Alexis Palmer
Contact
- Lucile Berkeley Buchanan (LBB) Building (Linguistics & CS, Rm. 128)
- Hellems Arts & Sciences (HLMS) (Linguistics, Rm. 295)
- +1 (303) 735-0418
- alexis. palmer @colorado.edu
Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics
University of Colorado Boulder
I am a computational linguist and a professor in the department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder. I grew up in rural northern Michigan, studied English literature at the University of Michigan, and later earn both an MA and a PhD in computational linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin. After many years working in research and teaching positions in Germany (Saarbrücken, Stuttgart, and Heidelberg), I returned to the US and to US university culture. My main research interests are computational semantics, computational discourse, and the development and application of computational methods to support language documentation and revitalization. I’m also a musician and a cat lover!
Current research areas of interest.
Research Area 1
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Description of the research
Research Area 2
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Current research areas of interest.
Publications that I have been involved in.
- AmericasNLI: Evaluating Zero-shot Natural Language Understanding of Pretrained Multilingual Models in Truly Low-resource LanguagesarXiv preprint arXiv:2104.08726 2021
- An Experience Report for Running an REU Program in an iSchoolIn International Conference on Information 2020
- A summary of the first Workshop on Language Technology for Language Documentation and RevitalizationarXiv preprint arXiv:2004.13203 2020
- Automatic evaluation of online learning interaction content using domain conceptsThe Electronic Library 2020
- WikiPossessions: Possession timeline generation as an evaluation benchmark for machine reading comprehension of long textsIn Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2020
- UNTLing at SemEval-2020 Task 11: Detection of propaganda techniques in news articlesIn Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020
- Predicting the focus of negation: Model and error analysisIn Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020
- COLD: Annotation scheme and evaluation data set for complex offensive language in EnglishThe Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics 2020
- It’s not a Non-Issue: Negation as a Source of Error in Machine TranslationarXiv preprint arXiv:2010.05432 2020
- It’s not a Non-Issue: Negation as a Source of Error in Machine TranslationarXiv e-prints 2020
- UNT Linguistics at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Linear SVC with Pre-trained Word Embeddings as Document Vectors and Targeted Linguistic FeaturesIn Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation 2020
- UNTLing at SemEval-2020 Task 11: Detection of Propaganda Techniques in English News ArticlesIn Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation 2020
- Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic EvaluationIn Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation 2020
- Temporally-oriented possession: A corpus for tracking possession over timeProceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2019
- A Corpus of Negations and their Underlying Positive InterpretationsIn Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (* SEM 2019) 2019
- Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Tutorial AbstractsIn Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts 2019
- Sigmorphon 2019 Task 2 system description paper: Morphological analysis in context for many languages, with supervision from only a fewIn Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology 2019
- Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages Volume 1In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages Volume 1 (Papers) 2019
- Proceedings of ACL 2019, Tutorial AbstractsIn Proceedings of ACL 2019, Tutorial Abstracts 2019
- Determining event durations: Models and error analysisIn Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers) 2018
- Classifying Semantic Clause Types With Recurrent Neural Networks: Analysis of Attention, Context & Genre CharacteristicsTRAITEMENT AUTOMATIQUE DES LANGUES 2018
- Semantic clause types and modality as features for argument analysis 1Argument & Computation 2017
- Illegal is not a noun: Linguistic form for detection of pejorative nominalizationsIn Proceedings of the First Workshop on Abusive Language Online 2017
- Classifying semantic clause types: Modeling context and genre characteristics with recurrent neural networks and attentionIn Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (* SEM 2017) 2017
- Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered LanguagesIn Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages 2017
- Modeling communicative purpose with functional style: Corpus and features for German genre and register analysisIn Proceedings of the Workshop on Stylistic Variation 2017
- Investigating active learning for short-answer scoringIn Proceedings of the 11th workshop on innovative use of NLP for building educational applications 2016
- Predicting the direction of derivation in English conversionIn Proceedings of the 14th sigmorphon workshop on computational research in phonetics, phonology, and morphology 2016
- Argumentative texts and clause typesIn Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Argument Mining (ArgMining2016) 2016
- Situation entity types: automatic classification of clause-level aspectIn Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) 2016
- A pilot study in using argumentation frameworks for online debates2016
- Clause types and modality in argumentative microtextsIn Workshop on foundations of the language of argumentation (in conjunction with COMMA) 2016
- Modal sense classification at large: Paraphrase-driven sense projection, semantically enriched classification models and cross-genre evaluationsIn Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, Volume 14, 2016-Modality: Logic, Semantics, Annotation, and Machine Learning 2016
- Evaluating Automation Strategies for Documenting Endangered Languages2016
- Computational Linguistics for Low-Resource Languages2016
- Situation Entity Types2015
