Preliminary versions of some papers to appear are available for download.
M. Baroni, B. Murphy, E. Barbu and M. Poesio. To appear. Strudel: A corpus-based semantic model based on properties and types. Cognitive Science.
V. Pirrelli, E. Guevara and M. Baroni. To appear. Computational issues in compound parsing. In S. Scalise and I. Vogel (eds.), Compounding, Amsterdam: Benjamins.
M. Baroni, E. Guevara and V. Pirrelli. To appear. Sulla tipologia dei composti N+N in italiano: Principi categoriali ed evidenza distribuzionale a confronto. Atti del 40esimo Congresso della Società di Linguistica Italiana (SLI). Roma: Bulzoni.
B. Murphy, M. Baroni and M. Poesio. 2009. EEG responds to conceptual stimuli and corpus semantics. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2009), East Stroudsburg PA: ACL, 619-627.
M. Baroni and A. Lenci. 2009. One distributional memory, many semantic spaces. Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Geometrical Models for Natural Language Semantics (GEMS) Workshop, East Stroudsburg PA: ACL, 1-8.
A. Herdagdelen and M. Baroni. 2009. BagPack: A general framework to represent semantic relations. Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Geometrical Models for Natural Language Semantics (GEMS) Workshop, East Stroudsburg PA: ACL, 33-40.
M. Baroni. 2009. Distributions in text. In Anke Lüdeling and Merja Kytö (eds.), Corpus linguistics: An international handbook, Volume 2, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter: 803-821.
M. Baroni and S. Evert. 2009. Statistical methods for corpus exploitation. In Anke Lüdeling and Merja Kytö (eds.), Corpus linguistics: An international handbook, Volume 2, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter: 777-802.
M. Baroni, S. Bernardini, A. Ferraresi and E. Zanchetta. 2009. The WaCky Wide Web: A collection of very large linguistically processed Web-crawled corpora. Journal of Language Resources and Evaluation 43 (3): 209-226.
A. Herdagdelen, K. Erk and M. Baroni. 2009. Measuring semantic relatedness with vector space models and random walks. Proceedings of TextGraphs-4: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing, East Stroudsburg PA: ACL, 50-53.
M. Kirschner, R. Bernardi, M. Baroni and L.T. Dinh. 2009. Analyzing interactive QA dialogues using logistic regression models. In Roberto Serra and Rita Cucchiara (eds.), AI*IA 2009: Emergent Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5883), New York: Springer, 334-344.
M. Baroni, E. Guevara and R. Zamparelli. 2009. The dual nature of deverbal nominal constructions: Evidence from acceptability ratings and corpus analysis. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 5 (1): 27-60.
M. Baroni and A. Lenci. 2008. Concepts and properties in word spaces. In Alessandro Lenci (ed.), From context to meaning: Distributional models of the lexicon in linguistics and cognitive science (Special issue of the Italian Journal of Linguistics 20(1)): 55-88.
L. Onnis, T. Farmer, M. Baroni, M. Christiansen and M. Spivey. 2008. Generalizable distributional regularities aid fluent language processing: The case of semantic valence tendencies. In Alessandro Lenci (ed.), From context to meaning: Distributional models of the lexicon in linguistics and cognitive science (Special issue of the Italian Journal of Linguistics 20(1)): 129-156.
G. Kremer, A. Abel and M. Baroni. 2008. Cognitively salient relations for multilingual lexicography. Proceedings of CogALex (Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon) Workshop at COLING 2008. 94-101.
M. Baroni, F. Chantree, A. Kilgarriff and S. Sharoff. 2008. CleanEval: A competition for cleaning Webpages. Proceedings of LREC 2008.
A. Ferraresi, E. Zanchetta, M. Baroni and S. Bernardini. 2008. Introducing and evaluating ukWaC, a very large Web-derived corpus of English. Proceedings of the WAC4 Workshop at LREC 2008.
A. Ferraresi, S. Bernardini, G. Picci, M. Baroni. 2008. Web corpora for bilingual lexicography: A pilot study of English/French collocation extraction and translation. Proceedings of UCCTS: International Symposium on Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies.
M. Baroni, A. Lenci and L. Onnis. 2007. ISA meets Lara: An incremental word space model for cognitively plausible simulations of semantic learning. Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition, East Stroudsburg PA: ACL. 49-56.
M. Baroni and S. Evert. 2007. Words and echoes: Assessing and mitigating the non-randomness problem in word frequency distribution modeling. Proceedings of ACL 2007 (45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics), East Stroudsburg PA: ACL. 904-911.
