Katja Markert's Publications


Most of my papers are available here :  they are attached as pdf or gzipped ps. [Some of them look strange on screen but should print ok.]


PhD Thesis

Markert, Katja. 1999.  Metonymien --- eine computerlinguistische Analyse. (gzipped ps). PhD Thesis, University of Freiburg. Published as DISKI 2000:  Dissertations in Artificial Intelligence.


Journal Papers


Markert, Katja and Malvina Nissim. 2005. Comparing Knowledge Sources for Nominal Anaphora Resolution (pdf). In Computational Linguistics, Vol 31 (3).

Markert, Katja and Malvina Nissim. 2003.  Corpus-Based Metonymy Analysis.  (pdf, gzipped ps) In Metaphor and Symbol 18:3.

Markert, Katja and Udo Hahn. 2002.  Metonymies in Discourse.  (pdf) In  Artificial Intelligence 135 (1-2), pp. 145-198.


Book Chapters


Bos, Johan and Katja Markert, 2006. Recognising textual entailment with robust logical inference. (pdf)In: Glickman, O. et al (ed):  Springer Lecture Note Series.

Markert, Katja and Malvina Nissim. 2006. Metonymic Proper Names: A Corpus-based Account. (pdf) In: Stefanowitsch, A, Gries, Th (ed):  Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy. Mouton de Gruyter.


Conference Papers (Refereed)

Su, Fangzhong and Katja Markert, 2008. From Words to Senses: a Case Study in Subjectivity Recognition. (pdf) In Proc. of Coling 2008, Manchester, UK

Su, Fangzhong and Katja Markert, 2008. Eliciting Subjectivity and Polarity Judgements on Word Senses. (pdf) In Proc. of Coling 2008 Workshop on Human Judgements in Computational Linguistics, Manchester, UK

Markert, Katja and Malvina Nissim, 2007. Semeval 2007 Task 8: Metonymy Resolution. (pdf)In Proc. of SemEval 2007, Prague

Bos, Johan and Katja Markert, 2006. When Logical Inference helps Determining Textual Entailment (and when it doesn't). In Proc. of the Second PASCAL Challenges Workshop on Recognising Textual Entailment. Venice, Italy.

Bos, Johan and Katja Markert, 2005. Recognising textual entailment with logical inference techniques. (pdf) . In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2005).  Vancouver, Canada.

Bos, Johan and Katja Markert, 2005.  Combining shallow and deep NLP methods  for recognising textual entailment. (pdf) In: Proc. of the PASCAL Challenges Workshop, Southampton, UK.

Nissim, Malvina and Katja Markert, 2005.  Learning to buy a Renault and talk to BMW: A supervised approach to conventional metonymy. (pdf)In: International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS2005), Tilburg, Netherlands.

Nissim,  Malvina and Katja Markert. 2003.  Syntactic Features and Word Similarity for Supervised Metonymy Resolution.  (pdf, gzipped ps) In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2003). Sapporo. Japan.

Modjeska, Natalia, Katja Markert and Malvina Nissim. 2003. Using the Web in Machine Learning for Other-Anaphora Resolution. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP2003). Sapporo. Japan.

Markert, Katja, Natalia Modjeska and Malvina Nissim. 2003. Using the Web for Nominal Anaphora Resolution. (pdf, gzipped ps) In EACL Workshop on the Computational Treatment of Anaphora. Budapest, Hungary.

Markert, Katja and Malvina Nissim (2002): Metonymy resolution as a classification task. (pdf, gzipped ps) In: Proceedings  of the
 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2002).
Philadelphia, USA.

Markert, Katja and  Nissim, Malvina  (2002): Towards a corpus annotated for metonymies: the case of location names.  (pdf,  ps) In : Proceedings of the   3rd international Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002). Las Palmas, Spain.

Romacker, Martin, Katja Markert and Udo Hahn (1999): Lean semantic Interpretation.   (pdf, gizpped ps) In:  Proceedings of the16th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI99). Stockholm, Sweden. pp. 868 -- 876.

 Hahn, Udo and Katja Markert (1999) : On the formal distinction between literal and figurative speech. (gzipped ps) In Proceedings  of the 5th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 99). Evora, Portugal. Published in Springer Lecture Notes Series.

Markert, Katja and  Udo Hahn (1999) : Grounding figurative language in incompatible ontological
categorisation.  (pdf, gzipped ps) In: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci99). Vancouver, Canada.

Markert, Katja and Udo Hahn (1997): On the interaction of metonymies and anaphora.   (pdf, gzipped ps)  In: Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI97). Nagoya, Japan. pp.1010-1015.

 Hahn, Udo and Katja Markert  (1997): In support of the equal rights movement for figurative speech - a parallel search and preferential choice model.   (pdf, gzipped ps) In: Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci97) . Stanford, Ca.  pp.609-614.

Hahn, Udo, Katja Markert and Michael Strube (1996): A conceptual reasoning approach to the resolution of textual ellipses.   (pdf, gzipped ps) In: Proceedings of 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI96). Budapest. Hungary.  pp.572-576.

Hahn, Udo, Michael Strube and Markert, K. (1996): Bridging textual ellipsis.   (pdf, gzipped ps)  In: Proc. of 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling96). Kopenhagen, Denmark. pp.496-501.

Markert, Katja, Michael Strube and Udo Hahn (1996): Inferential realization constraints on functional anaphora in the centering model.  (pdf, gzipped ps) In: Proc. of 18th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci96). San Diego, Ca.,pp.609-614.





Other Work (unrefereed papers, editorship, survey papers etc.)

Barnden, John, Mark Lee and Markert, Katja, eds.:  (2003) "Corpus-based and Processing Approaches to Figurative Language'' ,  Special issue section  of the journal Metaphor and Symbol.

Markert, Katja (2000):  Feature Integration in Metonymy Resolution.    (pdf, gzipped ps) In  : Bi-Metonymy. Bielefeld, Germany, 2000.

Webber, Bonnie, Katja Markert, Nick Hardiker and Barbara Rauch (1999): Towards Consistent Minimal Terminologies.
In: Conference On Natural  Language Processing and Medical Concept Representation. Phoenix, Arizona, December, 1999.


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