Publications (by publication type)

Refereed Journal Articles

·         Scott Russell Halgrim, Fei Xia, Imre Solti, Eithon Cadag, Ozlem Uzuner, 2011. “A cascade of MaxEnt classifiers applied to extracting medication information from discharge summaries”, Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2011,  2 (Suppl 3):S2. [pdf]

·         Ozlem Uzuner, Imre Solti, Fei Xia, and Eithon Cadag. "Community Annotation Experiment for Ground Truth Generation for the i2b2 Medication Challenge", Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), 17:519-523. [pdf]

·         William Lewis and Fei Xia, 2010. "Developing ODIN: A Multilingual Repository of Annotated Language Data for Hundreds of the World's Languages," Journal of Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), 25(3):303-319. [pdf]

·         Michael Tepper and Fei Xia, 2010. "Inducing Morphemes Using Light Knowledge," Journal of ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), 9(1): 1-38. [pdf]

·         Fei Xia, Martha Palmer and K. Vijay-Shanker, 2005. "Automatically Generating Tree Adjoining Grammars from Abstract Specifications", Journal of Computational Intelligence, 21(3), 246-287. [pdf]

·         Nianwen Xue, Fei Xia, Fu-dong Chiou, and Martha Palmer, 2005. "The Penn Chinese Treebank: Phrase Structure Annotation of a Large Corpus", Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 11(2): 207-238. Cambridge University Press. [pdf]

Book Chapters

·         Fei Xia and Martha Palmer, 2010. "From Treebank to Tree-Adjoining Grammar", in "Supertagging: Using Complex Lexical Descriptions in Natural Language Processing", edited by Srinivas Bangalore and Aravind K. Joshi, pages 35-72, MIT Press. [pdf]

·         Fei Xia, Martha Palmer, and Vijay Shanker, 2010. "Developing Tree-Adjoining Grammars with Lexical Descriptions," in "Supertagging: Using Complex Lexical Descriptions in Natural Language Processing", edited by Srinivas Bangalore and Aravind K. Joshi, pages 73-110, MIT Press. [pdf]

·         Martha Palmer, Chung-hye Han, Fei Xia, Dania Egedi and Joseph Rosenzweig, 2000. "Constraining Lexical Selection across Languages Using Tree Adjoining Grammars", in Tree Adjoining Grammars: Formalisms, Linguistic Analysis and Processing, a CSLI volume edited by Anne Abeille and Owen Rambow, 2000. [pdf]

·         Christy Doran, Beth Ann Hockey, Anoop Sarkar, B. Srinivas and Fei Xia, 2000. "Evolution of the XTAG System", in Tree Adjoining Grammars: Formalisms, Linguistic Analysis and Processing, a CSLI volume edited by Anne Abeille and Owen Rambow, 2000. [pdf]

Refereed Conference Papers

·         Rajesh Bhatt, Owen Rambow, and Fei Xia, 2011. “Linguistic Phenomena, Analyses, and Representations: Understanding Conversion between Treebanks”, In the Proc. of the IJCNLP, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Nov 9-13, 2011. [pdf]

·         Cuijun Wu, Fei Xia, Louise Deleqer, and Imre Solti, 2011. “Statistical Machine Translation for Biomedical Text: Are We There Yet?” In the Proc. of the AMIA 2011 Annual Symposium, Washington DC, Oct 22-26, 2011. [pdf]

·         Meliha Yetisgen-Yildiz, Martin Gunn, Fei Xia, and Tom Payne, 2011. “Automatic Identification of Critical Follow-Up Recommendation Sentences in Radiology Reports”. In Proc. of the AMIA 2011 Annual Symposium, Washington DC, Oct 22-26, 2011. [pdf]

·         Ryan Georgi, Fei Xia and Will Lewis, 2010. "Comparing Language Similarity Across Genetic and Typologically-Based Groupings," Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), pages 385-393, Beijing, China, August 23-27, 2010. [pdf]

