Publications

Vigliocco, Gabriella, David Vinson, William Lewis, and Merrill Garrett (2004).  “Representing the Meaning of Object and Action Words: The Featural and Unitary Semantic Space (FUSS) Hypothesis.”  Cognitive Psychology 48(4) 422-488.

Gerken, LouAnn, Rachel Wilson, and William Lewis (pending publication).  “17-Month-Olds Can Use Distributional Cues to Form Syntactic Categories.”  Journal of Child Language.

Simons, Gary, William Lewis, Scott Farrar, D. Terence Langendoen, Brian Fitzsimons, and Hector Gonzalez (2004).  “The Semantics of Markup:  Mapping Legacy Markup Schemes to a Common Semantics.”  Proceedings of the XMLNLP Workshop, Association for Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004.

Simons, Gary, Brian Fitzsimons, D. Terence Langendoen, William Lewis, Scott Farrar, Alexis Lanham, Ruby Basham, and Hector Gonzalez (2004). “A Model for Interoperability: XML Documents as an RDF Database.” Proceedings of the EMELD Workshop on Linguistic Databases and Best Practice, Detroit, Michigan, July 2004.

Lewis, William (2003).  Mining and Migrating Interlinear Glossed Text.  Paper presented at the Workshop on Digitizing & Annotating Texts and Field Recordings, LSA Institute, Michigan State University, July 11th-13th, 2003.

Farrar, Scott, William Lewis, and D. Terence Langendoen (2002). “An Ontology for Linguistic Annotation.”  Semantic Web Meets Language Resources: Papers from the AAAI Workshop, Technical Report WS-02-16, pages 11-19.

Langendoen, D. Terence, Scott Farrar, William Lewis (2002). “Bridging the Markup Gap:  Smart Search Engines for Language Researchers.”  Proceedings of the Workshop on Resource and Tools for Field Linguistics, May 26-27, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain.

Farrar, Scott, William Lewis, and D. Terence Langendoen (2002). “A Common Ontology for Linguistic Concepts.”   Proceedings of the Knowledge Technologies Conference, March 10-13, Seattle.

Lewis, William. (2002). Measuring Conceptual Distance Using WordNet:  The Design of a Metric for Measuring Semantic Similarity.  In R. Hayes, W. Lewis, E. Obryan, and T. Zamuner (Eds.), The University of Arizona Working Papers in Linguistics.  Tucson:  University of Arizona.

Lewis, William, Scott Farrar, and D. Terence Langendoen (2001). "Building a Knowledge Base of Morphosyntactic Terminology." In S. Bird, P. Buneman, and M. Liberman (Eds.) Proceedings of the IRCS Workshop on Linguistic Databases, 11-13 December 2001, pp. 150-156.

Presentations

Eggers, Shauna, D. Terence Langendoen, and William Lewis (2004).  The GOLD Ontology.  Paper presented at the EMELD Workshop on Linguistic Databases and Best Practice, Detroit, Michigan, July 2004.

Lewis, William (2004).  Resource Conversion.  Paper presented at the Linguistics Society of America annual meeting, as part of the Symposium entitled Endangered Data vs. Enduring Practice:  Creating Linguistic Resources That Last.  Boston, MA, January 8th-11th, 2004.

Lewis, William (2003).  Mining for IL Data:  What, Where, Why and How.  Paper presented at the EMELD/Linguist List Workshop held at the University of Arizona, Tucson, March 26^th-28^th, 2003.

Lewis, William (2001, October).  Measuring Conceptual Distance:  Methods for Measuring the Semantic Similarity of Word Substitution Pairs.  Invited talk, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME.
 

Lewis, William, Merrill Garrett and Jason Barker (2001, September). Measuring Conceptual Distance:  The Design of a Metric for Measuring the Semantic Similarity of Word Substitution Pairs.  Poster presented at the 7th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP):  Saarbrücken, Germany.

Publications

in prep. or submission

Farrar, Scott, and William Lewis (in preparation).  "KnowBL:  A Knowledgebase for Linguistics."

Lewis, William (in preparation).  "Interlinear Glossed Text:  A Snapshot of the Conceptual Space of Linguistics"

Agbayani, Brian, Chris Golston, and William Lewis (in preparation and testing).  "Introduction to Language and Linguistics."  Interactive E-text.