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Stuart M. Shieber
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Publications

Books

o    Stuart M. Shieber. The Turing Test. MIT Press, 2004. [ bib | http ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. Constraint-Based Grammar Formalisms. MIT Press, 1992. [ bib | http ]
o    Peter Sells, Stuart M. Shieber, and Thomas Wasow, editors. Foundational Issues in Natural Language Processing. System Development Foundation Benchmark Series. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1991. Introduction reprinted in Carlos P. Otero, ed., Noam Chomsky: Critical Assessments, volume 2, pages 81-90, Routledge, New York, 1994. [ bib | DASH ]
o    Fernando C. N. Pereira and Stuart M. Shieber. Prolog and Natural-Language Analysis, volume 10 of CSLI Lecture Notes Series. Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1987. Italian translation: Prolog e Analisi del Linguaggio Naturale, Tecniche Nuove, Milan, 1992. [ bib | .html ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. An Introduction to Unification-Based Approaches to Grammar, volume 4 of CSLI Lecture Notes Series. Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, CA, 1986. Spanish translation: Introducción a los Formalismos Grammaticales de Unificación, Editorial Teide, Barcelona, 1989. French translation: Formalismes Syntaxiques pour le Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel, Philip Miller and Thérèse Torris, editors, Hermeès, Paris, 1990. [ bib | DASH ]

Journal Articles

o    Bernd Huber, Stuart Shieber, and Krzysztof Z. Gajos. Automatically analyzing brainstorming language behavior with Meeter. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW), 3(30), November 2019. [ bib | DOI | .pdf ]
o    Reuth Mirsky, Ya'akov (Kobi) Gal, and Stuart M. Shieber. CRADLE: An online plan recognition algorithm for exploratory domains. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 8(3), April 2017. [ bib | DOI | DASH | http ]
o    Daniel Rothchild and Stuart Shieber. Automatically determining versions of scholarly articles. Scholarly and Research Communication, 8(1), March 22 2017. [ bib | DOI | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. Principles for designing an AI competition, or why the Turing Test fails as an inducement prize. AI Magazine, 37(1):91-96, 2016. [ bib | DOI | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. There can be no Turing-Test-passing memorizing machines. Philosophers' Imprint, 14(16):1-13, June 2014. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. Bimorphisms and synchronous grammars. Journal of Language Modelling, 2(1):51-104, 2014. [ bib | DOI | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. The case for the journal's use of a CC-BY license. Journal of Language Modelling, 0(1):5-8, 2012. [ bib | DOI | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Ya'akov Gal, Swapna Reddy, Stuart Shieber, Andee Rubin, and Barbara Grosz. Plan recognition in exploratory domains. Artificial Intelligence, 176(1):2270-2290, January 2011. [ bib | DOI | DASH ]
o    Heather Pon-Barry and Stuart M. Shieber. Recognizing uncertainty in speech. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2011(251753), 2011. [ bib | DOI | DASH ]
o    Rebecca Nesson, Giorgio Satta, and Stuart M. Shieber. Complexity, parsing, and factorization of tree-local multi-component tree-adjoining grammar. Computational Linguistics, 36(3), September 2010. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Ya'akov Gal, Barbara Grosz, Sarit Kraus, Avi Pfeffer, and Stuart Shieber. Agent decision-making in open mixed networks. Artificial Intelligence, 174(18):1460-1480, 2010. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. Equity for open-access journal publishing. PLoS Biology, 7(8), 2009. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    David C. Parkes, Michael O. Rabin, Stuart M. Shieber, and Christopher Thorpe. Practical secrecy-preserving, verifiably correct and trustworthy auctions. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 2008. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. The Turing test as interactive proof. Noûs, 41(4):686-713, December 2007. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber and Rani Nelken. Abbreviated text input using language modeling. Natural Language Engineering, 13(2):165-183, June 2007. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Shalom Lappin and Stuart M. Shieber. Machine learning theory and practice as a source of insight into universal grammar. Journal of Linguistics, 43(2):393-427, 2007. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Griffin Weber, Lucila Ohno-Machado, and Stuart Shieber. Representation in stochastic search for phylogenetic tree reconstruction. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 39(1):43-50, February 2006. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Ramesh Johari, Joe Marks, Ali Partovi, and Stuart M. Shieber. Automatic yellow-pages pagination and layout. Journal of Heuristics, 2(4):321-342, 1997. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Andrew Kehler and Stuart M. Shieber. Anaphoric dependencies in ellipsis. Computational Linguistics, 23(3), 1997. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Wheeler Ruml, J. Thomas Ngo, Joe Marks, and Stuart M. Shieber. Easily searched encodings for number partitioning. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 89(2):251-291, July 1996. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Craig Silverstein and Stuart M. Shieber. Predicting individual book use for off-site storage using decision trees. Library Quarterly, 66(3):266-293, July 1996. [ bib | DASH ]
