| October 2007-present | Research Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (CSEE), and Computational Linguist/Knowledge Engineer, Institute for Language and Information Technologies (ILIT), University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) |
| August 2002 - September 2007 | Research Assistant Professor, CSEE UMBC and Computational Linguist/Knowledge Engineer, ILIT UMBC |
| January 2005 - present | Adjunct faculty member, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland at Baltimore |
| March 2000 - August 2002 | Computational Linguist, Computing Research Laboratory (CRL), New Mexico State University (NMSU) |
| September 1998 - February 2000 | Analyst, CRL NMSU |
| 1990-1995 | Developmental Editor for the Random House Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms (1995) |
Sept. 2008 - Aug. 2009, "SGER: Advances in Difficult Aspects of Reference Resolution,"$98,196, NSF. Also, supplemental grant, REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates), $11,125. Total award for this project: $109,321. Develops methods to use a broad range of heuristics, including semantic ones, to resolve the demonstrative pronouns this/that and the pronoun it, all of which can be used to refer to objects and events (realized as NPs) or to propositions (realized as spans of text).
2006-2007. PI. GeoMatch Multilingual GNDB Prototype Project, $175,000, sponsored by the Department of Defense. Uses knowledge-based methods of natural language processing to (a) expand the GEOnet database of geographical names with multilingual and non-Latin variants and (b) enhance the robustness of the search functionality.
2007. Co-PI. Modality Annotation, $75,000, sponsored by the Department of Defense. Takes a semi-automated approach to modality annotation of a corpus of texts, using the OntoSem knowledge representation methods.
2004-present. Co-PI. Maryland Virtual Patient, a subcontract from the DoD's Operating Room of the Future program. Developing ontologically grounded simulations of a society of virtual patients along with an automatic tutor to assist students in diagnosing and treating those patients. $200,000 - $300,000 per year.
Taught the week-long course Difficult Aspects of Reference Resolution at the 23rd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 8-12, 2011.
Taught the course Descriptive Computational Linguistics for Low- and Middle-Density Languages at the NATO Advanced Science Institute, Batumi, Georgia, October 15-27, 2007.
Reviewer for the OntoLex07 Workshop "From Text to Knowledge: The Lexicon/Ontology Interface" at The 6th International Semantic Web Conference, Busan South Korea, November 11, 2007.
Taught the week-long course Reference Resolution Beyond the Coreference of Pronouns at the 19th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), Dublin, Ireland, August 2007.
Taught the course Principles of Programming Languages (CMSC 331) in the spring and fall of 2006 at UMBC.
Program Committee, Workshop on Text Meaning and Interpretation, ACL 2004, 25-26 July 2004.
Program Committee, Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI 2004), October 4-6, 2004, Baltimore, Maryland.Lectured on static resources in Ontological Semantics at the EUROLAN-2003 Summer School, devoted to The Semantic Web and Language Technology: its potential and practicalities, Bucharest, Romania, July 28 to 8 August 2003.
Program Committee, Workshop on Text Meaning and Interpretation, HLT-NAACL Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. May 31, 2003.
Lectured on knowledge elicitation for low-density languages at the Computing Research Laboratory's Summer School in Language Engineering, June 28 Ð July 9, 1999.
Ad-hoc reviewer for Computational Linguistics, Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Journal of Database Management, COLING ('06, '08), Theoretical Issues in Machine Translation, Journal of Pragmatics, Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJC NLP 2008), AAAI 2008 Fall Symposium on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures.
McShane, Marjorie, Sergei Nirenburg and Stephen Beale. In preparation. Ontological Semantics in Practice.
McShane, Marjorie. 2005. A Theory of Ellipsis. Oxford University Press.
McShane, Marjorie. 2003. An Innovative, Practical Approach to Polish Inflection. Lincom Europa.
McShane, Marjorie. 1998. Ellipsis in Slavic: The Syntax-Discourse Interface. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Princeton University.
Development Editor (for all intents and purposes, #2 author) of The Random House Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms by Sophia Lubensky, Random House, 1995.
McShane M, Beale S, Nirenburg S, Jarrell B, Fantry G. In press. Inconsistency as diagnostic tool in a society of intelligent agents. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIIM).
McShane M, Nirenburg S. In press. A knowledge representation language for natural language processing, simulation and reasoning. International Journal of Semantic Computing.
