Publications

Publications by members of the Understanding Language by Machines (ULM) Spinoza Prize project, reconstructed from the site’s cached bibliography data.

2018

• Piek Vossen, Filip Ilievski, Marten Postma and Segers Roxane. Don’t Annotate, but Validate: a Data-to-Text Method for Capturing Event Data. LREC2018, Myazaki.

2017

• Wouter Beek, Laurens Rietveld, Filip Ilievski and Stefan Schlobach. LOD Lab: Scalable Linked Data Processing. Reasoning Web: Logical Foundation of Knowledge Graph Construction and Query Answering. pp. 124–155. Springer International Publishing.
• Emiel van Miltenburg. Pragmatic descriptions of perceptual stimuli. Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. pp. 1–10. Association for Computational Linguistics.

2016

• Marten Postma, Ruben Izquierdo, Eneko Agirre, German Rigau and Piek Vossen. Addressing the MFS Bias in WSD systems. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016). European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
• Marco Rospocher, Marieke van Erp, Piek Vossen, Antske Fokkens, Itziar Aldabe, German Rigau, Aitor Soroa, Thomas Ploeger and Tessel Bogaard. Building Event-Centric Knowledge Graphs from News. Journal of Web Semantics.
• Giuseppe Rizzo, Filip Ilievski, Marieke van Erp, Julien Plu and Raphaël Troncy. Context-enhanced Adaptive Entity Linking. Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2016).
• Marieke van Erp, Pablo N. Mendes, Heiko Paulheim, Filip Ilievski, Julien Plu, Giuseppe Rizzo and Joerg Waitelonis. Evaluating Entity Linking: An Analysis of Current Benchmark Datasets and a Roadmap for Doing a Better Job. Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2016).
• Filip Ilievski, Wouter Beek, Marieke Van Erp, Laurens Rietveld and Stefan Schlobach. LOTUS: Adaptive Text Search for Big Linked Data. 13th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2016).
• Anne-Lyse Minard, Manuela Speranza, Ruben Urizar, Begoña Altuna, Marieke van Erp, Anneleen Schoen and Chantal van Son. MEANTIME, the NewsReader Multilingual Event and Time Corpus. Proceedings of LREC 2016.
• Marten Postma, Emiel van Miltenburg, Roxane Segers, Anneleen Schoen and Piek Vossen. Open Dutch WordNet. Proceedings of the Eigth Global Wordnet Conference.
• Piek Vossen. Ouroboros: Objectivity of the subjective process of interpretation. KWALON 61 Special issue: Qualitative research in the digital humanities. Boom Tijdschriften.
• Piek Vossen, Christiane Fellbaum and et al. Proceedings of the 8th Global Wordnet Conference.
• Emiel van Miltenburg. Stereotyping and Bias in the Flickr30k Dataset. Proceedings of Multimodal Corpora: Computer vision and language processing (MMC 2016). pp. 1-4.
• Emiel van Miltenburg, Benjamin Timmermans and Lora Aroyo. The VU Sound Corpus: Adding More Fine-grained Annotations to the Freesound Database. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016). European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
• Emiel van Miltenburg. WordNet-based similarity metrics for adjectives. Proceedings of the 8th Global WordNet Conference. pp. 414-418.

