Publications

2023

• R Wilkens, L Zilio, A Villavicencio (2023) Assessing linguistic generalisation in language models: a dataset for Brazilian Portuguese. Language Resources and Evaluation, 1-27, 2023. pdf

• Zhao K., Yang B., Lin C., Rong W., Villavicencio A. and Cui X. Evaluating Open-Domain Dialogues in Latent Space with Next Sentence Prediction and Mutual Information, The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023.

• Idiart, M., A. Lenci, T. Poibeau, A. Villavicencio (To appear 2024) Special Issue on Computational Models of Language and Cognition. Journal of Natural Language Engineering.

• Diab M., A. Villavicencio, M. Apidianaki, V. Kordoni, A. Korhonen, P. Nakov, M. Stevenson (To appear in 2024). Computational lexical semantics and lexicography essays: In honor of Adam Kilgarriff. Springer.

2022

• Salle, A., A. Villavicencio (2022) Understanding the Effects of Negative (and Positive) Pointwise Mutual Information on Word Vectors. Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence.

• Gow-Smith, E., H.T. Madabushi, C. Scarton, A. Villavicencio (2022). Improving Tokenisation by Alternative Treatment of Spaces. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2022.

• Phelps, D., X.-R. Fan, E. Gow-Smith, H.T. Madabushi, C. Scarton, A. Villavicencio (2022) Sample Efficient Approaches for Idiomaticity Detection. In Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2022).

• Madabushi, H.T., E. Gow-Smith, M. Garcia, C. Scarton, M. Idiart, A. Villavicencio (2022) SemEval-2022 Task 2: Multilingual Idiomaticity Detection and Sentence Embedding. Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022).

• Boito, M.Z., B. Yusuf, L. Ondel, A. Villavicencio, L. Besacier (2022) Unsupervised Word Segmentation from Discrete Speech Units in Low-Resource Settings. In Proceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting of the ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages (SIGUL 2022).

• Ramisch, C., A. Villavicencio (2022) Computational treatment of multiword expressions. In R. Mitkov. Oxford Handbook on Computational Linguistics (2nd edition).

• Bigoulaeva, I. R. S. Sachdeva, H. T. Madabushi, A. Villavicencio, I. Gurevych (2022) Effective Cross-Task Transfer Learning for Explainable Natural Language Inference with T5. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Figurative Language Processing. EMNLP 2022.

2021

• Madabushi, H.T., E. Gow-Smith, C. Scarton, A. Villavicencio (2021) AStitchInLanguageModels: Dataset and Methods for the Exploration of Idiomaticity in Pre-Trained Language Models. In Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021. pdf

• Garcia, M., T.K. Vieira, C. Scarton, M. Idiart, A. Villavicencio (2021) Assessing Idiomaticity Representations in Vector Models with a Noun Compound Dataset Labeled at Type and Token Levels. Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021). pdf

• Boito, M.Z., A. Villavicencio and L. Besacier (2021). Investigating Alignment Interpretability for Low-resource NMT. Journal of Machine Translation. pdf

• Garcia, M., T.K. Vieira, C. Scarton, M. Idiart, A. Villavicencio (2021) Probing for idiomaticity in vector space models. Proceedings of the 16th conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2021). pdf dataset software

• Vickers, P., R. Wainwright, H. T. Madabushi, A. Villavicencio (2021) CogNLP-Sheffield at CMCL 2021 Shared Task: Blending Cognitively Inspired Features with Transformer-based Language Models for Predicting Eye Tracking Patterns. Proceedings of the Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2021). pdf

• Ali Hürriyetoğlu, H. Tanev, V. Zavarella, J. Piskorski, R. Yeniterzi, O. Mutlu, D. Yuret, A. Villavicencio (2021) Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE 2021): Workshop and Shared Task Report. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE 2021). pdf

2020

• Boito, M.Z., A. Villavicencio and L. Besacier (2020) Investigating Language Impact in Bilingual Approaches for Computational Language Documentation. In Proceedings of 1st Joint Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages and Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages Workshop (SLTU-CCURL 2020). pdf

• Hashempour, R., A. Villavicencio (2020) Leveraging Contextual Embeddings and Idiom Principle for Detecting Idiomaticity in Potentially Idiomatic Expressions. In Proceedings of the Workshop on the Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon. pdf.

