Research Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Electrical
Engineering, UMBC
410-455-3372 (ph), 410-455-8488 (fax)
sbeale@cs.umbc.edu
Publications, Presentations and Work in Progress
Beale, Stephen, Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie McShane and Tod
Allman. 2005. Document
Authoring the Bible for Minority Language Translation. In Proceedings of MT-Summit.
McShane, Marjorie, Sergei Nirenburg, Stephen Beale and Thomas O’Hara. 2005. Semantically Rich Human-Aided Machine
Annotation. In Proceedings of ACL
Workshop, Frontiers in Corpus Annotation II: Pie in the Sky.
Allman, Tod and Stephen Beale. 2004. An environment for quick ramp-up multi-lingual authoring. In International Journal of Translation, Vol. 16, No. 1.
Beale, S., B. Lavoie, M. McShane, S. Nirenburg, and T.
Korelsky. (2004). Question Answering Using Ontological
Semantics. Proceedings of ACL-2004 Workshop on
Text Meaning and Interpretation.
Beale, S., M. McShane, and S. Nirenburg. (2004). Ontological Semantic Reference Resolution: Setting the Stage.
Cowie, Jim, Sergei Nirenburg, Tanya Korelsky, Stephen
Helmreich, Benoit Lavoie, Valeriy Sibirtsev, Stephen Beale and Ted
Caldwell. 2004. MOQA: Meaning-Oriented Question-Answering. In Proceedings RIAO-04,
McShane, M., S. Beale, and S. Nirenburg. (2004). Some Meaning Procedures of Ontological Semantics. Proceedings of LREC-2004.
McShane, M., M. Zabludowski, S. Nirenburg, and S. Beale.
(2004). OntoSem and
SIMPLE: Two Multi-Lingual World Views. Proceedings
of ACL-2004 Workshop on Text Meaning and Interpretation.
McShane, M., S. Beale, and S. Nirenburg. (2004). OntoSem Methods for Processing Semantic Ellipsis. Proceedings of HLT/NAACL 2004 Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics.
McShane, M., S. Nirenburg, and S. Beale. (2004). The Description and Processing of Multiword Expressions in OntoSem.
Nirenburg, S., S. Beale, and M. McShane. (2004). Heuristics for Recovery from Residual Ambiguity and Incongruity in the Semantic Interpretations of Texts.
Nirenburg, S., M. McShane, and S. Beale. (2004). The Rationale for Building Resources Expressly for NLP. Proceedings of LREC-2004.
Nirenburg, S., S.
Beale, and M. McShane. (2004). Evaluating
the Performance of the OntoSem Semantic Analyzer. In
Proceedings of ACL-2004 Workshop on Text Meaning and Interpretation,
Beale, Stephen, Sergei Nirenburg and Marjorie McShane. 2003. Just-in-time
grammar. In Proceedings 2003
International Multiconference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering,
Nirenburg, Sergei, Marjorie McShane and Stephen Beale. 2003. Enhancing
Recall in Information Retrieval through Ontological Semantics. Workshop on Ontologies and Information Extraction,
Nirenburg, Sergei, Marjorie McShane and Stephen Beale. 2003. Operative
strategies in ontological Semantics. 2003. In Proceedings of the Text Meaning Workshop of the Human
Language Technology Conference (HLT-NAACL-2003),
Viegas, E., A. Ruelas, J. Lonergan, J. Longwell, S. Beale and
S. Nirenburg. 1999. A Cost-effective Approach to the
Acquisition of a High-quality Large-scale Computational Semantic Lexicon.
Proceedings of the Seventh European Workshop on
Natural Language Generation,
Viegas, E., A. Ruelas, J. Lonergan, J. Longwell, S. Beale and
S. Nirenburg. 1999. Developing a Large-scale Semantic LKB
to Suit an Intelligent Planner. In Proceedings
of the 7th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation.
Viegas, E., Mahesh, S. Nirenburg and S. Beale. 1999. Semantics
in Action. In P. Saint-Dizier (ed.), Predicative Forms in
Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases.
Beale, Stephen, Sergei Nirenburg, Evelyne Viegas and Leo
Wanner. 1998. De-Constraining text generation. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Natural
Language Generation (INLG98),
Viegas, E., S. Beale and S. Nirenburg. 1998. The Computational Lexical Semantics of Syntagmatic Relations.
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics and the 17th International Conference
on Computational Linguistics,Montréal,
Viegas, E., A. Ruelas, S. Beale and S. Nirenburg. 1998. Extending a Core Lexicon Using On-line Language Resources with Savoir-Faire. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation,Granada, Spain, 97-104.
