Mark Dras's Publications


2022

David Warren, Amir Marashi, Arwa Siddiqui, Asim Adnan Eijaz, Pooja Pradhan, David Lim, Gary Call, Mark Dras (2022). Using machine learning to study the effect of medication adherence in Opioid Use Disorder. PLOS One. [PLOS]

James Simpson, Patrick Nalepka, Rachel W. Kallen, Mark Dras, Erik D. Reichle, Simon G. Hosking, Christopher Best, Deborah Richards and Michael J. Richardson (2022). Conversation dynamics in a multiplayer video game with knowledge asymmetry. Frontiers in Psychology. [Frontiers]

Patrick Nalepka, Matthew Prants, Hamish Stening, James Simpson, Rachel W. Kallen, Mark Dras, Erik D. Reichle, Simon G. Hosking, Christopher Best, Michael J. Richardson (2022). Assessing Team Effectiveness by How Players Structure Their Search in a First-Person Multiplayer Video Game. Cognitive Science, 46(10). [Wiley]

David Fraile Navarro, A. Baki Kocaballi, Mark Dras, Shlomo Berkovsky (2022). Collaboration, not Confrontation: Understanding General Practitioners’ Attitudes Towards Natural Language and Text Automation in Clinical Practice. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. [ACM]

David Fraile Navarro, Mark Dras, Shlomo Berkovsky (2022). Few-shot fine-tuning SOTA summarization models for medical dialogues. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Student Research Workshop, 254-266. [PDF]

Xusheng Zhao, Jia Wu, Hao Peng, Amin Beheshti, Jessica J.M. Monaghan, David McAlpine, Heivet Hernandez-Perez, Mark Dras, Qiong Dai, Yangyang Li, Philip S.Yu, Lifang He (2022). Deep reinforcement learning guided graph neural networks for brain network analysis. Neural Networks, 154:56-67. [Elsevier]

James Simpson, Hamish Stening, Patrick Nalepka, Mark Dras, Erik D. Reichle, Simon Hosking, Christopher J. Best, Deborah Richards, Michael J. Richardson (2022). DesertWoZ: A Wizard of Oz Environment to Support the Design of Collaborative Conversational Agents. CSCW'22 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2022 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 188-192. [ACM]

Na Liu, Mark Dras, Wei Emma Zhang (2022). Detecting Textual Adversarial Examples Based on Distributional Characteristics of Data Representations. Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP). [PDF]

2021

Yufei Wang, Can Xu, Huang Hu, Chongyang Tao, Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Mark Johnson, Daxin Jiang (2021). Neural Rule-Execution Tracking Machine For Transformer-Based Text Generation. Proceedings of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 21). [PDF]

Omid Mohamad Nezami, Akshay Chaturvedi, Mark Dras, Utpal Garain (2021). Type-Specific Adversarial Attack for Object Detection. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 211. [Elsevier | arXiv]

Georgina Kennedy, Mark Dras, Blanca Gallego Luxan (2021). Augmentation of Electronic Medical Record Data for Deep Learning. Proceedings of the World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (MedInfo).

James Simpson, Patrick Nalepka, Cassandra Crone, Rachel W. Kallen, Mark Dras, Erik D. Reichle, Simon G. Hosking, Christopher Best, Deborah Richards, Michael J. Richardson (2021). Tip of the Finger or Tip of the Tongue? Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). [ACM]

Matthew Prants, James Simpson, Patrick Nalepka, Rachel Kallen, Mark Dras, Erik Reichle, Simon Hosking, Christopher Best, Michael Richardson (2021). The Structure of Team Search Behaviors with Varying Access to Information. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 21), 805-811. [PDF]

Yufei Wang, Ian Wood, Stephen Wan, Mark Dras and Mark Johnson (2021). Mention Flags (MF): Constraining Transformer-based Text Generators. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-21), 103-113. [PDF]

