My research interests lie in what I see as the intersection of linguistics and artificial intelligence, particularly
in the semantics/pragmatics domain: anaphora, referring expressions, reference resolution, rhetorical/ discourse/
information structure, presupposition, implicature, inference.
Gomez-Gallo C., Aist G., Allen J., deBeaumont W., Coria S., Gegg-Harrison W., Paulo-Pardal J., and Swift M. (2007). Annotating Continuous
Understanding in a Multimodal Dialogue Corpus. In Proceedings of DECALOG 2007.
Gegg-Harrison W., Byron D. (2006). PYCOT: An OT-Based Pronoun Resolution Toolkit. In Proceedings of LREC 2006, Genoa, Italy, May 2006.
Lee S-H., Byron D., Gegg-Harrison W. (2005). Resolving zero anaphors and pronouns in Korean. In Special Issue of the Journal TAL:
Models and algorithms for anaphora resolution.
Boyd A., Gegg-Harrison W., and Byron D. (2005). Identifying non-referential it: A machine learning approach incorporating linguistically
motivated patterns (expanded version). In Speical Issue of the Journal TAL: Models and algorithms for anaphora resolution.
Boyd A., Gegg-Harrison W., and Byron D. (2005). Identifying non-referential it: A machine learning approach incorporating linguistically
motivated patterns. In Proceedings of the ACLWorkshop on Feature Engineering for Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing, pages 40 –
47, Ann Arbor Michigan, June 2005. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Lee S-H., Byron D. and Gegg-Harrison W. (2004). Annotations of zero pronoun resolution in Korean using the Penn Korean Treebank. In Sandra
Kubler, Joakim Nivre, Erhard Hinrichs, and Holger Wunsche, eidtior, Proceedings of the Thrid Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories
(TLT’04), pages 75 – 88, Tubingen, Germany.
Byron D., and Gegg-Harrison W. (2004). Evaluating optimatlity theory for pronoun resolution algorithm specification. In Proceedings of the
Discourse Anaphora and Reference Resolution Conference (DAARC2004), pages 27 – 32, Sao Miguel, Azores, Portugal, September 2004.
Byron D., and Gegg-Harrison W. (2004). Eliminating non-referring noun phrases from coreference resolution. In Proceedings of the Discourse
Anaphora and Reference Resolution Conference (DAARC2004), pages 21-26, Sao Miguel, Azores, Portugal, September 2004.