Selected publications

Article

Savkov, Aleksandar, Carroll, John, Koeling, Rob and Cassell, Jackie (2016) Annotating patient clinical records with syntactic chunks and named entities: the Harvey corpus. Language Resources and Evaluation, 50 (3). pp. 523-548. ISSN 1574-020X

Ford, Elizabeth, Carroll, John, Smith, Helen, Davies, Kevin, Koeling, Rob, Petersen, Irene, Rait, Greta and Cassell, Jackie (2016) What evidence is there for a delay in diagnostic coding of rheumatoid arthritis in UK general practice records? An observational study of free text. BMJ Open, 6 (6). e010393. ISSN 2044-6055

Ford, Elizabeth, Carroll, John A, Smith, Helen E, Scott, Donia and Cassell, Jackie A (2016) Extracting information from the text of electronic medical records to improve case detection: a systematic review. Journal of The American Medical Informatics Association, 23 (5). pp. 1007-1015. ISSN 1067-5027

Ford, Elizabeth, Nicholson, Amanda, Koeling, Rob, Tate, Rosemary, Carroll, John, Axelrod, Lesley, Smith, Helen, Rait, Greta, Davies, Kevin, Petersen, Irene, Williams, Tim and Cassell, Jackie (2013) Optimising the use of electronic health records to estimate the incidence of rheumatoid arthritis in primary care: what information is hidden in free text? BMC Medical Research Methodology, 13 (105). pp. 1-12. ISSN 1471-2288

Bollegala, Danushka, Weir, David and Carroll, John (2013) Cross-domain sentiment classification using a sentiment sensitive thesaurus. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 25 (8). pp. 1719-1731. ISSN 1041-4347

Read, Jonathon and Carroll, John (2012) Annotating expressions of Appraisal in English. Language Resources and Evaluation, 46 (3). pp. 421-447. ISSN 1574-020X

Jin, Peng, Carroll, John, Wu, Yunfang and McCarthy, Diana Frances (2012) Distributional similarity for Chinese: exploiting characters and radicals. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2012 (347257). pp. 1-11. ISSN 1024-123X

Read, Jonathon Lee and Carroll, John (2012) Weakly-supervised appraisal analysis. Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, 8 (2). pp. 1-21. ISSN 1945-3604

Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos, Carroll, John and Weir, David (2011) Dependency Parsing Schemata and Mildly Non-Projective Dependency Parsing. Computational Linguistics, 37 (3). 541-586.. ISSN 0891-2017

McCarthy, Diana, Koeling, Rob, Weeds, Julie and Carroll, John (2007) Unsupervised acquisition of predominant word senses. Computational Linguistics, 33 (4). pp. 553-590.

Babarczy, Anna, Carroll, John and Sampson, Geoffrey (2006) Definitional, personal and mechanical constraints on part of speech annotation performance. Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 12 (1). pp. 77-90. ISSN 1351-3249

McCarthy, Diana and Carroll, John (2003) Disambiguating Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives Using Automatically Acquired Selectional Preferences. Computational Linguistics, 29 (4). pp. 639-654. ISSN 0891-2017

Carroll, John (2001) [Review] Jean-Claude Junqua and Gertjan van Noord, ed. (2001) Robustness in language and speech technology. Computational Linguistics, 27 (4). pp. 596-597. ISSN 0891-2017

Minnen, Guido, Carroll, John and Pearce, Darren (2001) Applied morphological processing of English. Natural Language Engineering, 7 (3). pp. 207-223. ISSN 1351-3249

Carroll, John and McCarthy, Diana (2000) Word sense disambiguation using automatically acquired verbal preferences. Computers and the Humanities, 34 (1-2). pp. 109-114. ISSN 0010-4817

Book Section

Chen, Xingyuan, Jin, Peng, McCarthy, Diana Frances and Carroll, John (2016) Integrating character representations into Chinese word embedding. In: Dong, Minghui, Lin, Jingxia and Tang, Xuri (eds.) Chinese lexical semantics: 17th workshop, CLSW 2016, Singapore, Singapore, May 20–22, 2016, revised selected papers. Lecture notes in computer science, 10085 . Springer International Publishing, pp. 335-349. ISBN 9783319495071