Chakaveh Saedi and Mark Dras (2021). Siamese Networks for Large-Scale Author Identification. Computer Speech and Language, 70:101241. [Elsevier | arXiv PDF]

2020

Omid Mohamad Nezami, Mark Dras, Stephen Wan and Cecile Paris (2020). Image Captioning using Facial Expression and Attention. Journal of Articial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 68. [PDF]

Adam Horvath, Mark Dras, Catie C.W. Lai, Simon Boag (2020). Predicting suicidal behaviour without asking about suicidal ideation: Machine Learning and the role of Borderline Personality Disorder criteria. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 51(3):455-466. [Wiley]

Chakaveh Saedi and Mark Dras (2020). Large Scale Author Obfuscation Using Siamese Variational Auto-Encoder: The SiamAO System. Proceedings of the Ninth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM). [PDF]

2019

Omid Mohamad Nezami, Mark Dras, Deborah Richards, Stephen Wan and Cecile Paris (2019). Automatic Recognition of Student Engagement using Deep Learning and Facial Expression. Proceedings of the 2019 European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2019). Wuerzburg, Germany. [arXiv PDF]

Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Philip B. Chapple, Mark Dras, Yi Guo, Len Hamey, Tahereh Hassanzadeh, Thanh Hoang Le, Omid Mohamad Nezami, Mehmet Orgun, Son Lam Phung, Christian Ritz, Maryam Shahpasand (2019). Improved Deep Learning-Based Classification of Mine-Like Contacts in Sonar Images from Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. Proceedings of the Underwater Acoustics Conference and Exhibition Series (UACE). Crete, Greece. [PDF]

Omid Mohamad Nezami, Mark Dras, Stephen Wan and Cecile Paris (2019). Towards Generating Stylized Image Captions via Adversarial Training. Proceedings of the Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI). Fiji. [Springer] [arXiv PDF]

Natasha Fernandes, Mark Dras, and Annabelle McIver (2019). Generalised Differential Privacy for Text Document Processing. Proceedings of Principles of Security and Trust (POST), 123-148. LNCS vol 11426. Prague, Czech Republic. [Springer] [arXiv PDF]

2018

Omid Mohamad Nezami, Mark Dras, Peter Anderson and Len Hamey (2018). Face-Cap: Image Captioning using Facial Expression Analysis. Proceedings of the 2018 European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2018). Dublin, Ireland. [Springer] [arXiv PDF]

Mark Johnson, Peter Anderson, Mark Dras and Mark Steedman (2018). Predicting accuracy on large datasets from smaller pilot data. Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-18), 450-455. Melbourne, Australia. [PDF]

Natasha Fernandes, Mark Dras and Annabelle McIver (2018). Privacy in Text Processing: An information flow perspective. In: Havelund K., Peleska J., Roscoe B., de Vink E. (eds) Formal Methods. FM 2018, 3-21. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10951. Springer, Cham. [Springer]

Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras (2018). Native Language Identification using Classifier Ensembles and Stacking. Computational Linguistics, 44(3):403-446. [PDF]. Earlier version on arXiv at [PDF] (with the original title "Native Language Identification using Stacked Generalization").

Thanh Vu, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Dai Quoc Nguyen, Mark Dras and Mark Johnson (2018). A Vietnamese Natural Language Processing Toolkit. Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-18), 56-60. New Orleans, LA, US. [PDF | code]

Dat Quoc Nguyen, Dai Quoc Nguyen, Thanh Vu, Mark Dras and Mark Johnson (2018). A Fast and Accurate Vietnamese Word Segmenter. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018). Miyazaki, Japan. [PDF | code]

2017

Shervin Malmasi, Mark Dras, Mark Johnson, Lan Du and Magdalena Wolska (2017). Unsupervised Text Segmentation Based on Native Language Characteristics. Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-17), 1457-1469. Vancouver, Canada. [PDF]

Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras (2017). Feature Hashing for Language and Dialect Identification. Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-17), 399-403. Vancouver, Canada. [PDF]

Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras (2017). Multilingual Native Language Identification. Natural Language Engineering, 23(2), 163-215. doi: 10.1017/S1351324915000406 [preprint PDF] [link to journal version]

Dat Quoc Nguyen, Mark Dras and Mark Johnson (2017). A Novel Neural Network Model for Joint POS Tagging and Graph-based Dependency Parsing. Proceedings of the CoNLL 2017 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies, 134-142. Vancouver, Canada. [PDF]

Dat Quoc Nguyen, Thanh Vu, Dai Quoc Nguyen, Mark Dras and Mark Johnson (2017). From Word Segmentation to POS Tagging for Vietnamese. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA), 108-113. Brisbane, Australia. [PDF]

Leonardo Dos Santos Pinheiro and Mark Dras (2017). Stock Market Prediction with Deep Learning: A Character-based Neural Language Model for Event-based Trading. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA), 6-15. Brisbane, Australia. [PDF]

2016

Mary Gardiner and Mark Dras (2016). Predicting Word Choice in Affective Text. Natural Language Engineering 22(1), 97-134. doi: 10.1017/S1351324915000157 [preprint PDF] [link to journal version]

Shervin Malmasi, Mark Dras and Marcos Zampieri (2016). Predicting Post Severity in Mental Health Forums. Proceedings of the Third Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology Workshop (CLPsych), 133-137. San Diego, California, USA. [PDF]

Shervin Malmasi, Mark Dras and Marcos Zampieri (2016). LTG at SemEval-2016 Task 11: Complex Word Identification with Classifier Ensembles. Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2016), 996-1000. San Diego, California, USA. [PDF]

Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras (2016). Modeling Language Change in Historical Corpora: The Case of Portuguese. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016). Portoroz, Slovenia. [PDF]

2015

Mark Dras (2015). Evaluating Human Pairwise Preference Judgments. Computational Linguistics, 41(2), 309-317. [PDF]

Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras (2015). Large-Scale Native Language Evaluation with Cross-Corpus Evaluation. Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-15), 1403-1409. Denver, CO, USA. [PDF]

Shervin Malmasi, Joel Tetreault and Mark Dras (2015). Oracle and Human Baselines for Native Language Identification. Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 172-178. Denver, CO, USA. [PDF]

Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras (2015). Automatic Language Identification for Persian and Dari texts. Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING 2015), 59-64. Bali, Indonesia. [PDF]

Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras (2015). Location Mention Detection in Tweets and Microblogs. Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING 2015), 94-99. Bali, Indonesia. [PDF]

Shervin Malmasi, Eshrag Refaee and Mark Dras (2015). Arabic Dialect Identification using a Parallel Multidialectal Corpus. Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING 2015), 209-217. Bali, Indonesia. [PDF]

Shervin Malmasi, Hamed Hassanzadeh and Mark Dras (2015). Clinical Information Extraction using Word Representations. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA), 66-74. Sydney, Australia. [PDF] [word clusters]

Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras (2015). Cognate Identification using Machine Translation. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA), 138-141. Sydney, Australia. [PDF]

Shervin Malmasi, Mark Dras and Irina Temnikova (2015). Norwegian Native Language Identification. Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2015), 404-412. Hissar, Bulgaria. [PDF]

Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras (2015). Language Identification using Classifier Ensembles. Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Language Technology for Closely Related Languages, Varieties and Dialects (LT4VarDial 2015), 35-43. Hissar, Bulgaria. [PDF]

2014

Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras (2014). Chinese Native Language Identification. Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-14), 95-99. Gothenburg, Sweden. [PDF]

Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras (2014). Language Transfer Hypotheses with Linear SVM Weights. Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 1385-1390. Doha, Qatar. [PDF]

Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras (2014). Arabic Native Language Identification. Proceedings of the Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, 180-186. Doha, Qatar. [PDF]

Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras (2014). From Visualisation to Hypothesis Construction for Second Language Acquisition. Proceedings of TextGraphs-9: the Workshop on Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing, 56-64. Doha, Qatar. [PDF]

Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras (2014). Finnish Native Language Identification. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA), 139-144. Melbourne, Australia. [PDF]

Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras (2014). A Data-driven Approach to Studying Given Names and their Gender and Ethnicity Associations. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA), 145-149. Melbourne, Australia. [PDF]

Teresa Lynn, Jennifer Foster, Mark Dras and Lamia Tounsi (2014). Cross-lingual Transfer Parsing for Low-Resourced Languages: An Irish Case Study. Proceedings of the First Celtic Language Technology Workshop (CLTW 2014), 41-49. Dublin, Ireland. [PDF]

2013

Shervin Malmasi, Sze-Meng Jojo Wong and Mark Dras (2013). NLI Shared Task 2013: MQ Submission. Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA-8), 124-133. Atlanta, Georgia, US. [PDF]

Teresa Lynn, Jennifer Foster, Mark Dras and Josef van Genabith (2013). Working with a small dataset -- semi-supervised dependency parsing for Irish. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages (SPMRL'2013), 1-11. Seattle, Washington, US. [PDF]

2012

Yasaman Motazedi, Mark Dras and François Lareau (2012). Is Bad Structure Better Than No Structure?: Unsupervised Parsing for Realisation Ranking. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling'12). Mumbai, India. [PDF]

Teresa Lynn, Jennifer Foster, Mark Dras and Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha (2012). Active Learning and the Irish Treebank. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA), 23-32. Dunedin, NZ. [PDF]

Mary Gardiner and Mark Dras (2012). Valence Shifting: Is It A Valid Task? Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA), 42-51. Dunedin, NZ. [PDF]

Mark Dras, François Lareau, Benjamin Börschinger, Robert Dale, Yasaman Motazedi, Owen Rambow, Myfany Turpin and Morgan Ulinski (2012). Complex Predicates in Arrernte Proceedings of LFG12, 177-197. Bali, Indonesia. [PDF]

François Lareau, Mark Dras, Benjamin Börschinger, and Myfany Turpin (2012). Implementing Lexical Functions in XLE Proceedings of LFG12, 362-382. Bali, Indonesia. [PDF]

Teresa Lynn, Özlem Çetinoglu, Jennifer Foster, Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha, Mark Dras and Josef van Genabith (2012). Irish Treebanking and Parsing: A Preliminary Evaluation, Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12). Istanbul, Turkey. [Proc. URL]

Sze-Meng Jojo Wong, Mark Dras and Mark Johnson (2012). Exploring Adaptor Grammars for Native Language Identification. Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CONLL 2012), 699-709. Jeju, Korea. [PDF]

2011

François Lareau, Mark Dras, Benjamin Börschinger and Robert Dale (2011). Collocations in Multilingual Natural Language Generation: Lexical Functions meet Lexical Functional Grammar. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop (ALTA 2011), 95-104. Canberra, Australia. [PDF] Best paper.

Sze-Meng Jojo Wong, Mark Dras and Mark Johnson (2011). Topic Modeling for Native Language Identification. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop (ALTA 2011), 115-124. Canberra, Australia. [PDF]

Susan Howlett and Mark Dras (2011). Clause Restructuring For SMT Not Absolutely Helpful. Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics: : Human Language Technologies (ACL 2011), 384-388. Portland, OR, US. [PDF]

Sze-Meng Jojo Wong and Mark Dras (2011). Exploiting Parse Structures for Native Language Identification. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2011), 1600-1610. Edinburgh, Scotland. [PDF]

Francois Lareau, Mark Dras and Robert Dale (2011). Detecting Interesting Event Sequences for Sports Reporting. Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2011), 200-205. Nancy, France. [PDF]

2010

Susan Howlett and Mark Dras (2010). Dual-Path Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop (ALTA 2010), 32--40. Melbourne, Australia. [PDF]

Sze-Meng Jojo Wong and Mark Dras (2010). Parser Features for Sentence Grammaticality Classification. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop (ALTA 2010), 67--75. Melbourne, Australia. [PDF]

