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2023
G. Maheshwari, A. Bellet, P. Denis, M. Keller. Fair Without Leveling Down: A New Intersectional Fairness Definition To appear in Proceedings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023), Singapore, December 2023.
C. Oguz, P. Denis, E. Vincent, S. Ostermann, J. van Genabith. Find-2-Find: Multitask Learning for Anaphora Resolution and Object Localization To appear in Proceedings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023), Singapore, December 2023.
J. Renner, P. Denis, R. Gilleron. WordNet Is All You Need: A Surprisingly Effective Unsupervised Method for Graded Lexical Entailment To appear in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, Singapore, December 2023.
J. Renner, P. Denis, R. Gilleron, and A. Brunellière. Exploring Category Structure with Contextual Language Models and Lexical Semantic Networks. In Proceedings of European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2023), Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2023.
B. Liétard, M. Keller, and P. Denis. A Tale of Two Laws of Semantic Change: Predicting Synonym Changes with Distributional Semantic Models In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2023), Toronto, Canada, July 2023.
M. Dehouck and P. Denis. Revisiting Modal Sense Classification with State-of-the-art Language Models. In I. Depraetere et al. (Eds), Models of modals: From pragmatics and corpus linguistics to machine learning., De Gruyter Mouton, 2023.
2022
G. Maheshwari, P. Denis, M. Keller, A. Bellet. Fair NLP Models with Differentially Private Text Encoders. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2022.
C. Oguz, I. Kruijff-Korbayová, P. Denis, E. Vincent, J. van Genabith. Chop and change: Anaphora resolution in instructional cooking videos. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: AACL-IJCNLP 2022, Taipeh, Taiwan, 2022.
2021
A. Bellet, P. Denis, R. Gilleron, M. Keller, N. Vauquier. Pour plus de transparence dans l'analyse automatique des consultations ouvertes : leçons de la synthèse du Grand Débat National. In Statistique et Société, 9 (1-2), Gilets jaunes et Grand Débat National : outils, données et analyses, 2021.
M. Dehouck et P. Denis. 2021. La phylogénie des langues au service de l'analyse automatique. In Lettres InSHS, 69, Zoom sur la linguistique computationnelle, CNRS, 2021.
J. Renner, P. Trivedi, G. Maheshwari, R. Gilleron, P. Denis. An End-to-End Approach for Full Bridging Resolution. In Proceedings of the CODI-CRAC 2021 - Shared-Task: Anaphora Resolution in Dialogues, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, 2021.
P. Denis, N. Grabar, A. Fraisse, R. Cardon, B. Jacquemin, E. Kergosien, and A. Balvet (Eds.). Actes de la 28e Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2021). Lille, France, 2021.
2020
M. Vargas-Vieyra, A. Bellet, and P. Denis. Joint Learning of the Graph and the Data Representation for Graph-Based Semi-Supervised Learning. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Graph-Based Natural Language Processing (TextGraphs 2020), Barcelona, Spain (Online), 2020.
O. Pandit, P. Denis, and L. Ralaivola. Integrating Knowledge Graph Embeddings to Improve Mention Representation for Bridging Anaphora Resolution. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC 2020), Barcelona, Spain (Online).
A. Bellet, P. Denis, R. Gilleron, M. Keller, and N. Vauquier. Pour plus de transparence dans l'analyse automatique des consultations ouvertes : leçons de la synthèse du Grand Débat National. To appear in Statistique et Société, Société Française de Statistique (SFdS).
2019
M. Dehouck and P. Denis. 2019. Phylogenetic Multi-Lingual Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2019), Minneapolis, United States.
O. Pandit, P. Denis, and L. Ralaivola. 2019. Learning Rich Event Representations and Interactions for Temporal Relation Classification. In European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN 2019), Bruges, Belgium.
B. Li, M. Dehouck, and P. Denis. 2019. Modal sense classification with task-specific context embeddings. In European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN 2019), Bruges, Belgium.
M. Vargas-Vieyra, A. Bellet, and P. Denis. Probabilistic End-to-End Graph-based Semi-SupervisedLearning. In NeurIPS Bayesian Deep Learning Workshop, Vancouver, Canada, 2019.
2018
M. Ailem, B. Zhang, A. Bellet, P. Denis, F. Sha. 2018. A Probabilistic Model for Joint Learning of Word Embeddings from Texts and Images. In Proceedings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2018), Brussels, Belgium.
M. Dehouck and P. Denis. 2018. A Framework for Understanding the Role of Morphology in Universal Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2018), Brussels, Belgium.
2017
P. Denis and L. Ralaivola. 2017. Online Learning of Task-specific Word Representations with a Joint Biconvex Passive-Aggressive Algorithm. In Proceedings of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2017), Valencia, Spain.
[This version includes fixes to some annoying typos that were still in the EACL camera ready version.]
M. Dehouck and P. Denis. 2017. Delexicalized Word Embeddings for Cross-lingual Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2017), Valencia, Spain.