McShane, Marjorie. 2009. Reference resolution challenges for an intelligent agent: The need for knowledge. IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 47-58, July/Aug. 2009.pdf
Java, Akshay, Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie McShane, Timothy Finin, Jesse English, Anupam Joshi. 2007. Using a natural language understanding system to generate Semantic Web content. International Journal on Semantic Web & Information Systems, 3(4), 50-74. October-December 2007. pdf
McShane, Marjorie, Sergei Nirenburg and Stephen Beale. 2005. Semantics-based resolution of fragments and underspecified structures. Traitement Automatique des Langues 46(1): 163-184. pdf
McShane, Marjorie, Sergei Nirenburg and Stephen Beale. 2005. An NLP lexicon as a largely language independent resource. Machine Translation 19(2): 139-173. pdf
McShane, Marjorie, Sergei Nirenburg and Ron Zacharski. 2004. Mood and modality: Out of theory and into the fray. Natural Language Engineering, 19(1): 57-89. pdf
McShane, Marjorie and Sergei Nirenburg. 2003. Blasting open a choice space: learning inflectional morphology for NLP. Computational Intelligence 19(2): 111-135. pdf
McShane, Marjorie and Sergei Nirenburg. 2003. Parameterizing and eliciting text elements across languages. Machine Translation 18(2): 129-165. pdf
McShane, Marjorie. 2003. Redefining 'paradigm' for (computer-aided) language instruction. Foreign Language Annals, 36 (2): 198-207. pdf
McShane, Marjorie. 2003. Applying tools and techniques of natural language processing to the creation of resources for less commonly taught languages. IALLT Journal of Language Learning Technologies 35 (1): 25-46. pdf
McShane, Marjorie. 2002. Out of the box. Journal of Slavic Linguistics. pdf
McShane, Marjorie. 2002. Unexpressed objects in Russian. Journal of Slavic Linguistics, vol. 10(1). pdf
McShane, Marjorie. 2002. So Where s that noun? Rusistika, 26: 7-14. pdf
McShane, M., S. Nirenburg, J. Cowie and R. Zacharski. 2002. Embedding knowledge elicitation and MT systems within a single architecture. Machine Translation 17(4):271-305. pdf
Oflazer, K., S. Nirenburg and M. McShane. 2001. Bootstrapping morphological analyzers by combining human elicitation and machine learning. Computational Linguistics 27(1). pdf
McShane, Marjorie. 2000. Verbal Ellipsis in Russian, Polish and Czech. Slavic and East European Journal 44(2): 195-233. pdf
McShane, Marjorie. 2000. Hierarchies of parallelism in elliptical Polish structures. Journal of Slavic Linguistics, vol. 8. pdf
McShane, Marjorie. 1999. The ellipsis of accusative direct objects in Russian, Polish and Czech. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 7(1): 45-88. pdf
McShane, Marjorie. Forthcoming. Ambiguity. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Cambridge University Press.
McShane, Marjorie. Forthcoming. Ellipsis. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Cambridge University Press.
Nirenburg, Sergei and Marjorie McShane. 2009. Computational Field Semantics: Acquiring an Ontological-Semantic Lexicon for a New Language. In Sergei Nirenburg, Ed., Language Engineering for Lesser-Studied Languages - Volume 21 NATO Science for Peace and Security Series - D: Information and Communication Security, IOS Press. pdf
McShane, Marjorie. 2009. Developing Proper Name Recognition, Translation and Matching Capabilities for Low- and Middle-Density Languages. In Sergei Nirenburg, Ed., Language Engineering for Lesser-Studied Languages - Volume 21 NATO Science for Peace and Security Series - D: Information and Communication Security, IOS Press.pdf
McShane, Marjorie, Sergei Nirenburg, Stephen Beale. Forthcoming. Ontology, lexicon and fact repository as leveraged to interpret events of change. In Huang, Chu-ren, Nicoletta Calzolari, Aldo Gangemi, Alessandro Lenci, Alessandro Oltramari and Laurent Prevot, eds., Ontologies and the Lexicon, Cambridge University Press Studies on Natural Language Processing.
McShane, Marjorie. 2009. Subject ellipsis in Russian and Polish. In Special Issue on Partial Pro-Drop, Studia Linguistica, edited by Anders Holmberg, Cambridge University Press, 63(1): 98-132. pdf
Lubensky, Sophia and Marjorie McShane. 2007. Phraseology in bilingual dictionaries. In Phraseologie / Phraseology: Ein internationales Handbuch zeitgenossischer Forschung / An International Handbook of Contemporary Research. Hrsg. v. Burger, Harald, Dobrovol'skij, Dmitrij, Kuhn, Peter and Norrick, Neal R., eds. Mouton de Gruyter. pdf
McShane, Marjorie, Sergei Nirenburg, Stephen Beale. 2011. Reference-related memory management in intelligent agents emulating humans. In: Langley P, editor. Advances in cognitive systems. Papers from the AAAI fall symposium. AAAI technical report FS-11-01. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. 2011. p. 232-239.
