Publications

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  • Micha Elsner and Jordan Needle. Translating a Low-resource Language Using GPT-3 and a Human-readable Dictionary. Proceedings of SigMorphon 2023. [Slides (PDF)]
  • Jingyi Chen and Micha Elsner. Exploring how Generative Adversarial Networks Learn Phonological Representations. Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023).
  • Sara Court, Andrea D. Sims and Micha Elsner. Analogy in Contact: Modeling Maltese Plural Inflection. Proceedings of SCiL 2023.
  • Micha Elsner and Sara Court. OSU at SigMorphon 2022: Analogical Inflection With Rule Features. Proceedings of SigMorphon 2022 (shared task).
  • Maria Copot, Sara Court, Noah Diewald, Stephanie Antetomaso and Micha Elsner. A word-and-paradigm Workflow for Fieldwork Annotation. Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages (Compute-EL 2022).
  • Micha Elsner. What Transfers in Morphological Inflection? Experiments with Analogical Models. Proceedings of SigMorphon 2021.
  • Grace LeFevre, Micha Elsner and Andrea D. Sims. Formalizing Inflectional Paradigm Shape with Information Theory. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL 2021).
  • Micha Elsner, Martha B. Johnson, Stephanie Antetomaso and Andrea D. Sims. Stop the Morphological Cycle, I Want to Get Off. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL 2020). [Slides (PDF)]
  • David King, Andrea D. Sims and Micha Elsner. Capturing Semantic Conditions on Russian Inflectional Morphology with Sequence-to-Sequence Models. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL 2020).
  • Micha Elsner, Andrea D. Sims, Alex Erdmann, Antonio Hernandez, Evan Jaffe, Lifeng Jin, Martha B. Johnson, Shuan Karim, David L. King, Luana Lamberti Nunes, Byung-Doh Oh, Nathan Rasmussen, Cory Shain, Stephanie Antetomaso, Kendra V. Dickinson, Noah Diewald, Michelle McKenzie, Symon Stephens-Guille. Modeling morphological learning, typology, and change: What can the neural sequence-to-sequence framework contribute? Journal of Language Modeling 7(1), 2019.
  • Stephanie Antetomaso and Micha Elsner. Child Production of the Japanese Long Vowel Contrast. Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 2019).
  • Cory Shain and Micha Elsner. Measuring the perceptual availability of phonological features during language acquisition using unsupervised binary stochastic autoencoders. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2019).
  • Alexander Erdmann, David Joseph Wrisley, Christopher Brown, Sophie Cohen-Bodénès, Micha Elsner, Yukun Feng, Brian Joseph, Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel and Marie-Catherine de Marneffe. Practical, efficient, and customizable active learning for named entity recognition in the digital humanities. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2019).
  • Kasia Hitczenko, Reiko Mazuka, Micha Elsner and Naomi Feldman. Normalization may be ineffective for phonetic category learning. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL 2019).
  • Syed-Amad Hussain, Micha Elsner and Amanda Miller. Lexical Networks in !Xung. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology (SigMorphon 2018).
  • Micha Elsner and Cory Shain. Speech Segmentation with a Neural Encoder Model of Working Memory. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2017). [PDF] [Slides (PDF)]
  • Micha Elsner and Kiwako Ito. An Automatically Aligned Corpus of Child-directed Speech. Proceedings of Interspeech, 2017. [PDF] [Poster (PDF)]
  • Micha Elsner, Alasdair Clarke and Hannah Rohde. Visual complexity and its effects on referring expression generation. Cognitive Science, 2017. [Preprint (PDF)]
  • Taylor Mahler, Willy Cheung, Micha Elsner, David King, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Cory Shain, Symon Stevens-Guille and Michael White. Breaking NLP: Using Morphosyntax, Semantics, Pragmatics and World Knowledge to Fool Sentiment Analysis Systems. Workshop on Building Linguistically Generalizable NLP Systems (BLGNLP 2017). [PDF]
  • Amanda Miller and Micha Elsner. Click reduction in fluent speech: a semi-automated analysis of Mangetti Dune !Xung. Second Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages (Compute-EL 2017). [PDF]
  • Stephanie Antetomaso, Kouki Miyazawa, Naomi Feldman, Micha Elsner, Kasia Hitczenko and Reiko Mazuka. Modeling phonetic category learning from natural acoustic data. Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 2017). [PDF]
  • Micha Elsner, Stephanie Antetomaso and Naomi Feldman. Joint Word Segmentation and Phonetic Category Induction. Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2016), Berlin. [PDF] [Poster (PDF)]
  • Micha Elsner and Emily Lane. Automatic Discovery of Latin Syntactic Changes. Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH 2016), Berlin. [PDF] [Slides (PDF)]
  • Alasdair Clarke, Micha Elsner and Hannah Rohde. Giving Good Directions: Order of Mention Reflects Visual Salience. Frontiers in Psychology (Models of Reference), December 2015. [Journal site]
  • Micha Elsner. Abstract representations of plot structure. Linguistic Issues in Language Technology (LILT) 12, November 2015. [PDF]
  • Herman Kamper, Micha Elsner, Aren Jansen and Sharon Goldwater. Unsupervised Neural Network Based Feature Extraction Using Weak Top-down Constraints. Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2015), Brisbane. [PDF]
  • Marten van Schijndel and Micha Elsner. Bootstrapping into Filler-Gap: An Acquisition Story. Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2014), Baltimore. [PDF]