S. Evert and M. Baroni. 2007. zipfR: Word frequency distributions in R. Proceedings of the Demo and Poster Sessions of ACL 2007 (45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics), East Stroudsburg PA: ACL. 29-32.
M. Baroni, E. Guevara and V. Pirrelli. 2007. NN compounds in Italian: Modelling category induction and analogical extension. In Vito Pirrelli (ed.), Psycho-Computational Issues in Morphology Learning and Processing (Special issue of Lingue e Linguaggio, 6.2), Bologna: il Mulino. 263-290.
M. Baroni. 2007. I sensi di ri-: Un'indagine preliminare. In Roberta Maschi, Nicoletta Penello and Piera Rizzolatti (eds.), Miscellanea di studi linguistici offerti a Laura Vanelli. Udine: Forum. 163-171.
H. Schmid, M. Baroni, E. Zanchetta and A. Stein. 2007. The Enriched TreeTagger System. Intelligenza Artificiale IV-2. 22-23.
A. Lüdeling, S. Evert and M. Baroni. 2007. Using Web data for linguistic purposes. In Marianne Hundt, Nadjia Nesselhauf and Caroline Biewer (eds.), Corpus linguistics and the Web. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 7-24.
M. Baroni and S. Bernardini. 2006. A new approach to the study of translationese: Machine-learning the difference between original and translated text. Literary and Linguistic Computing 21(3). 259-274.
S. Bernardini, M. Baroni and S. Evert. 2006. A WaCky introduction. In Marco Baroni and Silvia Bernardini (eds.), Wacky! Working papers on the Web as Corpus, Bologna: Gedit. 9-40.
M. Ciaramita and M. Baroni. 2006. Measuring Web-corpus randomness: A progress report. In Marco Baroni and Silvia Bernardini (eds.), Wacky! Working papers on the Web as Corpus, Bologna: Gedit. 127-158.
M. Baroni, A. Kilgarriff, J. Pomikalek and P. Rychly. 2006. WebBootCaT: a web tool for instant corpora. Proceedings of Euralex 2006, Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso. 123-132.
M. Baroni, A. Kilgarriff, J. Pomikalek and P. Rychly. 2006. WebBootCaT: Instant domain-specific corpora to support human translators. Proceedings of EAMT-2006. 247-252.
M. Ciaramita and M. Baroni. 2006. A figure of merit for the evaluation of Web-corpus randomness. Proceedings of EACL 2006 (11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), East Stroudsburg PA: ACL. 217-224.
M. Baroni and A. Kilgarriff. 2006. Large linguistically-processed Web corpora for multiple languages. Conference Companion of EACL 2006 (11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), East Stroudsburg PA: ACL. 87-90.
S. Evert and M. Baroni. 2006. Testing the extrapolation quality of word frequency models. Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics 2005, online at http://www.corpus.bham.ac.uk/PCLC/.
M. Ueyama and M. Baroni. 2006. Automated construction and evaluation of a Japanese web-based reference corpus. Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics 2005, online at http://www.corpus.bham.ac.uk/PCLC/.
S. Bernardini and M. Baroni. 2006. Spotting translationese: A corpus-driven approach using support vector machines. Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics 2005, online at http://www.corpus.bham.ac.uk/PCLC/.
E. Zanchetta and M. Baroni. 2006. Morph-it! A free corpus-based morphological resource for the Italian language. Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics 2005, online at http://www.corpus.bham.ac.uk/PCLC/.
M. Baroni and M. Ueyama. 2006. Building general- and special-purpose corpora by Web crawling. Proceedings of the 13th NIJL International Symposium, Language Corpora: Their Compilation and Application. 31-40.
R. Scarborough, P. Keating, M. Baroni, T. Cho, S. Mattys, A. Alwan, E. Auer and L. Bernstein. 2006. Optical cues to the visual perception of lexical and phrasal stress in English. Speech Prosody 2006 (Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Speech Prosody), Dresden: TUDpress Verlag. 217-220.
H. Trost, J. Matiasek and M. Baroni. 2005. The language component of the FASTY text prediction system. Applied Artificial Intelligence 19(8). 743-781.
M. Mazzoleni and M. Baroni. 2005. I toponimi stranieri nella stampa italiana: primi risultati di una ricerca sul corpus de la Repubblica. Atti di XXII ICOS: Congresso Internazionale di Scienze Onomastiche.
M. Baroni and M. Mazzoleni. 2005. I toponimi stranieri nella stampa quotidiana italiana: fasi preliminari di una ricerca sul corpus de la Repubblica. In I. Korzen (ed.), Lingua, cultura e intercultura: l'italiano e le altre lingue, Atti dell'VIII Convegno SILFI, Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur Press (in the CD-ROM attached to the volume).
