Resource for Natural Language Generation
(With Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi, Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, and Bonnie Webber)
In Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics Workshop on Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation, Birmingham, U.K. July 2005. .

2005 Attribution and the (Non-) Alignment of Syntactic and Discourse Arguments of Connectives
(With Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber)
ACL 2005 Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus Annotation II: Pie in Sky.
2005 Investigating Salience in Complex Sentences: A Look at Relative Clauses.
On the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: A Workshop in Honor of Ellen Prince.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

2004 Annotating Discourse Connectives and Their Arguments
(With Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber)
In Proceedings of the Frontiers in Corpus Annotation 2004 NAACL/HLT Conference Workshop, Boston.

2004 Annotation and Data Mining of the Penn Discourse Treebank
(With Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber)
In Proceedings of the ACL 2004 Workshop on Discourse Annotation, Barcelona.

2003 Anaphoric Arguments of Discourse Connectives: Semantic Properties of Antecedents Versus Non-antecedents.
(With C. Creswell, K. Forbes, A. Joshi and B. Webber)
In Proceedings of the Computational Treatment of Anaphora Workshop, EACL 2003, Budabest.
2001 D-LTAG System - Discourse Parsing with a Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar.
(With K. Forbes, R. Prasad, A. Sarkar, A. Joshi and B. Webber)
In Proceedings of the Information Structure, Discourse Structure and Discourse Semantics ESSLLI 2001 Workshop, Helsinki

2000 Automated Evaluation of Coherence in Student Essays.
(With K. Kukich) Also in .pdf
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Resources and Tools in Educational Applications, LREC 2000, Athens.

1999 Locating Topics in Text Processing. Also in .pdf
In Proceedings of CLIN '99, Utrecht.

Working Papers

2005 A Short Introduction to the Penn Discourse TreeBank
(With Bonnie Webber, Aravind Joshi, Rashmi Prasad, Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, and Kate Forbes)
To appear in Copenhagen Working Papers in LSP. .

2000 Empirical Studies of Centering Shifts and Cue Phrases as Embedded Segment Boundary Markers.
(With K. Forbes) Also in .pdf
In E. Kaiser (ed.), Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 7.2: Current work in linguistics. pp. 39--57.

Technical Reports

2006 Rashmi Prasad, Eleni Miltsakaki, Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber.
The Penn Discourse Treebank 1.0. Annotation Manual.
IRCS Technical Report, IRCS-06-01, Institute of Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania, March 2006. . .

2004	Evaluation of Text Coherence for Electronic Essay Scoring Systems. (draft version) (With K. Kukich) In Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 10(1).
2003	D-LTAG System - Discourse Parsing with a Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar. (With K. Forbes, R. Prasad, A. Sarkar, A. Joshi and B. Webber) In Journal of Language, Logic and Information, 12(3): 261-279.
2002	Towards an Aposynthesis of Topic Continuity and Intrasentential Anaphora. In Computational Linguistics, Vol. 28(3).

To appear	Not All Subjects Are Born Equal: A Look at Complex Sentence Structure. In E. Gibson and N. Perlmutter (eds), The Processing and Acquisition of Reference. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2006	Centering Theory on Greek Narratives and Newspaper Articles (paper written in Greek). (With Nikiforos Karamanis) From Written to Electronic Discourse: A Collection of Articles in Honor of G. Babiniotis.
2005	Anaphora Resolution: A Centering Approach. (With Aravind Joshi and Rashmi Prasad) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition . Elsevier.
2004	The Predicate-Argument Structure of Connectives: A Corpus-based Study. (With Cassandre Creswell, Katherine Forbes, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber) In A. Branco, T. McEnery, and R. Mitkov (eds), Anaphora Processing: Linguistic, Cognitive and Computational Modelling. John Benjamins Publishing Company.

2009	Eleni Miltsakaki. Demo of Antelogue: Pronoun Resolution for Dialogues. Demo session of Third IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC '09), Berkeley, U.S.A. .
2009	Eleni Miltsakaki. Matching Readers' Preferences and Reading Skills with Web Text. Demo session of 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL '09), Athens, Greece. .

