Joel Tetreault: Research


I work at Dataminr as Senior Director of Research. Dataminr is the leading AI platform for real-time events and risk detection. We enable our clients to know critical information first, respond with confidence, and manage crises more effectively. Technologies include NLP, Computer Vison, Human Computer Interaction, Data Science, among others. Scientist and internship positions are available!

Previously, I was Director of Research of Grammarly where I formed and led their applied research groups in NYC and Kyiv. We developed state-of-the-art tools to help improve one's writing. I worked at Yahoo! Labs in NYC as a Senior Research Scientist with Amanda Stent and Inderjeet Mani on NLP problems related to discourse and dialogue processing. Specific topics include computational stylistics, abusive language and hate speech detection, ranking and analyzing online user comments, parser evaluation, multimodal sarcasm detection and emoji analysis. During this time I also collaborated with researchers from JHU on improving grammatical error correction evaluation and annotation.

Before joining the Yahoo! team I was Principal Manager of the Core Natural Language group at Nuance Communications, Inc. under Ron Kaplan where I worked on the research and development of NLP tools and components for the next generation of intelligent dialogue systems.

Prior to Nuance, I worked at Educational Testing Service for six years (2007-2012) as a Managing Senior Research Scientist where I led a group devoted to automatic essay scoring of the GRE and TOEFL. Specifically, I researched automated methods for detecting grammatical errors by native and non-native speakers, plagiarism detection, discourse coherence and opinion analysis. I also co-organize the "Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications" workshop with Jill Burstein and Claudia Leacock, now in it's eleventh edition. My work on grammatical error correction at ETS led to a Morgan Claypool Synthesis Series book entitled Automated Grammatical Error Detection for Language Learners.

I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh's Learning and Research and Development Center (LRDC). I worked with Dr. Diane Litman on using Reinforcement Learning to develop better dialogue strategies for our spoken dialogue tutoring system (ITSPOKE).

I received my PhD in December 2004 in Computer Science at the University of Rochester, with a focus on Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics, a subfield of Artificial Intelligence (AI). My advisor was James Allen. My dissertation, titled "Empirical Evaluations of Pronoun Resolution", focused on novel ways of improving pronoun resolution algorithms. Many systems today perform well, as high as 80% accuracy in some cases over news article domains, but resolving the other 20% requires additional complex information that isn't usually available to systems. In this project we investigated whether syntactic ranking preferences, discourse structure, and lexical semantics could improve an existing pronoun resolution system to close the ``20%'' gap. Our results showed that syntactic ranking preferences and lexical semantics can boost performance in the domains of well-editted text and spoken dialogue.

In addition to researching reference resolution, we also researched information-retrieval techniques to tag marriage-counseling transcripts for Center for Future Health.

I graduated from Harvard University in June 1998 with a degree in computer science. My thesis there was on centering theory, specifically plural pronouns, under the guidance of Professor Barbara Grosz.

Materials

  • CV (updated February, 2020): [ pdf ]
  • Google Scholar
  • Yara Parser (fast and free and configurable dependency parser)! [ code ] [ pdf ]
  • Wired article on Hate Speech Detection work I did at Yahoo Labs
  • Scientific American article on sarcasm detection work I did at Yahoo Labs
  • New Yorker article entitled The Next Word: Where will predictive text take us? where I was interviewed.

Notable Community Activities

2021

2020

2019

  • 3rd Workshop on Abusive Language [co-located with ACL '19]
  • ACL Senior Area Chair
  • NAACL Area Chair, Session Chair, Bird-of-a-Feather Organizer (Style), Careers in NLP Panelist
  • ACL 2020 Coordinating Committee
  • CoNLL 2019 Best Paper Committee
  • Talks: Microsoft Research (Jan), Montclair State University (Feb), Grammarly Tech Week (Apr)

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

  • 9th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA9)
  • First Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages and Syntactic Analysis of Non-Canonical Languages (SPMRL-SANCL 2014)
  • COLING 2014 Tutorial on Automated Grammatical Error Correction for Language Learners
  • NAACL Treasurer: if you are interested in reading up on how NAACL is doing financially and what we have accomplished in the last two years, check out the minutes from our meetings: NAACL News. Also, if you have any questions or recommendations on how to improve the organization and the conference, please feel free to email me!

