Bonnie Dorr

Professor Emeritus

3153 A.V. Williams Building

(301) 405-6768

Academic Web Page

Research Group(s):

CASL - Center for the Advanced Study of Language

CLIP - Computational Linguistics and Information Processing

Education:

Ph.D., MIT (Computer Science)

Special Awards/Honors:

NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow (PFF), Sloan Fellow, Univ Maryland Distinguished Young Scientist, PECASE Fellow

Biography:

Bonnie J. Dorr is a professor emeritus of computer science.

She was formerly associate dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. With Amy Weinberg and Louiqa Raschid, who also holds an appointment in UMIACS, she co-founded the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Laboratory, where she served as co-director for 15 years.

Dorr was also principal scientist for two years at the Johns Hopkins University Human Language Technology Center of Excellence. Her research spans several areas of broad-scale multilingual processing, including machine translation, summarization, and cross-language information retrieval. In 2011, she began service as program manager at DARPA, where she is responsible for programs in the area of human language technology, while continuing to mentor students and postdoctoral researchers on projects in computer science and UMIACS.

Dorr is a Sloan Fellow, a National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty (PECASE) Fellow, and a former President of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2008).

She holds a B.S. in computer science from Boston University, and a S.M. and a doctorate in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Publications

2012

Baker K, Bloodgood M, Dorr BJ, Callison-Burch C, Filardo NW, Piatko C, Levin L, Miller S. 2012. Modality and Negation in SIMT Use of Modality and Negation in Semantically-Informed Syntactic MT. Computational Linguistics. :1-48.

2011

Dunne C, Shneiderman B, Gove R, Klavans J, Dorr BJ. 2011. Rapid understanding of scientific paper collections: integrating statistics, text analysis, and visualization. University of Maryland, Human-Computer Interaction Lab Tech Report HCIL-2011.

Gove R, Dunne C, Shneiderman B, Klavans J, Dorr BJ. 2011. Understanding Scientific Literature Networks: An Evaluation of Action Science Explorer.

Gove R, Dunne C, Shneiderman B, Klavans J, Dorr BJ. 2011. Evaluating visual and statistical exploration of scientific literature networks. 2011 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC). :217-224.

Whidby M, Zajic D, Dorr BJ. 2011. Citation Handling for Improved Summarization of Scientific Documents.

Dorr BJ, Olive J, McCary J, Christianson C. 2011. Machine Translation Evaluation and Optimization. Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine TranslationHandbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation. :745-843.

2010

Dorr BJ, Passonneau RJ, Farwell D, Green R, Habash N, Helmreich S, Hovy E, Levin L, Miller KJ, Mitamura T et al.. 2010. Interlingual Annotation of Parallel Text Corpora: A New Framework for Annotation and Evaluation. Natural Language Engineering. 16(03):197-243.

V.S. Subrahmanian, Picariello A, Dorr BJ, Reforgiato D R, Cesarano C, Sagoff A. 2010. System and method for analysis of an opinion expressed in documents with regard to a particular topic. 11/808,278

Dunne C, Shneiderman B, Dorr BJ, Klavans J. 2010. iOpener Workbench: Tools for rapid understanding of scientific literature. Human-Computer Interaction Lab 27th Annual Symposium, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

Baker K, Bloodgood M, Dorr BJ, Filardo NW, Levin L, Piatko C. 2010. A modality lexicon and its use in automatic tagging. Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’10). :1402-1407.

Jimmy Lin, Madnani N, Dorr BJ. 2010. Putting the user in the loop: interactive Maximal Marginal Relevance for query-focused summarization. Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. :305-308.

Madnani N, Dorr BJ. 2010. Generating Phrasal and Sentential Paraphrases: A Survey of Data-Driven Methods. Computational Linguistics. 36(3):341-387.

