Mihalcea, R., Sinha, R. and McCarthy, D. (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.
Reddy, S., Inumella, I., McCarthy,D. and Stevenson, M. (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., Keller, B. and Navigli, R. (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
Erk, K., D. McCarthy and Gaylord, N (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 a bility. 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
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
McCarthy, D. and R. 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
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
McCarthy, D. (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
Koeling, R., D. McCarthy, and J. 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
McCarthy, D., Keller, B. and Carroll, J. (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