·         Alex Cheng, Fei Xia, and Jianfeng Gao, 2010. "A comparison of unsupervised methods for Part of Speech Tagging in Chinese," Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), Poster Volume, pages 135-143, Beijing, China, August 23-27, 2010. [pdf]

·         Fei Xia, Carrie Lewis and William D. Lewis, 2010. "The Problems of Language Identification within Hugely Multilingual Data Sets," Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010), pages 2790-2797, Valletta, Malta, May 19-21, 2010. [pdf]

·         Archna Bhatia, Rajesh Bhatt, Bhuvana Narasimhan, Martha Palmer, Owen Rambow, Dipti Misra Sharma, Michael Tepper, Ashwini Vaidya, Fei Xia, 2010. "Empty Categories in a Hindi Treebank", Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010), pages 1863-1870, Valletta, Malta, May 19-21, 2010. [pdf]

·         Martha Palmer, Rajesh Bhatt, Bhuvana Narasimhan, Owen Rambow, Dipti Misra Sharma, and Fei Xia, 2009. "Hindi Syntax: Annotating Dependency, Lexical Predicate-Argument Structure, and Phrase Structure", Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2009), pages 259-268, Hyderabad, India, Dec 14-17, 2009. [pdf]

·         Fei Xia, William Lewis and Hoifung Poon, 2009. "Language ID in the Context of Harvesting Language Data off the Web," Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL-2009), pages 870-878, Athens, Greece, March 30 - April 3, 2009. [pdf]

·         William Lewis and Fei Xia, 2009. "Parsing, Projecting & Prototypes: Repurposing Linguistic Data on the Web," Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Demonstrations Session, pages 41-44, Athens, Greece, March 30 - April 3, 2009. [pdf]

·         Fei Xia and William Lewis, 2008. "Repurposing Theoretical Linguistic Data for Tool Development and Search," Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-2008), pages 529-536, Hyderabad, India, Jan 7-12, 2008. [pdf]

·         William Lewis and Fei Xia, 2008. "Automatically Identifying Computationally Relevant Typological Features," Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-2008), pages 685-690, Hyderabad, India, Jan 7-12, 2008. [pdf]

·         Michael Tepper and Fei Xia, 2008. "A Hybrid Approach to the Induction of Underlying Morphology," Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-2008), pages 17-24, Hyderabad, India, Jan 7-12, 2008. [pdf]

·         Fei Xia and William Lewis, 2007. "Multilingual Structural Projection across Interlinearized Text, " Proceedings of NAACL HLT 2007, pages 452-459, Rochester, NY, April 22-27, 2007. [pdf]

·         Fei Xia and Michael McCord, 2004. "Improving a Statistical MT System with Automatically Learned Rewrite Patterns", the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2004), Geneva, Switzerland, Aug 22-29, 2004. [pdf]

·         Christoph Tillmann and Fei Xia, 2003. "A Phrase-Based Unigram Model for Statistical Machine Translation", the 3rd Human Language Technology Conference (HLT/NAACL 2003), Edmonton, Canada, May 27 -- June 2, 2003. [pdf]

·         Y. Al-Onaizan, R. Florian, M. Franz, H. Hassan, Y. S. Lee, S. McCarley, K. Papineni, S. Roukos, J. Sorensen, C. Tillmann, T. Ward, F. Xia, 2003. "TIPS: A Translingual Information Processing System", Proceedings of the 3rd Human Language Technology Conference (HLT/NAACL-2003), Demonstration Session, pages 1-2, Edmonton, Canada, May 27 - June 2, 2003. [pdf]

·         Fei Xia, Chung-hye Han, Martha Palmer and Aravind Joshi, 2001. "Automatically Extracting and Comparing Lexicalized Grammars for Different Languages", the 17th International Joint conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2001), pages 1321-1326, Seattle, Aug 4-10, 2001. [pdf]

·         Fei Xia and Martha Palmer, 2001. "Converting Dependency Structures to Phrase Structures", the 1st Human Language Technology Conference (HLT-2001), San Diego, Mar 18-21, 2001. [pdf]