2013

Research Links

Publications

    [ Google Scholar ]

    2021

  • Eleftheria Briakou, Sweta Agrawal, Ke Zhang, Joel Tetreault and Marine Carpuat. (GEM 2021): A Review of Human Evaluation for Style Transfer. In Proceedings of the GEM Workshop. August 5 or 6, 2021. [ pdf ]

  • Eleftheria Briakou, Di Lu, Ke Zhang, Joel Tetreault. (NAACL 2021): Olá, Bounjour, Salve! XFORMAL: A Benchmark for Multilingual Formality Style Transfer. In Proceedings of the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. June 6-11, 2021. [ pdf]

  • Sanghamitra Dutta, Liang Ma, Tanay Kumar Saha, Di Lu, Joel Tetreault, and Alejandro Jaimes. (TextGraphs 2021): GTN-ED: Event Detection Using Graph Transformer Networks. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Workshop on Graph-Based Methods for Natural Language Processing. June 11, 2011.

    2020

  • Mahdi Abavisani, Liwei Wu, Shengli Hu, Joel Tetreault, Alejandro Jaimes. (CVPR 2020): Multimodal Categorization of Crisis Events in Social Media. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. June 16-18, 2020. [ pdf ]

  • Swati Padhee, Tanay Kumar Saha, Joel Tetreault, Alejandro Jaimes. (AI for Social Good): Clustering of Social Media Messages for Humanitarian Aid Response during Crisis. Presented at AI for Social Good, Harvard CRCS Workshop 2020. July 20-21, 2020. [ pdf ]

  • Yova Kementchedjhieva, Di Lu, Joel Tetreault. (COLING 2020): The ApposCorpus: A new multilingual, multi-domain dataset for factual appositive generation. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. December 08-13, 2020. [ pdf ]

  • Anne Lauscher, Lily Ng, Courtney Napoles, Joel Tetreault. (COLING 2020): Rhetoric, Logic, and Dialectic: Advancing Theory-based Argument Quality Assessment in Natural Language Processing. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. December 08-13, 2020. [ pdf ]

  • Lily Ng, Anne Lauscher, Joel Tetreault, Courtney Napoles. (ArgMin 2020): Creating a Domain-diverse Corpus for Theory-based Argument Quality Assessment. Presented at 7th Workshop on Argument Mining. December 13, 2020. [ pdf ]

    2019

  • Vipul Raheja and Joel Tetreault. (NAACL 2019): Dialogue Act Classification with Context-Aware Self-Attention In Proceedings of NAACL 2019. Minneapolis, MN, 2019. June 02-07, 2019. [ pdf ]

  • Courtney Napoles, Maria Nadejde and Joel Tetreault. (TACL 2019): Towards Robust Grammatical Error Correction: Datasets, Metrics and Analyses In Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. To appear.

  • Rui Zhang and Joel Tetreault. (ACL 2019): This Email Could Save Your Life: Introducing the Task of Email Subject Line Generation. In Proceedings of ACL 2019. Florence, Italy. July 28 - August 06, 2019. [ pdf ]

  • Phu Mon Htut and Joel Tetreault. (BEA 2019): The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Transformer Language Models in Grammatical Error Correction. In Proceedings of the BEA 2019. Florence, Italy. August 02, 2019. [ pdf ]

  • Maria Nadejde and Joel Tetreault. (W-NUT 2019): Personalizing Grammatical Error Correction: Adaptation to Proficiency Level and L1 In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT), Hong Kong. November 04, 2019. [ pdf]

    2018

  • Sudha Rao and Joel Tetreault. (NAACL 2018): Dear Sir or Madam, May I Introduce the GYAFC Dataset: Corpus, Benchmarks and Metrics for Formality Style Transfer. In Proceedings of NAACL 2018. New Orleans, LA, USA. June 01-06, 2018. [ pdf ] [ Supplementary Material ] [ code/data ] [ poster ]

  • Alice Lai and Joel Tetreault. (SIGDIAL 2018): Discourse Coherence in the Wild. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGDial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. Melbourne, Australia. July 12-14, 2018. [ pdf ] [ code/data ] [ poster ]

  • Junchao Zheng, Courtney Napoles, Joel Tetreault and Kostiantyn Omelianchuk. (WNUT 2018): How do you correct run-on sentences it's not as easy as it seems. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text. Brussels, Belgium. November 01, 2018. [ pdf ]