2016
C. Braud and P. Denis. 2016. Learning Connective-based Word Representations for Implicit Discourse Relation Identification. In Proceedings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2016), Austin, Texas.
2015
C. Braud and P. Denis. 2015. Comparing Word Representations for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification. In Proceedings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2015), Lisbon, Portugal.
E. Lassalle and P. Denis. 2015. Joint Anaphoricity Detection and Coreference Resolution with Constrained Latent Structures. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2015), Austin, Texas.
2014
D. Chatel, P. Denis, and M. Tommasi. 2014. Fast Gaussian Pairwise Constrained Spectral Clustering. In Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2014), Nancy, France.
D. Chatel, P. Denis, and M. Tommasi. 2014. Clustering Spectral avec Contraintes de Paires réglées par Noyaux Gaussiens.. In Actes de Conférence Francophone sur l'Apprentissage Automatique (CAp 2014), Saint-Etienne, France.
C. Braud and P. Denis. 2014. Combining Natural and Artificial Examples to Improve Implicit Discourse Relation Identification. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2014), Dublin, Ireland.
C. Braud and P. Denis. 2014. Identifier les relations discursives implicites en combinant données naturelles et données artificielles In Traitement automatique des langues (TAL), 55(1), Paris: Hermès.
2013
E. Lassalle and P. Denis. 2013. Improving pairwise coreference models through feature space hierarchy learning. In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2013), Sofia, Bulgaria.
A. Venant, N. Asher, P. Muller, P. Denis and S. Afantenos. 2013. Expressivity and comparison of models of discourse structure. In Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, 2-11, Metz, France.
E. Lassalle and P. Denis. 2013. Apprentissage d'une hiérarchie de modèles à paires spécialisés pour la résolution de la coréférence. In Actes de Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2013). Sables d’Olonne, France.
C. Braud and P. Denis. 2013. Identification automatique des relations discursives "implicites" à partir de données annotées et de corpus bruts. In Actes de Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2013). Sables d’Olonne, France. [Won Best Paper Award.]
2012
P. Muller, S. Afantenos, P. Denis, and N. Asher. 2012. Constrained decoding for text-level discourse parsing. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012), 1883-1900, Mumbai, India.
P. Denis and B. Sagot. 2012. Coupling an annotated corpus and a lexicon for state-of-the-art POS tagging. In Language Resources and Evaluation (46), Springer, 721-736. [Extended version of our PACLIC 2009 and TALN 2010 papers.]
S. Afantenos, N. Asher, F. Benamara, A. Cadilhac, C. Degremont, P. Denis, M. Guhe, S. Keizer, A. Lascarides, O. Lemon, P. Muller, S. Paul, V. Popescu, V. Rieser, and L. Vieu. 2012. Developing a corpus of strategic conversation in the settlers of catan. In N. Tomuro and J. Zagal, Eds, Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Games and NLP (GAMNLP-12).
S. Afantenos, N. Asher, F. Benamara, A. Cadilhac, C. Degremont, P. Denis, M. Guhe, S. Keizer, A. Lascarides, O. Lemon, P. Muller, S. Paul, V. Popescu, V. Rieser, and L. Vieu. 2012. Modelling strategic conversation: the STAC project. In S. Brown-Schmidt, J. Ginzburg, and S. Larsson, Eds, Proceedings of 16th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Poster Session), 145-146.
N. Asher, A. Lascarides, O. Lemon, M. Guhe, V. Rieser, P. Muller, S. Afantenos, F. Benamara, L. Vieu, P. Denis, S. Paul, S. Keizer, and C. Degremont. 2012. Modelling strategic conversation: model, annotation design and corpus. S. Brown-Schmidt, J. Ginzburg, and S. Larssonn, Eds, Proceedings of 16th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Poster Session), 167-168.
2011
P. Denis and P. Muller. 2011. Predicting globally-coherent temporal structures from texts via endpoint inference and graph decomposition. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011), Barcelona, Spain.
A. Bittar, P. Amsili, P. Denis, and L. Danlos. 2011. French TimeBank: An ISO-TimeML Annotated Reference Corpus. In Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2011), Short paper, Portland, Oregon.
A. Bittar, P. Amsili, and P. Denis. 2011. French TimeBank: un corpus de référence sur la temporalité en français. In Actes de Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2011), Montpellier, France.
E. Henestroza Anguiano and P. Denis. 2011. FreDist: Automatic construction of distributional thesauri for French. In Actes de Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2011), Short paper, Montpellier, France.
E. de La Clergerie, B. Sagot, R. Stern, P. Denis, G. Recourcé, and V. Mignot. 2011. Extracting and Visualizing Quotations from News Wires. In Z. Vetulani (Ed.), Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics --- 4th Language and Technology Conference, LTC 2009, Revised Selected Papers, LNAI, Springer, 522-532.
E. Lassalle and P. Denis (2011). Leveraging different meronym discovery methods for bridging resolution in French In Anaphora Processing and Applications, Proceedings of the 8th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC 2011), Selected papers. LNAI, Springer.