2019

• Idiart, M., A. Villavicencio, B. Katz, C. Rennó-Costa, J. Lisman (2019) How the brain represents language and answers questions? Using an AI system to understand the underlying neurobiological mechanisms. In Frontiers In Computational Neuroscience. 12 March 2019, Volume 13, DOI 10.3389/fncom.2019.00012. pdf.

• Cordeiro, S., A. Villavicencio, M. Idiart, C. Ramisch (2019) Unsupervised Compositionality Prediction of Nominal Compounds. In Computational Linguistics. Volume 45, Issue 1, March 2019, p.1-57.

• Villavicencio, A., M. Idiart (2019) Discovering Multiword Expressions. Journal of Natural Language Engineering.

• Boito, M. Z., A. Villavicencio, L. Besacier (2019) Empirical Evaluation of Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Word Discovery in Low-resource Settings. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2019).

• Boito, M. Z., A. Villavicencio, L. Besacier (2019) How Does Language Influence Documentation Workflow? Unsupervised Word Discovery Using Translations in Multiple Languages. arXiv:1910.05154.

• Salle A., A. Villavicencio (2019) Why So Down? The Role of Negative (and Positive) Pointwise Mutual Information in Distributional Semantics. arXiv:1908.06941

2018

• Salle A., A. Villavicencio (2018) Restricted Recurrent Neural Tensor Networks: Exploiting Word Frequency and Compositionality. In Proceedings of The 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018). pdf

• Paula F., R. Wilkens, M. Idiart, A. Villavicencio (2018) Similarity Measures for the Detection of Clinical Conditions with Verbal Fluency Tasks. In Proceedings of The 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT 2018). pdf

• Salle A., A. Villavicencio (2018) Incorporating subword information into matrix factorization word embeddings. arXiv: 1805.03710 pdf code

• Godard, P., M. Z. Boito, L. Ondel, A. Berard, F. Yvon, A. Villavicencio, L. Besacier (2018) Unsupervised Word Segmentation from Speech with Attention. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2018. pdf

• Boito, M. Z., A. Anastasopoulos, M. Lekakou, A. Villavicencio, L. Besacier (2018) A small Griko-Italian speech translation corpus. arXiv:1807.10740.

• Poibeau T., A. Villavicencio. (eds.) (2018). Language, Cognition and Computational Models. Cambridge University Press.

• Idiart, M., A. Lenci, T. Poibeau, A. Villavicencio (eds.) (2018) Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning and Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics. pdf

• Villavicencio, A., V. Moreira, A. Abad, H. Caseli, P. Gamallo, C. Ramisch, H. Gonçalo Oliveira, G. Paetzold (2018) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. Proceedings of the13th International Conference (PROPOR 2018). Springer

• Ramisch, C., R. Ramisch, L. Zilio, A. Villavicencio, S. Cordeiro (2018) A Corpus Study of Verbal Multiword Expressions in Brazilian Portuguese. In Proceedings of The 13th edition of the International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2018). Resource.

   Wagner Filho, J., R. Wilkens, M. Idiart, A. Villavicencio (2018). The brWaC Corpus: A New Open Resource to Aid in the Processing of Brazilian Portuguese. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC).

2017

• Wilkens, R., L. Zilio, S. Cordeiro, F. Paula, C. Ramisch, M. Idiart, A. Villavicencio. LexSubNC: A Dataset of Lexical Substitution for Nominal Compounds. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS).

• Boito, M.B., A. Bérard, A. Villavicencio, L. Besacier. Unwritten Languages Demand Attention Too! Word Discovery With Encoder-Decoder Models. In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2017).

2016

• Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro, Carlos Ramisch, Marco Idiart and Aline Villavicencio. Predicting the Compositionality of Nominal Compounds: Giving Word Embeddings a Hard Time. In Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2016). (PDF).

