Publications: Dr Jochen Leidner

Recent Publications: Dr. Jochen L. Leidner

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In Preparation

Leidner, Jochen L. (2008, in preparation). Toponym Resolution: a Comparison and Taxonomy of Heuristics and Methods. [Abstract] [BibTeX]

To Appear

Wiegand, Michael, Jochen L. Leidner and Dietrich Klakow (2008, to appear). Cost-Sensitive Learning in Answer Extraction. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). [Abstract] [BibTeX]
Leidner, Jochen L. (2007). Toponym Resolution in Text (Annotation, Evaluation and Application of Spatial Grounding) SIGIR Forum 41(2): 124-126. [Abstract] [BibTeX]

Books

Leidner, Jochen L. (2008). Toponym Resolution in Text. Boca Raton, FL, USA: Universal Publishers (ISBN-10 1581123841, ISBN-13: 9781581123845, order form), now available from Amazon.com.

Theses

Leidner, Jochen L. (2007). Toponym Resolution in Text: Annotation, Evaluation and Applications of Spatial Grounding of Place Names. Ph.D. thesis, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK [submitted 10/2006, defended 11/2006, awarded 06/2007].
Leidner, Jochen L. (2002). Discovery of Artefacts in Scientific Prose Using Machine Learning. MPhil dissertation, Department of Engineering/Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK.
Leidner, Jochen L. (1998). Links-assoziative Morphologie des Englischen mit stochastischer Disambiguierung. Master's thesis, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. [in German]

Industry Talks

Leidner, Jochen L. (2007). State of the Art in Mobile Search (Linguit Ltd), Industrial Track, 30th Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007), July 23-27, 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [Abstract] [BibTeX]
Leidner, Jochen L. (2007). The TextGIS Platform for Geospatial Text Processing (Linguit Ltd and University of Edinburgh), Workshop on Google Earth and Other Geobrowsing Tools in the Environmental Sciences, 2-3rd April 2007, National Institute for Environmental eScience and Downing College (NIEeS), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK.
Leidner, Jochen L. (2005). The Deployment of a Mobile Question Answering System (Linguit Ltd), 2005 Search Engine Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, April 11-12, 2005. [Abstract] [BibTeX]

Book Chapters

Leidner, Jochen L. (2006). Informationsextraktion. In: Cramer, Irene and Sabine Schulte im Walde (eds.): Studienbibliographie Computerlinguistik und Sprachtechnologie. (Studienbibliographien Sprachwissenschaft, 36) Im Auftrag des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, pp. 87-89. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag Brigitte Narr (in German). ISBN 3-87276-867-0

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Leidner, Jochen L. (2006). An Evaluation Dataset for the Toponym Resolution Task. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 30(4): 400-417. Special Issue on Geographic Information Retrieval. Elsevier Science. [PDF] [BibTeX]

