Publications

2014

• 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.

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, and I. Malioutov. Language Acquisition and Probabilistic Models: keeping it simple. In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. (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)

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)

• 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

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, 2008. (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.