• Carlos Ramisch, Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro, Leonardo Zilio, Marco Idiart and Aline Villavicencio. How Naked is the Naked Truth? A Multilingual Lexicon of Nominal Compound Compositionality. In Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2016). (PDF).

• Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro, Carlos Ramisch and Aline Villavicencio. UFRGS&LIF at SemEval-2016 Task 10: Rule-Based MWE Identification and Predominant-Supersense Tagging. In: SemEval 2016. (PDF).

• Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro, Carlos Ramisch and Aline Villavicencio. Filtering and Measuring the Intrinsic Quality of Human Compositionality Judgments. In: Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2016). (PDF).

• Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro, Carlos Ramisch and Aline Villavicencio. mwetoolkit+sem: Integrating Word Embeddings in the mwetoolkit for Semantic MWE Processing. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016). Portorož, Slovenia: 2016. (PDF).

• Jorge A. Wagner Filho, Rodrigo Wilkens, Leonardo Zilio, Marco Idiart, and Aline Villavicencio. Crawling by readability level. In 12th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (pp. 306-318). Springer International Publishing. (PDF).

• Jorge Alberto Wagner Filho, Rodrigo Wilkens and Aline Villavicencio. Automatic Construction of Large Readability Corpora. In 1st Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity (CL4LC). (PDF | Poster).

• Wilkens, R., Idiart, M. and Villavicencio, A. Multiword expressions in child language. In: Lexical Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC). [S.l.: s.n.], 2016.

• Zilio, L., Wilkens, R., Möllmann, L., Wehrli, E., Cordeiro, S. and Villavicencio, A. Joining forces for multiword expression identification. In: SPRINGER. International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. [S.l.], 2016. p. 233–238.

• Wilkens, R., Zilio, L., Ferreira, E. and Villavicencio, A. The portuguese b2sg: A semantic test for distributional thesaurus. In: SPRINGER. International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. [S.l.], 2016. p. 333–339.

• Wilkens, R., Zilio, L., Ferreira, E., Gonçalves, G. and Villavicencio, A. B2SG: a toefl-like task for portuguese. In: LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION CONFERENCE. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC). [S.l.], 2016.

• Wilkens, R., Zilio, L., Idiart, M., Wagner Filho, J., Ferreira, E., Santos, L., Pasqualini, B., Villavicencio, A. Resources for Monolingual Translation: a case study of Text Simplification for Portuguese. In Proceedings of PROPOR 2016 Workshop on Corpora and Tools for Processing Corpora, 2016.

2015

• Eduardo Delazeri Ferreira, Rodrigo Souza Wilkens and Aline Villlavicencio. Exploração dos parâmetros para criação de Tesauros Distribucionais preditivos. In:Proceedings of TILIC 2015. Natal/RN: UFRN, 2015. (PDF).
• Eduardo Delazeri Ferreira, Francieli Zanon Boito and Aline Villlavicencio. Comparação dos algoritmos sequencial e paralelo para contagem de palavras e contexto. In:Proceedings of TILIC 2015. Natal/RN: UFRN, 2015. (PDF).
• Leonardo Zilio, Maria José B. Finatto and Aline Villavicencio. VerbLexPor: um recurso léxico com anotação de papéis semânticos para o português. In: Proceedings of STIL 2015. Natal/RN: UFRN, 2015. (PDF)
• Eduardo Delazeri Ferreira, Francieli Zanon Boito, and Aline Villavicencio. Comparison of sequential and parallel algorithms for word and context count. (PDF)
• Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro, Carlos Ramisch and Aline Villavicencio. Token-based MWE Identification Strategies in the mwetoolkit. In: PARSEME 4th general meeting. Valletta, Malta: 2015. (PDF)
• Wilkens, R., Zilio, L., Ferreira, E., Gonçalves, G. and Villavicencio, A. Tesauros distribucionais para o português: avaliação de metodologias. In: 10TH BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM IN INFORMATION AND HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY. Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology (STIL). [S.l.], 2015.