Nirenburg, Sergei, Marjorie McShane, Stephen Beale, Bruce Jarrell and George Fantry. 2011. Intelligent agents in support of clinical medicine. Proceedings of MMVR18, February 9 - 12, 2011, Newport Beach, California. pdf
Nirenburg, Sergei, Marjorie McShane and Stephen Beale. 2010. Hybrid methods of knowledge elicitation within a unified representational knowledge scheme. Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development, October 25-28, Valencia, Spain. pdf
Nirenburg, Sergei, Marjorie McShane, Stephen Beale and Roberta Catizone. 2010. An overview of a cognitive architecture for simulating bodies and minds. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Sept. 20-22, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. pdf
Nirenburg, Sergei, Marjorie McShane and Stephen Beale. 2010. Aspects of metacognitive self-awareness in Maryland Virtual Patient. Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Cognitive and Metacognitive Educational Systems, Nov. 11-13, Arlington, VA. pdf
Nirenburg, Sergei, Marjorie McShane, Stephen Beale, Jesse English and Roberta Catizone. 2010. Four kinds of learning in one agent-oriented environment. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA), Arlington, VA, Nov. 13-14. pdf
Nirenburg, Sergei, Marjorie McShane, Stephen Beale, Bruce Jarrell and George Fantry. 2009. Integrating Cognitive Simulation into the Maryland Virtual Patient. Proceedings from MMVR-09. pdf
McShane, M., S. Nirenburg, B. Jarrell, S. Beale, G. Fantry. 2009. Maryland Virtual Patient: A Knowledge-Based, Language-Enabled Simulation and Training System. Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems: 5(9): 57-63. From the International Conference on Virtual Patients, Krakow, Poland, June 5-6, 2009. pdf
Marjorie McShane and Sergei Nirenburg. 2009. Dialog Modeling Within Intelligent Agent Modeling. Proceedings of the IJCAI-09 Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialog Systems, Pasadena, California, USA, July 12, 2009, pp. 52-59. pdf
Nirenburg, Sergei, Marjorie McShane and Stephen Beale. 2009. A unified ontological-semantic substrate for physiological simulation and cognitive modeling. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, University at Buffalo, NY, July 24-26, 2009.pdf
McShane, Marjorie, Sergei Nirenburg and Stephen Beale. 2008. Resolving Paraphrases to Support Modeling Language Perception in an Intelligent Agent. Proceedings of STEP: Symposium on Semantics in Systems for Text Processing. September 22-24, 2008 - Venice, Italy. pdf
McShane, Marjorie and Sergei Nirenburg. 2008. The Idiom-Reference Connection. Proceedings of STEP: Symposium on Semantics in Systems for Text Processing. September 22-24, 2008 - Venice, Italy. pdf
Nirenburg, Sergei, Marjorie McShane, Stephen Beale and Bruce Jarrell. 2008. Adaptivity in a multi-agent clinical simulation system. Proceedings of AKRR'08 - International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Adaptive Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Porvoo, Finland, September 17-19, 2008. pdf
Nirenburg, Sergei, Stephen Beale, Marjorie McShane, Bruce Jarrell, George Fantry. 2008. Language Understanding in Maryland Virtual Patient. Proceedings of COLING-08 Workshop on Speech Processing for Safety Critical Translation and Pervasive Applications. Manchester, Saturday 23 August, 2008. pdf
McShane, Marjorie, Sergei Nirenburg and Stephen Beale. 2008. Two Kinds of Paraphrase in Modeling Embodied Cognitive Agents. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, AAAI 2008 Fall Symposium, Washington, D.C., Nov. 7-9. pdf Nirenburg, Sergei, Marjorie McShane, Stephen Beale. 2008. A Simulated Physiological/Cognitive "Double Agent". In Proceedings of the Workshop on Naturally Inspired Cognitive Architectures, AAAI 2008 Fall Symposium, Washington, D.C., Nov. 7-9.pdfNirenburg, Sergei, Stephen Beale, Marjorie McShane. 2007. Baseline Evaluation of WSD and Semantic Dependency in OntoSem. pdf
Jarrell, Bruce, Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie McShane, George Fantry, Stephen Beale. 2008. Revealing the conceptual substrate of biomedical cognitive models to the wider community. Forthcoming in Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 16. pdf
McShane, Marjorie, George Fantry, Stephen Beale, Sergei Nirenburg, Bruce Jarrell. 2007. Disease Interaction in Cognitive Simulations for Medical Training. Proceedings of MODSIM World Conference, Medical Track, 2007, Virginia Beach, Sept. 11-13 2007. pdf
McShane, Marjorie, Sergei Nirenburg, Stephen Beale, Bruce Jarrell and George Fantry. 2007. Knowledge-based modeling and simulation of diseases with highly differentiated clinical manifestations. 11th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 07), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 7-11, 2007. pdf
Jarrell, Bruce, Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie McShane, George Fantry, Stephen Beale, David Mallott and John Razcek. 2007. An interactive, cognitive simulation of gastroesophageal reflux disease. Proceedings of Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 15, Feb. 6-9, 2007, Long Beach, California. pdf