2015

• Leon Derczynski, Diana Maynard, Giuseppe Rizzo, Marieke van Erp, Genevieve Gorrell, Raphaël Troncy, Johann Petrak and Kalina Bontcheva. Analysis of named entity recognition and linking for tweets. Information Processing & Management. pp. 32-49.
• Chantal van Son, Marieke van Erp, Antske Fokkens, Paul Huygen, Ruben Izquierdo Bevia and Piek Vossen. Details from a distance? A Dutch pipeline for event detection.
• Emiel van Miltenburg. Detecting and ordering adjectival scalemates. MAPLEX.
• Ruben Izquierdo, Marten Postma and Piek Vossen. Error analysis of Word Sense Disambiguation. CLIN 2015: Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands.
• Irene Russo, Tommaso Caselli and Monica Monachini. Extracting and Visualising Biographical Events from Wikipedia. Proceedings of the First Conference on Biographical Data in a Digital World 2015. pp. 111-115.
• Anne-Lyse Minard, Manuela Speranza, Rachele Sprugnoli and Tommaso Caselli. FacTA: Evaluation of Event Factuality and Temporal Anchoring. Proceedings of the Second Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2015. pp. 187-192. Accademia University Press.
• Sanne Vrijenhoek. Illuminating Dark Entities: a study on information discovery using Semantic web and Natural Language Processing.
• Filip Ilievski, Wouter Beek, Marieke van Erp, Laurens Rietveld and Stefan Schlobach. LOTUS: Linked Open Text UnleaShed. Proceedings of COLD 2015.
• Marieke van Erp, Filip Ilievski, Marco Rospocher and Piek Vossen. Missing Mr. Brown and buying an Abraham Lincoln - Dark entities and DBpedia. Proceedings of the third NLP&DBpedia workshop.
• Filip Ilievski, Marieke van Erp, Piek Vossen, Wouter Beek and Stefan Schlobach. Named Entity Disambiguation with two-stage coherence optimization. Accepted for oral presentation at Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN 2015).
• Filip Ilievski. NED with two-stage coherence optimization - How I am teaching my Ford automobile not to run on 20th century presidential elections in US.
• Rachele Sprugnoli, Felice Dell’Orletta, Tommaso Caselli, Simonetta Montemagni and Cristina Bosco. Parsing Events: a New Perspective on Old Challenges. Proceedings of the Second Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2015. pp. 258-263. Accademia University Press.
• Proceedings of the 9th SIGHUM Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH 2015).
• Tommaso Caselli, Marieke van Erp, Anne-Lyse Minard, Mark Finlayson, Ben Miller, Jordi Atserias, Alexandra Balahur and Piek Vossen. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computing News Storylines. Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Ashkan Ashkpour, Marieke van Erp, Kees Mandemakers, Leen Breure, Andrea Scharnhorst, Stefan Schlobach and Frank van Harmelen. Semantic Technologies for Historical Research: A Survey. Semantic Web Journal.
• Anne-Lyse Minard, Manuela Speranza, Eneko Agirre, Itziar Aldabe, Marieke van Erp, Bernardo Magnini, German Rigau and Ruben Urizar. SemEval-2015 Task 4: TimeLine: Cross-Document Event Ordering. Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015). pp. 778–786. Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Irene Russo, Tommaso Caselli and Carlo Strapparava. SemEval-2015 Task 9: CLIPEval Implicit Polarity of Events. Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015). pp. 443–450. Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Alessandro Lopopolo and Emiel van Miltenburg. Sound-based distributional models. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics. pp. 70–75. Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Tommaso Caselli, Antske Fokkens, Roser Morante and Piek Vossen. SPINOZA_VU: An NLP Pipeline for Cross Document TimeLines. Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015). pp. 787–791. Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Giuseppe Attardi, Valerio Basile, Cristina Bosco, Tommaso Caselli, Felice Dell’Orletta, Simonetta Montemagni, Maria Simi, Viviana Patti and Rachele Sprugnoli. State of the Art Language Technologies for Italian: the EVALITA 2014 perspective. Intelligenza Artificiale. pp. 43-61. IOS Press.
• Piek Vossen, Tommaso Caselli and Panagiota Kontzopoulou. Storylines for structuring massive streams of news. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computing News Storylines. pp. 40–49.
• Minh Le and Antske Fokkens. Taxonomy Beats Corpus in Similarity Identification, but Does It Matter?. Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing. pp. 346–354. INCOMA Ltd. Shoumen, BULGARIA.
• Ruben Izquierdo, Marten Postma and Piek Vossen. Topic Modeling and Word Sense Disambiguation on the Ancora corpus. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. pp. 15–22.
• Marten Postma, Ruben Izquierdo and Piek Vossen. VUA-background : When to Use Background Information to Perform Word Sense Disambiguation. Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015). pp. 345–349. Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Tommaso Caselli, Piek Vossen, Marieke van Erp, Antske Fokkens, Filip Ilievski, Ruben Izquierdo Bevia, Minh Le, Roser Morante and Marten Postma. When it’s all piling up: investigating error propagation in an NLP pipeline.
• Ruben Izquierdo, Armando Suarez and German Rigau. Word vs. Class-Based Word Sense Disambiguation. Journal of Artificial Inteligence Research (JAIR). pp. 83–122.
• Piek Vossen, Tommaso Caselli, Filip Ilievski, Ruben Izquierdo, Alessandro Lopopolo, Emiel van Miltenburg, Minh L\^e and Marten Postma. Words in context: a reference perspective on the lexicon. Proceedings of MAPLEX 2015.