Peer-Reviewed Conference and Workshop Papers

Leidner, Jochen L. (2006). Experiments with Geo-Filtering Predicates for IR. In: Peters, Carol, Fredric C. Gey, Julio Gonzalo, Gareth J. F. Jones, Michael Kluck, Bernardo Magnini, Henning Müller, Maarten de Rijke (eds.) Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories: 6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005, Vienna, Austria, Revised Selected Papers. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 4002), Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer, pp. 987-996. [PDF] [Abstract] [BibTeX]
Cramer, Irene, Jochen L. Leidner and Dietrich Klakow (2006). Building an Evaluation Corpus for German Question Answering by Harvesting Wikipedia Proceedings of The Fifth international Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2006), Genoa, Italy, pp. 1514-1519 [PDF] [Abstract] [BibTeX]
Grover, Claire, Harry Halpin, Ewan Klein, Jochen L. Leidner, Stephen Potter, Sebastian Riedel, Sally Scrutchin and Richard Tobin (2004). A Framework for Text Mining Services. Regular paper. Proceedings of the UK e-Science Programme All Hands Meeting 2004 (AHM 2004), Nottingham, UK, pp. 878-885. [PDF] [BibTeX]
Leidner, Jochen L. (2004). Toponym Resolution in Text: "Which Sheffield is it?" Abstract. Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2004), Sheffield, UK. [PDF] [BibTeX] (winner of the SIGIR 2004 Doctoral Consortium Award)
Leidner, Jochen L. (2004). Towards a Reference Corpus for Automatic Toponym Resolution Evaluation. Proceedings of the Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval held at the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2004), Sheffield, UK. [PDF] [BibTeX]
Leidner, Jochen L., Gail Sinclair and Bonnie Webber (2003). Grounding Spatial Named Entities for Information Extraction and Question Answering. Proceedings of the Workshop on the Analysis of Geographic References held at the Joint Conference for Human Language Technology and the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2003 (HLT/NAACL'03), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, pp. 31-38. [PDF] [BibTeX]
Leidner, Jochen L. (2003). Current Issues in Software Engineering for Natural Language Processing. Proceedings of the Workshop on Software Engineering and Architecture of Language Technology Systems (SEALTS) held at the Joint Conference for Human Language Technology and the Annual Meeting of the Noth American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2003 (HLT/NAACL'03), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, pp. 45-50. [PDF] [BibTeX]
Leidner, Jochen L., Tiphaine Dalmas, Bonnie Webber, Johan Bos and Claire Grover (2003). Automatic Multi-Layer Corpus Annotation for Evaluating Question Answering Methods: CBC4Kids. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-3) held at the Tenth Annual Meeting of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2003 (EACL'03) Budapest, Hungary, pp. 39-46. [PDF] [slides][BibTeX]
Dalmas, Tiphaine, Jochen L. Leidner, Bonnie Webber, Claire Grover and Johan Bos (2003). Annotated Corpora for Reading Comprehension and Question Answering Evaluation. Proceedings of the Workshop on Question Answering held at the Tenth Annual Meeting of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2003 (EACL'03), Budapest, Hungary, pp. 13-19. [PDF] [BibTeX]

Posters

Leidner, Jochen L. (2007). Resource Monitoring in Information Extraction, Poster, 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007), July 23-27, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, p.779-780. [PDF] [BibTeX]
Wiegand, Michael, Jochen L. Leidner and Dietrich Klakow (2007). Combining Term-Based and Event-Based Matching for Question Answering, Poster, 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007), July 23-27, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, p. 715-716. [PDF] [BibTeX]
Leidner, Jochen L. (2003). Grounding Spatial Named Entities and Generating Visual Document Surrogates. Poster presented at the 2003 Informatics Jamboree, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. [PDF] [BibTeX]
Merkel, Andreas, Dan Shen, Jochen L. Leidner, Dietrich Klakow, (2006). The Alyssa System at TREC 2006. Poster presented at the Text REtrieval Conference 2006 (TREC). Gaithersburg, MD, USA. [PDF] [BibTeX]

Demonstrations

Leidner, Jochen L. (2005). A Wireless Natural Language Search Engine. (Linguit Ltd.) Demonstration, 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2005), August 15-19, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. [PDF] [BibTeX]

Reviews

Leidner, Jochen L. (2006). Review of: Adrienko & Adrienko, Exploratory Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Data. ACM Computing Reviews, Review CR133101 (2006-07-24).
Leidner, Jochen L. (2004). Review of: Pasca, Open-Domain Question Answering from Large Text Collections. Journal of Logic, Language and Information (JoLLI) 13(3): 373-376. [PDF] [BibTeX]

