Dr ADVAITH SIDDHARTHAN

Dr ADVAITH SIDDHARTHAN The University of Aberdeen School of Natural & Computing Sciences Dr ADVAITH SIDDHARTHAN Lecturer work +44 (0)1224 272282 http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~advaith pref 218 Meston

Lecturer in Computing Science

Dr ADVAITH SIDDHARTHAN

Personal Details

Telephone: +44 (0)1224 272282
Email: advaith@abdn.ac.uk
Personal website: http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~advaith
Address: 218 Meston
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Research Interests

 My research area is Computational Linguistics, and my research focus is on making information more accessible by exploiting results in Linguistics and Computer Science, including Information Retrieval and Machine Learning. My main interest is Natural Language Regeneration, where existing texts are automatically simplified and summarised to make the content more accessible. My recent research covers information extraction from scientific literature, citation analysis, multi-document and multilingual news summarization, text simplification, open-domain referring expression generation, anaphora resolution and the semantic annotation of multilingual corpora.


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Research Grants

STUDYING APPROPRIATENESS OF DIFFERENT FORMULATIONS OF A DISCOURSE RELATION IN CONTEXT. Advaith Siddharthan & Napoleon Katsos. 1/10/09 - 31/08/10. ESRC.


RURAL DIGITAL ECONOMY HUB - DIGITAL CONSERVATION. Rene Van Der Wal,  Advaith Siddharthan & Chris Mellish. 1/10/10 - 30/09/1. EPSRC.



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Teaching Responsibilities

  1.  CS5050 / CS3017 Adaptive Interactive Systems(100%)
  2. CS5541 / CS2506 Human Computer Interaction (50%)

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External Responsibilities

Editorial Board of Computational Linguistics (MIT Press)


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Admin Responsibilities

  1. Tutor for M.Sc. in Information Technology
  2. Tutor for M.Sc. in Information Systems
  3. Advisor for Levels 1-4

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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

  • Siddharthan, A., Nenkova, A. & McKeown, K. (in press). 'Information Status Distinctions and Referring Expressions: An Empirical Study of References to People in News Summaries'. Computational Linguistics, vol 37, no. 4.
  • Farwell, D., Dorr, BJ., Passonneau, R., Green, R., Habash, N., Helmreich, S., Hovy, E., Levin, L., Miller, KJ., Mitamura, T., Rambow, O., Reeder, F. & Siddharthan, A. (2010). 'Interlingual Annotation of Parallel Text Corpora'. Natural Language Engineering, vol 16, no. 3, pp. 197-243.
  • Siddharthan, A. (2006). 'Syntactic Simplification and Text Cohesion'. Research on Language and Computation, vol 4, no. 1, pp. 77-109.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s11168-006-9011-1

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

  • Briscoe, T., Harrison, K., Naish-Guzman, A., Parker, A., Rei, M., Siddharthan, A., Sinclair, D., Slater, M. & Watson, R. (2011). 'Intelligent Information Access from Scientific Papers'. in K Mayer & J Tait (eds), Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval Springer, pp. 329-342.
  • Farwell, D., Dorr, B., Green, R., Habash, N., Helmreich, S., Hovy, E., Levin, L., Miller, K., Mitamura, T., Rambow, O., Reeder, F. & Siddharthan, A. (2009). 'Interlingual annotation of multilingual text corpora and FrameNet'. in H Boas (ed.), Multilingual FrameNets in Computational Lexicography: Methods and Applications Moutin de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 287-318.