2009

Mohammad S, Dorr BJ, Egan M, Hassan A, Muthukrishan P, Qazvinian V, Radev D, Zajic D. 2009. Generating surveys of scientific paradigms. Proceedings of HLT-NAACL.

Farwell D, Dorr BJ, Habash N, Helmreich S, Hovy E, Green R, Levin L, Miller K, Mitamura T, Rambow O et al.. 2009. Interlingual annotation of multilingual text corpora and FrameNet. Multilingual FrameNets in Computational LexicographyMultilingual FrameNets in Computational Lexicography. 200:287-318.

Jimmy Lin, Murray GC, Dorr BJ, Hajič J, Pecina P. 2009. A cost-effective lexical acquisition process for large-scale thesaurus translation. Language resources and evaluation. 43(1):27-40.

Habash N, Dorr BJ, Monz C. 2009. Symbolic-to-statistical hybridization: extending generation-heavy machine translation. Machine Translation. 23(1):23-63.

Snover M, Madnani N, Dorr BJ, Schwartz R. 2009. TER-Plus: paraphrase, semantic, and alignment enhancements to Translation Edit Rate. Machine Translation. 23(2):117-127.

Mohammad S, Dorr BJ, Egan M, Hassan A, Muthukrishan P, Qazvinian V, Radev D, Zajic D. 2009. Using citations to generate surveys of scientific paradigms. Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. :584-592.

Baker K, Bethard S, Bloodgood M, Brown R, Callison-Burch C, Coppersmith G, Dorr BJ, Filardo W, Giles K, Irvine A et al.. 2009. Semantically informed machine translation (SIMT). SCALE summer workshop final report, Human Language Technology Center Of Excellence.

Snover M, Madnani N, Dorr BJ, Schwartz R. 2009. Fluency, adequacy, or HTER?: exploring different human judgments with a tunable MT metric Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. :259-268.

Mayfield J, Alexander D, Dorr BJ, Eisner J, Elsayed T, Finin T, Fink C, Freedman M, Garera N, McNamee P et al.. 2009. Cross-document coreference resolution: A key technology for learning by reading. AAAI Spring Symposium on Learning by Reading and Learning to Read.

Mohammad S, Dunne C, Dorr BJ. 2009. Generating high-coverage semantic orientation lexicons from overtly marked words and a thesaurus. Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Volume 2 - Volume 2. :599-608.

2008

Mohammad S, Dorr BJ, Egan M, Jimmy Lin, Zajic D. 2008. Multiple alternative sentence compressions and word-pair antonymy for automatic text summarization and recognizing textual entailment. Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference (TAC-2008), Gaithersburg, MD.

Snover M, Madnani N, Dorr BJ, Schwartz R. 2008. TERp system description. MetricsMATR workshop at AMTA.

Bird S, Dale R, Dorr BJ, Gibson B, Joseph MT, Kan MY, Lee D, Powley B, Radev DR, Tan YF. 2008. The acl anthology reference corpus: A reference dataset for bibliographic research in computational linguistics. Proc. of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC’08). :1755-1759.

Madnani N, Dorr BJ. 2008. Combining open-source with research to re-engineer a hands-on introductory NLP course. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics. :71-79.

Madnani N, Resnik P, Dorr BJ, Schwartz R. 2008. Applying automatically generated semantic knowledge: A case study in machine translation. NSF Symposium on Semantic Knowledge Discovery, Organization and Use.

Snover M, Dorr BJ, Schwartz R. 2008. Language and translation model adaptation using comparable corpora. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. :857-866.

Zajic D, Dorr BJ, Jimmy Lin. 2008. Single-document and multi-document summarization techniques for email threads using sentence compression. Information Processing & Management. 44(4):1600-1610.

Madnani N, Resnik P, Dorr BJ, Schwartz R. 2008. Are multiple reference translations necessary? investigating the value of paraphrased reference translations in parameter optimization Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, October.

Mohammad S, Dorr BJ, Hirst G. 2008. Computing word-pair antonymy. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. :982-991.