M. Baroni and S. Vegnaduzzo. 2004. Identifying subjective adjectives through web-based mutual information. In Ernst Buchberger (ed.), Proceedings of KONVENS 2004, Vienna: ÖGAI. 17-24.
M. Baroni and M. Ueyama. 2004. Retrieving Japanese specialized terms and corpora from the World Wide Web. In Ernst Buchberger (ed.), Proceedings of KONVENS 2004, Vienna: ÖGAI. 13-16.
M. Baroni and S. Bernardini. 2004. BootCaT: Bootstrapping corpora and terms from the web. Proceedings of LREC 2004, Lisbon: ELDA. 1313-1316.
M. Baroni and S. Bisi. 2004. Using cooccurrence statistics and the web to discover synonyms in a technical language. Proceedings of LREC 2004, Lisbon: ELDA.1725-1728.
M. Baroni, S. Bernardini, F. Comastri, L. Piccioni, A. Volpi, G. Aston and M. Mazzoleni. 2004. Introducing the la Repubblica corpus: A large, annotated, TEI(XML)-compliant corpus of newspaper Italian. Proceedings of LREC 2004, Lisbon: ELDA. 1771-1774.
C. Bendazzoli, C. Monti, A. Sandrelli, M. Russo, M. Baroni, S. Bernardini, G. Mack, E. Ballardini and P. Mead. 2004. Towards the creation of an electronic corpus to study directionality in simultaneous interpreting. In Nelleke Oostdijk, Gjert Kristoffersen and Geoffrey Sampson (eds.), Compiling and processing spoken language corpora: Proceedings of the LREC 2004 Satellite Workshop, Lisbon: ELDA. 33-39
M. Baroni. 2003. Distribution-driven morpheme discovery: A computational/experimental study. In Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle (eds.), Yearbook of Morphology 2003, Dordrecht: Springer. 213-248. The full data-sets from the surveys discussed in this study.
P. Keating, M. Baroni, S. Mattys, R. Scarborough, A. Alwan, E. Auer and L. Bernstein. 2003. Optical phonetics and visual perception of lexical and phrasal stress in English. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). 2071-2074.
J. Matiasek and M. Baroni. 2003. Exploiting long distance collocational relations in predictive typing. In Karin Harbusch, Michael Kühn and Harald Trost (eds.), Proceedings of the EACL-03 Workshop on Language Modeling for Text Entry Methods, East Stroudsburg PA: ACL. 1-8.
M. Baroni and S. Bernardini. 2003. A preliminary analysis of collocational differences in monolingual comparable corpora. In Dawn Archer, Paul Rayson, Andrew Wilson and Tony McEnery (eds.), Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics 2003, Lancaster: UCREL. 82-91. Re-printed in: Wolfgang Teubert and Ramesh Krishnamurthy (eds.), Corpus Linguistics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, London: Routledge, 2007, vol. IV, 366-383.
M. Baroni. 2002. FASTY: A multilingual approach to text prediction. Elsnews 11.2. 11-12.
M. Baroni, J. Matiasek and H. Trost. 2002. Wordform- and class-based prediction of the components of German nominal compounds in an AAC system. In Shu-Chuan Tseng (ed.), COLING 2002: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, East Stroudsburg PA: ACL. 57-63.
M. Baroni, J. Matiasek and H. Trost. 2002. Unsupervised discovery of morphologically related words based on orthographic and semantic similarity. In Mike Maxwell (ed.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Morphological and Phonological Learning of ACL/SIGPHON-2002, East Stroudsburg PA: ACL. 48-57.
M. Baroni, J. Matiasek and H. Trost. 2002. Predicting the components of German nominal compounds. In Frank van Harmelen (eds.), Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Amsterdam: IOS Press. 470-474.
J. Matiasek, M. Baroni and H. Trost. 2002. FASTY: A multi-lingual approach to text prediction. In Klaus Miesenberger, Joachim Klaus, Wolfgang Zagler (eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP), Dordrecht: Springer. 243-250.
M. Baroni. 2001. The representation of prefixed forms in the Italian lexicon: Evidence from the distribution of intervocalic [s] and [z] in northern Italian. In Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle (eds.), Yearbook of Morphology 1999, Dordrecht: Springer. 121-152.
M. Baroni. 2001. How do languages get crazy constraints? Phonetically-based phonology and the evolution of the Galeata Romagnolo vowel system. (Gzipped PS file!) In Adam Albright and Taehong Cho (eds.), Papers in Phonology 5, Los Angeles: UCLA WPL Series. 152-178.
