Vojtěch Kovář and Diana McCarthy (to appear) New Learner Corpus Functionality in the Sketch Engine, In Proceedings of the 2012 Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference
Peng Jin, John Carroll, Yunfang Wu and Diana McCarthy (2011) Improved word similarity computation for Chinese using sub-word information. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security, Sanya, Hainan, China. 459-462.
Li Wang, Diana McCarthy and Timothy Baldwin (2011) Predicting Thread Linking Structure by Lexical Chaining, In Proceedings of the 2011 Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW 2011), Canberra, Australia.
Siva Reddy, Diana McCarthy and Suresh Manandhar (2011) An Empirical Study on Compositionality in Compound Nouns In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing 2011 (IJCNLP-2011), Thailand pdf available
Siva Reddy, Ioannis Klapaftis, Diana McCarthy and Suresh Manandhar (2011) Dynamic and Static Prototype Vectors for Semantic Composition. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing 2011 (IJCNLP-2011), Thailand Best Paper Award. pdf available
Siva Reddy, Diana McCarthy, Suresh Manandhar and Spandana Gella (2011) Exemplar-based word-space model for compositionality detection: shared task system description. In Proceedings of DISCo-2011 in conjunction with ACL 2011 Note Our system was ranked first in two evaluation categories and second in two other evaluation categories. pdf available
Wild, K., D. McCarthy, A. Church, and J. Burgess (2011) A Corpus Linguistics Analysis of Ecosystems Vocabulary in the Public Sphere. In Corpus Linguistics 2011: Discourse and Corpus Linguistics conference Birmingham, UK.
Iztok Kosem, Milos Husak and Diana McCarthy (2011) GDEX for Slovene. In proceedings of eLex2011 Bled, Slovenia. pp 151-159
McCarthy, D. (2011) Exploiting distributional similarity for lexical acquisition. In Proceedings of Dialogue International Conference in Computational Linguistics Bekasovo Russia 25-29th May.Conference website (Invited Paper)
McCarthy, D. (2011) Measuring similarity of word meaning in context with lexical substitutes and translations In Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing 12th International Conference, CICLing 2011, Tokyo, Japan, February 20-26, 2011. Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 6608, 2011, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19400-9 pp238-252 (Invited Paper) slides available here and Data and R code available here
McCarthy, D. (2010) DANTE: a new resource for research at the syntax-semantics interface. In Proceedings of Interdiciplinary Workshop on Verbs Pisa, Italy. (Invited paper) PDF version available and DANTE available here
Jakubicek, M., A. Kilgarriff D. McCarthy and P. Rychly (2010) Syntactic searching in very large corpora for many languages. In Proceedings of Workshop on Advanced Corpus Solutions, PACLIC 24 PDF version available
Rada Mihalcea, Ravi Sinha and Diana McCarthy (2010) SemEval-2010 Task 2: Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution In Proceedings of SemEval-2010: 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations ACL 2010, Uppsala, Sweden. PDF version available. Visit our task website and download our resources
Siva Reddy, Abilash Inumella, Diana McCarthy and Mark Stevenson (2010) IIITH: Domain Specific Word Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of SemEval-2010: 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations PDF version available. Download our resources ACL 2010, Uppsala, Sweden.
McCarthy, D., B. Keller and R. Navigli (2010) Getting synonym candidates from raw data in the English lexical substitution task. In Proceedings of the 14th EURALEX International Congress. Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. PDF version available
Erk, K. and D. McCarthy (2009) Graded word sense assignment. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2009). Singapore PDF version available
Katrin Erk, Diana McCarthy and Nick Gaylord (2009) Investigations on Word Senses and Word Usages In Proceedings of the Joint conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing ACL-IJCNLP Singapore PDF version available Data and Annotator Instructions are available here
Oakhill, J., D. McCarthy, K. Cain and Z. Nightingale (2009) The relation between speed of semantic access, semantic knowledge, and aspects of reading ability. Presented at The Annual Meeting of the Society for Scientific Studies of Reading , Boston, June 25-27th
Sinha, R., D. McCarthy and Mihalcea, R (2009) SemEval-2010 Task 2: Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution. In Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2009 Workshop: SEW-2009 - Semantic Evaluations PDF version available
Jin, P., D. McCarthy, R. Koeling and J. Carroll (2009) Estimating and exploiting the entropy of sense distributions. In Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT) 2009 Conference, Boulder, Colorado. PDF version available
McCarthy, D. and R. Navigli (2009) The English Lexical Substitution Task, In Language Resources and Evaluation 43 (2) Special Issue on Computational Semantic Analysis of Language: SemEval-2007 and Beyond, Agirre, E., Màrquez, L. and Wicentowksi, R. (Eds). pp 139-159 Springer.
