Radu Florian's Publications

• R. Florian ``Named Entity Recognition as a House of Cards: Classifier Stacking'' In Proceedings of CoNLL'02, pp. 175--178, Taipei, Taiwan. ps pdf
• R. Florian and D. Yarowsky. ``Modeling Consensus: Classifier Combination for Word Sense Disambiguation.'' In Proceedings of EMNLP'02, pp 25--32 Philadelphia, PA, USA. ps pdf
• R. Florian and R. Wicentowski. ``Unsupervised Italian Word Sense Disambiguation using Wordnets and Unlabeled Corpora.'' In Proceedings of the "Word Sense Disambiguation: Recent Successess and Future Directions" Workshop, pp 67--73, Philadelphia, PA, USA. ps pdf
• R. Florian, S. Cucerzan, C. Schafer and D. Yarowsky. ``Combining Classifiers for Word Sense Disambiguation.'' To appear in Journal of Natural Language Engineering. ps
• D. Yarowsky and R. Florian. ``Evaluating Sense Disambiguation Performance Across Diverse Parameter Spaces." To appear in Journal of Natural Language Engineering. ps

• D. Yarowsky, S. Cucerzan, R. Florian, C. Schafer, and R. Wicentowski. ``The Johns Hopkins SENSEVAL2 System Descriptions.'' In Proceedings of SENSEVAL2, pp. 163--166.
• R. Florian and G. Ngai. ``Multidimensional Transformation-Based Learning''. In Proceedings of CONLL'01, pp. 1-8, Toulouse, France.
• G. Ngai , R. Florian. ``Transformation-Based Learning in the Fast Lane.'' In Proceedings of the NAACL'2001, pp. 40-47, Pittsburgh, PA.

• R. Florian, J. C. Henderson and G. Ngai. ``Coaxing Confidences Out of an Old Friend: Probabilistic Classifications from Transformation Rule Lists'' , In Proceedings of EMNLP'2000, pp. 26-34, Hong Kong.

• D. Yarowsky, R. Florian. Taking the load off the conference chairs: towards a digital paper-routing assistant, In Proceedings of EMNLP'99, pp. 220-230, College Park, MD, USA
• R. Florian, D. Yarowsky. Dynamic Non-local Language Modeling via Hierarchical Topic-Based Adaptation, In Proceedings of ACL'99 pp. 167-174, College Park, MD, USA

• E. Brill, R. Florian, J. C. Henderson, and L. Mangu. Beyond N-Grams: Can Linguistic Sophistication Improve Language Modeling? In Proc. of COLING-ACL'98, pp. 186-190, Montreal, Canada.
• R. Florian, D. Yarowsky. Exploiting Nonlocal Word Relationships In Language Models. Technical Report, Computer Science Department, Johns Hopkins University.
• R. Florian, E. Brill. Transformation Based Parsing. Ph.D. Qualifier Project, Computer Science Department, Johns Hopkins University.