Publications

Barbara Plank. Domain Adaptation for Parsing.
Ph.D. thesis. University of Groningen, 2011.
ISBN: 978-90-367-5199-5
[pdf] [bib] [cover]
[short summary] [samenvatting] [Dissertaties - RUG]
[Defended on December 8, 2011]

Daniël de Kok, Barbara Plank and Gertjan van Noord. Reversible Stochastic Attribute-Value Grammars. In Proceedings of ACL 2011 (short paper) [pdf from ACL Anthology] [slides] [bib]
Barbara Plank and Gertjan van Noord. Effective Measures of Domain Similarity for Parsing. To appear in Proceedings of ACL 2011. [pdf] [pdf from ACL Anthology] [poster] [bib]

Barbara Plank and Gertjan van Noord. Dutch Dependency Parser Performance Across Domains. In Proceedings of the 20th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands. [pdf] [LOT occasional series page]
Barbara Plank and Gertjan van Noord. Grammar-driven versus Data-driven: Which Parsing System is More Affected by Domain Shifts? In Proceedings of the ACL 2010 Workshop on NLP and Linguistics: Finding the Common Ground, Uppsala, Sweden, July, 2010. [pdf | pdf from ACL Anthology] [slides] [bib]
Barbara Plank. Improved statistical measures to assess natural language parser performance across domains. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2010), Valletta, Malta, May 2010.
[pdf] [pdf from ELRA] [poster] [bib]

Barbara Plank. Structural Correspondence Learning for Parse Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at EACL 2009, Athens, April 2009.
[pdf | pdf from ACL Anthology] [slides] [bib]
Barbara Plank. A Comparison of Structural Correspondence Learning and Self-training for Discriminative Parse Selection. In Proceedings of NAACL 2009 Workshop on Semi-supervised Learning for NLP (SSLNLP).
[pdf] [pdf from ACL Anthology] [slides] [bib]

Barbara Plank and Khalil Sima'an. Subdomain Sensitive Statistical Parsing using Raw Corpora. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2008), Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008.
[pdf] [slides] [bib]
Barbara Plank and Gertjan van Noord. Exploring an Auxiliary Distribution based approach to Domain Adaptation of a Syntactic Disambiguation Model. In Proceedings of the Coling 2008 Workshop on Cross-Framework and Cross-Domain Parser Evaluation (PE), pages 9--16, Manchester, United Kingdom, August 2008.
[pdf] [slides] [bib]
Barbara Plank and Khalil Sima'an. Parsing with Subdomain Instance Weighting from Raw Corpora. In Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2008, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008.
[pdf] [poster] [bib]

Raffaella Bernardi, Diego Calvanese, Luca Dini, Vittorio Di Tomaso, Elisabeth Frasnelli, Ulrike Kugler, Barbara Plank. Multilingual Search in Libraries. The case-study of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2006), Genova, Italy, 2006.

Barbara Plank. Improved statistical measures to assess natural language parser performance across domains. Poster presented at LREC 2010, Valletta, Malta, May 2010.
Barbara Plank. Semi-supervised Domain Adaptation for Discriminative Parse Selection. Poster presented at the Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS), Cambridge, United Kingdom, September 2009.
Barbara Plank. Domain Adaptation of Syntactic Disambiguation Models. Poster presented at the LCT PhD student day at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. May 15, 2008. (unpublished)
Barbara Plank and Khalil Sima'an. Parsing with Subdomain Instance Weighting from Raw Corpora. To appear in proceedings INTERSPEECH 2008, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008. [poster]

Simple Measures of Domain Similarity for Parsing. CLIN 21, Ghent, Belgium. February 11, 2011.
Dutch dependency parsing across domains. CLIN 20, Utrecht. February 5, 2010.
Semi-supervised Adaptation of a Syntactic Disambiguation Model Using Structural Correspondence Learning. CLIN 19, Groningen. January 22, 2009.

Barbara Plank. Linguistic Landscapes in Bozen-Bolzano. Bozen-Bolzano. June, 2006. [slides] (unpublished)

Barbara Plank. Sub-domain driven parsing. Master's thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2007. Thesis supervisor: Khalil Sima'an (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Co-supervisor: Raffaella Bernardi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano).
[pdf] [slides].
Received IBM Italia & KRDB Best Thesis Award 2008 - for the best thesis on Language and Communication Technologies (LCT) - see call and obtained certificate.

Barbara Plank. Porting web based applications in mixed environments: An ASP.NET application on the Mono project. Bachelor's thesis, University of Bozen-Bolzano, 2005. Supervisor: Andrea Molinari (University of Trento).

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