Xavier Carreras: Publications

Check my publications on Google Scholar. This page was last updated on December 2017.

PhD Thesis

• Learning and Inference in Phrase Recognition: A Filtering-Ranking Architecture using Perceptron, Xavier Carreras, Ph.D Dissertation, Technical University of Catalonia, October 2005. [pdf] [ps.gz] [slides pdf] [bib]

2017

• Ariadna Quattoni, Xavier Carreras and Matthias Galle. A Maximum Matching Algorithm for Basis Selection in Spectral Learning. AISTATS 2017, to appear. [pdf]

2015

• Audi Primadhanty, Xavier Carreras and Ariadna Quattoni. Low-rank Regularization for Sparse Conjunctive Feature Spaces: An Application to Named Entity Classification. In Proceedings of ACL-2015. [pdf] [bib]
• Miguel Ballesteros and Xavier Carreras. Transition-based Spinal Parsing. In Proceedings of CoNLL-2015. [pdf]
• Pranava Swaroop Madhyastha, Xavier Carreras and Ariadna Quattoni. Tailoring Word Embeddings for Bilexical Predictions: An Experimental Comparison. In ICLR-2015 Workshop. [pdf]
• Will Radford, Xavier Carreras and James Henderson. Named Entity Recognition with Document-specific Knowledge-base Tag Gazetteers. In EMNLP-2015. [pdf] [bib]
• Lorenzo Ferrone, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto and Xavier Carreras. Decoding Distributed Tree Structures. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP-2015). [pdf] [journal version, pdf]

2014

• Xavier Lluís, Xavier Carreras and Lluís Màrquez. A Shortest-path Method for Arc-factored Semantic Role Labeling. In Proceedings of EMNLP-2014, short papers. [pdf]
• Ariadna Quattoni, Borja Balle, Xavier Carreras and Amir Globerson. Spectral Regularization for Max-Margin Sequence Tagging. In Proceedings of ICML-2014. [pdf] [slides] [poster]
• Pranava S. Madhyastha, Xavier Carreras and Ariadna Quattoni. Learning Task-specific Bilexical Embeddings. In Proceedings of COLING-2014. [pdf]
• Borja Balle, Franco M. Luque, Xavier Carreras, Ariadna Quattoni. Spectral Learning of Weighted Automata: A Forward-Backward Perspective. Machine Learning Journal, volume 96, 2014. [pdf (preprint)] [bib]
• Xavier Carreras, Lluís Padró, Lei Zhang, Achim Rettinger, Zhixing Li, Esteban García-Cuesta, Zeljko Agić, Bozo Bekavac, Blaz Fortuna and Tadej Stajner. XLike Project Language Analysis Services. Demonstration at EACL-2014. [pdf] [demo website]

2013

• Raphaël Bailly, Xavier Carreras, Ariadna Quattoni. Unsupervised Spectral Learning of Finite-state Transducers. In Proceedings of NIPS-2013. [pdf] [bib]
• Raphaël Bailly, Xavier Carreras, Franco M. Luque, Ariadna Quattoni. Unsupervised Spectral Learning of WCFG as Low-rank Matrix Completion. In Proceedings of EMNLP-2013. [pdf] [poster] [bib]
• Xavier Lluís, Xavier Carreras, Lluís Màrquez. Joint Arc-factored Parsing of Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies. In Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), volume 1. Also presented at ACL-2013. [pdf] [bib]

2012

• Borja Balle, Ariadna Quattoni and Xavier Carreras. Local Loss Optimization in Operator Models: A New Insight into Spectral Learning. In Proceedings of ICML 2012. [pdf] [bib]
• Franco M. Luque, Ariadna Quattoni, Borja Balle, and Xavier Carreras. Spectral Learning for Non-Deterministic Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of EACL 2012, best paper award. [pdf] [bib]
• Ariadna Quattoni, Xavier Carreras, and Antonio Torralba. A Latent Variable Ranking Model for Content-based Retrieval. In Proceedings of ECIR 2012. [pdf] [bib]