·         Fei Xia, Martha Palmer, and Aravind Joshi, 2000. "A Uniform Method of Grammar Extraction and Its Applications", the Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora (EMNLP/VLC-2000), pages 53-62, Hong Kong, Oct 7-8, 2000. [pdf]

·         Fei Xia, Martha Palmer, Nianwen Xue, Mary Ellen Okurowski, John Kovarik, Fu-Dong Chiou, Shizhe Huang, Tony Kroch, and Mitch Marcus, 2000. "Developing Guidelines and Ensuring Consistency for Chinese Text Annotation", the 2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2000), Athens, Greece, May 31 - June 2, 2000. [pdf]

·         Fei Xia, 1999. "Extracting Tree Adjoining Grammars from Bracketed Corpora", the 5th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium (NLPRS-99), pages 398-403, Beijing, China, Nov. 1999. [pdf]

·         Fei Xia, Martha Palmer, K. Vijay-Shanker, 1999. "Towards Semi-automating Grammar Development", the 5th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium (NLPRS-99), pages 96-101, Beijing, China, Nov. 1999. [pdf]

·         Hiyan Alshawi, Adam Buchsbaum and Fei Xia, 1997. "A Comparison of Head Transducers and Transfer for a Limited Domain Translation", Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-1997), pages 360-365, Madrid, Spain, July 7-11, 1997. [pdf]

·         Chung-hye Han, Fei Xia, Martha Palmer and Joseph Rosenzweig, 1996. "Capturing Language Specific Constraints on Lexical Selection with Feature-Based LTAGs", International Conference on Chinese Computing (ICCC-1996), pages 106-113, Singapore, June 1996. [pdf]

Refereed Workshop Papers

·         Meliha Yetisgen-Yildiz, Bradford Glavan, Fei Xia, Lucy Vanderwende, and Mark Wurfel, 2011. “Identifying Patients with Pneumonia from Free-Text Intensive Care Unit Reports”. In Proc. of the ICML workshop on Learning from Unstructured Clinical Text, Bellevue, WA, July 2, 2011. [pdf]

·         Kelly Peterson, Matt Hohensee, and Fei Xia, 2011. “Email Formality in the Workplace: A Case Study on the Enron Corpus,” In Proceedings of the 2011 ACL Workshop on Language in Social Media (LSM 2011), Portland, Oregon, June 23, 2011. [pdf]

·         Scott Halgrim, Fei Xia, Imre Solti, Eithon Cadag and Ozlem Uzuner, 2010. "Extracting Medication Information from Discharge Summaries," Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Second Louhi Workshop on Text and Data Mining of Health Documents, pages 61-67, Los Angeles, June 5, 2010. [pdf]

·         Meliha Yetisgen-Yildiz, Imre Solti, Fei Xia, and Scott Halgrim, 2010. "Preliminary Experiments with Amazon's Mechanical Turk for Annotating Medical Named Entities," Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Creating Speech and Language Data with Amazon's Mechanical Turk, pages 180-183, Los Angeles, June 6, 2010. [pdf]

·         Imre Solti, Colin Cooke, Fei Xia, and Mark Wurfel, 2009: "Automated classification of radiology reports for acute lung injury: Comparison of keyword and machine learning based natural language processing approaches," IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshop (BIBM-2009), pages 314-319, Washington DC, November 1-4, 2009. [pdf]

·         Rajesh Bhatt, Bhuvana Narasimhan, Martha Palmer, Owen Rambow, Dipti Misra Sharma, and Fei Xia, 2009. "A Multi-Representational and Multi-Layered Treebank for Hindi/Urdu," Proceedings of the Third Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW 2009), ACL-IJCNLP 2009, pages 186-189, Suntec, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009. [pdf]

·         Fei Xia and William Lewis, 2009. "Applying NLP Technologies to the Collection and Enrichment of Language Data on the Web to Aid Linguistic Research," Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on Language Technology and Resources for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education (LaTeCH-SHELT&R 2009), pages 51-59, Athens, Greece, 30 March 2009. [pdf]