2014

• Marcely Zanon Boito, Luiza Hagemann, Rodrigo Wilkens and Aline Villavicencio. Uma análise do perfil de entropia das estruturas sintáticas do português. In Workshop on Tools and Resources for Automatically Processing Portuguese and Spanish 2014, São Carlos. (PDF)

• Muntsa Padró, Marco Idiart, Aline Villavicencio and Carlos Ramisch. Nothing like Good Old Frequency: Studying Context Filters for Distributional Thesauri. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2014, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. (PDF)

• Rodrigo Wilkens, Alessandro Dalla Vecchia, Marcely Zanon Boito, Muntsa Padró and Aline Villavicencio. Size does not matter. Frequency does. A study of features for measuring lexical complexity. In Proceedings of IBERAMIA 2014. (PDF)

• M. Zortea, B. Menegola, A. Villavicencio, J. F. de Salles. Análise de Grafos de Associação Semântica de Palavras entre Crianças, Adultos e Idosos. In Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, v. 27, n.2, 2014.

• Natalia Becker, Juliana de Lima Müller, Jaqueline de Carvalho Rodrigues, Aline Villavicencio, Jerusa Fumagalli de Salles. Estratégias de evocação lexical com critério semântico em adultos após acidente vascular cerebral no hemisfério direito. Letronica v. 7, n. 1, 2014. (PDF)

• Rodrigo Boos, Kassius Prestes, Aline Villavicencio, Muntsa Padró. brWaC: a WaCky Corpus for Brazilian Portuguese. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese, 2014, São Carlos. (PDF)

• Rodrigo Boos, Kassius Prestes, Aline Villavicencio. Identification of Multiword Expressions in the brWaC. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2014), Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2014. European Language Resources Association. (PDF)

• B. Laranjeira, V. Moreira, A. Villavicencio, C. Ramisch, and M. J. Bocorny Finatto. Comparing the quality of focused crawlers and of the linguistic resources obtained from them. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2014), Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2014. European Language Resources Association. (PDF)

• M. Padró, M. Idiart, A. Villavicencio, and C. Ramisch. Comparing similarity measures for distributional thesauri. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2014), Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2014. European Language Resources Association. (PDF)

• Carlos Ramisch. Multiword Expressions Acquisition. Text, Speech and Language Technology. Springer, 2014. (Springer)

2013

• A. Villavicencio, Poibeau, T., A. Korhonen, A. Alishahi (eds). Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition. Springer, 2013. (Springer)

2013

• A. Villavicencio, M. Idiart, R. Berwick, I. Malioutov. Language Acquisition and Probabilistic Models: keeping it simple. In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. (PDF)

• M. Padró, N. Bel, A. Garí. Verb SCF extraction for Spanish with dependency parsing. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural 51, 93-100 (PDF)

• M. Padró, M. Ballesteros, H. Martınez, B. Bohnet. Finding dependency parsing limits over a large Spanish corpus. IJCNLP 2013. Nagoya, Japan.(PDF)

• V. Kordoni, C. Ramisch, A. Villavicencio, (editors). Proceedings of the of the 9th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2013). Association for Computational Linguistics, Atlanta, GA, USA, June 2013. (PDF).

• M. Sanches Duran, C. Evaristo Scarton, S. M. Aluísio, C. Ramisch. Identifying pronominal verbs: Towards automatic disambiguation of the clitic ’se’ in Portuguese. In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Multiword Expressions, pages 93–100, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 2013. Association for Computational Linguistics. (PDF)

• C. Ramisch, L. Besacier, A. Kobzar. How hard is it to automatically translate phrasal verbs from English to French? In MT Summit 2013 Workshop on Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology, Nice, France, September 2013. (PDF)

• C. Ramisch, A. Villavicencio, V. Kordoni. Introduction to the special issue on multiword expressions: From theory to practice and use. ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, 10(2):3:1–3:10, June 2013. (ACM)

• L. Zilio, C. Ramisch, M. J. Bocorny Finatto. Desenvolvimento de um recurso léxico com papéis semânticos para o português. Linguamática, 5(2):23–41, December 2013. (PDF)

2012

• L. Almeida, M. Idiart, A. Villavicencio, J. Lisman. Alternating predictive and short-term memory modes of entorhinal grid cells. In Hippocampus, May 2, 2012.