2014

• Giuseppe Rizzo, Marieke van Erp and Raphaël Troncy. Benchmarking the Extraction and Disambiguation of Named Entities on the Semantic Web. Proceedings of the 9th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2014).
• Antske Fokkens, Serge ter Braake, Niels Ockeloen, Piek Vossen, Susan Leg\^ene and Guus Schreiber. BiographyNet: Methodological Issues when NLP supports historical research. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2014).
• Marieke van Erp, Gleb Satyukov, Piek Vossen and Marit Nijssen. Discovering and visualising stories in news. Proceedings of the 9th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2014).
• Jordi Atserias, Marieke van Erp, Isa Maks, German Rigau and J. Fernando Sánchez-Rada. EuroLoveMap: Confronting feelings from News. Proceedings of OpeNER Hackathon..
• Tommaso Caselli, Rachele Sprugnoli, Manuela Speranza and Monica Monachini. EVENTI: EValuation of Events and Temporal INformation at Evalita 2014. Proceedings of the First Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2014 & and of the Fourth International Workshop EVALITA 2014. pp. 27–34. Pisa University Press.
• Marieke van Erp, Antske Fokkens and Piek Vossen. Finding Stories in 1,784,532 Events: Scaling up computational models of narrative. Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN’14).
• Marieke van Erp, Robert Hensel, Davide Ceolin and Marian van der Meij. Georeferencing Animal Specimen Datasets. Transactions in GIS.
• Chantal van Son, Marieke van Erp, Antske Fokkens and Piek Vossen. Hope and Fear: Interpreting Perspectives by Integrating Sentiment and Event Factuality. Proceedings of the 9th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2014).
• Giuseppe Rizzo, Marieke van Erp and Raphaël Troncy. Inductive Entity Typing Alignment. Linked Data for Information Extraction 2014 (LD4IE 2014)..
• Piek Vossen. Introduction to Computational Methods for the Analysis of Political Texts. From Text to Political Positions Converging approaches to estimating party positions. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
• Piek Vossen, German Rigau, Luciano Serafini, Pim Stouten, Francis Irving and Willem Van Hage. NewsReader: recording history from daily news streams. Proceedings of the 9th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2014).
• Piek Vossen. Onomasiological lexicography: wordnets and thesauruses. International Handbook of Modern Lexis and Lexicography. Springer-Verlag.
• Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Linked Science 2014 - Making Sense Out of Data (LISC2014), Riva del Garda, Italy, October 19, 2014..
• Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Semantic Web and Information Extraction. Association for Computational Linguistics and Dublin City University.
• Bob Van Tiel, Emiel Van Miltenburg, Natalia Zevakhina and Bart Geurts. Scalar diversity. Journal of Semantics. pp. 107-135. Oxford University Press.
• Ruben Izquierdo, Sonia Vazquez and Andres Montoyo. Semantic Classes and Relevant Domains on WSD. Text, Speech and Dialogue: 17th International Conference, TSD 2014, Brno, Czech Republic, September 8-12, 2014. Proceedings. pp. 166–172. Springer International Publishing.
• Andoni Azpeitia, Alexandra Balahur, Montse Cuadros, Antske Fokkens and Ruben Izquierdo. The Snowball effect: following opinions on controversial topics. Proceedings of OpeNER Hackathon.
• Marten Postma and Piek Vossen. What implementation and translation teach us: the case of semantic similarity. Proceedings of the Seventh Global Wordnet Conference.
• Marten Postma and Piek Vossen. What implementation and translation teach us: the case of semantic similarity. Proceedings of the Seventh Global Wordnet Conference.