    2017

  • Keisuke Sakaguchi, Courtney Napoles and Joel Tetreault. (BEA 2017): GEC into the future: Where are we going and how do we get there?. In Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. Copenhagen, Denmark. September 8, 2017. [ pdf ]

  • Courtney Napoles, Keisuke Sakaguchi and Joel Tetreault. (EACL 2017): JFLEG: A Fluency Corpus and Benchmark for Grammatical Error Correction. In Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Valencia, Spain. April 03-07, 2017. [ pdf ] [ poster ]

  • Courtney Napoles, Aasish Pappu, Joel Tetreault. (ICWSM 2017): Automatically Identifying Good Conversations Online (Yes, They Do Exist!). In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web and Social Media. Montreal, Canada. May 15-18, 2017. [ pdf ]

  • Courtney Napoles, Joel Tetreault, Aasish Pappu, Enrica Rosato and Brian Provenzale. (LAW 2017): Finding Good Conversations Online: The Yahoo News Annotated Comments Corpus. In Proceedings of the 11th Linguistic Annotation Workshop. Valencia, Spain. April 03, 2017. [ pdf ]

    2016

  • Ellie Pavlick and Joel Tetreault. (TACL 2016): An Empirical Analysis of Formality in Online Communication In Proceedings of the Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. [ pdf ] [ errata ]

  • Keisuke Sakaguchi, Courtney Napoles, Matt Post and Joel Tetreault. (TACL 2016): Reassessing the Goals of Grammatical Error Correction: Fluency Instead of Grammaticality. In Proceedings of the Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. [ pdf ]

  • Chikashi Nobata, Joel Tetreault, Achint Thomas, Yashar Mehdad, Yi Chang. (WWW 2016): Abusive Language Detection in Online User Comments In Proceedings of the 25th International World Wide Web Conference. Montreal, Canada. [ pdf ] [ press ]

  • Dragomir Radev, Amanda Stent, Joel Tetreault, Aasish Pappu, Aikaterini Iliakopoulou, Agustin Chanfreau, Paloma de Juan, Jordi Vallmitjana, Alejandro Jaimes, Rahul Jha and Robert Mankoff. (LREC 2016): Humor in Collective Discourse: Unsupervised Funniness Detection in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest. [ pdf ]

  • Yuncheng Li, Yale Song, Liangliang Cao, Joel Tetreault, Larry Goldberg and Jiebo Luo. (CVPR 2016): TGIF: A New Dataset and Benchmark on Animated GIF Description To appear in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. [ pdf ] [ website ] [ data ]

  • Henriette Cramer, Paloma de Juan and Joel Tetreault. (MobileHCI 2016): Sender-Intended Functions of Emojis in US Messaging. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. Florence, Italy. September 06-09, 2016. [ pdf ]

  • Yashar Mehdad and Joel Tetreault. (SigDial 2016): Do Characters Abuse More Than Words? In Proceedings of the 17th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. Los Angeles, CA, USA. September 13-15, 2016. [ pdf ]

  • Rossano Schifanella, Paloma de Juan, Joel Tetreault and Liangliang Cao. (ACMMM 2016): Detecting Sarcasm in Multimodal Social Platforms. In Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia 2016 Conference. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. October 15-19, 2016. [ arxiv ] [ press ]

  • Courtney Napoles, Keisuke Sakaguchi and Joel Tetreault. (EMNLP 2016): There's No Comparison: Reference-less Evaluation Metrics in Grammatical Error Correction. In Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Austin, TX, USA. November 01-05, 2016. [ pdf ] [ github ] [ codalab ]

    2015

  • Jinho Choi, Joel Tetreault and Amanda Stent. (ACL 2015): It Depends: Dependency Parser Comparison Using A Web-based Evaluation Tool. In Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. Beijing, China, July, 2015. [ pdf ]

  • Courtney Napoles, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Matt Post and Joel Tetreault. (ACL 2015): Ground Truth for Grammaticality Correction Metrics. In Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. Beijing, China, July, 2015. [ pdf ]

  • Shervin Malmasi, Joel Tetreault and Mark Dras. (BEA 2015): Oracle and Human Baselines for Native Language Identification. In Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. Denver, CO, USA, June 04, 2015. [ pdf ]