- Obtaining a better understanding of distributional models of German derivational morphologyIn Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics 2015
- Measuring semantic content to assess asymmetry in derivationIn Proceedings of the Workshop on Advances in Distributional Semantics, London, UK 2015
- Using shallow syntactic features to measure influences of L1 and proficiency level in EFL writingsIn Proceedings of the fourth workshop on NLP for computer-assisted language learning 2015
- Annotating genericity: a survey, a scheme, and a corpusIn Proceedings of the 9th Linguistic Annotation Workshop 2015
- Semantically enriched models for modal sense classificationIn Proceedings of the First Workshop on Linking Computational Models of Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics 2015
- Linking discourse modes and situation entity types in a cross-linguistic corpus studyIn Proceedings of the First Workshop on Linking Computational Models of Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics 2015
- Finding a Tradeoff between Accuracy and Rater’s Workload in Grading Clustered Short AnswersIn LREC 2014
- LQVSumm: A Corpus of Linguistic Quality Violations in Multi-Document SummarizationIn LREC 2014
- lex4all: A language-independent tool for building and evaluating pronunciation lexicons for small-vocabulary speech recognitionIn Proceedings of 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations 2014
- Automatic prediction of aspectual class of verbs in contextIn Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) 2014
- Cross-language mapping for small-vocabulary ASR in under-resourced languages: investigating the impact of source language choiceIn Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages 2014
- Seedling: Building and using a seed corpus for the human language projectIn Proceedings of the 2014 Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages 2014
- Short-term projects, long-term benefits: Four student NLP projects for low-resource languagesIn Proceedings of the 2014 Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages 2014
- Situation entity annotationIn Proceedings of LAW VIII-The 8th Linguistic Annotation Workshop 2014
- Computer-assisted scoring of short responses: the efficiency of a clustering-based approach in a real-life taskIn International Conference on Natural Language Processing 2014
- CSGS: Adapting a Short Answer Scoring System for Multiple-choice Reading Comprehension Exercises.In CLEF (Working Notes) 2014
- Centering Theory in natural text: a large-scale corpus study2014
- Paraphrase detection for short answer scoringIn Proceedings of the third workshop on NLP for computer-assisted language learning 2014
- Genre Distinctions and Discourse Modes: Text Types Differ in their Situation Type Distributions.In ArgNLP 2014
- Using the text to evaluate short answers for reading comprehension exercisesIn 2013
- Scientific Presentations: Expectations2013
- Visualising typological relationships: Plotting wals with heat mapsIn Proceedings of the EACL 2012 Joint Workshop of LINGVIS & UNCLH 2012
- So to Speak: A Computational and Empirical Investigation of Lexical Cohesion of Non-Literal and Literal Expressions in TextDiscours. Revue de linguistique, psycholinguistique et informatique. A journal of linguistics, psycholinguistics and computational linguistics 2012
- Enhancing Active Learning for Semantic Role Labeling via Compressed Dependency TreesIn IJCNLP 2011
- Robust Semantic Analysis for Unseen Data in FrameNetIn RANLP 2011
- Evaluating FrameNet-style semantic parsing: the role of coverage gaps in FrameNetIn Coling 2010: Posters 2010
- Bringing active learning to lifeIn Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on computational linguistics (COLING 2010) 2010
- Computational strategies for reducing annotation effort in language documentationLinguistic Issues in Language Technology 2010
- Cohesive Links with Literal and Idiomatic Expressions in Discourse: An Empirical and Computational StudyMultidisciplinary Perspectives on Signalling Text Organisation 2010
- How well does active learning actually work? Time-based evaluation of cost-reduction strategies for language documentation.In Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2009
- Evaluating automation strategies in language documentationIn Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2009 Workshop on Active Learning for Natural Language Processing 2009
- Semi-automated annotation and active learning for language documentation2009
- DotCCG and VisCCG: Wiki and programming paradigms for improved grammar engineering with OpenCCGIn CSLI STUDIES IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS ONLINE 2007
- IGT-XML: An XML format for interlinearized glossed textIn Proceedings of the linguistic annotation workshop 2007
- A sequencing model for situation entity classificationIn Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics 2007
- Proceedings of the 2004 Texas Linguistics Society Conference: Issues at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface2006
- Pragmatics InterfacePragmatics 2006
- Extracting and using discourse structure to resolve anaphoric dependencies: Combining logico-semantic and statistical approachesIn Proceedings of TALN’04 (Conférence sur le Traitment Automatique du Langage Naturel), Workshop on Segmented Discourse Representation Theory 2004
- Utilization of Multiple Language Resources for Robust Grammar-Based Tense and Aspect Classification.In LREC 2004
- Short papers in pharmaceutical analysisIn Analytical Proceedings 1985
- KMIC: Key Morphemes in Context A Widget among Widgets
- Annotation and automatic classification of situation entity types
- 4 Working groups 4.1 A Pilot Study in Mining Argumentation Frameworks from Online DebatesNatural Language Argumentation: Mining, Processing, and Reasoning over Textual Arguments
- Argumentative texts and clause types
- JLCL Special Issue on Offensive Language
Courses that I am teaching this semester.
Course description
This course is an introduction to computational models, corpora, and processing methods for discourse and dialogue. The course will introduce students to the foundational concepts and approaches, building a base from which students can go on to do research in these areas.
Resources for students.