2010	Livio Robaldo, Eleni Miltsakaki and Alessia Bianchini. Sources of Expectation in Concession.pdf Proceedings of Conference on Semantics and Formal Modelling (JSM '10), Nancy, France. .
2010	Livio Robaldo, Eleni Miltsakaki and Alessia Bianchini. Corpus-based Semantics of Concession: Where do Expectations Come from? Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Language, Resources and Evaluation (LREC '10), Malta, Italy. .
2009	Eleni Miltsakaki. Referential Properties of Dropped Subjects and Pronouns in Greek. pdf of presentation Proceedings of the International Conference on Greek Linguistics 9, Chicago, U.S.A. .
2008	Timothee Cour, Chris Jordan, Eleni Miltsakaki, and Ben Taskar. Movie/Script: Alignment and Parsing of Video and Text Transcription. Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2008, Marseille. .
2008	Rashmi Prasad, Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, Eleni Miltsakaki, Livio Robaldo, Aravind Joshi, and Bonnie Webber. The Penn Discourse Treebank 2.0. pdf Proceedings of the the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008), Marrakech, Morocco. .
2008	Eleni Miltsakaki, Livio Robaldo, Alan Lee, and Aravind Joshi. Sense Annotation in the Penn Discourse Treebank. pdf Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Haifa, Israel. .
2007	Eleni Miltsakaki and Audrey Troutt. Read-X: Automatic Evaluation of Reading Difficulty of Web Text. In Proceedings of E-Learn 2007, sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. Quebec, Canada.
2007	Eleni Miltsakaki. A Rethink of the Mapping between Salience and Referring Expression. Presented at the 20th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing,La Jolla, California .
2007	Stella Tsaklidou and Eleni Miltsakaki. The Role of Animacy in the Ranking of Entities in Complex NPs: Evidence from Greek. Presented at the 31st Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Philadelphia.
2007	Eleni Miltsakaki. A Rethink of the Relationship between Salience and Anaphora Resolution. In Proceedings of the 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, Lagos, Portugal.
2006	The (Non)-Tension between Structural and Semantic Focusing: Evidence from Greek (With Martha Lambropoulou and Athanasios Koutroupis) Poster presentation, in Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP 2006),Nijmegen, Netherlands .
2004	The Penn Discourse Treebank (With Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber) In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004), Lisbon.
2004	Structural vs Semantic Focusing: Distributional Evidence from Referential Forms in Adverbial Clauses To be presented at 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Maryland, College Park.
2004	A Centering Analysis of Relative Clauses in English and Greek To appear in Proceedings of the 28th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
2003	An Empirical Investigation of Discourse Coherence, Salience, and Reference in Greek Relative Clauses 6th International Conference of Greek Linguistics, Rethymno, Greece..
2003	Reference in Relative Clauses: The Significance of Marking Low Salience and Its Implications for 'Recency' and 'Subjecthood' Presented at the 16th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, MIT, Cambridge.
2003	Anaphoric Arguments of Discourse Connectives: Semantic Properties of Antecedents Versus Non-antecedents. (With C. Creswell, K. Forbes, A. Joshi and B. Webber) In Proceedings of the Computational Treatment of Anaphora Workshop, EACL 2003, Budabest.
2003	The Syntax-Discourse Interface: Reference in Subordinate Clauses. Presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2003), Atlanta.
2002	The Discourse Anaphoric Properties of Connectives. (With C. Creswell, K. Forbes, R. Prasad, A. Joshi and B. Webber) In Proceedings of the 4th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC 2002), Lisbon.
2002	Effects of Subordination on Referential Form and Interpretation. In Proceedings of the 26th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Philadelphia.
2001	On the Interpretation of Weak and Strong Pronominals in Greek. (.doc file) In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Sorbonne.
2001	Centering in Greek. In Proceedings of 15th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Thessaloniki. Also in .pdf
2000	The Role of Centering Theory's Rough-Shift in the Teaching and Evaluation of Writing Skills. (With K. Kukich) Also in .pdf In Proceedings of ACL 2000, Hong-Kong.
1999	A Study on Greek Questions Conveying Disagreement. Presented at PRAGMA '99, Tel-Aviv.

2008	Livio Robaldo, Eleni Miltsakaki and Jerry Hobbs. Refining the Meaning of Sense Labels in PDTB: "Concession". Proceedings of Symposium on Semantics in Text Processing, STEP 2008, Venice. .
2008	Eleni Miltsakaki and Audrey Troutt. Real Time Web Text Classification and Analysis of Reading Difficulty. pdf Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, at the 46th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Human Language Technologies, Columbus, OH. .
2006	Animacy Effects on Discourse Prominence in Greek Complex NPs (With Stella Tsaklidou) Poster presentation, in Proceedings of ISCA Tutorial and Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, Athens.
2006	Effects of Structural Prominence on Anaphora: The Case of Relative Clauses (With Paschalia Patsala) Poster presentaiton, in Proceedings of ISCA Tutorial and Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, Athens.
2005	Experiments on Sense Annotations and Sense Disambiguation of Discourse Connectives (With Nikhil Dinesh, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber) In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT2005), Barcelona.
2005	The Penn Discourse TreeBank as a Resource for Natural Language Generation (With Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi, Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, and Bonnie Webber) In Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics Workshop on Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation, Birmingham, U.K. July 2005. .
2005	Attribution and the (Non-) Alignment of Syntactic and Discourse Arguments of Connectives (With Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber) ACL 2005 Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus Annotation II: Pie in Sky.
2005	Investigating Salience in Complex Sentences: A Look at Relative Clauses. On the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: A Workshop in Honor of Ellen Prince. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2004	Annotating Discourse Connectives and Their Arguments (With Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber) In Proceedings of the Frontiers in Corpus Annotation 2004 NAACL/HLT Conference Workshop, Boston.
2004	Annotation and Data Mining of the Penn Discourse Treebank (With Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber) In Proceedings of the ACL 2004 Workshop on Discourse Annotation, Barcelona.
2003	Anaphoric Arguments of Discourse Connectives: Semantic Properties of Antecedents Versus Non-antecedents. (With C. Creswell, K. Forbes, A. Joshi and B. Webber) In Proceedings of the Computational Treatment of Anaphora Workshop, EACL 2003, Budabest.
2001	D-LTAG System - Discourse Parsing with a Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar. (With K. Forbes, R. Prasad, A. Sarkar, A. Joshi and B. Webber) In Proceedings of the Information Structure, Discourse Structure and Discourse Semantics ESSLLI 2001 Workshop, Helsinki
2000	Automated Evaluation of Coherence in Student Essays. (With K. Kukich) Also in .pdf In Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Resources and Tools in Educational Applications, LREC 2000, Athens.
1999	Locating Topics in Text Processing. Also in .pdf In Proceedings of CLIN '99, Utrecht.

2005	A Short Introduction to the Penn Discourse TreeBank (With Bonnie Webber, Aravind Joshi, Rashmi Prasad, Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, and Kate Forbes) To appear in Copenhagen Working Papers in LSP. .
2000	Empirical Studies of Centering Shifts and Cue Phrases as Embedded Segment Boundary Markers. (With K. Forbes) Also in .pdf In E. Kaiser (ed.), Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 7.2: Current work in linguistics. pp. 39--57.