BONNIE LYNN WEBBER

Professor of Intelligent Systems, Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
Research Interests: Natural-language processing, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence. (These interests are linked through my deep interest in reasoning and communicating about actions and processes.)

Selected publications related to Natural Language Processing:

  • Bonnie Webber. Accounting for Discourse Relations: Constituency and Dependency. In M. Butt, M. Dalrymple and T. King, Intelligent Linguistic Architectures, Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2006, pp. 339-360.

  • Bonnie Webber. DLTAG: Extending Lexicalized TAG to Discourse. Cognitive Science 28:751-779, 2004.

  • Bonnie Webber, Matthew Stone, Aravind Joshi and Alistair Knott. Anaphora and Discourse Structure. Computational Linguistics, 29(4), pp. 545-587, 2003.

  • Katherine Forbes, Eleni Miltsakaki, Rashmi Prasad, Anoop Sarkar, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber. D-LTAG System: Discourse parsing with a lexicalized tree-adjoining grammar. In ESSLLI'2001 Workshop on Information Structure, Discourse Structure and Discourse Semantics, Helsinki, Finland, August 2001.

  • Matthew Stone, Christine Doran, Bonnie Webber, Tonia Bleam and Martha Palmer. Microplanning with Communicative Intentions: The SPUD System. Computational Intelligence, to appear 2003.

  • Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova and Bonnie L. Webber. Concession, Implicature and Alternative Sets. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-4), Tilburg, January 2001.

  • Gann Bierner and Bonnie Webber. Inference through Alternative-Set Semantics. Journal of Language and Computation 1(2), Spring 2000, 259--274. (Extended version of paper presented at the International Workshop on Computational Semantics (ICoS-99). Amsterdam, August 1999, pp. 39-52.)

  • Bonnie Webber, Alistair Knott, Matthew Stone and Aravind Joshi. What are Little Texts Made of? A Structural and Presuppositional Account using Lexicalised TAG. International Workshop on Levels of Representation in Discourse (LORID'99), University of Edinburgh, July 1999.

  • Bonnie Webber, Alistair Knott, Matthew Stone and Aravind Joshi. Discourse Relations: A Structural and Presuppositional Account using Lexicalised TAG. 1999 Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, College Park MD, June 1999.

  • Bonnie Webber, Alistair Knott and Aravind Joshi. Multiple Discourse Connectives in a Lexicalized Grammar for Discourse. Third International Workshop on Computational Semantics, Tilburg, The Netherlands, January 1999. (This is an updated version, for the collected papers of the conference to appear in January 2001, editted by Harry Bunt.)

  • Bonnie Webber. Computational Perspectives on Discourse and Dialogue. In Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen and Heidi Hamilton (eds.), The Handbook of Discourse Analysis, Blackwell Publishers Ltd., To appear, 2001.

  • Matthew Stone and Bonnie Webber. Textual Economy through Close Coupling of Syntax and Semantics. International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, August 1998.

  • Bonnie Webber and Aravind Joshi. Anchoring a Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar for Discourse. ACL/COLING Workshop on Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers, Montreal, Canada, 15 August 1998.

  • Dan Cristea and Bonnie Webber. Expectations in Incremental Discourse Processing. Proc. 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Comptutational Linguistics, Madrid, July 1997.

  • Barbara Di Eugenio and Bonnie Webber. Pragmatic Overloading in Natural Language Instructions. International Journal of Expert Systems, 1996.

  • Bonnie Webber. Instructing Animated Agents: Viewing Language in Behavioral Terms.. Proc. International Conference on Cooperative Multi-modal Communication, Eindhoven, Netherlands, May 1995.

  • Bonnie Webber. Do Nothing 'Till You Hear from Me: Language and Perception. 1995 AAAI Fall Symposium on Embodied Language and Action, Cambridge MA, November 1995.

  • Webber, B.L. Structure and Ostension in the Interpretation of Discourse Deixis. Natural Language and Cognitive Processes 6(2), January 1991, pp. 107-135.

  • Bonnie Webber and Barbara Di Eugenio. Free Adjuncts in Natural Language Instructions, Proceedings COLING-90, Helsinki, Finland, August 1990.

    Selected publications related to TraumAID:

  • Webber, B.L., Carberry, S., Clarke, J.R., Gertner, A., Harvey, T., Rymon, R., Washington, R., Exploiting Multiple Goals and Intentions in Decision Support for the Management of Multiple Trauma: A Review of the TraumAID Project. Artificial Intelligence 105 (1998), pp. 263-293.

  • Gertner, A., Webber, B.L. and Clarke, J.R. On-Line Quality Assurance in the Initial Definitive Management of Multiple Trauma: Evaluating System Potential. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 9:261-282, 1997.

  • Gertner, A. and Webber, B.L. A Bias towards Relevance:Recognizing plans where goal minimization fails. Proceedings of the 13th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Portland, OR. August 1996.

  • Gertner, A. and Webber, B.L. Reasoning about plans for effective communication of decision support. in Proc. AAAI Spring Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Applications of Current Technologies Stanford, CA. March 1996.

  • Clarke, J.R., Webber, B.L., Gertner, A., Kaye, J., Rymon, R., On-line Decision Support for Emergency Trauma Management. Electronic poster session for the Eighteenth Symposium on Computer Applications for Medical Care (SCAMC-94), November 1994, p.1028.

  • Gertner, A., Webber, B.L. and Clarke, J.R. Upholding the Maxim of Relevance during Patient-Centered Activities Proc. 4th Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, Stuttgart, Germany, October 1994.


    Publications related to both Language Processing and Medical Informatics:

  • Alison Cawsey, Bonnie Webber and Ray Jones. Natural Language Generation in Healthcare . Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 4(6), November-December 1997, pp. 473-482.