Anna Rumshisky

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Journal papers / Book chapters

R. Chasin, A. Rumshisky, Ö. Uzuner, P. Szolovits. 2014. Word sense disambiguation in the clinical domain: a comparison of knowledge-rich and knowledge-poor unsupervised methods. . J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2014 Jan 17.
W. Sun, A. Rumshisky, Ö. Uzuner. 2013. Annotating temporal information in clinical narratives . J Biomed Inform. 2013 Jul 19.
W. Sun, A. Rumshisky, Ö. Uzuner. 2013. Temporal reasoning over clinical text: the state of the art . J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2013 May 15.
W. Sun, A. Rumshisky, Ö. Uzuner. 2013. Evaluating temporal relations in clinical text: 2012 i2b2 Challenge . J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2013 Apr 5.
J. Pustejovsky, A. Rumshisky, O. Batiukova, J. Moszkowicz. Annotation of Compositional Operations with GLML. In H. Bunt, J. Bos and S. Pulman (eds.), Computing Meaning, Volume 4. Springer-Verlag, 2014, pp. 217-234.
S. Bratus, A. Rumshisky, A. Khrabrov, R. Magar, P. Thompson. Domain-Specific Entity Extraction from Noisy, Unstructured Data Using Ontology-Guided Search. In Subramaniam, Lopresti, Roy and Schulz (eds.) Special Issue on Noisy Text Analytics, International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR). Vol 14(2). Springer-Verlag, 2011.
J. Pustejovsky and A. Rumshisky. 2010. Mechanisms of Sense Extension in Verbs. In G-M de Schryver (ed.) A Way with Words: Recent Advances in Lexical Theory and Analysis. A Festschrift for Patrick Hanks. Kampala: Menha Publishers.
A. Rumshisky. 2008. Resolving Polysemy in Verbs: Contextualized Distributional Approach to Argument Semantics. In A. Lenci (ed.) From Context to Meaning: Distributional Models of the Lexicon in Linguistics and Cognitive Science. Special Issue of the Italian Journal of Linguistics. Rivista di Linguistica, 20(1).
J. Pustejovsky and A. Rumshisky. 2008. Between Chaos and Structure: Interpreting Lexical Data through a Theoretical Lens. In P. Hanks (ed.) Special Issue of the International Journal of Lexicography on the legacy of John Sinclair, Oxford University Press.