International Evaluations, Technical Reports and Other Publications

Shen, Dan, Michael Wiegand, Andreas Merkel, Stefan Kazalski, Jochen L. Leidner and Dietrich Klakow (2007). The Alyssa System at TREC QA 2007: Do We Need Blog06? Proceedings of the Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2007), November 2007, Gaithersburg, MD, USA. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Shen, Dan, Jochen L. Leidner, Andreas Merkel and Dietrich Klakow (2006). The Alyssa System at TREC 2006: A Statistically-Inspired Question Answering System, Proceedings of the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006), National Institute of Standards and Technology. Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
Leidner, Jochen L. (2006). Toponym Resolution: A First Large-Scale Comparative Evaluation. Research Report EDI-INF-RR-0839 (July 2006), School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. [PDF] [BibTeX]
Leidner, Jochen L. (2005). Preliminary Experiments with Geo-Filtering Predicates for Geographic IR. CLEF 2005 Working Notes. Cross-Language Evaluation Forum Workshop (CLEF 2005), Vienna, Austria. [PDF] [BibTeX]
Ahn, K., J. Bos, S. Clark, T. Dalmas, J. L. Leidner, M. B. Smillie, B. Webber, J. R. Curran (2004). Question Answering with QED and Wee at TREC 2004. Proceedings of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-2004), Gaithersburg, MD. U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). [PDF] [BibTeX]
Ahn, Kisuh, Beatrix Alex, Johan Bos, Tiphaine Dalmas, Jochen L. Leidner and Matthew B. Smillie (2004). Cross-lingual Question Answering with QED. Workshop of the Cross-Lingual Evaluation Forum (CLEF-2004) held at the European Conference for Digital Libraries (ECDL-2004), Bath, UK. [PDF] [BibTeX]
Leidner, Jochen L. and Chris Callison-Burch (2003). Evaluating Question Answering Systems Using FAQ Answer Injection. Proceedings of the Sixth Computational Linguistics Research Colloquium (CLUK-6), Edinburgh, UK. [PDF] [BibTeX]
Leidner, Jochen L., Johan Bos, Tiphaine Dalmas, James R. Curran, Stephen Clark, Colin J. Bannard, Mark Steedman and Bonnie Webber (2004). The QED Open-Domain Answer Retrieval System for TREC 2003. Proceedings of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-2003), Gaithersburg, MD. U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 500-255. [PDF] [BibTeX]
Krymolowski, Yuval, Beatrice Alex and Jochen L. Leidner (2004). BioCreative Task 2.1: The Edinburgh-Stanford system. Proceedings of the first BioCrEatIvE Workshop. [PDF] [BibTeX]
Dalmas, Tiphaine, Jochen L. Leidner, Bonnie Webber, Claire Grover and Johan Bos (2004). Annotating CBC4Kids: A Corpus for Reading Comprehension and Question Answering Evaluation. Technical Report EDI-INF-RR-0204, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. [PDF] [BibTeX]

Invited Talks

Leidner, Jochen L. (2008). Language Modeling Based Retrieval for Question Answering. Invited Talk (2008-05-05), Department of Medical Informatics, University of Applied Sciences Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany. [Abstract] [BibTeX]
Leidner, Jochen L. (2008). Design, Implementation and Evaluation of the Alyssa Open-Domain Question Answering System. Invited Talk (2008-04-04), Research Group in Computational Linguistics, School of Humanities, Languages, and Social Studies, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, England, UK. [Abstract] [BibTeX]
Leidner, Jochen L. (2007). Connecting Text and Space by Georeferencing Text Collections. Invited Talk (2007-07-03), Amazon Development Centre Scotland Ltd., South Queensferry, UK. [Abstract] [BibTeX]
Leidner, Jochen L. (2007). Resource Monitoring for NERC. Invited Talk (2007-01-17), Department of Computer Science Seminar Series, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. [Abstract] [BibTeX]
Leidner, Jochen L. (2006). Managing a High-Tech Startup. Invited Talk (2006-05-05), MBA class in Technology Management (Dr. G. Gregson), Management School, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Leidner, Jochen L. (2005). From Text to Geographic Space: Toponym Resolution in Text. Invited Talk (2005-11-09), DBIS Group (Professor Gerhard Weikum), Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Leidner, Jochen L. (2005). Mobile Search in Natural Language: Requirements and Design. SLIDE5 Student Conference, 2005-07-18, Microsoft UK, Thames Valley Park, Reading, England.
Leidner, Jochen L. (2005). Standardizing the Toponym Resolution Task. Invited Presentation (2005-04-19), MetaCarta Inc., Boston, MA, USA. [Abstract] [BibTeX]
Leidner, Jochen L. (2005). Bridging Text and Space. Invited Presentation (2005-02-16), Berichtskolloquium, International Graduate College (DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 715: Sprachtechnologie und kognitive Systeme), Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. [Abstract] [BibTeX]
Leidner, Jochen L. (2004). Text and Space: A First Reference Corpus for Toponym Resolution Evaluation. Invited Presentation (2004-11-03), Department of Information Studies Seminar Series, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. [Abstract] [BibTeX]
Nissim, Malvina and Jochen L. Leidner (2004). NER for the RCAHMS Data and Issues in NERC of Locations (2 parts) Invited Presentation (2004-01-27), Workshop on Bootstrapping of Named Entity Recognition and Classification, National e-Science Centre (NeSC), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. [Abstract] [BibTeX]

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