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.
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Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova,
A coherence model based on syntactic patterns, Proceedings of EMNLP-CoNLL, 2012. [Best Paper Award]
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Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova,
A corpus of general and specific sentences from news, Proceedings of LREC, 2012.
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Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova,
Automatic identification of general and specific sentences by leveraging discourse annotations, Proceedings of IJCNLP, 2011.
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Annie Louis, Aravind Joshi and Ani Nenkova,
Discourse indicators for content selection in summarization,
Proceedings of SIGDIAL 2010. [Best Student Paper Award]
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Annie Louis, Aravind Joshi, Rashmi Prasad and Ani Nenkova,
Using entity features to classify implicit discourse relations,
Proceedings of SIGDIAL 2010.
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Emily Pitler, Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova,
Automatic Evaluation of Linguistic Quality in Multi-Document Summarization,
Proceedings of ACL 2010.
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Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova,
Creating Local Coherence: An Empirical Assessment,
Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2010.
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Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova,
Automatically Evaluating Content Selection in Summarization without Human Models,
Proceedings of EMNLP 2009.
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Emily Pitler, Annie Louis, Ani Nenkova,
Automatic Sense Prediction for Implicit Discourse Relations in Text,
Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 2009.
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Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova,
Performance Confidence Estimation for Automatic Summarization,
Proceedings of EACL 2009.
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Ani Nenkova and Annie Louis,
Can you summarize this? Identifying correlates of input difficulty for generic multi-document summarization,
Proceedings of ACL-HLT 2008.
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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.
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[slides]
Annie Louis,
Predicting Text Quality for Scientific Articles,
AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium, 2011.
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[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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova,
Predicting Summary Quality using Limited Human Input,
Proceedings of Text Analysis Conference 2009.
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Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova,
Summary Evaluation without Human Models,
Poster presentation, Text Analysis Conference 2008.
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