Annie Louis


Publications

Thesis

Annie Louis, Predicting text quality: Metrics for content, organization and reader interest, PhD Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, January 2013.


Journal Articles

Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova, Automatically assessing machine summary content without a gold-standard, To appear in Computational Linguistics, 2012.


Conference Papers

Annie Louis and Todd Newman, Summarization of business-related tweets: A concept-based approach, To appear in Proceedings of COLING, 2012. [pdf]

Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova, A coherence model based on syntactic patterns, Proceedings of EMNLP-CoNLL, 2012. [Best Paper Award] [pdf]

Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova, A corpus of general and specific sentences from news, Proceedings of LREC, 2012. [pdf]

Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova, Automatic identification of general and specific sentences by leveraging discourse annotations, Proceedings of IJCNLP, 2011. [pdf] [slides]

Annie Louis, Aravind Joshi and Ani Nenkova, Discourse indicators for content selection in summarization, Proceedings of SIGDIAL 2010. [Best Student Paper Award] [pdf]

Annie Louis, Aravind Joshi, Rashmi Prasad and Ani Nenkova, Using entity features to classify implicit discourse relations, Proceedings of SIGDIAL 2010. [pdf]

Emily Pitler, Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova, Automatic Evaluation of Linguistic Quality in Multi-Document Summarization, Proceedings of ACL 2010. [pdf]

Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova, Creating Local Coherence: An Empirical Assessment, Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2010. [pdf]

Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova, Automatically Evaluating Content Selection in Summarization without Human Models, Proceedings of EMNLP 2009. [pdf]

Emily Pitler, Annie Louis, Ani Nenkova, Automatic Sense Prediction for Implicit Discourse Relations in Text, Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 2009. [pdf]

Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova, Performance Confidence Estimation for Automatic Summarization, Proceedings of EACL 2009. [pdf]

Ani Nenkova and Annie Louis, Can you summarize this? Identifying correlates of input difficulty for generic multi-document summarization, Proceedings of ACL-HLT 2008. [pdf]



Refereed Workshop Papers

Annie Louis, Automatic metrics for genre-specific text quality, To appear in Proceedings of NAACL-HLT Student Research Workshop, 2012.

Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova, Text specificity and impact on quality of news summaries, Proceedings of ACL-HLT Workshop on Monolingual Text to Text Generation, 2011. [pdf] [slides]

Annie Louis, Predicting Text Quality for Scientific Articles, AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium, 2011. [pdf] [slides] [poster]

Annie Louis, Eric Crestan, Youssef Billawala, Rao Shen, Fernando Diaz and Jean-Francois Crespo, Use of Query Similarity for Improving Presentation of News Verticals, Proceedings of Workshop on Very Large Data Search (VLDS), 2011. [pdf]

Annie Louis and Derrick Higgins, Off-topic essay detection using short prompt texts, Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Fifth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. [pdf]



Book Chapters

Ani Nenkova, Jieun Chae, Annie Louis, and Emily Pitler, Structural Features for Predicting the Linguistic Quality of Text: Applications to Machine Translation, Automatic Summarization and Human-Authored Text, In Emiel Krahmer and Mariet Theune, editors, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Generation: Data-oriented Methods and Empirical Evaluation, 2010. [pdf]



Others (non-refereed)

Annie Louis, Unsupervised Models of Text Structure, University of Pennsylvania Technical Report MS-CIS-11-16, 2011, In fulfillment of the Department of Computer and Information Science Written Preliminary Exam II. [pdf]

Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova, Predicting Summary Quality using Limited Human Input, Proceedings of Text Analysis Conference 2009. [pdf]

Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova, Summary Evaluation without Human Models, Poster presentation, Text Analysis Conference 2008. [pdf]