McCarthy, D. (2009) Word Sense Disambiguation: An Overview. In Language and Linguistics Compass 3 (2) pp 537-558 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2009.00131.x Blackwell PDF version available
Koeling, R. and D. McCarthy. (2008) From Predicting Predominant Senses to Using Local Context for Word Sense Disambiguation. In Semantics in Text Processing. STEP 2008 Conference Proceedings Bos, J. and Delmontee, R.. College Publications pp 129-138 PDF version available
McCarthy, D. (2008) Lexical substitution as a Framework for Multiword Evaluation. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008) PDF version available
Iida, R., D. McCarthy, and R. Koeling (2008) Gloss-Based Semantic Similarity Metrics for Predominant Sense Acquisition. In Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing pp 561-568 PDF version available
McCarthy, D (2007) Computers getting the drift. In Christmas Issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Physical, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences 365 (1861) pp 3019-3031 electronic versions available
McCarthy, D., R. Koeling, J. Weeds and J. Carroll, (2007) Unsupervised Acquisition of Predominant Word Senses. Computational Linguistics, 33 (4) pp 553-590 electronic versions available
McCarthy, D. (2007) Book review of "Word Sense Disambiguation: Algorithms and Applications" Eneko Agirre and Philip Edmonds (Eds.) Computational Linguistics 33 (2) pp 255-258 pdf available
Diana McCarthy, and Roberto Navigli (2007) SemEval-2007 Task 10: English Lexical Substitution Task In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval-2007), Prague, Czech Republic pp 48-53 PDF version available Resources available to download here
Koeling, R. and D. McCarthy (2007) Sussx: WSD using Automatically Acquired Predominant Senses, In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval-2007) , Prague, Czech Republic pp 314-317 PDF version available
McCarthy, D., S. Venkatapathy and A. K. Joshi (2007) Detecting Compositionality of Verb-Object Combinations using Selectional Preferences In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2007) pp 369-379 PDF version available
Koeling, R., D. McCarthy and J. Carroll (2007) Text categorization for improved priors of word meaning In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLING 2007), Mexico City, Mexico, 3rd Best Paper Award. PDF version available
Diana McCarthy (2006) Relating WordNet senses for word sense disambiguation In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Making Sense of Sense: Bringing Psycholinguistics and Computational Linguistics Together , Trento, Italy pp 17-24 PDF version available Gold Standard Data avaliable here
McCarthy, D. (2006) Lexical Acquisition. In Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd edn). Elsevier: Oxford.
Volume 7 page 61-68 ISBN 0-08-044299-4
Rob Koeling, Diana McCarthy, and John Carroll (2005) Domain-Specific Sense Distributions and Predominant Sense Acquisition. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. HLT/EMNLP 2005 pp 419-426. PDF version available Gold Standard Data avaliable here
Villavicencio, A., F. Bond, A. Korhonen, and D. McCarthy (2005) Introduction to the special issue on multiword expressions: having a crack at a hard nut. in Computer Speech and Language 19(4). pp 365-377.
