Papers

• Arman Savran, Houwei Cao, Miraj Shah, Ani Nenkova, Ragini Verma
  Combining Audio, Video and Lexical Indicators of Affect in Spontaneous Conversation via Particle Filtering
  Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Multimodal interaction (ICMI), 2012. [Winner of the AVEC'12 word-level emotion prediction challenge].
• Annie Louis, Ani Nenkova
  A coherence model based on syntactic patterns
  EMNLP-CoNLL 2012 [Best paper award].
• Kai Hong, Christian G. Kohler, Mary E. March, Amber A. Parker, Ani Nenkova
  Lexical Differences in Autobiographical Narratives from Schizophrenic Patients and Healthy Controls
  EMNLP-CoNLL 2012.
• Houwei Cao, Ragini Verma, Ani Nenkova
  Combining Ranking and Classification to Improve Emotion Recognition in Spontaneous Speech
  INTERSPEECH 2012.
• Rivka Levitan, Agustin Gravano, Laura Willson, Stefan Benus, Julia Hirschberg, Ani Nenkova
  Acoustic-Prosodic Entrainment and Social Behavior
  NAACL-HLT 2012.
• Karolina Owczarzak, John M. Conroy, Hoa Trang Dang, Ani Nenkova
  An Assessment of the Accuracy of Automatic Evaluation in Summarization
  Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2012 Workshop on Evaluation Metrics and System Comparison for Automatic Summarization.
• Annie Louis, Ani Nenkova
  A corpus of general and specific sentences from news
  LREC 2012.
• Ani Nenkova, Kathleen McKeown
  A Survey of Text Summarization Techniques
  Chapter in Mining Text Data, pp 43-76, 2012.
• Libo Sun, Alexander Shoulson, Pengfei Huang, Nicole Nelson, Wenhu Qin, Ani Nenkova and Norman Badler
  Animating synthetic dyadic conversations with variations based on context and agent attributes
  Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation 23(1): 17-32, 2012.
  
• Advaith Siddharthan, Ani Nenkova and Kathleen McKeown
  Information Status Distinctions and Referring Expressions: An Empirical Study of References to People in News Summaries
  Computational Linguistics 37(4): 811-842, 2011.
• Ani Nenkova and Kathleen McKeown
  Automatic Summarization [pdf]
  Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, Vol 5, No 2-3, pp. 103-233.
  [A printed and bound version of this article is available at a special discount price of US$35 from Now Publishers. This can be obtained by entering the promotional code INR015015 on the order form at now publishers.]
• Agustín Gravano, Rivka Levitan, Laura Willson, Stefan Benus, Julia Hirschberg, Ani Nenkova
  Acoustic and Prosodic Correlates of Social Behavior
  Interspeech 2011.
• Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova
  Automatic identification of general and specific sentences by leveraging discourse annotations
  Proceedings of 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), 2011.
• Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova
  Text specificity and impact on quality of news summaries
  Proceedings of ACL-HLT Workshop on Monolingual Text to Text Generation, 2011.
• Annie Louis, Aravind Joshi and Ani Nenkova
  Discourse indicators for content selection in summarization
  Proceedings of SIGDIAL 2010. [Best student paper]
• Annie Louis, Aravind Joshi, Rashmi Prasad and Ani Nenkova
  Using entity features to classify implicit discourse relations
  Proceedings of SIGDIAL 2010.
• Emily Pitler, Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova
  Automatic Evaluation of Linguistic Quality in Multi-Document Summarization
  Proceedings of ACL 2010.
  
• Dmitri Bitouk, Ragini Verma and Ani Nenkova
  Class-level spectral features for emotion recognition
  Speech Communication, Volume 52, Issues 7-8, July-August 2010, Pages 613-625.
• Ani Nenkova, Jieun Chae, Annie Louis and Emily Pitler
  Structural Features for Predicting the Linguistic Quality of Text: Applications to Machine Translation, Automatic Summarization and Human-Authored Text
  In Emiel Krahmer and Mariet Theune, editors, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Generation: Data-oriented Methods and Empirical Evaluation, 2010.
• Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova
  Creating Local Coherence: An Empirical Assessment
  NAACL-HLT 2010, short paper, Los Angeles, US.
• Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova
  Automatically Evaluating Content Selection in Summarization without Human Models
  EMNLP'09, Suntec, Singapore.
• Emily Pitler, Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova
  Automatic sense prediction for implicit discourse relations in text
  ACL-IJCNLP 2009, Suntec, Singapore.
