Research
Refereed Journal, Conference and Workshop Papers
Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz (2011). “A Supervised Method of Feature Weighting for Measuring Semantic Relatedness”. In Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 24th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Canadian AI 2011, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, May 25-27, 222-233.
Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz (2010). "Evaluation of a Sentence Ranker for Text Summarization Based on Roget’s Thesaurus". In the Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue TSD 2010, Brno, Czech Republic. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6231, 101-108.
Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz (2010). "Towards a Gold Standard for Extractive Text Summarization". In Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 23rd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian, AI 2010, Ottawa, Canada, May 31 - June 2, 2010, 51-62.
Alistair Kennedy (2010). "Automatically Expanding the Lexicon of Roget’s Thesaurus". In Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 23rd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian, AI 2010, Ottawa, Canada, May 31 - June 2, 2010, 410-411.
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 Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue TSD 2007, Plzeň, Czech Republic, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4629, Springer, 66-75.
Alistair Kennedy and Diana Inkpen (2006). "Sentiment Classification of Movie Reviews Using Contextual Valence Shifters". Computational Intelligence (special issue), Vol. 22, No. 2 . pp 110-125.
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.
[PDF] [bib] [Product Review Data Set]
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.
Poster Only
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.
System Reports (Non-Refereed)
Alistair Kennedy, Terry Copeck, Diana Inkepn, Stan Szpakowicz (2010). “Entropy-based Sentence Selection with Roget’s Thesaurus”, Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 2010, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 2010.
Terry Copeck, Alistair Kennedy, Martin Scaiano, Diana Inkpen, Stan Szpakowicz (2009). "Summarizing with Roget’s and with FrameNet", Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 2009, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 2009.
Terry Copeck, Anna Kazantseva, Alistair Kennedy, Alex Kunadze, Diana Inkpen, Stan Szpakowicz (2008). "Update Summary Update", Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 2008, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 2008.
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.
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.
Workshop Co-Chair
Workshop on Text Summarization TS11 at Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Saint John’s, Newfoundland, 2011
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.
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