Mark Dras, Debbie Richards, Meredith Taylor and Mary Gardiner (2010). Deceptive Agents and Language. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Interacting with ECAs as Virtual Characters. Toronto, Canada. [Longer version of short paper below]

Mark Dras, Debbie Richards, Meredith Taylor and Mary Gardiner (2010). Deceptive Agents and Language. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2010). Short paper. Toronto, Canada. [PDF]

Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Robert Dale and Cecile Paris (2010). Spanning Tree Aproaches for Statistical Sentence Generation. In E. Krahmer and M. Theune (eds.), Empirical Methods in Natural Language Generation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5980. Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg.

2009

Sze-Meng Jojo Wong and Mark Dras (2009). Contrastive Analysis and Native Language Identification. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA 2009), 53-61. Hobart, Australia. [PDF]

Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Robert Dale and Cecile Paris (2009). Improving Grammaticality in Statistical Sentence Generation: Introducing a Dependency Spanning Tree Algorithm with an Argument Satisfaction Model. Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-09), 852-860. Athens, Greece. [PDF]

Maxim Khalilov, José A. R. Fonollosa and Mark Dras (2009). A New Subtree-Transfer Approach to Syntax-Based Reordering for Statistical Machine Translation. Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT), 197-204. Barcelona, Spain. [PDF]

Maxim Khalilov, José A. R. Fonollosa and Mark Dras (2009). Coupling Hierarchical Word Reordering and Decoding in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-3), 78-86. Boulder, Colorado, US. [PDF]

Elena Akhmatova and Mark Dras (2009). Using Hypernymy Acquisition to Tackle (Part of) Textual Entailment. Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Applied Textual Inference (TextInfer), 52-60. Singapore. [PDF]

2008

Simon Zwarts and Mark Dras (2008) Morphosyntactic Target Language Matching in Statistical Machine Translation. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA 2008), 31-39. Hobart, Australia. [PDF]

Stephen Wan, Robert Dale, Mark Dras and Cecile Paris (2008). Seed and Grow: Augmenting Statistically Generated Summary Sentences using Schematic Word Patterns. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2008), 543-552. Hawaii, USA. [PDF]

Simon Zwarts and Mark Dras (2008) Choosing the Right Translation: A Syntactically Informed Classification Approach. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2008), 1153-1160. Manchester, UK. [PDF]

Debbie Richards, Nicolas Szilas, Manolya Kavakli and Mark Dras (2008). Impacts of Visualisation, Interaction and Immersion on Learning using an Agent-Based Training Simulation. International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications, 3(1): 43-60. (Extended version of ABSHL paper.)

Bhavna Orgun, Mark Dras, Abhaya Nayak and Geoff James (2008). Approaches for semantic interoperability between domain ontologies. Expert Systems, 25(3): 179-196.

2007

Andrew Mutton, Mark Dras, Stephen Wan and Robert Dale (2007). GLEU: Automatic Evaluation of Sentence-Level Fluency. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2007), 344-351. Prague, Czech Republic. [PDF]

Mary Gardiner and Mark Dras (2007). Corpus Statistics Approaches to Discriminating Among Near-Synonyms. Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING 2007), 31-39. Melbourne, Australia. [PDF]

Stephen Wan, Robert Dale, Mark Dras and Cecile Paris (2007). Global Revision in Summarisation: Generating Novel Sentences with Prim's Algorithm. Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING 2007), 226-235. Melbourne, Australia. [PDF]

Simon Zwarts and Mark Dras (2007). Syntax-Based Word Reordering in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation: Why Does it Work? Proceedings of MT Summit XI, 559-566. Copenhagen, Denmark. [PDF]

Elena Akhmatova and Mark Dras (2007). Entailment due to Syntactically Encoded Semantic Relationships. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA 2007), 4-12. Sydney, Australia. [PDF]

Mary Gardiner and Mark Dras (2007). Exploring Approaches to Discriminating among Near-Synonyms. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA 2007), 31-39. Sydney, Australia. [PDF]

Simon Zwarts and Mark Dras (2007). Statistical Machine Translation of Australian Aboriginal Languages: Morphological Analysis with Languages of Differing Morphological Richness. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA 2007), 134-142. Sydney, Australia. [PDF]

Manolya Kavakli, Debbie Richards, Mark Dras and John Porte (2007). An Immersive Virtual Reality Training Simulation for Risk Management. SimTecT 2007. Brisbane, Australia.