Carroll, John, Koeling, Rob and Puri, Shivani (2012) Lexical acquisition for clinical text mining using distributional similarity. In: Gelbukh, Alexander (ed.) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing 13th International Conference, CICLing 2012, New Delhi, India, March 11-17, 2012, Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7182 . Springer Verlag, Heidelberg & London, pp. 232-246. ISBN 9783642286001

Koeling, Rob, Tate, A Rosemary and Carroll, John A (2011) Automatically estimating the incidence of symptoms recorded in GP free text notes. In: Proceedings of the first international workshop / Managing interoperability and complexity in health systems (MIXHS 2011). Conference on Information and Knowledge Management . ACM, New York, NY, pp. 43-49. ISBN 9781450309547

Koeling, Rob, Carroll, John, Tate, Rosemary and Nicholson, Amanda (2011) Annotating a corpus of clinical text records for learning to recognize symptoms automatically. In: Nytrø, Øystein, Slaughter, Laura and Moen, Hans (eds.) Proceedings of LOUHI 2011 Third International Workshop on Health Document Text Mining and Information Analysis. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 744 . Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, pp. 43-50. ISBN 1613-0073

Carroll, John, Minnen, Guido and Briscoe, Ted (2003) Parser evaluation: using a grammatical relation annotation scheme. In: Abeillé, Anne (ed.) Treebanks: Building and Using Parsed Corpora. Kluwer, pp. 299-316. ISBN 978-1-4020-1334-8

Carroll, John (2003) Parsing. In: Mitkov, Ruslan (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics. Oxford University Press, pp. 233-248. ISBN 0198238827

McCarthy, Diana, Keller, Bill and Carroll, John (2003) Detecting a continuum of compositionality in phrasal verbs. In: Proceedings of the conference and workshops / 41st annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the conference: annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 18 . Association for Computational Linguistics, Morristown, NJ, USA, pp. 73-80. ISBN 1932432116

Oepen, Stephan and Carroll, John (2002) Efficient parsing for unification-based grammars. In: Oepen, S, Flickinger, D, Tsujii, J-I and Uszkoreit, H (eds.) Collaborative Language Engineering: A Case Study in Efficient Grammar-based Processing. CSLI Press, pp. 195-225. ISBN 9781575862903

Shaumyan, Olga, Carroll, John and Weir, David (2002) Evaluation of LTAG parsing with supertag compaction. In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks. Association for Computational Linguistics, Morristown, NJ, USA, pp. 201-205.

Carroll, John, Nicolov, Nicolas, Shaumyan, Olga, Smets, Martine and Weir, David (2000) Engineering a wide-coverage lexicalized grammar. In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks. Universite Paris, Paris, pp. 55-60.

Carroll, John, Nicolov, Nicolas, Shaumyan, Olga, Smets, Martine and Weir, David (1999) Parsing with an extended domain of locality. In: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics, Morristown, NJ, USA, pp. 217-244.

Carroll, John, Nicolov, Nicolas, Shaumyan, Olga, Smets, Martine and Weir, David (1998) Grammar compaction and computation sharing in automaton-based parsing. In: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Tabulation in Parsing and Deduction. Institut National de Recherche en Informatique, Paris, pp. 16-25.

Carroll, John, Nicolov, Nicolas, Shaumyan, Olga, Smets, Martine and Weir, David (1998) The LEXSYS project. In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks. University of Pennsylvania, Delaware, USA, pp. 29-33.

Carroll, John and Weir, David (1997) Encoding Frequency Information in Lexicalized Grammars. In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 8-17.

Edited Book

Bunt, Harry, Carroll, John and Satta, Giorgio, eds. (2004) New Developments in Parsing Technology. Kluwer. ISBN 978-1-4020-2294-4

Zock, Michael and Carroll, John (2004) Les dictionnaires électroniques. Special issue of Traitement Automatique des Langues, 44 (2). Lavoisier, p. 1.