• Emily Pitler and Ani Nenkova
  Using Syntax to Disambiguate Explicit Discourse Connectives in Text
  ACL-IJCNLP 2009, short paper, Suntec, Singapore.
• Dmitri Bitouk, Ani Nenkova Ragini Verma
  Improving Emotion Recognition using Class-Level Spectral Features
  INTERSPEECH 2009, Brighton, UK.
• Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova
  Performance Confidence Estimation for Automatic Summarization
  Proceedings of EACL 2009.
• Jieun Chae and Ani Nenkova
  Predicting the Fluency of Text with Shallow Structural Features: Case Studies of Machine Translation and Human-Written Text
  Proceedings of EACL 2009.
• Emily Pitler and Ani Nenkova
  Revisiting Readability: A Unified Framework for Predicting Text Quality
  Proceedings of EMNLP, 2008.
• Emily Pitler, Mridhula Raghupathy, Hena Mehta, Ani Nenkova, Alan Lee, Aravind Joshi
  Easily Identifiable Discourse Relations
  Proceedings of COLING, 2008. Poster paper.
  
• Ani Nenkova, Agustin Gravano, Julia Hirschberg
  High frequency word entrainment in spoken dialogue
  Proceedings of ACL/HLT 2008 (short paper), pages 169-172. Columbus, OH, June 2008.
• Ani Nenkova and Annie Louis
  Can you summarize this? Identifying correlates of input difficulty for generic multi-document summarization
  Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics(ACL-08): HLT, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 15-20, 2008.
• Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Ani Nenkova, Shrikanth Narayanan, Dan Jurafsky
  Detecting prominence in conversational speech: pitch accent, givenness and focus
  4th Conference on Speech Prosody 2008, Campinas, Brazil.
• Ani Nenkova
  Entity-driven Rewrite for Multi-document Summarization
  The Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP08), Hyderabad, India.
• Ani Nenkova and Dan Jurafsky
  Automatic Detection of Contrastive Elements in Spontaneous Speech
  IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) 2007, Kyoto, Japan.
• Volker Strom, Ani Nenkova, Robert Clark, Yolanda Vazquez-Alvarez, Jason Brenier, Simon King, Dan Jurafsky
  Modelling Prominence and Emphasis Improves Unit-Selection Synthesis
  Intrespeech 2007.
• Surabhi Gupta, Ani Nenkova and Dan Jurafsky
  Measuring Importance and Query Relevance in Topic-focused Multi-document Summarization
  ACL 2007, companion volume.
• Ani Nenkova, Jason Brenier, Anubha Kothari, Sasha Calhoun, Laura Whitton, David Beaver, Dan Jurafsky
  To Memorize or to Predict: Prominence Labeling in Conversational Speech
  NAACL-HLT 2007.
• Ani Nenkova, Rebecca Passonneau, Kathleen McKeown
  The pyramid method: incorporating human content selection variation in summarization evaluation
  ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, volume 4, issue 2, 2007.
• Lucy Vanderwende, Hisami Suzuki, Chris Brockett, Ani Nenkova
  Beyond SumBasic: Task-Focused Summarization with Sentence Simplification and Lexical Expansion
  Information Processing and Management, Special issue on summarization volume 43, issue 6, 2007.
• Jason Brenier, Ani Nenkova, Anubha Kothari, Laura Whitton, David Beaver, Dan Jurafsky
  The (Non)Utility of Linguistic Features for Predicting Prominence in Spontaneous Speech
  IEEE/ACL 2006 Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, 2006.
• Ani Nenkova
  Summarization Evaluation for Text and Speech: Issues and Approaches
  INTERSPEECH 2006.
• Ani Nenkova, Lucy Vanderwende, Kathleen McKeown
  A compositional context sensitive multi-document summarizer: exploring the factors that influence summarization
  SIGIR 2006.
• Ani Nenkova
  Understanding the process of multi-document summarization: content selection, rewrite and evaluation
  PhD Thesis, Columbia University, January 2006.
• Ani Nenkova, Advaith Siddharthan and Kathleen McKeown
  Automatically learning cognitive status for multi-document summarization of newswire
  HLT/EMNLP 2005, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
• Ani Nenkova
  Automatic Text Summarization of Newswire: Lessons Learned from the Document Understanding Conference
  20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2005), Pittsburgh, USA.
• Ani Nenkova
  Discourse Factors in Multi-Document Summarization
  10th Annual AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium at AAAI'05, Pittsburgh, USA.