Debbie Richards, Nicolas Szilas, Manolya Kavakli and Mark Dras (2007). Impacts of Visualisation, Interaction and Immersion on Learning with An Agent-Based Training Simulation. Proceedings of the Workshop on Agent-Based Systems for Human Learning (ABSHL), 1-8. Hawaii, USA.

2006

Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Robert Dale and Cecile Paris (2006). Using Dependency-based Features to Take the "Para-farce" out of Paraphrase. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2006 (ALTW 2006), 131-138. Sydney, Australia. [PDF]

Simon Zwarts and Mark Dras (2006). This Phrase-Based SMT System is Out of Order: Generalised Word Reordering in Machine Translation. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2006 (ALTW 2006), 149-156. Sydney, Australia. [PDF]

Stephen Gilmour and Mark Dras (2006). Kernelization as Heuristic Structure for the Vertex Cover Problem. In M. Dorigo, L.M. Gambardella, M. Birattari, A. Martinoli, R. Poli, T. Stuetzle (eds.), Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, 5th International Workshop (ANTS2006), 452-459. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4150. Springer Verlag. [PDF]

Debbie Richards, Jason Barles, Nicolas Szilas, Manolya Kavakli and Mark Dras (2006). Human and Software Agents Learning Together. Proceedings of the Workshop on Agent-Based Systems for Human Learning (ABSHL), 14-21. Hakodate, Japan.

2005

Jason Barles, Mark Dras, Manolya Kavakli, Debbie Richards and Anders Tychsen (2005). An Overview of Training Simulation Research and Systems. Proceedings of the Workshop on Agent-Based Systems for Human Learning. Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Mark Dras and Steve Cassidy (2005). Formal Grammars for Linguistic Treebank Queries. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2005 (ALTW 2005), 96--104. Sydney, Australia. [PDF]

Mark Dras, Manolya Kavakli and Debbie Richards (2005). Training for High Risk Situations. Proceedings of the Workshop on Agent-Based Systems for Human Learning (ABSHL). Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Stephen Gilmour and Mark Dras (2005). A Two-Pronged Attack on the Dragon of Intractability. Proceedings of the 28th Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC-2005), 183-192. Newcastle, Australia. [PDF]

Stephen Gilmour and Mark Dras (2005). Understanding the Pheromone System Within Ant Colony Optimization. Proceedings of the 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2005), 786-789. Sydney, Australia. [PDF]

Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Robert Dale and Cécile Paris (2005). Towards statistical paraphrase generation: preliminary evaluations of grammaticality. Proceedings of The 3rd International Workshop on Paraphrasing (IWP2005), 88-95. Jeju Island, South Korea. [PDF]

Stephen Wan, Robert Dale, Mark Dras and Cécile Paris (2005). Statistically Generated Summary Sentences: A Preliminary Evaluation of Verisimilitude using Precision of Dependency Relations. Proceedings of the Workshop on Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation (UCNLG'05), 33-40. Birmingham, UK. [PDF]

Stephen Wan, Robert Dale, Mark Dras, and Cecile Paris (2005). Searching for Grammaticality: Propagating Dependencies in the Viterbi Algorithm. Proceedings of the 10th European Natural Language Generation Workshop, 211-216. Aberdeen, Scotland. [PDF]

2004

Mark Dras and Chung-hye Han (2004). Non-Contiguous Tree Parsing. Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI-04), 30-39. Baltimore, MD, USA. [PDF]

Mark Dras, David Chiang and William Schuler (2004). On Relations of Constituency and Dependency Grammars. Research on Language and Computation 2(2), 281-305. Hermes Science Publishers, Paris, France. [PDF]

2003

Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Cecile Paris and Robert Dale (2003). Using Thematic Information in Statistical Headline Generation. Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual Summarization and Question Answering. Sapporo, Japan.

Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Cecile Paris and Robert Dale (2003). Straight to the point: Discovering themes for summary generation Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2003 (ALTW), 122-129. Melbourne, Australia. [PDF]

2002

Mark Dras, David Harrison and Berk Kapicioglu (2002). Emergent Behavior in Phonological Pattern Change. Proceedings of Artificial Life VIII, 390-393. Sydney, Australia. [PDF]

Mark Dras and Chung-hye Han (2002). Korean-English MT and S-TAG. Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+6), 206--219. Venice, Italy. [PDF]

David Harrison, Mark Dras and Berk Kapicioglu (2002). Agent-Based Modeling of the Evolution of Vowel Harmony. Proceedings of North East Linguistic Society 32 (NELS32), 217--236. New York, NY, USA. [PDF]

2000

William Schuler, David Chiang and Mark Dras (2000). Multi-Component TAG and Notions of Formal Power. Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'00), 448-455. Hong Kong, China. [PDF]

Mark Dras, David Chiang and William Schuler (2000). A Multi-Level TAG Approach to Dependency. Proceedings of the Workshop on Linguistic Theory and Grammar Implementation, 33-46. Birmingham, UK. [PDF]

Mark Dras and Tonia Bleam (2000). How Problematic are Clitics for S-TAG Translation? Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+5), 241-244. Paris, France. [PDF]

David Chiang, William Schuler and Mark Dras (2000). Some Remarks on an Extension of Synchronous TAG. Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+5), 61-66. Paris, France. [PDF]

1999

Mark Dras (1999). Tree Adjoining Grammar and the Reluctant Paraphrasing of Text. PhD thesis, Macquarie University, Australia. [PDF]

Mark Dras (1999). A Meta-Level Grammar: Redefining Synchronous TAG for Translation and Paraphrase. Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'99), 80-87. Maryland, USA. [PDF (corrected from proceedings)]

Mark Dras (1999). Synchronous Parallelism Between Different Grammar Formalisms. Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting on the Mathematics of Language, 237-250. Orlando, USA. [PDF]

pre-1999

Mark Dras (1998). Search in Constraint-Based Paraphrasing. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Industrial Applications, 213-219. Moncton, Canada. [PDF]

Mark Dras (1997). Representing Paraphrases Using Synchronous Tree Adjoining Grammars. Proceedings of the 1997 Australasian NLP Summer Workshop, 17--24. Sydney, Australia. [PDF]

Mark Dras (1997). Representing Paraphrases Using STAGs. Proceedings of Proceedings of the Thirty Fifth Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the Eighth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-EACL'97), 516-518. Madrid, Spain. [PDF]

Mark Dras (1997). Reluctant Paraphrase: Textual Restructuring under an Optimisation Model. Proceedings of the Fifth Biannual Meeting of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING'97), 98-104. Ohme, Japan. [PDF]

Mark Dras and Mike Johnson (1996). Death and Lightness: Using a Demographic Model to Find Support Verbs Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing. Dublin, Ireland. [PDF]

Mark Dras (1995). Automatic Identification of Support Verbs: A Step Towards a Definition of Semantic Weight Proceedings of the Eighth Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 451-458. Canberra, Australia. World Scientific Press. [PDF]

Mark Lauer and Mark Dras (1994). A Probabilistic Model of Compound Nouns. Proceedings of the Seventh Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 474--481. Armidale, Australia. World Scientific Press. [PDF]

Mark Dras and Mark Lauer (1993). Lexical Preference Estimation Incorporating Case Information. Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Processing, Sixth Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Melbourne, Australia.


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