2013

• Piek Vossen, Isa Maks, Roxane Segers, Hennie van der Vliet, Marie-Francine Moens, Katja Hofmann, Erik Tjong Kim Sang and Maarten de Rijke. Cornetto: a lexical semantic database for Dutch. Essential Speech and Language Technology for Dutch, Results by the STEVIN-programme. pp. 165-184. Springer series Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing.
• Marieke van Erp, Antske Fokkens, Piek Vossen, Sara Tonelli, Willem Robert Van Hage, Luciano Serafini, Rachele Sprugnoli and Jesper Hoeksema. Denoting Data in the Grounded Annotation Framework. ISWC 2013 Posters and Demos.
• Piek Vossen, Ruben Izquierdo and Attila Gorog. DutchSemCor: in quest of the ideal sense-tagged corpus. Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP-2013). pp. 710–718. Printed by INCOMA Ltd. Shoumen.
• Thomas Ploeger, Maxine Kruijt, Lora Aroyo, Frank de Bakker, Iina Hellsten, Antske Fokkens, Jesper Hoeksema and Serge ter Braake. Extractivism. Extracting activist events from news articles using existing NLP tools. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Detection, Representation and Exploitation of Events in the Semantic Web (DeRiVE 2013).
• Antske Fokkens, Marieke van Erp, Piek Vossen, Sara Tonelli, Willem Robert van Hage, Luciano Serafini, Rachele Sprugnoli and Jesper Hoeksema. GAF: A Grounded Annotation Framework for Events. Proceedings of the 1st workshop on Events: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation at the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL2013). Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Chiel van den Akker, Marieke van Erp, Lora Aroyo, Ardjan van Nuland, Lourens van der Meij, Guus Schreiber and Susan Leg\^ene. Information Delivery to Interpretation Support: Evaluating Cultural Heritage Access on the Web. Proceedings of WebSci’13.
• Piek Vossen, Eneko Agirre, German Rigau and Aitor Soroa. KYOTO: a knowledge-rich approach to the interoperable mining of events from text. New Trends of Research in Ontologies and Lexical Resources. pp. 65-90. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg.
• Marieke van Erp, Giuseppe Rizzo and Raphaël Troncy. Learning with the Web: Spotting Named Entities on the intersection of NERD and Machine Learning. Proceedings of the #MSM2013 Concept Extraction Challenge.
• Antske Fokkens, Marieke van Erp, Marten Postma, Ted Pedersen, Piek Vossen and Nuno Freire. Offspring from Reproduction Problems: What Replication Failure Teaches Us. Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2013). Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Linked Science 2013 - Supporting Reproducibility, Scientific Investigations and Experiments (LISC2013) In conjunction with the 12th International Semantic Web Conference 2013 (ISWC 2013). CEUR-WS.
• Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on NLP&LOD and SWAIE: Semantic Web, Linked Open Data and Information Extraction. INCOMA Ltd. Shoumen, BULGARIA.
• Proceedings of the third Workshop on Detection, Representation and Exploitation of Events in the Semantic Web (DeRiVE 2013) co-located with The 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013). CEUR-WS.
• Piek Vossen, Claudia Soria and Monica Monachini. Wordnet-LMF: a standard representation for multilingual wordnets. LMF: Lexical Markup Framework, theory and practice. pp. 51-66. Hermes / Lavoisier / ISTE.
• Piek Vossen. WordNet: principles, developments and applications. Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK) 5/4, International Encyclopedia of Lexicography. Mouton de Gruyter.

n.d.

• Emiel van Miltenburg. Review of Semantic Similarity from Natural Language and Ontology Analysis. Linguist List.