Eleni Miltsakaki's papers

Linguistics/Comp. Linguistics

2005 Attribution and the (Non-) Alignment of Syntactic and Discourse Arguments of Connectives
(With Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber)
ACL 2005 Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus Annotation II: Pie in Sky.
2005 Investigating Salience in Complex Sentences: A Look at Relative Clauses.
On the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: A Workshop in Honor of Ellen Prince.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
To appear Centering Theory on Greek Narratives and Newspaper Articles (paper written in Greek). (With Nikiforos Karamanis)
From Written to Electronic Discourse: A Collection of Articles in Honor of G. Babiniotis.
To appear Anaphora Resolution: A Centering Approach.
(With Aravind Joshi and Rashmi Prasad)
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition .
Elsevier.
To appear Not All Subjects Are Born Equal: A Look at Complex Sentence Structure.
In E. Gibson and N. Perlmutter (eds),
The Processing and Acquisition of Reference.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.



2004 The Predicate-Argument Structure of Connectives: A Corpus-based Study.
(With Cassandre Creswell, Katherine Forbes, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber)
In A. Branco, T. McEnery, and R. Mitkov (eds),
Anaphora Processing: Linguistic, Cognitive and Computational Modelling.
John Benjamins Publishing Company.
2004 Annotation and Data Mining of the Penn Discourse Treebank
(With Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber)
In Proceedings of the ACL 2004 Workshop on Discourse Annotation, Barcelona.
2004 Annotating Discourse Connectives and Their Arguments
(With Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber)
In Proceedings of the Frontiers in Corpus Annotation 2004 NAACL/HLT Conference Workshop, Boston.
2004 The Penn Discourse Treebank
(With Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber)
In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004), Lisbon.
2004 Structural vs Semantic Focusing: Distributional Evidence from Referential Forms in Adverbial Clauses
Presented at 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Maryland, College Park.
2004 A Centering Analysis of Relative Clauses in English and Greek
In Proceedings of the 28th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
2004 Evaluation of Text Coherence for Electronic Essay Scoring Systems. (draft version)
(With K. Kukich) In Journal of Natural Language Engineering , 10(1).



2003 An Empirical Investigation of Discourse Coherence, Salience, and Reference in Greek Relative Clauses
6th International Conference of Greek Linguistics, Rethymno, Greece..
2003 The Syntax-Discourse Interface: Effects of the Main-Subordinate Distinction on Attention Structure. PhD thesis.
Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania.
Thesis co-advisors: Ellen Prince and Aravind Joshi.
2003 Reference in Relative Clauses: The Significance of Marking Low Salience and Its Implications for 'Recency' and 'Subjecthood'
Presented at the 16th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, MIT, Cambridge. Abstract, .doc
2003 Anaphoric Arguments of Discourse Connectives: Semantic Properties of Antecedents Versus Non-antecedents.
(With C. Creswell, K. Forbes, A. Joshi and B. Webber)
In Proceedings of the Computational Treatment of Anaphora Workshop, EACL 2003, Budabest.
2003 D-LTAG System - Discourse Parsing with a Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar.
(With K. Forbes, R. Prasad, A. Sarkar, A. Joshi and B. Webber)
In Journal of Language, Logic and Information, 12(3):261-279.
2003 The Syntax-Discourse Interface: Reference in Subordinate Clauses.
Presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2003), Atlanta.



2002 The Discourse Anaphoric Properties of Connectives.
(With C. Creswell, K. Forbes, R. Prasad, A. Joshi and B. Webber)
In Proceedings of the 4th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC 2002), Lisbon.
2002 Effects of Subordination on Referential Form and Interpretation.
In Proceedings of the 26th Penn Linguistics Colloquium.
2002 Towards an Aposynthesis of Topic Continuity and Intrasentential Anaphora.
In Computational Linguistics, Vol. 28(3).



2001 On the Interpretation of Weak and Strong Pronominals in Greek. (.doc file)
In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Sorbonne.
2001 D-LTAG System - Discourse Parsing with a Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar.
(With K. Forbes, R. Prasad, A. Sarkar, A. Joshi and B. Webber)
In Proceedings of the Information Structure, Discourse Structure and Discourse Semantics ESSLLI 2001 Workshop
2001 Centering in Greek.
In Proceedings of 15th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. Also in .pdf



2000 The Role of Centering Theory's Rough-Shift in the Teaching and Evaluation of Writing Skills.
(With K. Kukich) Also in .pdf
In Proceedings of ACL 2000.
2000 Automated Evaluation of Coherence in Student Essays.
(With K. Kukich) Also in .pdf
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Resources and Tools in Educational Applications, LREC 2000.
2000 Empirical Studies of Centering Shifts and Cue Phrases as Embedded Segment Boundary Markers.
(With K. Forbes) Also in .pdf
In E. Kaiser (ed.), Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 7.2: Current work in linguistics. pp. 39--57..



1999 Locating Topics in Text Processing. Also in .pdf
In Proceedings of CLIN '99.
1999 Towards an Aposynthesis of Topic Structure and Intrasentential Anaphora. Ms, U of Penn.
1999 A Study on Greek Questions Conveying Disagreement. PRAGMA '99, Tel-Aviv.
1999 A semantic study of plain and bare indefinite NPs in Modern Greek. Ms, U of Penn.



1998 A Study of the Indefinite Article in Greek: Syntactic Distribution and Discourse Status. Ms, U of Penn.
1997 A Study on Glide Formation in Modern Greek Phonology. Ms, U of Penn.

Applied Linguistics

1995 Materials Evaluation: a Model for Young Learners.
In T.E.S.O.L 1995 meeting, Athens.
1991 The Role of the Mother Tongue in Interlanguage
The Appplied Linguistics Circle Colloquium, U of Essex, U.K.
1991 The Age Factor in Second Language Acquisition. Ms, U of Essex
1991 Perceptual Difficulties of Phonemic Distinctions in the Foreign Language Classroom.Ms, U of Essex