  • Alina Beygelzeimer, Ruggiero Cavallo and Joel Tetreault. (CrowdML 2015): On Yahoo Answers, Long Answers are Best. In Proceedings of CrowdML - ICML ’15 Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Machine Learning. Lille, France, July 10, 2015. [ pdf ]

  • Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli and Joel Tetreault. Yara Parser: A Fast and Accurate Dependency Parser. In arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.06733. March 23, 2015. [ pdf ]

    2014

  • Claudia Leacock, Martin Chodorow, Michael Gamon and Joel Tetreault. 2014. Automated Grammatical Error Detection for Language Learners (second edition). Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, [ publisher ] [ amazon ]

  • Derrick Higgins, Chris Brew, Michael Heilman, R. Ziai, Lei Chen, Aoife Cahill, Michael Flor, Nitin Madnani, Joel Tetreault, aniel Blanchard, Diane Napolitano, Chung Min Lee, John Blackmore. 2014. Is getting the right answer just about choosing the right words? The role of syntactically-informed features in short answer scoring. arXiv:1403.0801.

  • Michael Heilman, Aoife Cahill, Nitin Madnani, Melissa Lopez, Matthew Mulholland, and Joel Tetreault. (ACL 2014): Predicting Grammaticality on an Ordinal Scale. In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Baltimore, MD, USA. June 23-25, 2014. [ pdfa. ]

  • Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli and Joel Tetreault. (EACL 2014): Non-Monotonic Parsing of Fluent Umm I mean Disfluent Sentences. In Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Gothenburg, Sweden. August 26-30, 2014. [ pdf ]

  • Michael Gamon, Martin Chodorow, Claudia Leacock and Joel Tetreault. (2014): Using Learner Corpora for Automatic Error Detection and Correction. In Automatic Treatment and Analysis of Learner Corpus Data. Editors: Ana Diaz-Negrillo, Nicolas Ballier and Paul Thompson. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Studies in Corpus Linguistcs 59.

    2013

  • Daniel Blanchard, Joel Tetreault, Derrick Higgins, Aoife Cahill and Martin Chodorow. (ETS RR 2013): TOEFL11: A Corpus of Non-Native English. In ETS Research Report Series. Volume 2:i-15. [ pdf ] [ data ]

  • Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli and Joel Tetreault. (EMNLP 2013): Joint Parsing and Disfluency Detection in Linear Time. Seattle, WA, USA. Oct 19-21, 2013. [ pdf ]

  • Joel Tetreault, Martin Chodorow and Nitin Madnani. (2013): Bucking The Trend: Improved Evaluation and Annotation Practices for ESL Error Detection Systems. Language Resources and Evaluation Journal. July, 2013.

  • Hwee Tou Ng, Siew Mei Wu, Yuanbin Wu, Christian Hadiwinoto and Joel Tetreault. (CoNLL 2013): The CoNLL-2013 Shared Task on Grammatical Error Correction. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning. Sofia, Bulgaria. August 08-09, 2013. [ pdf ]

  • Joel Tetreault, Daniel Blanchard and Aoife Cahill. (BEA 2013): A Report on the First Native Language Identification Shared Task. In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. Atlanta, GA, USA, June 13, 2013. [ pdf ]

  • Jill Burstein, Joel Tetreault and Nitin Madnani. (2013): The E-rater® Automated Essay Scoring System. In Shermis, M.D., & Burstein, J. (Eds.), Handbook of Automated Essay Scoring: Current Applications and Future Directions. New York: Routledge.

  • Jill Burstein, Joel Tetreault, Martin Chodorow, Daniel Blanchard and Slava Andreyev. (2013). Automated Evaluation of Discourse Coherence Quality in Essay Writing. In Shermis, M.D., & Burstein, J. (Eds.), Handbook of Automated Essay Scoring: Current Applications and Future Directions. New York: Routledge.

  • Jill Burstein, Joel Tetreault and Martin Chodorow. Holistic Annotation of Discourse Coherence Quality in Noisy Essay Writing. In the Special issue of Dialogue and Discourse on: Beyond semantics: the challenges of annotating pragmatic and discourse phenomena (Eds. S. Dipper, H. Zinsmeister, and B. Webber).

