2009
R. Girju, B. Beamer, A. Rozovskaya, A. Fister, and S. Bhat. A Knowledge--rich Approach to Identifying Semantic Relations between Nominals. The Information Processing and Management Journal, 2009 (in press) pdf
M. Paul and R. Girju. Topic Modeling of Research Fields: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. The International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), September 2009. (short paper) pdf
A. Rozovskaya and R. Girju. Identifying Semantic Relations in Context: Near-misses and Overlaps. The International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), September 2009. pdf
M. Paul and R. Girju. Cross-cultural Analysis of Blogs and Forums with Mixed-collection Topic Models. The Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Conference (EMNLP), August 2009. pdf
M. Paul, R. Girju, and C. Li. Mining the Web for Reciprocal Relations. The Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), June 2009. (the reciprocity dataset if freely available on our group's website (Semantic Frontiers) under resources) pdf
B. Beamer and R. Girju. Investigating Automatic Alignment Methods for Slide Generation from Academic Papers. The Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), June 2009. pdf
B. Beamer and R. Girju. Using a Bigram Event Model to Predict Causal Relations. The 10th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLING), March 2009. pdf
R. Girju: The Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions in the Task of Automatic Interpretation of Nominal Phrases and Compounds: a Cross-linguistic Study. In Computational Linguistics 35(2) - Special Issue on Prepositions in Applications, A. Villavicencio, V. Kordoni, and T. Baldwin (eds.), June 2009. pdf
2008
B. Beamer, R. Girju, and A. Rozovskaya: SemScatt2: Automatic Semantic Relation Extraction with Moultiple Boundary Generation. To appear in the proceedings of AAAI, Chicago, July 2008. [24% acceptance rate] pdf
A. Fister and R. Girju: Preliminary Investigation Toward an Automated Notetaking System. To appear in the proceedings of the 5th Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium (MCLC), Michigan, May 2008. pdf
A. Rozovskaya, B. Beamer, and R. Girju: Experiments with SemScatt2 in the Task of Semantic Relation Extraction. To appear in the proceedings of the 5th Midwest Computational Linguistics C\olloquium (MCLC), Michigan, May 2008. pdf
N. Ray and R. Girju: Automatic Acquisition of Pragmatic Knowledge using Similes. To be presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium organized by the Provost office at UofI, Urbana-Champaign, April 2008.
2007
B. Beamer, S. Bhat, B. Chee, A. Fister, A. Rozovskaya, R. Girju. UIUC: A Knowledge-rich Approach to Identifying Semantic Relations between Nominals. Semantic Evaluation Workshop (SemEval 2007) in conjunction with ACL, Prague, June 2007. pdf
R. Girju. Improving the Interpretation of Noun Phrases with Cross-linguistic Information. Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (ACL 2007), Prague, June 2007. pdf
R. Girju, P. Nakov, V. Nastase, S. Szpakowicz, P. Turney, D. Yuret. SemEval-2007 Task 04: Classification of Semantic Relations between Nominals. Semantic Evaluation Workshop (SemEval) in conjunction with ACL, Prague, June 2007. pdf
R. Girju. Experiments with an Annotation Scheme for a Knowledge-rich Noun Phrase Interpretation System. Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW 2007),/em> in conjunction with ACL, Prague, June 2007. (poster paper) pdf