Margo Stys-Budzikowska

My research interests include dialog modeling, discourse structure, MT and CALL. A list of selected publications follows.

Conference Proceedings

Joyce Chai, Sylvie Levesque, Margo Budzikowska, Veronika Horvath, Nanda Kambhatla, Nicolas Nicolov and Wlodek Zadrozny. A Multi-modal Dialog System for Business Transactions. Proceedings of ICSLIP.China, October 2000.

Nanda Kambhatla, Malgorzata Budzikowska, Sylvie Levesque, Nicolas Nicolov, Wlodek Zadrozny, Charles Wiecha, Julie MacNaught. DMML: An XML Language for Interacting with Multi-modal Dialog Systems. Proceedings of AAAI-2000/IAAI-2000, pp 1008—1013. July 30th – August 3rd, 2000.

Nanda Kambhatla, Malgorzata Budzikowska, Sylvie Levesque, Nicolas Nicolov, Wlodek Zadrozny, Charles Wiecha, Julie MacNaught. DMML: An XML Language for Interacting with Multi-modal Dialog Systems. 3rd International Workshop of Human-Computer Conversation, pp 74-79. 3rd – 5th July, 2000.

Margo Budzikowska. Bridging the Information Gap in Structurally Different Languages. Envisioning Machine Translation in the Information Future. Edited by John S. White. Springer, Berlin. October 2000.

Joyce Chai, Jimmy Lin, Wlodek Zadrozny, Yiming Ye, Margo Budzikowska, Veronika Horvath, Nanda Kambhatla, Catherine Wolf. Comparative Evaluation of a Natural Language Dialog Based System and a Menu Driven System for Information Access: a Case Study. Proceedings of RIAO2000, pp 1590-1600, April 12-April 14, 2000.

Dragomir Radev, Hongyan Jing & Margo Stys-Budzikowska. Centroid-based summarization of multiple documents: sentence extraction, utility-based evaluation, and user studies. ANLP/NAACL Workshop on Automatic Summarization. Seattle, April 2000.

Ruslan Mitkov, Belguh, L. & Stys, Malgorzata E. "Multilingual robust anaphora resolution". Third Conference on empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. NLP-3.Granada, Spain. June 1998.

Journal Papers

Joyce Chai, Margo Budzikowska, Veronika Horvath, Jimmy Lin, Nicolas Nicolov, Wlodek Zadrozny. A Web-based Dialog System for Online Sales. IJST Journal. Sumbitted for review.

Wlodek Zadrozny with M.Budzikowska J.Chai N.Kambhatla S.Levesque N.Nicolov. Natural language dialog for personalized interaction. Journal of CACM, May 2000.

Book Chapters

Margo Budzikowska. Bridging the Information Gap in Structurally Different Languages. Envisioning Machine Translation in the Information Future. Edited by John S. White. Springer, Berlin. October 2000.

R. Mitkov & M. Stys-Budzikowska. Robust Reference Resolution with Limited Knowledge: High Precision Genre-Specific Approach for English and Polish. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing. Edited by Nicolas Nicolov (IBM) & Ruslan Mitkov (Wolverhampton). Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (CILT 189). John Benjamins: Amsterdam & Philadelphia. 2000.