Carroll, John, Frank, Annette, Lin, Dekang, Prescher, Detlef and Uszkoreit, Hans (2002) Proceedings of the Workshop `Beyond PARSEVAL --- Towards improved evaluation measures for parsing systems' at the 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Unset.

Conference or Workshop Item

Savkov, Aleksandar, Carroll, John and Cassell, Jackie (2014) Chunking clinical text containing non-canonical language. In: 13th Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP), 26-27 Jun 2014, Baltimore, MD.

Khaliq, Bilal and Carroll, John (2013) Unsupervised induction of Arabic root and pattern lexicons using machine learning. In: International conference recent advances in natural language processing (RANLP), 7-13 September 2013, Hissar, Bulgaria.

Khaliq, Bilal and Carroll, John (2013) Induction of root and pattern lexicon for unsupervised morphological analysis of Arabic. In: 6th international joint conference on natural language processing (IJCNLP), 14-18 October 2013, Nagoya, Japan.

Bollegala, Danushka, Weir, David and Carroll, John (2011) Using Multiple Sources to Construct a Sentiment Sensitive Thesaurus for Cross-Domain Sentiment Classification. In: Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-HLT 2011), Portland, Oregon.

Jin, Peng, Carroll, John, Wu, Yunfang and McCarthy, Diana (2011) Improved word similarity computation for Chinese using sub-word information. In: 2011 Seventh International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS), 3-4 Dec. 2011, Hainan.

Zagibalov, T, Belyatskaya, K and Carroll, J (2010) Comparable English-Russian book review corpora for sentiment analysis. In: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (WASSA), Lisbon, Portugal.

Read, Jonathon and Carroll, John (2009) Weakly supervised techniques for domain-independent sentiment classification. In: First International CIKM Workshop on Topic-Sentiment Analysis for Mass Opinion Measurement, Hong Kong, China.

Jin, Peng, McCarthy, Diana, Koeling, Rob and Carroll, John (2009) Estimating and exploiting the entropy of sense distributions. In: Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT) 2009 Conference: Short Papers, Boulder, Colorado.

Zagibalov, Taras and Carroll, John (2009) Multilingual opinion holder and target extraction using knowledge-poor techniques. In: Proceedings of the 4th Language and Technology Conference (LTC), Poznań, Poland..

Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos, Weir, David and Carroll, John (2009) Parsing mildly non-projective dependency structures. In: EACL '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Athens, Greece.

Zagibalov, T and Carroll, J (2008) Almost-unsupervised cross-language opinion analysis at NTCIR-7. In: Proceedings of the Seventh NTCIR Evaluation Workshop, December 16–19, Tokyo, Japan.

Andersen, O, Nioche, J, Briscoe, E and Carroll, John (2008) The BNC parsed with RASP4UIMA. In: Proceedings of the Sixth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Marrakech, Morocco..

Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos, Carroll, John and Weir, David (2008) A Deductive Approach to Dependency Parsing. In: 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Zagibalov, T and Carroll, John (2008) Unsupervised classification of sentiment and objectivity in Chinese text. In: Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), Hyderabad, India.

Read, Jonathon, Hope, David and Carroll, John (2007) Annotating expressions of appraisal in English. In: Linguistic Annotation Workshop at ACL'07, Prague, Czech Republic.

Zhang, Yi, Oepen, Stephan and Carroll, John (2007) Efficiency in unification-based n-best parsing. In: Tenth International Conference on Parsing Technologies, Prague, Czech Republic.

Evans, Roger, Weir, David, Carroll, John, Paiva, Daniel and Belz, Anja (2007) Modelling control in generation. In: 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG).

Watson, Rebecca, Briscoe, Ted and Carroll, John (2007) Semi-supervised training of a statistical parser from unlabeled partially-bracketed data. In: Tenth International Conference on Parsing Technologies, Prague, Czech Republic.

Koeling, Rob, McCarthy, Diana and Carroll, John (2007) Text categorization for improved priors of word meaning. In: Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing), Mexico City, Mexico.

Briscoe, Ted, Carroll, John and Watson, Rebecca (2006) The Second Release of the RASP System. In: COLING/ACL 2006 Interactive Presentation Sessions, 17th–21st July 2006., Sydney, Australia.

