Publications

• Ziv Ben-Eliahu and Michael Elhadad Semantic business process for improved exception handling, [submitted] (pdf).
• Yael Netzer, David Gabay, Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad, Gaiku : Generating Haiku with Word Associations Norms, [submitted] (pdf).
• Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad, Lexical Features are Not Necessary for Sequence Labeling, [submitted] (pdf).
• Yael Netzer, David Gabay, Meni Adler, Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad, Ontology Evaluation Through Text Classification, ENQOIR 2009, Suzhou, China, (pdf).
• Yoav Goldberg, Reut Tsarfaty, Meni Adler and Michael Elhadad, Enhancing Unlexicalized Parsing Performance using a Wide Coverage Lexicon, Fuzzy Tag-set Mapping, and EM-HMM-based Lexical Probabilities, EACL 2009, Athens, Greece, (pdf).
• Ziv Ben-Eliahu, David Gabay and Michael Elhadad, Using Wikipedia Links to Construct Word Segmentation Corpora, in Proceedings of the WIKIAI-08 Workshop, AAAI-2008 Conference, Chicago, pdf.
• Meni Adler, Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad, Unsupervised Lexicon-Based Resolution of Unknown Words for Full Morpholological Analysis, ACL 2008, pdf.
• Yoav Goldberg, Meni Adler and Michael Elhadad, EM Can Find Pretty Good HMM POS-Taggers (When Given a Good Start), ACL 2008, pdf.
• Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad, splitSVM: Fast, Space-Efficient, non-Heuristic, Polynomial Kernel Computation for NLP Applications, ACL 2008, pdf.
• Meni Adler, Yael Netzer, David Gabay, Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad, Tagging a Hebrew Corpus: The Case of Participles, LREC 2008, pdf.
• Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad, Identification of Transliterated Foreign Words in Hebrew Script, CICLING 2008, 9th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Feb 2008, Haifa, Israel, in Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Volume 4919 (slides).
• Yael Netzer, Meni Adler and Michael Elhadad, Word Prediction in Hebrew: Preliminary and Surprising Results, ISAAC 2008, pdf.
• Michael Elhadad, Mira Balaban and Arnon Sturm, Effective Business Process Outsourcing: The Prosero Approach, in International Journal of Interoperability in Business Information Systems (IBIS),Vol 3, No 1 (2008), pdf
• Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad, SVM Model Tampering and Anchored Learning: A Case Study in Hebrew NP Chunking in Proceedings of ACL 2007, Prague, Czech Republic (8 pages pdf).
• Yael Netzer, Meni Adler, David Gabay, Michael Elhadad,Can you tag the modal? You should.in Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Workshop on Semitic Languages Processing, Prague, Czech Republic,(8 pages, pdf).
• Meni Adler and Michael Elhadad, An Unsupervised Morpheme-Based HMM for Hebrew Morphological Disambiguation, in Proceedings of COLING-ACL 2006, Sydney, Australia (8 pages, 140K, pdf).

• Yoav Goldberg, Meni Adler, and Michael Elhadad, Noun Phrase Chunking in Hebrew Influence of Lexical and Morphological Features , COLING-ACL 2006

• Yael Netzer , Ofer Biller, Michael Elhadad and Yoav Goldberg, Generating Language from BlissSymbols Using Semantic Authoring , ISAAC 2006

• Ofer Biller, Michael Elhadad, Yael Netzer Interactive Authoring of Logical Forms for Multilingual Generation in Proceedings of the European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, 2005, Aberdeen.
  (8 pages, 92K, pdf)

• Mira Balaban, Eli Barzilay, Michael Elhadad Abstraction as a Means for End-User Computing in Creative Applications in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A, Vol.32, No.6, Nov.2002, 640--653
  (14 pages, 629K, pdf)

• Michael Elhadad, Yael Netzer, Regina Barzilay, Kathleen McKeown, Ordering Circumstantials for Multi-document Summarization Presented at BISFAI'01, June 2001,
  (15 pages, 210K pdf)

• Hongyan Jing, Yael Dahan Netzer, Michael Elhadad, Kathleen McKeown Integrating a Large-Scale, Reusable Lexicon with a Natural Language Generator Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Mitzpe Ramon, 2000, pp.209--216
  (8 pages, 73K postscript gzipped, pdf)

• Yael Dahan-Netzer & Michael Elhadad Bilingual Hebrew-English Generation of Possessives and Partitives: Raising the Input Abstraction Level Proceedings of the 37th meeting of the ACL, Maryland, 1999, pp.144--151
  (8 pages, 69K postscript gzipped, 45K dvi, pdf)