2011

• Borja Balle, Ariadna Quattoni, and Xavier Carreras. A Spectral Learning Algorithm for Finite State Transducers. In Proceedings of ECML-2011. [pdf] [bib] [poster pdf]

2009

• Xavier Carreras and Michael Collins. Non-projective Parsing for Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of EMNLP-2009. [pdf] [bib] [slides]
• Jun Suzuki, Hideki Isozaki, Xavier Carreras, and Michael Collins. An Empirical Study of Semi-supervised Structured Conditional Models for Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of EMNLP-2009. [pdf] [bib]
• Ariadna Quattoni, Xavier Carreras, Michael Collins, and Trevor Darrell. An Efficient Projection for L1,Infinity Regularization. In Proceedings of ICML-2009. [pdf] [bib]

2008

• Michael Collins, Amir Globerson, Terry Koo, Xavier Carreras and Peter Bartlett, Exponentiated Gradient Algorithms for Conditional Random Fields and Max-Margin Markov Networks, JMLR, Volume 9, pages 1775-1822, 2008. [article]
• Lluís Màrquez, Xavier Carreras, Ken Litkowski and Suzanne Stevenson, Semantic Role Labeling: An Introduction to the Special Issue, Computational Linguistics 34(2), pages 145-159, 2008. [article]
• Xavier Carreras, Michael Collins, and Terry Koo. TAG, Dynamic Programming, and the Perceptron for Efficient, Feature-rich Parsing. In Proceedings of CoNLL-2008, best paper award. [pdf] [bib] [slides] [code] [CoNLL-2008 trained model (890 MB)]
• Terry Koo, Xavier Carreras, and Michael Collins. Simple Semi-supervised Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of ACL-2008. [pdf] [bib]

2007

• Mihai Surdeanu, Lluís Màrquez, Xavier Carreras and Pere Comas, Combination Strategies for Semantic Role Labeling, JAIR, Volume 29, pages 105-151, 2007. [article] [bib]
• Amir Globerson, Terry Koo, Xavier Carreras, and Michael Collins. Exponentiated Gradient Algorithms for Log-Linear Structured Prediction. In Proceedings of ICML 2007. [pdf] [bib]
• Terry Koo, Amir Globerson, Xavier Carreras, and Michael Collins. Structured Prediction Models via the Matrix-Tree Theorem. In Proceedings of EMNLP-CoNLL 2007. [pdf] [bib]
• Xavier Carreras. Experiments with a Higher-Order Projective Dependency Parser. In Proceedings of the EMNLP-CoNLL 2007 Shared Task. [pdf] [ps] [bib]

2006

• Xavier Carreras, Mihai Surdeanu, and Lluís Màrquez, Projective Dependency Parsing with Perceptron, Proceedings of the CoNLL-X Shared Task, New York 2006. [pdf] [ps] [slides in pdf]

2005

• Xavier Carreras, Lluís Màrquez and Jorge Castro, Filtering-Ranking Perceptron Learning for Partial Parsing, Machine Learning Journal, Special Issue on Learning in Speech and Language Technologies, Volume 60, Issue 1-3, pages 41-71, Sept. 2005. [ps.gz] [pdf] [bib] [code] [README file of the code]
• Xavier Carreras and Lluís Màrquez, Introduction to the CoNLL-2005 Shared Task: Semantic Role Labeling, In Proceedings of the CoNLL-2005 Shared Task, Ann Arbor, MI USA. June 2005. [pdf] [bib], See also the webpage of CoNLL Shared Tasks on SRL, 2004 and 2005 editions.