  • Aoife Cahill, Nitin Madnani, Joel Tetreault and Diane Napolitano. (NAACL 2013): Robust Systems for Preposition Error Correction Using Wikipedia Revisions. In Proceedings of the 2013 Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Atlanta, GA, USA, June 10-12, 2013. [ pdf ]

    2012

  • Joel Tetreault, Daniel Blanchard, Aoife Cahill and Martin Chodorow. (COLING 2012): Native Tongues; Lost and Found: Resources and Empirical Evaluations in Native Language Identification. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Mumbai, India, December 08-15, 2012. [ pdf ]

  • Martin Chodorow, Markus Dickinson, Ross Israel and Joel Tetreault. (COLING 2012): Problems in Evaluating Grammatical Error Detection Systems. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Mumbai, India, December 08-15, 2012. [ pdf ]

  • Michael Heilman, Aoife Cahill and Joel Tetreault. (HOO 2012): Precision Isn't Everything: A Hybrid Approach to Grammatical Error Detection. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Innovative Use of Natural Language Processing for Building Educational Applications. Montreal, Canada, June 07, 2012. [ pdfa> ]

  • Nitin Madnani, Joel Tetreault and Martin Chodorow. (BEA 2012): Exploring Grammatical Error Correction with Not-So-Crummy Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Innovative Use of Natural Language Processing for Building Educational Applications. Montreal, Canada, June 07, 2012. [ pdf ]

  • Nitin Madnani, Joel Tetreault and Martin Chodorow. (NAACL 2012): Re-examining Machine Translation Metrics for Paraphrase Identification. In Proceedings of the 2012 Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Montreal, Canada, June 03-08, 2012. [ pdf ]

  • Ross Israel, Joel Tetreault and Martin Chodorow. (NAACL 2012): Correcting Comma Errors in Learner Essays, and Restoring Commas in Newswire Text. In Proceedings of the 2012 Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Montreal, Canada, June 03-08, 2012. [ pdf ]

  • Nitin Madnani, Michael Heilman, Joel Tetreault and Martin Chodorow. (NAACL 2012): Identifying High-Level Organizational Elements in Argumentative Discourse. In Proceedings of the 2012 Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Montreal, Canada, June 03-08, 2012. [ pdf ]

  • Beata Beigman Klebanov, Jill Burstein, Nitin Madnani, Adam Faulkner and Joel Tetreault. 2012. Building Subjectivity Lexicon(s) From Scratch For Essay Data. CICLING '12, New Delhi, India. [ pdf ]

    2011

  • Wei Xu, Joel Tetreault, Martin Chodorow, Ralph Grishman and Le Zhao. 2011. Exploiting Syntactic and Distributional Information for Spelling Correction with Web-Scale N-gram Models. EMNLP '11, Edinburgh, Scotland. [ pdf ]
  • Kristen Parton, Joel Tetreault, Nitin Madnani and Martin Chodorow. 2011. E-rating Machine Translation. WMT '11, Edinburgh, Scotland. [ pdf ]
  • Nitin Madnani, Joel Tetreault, Martin Chodorow and Alla Rozovskaya. 2011. They Can Help: Using Crowdsourcing to Improve the Evaluation of Grammatical Error Detection Systems. ACL '11, Portland, Oregon, USA. [ pdf ]

    2010

  • Claudia Leacock, Martin Chodorow, Michael Gamon and Joel Tetreault. 2010. Automated Grammatical Error Detection for Language Learners. Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, Vol 3., No. 1. [ publisher ] [ amazon ]
  • Joel Tetreault, Jennifer Foster and Martin Chodorow. 2010. Using Parse Features for Preposition Selection and Error Detection. ACL '10, Uppsala, Sweden. [ pdf ]
  • Jill Burstein, Joel Tetreault and Slava Andreyev. 2010. Using Entity-Based Features to Model Coherence in Student Essays. NAACL '10, Los Angeles, California. [ pdf ]
  • Joel Tetreault, Elena Filatova and Martin Chodorow. 2010. Rethinking Grammatical Error Annotation and Evaluation with the Amazon Mechanical Turk. NAACL-HLT 2010 Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA-5), Los Angeles, California. [ pdf ]
  • Lei Chen, Joel Tetreault, and Xiaoming Xi. 2010. Towards Using Structural Events To Assess Non-native Speech. NAACL-HLT 2010 Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA-5), Los Angeles, California. [ pdf ]
  • Na-Rae Han, Joel Tetreault, Soo-Hwa Lee and Jin-Young Ha. 2010. Using an Error-Annotated Learner Corpus to Develop and ESL/EFL Error Correction System. LREC '10, Malta. [ pdf ]
  • Martin Chodorow, Michael Gamon and Joel Tetreault. 2010. The Utility of Article and Preposition Error Correction Systems for English Language Learners: Feedback and Assessment Language Testing, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 419-436. [ link ]