·         Fei Xia, Owen Rambow, Rajesh Bhatt, Martha Palmer, and Dipti Misra Sharma, 2009. "Towards a Multi-Representational Treebank," the 7th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2009), pages 159-170, Groningen, Netherlands, Jan 23-24, 2009. [pdf]

·         Fei Xia, 2008. "The evolution of a statistical NLP course," In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics (TeachCL-2008), pages 45-53, Columbus, Ohio, June 19-20, 2008. [pdf]

·         Emily Bender, Fei Xia, and Erik Bansleben, 2008. "Building a flexible, collaborative, intensive master's program in computational linguistics," Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics (TeachCL-2008), pages 10-18, Columbus, Ohio, June 19-20, 2008. [pdf]

·         Achim Ruopp and Fei Xia, 2008. "Finding parallel texts on the web using cross- language information retrieval", Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on "Cross Lingual Information Access" in conjunction with IJCNLP-2008, pages 18-25, Hyderabad, India, Jan 7-12, 2008. [pdf]

·         William Lewis, Fei Xia, and Dan Jinguji, 2006. "Enriching Language Data through Projected Structures", Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Less-studied Languages, Texas Linguistics Society 10 (TLSX), pages 85-98, Austin, Texas, Nov 3-5, 2006. [pdf]

·         Fei Xia and Lap Cheung, 2006. "Features, Bagging, and System Combination for the Chinese POS Tagging Task," Proceedings of the 5th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing (SIGHAN 2006), pages 25-32, Sydney, Australia, July 22-23, 2006. [pdf]

·         Fei Xia, Chung-hye Han, Martha Palmer, and Aravind Joshi, 2000. "Comparing Lexicalized Treebank Grammars Extracted from Chinese, Korean, and English Corpora", the 2nd Chinese Language Processing Workshop (CLP-2000), pages 52-59, Hong Kong, Oct 8, 2000. [pdf]

·         Anoop Sarkar, Fei Xia, and Aravind Joshi. "Some Experiments on Indicators of Parsing Complexity for Lexicalized Grammars", Efficiency in Large-Scale Parsing Systems Workshop, Luxembourg, Germany, Aug 5, 2000. [pdf]

·         Fei Xia and Martha Palmer. "Evaluating the Coverage of LTAGs on Annotated Corpora", the Workshop on Using Evaluation within HLT Programs: Results and Trends, Athens, Greece, May 30, 2000. [pdf]

·         Fei Xia and Tonia Bleam, 2000. "A Corpus-based Evaluation of Syntactic Locality in TAGs", the 5th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms (TAG+ 2000), pages 215-220, Paris, France, May 25-27, 2000. [pdf]

·         Fei Xia and Martha Palmer, 2000. "Comparing and Integrating Tree Adjoining Grammars", the 5th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms (TAG+ 2000), pages 265-268, Paris, France, May 25-27, 2000. [pdf]

·         Fei Xia, Martha Palmer, K. Vijay-Shanker and Joseph Rosenzweig, 1998. "Consistent Grammar Development Using Partial-Tree Descriptions for LTAGs", the 4th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms (TAG+ 1998), page 180-183, Philadelphia, Aug 1-3, 1998. [pdf]

·         C. Doran, B. Hockey, P. Hopely, J. Rosenzweig, A. Sarkar, B. Srinivas, F. Xia, A. Nasr and O. Rambow. "Maintaining the Forest and Burning out the Underbrush in XTAG", the Workshop on Computational Environments for Grammar Development and Language Engineering (ENVGRAM-1997), Madrid, Spain, July 12, 1997. [pdf]

·         Hiyan Alshawi and Fei Xia, 1997. "English-to-Mandarin Speech Translation with Head Transducers", Proceedings of the Workshop of Spoken Language Translation (SLT-1997), pages 54-60, Madrid, Spain, July 11, 1997. [pdf]