Conference Proceedings

  • Siddharthan, A. (2011). 'Text Simplification using Typed Dependencies: A Comparision of the Robustness of Different Generation Strategies'. Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Nancy, France, 28/09/11.
  • Walker, A., Siddharthan, A. & Starkey, A. (2011). 'Investigation into Human Preference between Common and Unambiguous Lexical Substitutions'. Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Nancy, France, 28/09/11.
  • Briscoe, T., Harrison, K., Naish-Guzman, A., Parker, A., Siddharthan, A., Sinclair, D., Slater, M. & Watson, R. (2010). 'Camtology: Intelligent Information Access for Science'. Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010: Demonstration Session ACL, Los Angeles, CA, Human Language Technologies: The 11th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Los Angeles, California, United States, 1/06/10.
  • Siddharthan, A. & Katsos, N. (2010). 'Reformulating Discourse Connectives for Non-Expert Readers'. Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, (NAACL-HLT 2010) ACL, Los Angeles, CA, USA, pp. 1002–1010, Human Language Technologies: The 11th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Los Angeles, California, United States, 1/06/10.
  • Liakata, M., Teufel, S., Siddharthan, A. & Batchelor, C. (2010). 'Corpora for the conceptualisation and zoning of scientific papers'. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'2010) ELDA, Paris, France, pp. 2054-2061, 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'2010), Valletta, Malta, 17/05/10.
  • Siddharthan, A. (2010). 'Complex lexico-syntactic reformulation of sentences using typed dependency representations'. Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2010) ACL, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 125-134, 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2010), Trim, County Meath, Ireland, 7/07/10.
  • Teufel, S., Siddharthan, A. & Batchelor, C. (2009). 'Towards Domain-Independent Argumentative Zoning: Evidence from Chemistry and Computational Linguistics'. Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'09) ACL, Suntec, Singapore., pp. 1493–1502, 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'09), Singapore, 6/08/09.
  • Siddharthan, A. & Copestake, A. (2008). 'Generating research websites using summarisation techniques'. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technologies : Demo Session ACL, Morristown, NJ, USA, pp. 5-8, The 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL HLT 2008), Colombus, Ohio, United States, 15/06/08.
  • Rupp, C., Copestake, A., Corbett, P., Murray-Rust, P., Siddharthan, A., Teufel, S. & Waldron, B. (2008). 'Language Resources and Chemical Informatics'. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008) ELDA, Paris, France, pp. 2196-2200, 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'2008), Marrakesh, Morocco, 28/05/08.
  • Siddharthan, A. & Teufel, S. (2007). 'Whose idea was this, and why does it matter?: Attributing scientific work to citations'. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2007) ACL, Morristown, NJ, USA, pp. 316-323, Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2007), Rochester, New York, United States, 22/04/07.
  • Siddharthan, A. & Teufel, S. (2007). 'Whose idea was this? Deciding attribution in scientific literature'. Proceedings of the 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC'07) 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC'07), Logos, Portugal, 29/03/07.
  • Rambow, O., Dorr, B., Farwell, D., Green, R., Habash, N., Helmreich, S., Hovy, E., Levin, L., Miller, KJ., Mitamura, T., Reeder, F. & Siddharthan, A. (2006). 'Parallel Syntactic Annotation of Multiple Languages'. Proceedings of the International conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006) ELDA, Paris, France, 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'06), Genoa, Italy, 22/05/06.
  • Teufel, S., Siddharthan, A. & Tidhar, D. (2006). 'An annotation scheme for citation function'. Proceedings of the 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue ACL, Sydney, Australia, pp. 80-87, 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Sydney, Australia, 1/07/06.
  • Teufel, S., Siddharthan, A. & Tidhar, D. (2006). 'Automatic classification of citation function'. Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'06): Discourse ACL, Morristown, NJ, USA, pp. 103-110, 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2006), Sydney, Australia, 22/07/06.
