Gregory A. Marton's Professional History and Publications

Fall 2001 - present Graduate student in Natural Language Understanding, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
(Infolab publications page)
   Nuggeteer: Automatic Nugget-Based Evaluation using Descriptions and Judgements
Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2006
June, 2006
by Gregory Marton and Alexey Radul
   Using Semantic Overlap Scoring in Answering TREC Relationship Questions
Proceedings of LREC 2006
Genoa, Italy; May, 2006
by Gregory Marton and Boris Katz
   Nuggeteer: Automatic Nugget-Based Evaluation using Descriptions and Judgements
MIT CSAIL Work Product 1721.1/30604
January, 2006
by Gregory Marton
   External Knowledge Sources for Question Answering
Proceedings of the 14th Annual Text REtrieval Conference (TREC2005)
Gaithersburg, MD; November 16, 2005
by Boris Katz, Gregory Marton, Gary Borchardt, Alexis Brownell, Sue Felshin, Daniel Loreto, Jesse Louis-Rosenberg, Ben Lu, Federico Mora, Stephan Stiller, Ozlem Uzuner, Angela Wilcox
   Hypernyms as Answer Types
Proceedings of the 1st annual CSAIL Student Workshop
Gloucester, MA; September 19, 2005
by Gregory A. Marton, Stefanie Tellex, Aaron Fernandes, Boris Katz
Viewing the Web as a Virtual Database for Question Answering
New Directions in Question Answering edited by Mark T. Maybury
AAAI Press 2004, ISBN 0-262-63304-3
by Boris Katz, Sue Felshin, Jimmy J. Lin, Gregory Marton
   Answering multiple questions on a topic from heterogeneous resources (poster pdf or ps)
Proceedings of the 13th Annual Text REtrieval Conference (TREC2004)
Gaithersburg, MD; November 17, 2004
by Boris Katz, Matthew Bilotti, Sue Felshin, Aaron Fernandes, Wesley Hildebrandt, Roni Katzir, Jimmy Lin, Daniel Loreto, Gregory Marton, Federico Mora, Ozlem Uzuner
   Integrating Web-based and Corpus-based Techniques for Question Answering
Proceedings of the 12th Annual Text REtrieval Conference (TREC2003)
Gaithersburg, MD; November 17, 2003
by Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, Daniel Loreto, Wesley Hildebrandt, Matthew Bilotti, Sue Felshin, Aaron Fernandes, Gregory Marton, and Federico Mora
   Compositional Semantics in Names and Numbers.
Proceedings of the 3rd annual Student Oxygen Workshop
Gloucester, MA; September 12, 2003
by Gregory A. Marton
   Sepia: Semantic Parsing for Named Entities.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Master's Thesis
August 2003
by Gregory A. Marton
   Quantitative Evaluation of Passage Retrieval Algorithms for Question Answering.
Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR-2003)
Toronto, Canada; July 2003. (Best Student Paper)
by Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, Gregory Marton, and Aaron Fernandes
   Omnibase: Uniform Access to Heterogeneous Data for Question Answering.
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2002)
Stockholm, Sweden; June 2002.
by Boris Katz, Sue Felshin, Deniz Yuret, Ali Ibrahim, Jimmy Lin, Gregory Marton, Alton Jerome McFarland and Baris Temelkuran
   Extracting Answers from the Web Using Knowledge Annotation and Knowledge Mining Techniques.
Proceedings of the Eleventh Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2002)
Gaithersburg, MD; November 19-22, 2002.
by Jimmy Lin, Aaron Fernandes, Boris Katz, Gregory Marton, and Stefanie Tellex
Volunteer HLT/NAACL 2003 Student Workshop Program Committee

Thesis Acknowledgements: Stefanie Tellex, Lin Wu, Baris Temelkuran, Luciano Castagnola, Keith Bonawitz
 
Spring 2000 - Fall 2001Research scientist at answerFriend.com, now renamed InQuira.com, a leading natural language customer self-service search company, with Deniz Yuret, founder and chief scientist.
Fall 1995 - Fall 1999Undergraduate at the University of Maryland, College Park, where I completed a Bachelor of Science with departmental honors. I helped create the first published quantitative evaluation of Arabic Optical Character Recognition software with Tapas Kanungo in the LAMP group. I also worked on dependency parsing with Bonnie Dorr, and on various NLP topics with Philip Resnik.
   OmniPage vs. Sakhr: Paired Model Evaluation of Two Arabic OCR Products
Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Document Recognition and Retrieval (VI), vol. 3651
(Also appears as LAMP Technical Report id LAMP-TR-030, December 1998.)
San Jose, CA; January 27-28, 1999
by Tapas Kanungo, Gregory A. Marton, and Osama Bulbul
   Performance Evaluation of Two Arabic OCR Products
Proceedings of AIPR Workshop on Advances in Computer Assisted Recognition, SPIE vol. 3584
Washington, D.C.; October 14-16, 1998
by Tapas Kanungo, Gregory A. Marton, and Osama Bulbul
Fall 1991 - Spring 1995High School has never been more fun than at the Blair Magnet Program!