Refereed Abstracts

·         Meliha Yetisgen-Yildiz, Bradford Glavan, Fei Xia, Lucy Vanderwende, and Mark Wurfel, 2011. “Extraction of Pneumonia Cases from Free-Text Intensive Care Unit Reports”. The AMIA 2011 Annual Symposium. [pdf]

·         Imre Solti, Scott Halgrim, and Fei Xia, 2010. "Addressing the Annotation Bottleneck for Clinical Natural Language Processing: Testing the Feasibility of Domain Adaptation for Medical Text," the AMIA 2010 Annual Symposium, Washington DC, Nov 13-17, 2010. [pdf]

·         Meliha Yetisgen-Yildiz, Imre Solti, and Fei Xia, 2010. "Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk for Annotating Medical Named Entities, " the AMIA 2010 Annual Symposium, Washington DC, Nov 13-17, 2010. [pdf]

·         Imre Solti, Colin R. Cooke, Fei Xia, and Mark M. Wurfel, 2010. "Peeling Away the Black Box Label: Clinical Validation of a MaxEnt Machine Learning Character N-gram Feature Set for Acute Lung Injury," 2010 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics, San Francisco, CA, March 10-12, 2010. [pdf]

·         Scott Russell Halgrim, Fei Xia, Imre Solti, Eithon Cadag, and Ozlem Uzuner, 2010. "Statistical Extraction of Medication Information from Clinical Records," 2010 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics, San Francisco, CA, March 10-12, 2010. [pdf]

·         Fei Xia, Carrie Lewis, and William Lewis, 2010. "Language ID for a Thousand Languages," eLanguage, LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts, Baltimore, Maryland, Jan 7-10, 2010. [pdf]

·         William Lewis, Fei Xia, and Daniel Jinguji, 2007. "Projecting structure onto data for resource-poor and endangered languages," LSA Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, 4-7 January 2007. [pdf]

Technical Reports

·         Fei Xia, 2000. "The Segmentation Guidelines for the Penn Chinese Treebank (3.0)", IRCS Report 00-06, University of Pennsylvania, Oct 2000. [pdf]

·         Fei Xia, 2000. "The Part-of-Speech Guidelines for the Penn Chinese Treebank (3.0)", IRCS Report 00-07, University of Pennsylvania, Oct 2000. [pdf]

·         Nianwen Xue and Fei Xia, 2000. "The Bracketing Guidelines for the Penn Chinese Treebank (3.0)", IRCS Report 00-08, University of Pennsylvania, Oct 2000. [pdf]

Manuscripts

·         Fei Xia, Imre Solti, and Ozlem Uzuner, 2009. "UW Internal Annotation Guidelines for the 2009 i2b2 Challenge and UW Medication IE System," Manuscript. [manuscript]

·         Ozlem Uzuner, Imre Solti, and Fei Xia, 2009. "i2b2 Medication Extraction Challenge Preliminary Annotation Guidelines," Manuscript. [manuscript]

·         Ozlem Uzuner, Imre Solti, and Fei Xia, 2009. "i2b2 Medication Extraction Challenge Evaluation Metrics," Manuscript. [manuscript]

Edited Volumns

·         Fei Xia, William Lewis, and Lori Levin (eds), 2010. Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on NLP and Linguistics: Find the Common Ground, in conjunction with ACL/EACL 2010. [workshop url] [Proceedings]

·         Chris Brew, Martha Palmer, and Fei Xia (eds), 2008. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics, in conjunction with ACL 2008. [workshop proceedings (front matter)]

·         Qing Ma and Fei Xia (eds), 2003. Proceedings of the 2nd SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing (SIGHAN-2003), in conjunction with ACL 2003. [workshop proceedings (preface)]

·         Martha Palmer, Mitch Marcus, Aravind Joshi, and Fei Xia (eds), 2000. Proceedings of the 2nd Chinese Language Processing Workshop (CLP-2000), in conjunction with ACL 2000. [workshop proceedings (front matter)]

 

 

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