• A. Villavicencio, M. Idiart, C. Ramisch, V. Araujo, B. Yankama, R.C. Berwick. Get out but don’t fall down: verb-particle constructions in child language. In Proceedings of the EACL-2012 Workshop on Computational Models of Language Acquisition and Loss. (PDF)

• A. Villavicencio, B.Yankama, R. Wilkens, M. Idiart, R.C. Berwick. An annotated English child language database. In Proceedings of the EACL 2012 Workshop on Computational Models of Language Acquisition and Loss. (PDF)

• A. Villavicencio, B. Yankama, M. Idiart and R.C. Berwick. A large scale annotated child language construction database. In Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’12). (PDF)

• H. Caseli, A. Villavicencio, A. Teixeira, F. Perdigão. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. Springer. (Springer)

• A. Villavicencio. Book Review: Syntax-Based Collocation Extraction (by Violeta Seretan). In Natural Language Engineering, v. 18, n. 4 (October 2012), pp. 575-579. (Cambridge Journals)

• R. Wilkens; A. Villavicencio. I say have you say tem: profiling verbs in children data in English and Portuguese. In Proceedings of the EACL 2012 Workshop on Computational Models of Language Acquisition and Loss. (PDF)

• C. Ramisch; V. Araujo; A. Villavicencio. A Broad Evaluation of Techniques for Automatic Acquisition of Multiword Expressions. In Proceedings of the ACL 2012 Student Research Workshop. (PDF)

• R. Granada, L. Lopes, C. Ramisch, C. Trojahn, Renata Vieira, A. Villavicencio. A Comparable Corpus Based on Aligned Multilingual Ontologies. In Proceedings of the ACL 2012 Workshop on Multilingual Modeling. (PDF)

• M. Mangeot, C. Ramisch. A Serious Lexical Game for Building a Portuguese Lexical-Semantic Network. In Proceedings of the ACL 2012 3rd Workshop on The People’s Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources and their Applications to NLP, Jeju, Republic of Korea, July 2012. Association for Computational Linguistics. (PDF).

• C. Ramisch. A generic and open framework for multiword expressions treatment: from acquisition to applications. PhD thesis, University of Grenoble (France) and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), Grenoble, France, September 2012. (PDF).

• C. Ramisch. A Generic Framework for Multiword Expressions Treatment: from Acquisition to Applications. In Proceedings of the ACL 2012 Student Research Workshop, Jeju, Republic of Korea, July 2012. Association for Computational Linguistics. (PDF).

• C. Ramisch. Une plate-forme générique et ouverte pour le traitement des expressions polylexicales. In Jorge Mauricio Molina Mejia and Didier Schwab, editors, Actes de 14e Rencontres des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (RECITAL 2012), Grenoble, France, June 2012. (PDF).

• Evers, Aline, and Rodrigo Wilkens. Classificação de proficiência em língua adicional no português: um estudo para a determinação de índices diferenciadores. In: Proceedings of STIL 2012.

2011

• Villavicencio, A. Language Acquisition with a Unification-Based Grammar. In R. Borsley e K. Borjars (eds.) Non-transformational Syntax. Blackwell, 2011. (Wiley Online Library)

• Sanches Duran, M., C. Ramisch, S. Aluìsio, A. Villavicencio. Identifying and Analyzing Brazilian Portuguese Complex Predicates. In Proceedings of the ACL-2011 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: from Parsing and Generation to the Real World, 2011. (PDF)

• Acosta, O., A. Villavicencio, V. Moreira. Identification and Treatment of Multiword Expressions Applied to Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of the ACL-2011 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: from Parsing and Generation to the Real World, 2011. (PDF)