Fantry G , McShane M, Beale S, Forman J, Raczek J, Nirenburg S , Jarrell B. 2006. The virtual esophagus: An interactive model of esophageal physiology, pathophysiology, and simulation of esophageal motility disorders. Gastroenterology 2006; 130: A736. pdf
McShane, Marjorie, Stephen Beale and Sergei Nirenburg. 2006. The semantics of backing up (Or: What do to with prepositions and particles?). Session on Trends in Natural Language Processing - Language Models, Semantics, FLAIRS 2006, Melbourne Beach, Florida. May 11. pdf
Nirenburg, Sergei, Marjorie McShane, Stephen Beale, Thomas O'Hara, Bruce Jarrell, George Fantry and John Raczek. 2006. Cognitive simulation in virtual patients. Poster session of the main conference of FLAIRS 2006, Melbourne Beach, Florida, Thursday, May 11. pdf
Beale, Stephen, Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie McShane and Tod Allman. 2005. Document authoring the Bible for minority language translation. Proceedings of MT-Summit. Phuket, Thailand.pdf
Nirenburg, Sergei, Marjorie McShane and Stephen Beale. 2005. Increasing understanding: interpreting events of change. Proceedings of the OntoLex Workshop at IJCNLP-05, Jeju Island, South Korea, October 15, 2005. pdf
McShane, Marjorie, Sergei Nirenburg, Stephen Beale and Thomas O Hara. 2005. Semantically rich human-aided machine annotation. Proceedings the Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus Annotation II: Pie in the Sky, ACL-05, Ann Arbor, June 2005, pp. 68-75. pdf
McShane, Marjorie et al. 2005. Text-meaning representations as repositories of structured knowledge. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2005), Barcelona, 9-10 December 2005. pdf
Beale, Stephen, Benoit Lavoie, Marjorie McShane, Sergei Nirenburg and Tanya Korelsky. 2004. Question answering using Ontological Semantics. Proceedings of ACL-2004 Workshop on Text Meaning and Interpretation, Barcelona. pdf
McShane, Marjorie, Stephen Beale and Sergei Nirenburg. 2004. Some meaning procedures of Ontological Semantics. Proceedings of LREC-2004. pdf
McShane, M., S. Beale, and S. Nirenburg. 2004. OntoSem methods for processing semantic ellipsis. Proceedings of HLT/NAACL 2004 Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics, Boston, Mass. pdf
McShane, Marjorie, Sergei Nirenburg and Stephen Beale. 2004. OntoSem and SIMPLE: Two multi-lingual world views. Proceedings of ACL-2004 Workshop on Text Meaning and Interpretation, Barcelona. pdf
Nirenburg, Sergei, Stephen Beale and Marjorie McShane. 2004. Evaluating the performance of the OntoSem semantic analyzer. Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Text Meaning Representation. pdf
Nirenburg, Sergei, Marjorie McShane and Stephen Beale. 2004. The rationale for building resources expressly for NLP. Proceedings of LREC-2004. pdf
Beale, Stephen, Sergei Nirenburg and Marjorie McShane. 2003. Just-in-time grammar. Proceedings 2003 International Multiconference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Las Vegas, Nevada. pdf
Nirenburg, Sergei, Marjorie McShane and Stephen Beale. 2003. Enhancing recall in information extraction through ontological semantics. Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontologies and Information Extraction, Bucharest, Romania, August 2003. pdf
Nirenburg, Sergei, Marjorie McShane and Stephen Beale. 2003. Operative strategies in Ontological Semantics. Proceedings of HLT-NAACL-03 Workshop on Text Meaning, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, June 2003. pdf
McShane, Marjorie. 2001. One formal approach leads to another. Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics: The Bloomington Meeting, 2000. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Michigan Slavic Publications. pdf
McShane, Marjorie, Stephen Helmreich, Sergei Nirenburg and Victor Raskin. 2000. Slavic as testing grounds for a linguistic knowledge elicitation system. Tracy Holloway King and Irina A. Sekerina, eds., Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics: The Philadelphia Meeting, 1999, pp. 280-295. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Michigan Slavic Publications. pdf
McShane, M. and R. Zacharski. 2000. Modularity in knowledge elicitation and language processing. Proceedings of the Third Annual High Desert Linguistics Conference, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, April 7-9, 2000, pp. 93-104. pdf
McShane, Marjorie J. 1999. Predictive rules of direct object ellipsis in Russian. K. Dziwirek et al., eds., Annual Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics: The Seattle Meeting, 1998, 329-48. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Michigan Slavic Publications. pdf
Review of Lingvisticheskie problemy komp'juternoj morfologii [Linguistic Issues in Computational Morphology, written in Russian] by S. A. Koval'. St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg University Press, 2005, 151 pp; paperbound, ISBN 5-288-03731-0. Review appeared in Computational Linguistics, vol. 33 issue 2, 2007.