    2009

  • Joel Tetreault and Martin Chodorow. 2009. Examining the Use of Region Web Counts for ESL Error Detection. Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-5), San Sebastian, Spain. [ pdf ]
  • John Lee, Joel Tetreault and Martin Chodorow. 2009. Human Evaluation of Article and Noun Number Usage: Influences of Context and Construction Variability. Linguistic Annotation Workshop III (LAW3), Suntec, Singapore. [ pdf ]
  • John Lee, Joel Tetreault and Martin Chodorow. 2009. Human Judgment on Article and Noun Number Usage. CALICO Workshop on Automatic Analysis of Learner Language (AALL '09), Tempe, Arizona.
  • Joel Tetreault and Martin Chodorow. 2009. Towards Automatically Acquiring Models of ESL Errors. CALICO Workshop on Automatic Analysis of Learner Language (AALL '09), Tempe, Arizona.

    2008

  • Joel Tetreault and Martin Chodorow. 2008. The Ups and Downs of Preposition Error Detection. COLING, Manchester, UK. [ pdf ] [ ppt ]
  • Joel Tetreault and Martin Chodorow. 2008. Native Judgments of Non-Native Usage: Experiments in Preposition Error Detection. COLING Workshop on Human Judgments in Computational Linguistics, Manchester, UK. [ pdf ] [ ppt ]
  • Joel Tetreault and Diane Litman. 2008. A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Evaluating State Representations in Spoken Dialogue Systems. Special issue of the Journal of Speech Communication Volume 50, Issue 8-0, August 2008.
  • Joel Tetreault, Martin Chodorow and Yoko Futagi. 2008. Reliability of Human Annotation of Usage Errors in Learner Text. CALICO Workshop on Automatic Analysis of Learner Language: Bridging Foreign Language Teaching Needs and NLP Possibilities, San Francisco, CA, April.
  • Yoko Futagi, Paul Deane, Martin Chodorow and Joel Tetreault. 2008. A computational approach to detecting collocation errors in the writing of non-native speakers of English. Computer Assisted Language Learning Journal

    2007

  • Martin Chodorow, Joel Tetreault, Na-Rae Han. 2007. Detection of Grammatical Errors Involving Prepositions. Proceedings of the Fourth ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions, Prague. [ pdf ]
  • Kate Forbes-Riley, Diane Litman, Amruta Purandare, Mihai Rotaru, and Joel Tetreault. 2007. Comparing Linguistic Features for Modeling Learning in Computer Dialogue Tutoring. Proceedings 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Los Angeles, CA, July. [ pdf ]
  • Joel R. Tetreault, Dan Bohus, and Diane J. Litman. 2007. Estimating the Reliability of MDP Policies: A Confidence Interval Approach. Proceedings Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), Rochester, NY, April. [ pdf ]
  • Hua Ai, Joel R. Tetreault, and Diane J. Litman. 2007. Comparing User Simulation Models for Dialog Strategy Learning. Proceedings Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), Rochester, NY, April. [ pdf ]
  • Kate Forbes-Riley, Mihai Rotaru, Diane J. Litman and Joel Tetreault. 2007. Exploring Affect-Context Dependencies for Adaptive System Development. Proceedings Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), Rochester, NY, April. (late-breaking news award). [ pdf ]