o    Shawn Edmondson, Jon Christensen, Joe Marks, and Stuart M. Shieber. A general cartographic labeling algorithm. Cartographica, 33(4):13-23, Winter 1996. [ bib | video | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. A call for collaborative interfaces. Computing Surveys, 28A (electronic), 1996. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber, Mary Dalrymple, and Fernando C. N. Pereira. Interactions of scope and ellipsis. Linguistics and Philosophy, 19(5):527-552, 1996. Reprinted in Shalom Lappin and Elabbas Benmamoun, editors, Fragments: Studies in Ellipsis and Gapping, chapter 1, pages 8-31, Oxford University Press, 1999. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber, Jon Christensen, and Joe Marks. An empirical study of algorithms for point feature label placement. Transactions on Graphics, 14(3), July 1995. [ bib | video | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber, Yves Schabes, and Fernando C. N. Pereira. Principles and implementation of deductive parsing. Journal of Logic Programming, 24(1-2):3-36, July-August 1995. Also available as cmp-lg/9404008. [ bib | code | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. Restricting the weak-generative capacity of synchronous tree-adjoining grammars. Computational Intelligence, 10(4):371-385, November 1994. Also available as cmp-lg/9404003. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Corey Kosak, Joseph Marks, and Stuart Shieber. Automating the layout of network diagrams with specified visual organization. Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 24(3):440-454, March 1994. [ bib | video | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Yves Schabes and Stuart M. Shieber. An alternative conception of tree-adjoining derivation. Computational Linguistics, 20(1):91-124, 1994. Also available as cmp-lg/9404001. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. Lessons from a restricted Turing test. Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, 37(6):70-78, 1994. Also available as cmp-lg/9404002. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber and Mark Johnson. Variations on incremental interpretation. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 22(2):287-318, March 1993. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. The problem of logical-form equivalence. Computational Linguistics, 19(1):179-190, 1993. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber and Yves Schabes. Generation and synchronous tree-adjoining grammars. Computational Intelligence, 7(4):220-228, 1992. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Mary Dalrymple, Stuart M. Shieber, and Fernando C. N. Pereira. Ellipsis and higher-order unification. Linguistics and Philosophy, 14:399-452, 1991. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber, Gertjan van Noord, Fernando C. N. Pereira, and Robert C. Moore. Semantic-head-driven generation. Computational Linguistics, 16(1):30-41, 1990. [ bib | code | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Jerry Hobbs and Stuart M. Shieber. An algorithm for generating quantifier scopings. Computational Linguistics, 13(1-2):47-63, January-June 1987. [ bib | code | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. Criteria for designing computer facilities for linguistic analysis. Linguistics, 23(3):189-211, 1985. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. Evidence against the context-freeness of natural language. Linguistics and Philosophy, 8:333-343, 1985. Reprinted in Walter J. Savitch, Emmon Bach, William Marsh, and Gila Safran-Navah, eds., The Formal Complexity of Natural Language, pages 320-334, Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1987. Reprinted in Jack Kulas, James H. Fetzer, and Terry L. Rankin, eds., Philosophy, Language, and Artificial Intelligence, pages 79-92, Dordrecht, Holland: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. Direct parsing of ID/LP grammars. Linguistics and Philosophy, 7(2):135-154, 1984. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]

Conference Papers

o    Matthew Finlayson, Aaron Mueller, Sebastian Gehrmann, Stuart Shieber, Tal Linzen, and Yonatan Belinkov. Causal analysis of syntactic agreement mechanisms in neural language models. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 1828-1843, Online, August 2021. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | DOI | http ]
o    Tovly Deutsch, Masoud Jasbi, and Stuart Shieber. Linguistic features for readability assessment. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, pages 1-17, Seattle, Washington, July 2020. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | DOI | .pdf ]
o    Abdelrhman Saleh, Tovly Deutsch, Stephen Casper, Yonatan Belinkov, and Stuart Shieber. Probing neural dialog models for conversational understanding. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Conversational AI, pages 132-143, Online, July 2020. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | DOI | .pdf ]