McShane, Marjorie. 2009. Advances in difficult aspects of reference resolution: Working Notes. ILIT Working Paper #01-09, Nov. 18, 2009 (62 pp.). pdf
McShane, Marjorie. 2009. Advances in difficult aspects of reference resolution: Project Report for SGER. ILIT Working Paper #03-09, Nov. 19, 2009. pdf
McShane, Marjorie, Sergei Nirenburg and Stephen Beale. 2009. Ontological Semantic Analysis and Difficult Reference Resolution Informing Each Other. ILIT Working Paper #02-09, Nov. 18, 2009.pdf
McShane, Marjorie, Sergei Nirenburg and Stephen Beale. 2008. Achieving Adequacy of Description of Multiword Entities in Semantically-Oriented Computational Lexicons. ILIT Working Paper #01-08.pdf
McShane, Marjorie, Stephen Beale and Sergei Nirenburg. 2005. Disambiguating homographous prepositions and verbal particles in an implemented Ontological Semantic analyzer. Working Paper #01-05, Institute for Language and Information Technologies, University of Maryland Baltimore County. pdf
Nirenburg, Sergei, Stephen Beale and Marjorie McShane. 2005. Heuristics for recovery from residual ambiguity and incongruity in the semantic interpretations of texts. Working Paper #02-05, Institute for Language and Information Technologies, University of Maryland Baltimore County. pdf
Nirenburg, Sergei, Marjorie McShane, Margalit Zabludowski, Stephen Beale, Craig Pfeifer. 2005. Ontological Semantic text processing in the biomedical domain. Working Paper #03-05, Institute for Language and Information Technologies, University of Maryland Baltimore County. pdf
McShane, Marjorie, Ron Zacharski and Sergei Nirenburg. 2005. From knowledge elicitation system to teaching tool. Working Paper #04-05, Institute for Language and Information Technologies, University of Maryland Baltimore County. pdf
McShane, Marjorie and Ron Zacharski. 2005. User-extensible on-line lexicons for language learning. Working Paper #05-05, Institute for Language and Information Technologies, University of Maryland Baltimore County. pdf
McShane, Marjorie, Sergei Nirenburg and Stephen Beale. 2005. An implemented, integrative approach to ontology-based NLP and interlingua. Working Paper #06-05, Institute for Language and Information Technologies, University of Maryland Baltimore County. pdf
McShane, Marjorie, Sergei Nirenburg and Stephen Beale. 2005. The description and processing of multiword expressions in OntoSem. Working Paper #07-05, Institute for Language and Information Technologies, University of Maryland Baltimore County. pdf
McShane, Marjorie, Ron Zacharski, Stephen Beale and Sergei Nirenburg. 2005. The Boas II named entity elicitation system. Working Paper #08-05, Institute for Language and Information Technologies, University of Maryland Baltimore County. pdf
McShane, Marjorie and Sergei Nirenburg. 2002. Reference and ellipsis in Ontological Semantics. Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science, MCCS-02-329. The Computing Laboratory, New Mexico State University.
McShane, Marjorie. 2001. Polish Inflection Fit for Man and Machine. Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science, MCCS-01-325. 221 pages. The Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University.