• Araujo, V., C. Ramisch, A. Villavicencio. Fast and Flexible MWE Candidate Generation with the mwetoolkit. In Proceedings of the ACL-2011 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: from Parsing and Generation to the Real World, 2011. (PDF)

• Schreiner, P., A. Villavicencio, L. Zilio, H. M. Caseli. Improving Lexical Alignment Using Hybrid Discriminative and Post-Processing Techniques. 8th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology

• Prestes, K., R. Wilkens, L. Zilio, A. Villavicencio. Extração e Validação de Ontologias a partir de Recursos Digitais. In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Metamodels, Ontologies and Semantic Technologies (PDF)

• Gonçalves, G., R. Wilkens, A. Villavicencio. Sistema de Aquisição semi-automática de Ontologias. In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Metamodels, Ontologies and Semantic Technologies (PDF)

• Bocorny, A., A Villavicencio, R. Wikens, C. Killian. Flexible Media Environments for Collaborative Lexicography. In Proceedings of Electronic lexicography in the 21st century

• M. Sanches Duran, Carlos Ramisch. How do you feel? Investigating lexical-syntactic patterns in sentiment expression. In Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics 2011: Discourse and Corpus Linguistics Conference, Birmingham, UK, July 2011. (PDF).

• V. Kordoni, C. Ramisch, A. Villavicencio (editors). Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Multiword Expressions: from Parsing and Generation to the Real World (MWE 2011). Association for Computational Linguistics, Portland, OR, USA, June 2011. (PDF).

2010

• Caseli, H.M., Nunes, M.G.V., Ramisch, C., and Villavicencio, A. Alignment-based extraction of multiword expressions. Language Resources and Evaluation, Special Issue on Multiword Expressions. Volume 44, Number 1-2, p. 59-77, 2010. (PDF)

• Ramisch, C., Caseli, H. M., Villavicencio, A., Finatto, M. J. B., Machado, A. A Hybrid Approach for Multiword Expression Identification. In T. Pardo, A. Branco, A. Klautau, R. Vieira, V. Lima (eds.) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, 9th International Conference. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6001 Springer 2010 (ISBN 978-3-642-12319-1). (MIT Libraries' catalog)

• Villavicencio, A., Ramisch, C., Machado, A., Caseli, H.M., Finatto, M. J. B. Identificação de Expressões Multipalavra em Domínios Específicos. Linguamática. Volume 2, Number 1, p.15-33, 2010. (Linguamática)

• Ramisch, C., A. Villavicencio, C. Boitet. Web-based and combined language models: a case study on noun compound identification. In Proceedings of Coling 2010, Beijing, p. 1041-1049, 2010. (PDF)

• Wilkens, R., A. Villavicencio, D. Muller, L. Wives, F. Silva, S. Loh. COMUNICA - A Question Answering System for Brazilian Portuguese. In Proceedings of Coling 2010 Demonstrations, Beijing, p. 21-24, 2010. (PDF)

• Santos, A. S., A. Villavicencio, J. Salles. Investigating characteristics of semantic networks of verbs in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. In Proceedings of Interdisciplinary Workshop on Verbs. The Identification and Representation of Verb Features, Pisa, 2010.

• Germann, D., A. Villavicencio, M.S.G Siqueira. Modeling the Lexical Organization of Verbs. In Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2010 Workshop on Computational Neurolinguistics, Los Angeles, 2010. (PDF)

• Germann, D., A. Villavicencio, M.S.G Siqueira. An Investigation on the Influence of Frequency on the Lexical Organization of Verbs. In Proceedings of TextGraphs-5: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing, Uppsala, 2010. (PDF)

• Wilkens, R., A. Villavicencio. Question Answering for Portuguese: how much is needed? In Proceedings of Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (SBIA), 2010.

• Linardaki, E., C. Ramisch, A. Villavicencio, A. Fotopoulou. Towards the Construction of Language Resources for Greek Multiword Expressions: Extraction and Evaluation. In Proceedings of the LREC Workshop on Exploitation of multilingual resources and tools for Central and (South) Eastern European Languages, Malta, 2010.