Peer-reviewed Conference and Workshop papers

A. Rumshisky, R. Chasin, P. Potash. Bypassing knowledge acquisition bottleneck with Bayesian word sense induction. NIPS 2013 Workshop on Machine Learning for Clinical Data Analysis and Healthcare. (poster)
R. Chasin, A. Rumshisky. Mixing in Some Knowledge: Enriched Context Patterns for Bayesian Word Sense Induction. Sixth International Workshop On Generative Approaches to the Lexicon (GL2013). Pisa, Italy.
M. Ghassemi, T. Naumann, R. Joshi, A. Rumshisky. Topic Models for Mortality Modeling in Intensive Care Units. ICML Workhop on Machine Learning for Clinical Data Analysis, ICML 2012, Edinburgh, Scotland. (poster)
R. Chasin, A. Rumshisky, Ö. Uzuner, P. Szolovits. Using UMLS for Word Sense Disambiguation in Clinical Notes. AMIA 2012. Chicago, IL.
A. Rumshisky, N. Botchan, S. Kushkuley, J. Pustejovsky. Word Sense Inventories by Non-Experts. LREC 2012. Istambul, Turkey.
M. Gronas, A. Rumshisky, A. Gabrovski, S. Kovaka, H. Chen. Tracking the History of Knowledge Using Historical Editions of Encyclopedia Britannica. Workshop on Adaptation of Language Resources and Tools for Processing Cultural Heritage Objects. LREC 2012. Istambul, Turkey.
A. Rumshisky. Crowdsourcing Word Sense Definition. Fifth Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-V). ACL-HLT2011. Portland, Oregon.
J. Pustejovsky, A. Rumshisky, A. Plotnick, E. Jezek, O. Batiukova, V. Quochi. SemEval-2010 Task 7: Argument Selection and Coercion. Fifth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2010). Association for Computational Linguistics. Uppsala, Sweden.
A. Rumshisky, M. Verhagen, J. Moszkowicz. The Holy Grail of Sense Definition: Creating a Sense-Disambiguated Corpus from Scratch. (2009) Fifth International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon (GL2009). Pisa, Italy. [slides]
A. Rumshisky, V. Grinberg. Using Semantics of the Arguments for Predicate Sense Induction. (2009) Fifth International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon (GL2009). Pisa, Italy. [slides]
S. Bratus, A. Rumshisky, R. Magar, P. Thompson. Using Domain Knowledge for Ontology-Guided Entity Extraction from Noisy, Unstructured Data. Third Workshop on Analytics for Noisy, Unstructured Text Data (AND 2009). Barcelona, Spain.
J. Pustejovsky, A. Rumshisky SemEval-2010 Task 7: Argument Selection and Coercion. NAACL 2009 Workshop on Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions (SEW-2009). 2009. Boulder, Colorado USA. (poster)
J. Pustejovsky, A. Rumshisky, J. L. Moszkowicz, O. Batiukova. GLML: Annotating Argument Selection and Coercion. Eighth International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS-8). 2009. Tilburg, Netherlands. [updated]
A. Rumshisky, O. Batiukova. Polysemy in Verbs: Systematic Relations between Senses and their Effect on Annotation. COLING Workshop on Human Judgement in Computational Linguistics (HJCL-2008). 2008. Manchester, England. [slides]
A. Rumshisky, V. A. Grinberg, J. Pustejovsky. Detecting Selectional Behavior of Complex Types in Text. Fourth International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon. P. Bouillon, L. Danlos, and K. Kanzaki (eds.) 2007. Paris, France. [slides]
C. Havasi, A. Rumshisky, J. Pustejovsky. An Evaluation of the Brandeis Semantic Ontology. Fourth International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon. P. Bouillon, L. Danlos, and K. Kanzaki (eds.) 2007. Paris, France.
A. Rumshisky, P. Hanks, C. Havasi, J. Pustejovsky. Constructing a Corpus-based Ontology using Model Bias. FLAIRS 2006, Melbourne Beach, Florida.
A. Rumshisky, J. Pustejovsky. Inducing Sense-Discriminating Context Patterns from Sense-Tagged Corpora. LREC 2006, Genoa, Italy.
B. Wellner, J. Pustejovsky, C. Havasi, A. Rumshisky, R. Sauri. Classification of Discourse Coherence Relations: An Exploratory Study using Multiple Knowledge Sources. 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Sydney, Australia, 15-16 July 2006.
J. Pustejovsky, C. Havasi, J. Littman, A. Rumshisky, M. Verhagen. Towards a Generative Lexical Resource: The Brandeis Semantic Ontology. LREC 2006, Genoa, Italy. (poster/demo)
M. Verhagen, I. Mani, R. Sauri, J. Littman, R. Knippen, S.B. Jang, A. Rumshisky, J. Phillips, J. Pustejovsky. Automating Temporal Annotation with TARSQI. ACL 2005, Ann Arbor, USA. (demo / short paper)
J. Pustejovsky, P.Hanks, A. Rumshisky. Automated Induction of Sense in Context. COLING 2004, Geneva, Switzerland.
J. Pustejovsky, P.Hanks, A. Rumshisky. Automated Induction of Sense in Context. (poster version) COLING 2004 Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-04), Geneva, Switzerland.
J. Pustejovsky, A. Rumshisky, J. Castano. Rerendering Semantic Ontologies: Automatic Extensions to UMLS through Corpus Analytics. LREC 2002 Workshop on Ontologies and Lexical Knowledge Bases (Ontolex-02). Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain.
J. Pustejovsky, J. Castano, R. Sauri, A. Rumshisky, J. Zhang, W. Luo. Medstract: Creating Large-scale Information Servers for Biomedical Libraries. ACL 2002 Workshop on Natural Language Processing in the Biomedical Domain. Philadelphia, PA.
J. Pustejovsky, J. Castano, B. Cochran, M. Kotecki, M. Morrell, A. Rumshisky. Extraction and Disambiguation of Acronym-Meaning Pairs in Medline. Medinfo, 2001.
Futrelle, R., Rumshisky, A. Discourse Structure of Text-Graphics Documents. 1st International Symposium on Smart Graphics, March 21st-23rd 2001. Hawthorne, NY, USA.

Ph.D. Thesis

A. Rumshisky. 2008. Verbal Polysemy Resolution through Contextualized Clustering of Arguments. Ph.D. Dissertation, Brandeis University.

Presentations

A. Rumshisky, K. Buford, I. Goldstein, Ö. Uzuner. Multi-Scrubber: An Ensemble System for De-identification of Protected Health Information. SHARPn Summit on Secondary Use of EHR. 2012. Rochester, MN.
A. Rumshisky, R. Chasin. Knowledge-Based vs. Bottom-up Methods for Word Sense Disambiguation in Clinical Notes . SHARPn Summit on Secondary Use of EHR. 2012. Rochester, MN.
A. Rumshisky, O. Uzuner. What's in a narrative note? Data from i2b2 shared tasks 2007-2012 (poster) Second Annual i2b2 Conference. 2012. Boston, MA.
M. Gronas, A. Rumshisky, S. Bratus. Digital Pushkin: Computational visualizations of Pushkin's social and political networks. 41st National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS 2009). Boston, MA
Rumshisky, A. Estimating Entropy of the Source: The Case of Natural Language. Information Theory Seminar, Brandeis University (2002)
Rumshisky, A. Conducting a Web Search: Problems & Algorithms. Distributed Systems Seminar, Northeastern University (2001)