M. Baroni and L. Vanelli. 2000. The relationship between vowel length and consonantal voicing in Friulian. In Lori Repetti (ed.), Phonological theory and the dialects of Italy. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 13-44.
M. Baroni and L. Vanelli. 1999. Il contrasto di lunghezza vocalica in friulano. In Paola Benincà, Alberto Mioni and Laura Vanelli (eds.), Fonologia and morfologia dell'Italiano e dei dialetti d'Italia. Roma: Bulzoni. 291-317.
M. Baroni. 1998. The phonetic nature of the Northern Italian allophones [s] and [z] in words with variable realization: Electroglottographic and acoustic evidence. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics 96. 166-174.
M. Baroni. 1996. The natural classes of Lughese vowels and why they are natural. UCLA Working Papers in Phonology 1. 1-17.
M. Baroni. 1995. Iambic senarii. Quaderni Patavini di Linguistica 14. 13-38.
M. Baroni. 1994. Moraic structure and vowel length in Galeatese. Romance Linguistics and Literature Review 7. 24-52.
M. Baroni. 1993. Teorie della sottospecificazione e restrizioni sulle code consonantiche in italiano. Rivista di Grammatica Generativa 18. 3-59.
M. Baroni, B. Murphy and M. Poesio. 2009. Using corpus-based semantic models to predict EEG activation patterns. Presentation at the DiSCo workshop of CogSci 2009.
M. Baroni. 2009. Of corpora and brains: Predicting EEG activation in response to conceptual stimuli using corpus-based semantic models. Presentation in the Natural Language Processing seminar series, NLP Research Group, UPC - Barcelona Tech.
M. Baroni. 2008. Distributional Semantics: From Ad Hoc Solutions to Persistent Models. Invited talk at IS-LTC 2008, Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
M. Baroni, A. Lenci, B. Murphy and M. Poesio. 2008. Modelling semantic property acquisition from single linguistic exposures. Talk at PsychoCompLA-2008, Washington, USA.
M. Baroni, E. Guevara and V. Pirrelli. 2008. Psycho-computational modeling of NN compound interpretation. Talk at the CompoNet Congress on Compounding, Bologna, Italy.
M. Baroni. 2008. Extracting conceptual knowledge from text corpora. Invited talk at the ESP Doctoral School, Federico II University, Naples, Italy.
M. Baroni. 2008. Distributional semantics. Invited talk at the Beyond Short Units workshop of the "Sound to Sense" Marie Curie Research Training Network, Federico II University, Naples, Italy.
M. Baroni. 2008. From word co-occurrences to properties of concepts: Using corpora to simulate the human experience. Invited talk at the Corpus Tools in Teaching and Research Colloquium, Bressanone/Brixen, Italy.
M. Baroni. 2007. Extracting structured semantic spaces from corpora. Invited talk at the National Institute for Japanese Language, Tokyo, Japan.
M. Baroni. 2007. Building large linguistic corpora by Web crawling. Invited lecture at the Dipartimento di Scienze Letterarie e Filologiche, University of Turin, Italy.
M. Baroni. 2007. Building very large corpora from the Web. IRST HLT Seminar series, Povo, Italy.
R. Zamparelli, E. Guevara and M. Baroni. 2007. Italian deverbal compounds: Words, phrases or either. 33esimo Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
M. Baroni and E. Guevara. 2007. Categorie di composti NN in italiano: Induzione ed estensione. Invited lecture at the Seminario dei Dottorandi di Linguistica di Padova, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
M. Baroni. 2006. Empirical NLP in a cognitive perspective: The case of word meaning. Lecture in the Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience series, CIMeC, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy.
S. Evert and M. Baroni. 2006. The zipfR library: Words and other rare events in R. useR! 2006: The second R user conference, Vienna, Austria.
M. Baroni, E. Guevara, V. Pirrelli and E. Zanchetta. 2006. Corpus evidence and compound structure: The case of Italian NN compounds. Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics 2 (QITL-2), University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany.
A. Lüdeling, M. Baroni and S. Evert. 2006. Need and competition: deconstructing quantitative productivity. Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics 2 (QITL-2), University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany.
A. Lüdeling and M. Baroni. 2006. Need and competition: Deconstructing quantitative productivity. Talk given at the MorBo Seminar, Dipartimento di Lingue, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
A. Lüdeling, M. Baroni and S. Evert. 2006. Need and competition in word formation and where to find data to study them. Poster presented at the International Conference on Linguistic Evidence: Empirical, Theoretical, and Computational Perspectives, Tübingen, Germany.