• Ramisch, C., Villavicencio, A., Boitet, C. Multiword Expressions in the wild? The mwetoolkit comes in handy. In Proceedings of Coling 2010 Demonstrations, Beijing, p. 57-60, 2010. (PDF)

• C. Ramisch, A. Villavicencio, C. Boitet. mwetoolkit: a Framework for Multiword Expression Identification. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010), Valetta, Malta, May 2010. European Language Resources Association. (PDF).

2009

• Baldwin, T., Kordoni, V. and Villavicencio, A. Prepositions in Applications: A Survey and Introduction to the Special Issue. Computational Linguistics, 35(2), pp. 119—149, 2009. (PDF)

• Villavicencio, A., H.M. Caseli, A. Machado. Identification of Multiword Expressions in Technical Domains: Investigating Statistical and Alignment-based Approaches. In Proceedings of the 7th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology, São Carlos, 2009.

• Caseli, H. M., A. Villavicencio, A. Machado, M. J. B. Finatto. Statistically-Driven Alignment-Based Multiword Expression Identification for Technical Domains. In Proceedings of the ACL/IJCNLP Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Identification, Interpretation, Disambiguation and Applications, Singapore, 2009. (PDF)

2008

• Tonietto, L., Villavicencio, A., Siqueira, M. S. G., Parente, M. A. M. P., Sperb, T. M. A especificidade semântica como fator determinante na aquisição de verbos. Revista Psico, v. 29, p. 343-351, 2008.

• Ramisch, C., A. Villavicencio, L. Moura and M. Idiart. Picking them up and Figuring them out: Verb-Particle Constructions, Noise and Idiomaticity. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Manchester, 2008. (PDF)

• Ramisch, C., P. Schreiner, M. Idiart and A. Villavicencio. An Evaluation of Methods for the Extraction of Multiword Expressions. In Proceedings of the LREC 2008 Workshop on Multiword Expressions, Marrakech, 2008. (PDF)

• Villavicencio, A., B. Menegola,, J. Rodrigues, M. Siqueira, M.A. Parente. Lexical Organization and its Dissolution in Ageing. In Proceedings of the 2008 Mid-Year Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Buenos Aires, 2008.

2007

• Villavicencio, A., V. Kordoni, Y. Zhang, M. Idiart, and C. Ramisch. Validation and evaluation of automatically acquired multiword expressions for grammar engineering. In Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL 2007), Prague, 2007. (PDF)

• Machado, M., A. Villavicencio. Examining Syntactic Constructions for Verb Meaning Acquisition. In Proceedings of EPIA-2007 Workshop on General Artificial Intelligence, Lisbon, 2007.

2006

• Zhang, Y., V. Kordoni, A. Villavicencio and M. Idiart. Automated Multiword Expression Prediction for Grammar Engineering. In Proceedings of COLING/ACL Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Identifying and Exploiting Underlying Properties, Sydney, Australia, 2006. (PDF)

• Sadler, L., D. Arnold, and A. Villavicencio. Portuguese: Corpora, Coordination and Agreement. In Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence: Empirical, Theoretical, and Computational Perspectives, Tübingen, 2006.

2005

• Villavicencio, A. The Availability of Verb-Particle Constructions: How much is Enough?. Computer Speech & Language, Volume de Setembro de 2005, v. 19, n. 4, p. 415-432, 2005.

• Villavicencio, A., Bond, F., Korhonen, A., McCarthy, D. Introduction to the Special Issue on Multiword Expressions: having a crack at a hard nut. Computer Speech & Language, Inglaterra, v. 19, n. 4, p. 365-377, 2005.

• Villavicencio, A., Sadler, L. and Arnold, D. An HPSG Account of Closest Conjunct Agreement in NP Coordination in Portuguese. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 2005.

• Villavicencio, A., Sadler, L. Agreement Patterns in Corpora. In Proceedings of Workshop on Exploring Syntactically Annotated Corpora. Corpus Linguistics 2005, Birmingham, 2005.