    2006

  • Kate Forbes-Riley, Diane Litman, Scott Silliman and Joel Tetreault. 2006. Comparing Synthesized versus Pre-Recorded Tutor Speech in an Intelligent Tutoring Spoken Dialogue System. Proceedings 19th International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS), Melbourne Beach, Florida. [ pdf ]
  • Joel Tetreault and Diane Litman. 2006. Using Reinforcement Learning to Build a Better Model of Dialogue State. Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), Trento, Italy. [ pdf ] [ ppt ]
  • Joel Tetreault and Diane Litman. 2006. Comparing the Utility of State Features in Spoken Dialogue Using Reinforcement Learning. Proceedings of the Human Language Technology/North American Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT/NAACL '06). New York City. [ pdf ]
  • Hua Ai, Diane Litman, Kate Forbes-Riley, Mihai Rotaru, Joel Tetreault, and Amruta Purandare. 2006. Using System and User Performance Features to Improve Emotion Detection in Spoken Tutoring Dialogs. Interspeech '06 Pittsburgh. [ pdf ]

    2005

  • Nathanael Chambers, Joel Tetreault, and James Allen. Approaches forAutomatically Tagging Affect Computing Attitude and Affect in Text: Theory and Applications Editors: James G. Shanahan, Yan Qu, Janyce Wiebe; Spriner, December 2005. [ Buy book here from Amazon ]

    2004

  • Joel Tetreault. Decomposing Discourse To appear as book chapter in DAARC book 2004 [draft: MSword ] Order book here from John Benjamins Publishing Company.
  • Nathanael Chambers, Joel Tetreault, and James Allen. Approaches for Automatically Tagging Affect 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium of Exploring Affect and Attitude in Text Stanford, USA, March 25-27, 2004. [drafts: pdf ] [ ppt ]
  • Mary Swift, Myrosia Dzikovska, Joel Tetreault and James F. Allen. Semi-automatic syntactic and semantic corpus annotation with a deep parser LREC '04 Lisbon, Portugal, May, 2004. [ pdf ]
  • Joel Tetreault, Mary Swift, Preethum Prithviraj, Myroslava Dzikovska, James Allen. Discourse Annotation in the Monroe Corpus ACL workshop on Discourse Annotation Barcelona, Spain. July 25-26, 2004. [ pdf ] [ ps ] [ ppt ]
  • Joel Tetreault and James Allen. Semantics, Dialogue, and Pronoun Resolution CATALOG '04 Barcelona, Spain. July 19-21, 2004. [ pdf ] [ ppt ]
  • Scott Stoness, Joel Tetreault, and James Allen. Incremental Parsing with Reference Interaction ACL Workshop on Incremental Parsing Barcelona, Spain. July 25-26, 2004. [ pdf ] [ ps ]
  • Joel Tetreault and James Allen. Dialogue Structure and Pronoun Resolution To appear in DAARC'04 Azores. September 23-24, 2004. [ doc ] [ pdf ] [ ppt ]
  • Nathanael Chambers, Joel Tetreault, and James Allen. Approaches for Automatically Tagging Affect: Steps Toward an Effective and Efficient Tool Chapter version of AAAI paper (above) to appear in 2004 book on Exploring Affect and Attitude in Text [drafts: pdf ] [ doc ]

    2003

  • Joel Tetreault and James Allen. An Empirical Evaluation of Pronoun Resolution and Clausal Structure Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on Reference Resolution and its Applications to Question Answering and Summarization Venice, Italy, June 23-24, 2003. p. 1-8. [ pdf ] [ ppt ]

    2002

  • Joel R. Tetreault. Tense and Implicit Role Reference. Annotation Standards for Temporal Information in Natural Language, Workshop in LREC 2002 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, May 27, 2002, p.61-64. [ pdf ] [ ps ] [ ppt ]
  • Joel R. Tetreault. Implicit Role Reference. 2002 International Symposium on Reference Resolution for Natural Language Processing. Alicante, Spain, June 3 - 4, 2002, p.109-115. [ pdf ] [ ps ]
  • Joel R. Tetreault. Clausal Structure and Pronoun Resolution. Proceedings of the 4th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphora Resolution Colloquium (DAARC). Lisbon, Portugal, September 18-20, 2002, p.217-220.

    2001

  • Joel R. Tetreault. A Corpus-Based Evaluation of Centering and Pronoun Resolution. Computational Linguistics. 27(4): p.507-520. [ pdf ] [ ps ]

    1999

  • Joel R. Tetreault. Analysis of Syntax Based Pronoun Resolution Methods. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'99) student session. [ pdf ] [ ps ]
  • Donna K. Byron and Joel R. Tetreault. A Flexible Architecture for Reference Resolution. Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-99). [ pdf ] [ ps ]
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