Marjorie McShane

Research Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and
Institute for Language and Information Technologies
University of Maryland Baltimore County

Publications

Books

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 Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Princeton University.

Papers in Refereed Journals

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.

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

Papers in Refereed Proceedings

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

Marjorie McShane, 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.

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

Invited Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Books, Encyclopedias

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.

McShane, Marjorie, Sergei Nirenburg, Stephen Beale. Forthcoming (2008). 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.

McShane, Marjorie. Forthcoming. Subject ellipsis in Russian and Polish. To be part of an edition on partial pro-drop languages, edited by Anders Holmberg and published by Cambridge University Press.

McShane, Marjorie, Bruce Jarrell, Sergei Nirenburg, George Fantry, Stephen Beale. Forthcoming. Training clinical decision-making using cognitively modeled virtual patients. In A. Park, D. Wetzke and D. Klein, eds., Minimally Invasive Surgery Training: An Electronic Book. University of Maryland School of Medicine.

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

Book Review in Peer-Reviewed Journal

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.

Technical Reports

McShane, Marjorie and Sergei Nirenburg. 2002b. Reference and ellipsis in Ontological Semantics. Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science, MCCS-02-329. The Computing Research 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.

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

Forthcoming

Nirenburg, Sergei, Stephen Beale, Marjorie McShane. 2007. Baseline Evaluation of WSD and Semantic Dependency in OntoSem. 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. 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 and Marjorie McShane. Computational Field Semantics: Acquiring an Ontological-Semantic Lexicon for a New Language. pdf

McShane, Marjorie. Developing Proper Name Recognition, Translation and Matching Capabilities for Low- and Middle-Density Languages. pdf

Nirenburg, Sergei, Stephen Beale, Marjorie McShane, Bruce Jarrell, George Fantry. 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

Submitted

McShane, Marjorie, Sergei Nirenburg and Stephen Beale. Achieving Adequacy of Description of Multiword Entities in Semantically-Oriented Computational Lexicons. Submitted to LiLT. pdf