• Kathleen McKeown, Rebecca Passonneau, David Elson, Ani Nenkova, Julia Hirschberg
  Do Summaries Help? A Task-Based Evaluation of Multi-Document Summarization
  28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retreival (SIGIR 2005), Salvador, Brazil.
• Aaron Harnly, Ani Nenkova, Rebecca Passonneau, Owen Rambow
  Automation of summary evaluation by the pyramid method
  RANLP-2005, Borovets, Bulgaraia.
• Advaith Siddharthan, Ani Nenkova and Kathleen McKeown
  Syntactic Simplification for Improving Content Selection in Multi-Document Summarization
  20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2004), Geneva, Switzerland.
• Julia Hirschberg, Agustin Gravano, Ani Nenkova, Elisa Sneed, Gregory Ward
  Intonational overload: uses of the H* !H* L- L% contour in read and spontaneous speech
  Labphon-9, Champagne-Urbana.
• Ani Nenkova and Rebecca Passonneau
  Evaluating Content Selection in Summarization: the Pyramid Method
  NAACL-HLT 2004.
• Rebecca J. Passonneau and Ani Nenkova
  Evaluating Content Selection in Human- or Machine-Generated Summaries: The Pyramid Scoring Method
  Columbia University, CS Department Technical Report, CUCS-025-03.
• Ani Nenkova and Kathleen McKeown
  References to Named Entities: a Corpus Study
  In Short Paper Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2003.
• Kathleen McKeown, Regina Barzilay, John Chen, David Elson, David Evans, Judith Klavans, Ani Nenkova, Barry Schiffman and Sergey Sigelman
  Columbia's Newsblaster: New Features and Future Directions
  Demo at NAACL-HLT 2003.
• Ani Nenkova, Barry Schiffman, Andrew Schlaiker, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Regina Barzilay, Sergey Sigelman, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou and Kathleen McKeown
  Columbia at the Document Understanding Conference 2003
  Document Understanding Conference 2003.
• Ani Nenkova and Kathleen McKeown
  Improving the Coherence of Multi-document Summaries: a Corpus Study for Modeling the Syntactic Realization of Entities
  Columbia University, CS Department Technical Report, CUCS-001-03.
• Ani Nenkova and Amit Bagga
  Facilitating Email Thread Access by Extractive Summary Generation
  RANLP 2003, Bulgaria.
• Ani Nenkova and Amit Bagga
  Email Classification for Contact Centers
  18th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing SAC 2003, Melbourne, Florida, 2003.
• Barry Schiffman, Ani Nenkova and Kathleen McKeown
  Experiments in Multidocument Summarization
  in Proceedings of HLT 2002 Human Language Technology Conference, San Diego, CA, 2002.
• Kathleen R. McKeown, Regina Barzilay, David Evans, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Judith L. Klavans, Ani Nenkova, Carl Sable, Barry Schiffman and Sergey Sigelman
  Tracking and Summarizing News on a Daily Basis with Columbia's Newsblaster
  in Proceedings of HLT 2002 Human Language Technology Conference, San Diego, CA, 2002.
• McKeown, Kathleen, Regina Barzilay, Sasha Blaire-Goldensohn, David Evans, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Judith L. Klavans, Ani Nenkova, Barry Schiffman and Sergey Sigelman
  The Columbia Multi-Document Summarizer for Document Understanding Conference
  DUC 2002.
• Ani Nenkova
  A tableau method for graded intersection of modalities: a case for concept languages
  Journal of Logic, Language and Information, Vol.11, Issue 1, 2002, pp. 67-77.
• Ani Nenkova
  Tableau Methods for Concept Languages
  MS thesis (in Bulgarian), advisor Tinko Tinchev, June 2000.
• Svetla Boytcheva, Ognian Kalaydjiev, Ani Nenkova and Galia Angelova
  Integrating Resources and Components in a Knowledge-Based Environment for Terminology Learning
  In Proc. of the 9th Intern. Conference "Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications" (AIMSA-00), Varna, Bulgaria, September 2000, Lecture Notes in AI 1904, Springer, pp. 210-220, 2000.
• Angelova, G., A. Nenkova, S. Boytcheva and T. Nikolov
  Conceptual graphs as a knowledge representation core in a complex language learning environment
  Proc. ICCS-2000, Darmstadt, Germany, August 2000, Shaker Verlag, pp. 45-58, 2000.
• Ani Nenkova and Galia Angelova
  User Modeling as an Application of Actors
  In proc. of 7th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS'99), Virginia Tech, USA, July 1999, LNAI, pp.83-89.