• Villavicencio, A., M.J. Finatto, V. Possamai. Padrões da Preposição “DE” entre Sintagmas Nominais em Linguagem Cotidiana e Linguagens Técnico-Científicas. In Proceedings of the V Encontro de Corpora, São Carlos, 2005.

2004

• Villavicencio, A., T. Baldwin, B. Waldron. A Multilingual Database of Idioms. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference On Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-2004, Lisboa, 2004.

• Villavicencio, A., A. Copestake, B. Waldron, F. Lambeau (2004). The Lexical Encoding of MWEs. In T.Tanaka, A. Villavicencio, F. Bond, A. Korhonen eds. Proceedings of the ACL 2004 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Integrating Processing. Barcelona, 2004. (PDF)

2003

• Villavicencio, A. Verb-Particle Constructions and Lexical Resources. In Francis Bond, Anna Korhonen, Diana McCarthy and Aline Villavicencio, eds. Proceedings of the ACL 2003 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Analysis, Acquisition and Treatment, p. 57—64. Sapporo, 2003. (PDF)

• Terkourafi, M. and Villavicencio, A. Toward a formalisation of speech-act functions of questions in conversation. In Proceedings of the 2nd CoLogNET-ElsNET Symposium: Questions and Answers: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives. Amsterdam, 2003.

• Buttery, P. and Villavicencio, A. Language Acquisition and the Universal Grammar. Proceedings of AMLaP'2003: Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Glasgow, 2003.

• Villavicencio, A. Verb-Particle Constructions in the World Wide Web. Proceedings of the ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on the Linguistic Dimensions of Prepositions and their use in Computational Linguistics Formalisms and Applications. Toulouse, France, 2003.

2002

• Villavicencio, A. and A. Copestake. Verb-particle constructions in a computational grammar of English. In Jongbok Kim and Stephen Wechsler, eds., Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Kyung-Hee University, Seoul. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

• Copestake, A., F. Lambeau, A. Villavicencio, F. Bond, T. Baldwin, I. A. Sag and D. Flickinger. Multiword expressions: linguistic precision and reusability. Proceedings of the Third conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2002), p. 1941—1947. Las Palmas, Canary Islands, 2002.

• Baldwin, T. and A. Villavicencio. Extracting the unextractable: A case study on verb-particles. Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2002), Taipei, Taiwan, 2002.

• Villavicencio, A. Learning to distinguish PP arguments from adjuncts. Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2002), Taipei, Taiwan, 2002.

2001

• Villavicencio, A. The Acquisition of a Unification-Based Generalised Categorial Grammar. Thesis published as Technical Report UCAM-CL-TR-533, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 2001.

2000

• Villavicencio, A. The acquisition of word order by a computational learning system. Proceedings of the 2nd Learning Language in Logic Workshop, Lisbon, 2000.

• Villavicencio, A. The Use of Default Unification in a System of Lexical Types. Proceedings of the Workshop on Linguistic Theory and Grammar Implementation, Birmingham, 2000.

• Villavicencio, A. Grammatical Learning Using Unification-Based Generalised Categorial Grammars. Proceedings of AMLaP' 2000: Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Leiden, 2000.

• Villavicencio, A. The Acquisition of a Unification-Based Generalised Categorial Grammar. Proceedings of Cluk, Brighton, 2000.

1999 and before

• Villavicencio, A. Representing a System of Lexical Types Using Default Unification. Proceedings of EACL, Bergen, 1999.

• Villavicencio, A. Building a Wide-Coverage Combinatory Categorial Grammar. MPhil Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997.

• Villavicencio, A., Viccari, R.M. Evaluating Stochastic Past-of-Speech Taggers for the Portuguese Language. Second Meeting of the Computational Processing of Spoken and Written Portuguese Language, 1996.

• Villavicencio, A., Marques, N.M., Lopes, J.G.P.,Villavicencio, F. Part-of-Speech tagging for Portuguese Texts",(ed.) In Jacques Wainer and Ariadne Carvalho, eds. Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Proceedings of the of the XII Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence , 1995. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 991, pp. 323-332. Springer Verlag.