o    Jesse Vig, Sebastian Gehrmann, Yonatan Belinkov, Sharon Qian, Daniel Nevo, Yaron Singer, and Stuart Shieber. Investigating gender bias in language models using causal mediation analysis. In H. Larochelle, M. Ranzato, R. Hadsell, M. F. Balcan, and H. Lin, editors, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, volume 33, pages 12388-12401. Curran Associates, Inc., 2020. [ bib | .pdf ]
o    Mirac Suzgun, Sebastian Gehrmann, Yonatan Belinkov, and Stuart M. Shieber. LSTM networks can perform dynamic counting. In Proceedings of the ACL 2019 Workshop on Deep Learning and Formal Languages, Florence, Italy, 2 August 2019. [ bib | DASH ]
o    Yonatan Belinkov, Adam Poliak, Stuart M. Shieber, Benjamin Van Durme, and Alexander Rush. Don't take the premise for granted: Mitigating artifacts in natural language inference. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2019), Florence, Italy, 28 July-2 August 2019. Assocation for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | DASH ]
o    Mirac Suzgun, Yonatan Belinkov, and Stuart M. Shieber. On evaluating the generalization of LSTM models in formal languages. In Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL) 2019, pages 277-286, 2019. [ bib | DOI | DASH | http ]
o    Yonatan Belinkov, Adam Poliak, Stuart M. Shieber, Benjamin Van Durme, and Alexander Rush. On adversarial removal of hypothesis-only bias in natural language inference. In Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), pages 256-262, Minneapolis, MN, 6-7 June 2019. Assocation for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | DASH | http ]
o    Bernd Huber, Emily Junkin, Richard F. Davis III, Mindy Yard, Allison Cotter, Stuart Shieber, Elizabeth Brestan-Knight, and Krzysztof Z. Gajos. Specialtime: Automatically detecting dialogue acts from speech to support parent-child interaction therapy. In PervasiveHealth '19: Proceedings of the 13th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2019. [ bib | DOI | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Sam Wiseman, Stuart M. Shieber, and Alexander M. Rush. Learning neural templates for text generation. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2018), pages 3174-3187, Brussels, Belgium, October 31-November 4 2018. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Cristina Aggazzotti and Stuart M. Shieber. Reflexives and reciprocals in synchronous tree adjoining grammar. In 13th International Workshop on Tree-Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms (TAG+ 13), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, 4-6 September 2017. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | DASH | http ]
o    Allen Schmaltz, Yoon Kim, Alexander Rush, and Stuart Shieber. Adapting sequence models for sentence correction. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Copenhagen, Denmark, 7-11 September 2017. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | DASH | http ]
o    Sam Wiseman, Stuart M. Shieber, and Alexander M. Rush. Challenges in data-to-document generation. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Copenhagen, Denmark, 7-11 September 2017. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | DASH | http ]
o    Allen Schmaltz, Alexander M. Rush, and Stuart M. Shieber. Word ordering without syntax. In Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Austin, TX, November 1-5 2016. [ bib | DASH | http ]
o    Allen Schmaltz, Yoon Kim, Alexander M. Rush, and Stuart Shieber. Sentence-level grammatical error identification as sequence-to-sequence correction. In Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, pages 242-251, San Diego, CA, June 2016. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Sharon Zhou, Ivy J. Livingston, Mark Schiefsky, Stuart M. Shieber, and Krzysztof Z. Gajos. Ingenium: Engaging novice students with Latin grammar. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16), San Jose, CA, May 7-12 2016. [ bib | DASH ]
o    Sam Wiseman, Alexander M. Rush, and Stuart Shieber. Antecedent prediction without a pipeline. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Coreference Resolution Beyond OntoNotes (CORBON 2016), pages 53-58. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016. [ bib | DOI | DASH | http ]
o    Sam Wiseman, Alexander M. Rush, Stuart M. Shieber, and Jason Weston. Learning anaphoricity and antecedent ranking features for coreference resolution. In Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, volume Volume 1: Long Papers, pages 1416-1426, Beijing, China, July 26-31 2015. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Heather Pon-Barry, Stuart M. Shieber, and Nicholas Longenbaugh. Eliciting and annotating uncertainty in spoken language. In Proceedings of the 2014 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, 26-31 May 2014. [ bib | DASH ]
o    Sam Wiseman and Stuart M. Shieber. Discriminatively reranking abductive proofs for plan recognition. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), pages 380-384, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 21-26 June 2014. [ bib | DASH ]
o    Ben Swanson, Elif Yamangil, Eugene Charniak, and Stuart M. Shieber. A context free TAG variant. In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | DASH ]