2007

Zajic D, Dorr BJ, Jimmy Lin, Schwartz R. 2007. Multi-candidate reduction: Sentence compression as a tool for document summarization tasks. Information Processing & Management. 43(6):1549-1570.

Madnani N, Zajic D, Dorr BJ, Ayan NF, Jimmy Lin. 2007. Multiple alternative sentence compressions for automatic text summarization. Proceedings of DUC.

Hobson S P, Dorr BJ, Monz C, Schwartz R. 2007. Task-based evaluation of text summarization using Relevance Prediction. Information Processing & Management. 43(6):1482-1499.

Dorr BJ, Gaasterland T. 2007. Exploiting aspectual features and connecting words for summarization-inspired temporal-relation extraction. Information Processing & Management. 43(6):1681-1704.

Madnani N, Ayan N F, Resnik P, Dorr BJ. 2007. Using paraphrases for parameter tuning in statistical machine translation. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. :120-127.

Rosti AVI, Ayan NF, Xiang B, Matsoukas S, Schwartz R, Dorr BJ. 2007. Combining outputs from multiple machine translation systems. Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Proceedings of the Main Conference. :228-235.

Madnani N, Jimmy Lin, Dorr BJ. 2007. TREC 2007 ciQA Task: University of Maryland. Proceedings of TREC.

Madnani N, Ayan NF, Resnik P, Dorr BJ. 2007. Using paraphrases for parameter tuning in statistical machine translation. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. :120-127.

Madnani N, Passonneau R, Ayan N F, Conroy JM, Dorr BJ, Klavans JL, O'Leary DP, Schlesinger JD. 2007. Measuring variability in sentence ordering for news summarization. Proceedings of the Eleventh European Workshop on Natural Language Generation. :81-88.

2006

Snover M, Dorr BJ, Schwartz R, Micciulla L, Makhoul J. 2006. A study of translation edit rate with targeted human annotation. Proceedings of Association for Machine Translation in the Americas. :223-231.

Murray CG, Dorr BJ, Jimmy Lin, Hajič J, Pecina P. 2006. Leveraging reusability: cost-effective lexical acquisition for large-scale ontology translation. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. :945-952.

Ayan N F, Dorr BJ. 2006. Going beyond AER: an extensive analysis of word alignments and their impact on MT. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. :9-16.

Dorr BJ, Gaasterland T. 2006. Summarization-Inspired Temporal-Relation Extraction: Tense-Pair Templates and Treebank-3 Analysis.

Roark B, Liu Y, Harper M, Stewart R, Lease M, Snover M, Shafran I, Dorr BJ, Hale J, Krasnyanskaya A et al.. 2006. Reranking for Sentence Boundary Detection in Conversational Speech. 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2006. ICASSP 2006 Proceedings. 1:I-I-I-I.

Oard D, Demner-Fushman D, Hajič J, Ramabhadran B, Gustman S, Byrne W, Soergel D, Dorr BJ, Resnik P, Picheny M. 2006. Cross-Language Access to Recorded Speech in the MALACH Project. Text, Speech and DialogueText, Speech and Dialogue. 2448:197-212.

Habash N, Dorr BJ, Monz C. 2006. Challenges in building an Arabic-English GHMT system with SMT components. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT-2006). :56-65.

Ayan N F, Dorr BJ. 2006. A maximum entropy approach to combining word alignments. Proceedings of the main conference on Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics. :96-103.

Rambow O, Dorr BJ, Farwell D, Green R, Habash N, Helmreich S, Hovy E, Levin L, Miller KJ, Mitamura T et al.. 2006. Parallel syntactic annotation of multiple languages. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2006). Genoa, Italy.

Meyers A, Fang AC, Ferro L, Kübler S, Jia-Lin T, Palmer M, Poesio M, Dolbey A, Schuler KK, Loper E et al.. 2006. Annotation compatibility working group report. Proceedings of the Workshop on Frontiers in Linguistically Annotated Corpora 2006. :38-53.