Beale, Stephen. 1997. Hunter-Gatherer:
applying constraint satisfaction, branch-and-bound and solution synthesis to
computational semantics. Ph.D. Dissertation, Language and Information
Technologies Program, School of Computer Science,
Beale, Stephen. 1997. Using branch-and-bound
with constraint satisfaction in optimization problems. In Proc. AAAI-97.
Beale, Stephen, Evelyne Viegas and Sergei Nirenburg. 1997. Breaking down barriers: The Mikrokosmos generator. In
Proc. NLPRS97,
Mahesh, K., S. Nirenburg and S. Beale. 1997. If You Have It,
Flaunt It: Full Ontological Knowledge for Word Sense Disambiguation. Proceedings of TMI-97,
Mahesh, K., S. Nirenburg, S. Beale, E. Viegas, V. Raskin and B.
Onyshkevych. 1997. Word Sense Disambiguation: Why
Statistics When You Have These Numbers? Proceedings
of TMI-97,
Beale, Stephen, Sergei Nirenburg and Kavi Mahesh. 1996. Hunter-Gatherer: Three search techniques integrated for natural
language semantics. In Proceedings of AAAI-96,
Beale, Stephen and Sergei Nirenburg. 1996. PICARD:
The next generator. In Proc. 8th
International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Poster Session.June
13-15, 1996.
Nirenburg, S., Beale, S., Mahesh, K., Onyshkevych, B., Raskin,
V., Viegas, E., Wilks, Y., and Zajac, R. 1996. Lexicons in
the Mikrokosmos Project. Proceedings of the
Artificial Intelligence and Simulated Behavior Workshop on Multilinguality in
the Lexicon,
Nirenburg, S., K. Mahesh, and S. Beale. 1996. Measuring Semantic Coverage. Proceedings
of the 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING-96,
Nirenburg, S., K. Mahesh, E. Viegas,
Beale, Stephen. 1996. Hunter-Gatherer: Applying constraint
satisfaction, branch-and-bound and solution synthesis to computational
semantics. Technical Report MCCS-96-289,
Computing Research Lab,
Beale, Stephen and Evelyne Viegas. 1996. Intelligent planning
meets intelligent planners. In Proceedings
of ECAI-96,
Mahesh, Kavi, Stephen Beale and Sergei Nirenburg. 1996. Ontology-Based Ambiguity Resolution and Non-Literal
Interpretation. Proceedings of the
International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems (KBCS-96),
Nirenburg, Sergei, Kavi Mahesh and Stephen Beale. 1996. Measuring Semantic Coverage. In Proceedings of COLING-96,
Nirenburg, Sergei, Kavi Mahesh, Evelyne Viegas, Stephen Beale,
Victor Raskin and Boyan Onyshkevych. 1996. Technological and conceptual tools
for lexical knowledge acquisition. In Proceedings
of DIALOGUE-96,
Nirenburg, Sergei, Stephen Beale, Kavi Mahesh, Boyan
Onyshkevych, Victor Raskin, Evelyne Viegas, Yorick Wilks and Remi Zajac. 1996. Lexicons in the MikroKosmos Project. In Proceedings of the AISB96 Workshop on Multilinguality in
the Lexicon.
Viegas, Evelyne and Stephen Beale. 1996. Multilinguality
and reversibility in computational semantic lexicons. In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Natural
Language Generation, Poster Session,
Beale, Stephen, Sergei Nirenberg and Kavi Mahesh. 1995. Semantic analysis in
the Mikrokosmos machine translation project. In Proceedings of Symposium on Natural Language Processing,
Beale, Stephen and Sergei Nirenburg. 1995. Dependency-directed
text planning. In Proceedings of IJCAI-
95 Workshop on Multilingual Text Generation,
Beale, Stephen. 1994. Dependency-Directed
text generation. Technical Report
MCCS-94-272, Computing Research Lab,
Nirenburg, S., S. Beale and C. Domashnev. 1994. A Full-Text Experiment in Example-Based MT. Proceedings of the conference on New Directions in NLP Research, Manchester, UK.
Beale, Stephen. 1992. Machine Translation
in South-East Asian minority languages. In Proc.
Pan- Asiatic Linguistics,
Beale, Stephen. 1991. A New Approach to
Machine Translation: the TU-SIL Machine Translation System. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Current
Issues in computational Linguistics.