o    Elif Yamangil and Stuart M. Shieber. Nonparametric bayesian inference and efficient parsing for tree-adjoining grammars. In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Short Papers), pages 597-603. Association for Computational Linguistics, 4-9 August 2013. [ bib | DASH ]
o    Elif Yamangil and Stuart M. Shieber. Estimating compact yet rich tree insertion grammars. In Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 110-114, Jeju, Republic of Korea, 8-14 July 2012. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | DASH ]
o    Jonathan Bragg, Elaine Chew, and Stuart Shieber. Neo-Riemannian cycle detection with weighted finite-state transducers. In Proceedings of the 12th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), pages 399-404, Miami, Florida, October 2011. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Elif Yamangil and Stuart M. Shieber. Bayesian synchronous tree-substitution grammar induction and its application to sentence compression. In Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 937-947, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-16 July 2010. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Rebecca Nesson and Stuart M. Shieber. Efficiently parsable extensions to tree-local multicomponent TAG. In Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 92-100, Morristown, NJ, USA, 2009. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Heather Pon-Barry and Stuart Shieber. The importance of sub-utterance prosody in predicting level of certainty. In Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2009, 2009. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Heather Pon-Barry and Stuart Shieber. Identifying uncertain words within an utterance via prosodic features. In Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2009), 2009. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Swapna Reddy, Ya'akov Gal, and Stuart M. Shieber. Recognition of users' activities using constraint satisfaction. In Proceedings of the First and Seventeenth International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization, Trento, Italy, 22-26 June 2009. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Rebecca Nesson and Stuart Shieber. Synchronous vector-TAG for natural language syntax and semantics. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+ 9), Tübingen, Germany, 7-8 June 2008. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Sevan G. Ficici, Avi Pfeffer, Ya'akov Gal, Barbara Grosz, and Stuart Shieber. Colored trails: A multiagent system testbed for decision-making research (demonstration). In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Estoril, Portugal, 12-16 May 2008. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Ya'akov Gal, Elif Yamangil, Stuart M. Shieber, Andee Rubin, and Barbara J. Grosz. Towards collaborative intelligent tutors: Automated recognition of users' strategies. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Montreal, Canada, 23-27 June 2008. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Rebecca Nesson, Giorgio Satta, and Stuart M. Shieber. Optimal k-arization of synchronous tree-adjoining grammar. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2008), Columbus, Ohio, 15-20 June 2008. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart Shieber and Wendy Lucas. A language for specifying informational graphics from first principles. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2007), pages 5-12, Barcelona, Spain, July 2007. [ bib | DASH ]
o    Rebecca Nesson and Stuart Shieber. Extraction phenomena in synchronous TAG syntax and semantics. In Dekai Wu and David Chiang, editors, Proceedings of the Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation, Rochester, New York, 26 April 2007. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. Probabilistic synchronous tree-adjoining grammars for machine translation: The argument from bilingual dictionaries. In Dekai Wu and David Chiang, editors, Proceedings of the Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation, Rochester, New York, 26 April 2007. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Rachel Ben-Eliyahu-Zohary, Ran Giladi, Philip Hendrix, and Stuart M. Shieber. Clustering ad-hoc networks: Experiments in local search. In Proceedings of the 9th Bar-Ilan Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (BISFAI 2007), Ramat Gan, Israel, 20-22 June 2007. [ bib ]
o    Ya'akov Gal, Barbara J. Grosz, Avi Pfeffer, Stuart M. Shieber, and Alex Allain. The influence of task contexts on the decision-making of humans and computers. In Proceedings of the Sixth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, 2007. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Rebecca Nesson, Stuart M. Shieber, and Alexander Rush. Induction of probabilistic synchronous tree-insertion grammars for machine translation. In Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2006), Boston, Massachusetts, 8-12 August 2006. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    David C. Parkes, Michael O. Rabin, Stuart M. Shieber, and Christopher A. Thorpe. Practical secrecy-preserving, verifiably correct and trustworthy auctions. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC '06), pages 70-81, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, 14-16 August 2006. ACM Press. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Rebecca Nesson and Stuart M. Shieber. Simpler TAG semantics through synchronization. In Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Formal Grammar, pages 129-142, Malaga, Spain, 29-30 July 2006. Center for the Study of Language and Information. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Jill Nickerson, Stuart M. Shieber, and Barbara J. Grosz. Referring-expression generation using a transformation-based learning approach. In Proceedings of the 19th International FLAIRS Conference, Melbourne Beach, FL, 11-13 May 2006. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. Does the Turing Test demonstrate intelligence or not? In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), Boston, MA, 16-20 July 2006. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. Unifying synchronous tree-adjoining grammars and tree transducers via bimorphisms. In Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-06), pages 377-384, Trento, Italy, 3-7 April 2006. European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Rani Nelken and Stuart M. Shieber. Towards robust context-sensitive sentence alignment for monolingual corpora. In Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-06), Trento, Italy, 3-7 April 2006. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Rani Nelken and Stuart M. Shieber. Arabic diacritization using weighted finite-state transducers. In Proceedings of the 2005 ACL Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, pages 79-86, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Timothy W. Rauenbusch, Stuart M. Shieber, and Barbara J. Grosz. Computing the communication costs of item allocation. In Bradley J. Clement, editor, Proceedings of the ICAPS-05 Workshop on Planning and Scheduling, pages 15-21, Monterey, CA, 6-10 June 2005. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Marco Carbone, Kobi Gal, Stuart M. Shieber, and Barbara Grosz. Unifying annotated discourse hierarchies to create a gold standard. In Proceedings of the Fifth SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Boston, MA, 30 April-1 May 2004. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. Synchronous grammars as tree transducers. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms (TAG+ 7), Vancouver, Canada, 20-22 May 2004. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Alex Kulesza and Stuart M. Shieber. A learning approach to improving sentence-level MT evaluation. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Baltimore, MD, 4-6 October 2004. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta, and Stuart M. Shieber. Partially ordered multiset context-free grammars and ID/LP parsing. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, pages 171-182, Nancy, France, April 2003. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber and Ellie Baker. Abbreviated text input. In Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, pages 293-296, Miami, FL, 2003. [ bib | definitive version | DASH | poster ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber and Xiaopeng Tao. Comma restoration using constituency information. In Proceedings of the 2003 Human Language Technology Conference and Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 221-227, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 2003. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Tamara Babaian, Barbara J. Grosz, and Stuart M. Shieber. A writer's collaborative assistant. In Proceedings of the Intelligent User Interfaces Conference, pages 7-14, San Francisco, CA, January 2002. ACM Press. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stephan Oepen, Kristina Toutanova, Stuart M. Shieber, Christopher Manning, Dan Flickinger, and Thorsten Brants. The LinGO redwoods treebank: Motivation and preliminary applications. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Taipei, Taiwan, 2002. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Kristina Toutanova, Christopher D. Manning, Stuart M. Shieber, Dan Flickinger, and Stephan Oepen. Parse disambiguation for a rich HPSG grammar. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT2002), pages 253-263, 2002. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Joe Marks, Wheeler Ruml, Stuart M. Shieber, and Tom Ngo. A seed-growth heuristic for graph bisection. In R. Battiti and A. A. Bertossi, editors, Proceedings of Algorithms and Experiments '98, pages 76-87, Trento, Italy, 9-11 February 1998. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    B. Andalman, K. Ryall, W. Ruml, J. Marks, and S. M. Shieber. Design gallery browsers based on 2D and 3D graph drawing. In Proceedings of Graph Drawing '97, 1997. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Jon Christensen, Stacy Friedman, Joe Marks, and Stuart M. Shieber. Empirical testing of algorithms for variable-sized label placement. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, 1997. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    J. Marks, P. Beardsley, B. Andalman, B. Freeman, S. Gibson, J. Hodgins, T. Kang, B. Mirtich, H. Pfister, W. Ruml, J. Seims, and S. M. Shieber. Design galleries: A general approach to setting parameters for computer graphics and animation. