Roget's Thesaurus
Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz (2008). "Evaluating Roget's Thesauri". In Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, Columbus, Ohio, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, 416-424.
Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz (2007). "Disambiguating Hypernym Relations for Roget's Thesaurus". V. Matousek, P. Mautner (eds.), Proc 10th International Conf. on Text, Speech and Dialogue TSD 2007, Plzeň, Czech Republic, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4629, Springer, 66-75. The definitive version is availalbe at Springer.
Sentiment Classification
Alistair Kennedy and Diana Inkpen (2006). "Sentiment Classification of Movie Reviews Using Contextual Valence Shifters". Computational Intelligence (special issue), Vol. 22, No. 2 . 2006. The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com.
Alistair Kennedy, Diana Inkpen (2005). "Sentiment Classification of Movie and Product Reviews Using Contextual Valence Shifters". Workshop on the Analysis of Formal and Informal Information Exchange during Negotiations. 2005. (Download Product Review Data Set)
Genre Identification
Alistair Kennedy and M. Shepherd (2005). "Automatic Identification of Home Pages on the Web". Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05). Hawaii, 3-6 January 2005.
Shepherd, M., Watters, C. and Alistair Kennedy (2004). "Cybergenre: Automatic Identification of Home Pages on the Web". Journal of Web Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 3&4. pp. 236-251. 2004.
Alistair Kennedy, Shepherd, M. and Watters, C. (2004). "Exploring the Role of Genre in Web Searching". Proceedings of The American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) 2004.
Text Summarization (Non-refereed)
Terry Copeck, Anna Kazantseva, Alistair Kennedy, Alex Kunadze, Diana Inkpen, Stan Szpakowicz (2008). "Update Summary Update", Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 2007, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 2008. (System Report)
Terry Copeck, Diana Inkpen, Anna Kazantseva, Alistair Kennedy, Darren Kipp, Stan Szpakowicz (2007). "Catch What You Can", Document Understanding Workshop (DUC) 2007, Rochester, New York, USA, May 2007. (System Report)
Terry Copeck, Diana Inkpen, Anna Kazantseva, Alistair Kennedy, Darren Kipp, Vivi Nastase, Stan Szpakowicz (2006). "Leveraging DUC", Document Understanding Workshop (DUC) 2006, New York, USA, June 2006. (System Report)
Masters Thesis
Alistair Kennedy. Analysis and Construction of Noun Hypernym Hierarchies to Enhance Roget’s Thesaurus. 2007.
Appendix A
Appendix B
Honours Thesis
Alistair Kennedy. Automatic Genre Classification Home Pages on the Web. 2004.