• R. Barzilay, K. McKeown and M. Elhadad, Information Fusion in the Context of Multi-Document Summarization in Proc. of the 37th Association for Computational Linguistics, Maryland, 1999, pp550--557.
  (8 pages, 330K postscript gzipped, pdf)

• Regina Barzilay & Michael Elhadad ``Using Lexical Chains for Text Summarization'', in Advances in Automatic Text Summarization, Chapter 10, I. Mani and M.T. Maybury eds, MIT Press, 1999 (revised and expanded version of the paper in Intelligent Scalable Text Summarization Workshop (ISTS'97), ACL, Madrid, 1997)

• Yael Dahan-Netzer & Michael Elhadad Generation of Noun Compounds in Hebrew: Can Syntactic Knowledge be Fully Encapsulated? Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Natural Language Generation (INLG'98), Niagara on the Lake, Ontario, 1998.
  (10 pages, 45K postscript gzipped, 45K dvi, pdf)

• Yael Dahan-Netzer & Michael Elhadad Generating Determiners and Quantifiers in Hebrew Proceedings of the Workshop on Semitic Languages, ACL'98, Montreal, Quebec, 1998.
  (9 pages, 41K postscript gzipped, 37K dvi, pdf)

• Hongyan Jing, Regina Barzilay, Kathleen McKeown, and Michael Elhadad ``Summarization Evaluation Methods: Experiments and Analysis'', AAAI Symposium on Intelligent Summarization, March 23-25, 1998, Stanford University, CA.
  (9 pages, 53K ps gzip pdf)

• Michael Elhadad & Jacques Robin. ``SURGE: a Comprehensive Plug-in Syntactic Realization Component for Text Generation''
  (44 pages, 139K ps gzip, pdf)

• Regina Barzilay & Michael Elhadad ``Using Lexical Chains for Text Summarization'', in Proceedings of the Intelligent Scalable Text Summarization Workshop (ISTS'97), ACL, Madrid, 1997.
  (9 pages, ps gzip, pdf)

• Michael Elhadad. ``Lexical Choice for Complex Noun Phrases'', Machine Translation, Vol 11, pp.159-184, 1996, Kluwer Academic Publishers, the Netherlands
  (23 pages, 75K ps gzip, pdf)

• Michael Elhadad & Jacques Robin. ``An Overview of SURGE: A reusable comprehensive syntactic realization component'', Technical Report 96-03, Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel.
  (10 pages, 55K dvi, 55K ps gzip, pdf)

• Michael Elhadad, Kathleen McKeown & Jacques Robin. ``Floating Constraints in Lexical Choice'' In Computational Linguistics , MIT Press 1997,
  (45 pages: postscript gzipped, pdf)

• Michael Elhadad. Using Argumentation in Text Generation Journal of Pragmatics vol24 (1995) 189-220 North Holland, Elsevier.
  (26 pages, 52K, postscript gzipped pdf)

• M. Elhadad. ``Generating Argumentative Judgment Determiners.'' in Proceedings of the 11th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI93), pp.344-349, the MIT Press.
  (7 pages, 46K postscript gzipped 42K, dvi, pdf)

• Michael Elhadad and Jacques Robin. ``Controlling Content Realization with Functional Unification Grammars''; In Aspects of Automated Natural Language Generation; R. Dale, E. Hovy, D. Rosner and O. Stock editors, 89-104, Springer Verlag, 1992.
  (16 pages: 53K postscript gzipped, 62K dvi, pdf)

• M. Elhadad. ``Generating Coherent Argumentative Paragraphs.'' In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 1992, Nantes, France.
  (8 pages: 22K postscript gzipped, pdf)

• M. Elhadad, S. Feiner, K. McKeown & D. Seligmann, ``Generating Customized Text and Graphics in the COMET Explanation Testbed.'' In Proceedings of the 1991 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 91, Phoenix, AZ , 1991.
  

• M. Elhadad. ``Generating Adjectives to Express the Speaker's Argumentative Intent.'' In Proceedings of the 9th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI'91, Anaheim, CA, 1991.
  (7 pages, 22K postscript gzipped, pdf)

• M. Elhadad. ``Types in Functional Unification Grammar.'' In Proceedings of the 28th meeting of the ACL, Pittsburgh, PA, 1990.
  (13 pages, 17K postscript gzipped, pdf)

• M. Elhadad & K. McKeown. ``Generating Connectives.'' In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 1990, Helsinki, Finland, vol3 97-101.
  (6 pages, 18K postscript gzipped, pdf)