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 97, pages 389-400, Los Angeles, CA, 1997. [ bib | video | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Kathy Ryall, Joe Marks, and Stuart M. Shieber. An interactive constraint-based system for drawing graphs. In Proceedings of the 10th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 1997. [ bib | video | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Adam Ginsburg, Joe Marks, and Stuart M. Shieber. A viewer for PostScript documents. In Proceedings of UIST '96, 1996. [ bib | code | video | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Kathy Ryall, Joe Marks, and Stuart M. Shieber. An interactive system for drawing graphs. In Proceedings of Graph Drawing '96, 1996. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Kathy Ryall, Joe Marks, Murray Mazer, and Stuart M. Shieber. Semi-automatic region delineation in floor plans. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR '95), volume 2, pages 964-969, 1995. [ bib | video | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Jon Christensen, Joseph Marks, and Stuart M. Shieber. Algorithms for cartographic label placement. In Proceedings of the 1993 Annual Joint Convention of the ASPRS and ACSM, volume 1, pages 75-89, New Orleans, Louisiana, 15-18 February 1993. [ bib ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. Reconciling abstract structure and concrete data in statistical natural-language processing. In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition, pages 57-59, Arden House, Harriman, New York, December 1992. [ bib | DASH ]
o    Yves Schabes and Stuart M. Shieber. An alternative conception of tree-adjoining derivation. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 167-176, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 28 June-2 July 1992. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. Restricting the weak-generative capacity of synchronous tree-adjoining grammars. In Proceedings of the Second TAG Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 24-26 June 1992. [ bib | DASH ]
o    Sandeep Kochhar, Mark Friedell, Steve Sistare, Janusz Juda, Mark LaPolla, Joe Marks, Peter McMurry, Corey Kosak, and Stuart Shieber. A design environment for scientific and program visualizations. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computational Graphics and Visualization Techniques (Compugraphics '91), pages 321-332, Sesimbra, Portugal, 30 September-2 October 1991. [ bib | DASH ]
o    Corey Kosak, Joseph Marks, and Stuart Shieber. A parallel genetic algorithm for network diagram layout. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms, pages 458-465, University of California, San Diego, California, 1991. [ bib ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber and Yves Schabes. Generation and synchronous tree-adjoining grammars. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, pages 9-14, 1990. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber and Yves Schabes. Synchronous tree-adjoining grammars. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, volume 3, pages 253-258, Helsinki, Finland, 1990. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber, Gertjan van Noord, Robert Moore, and Fernando C. N. Pereira. A semantic-head-driven generation algorithm for unification-based formalisms. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 7-17, 1989. [ bib | code | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. A uniform architecture for parsing and generation. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 614-619, Budapest, Hungary, 1988. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Ivan A. Sag, Ronald Kaplan, Lauri Karttunen, Martin Kay, Carl Pollard, Stuart Shieber, and Annie Zaenen. Unification and grammatical theory. In Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, volume 5, pages 238-254, 1986. [ bib | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. A simple reconstruction of GPSG. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 211-216, Bonn, West Germany, 25-29 August 1986. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. Using restriction to extend parsing algorithms for complex-feature-based formalisms. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 145-152, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 8-12 July 1985. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Fernando C. N. Pereira and Stuart M. Shieber. The semantics of grammar formalisms seen as computer languages. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 123-129, Stanford University, Stanford, California, July 2-6 1984. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. The design of a computer language for linguistic information. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 362-366, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 2-6 July 1984. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber, Susan U. Stucky, Hans Uszkoreit, and Jane J. Robinson. Formal constraints on metarules. In Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 22-27, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 15-17 June 1983. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. Sentence disambiguation by a shift-reduce parsing technique. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 699-703, Karlsruhe, West Germany, 8-12 August 1983. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stanley J. Rosenschein and Stuart M. Shieber. Translating English into logical form. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 1-8, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 16-18 June 1982. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]

