Sanda Harabagiu

Sanda Harabagiu, EJ-221   Internet: harabagi@ai.sri.com
SRI International             Phone: 415/859-3852
333 Ravenswood Ave.             Fax: 415/859-3735
Menlo Park, CA 94025

Research Areas

• Knowledge-Based Discourse Coherence
• Usage of Large Linguistic Thesauri for Commonsense Reasoning
• Reference and other forms of Lexical Cohesion
• Parallel Processing on Large Knowledge Bases
• WWWeb Information Brokers

Projects

• FASTUS
• Message Handler
• TIPSTER

Software Systems

• FASTUS
• Paparazzi

Recent Papers

• Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan, Enriching the WordNet Taxonomy with Contextual Knowledge Acquired from Text, to appear in Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation: Language for Knowledge and Knowledge for Language, (Eds) S. Shapiro and L. Iwanska, AAAI/MIT Press, 1998.
• Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan, TextNet - A Text-Based Intelligent System, Journal for Natural Language Engineering, vol 3, 1997, Cambridge University Press.
• Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan, Knowledge Processing on Extended WordNet, in "WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database and Some of its Applications", Editor C. Fellbaum, MIT Press, Forthcoming.
• Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan, A Parallel System for Textual Inference , to appear in IEEE Transactions in Parallel and Distributed Systems.
• Sanda Harabagiu WordNet-Based Inference of Textual Cohesion and Coherence in the Proceedings of FLAIRS-98, May 1998, Sanibel Island, FL.
• Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan, Parallel Inference on a Linguistic Knowledge Base in the Proceedings of the International Parallel Processing Symposium, IPPS-97, April 1997, Geneva, Switzerland, pages 204-208.
• Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan, Contextual Information Brokers - Gathering Commonsense Knowledge from the Internet in the Proceedings of FLAIRS-97, May 1997, Daytona Beach, FL.
• Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan, PARIS: A Parallel Inference System in the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, November 1996, Toulouse France, pages 216-223.
• Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan, TextNet - A Text-Based Intelligent System in the WorkNotes of the AAAI Fall Symposium on "Knowledge Representation Systems Based on Natural Language, AAAIFS-96, MIT, November 1996, Cambridge, MA, pages 32-43.
• Sanda Harabagiu, An Application of WordNet to Prepositional Attachement in the Proceedings of ACL-96, June 1996, Santa Cruz CA, pages 360-363.
• Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan,An Intelligent System for Question Answering in the Proceedings of the 5th C onference on Intelligent Systems, June 1996, Reno NV, pages 71-75.
• Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan,A Marker Propagation Text Understanding and Inference System in the Proceedings of FLAIRS-96, May 1996, Key West FL, pages 55-59.
• Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan,A Parallel Algorithm for Text Inference in the Proceedings of the International Parallel Processing Symposium, IPPS-96, April 1996, Honolulu, Hawaii, pages 441-445.
• Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan, Testing Gricean Constraints on a WordNet-based Coherence Evaluation System in the Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Implicature, AAAISS-96, March 1996, Stanford CA. pages 31-38.
• Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan, A Marker-Propagation Algorithm for Text Coherence in the Working Notes of the Workshop on Parallel Processing in AI, International Joint Conferene of Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-95, August 1995, Montreal, Canada, pages 76-86.

Dissertation

WordNet-Based Inference of Textual Context, Cohesion and Coherence, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, June 1997.

Other Links

COLING-ACL '98 Workshop on Usage of WordNet in Natural Language Processing Systems