2004

• Enrique Romero, Lluís Màrquez and Xavier Carreras, Margin maximization with feed-forward neural networks: a comparative study with SVM and AdaBoost, Neurocomputing, 57(C):313-344, 2004. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
• Enrique Romero, Xavier Carreras, and Lluís Màrquez, Exploiting Diversity of Margin-based Classifiers, In Proceedings of the 2004 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Budapest, Hungary, July 2004. [pdf]
• Xavier Carreras and Lluís Màrquez, Introduction to the CoNLL-2004 Shared Task: Semantic Role Labeling, In Proceedings of the CoNLL-2004 Shared Task, Boston, MA USA. May 2004. [ps] [ps.gz] [pdf]
• Xavier Carreras, Lluís Màrquez, and Grzegorz Chrupała, Hierarchical Recognition of Propositional Arguments with Perceptrons, In Proceedings of the CoNLL-2004 Shared Task, Boston, MA USA. May 2004. [pdf]
• Xavier Carreras, Isaac Chao, Lluís Padró, and Muntsa Padró, FreeLing: An Open-Source Suite of Language Analyzers, In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'04). Lisbon, Portugal. 2004. [pdf] [FreeLing homepage]

2003

• Xavier Carreras and Lluís Màrquez, Online Learning via Global Feedback for Phrase Recognition, NIPS-2003, Vancouver, Canada. December 2003. [ps]
• Xavier Carreras and Lluís Màrquez, Phrase Recognition by Filtering and Ranking with Perceptrons, RANLP-2003, Borovets, Bulgaria. September 2003. [ps.gz] [pdf] [slides pdf]
• Xavier Carreras, Lluís Màrquez, and Lluís Padró, A Simple Named Entity Extractor Using AdaBoost, Proceedings of the CoNLL-2003 Shared Task. Edmonton, Canada. June 2003. [ps]
• Xavier Carreras, Lluís Màrquez, and Lluís Padró, Learning a Perceptron-Based Named Entity Chunker via Online Recognition Feedback, Proceedings of the CoNLL-2003 Shared Task. Edmonton, Canada. June 2003. [ps]
• Lluís Màrquez, Adrià de Gispert, Xavier Carreras, and Lluís Padró, Low-cost Named Entity Classification for Catalan: Exploiting Multilingual Resources and Unlabeled Data, 1st ACL Workshop on Multilingual and Mixed-language Named Entity Recognition: Combining Statistical and Symbolic Models. Sapporo, Japan. July 2003. [ps] [pdf]
• Xavier Carreras, Lluís Màrquez, and Lluís Padró, Named Entity Recognition For Catalan Using Spanish Resources, 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL'03). Budapest, Hungary. April 2003. [ps] [pdf]

2002

• Montse Arévalo, Xavier Carreras, Lluís Màrquez, Toni Martí, Lluís Padró and Maria José Simon, A Proposal for Wide-Coverage Spanish Named Entity Recognition, SEPLN Journal "Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural", Vol. 28. May 2002.
• Xavier Carreras, Lluís Màrquez, and Lluís Padró, Named Entity Extraction Using AdaBoost, In Proceedings of the CoNLL-2002 Shared Task, Taipei, Taiwan, September 2002. [ps.gz] [pdf] [slides ps]
• Xavier Carreras, Lluís Màrquez, Vasin Punyakanok, and Dan Roth, Learning and Inference for Clause Identification, 13th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML'02). Helsinki, Finland. August 2002. [ps.gz] [pdf] [pdf slides]
• Xavier Carreras, Lluís Màrquez, and Lluís Padró, Wide-Coverage Spanish Named Entity Extraction, VIII Conferencia Iberoamericana de Inteligencia Artificial, IBERAMIA'02. Sevilla, Spain. November 2002. [ps.gz]
• Xavier Carreras and Lluís Padró, A Flexible Distributed Architecture for Natural Language Analyzers, Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'02). Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. 2002. [ps.gz]

2001

• Victoria Arranz, Jordi Turmo, Xavier Carreras and Montserrat Arévalo, WordMed and Scriptum: Development of Terminological Resources for the Medical Practitioner, Terminology 7(1), John Benjamins Publishing Co., Amsterdam. 2001.
• Xavier Carreras and Lluís Màrquez, Boosting Trees for Clause Splitting, In Proceedings of the CoNLL-2001 Shared Task. Toulouse, France. 2001. [ps] [bib] [talk slides]
• Xavier Carreras and Lluís Màrquez, Boosting Trees for Anti-Spam Email Filtering, Conference on Recent Advances in NLP (RANLP'01). Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria. 2001. [ps] [bib] [ps slides]