Book Chapters

o    Stuart M. Shieber. Ecumenical open access and the Finch Report principles. In Nigel Vincent and Chris Wickham, editors, Debating Open Access, pages 30-41. British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences, London, 2013. [ bib | DASH ]
o    Wendy Lucas and Stuart M. Shieber. A simple language for novel visualizations of information. In J. Filipe, B. Shishkov, M. Helfert, and L. Maciaszek, editors, Software and Data Technologies, volume 22 of Communications in Computer and Information Science, pages 33-45. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2008. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Jon Christensen, Joe Marks, and Stuart M. Shieber. Placing text labels on maps and diagrams. In Paul Heckbert, editor, Graphics Gems IV. Academic Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1994. [ bib | video | .pdf ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. Natural-language processing: Grammar formalisms. In William Bright, editor, The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, pages 61-64. Oxford University Press, New York, New York, 1991. [ bib | .pdf ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. Separating linguistic analyses from linguistic theories. In P. Whitelock, M. M. Wood, H. L. Somers, R. Johnson, and P. Bennett, editors, Linguistic Theory and Computer Applications, pages 1-36. Academic Press, London, 1987. Reprinted in U. Reyle and C. Rohrer, eds., Natural Language Parsing and Linguistic Theories, pages 33-68, Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1988. [ bib ]

Technical Reports

o    Rani Nelken and Stuart M. Shieber. Lexical chaining and word-sense-disambiguation. Technical Report TR-06-07, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2007. [ bib | .pdf ]
o    Rebecca Nesson, Alexander Rush, and Stuart M. Shieber. Induction of probabilistic synchronous tree-insertion grammars. Technical Report TR-20-05, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2005. [ bib | .pdf ]
o    Wheeler Ruml, Adam Ginsburg, and Stuart Shieber. Speculative pruning for boolean satisfiability. Technical Report TR-02-99, Harvard University Computer Science, 1999. [ bib | .pdf ]
o    Wheeler Ruml, Joe Marks, Stuart Shieber, and Tom Ngo. Seed-growth heuristics for graph bisection. Technical Report TR-10-99, Harvard University Computer Science, 1999. [ bib | .pdf ]
o    Rebecca Hwa, Joe Marks, and Stuart M. Shieber. Automatic structuring of high-performance hypermedia documents. Technical Report TR95-06, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, 1995. [ bib | http | .pdf ]
o    Barbara J. Grosz, H. T. Kung, Margo Seltzer, Stuart M. Shieber, and Michael Smith. Infrastructure for research towards ubiquitous information systems. Technical Report TR-04-93, Center for Research in Computing Technology, Harvard University, 1993. [ bib ]
o    Kathy Ryall, Joe Marks, Murray Mazer, and Stuart M. Shieber. Annotating floor plans using deformable polygons. Technical Report TR-24-93, Center for Research in Computing Technology, Harvard University, 1993. [ bib | .ps.gz ]
o    Jon Christensen, Joseph Marks, and Stuart M. Shieber. Labeling point features on maps and diagrams. Technical Report TR-25-92, Harvard University Center for Research in Computing Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 1992. [ bib | .pdf ]
o    Joe Marks and Stuart Shieber. The computational complexity of cartographic label placement. Technical Report TR-05-91, Harvard University Center for Research in Computing Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 1991. [ bib | .pdf ]
o    Corey Kosak, Joseph Marks, and Stuart Shieber. New approaches to automating network diagram layout. Technical Report TR-22-91, Harvard University Center for Research in Computing Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1991. [ bib ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber, Fernando C. N. Pereira, Lauri Karttunen, and Martin Kay. Compilation of papers on unification-based grammar formalisms. Technical Report CSLI-86-48, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, California, April 1986. [ bib ]

Other Works

o    Stuart M. Shieber. Is this article consistent with Hinchliffe's rule? Annals of Improbable Research, 21(3):18-19, May-June 2015. [ bib | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. Inverting the Turing test [review of The Most Human Human by Brian Christian]. American Scientist, 99(6):502, November-December 2011. [ bib | DOI | definitive version | DASH ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. A postmodern romance [review of Turing (A Novel About Computation) by Christos Papadimitriou]. American Scientist, 92(3), May-June 2004. [ bib | .pdf ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. Will researchers develop a computer that duplicates human intelligence in the foreseeable future? No. The CQ Researcher, 7(42):1001, 14 November 1997. [ bib ]
o    Stuart M. Shieber. Proposal for a formalism for sublanguage specification. Manuscript, Kurzweil Applied Intelligence (now ScanSoft), 27 January 1996. [ bib | http | .pdf ]