M. Baroni. 2006. Building large corpora from the Web. Language and Communication Technologies colloquia, University of Bolzano, Italy.
M. Baroni. 2005. Spotting translated text: Humans vs. (support vectors) machines. Invited talk at the Cognitive Science Institute, University of Osnabrück, Germany.
L. Onnis, T. Farmer, M. Baroni, M. Spivey and M. Christiansen. 2005. Native speakers capitalize on semantic valence tendencies to boost fluent comprehension: Experimental and computational evidence. Poster presented at AMLaP 2005 (Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing), Ghent, Belgium.
M. Baroni. 2005. Large crawls of the Web for linguistic purposes. Presented at the Corpus Linguistics 2005 Web as Corpus Workshop, Birmingham, UK.
M. Baroni and S. Sharoff. 2005. Creating specialized and general corpora using automated search engine queries. Presented at the Corpus Linguistics 2005 Web as Corpus Workshop, Birmingham, UK.
M. Baroni. 2005. Misurare la produttività: Esperimenti e riflessioni. Talk given at the MorBo Seminar, Dipartimento di Lingue, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
M. Baroni. 2005. Usare la rete come fonte di dati linguistici: Esperienze, problemi e prospettive. Talk given at the Laboratorio di Ontologia Applicata, CNR, Rome, Italy.
M. Baroni. 2004. Using the web as a source of linguistic data: Experiences, problems and perspectives. Invited lecture at the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
S. Bernardini and M. Baroni. 2004. Web-mining disposable corpora in the translation classroom. Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC) 2004, Grandada, Spain.
M. Baroni. 2003. Metodi non-supervisionati per la scoperta di morfemi e relazioni morfologiche. Slides. Invited lecture at the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR, Pisa, Italy.
M. Baroni. 2003. Annotazione morfosintattica e lemmatizzazione. Talk Given at the Corpus Linguistics Seminar, SITLEC, University of Bologna at Forlì, Italy.
M. Baroni and S. Vegnaduzzo. 2003. Assessing morphological productivity via automated measures of semantic transparency. Slides. Presented at the Workshop on Explaining Productivity of the DGFS.
M. Baroni. 2003. Estrazione non supervisionata di informazioni morfologiche da corpora non annotati. Invited lecture at the Seminario dei Dottorandi di Linguistica di Padova, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
M. Baroni, J. Matiasek and H. Trost. 2002. Using textual association measures and minimum edit distance to discover morphological relations. Slides (in PS format!) Presented at the International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Collocations, Vienna, Austria.
P. Keating, T. Cho, S. Mattys, L. Bernstein, B. Chaney, M. Baroni and A. Alwan. 2000. Articulation of word and sentence stress. Poster presented at Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Newport Beach CA, USA.
M. Baroni. 2000. Using distributional information to discover morphemes: An automated distribution-driven prefix learner. Presented at the 9th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, Austria.
M. Baroni. 2000. Using distributional information to discover morphemes: A distribution-driven prefix learner. Presented at the Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago IL, USA.
M. Baroni and L. Vanelli. 1997. Il contrasto di lunghezza vocalica in friulano. Presented at the 31st Italian Linguistic Society Conference (SLI), Padua, Italy. (Warning: There are problems with the IPA fonts in the PDF file -- I would say that the handout is still legible, though...)
M. Baroni. 1996. An acoustic study of Italian unstressed mid-vowels. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, Hawaii. Poster text, experiment 1 plots, experiment 2 plots. (Note that the almost perfect overlap among categories that makes the plots in experiment 1 unreadable is a fact about the distribution of the relevant sounds, and not the result of a technical problem... On the other hand, there are real technical problems with the phonetic characters.)
M. Baroni. 1993. Teorie della sottospecificazione e restrizioni sulle code consonantiche in italiano. Presented at the Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Trento, Italy.
M. Baroni, S. Evert and A. Lenci (editors). 2008. Bridging the gap between semantic theory and computational simulations: Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2008 Workshop on Distributional Semantics, Hamburg: ESSLLI.
M. Baroni, A. Lenci, and M. Sahlgren (editors). 2007. Beyond words and documents: Proceedings of the Workshop on Contextual Information in Semantic Space Models at CONTEXT 07, Roskilde: Roskilde University.
M. Baroni and S. Bernardini (editors). 2006. Wacky! Working papers on the Web as Corpus, Bologna: Gedit.
A. Kilgarriff and M. Baroni (editors). 2006. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on the Web as Corpus (EACL 2006 SIGWAC Workshop), East Stroudsburg PA: ACL.