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)

• 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)

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

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)

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.

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.