Papers

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.