Publications (by Year)

NLP Lab @ Stony Brook

Papers:

• 2011
  
  Learning General Connotation of Words using Graph-based Algorithms.
  Song Feng, Ritwik Bose, and Yejin Choi.
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2011.
  
  Domain Independent Authorship Attribution without Domain Adaptation.
  Rohith Menon and Yejin Choi.
  Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), 2011.
  
  Composing Simple Image Descriptions using Web-scale N-grams.
  Siming Li, Girish Kulkarni, Tamara Berg, Alex Berg and Yejin Choi.
  Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), 2011.
  
  Gender Attribution: Tracing Stylometric Evidence Beyond Topic and Genre.
  Ruchita Sarawgi, Kailash Gajulapalli and Yejin Choi.
  Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), 2011.
  
  Language of Vandalism: Improving Wikipedia Vandalism Detection via Stylometric Analysis.
  Manoj Harpalani, Michael Hart, Sandesh Singh, Rob Johnson and Yejin Choi.
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2011. short paper
  
  Finding Deceptive Opinion Spam by Any Stretch of the Imagination.
  Myle Ott, Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie, and Jeffrey Hancock.
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2011.
  
  Baby Talk: Understanding and Generating Image Descriptions.
  Girish Kulkarni, Visruth Premraj, Sagnik Dhar, Siming Li, Yejin Choi, Alexander C. Berg, and Tamara Berg.
  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011
  
  
• 2010
  
  Hierarchical Sequential Learning for Extracting Opinions and their Attributes.
  Yejin Choi, and Claire Cardie.
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2010. short paper.
  
  Automatically Generating Annotator Rationales to Improve Sentiment Classification.
  Ainur Yessenalina, Yejin Choi, and Claire Cardie.
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2010. short paper.
  
  Fine-Grained Opinion Analysis: Structure-Aware Approaches
  Yejin Choi
  Ph.D. Thesis, 2010.
  
  Using Landing Pages for Sponsored Search Ad Selection
  Yejin Choi, Marcus Fontoura, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josifovski, Mauricio Mediano, and Bo Pang.
  International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2010.
  
  
• 2009 - 2005
  
  Adapting a Polarity Lexicon Using Integer Linear Programming for Domain-Specific Sentiment Classification.
  Yejin Choi and Claire Cardie.
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2009.
  
  Learning with Compositional Semantics as Structural Inference for Subsentential Sentiment Analysis.
  Yejin Choi and Claire Cardie.
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2008.
  
  Structured Local Training and Biased Potential Functions for Conditional Random Fields with Application to Coreference Resolution
  Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie.
  Human Language Technologies: the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), 2007.
  
  Identifying Expressions of Opinion in Context.
  Eric Breck, Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie.
  International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2007.
  
  Cornell System Description for the NTCIR-6 Opinion Task.
  Eric Breck, Yejin Choi, Veselin Stoyanov, and Claire Cardie.
  The 6th NTCIR Workshop Meeting , 2007.
  
  Joint Extraction of Entities and Relations for Opinion Recognition.
  Yejin Choi, Eric Breck, Claire Cardie.
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2006.
  
  Identifying Sources of Opinions with Conditional Random Fields and Extraction Patterns.
  Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie, Ellen Riloff, and Siddharth Patwardhan.
  Human Language Technology Conference/Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT-EMNLP), 2005.
  
  OpinionFinder: A system for subjectivity analysis.
  Theresa Wilson, Paul Hoffmann, Swapna Somasundaran, Jason Kessler, Janyce Wiebe, Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie, Ellen Riloff and Siddharth Patwardhan.
  A demo at Human Language Technology Conference/Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT-EMNLP), 2005.
  

Patents:

System and method for summarizing fine-grained opinions in text
C. Cardie, Y. Choi, E. Breck, V. Stoyanov
[Patent pending] filed by Jodange, LLC, 2007.

Sparse caching for streaming media.
A. Grigorovitch, Y. Choi, T. Carvalho.
[Patent 20050066063] filed by Microsoft Corporation, 2003.

Midstream determination of varying bandwidth availability.
T. Batterberry, A. Grigorovitch, A. Klemets, J. Stewart, Y. Choi
[Patent 20040267503] filed by Microsoft Corporation, 2003.

System and method for automatically recovering from failed network connections in streaming media scenarios.
Y. Choi, A. Grigorovitch, T. Batterberry
[Patent 20030236905] filed by Microsoft Corporation, 2002.