Stephen Beale

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.  Phuket, Thailand. 

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.  Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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. Barcelona, Spain.

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, Vaucluse, France.

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. Barcelona, Spain.

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, Barcelona.

Beale, Stephen, Sergei Nirenburg and Marjorie McShane. 2003. Just-in-time grammar. In Proceedings 2003 International Multiconference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Nirenburg, Sergei, Marjorie McShane and Stephen Beale. 2003. Enhancing Recall in Information Retrieval through Ontological Semantics. Workshop on Ontologies and Information Extraction, Bucharest.

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), Edmonton, Canada.

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, Toulouse,France.

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. Toulouse, France.

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. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press.

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), Ontario, Canada.

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, Québec, Canada.

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, Carnegie Mellon University. 1997.

Beale, Stephen. 1997. Using branch-and-bound with constraint satisfaction in optimization problems. In Proc. AAAI-97. Providence, Rhode Island.

Beale, Stephen, Evelyne Viegas and Sergei Nirenburg. 1997. Breaking down barriers: The Mikrokosmos generator. In Proc. NLPRS97, Phuket, Thailand.

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, Santa Fe, NM.

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, Santa Fe, NM.

Beale, Stephen, Sergei Nirenburg and Kavi Mahesh. 1996. Hunter-Gatherer: Three search techniques integrated for natural language semantics. In Proceedings of AAAI-96, Portland, Oregon.

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. Sussex, UK.

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, Brighton, UK.

Nirenburg, S., K. Mahesh, and S. Beale. 1996. Measuring Semantic Coverage. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING-96, Copenhagen.

Nirenburg, S., K. Mahesh, E. Viegas, S. Beale, V. Raskin, and Onyshkevych, B. 1996. Technological and Conceptual Tools for Lexical Knowledge Acquisition. Proceedings of DIALOGUE, Moscow, Russia.

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, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Beale, Stephen and Evelyne Viegas. 1996. Intelligent planning meets intelligent planners. In Proceedings of ECAI-96, Budapest, Hungary.

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), Dec 16-18, 1996, Bombay, India.

Nirenburg, Sergei, Kavi Mahesh and Stephen Beale. 1996. Measuring Semantic Coverage. In Proceedings of COLING-96, Copenhagen.

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, Puschino, Russia.

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. Brighton, UK.

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, Sussex, UK.

Beale, Stephen, Sergei Nirenberg and Kavi Mahesh. 1995. Semantic analysis in the Mikrokosmos machine translation project. In Proceedings of Symposium on Natural Language Processing, Kaset Sart University, Bangkok, Thailand.

Beale, Stephen and Sergei Nirenburg. 1995. Dependency-directed text planning. In Proceedings of IJCAI- 95 Workshop on Multilingual Text Generation, Montreal, Canada.

Beale, Stephen. 1994. Dependency-Directed text generation. Technical Report MCCS-94-272, Computing Research Lab, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

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, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.

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. University of Sains Malaysia, Penang Malaysia.