Briscoe, Ted and Carroll, John (2006) Evaluating the accuracy of an unlexicalized statistical parser on the PARC DepBank. In: COLING/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions, Sydney, Australia.

Carroll, John, Evans, Roger and Klein, Ewan (2005) Supporting text mining for e-Science: the challenges for Grid-enabled natural language processing. In: Workshop on Text Mining, e-Research And Grid-enabled Language Technology at the Fourth UK e-Science Programme All Hands Meeting (AHM2005), 19-22 Sep 2005, Nottingham, UK.

Watson, Rebecca, Carroll, John and Briscoe, E (2005) Efficient extraction of grammatical relations. In: 9th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, Vancouver, Canada.

Wang, Xinglong and Carroll, John (2005) Word sense disambiguation using sense examples automatically acquired from a second language. In: Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language, Vancouver, Canada.

Koeling, Rob, McCarthy, Diana and Carroll, John (2005) Domain-specific sense distributions and predominant sense acquisition. In: Joint Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Conferences, Vancouver, Canada.

Rosén, Victoria, Dyvik, Helge, Flinkinger, Dan, Beermann, Dorothee, Carroll, John, Hellan, Lars, Johannessen, Janne Bondi, Lønning, Jan Tore, Meurer, Paul, Nordgård, Torbjørn and Velldal, Erik (2005) LOGON: Towards a machine translation system integrating LFG and HPSG. In: 10th International LFG Conference, Bergen, Norway.

Carroll, John and Fang, Alex C (2005) The automatic acquisition of verb subcategorisations and their impact on the performance of an HPSG parser. In: Natural Language Processing - IJCNLP 2004: First International Joint Conference.

Carroll, John and Oepen, Stephan (2005) High efficiency realization for a wide-coverage unification grammar. In: Second International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP05), Jeju Island, Korea..

McCarthy, Diana, Koeling, Rob, Weeds, Julie and Carroll, John (2004) Automatic identification of infrequent word senses. In: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Geneva, Switzerland.

Evans, R, van Deemter, K, Belz, A, Teeple, J, Weir, D, Carroll, J, Paiva, D and Ferrer, E (2004) Controlling wide-coverage generation - the COGENT project. In: INLG04 Posters: Extended abstracts of posters presented at the Third International Conference on Natural Language Generation.

Atserias, Jordi, Magnini, Bernando, Popescu, Octavian, Agirrey, Eneko, Atutxay, Aitziber, Riguay, German, Carroll, John and Koeling, Rob (2004) Cross-language acquisition of semantic models for verbal predicates. In: 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Lisbon, Portugal.

Atserias, J, Villarejo, L, Rigau, G, Agirre, E, Carroll, J, Magnini, B and Vossen, P (2004) The MEANING Multilingual Central Repository. In: 2nd International Global WordNet Conference (GWC 2004), Brno, Czech Republic.

Oepen, Stephan, Dyvik, Helge, Lønning, Jan Tore, Velldal, Erik, Beermann, Dorothee, Carroll, John, Flickinger, Dan, Hellan, Lars, Johannessen, Janne Bondi, Meurer, Paul, Nordgard, Torbjørn and Rosen, Victoria (2004) Som å kapp-ete med trollet? Towards MRS-based Norwegian-English machine translation. In: 10th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Baltimore, MD.

McCarthy, Diana, Koeling, Rob, Weeds, Julie and Carroll, John (2004) Using automatically acquired predominant senses for word sense disambiguation. In: 3rd International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text (SENSEVAL), Barcelona, Spain.

McCarthy, Diana Frances, Koeling, Rob, Weeds, Julie and Carroll, John (2004) Finding predominant word senses in untagged text. In: 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, Spain.

Carroll, John and Briscoe, Ted (2002) High precision extraction of grammatical relations. In: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'02), Taipei, Taiwan.

Shaumyan, Olga, Carroll, John and Weir, David (2002) Evaluation of LTAG parsing with supertag compaction. In: 6th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks (TAG+6), Venice, Italy.