2010
P. Denis and P. Muller. 2010. Comparison of different algebras for inducing the temporal structure of texts. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), Beijing, China.
M. Candito, J. Nivre, P. Denis and E. Henestroza Anguiano. 2010. Benchmarking of statistical dependency parsers for French. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), Beijing, China.
P. Denis and B. Sagot. 2010. Exploitation d'une ressource lexicale pour la construction d'un étiqueteur morpho-syntaxique état-de-l'art du français. In Actes de Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2010), Montreal, Canada.
S. Afantenos, P. Denis, P. Muller, and L. Danlos. 2010. Learning recursive segments for discourse parsing. In Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010), Valletta, Malta.
M. Candito, B. Crabbé, and P. Denis. 2010. Statistical French dependency parsing: treebank conversion and first results. In Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010), Valletta, Malta.
2009
P. Denis and B. Sagot. 2009. Coupling an annotated corpus and a morphosyntactic lexicon for state-of-the-art POS tagging with less human effort. In Proceedings of The Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 23), Hong Kong, China. [This paper presents a French POS tagger that is now freely available from the INRIA forge.]
E. de La Clergerie, B. Sagot, R. Stern, P. Denis, G. Recourcé, V. Mignot. 2009. Extracting and visualizing quotations from news wires. In Proceedings of The Language & Technology Conference (LTC 09), Poznan, Poland.
M. Candito, B. Crabbé, P. Denis, and F. Guérin. 2009. Analyse syntaxique du français: des constituants aux dépendances. Actes de Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2009), Senlis, France.
P. Denis and J. Baldridge. 2009. Global joint models for coreference resolution and named entity classification. In Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural 42, Barcelona: SEPLN.
2008
P. Denis and J. Baldridge. 2008. Specialized models and ranking for coreference resolution. In Proceedings of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2008), Hawaii, USA.
2007
New Learning Models for Robust Reference Resolution, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Austin.
P. Denis and J. Baldridge. 2007. Joint determination of anaphoricity and coreference resolution using integer programming. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technology Conference (NAACL/HLT-2007), Rochester, NY. [Won Best Student Paper Award.]
P. Denis and J. Baldridge. 2007. A ranking approach to pronoun resolution. Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007), Hyderabad, India.
2006
P. Denis, E. McCready, A. Palmer, and B. Reese (Eds). 2006. Proceedings of the 2004 Texas Linguistics Society Conference: Issues at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface. Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA.
P. Denis and J. Kuhn. 2006. Applying an LFG parser in coreference resolution. Experiments and Analysis. In Proceedings 11th International LFG Conference (LFG-2006), Konstanz, Germany, July 10-13.
N. Asher, P. Denis and B. Reese. 2006. Names and pops and discourse structure. Presented at the 2006 Workshop on Constraints in Discourse, Maynooth, Ireland, July 7-9.
J. Hunter, N. Asher, B. Reese, and P. Denis. 2006. Evidentiality and intensionality: Two uses of reportative constructions in discourse. Presented at the 2006 Workshop on Constraints in Discourse, Maynooth, Ireland, July 7-9.
2005
P. Amsili, P. Denis, and L. Roussarie. 2005. Les anaphores abstraites en français: représentation formelle. Traitement automatique des langues (TAL), 46(1), Paris: Hermès.
N. Asher and P. Denis. 2005. Lexical ambiguity as type disjunction. Presented at the Third International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon (GL2005), Geneva, Switzerland, May 19-21.
2004
N. Asher and P. Denis. 2004. Dynamic typing for lexical semantics. A case study: the genitive construction. In A.C. Varzi and L. Vieu (Eds), Formal Ontology in Information Systems. Proceedings of the Third International Conference (FOIS 2004), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 165-176.
N. Asher, P. Denis, J. Kuhn, E. Larson, E. McCready, A. Palmer, B. Reese, and K. Wang. 2004. Extracting and using discourse structure to resolve anaphoric dependencies: Combining logico-semantic and statistical approaches. In Actes de Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (SDRT Workshop), Fès, Morocco, 515-524.
2003
P. Denis and P. Muller. 2003. A semantics for temporally dependent expressions. In O. Bonami and P. Cabredo Hofherr (Eds), Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 5. Papers presented at CSSP 2003, 45-62.
P. Denis, J. Kuhn and S. Wechsler. 2003. V-PP goal motion complexes in English: an HPSG account. In Proceedings of the ACL-SIGSEM workshop: The Linguistic Dimensions of Prepositions and their Use in Computational Linguistics Formalisms and Applications, Toulouse, France, 121-132.
A fresh look at goal motion constructions. In Papers from the 39th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
2002
L. Prévot, P. Muller, P. Denis, and L. Vieu. 2002.Une approche sémantique et rhétorique du dialogue. Un cas d'étude: l'explication d'itinéraires. Traitement automatique des langues (TAL), 43(2), Paris: Hermès, 43-70.