  • Copestake, A., Corbett, P., Murray-Rust, P., Rupp, C., Siddharthan, A., Teufel, S. & Waldron, B. (2006). 'An Architecture for Language Processing for Scientific Texts'. Proceedings of the UK e-Science Programme All Hands Meeting 2006 (AHM2006) National e-Science Centre, UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2006, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 18/09/06.
  • Nenkova, A., Siddharthan, A. & McKeown, K. (2005). 'Automatically learning cognitive status for multi-document summarization of newswire'. Proceedings of Conference on Human Language Technology/Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing(HLT/EMNLP) Vancouver, Canada, Human Language Technology Conference(HLT), Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing(EMNLP), Vancouver, Canada, 6/10/05.
  • Siddharthan, A. & McKeown, K. (2005). 'Improving Multilingual Summarization: Using Redundancy in the Input to Correct MT errors'. Conference on Human Language Technology Conference / Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing(HLT-EMNLP) Vancouver, Canada, Human Language Technology Conference(HLT), Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing(EMNLP), Vancouver, Canada, 6/10/05.
  • Siddharthan, A. & Copestake, A. (2004). 'Generating Referring Expressions in Open Domains'. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Barcelona, Spain, 42nd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, Spain, 21/07/04.
  • Farwell, D., Helmreich, S., Reed, F., Dorr, B., Habash, N., Hovy, E., Levin, L., Miller, K., Mitamura, T., Rambow, O. & Siddharthan, A. (2004). 'Interlingual Annotation of Multilingual Text Corpora'. Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus Annotation (NAACL/HLT) Boston, MA, Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus Annotation, NAACL/HLT 2004, Boston, United States, 2/05/04.
  • Siddharthan, A., Nenkova, A. & McKeown, K. (2004). 'Syntactic Simplification for Improving Content Selection in Multi-Document Summarization'. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2004) Geneva, Switzerland, 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2004), Geneva, Switzerland, 23/08/04.
  • Siddharthan, A. (2003). 'Resolving Pronouns Robustly: Plumbing the Depths of Shallowness'. Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Treatments of Anaphora, 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL'03) Budapest, Hungary, 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL'03), Budapest, Hungary, 12/04/03.
  • Siddharthan, A. (2003). 'Preserving Discourse Structure when Simplifying Text'. Proceedings of the European Natural Language Generation Workshop (ENLG), 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL'03) Budapest, Hungary, 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL'03), Budapest, Hungary, 12/04/03.
  • Siddharthan, A. (2002). 'An Architecture for a Text Simplification System'. Proceedings of the Language Engineering Conference (LEC'02): Hyderabad, India, December 13-December 15, 2002 IEEE Computer Society, London, United Kingdom, pp. 64, Language Engineering Conference (LEC'02), Hyderabad, India, 13/12/02.
    [Online] DOI: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/LEC.2002.1182292
  • Siddharthan, A. & Copestake, A. (2002). 'Generating Anaphora for Simplifying Text'. Proceedings of the 4th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC'02) Lisbon, Portugal, 4th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC'02), Lisbon, Portugal, 18/09/02.

Contributions to Conferences

Papers

  • Siddharthan, A., Mellish, CS., Nguyen, H., Zeng, C., Pearce, I. & Van Der Wal, R. (2011). 'Tell me a story about the birds and the bees: Using NLG to foster public engagement in nature conservation projects'. Paper presented at Digital Engagement 2011, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 15/11/11,.
  • Siddharthan, A. & Evans, D. (2005). 'Columbia University at MSE 2005'. Paper presented at Multilingual Summarization Evaluation Workshop, Michigan, United States, 29/06/05 - 1/07/05,.
  • Blair-Goldensohn, S., Evans, D., Hatzivassiloglou, V., McKeown, K., Nenkova, A., Passonneau, R., Schiffman, B., Schlaikjer, A., Siddharthan, A. & Siegelman, S. (2004). 'Columbia University at DUC 2004'.
  • Siddharthan, A. (2002). 'Resolving Attachment and Clause Boundary Ambiguities for Simplifying Relative Clause Constructs'. Paper presented at 40th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'02), Philadelphia, PA, United States, 6/07/02 - 12/07/02,.

Books and Reports

Other Reports

  • Siddharthan, A. (2004). 'Syntactic simplification and Text Cohesion'. Technical Reports, no. 597, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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