Rigau, German, Magnini, Bernardo, Agirre, Eneko, Vossen, Piek and Carroll, John (2002) MEANING: a roadmap to knowledge technologies. In: A Roadmap for Computational Linguistics Workshop at COLING'02, Taipei, Taiwan.

Briscoe, Ted, Carroll, John, Graham, Jonathan and Copestake, Ann (2002) Relational evaluation schemes. In: Beyond PARSEVAL Workshop at the 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.

Briscoe, Ted and Carroll, John (2002) Robust accurate statistical annotation of general text. In: 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.

Cahill, Lynne, Carroll, John, Evans, Roger, Paiva, Daniel, Power, Richard, Scott, Donia and van Deemter, Kees (2001) From RAGS to RICHES: exploiting the potential of a flexible generation architecture. In: 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Toulouse, France.

McCarthy, D, Carroll, J and Preiss, J (2001) Disambiguating noun and verb senses using automatically acquired selectional preferences. In: SENSEVAL-2 Workshop at ACL/EACL'01, Toulouse, France.

Carroll, John and Briscoe, Ted (2001) High precision extraction of grammatical relations. In: 7th ACL/SIGPARSE International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, Beijing, China.

Copestake, Ann, Carroll, John, Flickinger, Dan, Malouf, Robert and Oepen, Stephan (2001) Using an open-source unification-based system for CL/NLP teaching. In: EACL/ACL Workshop on Sharing Tools and Resources for Research and Education, Toulouse, France.

Oepen, Stephan and Carroll, John (2000) Ambiguity packing in constraint-based parsing - practical results. In: 1st Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL'00) Seattle WA., Seattle WA APR 29-MAY 04, 2000.

Kiefer, Bernd, Krieger, Hans-Ulrich, Carroll, John and Malouf, Rob (1999) A Bag of Useful Techniques for Efficient and Robust Parsing. In: 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'99), University of Maryland MD.

Conference Proceedings

Yamakata, Yoko, Mori, Shinsuke and Carroll, John (2020) English recipe flow graph corpus. 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marseille, France, 11th - 16th May 2020. Published in: Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. 5187-5194. European Language Resources Association (ELRA)

Yamakata, Yoko, Carroll, John and Mori, Shinsuke (2017) A comparison of cooking recipe named entities between Japanese and English. Published in: Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Multimedia for Cooking and Eating Activities (CEA2017); Melbourne, Australia; 20 August 2017. 7-12. Association for Computing Machinery ISBN 9781450352673

Iñurrieta, Uxoa, Díaz de Ilarraza, Arantza, Labaka, Gorka, Sarasola, Kepa, Aduriz, Itziar and Carroll, John (2016) Using linguistic data for English and Spanish verb-noun combination identification. COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, Osaka, Japan. Published in: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers. 857-867. International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) ISBN 9784879747020

Chen, Xingyuan, Xia, Yunqing, Jin, Peng and Carroll, John (2015) Dataless text classification with descriptive LDA. 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15), Austin, Texas, USA, January 25–30, 2015. Published in: Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 3 2224-2231. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Press ISBN 9781577357018

Bollegala, Danushka, Weir, David and Carroll, John (2014) Learning to predict distributions of words across domains. 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 23-25 June 2014. Published in: Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 613-623. The Association for Computational Linguistics ISBN 9781937284725

Carroll, John, Minnen, Guido and Briscoe, Ted (1998) Can subcategorisation probabilities help a statistical parser? 6th Workshop on Very Large Corpora, Montreal, Canada, 1998, Montreal, Canada, 15th - 16th August 1998. Published in: Charniak, Eugene, (ed.) Proceeding of the Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora. 118-126. Association for Computational Lingustics (ACL)

Carroll, John and Briscoe, Ted (1996) Apportioning development effort in a probabilistic LR parsing system through evaluation. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Philadelphia, Pa. USA, 17-18 May 1996. Published in: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 92-100. ACL Anthology

Other

Briscoe, E, Carroll, J and Watson, R (2006) The Robust Accurate Statistical Parsing (RASP) System. n/a.