Hale J, Shafran I, Yung L, Dorr BJ, Harper M, Krasnyanskaya A, Lease M, Liu Y, Roark B, Snover M et al.. 2006. PCFGs with syntactic and prosodic indicators of speech repairs. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. :161-168.

Zajic D, Dorr BJ, Jimmy Lin, Schwartz R. 2006. Sentence compression as a component of a multi-document summarization system. Proceedings of the 2006 Document Understanding Workshop, New York.

Zajic D, Dorr BJ, Lin J, O'Leary DP, Conroy JM, Schlesinger JD. 2006. Sentence Trimming and Selection: Mixing and Matching. DUC 06 Conference Proceedings.

Dorr BJ, Hovy E, Levin L. 2006. Machine Translation: Interlingual Methods. Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics (Second Edition)Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics (Second Edition). :383-394.

Kondrak G, Dorr BJ. 2006. Automatic identification of confusable drug names. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. 36(1):29-42.

Murray GC, Dorr BJ, Jimmy Lin, Hajič J, Pecina P. 2006. Leveraging recurrent phrase structure in large-scale ontology translation. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation.

Roark B, Harper M, Charniak E, Dorr BJ, Johnson M, Kahn J, Liu Y, Ostendorf M, Hale J, Krasnyanskaya A et al.. 2006. SParseval: Evaluation metrics for parsing speech. Proc. LREC.

Cesarano C, Dorr BJ, Picariello A, Reforgiato D, Sagoff A, V.S. Subrahmanian. 2006. Opinion Analysis in Document Databases. Proc. AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs, Stanford, CA.

2005

Harper M, Dorr BJ, Hale J, Roark B, Shafran I, Lease M, Liu Y, Snover M, Yung L, Krasnyanskaya A et al.. 2005. Structural metadata and parsing speech.

Zajic D, Dorr BJ, Schwartz R. 2005. Headline Generation for Written and Broadcast News.

Ayan N F, Dorr BJ, Monz C. 2005. NeurAlign: combining word alignments using neural networks. Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. :65-72.

Ayan N F, Dorr BJ, Monz C. 2005. Alignment link projection using transformation-based learning. Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. :185-192.

Monz C, Dorr BJ. 2005. Iterative translation disambiguation for cross-language information retrieval. Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. :520-527.

Dorr BJ, Monz C, President S, Schwartz R, Zajic D. 2005. A methodology for extrinsic evaluation of text summarization: Does ROUGE correlate. Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Measures for Machine Translation and/or Summarization. :1-8.

Hale K, Keyser SJ, Hutchins WJ, Habash N, Dorr BJ, Traum D. 2005. Finite-State Language resources and Language Processing. Machine Translation. 18:381-382.

Harper MP, Dorr BJ, Hale J, Roark B, Shafran I, Lease M, Liu Y, Snover M, Yung L, Krasnyanskaya A. 2005. Johns Hopkins summer workshop final report on parsing and spoken structural event detection. Johns Hopkins University, Tech. Rep.

Green R, Dorr BJ. 2005. Frame semantic enhancement of lexical-semantic resources. Proceedings of the ACL-SIGLEX Workshop on Deep Lexical Acquisition. :57-66.

Zajic D, Dorr BJ, Jimmy Lin, Monz C, Schwartz R. 2005. A sentence-trimming approach to multi-document summarization. Proceedings of DUC2005.

Zajic D, Dorr BJ, Jimmy Lin, Schwartz R. 2005. Umd/bbn at mse2005. Proceedings of the MSE2005 track of the Association for Computational Linguistics Workshop on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Meatures for MT and/or Summarization, Ann Arbor, MI.

2004

Zajic D, Dorr BJ, Schwartz R. 2004. Bbn/umd at duc-2004: Topiary. Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2004 Document Understanding Workshop, Boston. :112-119.