McCarthy, D., R. Koeling, J. Weeds, and J. Carroll (2004) Automatic identification of infrequent word senses. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference of Computational Linguistics, COLING-2004. Geneva, Switzerland. pp 1220-1226 PDF version available
Weeds, J., D. Weir and D. McCarthy (2004) Characterising measures of lexical distributional similarity. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference of Computational Linguistics, COLING-2004. Geneva, Switzerland. pp 1015-1021 PDF version available
McCarthy, D., R. Koeling, J. Weeds, and J. Carroll, (2004) Finding predominant senses in untagged text. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Barclona, Spain. pp 280-287 PDF version available ACL Best Paper Award.
McCarthy, D., R. Koeling, J. Weeds and J. Carroll (2004) Using automatically acquired predominant senses for word sense disambiguation. Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the ACL SENSEVAL-3 workshop. Barclona, Spain. pp 151-154 PDF version available
Villarejo, L., L. Marquez, E. Agirre, D. Martinez, B. Magnini, C. Strapparava, D. McCarthy, A. Monotoyo, and A. Suarez (2004) The 'meaning' system on the English all words task. In Proceedings of the ACL SENSEVAL-3 workshop. pp 253-256 Barclona, Spain.
Sampson, G. and D. McCarthy (eds.) (2004) Corpus Linguistics: Readings in a Widening Discipline Continuum International, London and New York.
McCarthy, D., R. Koeling and J. Weeds (2004) Ranking WordNet Senses Automatically. Technical Report. CSRP 569. Department of Informatics, University of Sussex. PDF version available
McCarthy, D. (2004) Book review of "Word Sense Disambiguation: The Case for Combinations of Knowledge Sources" by Mark Stevenson Natural Language Engineering 10 (2) 196-200
McCarthy, D. and J. Carroll (2003) Disambiguating nouns, verbs and adjectives using automatically acquired selectional preferences, Computational Linguistics, 29(4). pp 639-654. PDF version available
Diana McCarthy, Bill Keller, and John Carroll (2003) Detecting a Continuum of Compositionality in Phrasal Verbs. In Proceedings of the ACL-SIGLEX Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Analysis, Acquisition and Treatment , Sapporo, Japan. Postscript version available Gold Standard Data avaliable here
McCarthy, D. (2002) Lexical Substitution as a Task for WSD Evaluation, In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Word Sense Disambiguation: Recent Successes and Future Directions , Philadelphia, USA. PDF version available
McCarthy, D., J. Carroll, and J. Preiss (2001) Disambiguating noun and verb senses using automatically acquired selectional preferences, In Proceedings of the SENSEVAL-2 Workshop at ACL/EACL'01 , Toulouse, France. Postscript version available
McCarthy, D. (2001) PhD Thesis Lexical Acquisition at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: Diathesis Alternations, Subcategorization Frames and Selectional Preferences. Gzipped postscript version available. My supervisor was Gerald Gazdar
Korhonen, A., G. Gorrell, and D. McCarthy (2000) Statistical Filtering and Subcategorization Frame Acquisition. In Proceedings of the Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora. Hong Kong. Postscript version available
McCarthy, D. (2000) Using Semantic Preferences to Identify Verbal Participation in Role Switching Alternations. Proceedings of the first Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. (NAACL) , Seattle, WA. Postscript version available
Carroll, J. and D. McCarthy (2000) Word sense disambiguation using automatically acquired verbal preferences. In Computers and the Humanities. Senseval Special Issue, Vol 34, No 1-2 Postscript version available
McCarthy, D. and A. Korhonen (1998) Detecting verbal participation in diathesis alternations In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguists., Montreal. Vol 2. pp 1493-1495 Postscript version available
McCarthy, D. (1998) Book Review of "The Balancing Act", Klavans and Resnik (Eds.) Journal of Logic Language and Information, 7:2 pp223-227
McCarthy, D. (1997) Word Sense Disambiguation for Acquisition of Selectional Preferences. In Proceedings of the ACL/EACL 97 Workshop Automatic Information Extraction and Building of Lexical Semantic Resources for NLP Applications, Madrid, Spain. pp 52-61 Postscript version available
McCarthy, D. (1997) Estimation of a probability distribution over a hierarchical classification. In The Tenth White House Papers COGS - CSRP 440 Postscript version available