  • Kairit Sirts, Jacob Eisenstein, Micha Elsner and Sharon Goldwater. POS induction with distributional and morphological information using a distance-dependent Chinese restaurant process Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2014), Baltimore. [PDF]
  • Micha Elsner, Hannah Rohde and Alasdair Clarke. Information Structure Prediction for Visual-world Referring Expressions. Proceedings of the European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2014), Gothenburg. [PDF] [Slides (PDF)]
  • Manjuan Duan, Micha Elsner and Marie-Catherine de Marneffe. Visual and Linguistic Predictors for the Definiteness of Referring Expressions. Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2013), Amsterdam. [PDF]
  • Micha Elsner, Sharon Goldwater, Naomi Feldman and Frank Wood. A Joint Learning Model of Word Segmentation, Lexical Acquisition, and Phonetic Variability. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2013), Seattle, Washington. [PDF][Slides (PDF)]
  • Alasdair Clarke, Micha Elsner and Hannah Rohde. Where’s Wally: the influence of visual salience on referring expression generation. Frontiers in Psychology (Scene understanding: behavioral and computational perspectives) 329(4), June 2013. [Journal site]
  • Micha Elsner, Sharon Goldwater and Jacob Eisenstein. Bootstrapping a Unified Model of Lexical and Phonetic Acquisition. Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2012), Jeju, Republic of Korea. [PDF][Slides (PDF)]
  • Micha Elsner. Character-based Kernels for Novelistic Plot Structure. Proceedings of the Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2012), Avignon, France. [PDF][Slides (PDF)]
  • Micha Elsner and Deepak Santhanam. Learning to Fuse Disparate Sentences. Workshop on Monolingual Text-to-Text Generation (T2T 2011), Portland, Oregon. [PDF][Slides (PDF)]
  • Micha Elsner and Eugene Charniak. Extending the Entity Grid with Entity-specific Features. Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2011), Portland, Oregon. [PDF] [Slides (PDF)]
  • Micha Elsner and Eugene Charniak. Disentangling Chat with Local Coherence Models. Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2011), Portland, Oregon. [PDF] [Poster (PDF)] [Thesis defense slides (PDF)]
  • Micha Elsner and Eugene Charniak. Disentangling Chat. Computational Linguistics 36(3), September 2010. [PDF]
  • Micha Elsner and Eugene Charniak. The Same-head Heuristic for Coreference. Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010), Uppsala, Sweden. [PDF] [Poster (PDF)] [Slides (PDF)]
    (This is a short version of the same-head work.)
  • Micha Elsner and Eugene Charniak. The Same-head Heuristic for Coreference. Northeast Student Conference on Artificial Intelligence (NESCAI 2010), Amherst, Massachusetts. [PDF] [Poster (PDF)]
    (This is a full-length version of the same-head work.)
  • Micha Elsner and Warren Schudy. Bounding and Comparing Methods for Correlation Clustering Beyond ILP. NAACL-HLT 2009 Workshop on Integer Linear Programming for Natural Language Processing (ILP-NLP 2009), Boulder, Colorado. [PDF] [Slides (PDF)]
  • Micha Elsner, Eugene Charniak, and Mark Johnson. Structured Generative Models for Unsupervised Named-Entity Clustering. Proceedings of the Conference on Human Language Technology and North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL 2009), Boulder, Colorado. [PDF] [Slides (PDF)]
  • Eugene Charniak and Micha Elsner. EM Works for Pronoun Anaphora Resolution. Proceedings of the Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2009), Athens, Greece. [PDF]
  • Micha Elsner and Eugene Charniak. You Talking to Me? A Corpus and Algorithm for Conversation Disentanglement. Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-HLT 2008), Columbus, Ohio. [PDF] [Slides (PDF)]
  • Micha Elsner and Eugene Charniak. Coreference-inspired Coherence Modeling. Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-HLT 2008), Columbus, Ohio. [PDF] [Poster (PDF)]
  • Micha Elsner, Joseph Austerweil, and Eugene Charniak. A Unified Local and Global Model for Discourse Coherence. Proceedings of the Conference on Human Language Technology and North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL 2007), Rochester, New York. [PDF] [Slides (PDF)]
    Note: this publication contains a bug affecting development results. A short explanation has been attached to the beginning of the PDF.
  • Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson, Micha Elsner, Joseph Austerweil, David Ellis, Isaac Haxton, Catherine Hill, Shrivaths Iyengar, Jeremy Moore, Michael Pozar, and Theresa Vu. Multilevel Coarse-to-fine PCFG Parsing. Proceedings of the Conference on Human Language Technology and North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL 2006), Brooklyn, New York. [PDF] [Slides (PDF)]
  • Micha Elsner, Mary Swift, James Allen and Daniel Gildea. Online Statistics for a Unification-Based Dialogue Parser. Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2005), Vancouver. [PDF] [Poster (PDF)]
  • Thomas Kollar, Jonathan Schmid, Eric Meisner, Micha Elsner, Diana Calarese, Chikita Purav, Chris Brown, Jenine Turner, Dasun Peramunage, Gautam Altekar and Victoria Sweetser. Mabel: Extending Human Interaction and Robot Rescue Designs. AAAI Mobile Robot Competition 2003: Papers from the AAAI Workshop (ed. Smart, Smart, Bugajska), Acapulco. [PDF]

My thesis:

  • Generalizing Local Coherence Modeling. Brown University, January 2011. [PDF] [Defense slides (PDF)]
    Primarily based on work from NAACL-07, ACL-08a and b, ILP-NLP-09, CL-10, and ACL-11a and b.