Publications and Activities

Publications

• McGuire, E. and Tomuro, N. (2021).
  "Relation Classification with Cognitive Attention Supervision".  In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL) held at NAACL 2021, Mexico City.
• McGuire, E. and Tomuro, N. (2021).
  "Sentiment Analysis with Cognitive Attention Supervision".  In the Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAIAC).
• Tomuro, N., Lytinen, S. and Hornburg, K. (2016).
  "Automatic Summarization of Privacy Policies using Ensemble Learning".  In the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2016), New Orleans, LA.  Best Poster Award.
• Pourashraf, P. and Tomuro, N. (2015).
  "Use of a Large Image Repository to Enhance Domain Dataset for Flyer Classification".  In Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC'15), Las Vegas, NV.
• Zhang, Y., Tomuro, N., Furst, J. and Raicu, D. (2015).
  "Combining Edge-based and Region-based Segmentations for Diagnosing Masses in Mammograms".  In Proceedings of the 29th International Congress of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS 2015), Barcelona, Spain.  
• Pourashraf, P., Tomuro, N. and Apostolova, E. (2015).
  "Genre-based Image Classification Using Ensemble Learning for Online Flyers". In Proceedings of the 7th international Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP 2015), Los Angeles, CA.  
• Zhang, Y., Tomuro, N., Furst, J. and Raicu, D. (2015).
  "Identifying the Optimal Segmentors for Mass Classification in Mammograms".  In Proceedings of the SPIE Symposium on Medical Imaging (SPIE Medical Imaging 2015), Orlando, FL.  
• Apostolova, E. and Tomuro, N. (2014).
  "Combining Visual and Textual Features for Information Extraction from Online Flyers".  In Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2014), Doha, Qatar.
• Tomuro, N., Tanaka, S. and Zagal, J. (2014).
  "Developing Soft Skills the Hard Way: International Student Game Projects".  RePlaying Japan 2014 (https://sites.google.com/a/ualberta.ca/replayingjapan2014/).
• José P. Zagal and Noriko Tomuro (2013).
  "Cultural differences in game appreciation: A study of player game reviews". In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG-13).  Best Paper Award.
• Kleper, V., Tomuro, N., Apostolova, E., Lytinen, S., Wang, L. and Mongkolwat, P. (2013).
  "Linking Radiology Reports to the Corresponding Pathology Reports Based on Biopsy Recommendations in Radiology Reports, Using Unified Medical Language System Concept Unique Identifiers".  In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM 2013), Grapevine-Dallas, TX.  Best Poster Award.
• Raison, K., Tomuro, N., Lytinen, S. and Zagal, J. (2012).
  "Extraction of User Opinions by Adjective-Context Co-clustering for Game Review Texts". In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (JapTAL 2012), Kanazawa, Japan.
• Kleper, V., Tomuro, N., Apostolova, E., Lytinen, S., Wang, L. and Mongkolwat, P. (2012).
  "Automated Extraction of Mammography Pathological Recommendations from Mammography Radiological Reports and Linking Each Radiological Report to the Associated Pathological Reports". In Proceedings of the 98th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA 2012), Chicago, USA.
• Apostolova, E., Tomuro, N., Mongkolwat, P. and Demner-Fushman, D. (2012).
  "Domain Adaptation of Coreference Resolution for Radiology Reports".  In Proceedings of the 11th workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP 2012), Montreal, Canada.
• Apostolova, E., Tomuro, N. and Demner-Fushman, D. (2011).
  "Automatic Extraction of Lexico-Syntactic Patterns for Detection of Negation and Speculation Scopes". In Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL/HLT-11), Portland, OR.
• Zhang, Y., Tomuro, N., Furst, J. and Raicu, D. (2011).
  "Building an Ensemble System for Diagnosing Masses in Mammograms". In Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS 2011), Berlin, Germany.
• Zhang, Y., Tomuro, N., Furst, J. and Raicu, D. (2011).
  "Building Multiple weak segmentors for strong mass segmentation in mammogram". In Proceedings of the SPIE Symposium on Medical Imaging (SPIE-2011).
• Zagal, J., Tomuro, N. and Shepitsen, A. (2011).
  "Natural Language Processing for Games Studies Research".  Journal of Simulation & Gaming (S&G), Special Issue on Games Research Methods. http://gamesmethods.wordpress.com
• Apostolova, E. and Tomuro, N. (2010).
  "Exploring Surface-Level Heuristics for Negation and Speculation Discovery in Clinical Texts".  In Proceedings of the 9th workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP 2010), Uppsala, Sweden.
• Zagal, J., Tomuro, N. and Shepitsen, A. (2010).
  "Natural Language Processing for Games Studies Research".  Games Research Methods seminar.
• Apostolova, E., Neilan, S., An, G., Tomuro, N. and Lytinen, S. (2010).
  "Dangology: A Light-weight Web-based Tool for Distributed Collaborative Text Annotation".  In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010).
• Zhang, Y., Tomuro, N.,  Furst, J. and Raicu, D. (2010).
  "Image Enhancement and Edge-based Mass Segmentation in Mammogram".  In Proceedings of the SPIE Symposium on Medical Imaging (SPIE-2010).
• Tomuro, N. and Shepitsen, A. (2009).
  "Construction of Disambiguated Folksonomy Ontologies Using Wikipedia".  In Proceedings of the workshop on The People's Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources at the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-09).
• Shepitsen, A. and Tomuro, N. (2009).
  "Improving Diversity and Relevancy of E-commerce Recommender Systems Through NLP Techniques".  In Proceedings of the IADIS e-Commerce (EC 2009) Conference.
• Shepitsen, A. and Tomuro, N. (2009).
  "Personalized Search in Folksonomies with Ontological User Profiles".  In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference Intelligent Information Systems (IIS 2009).
• Shepitsen, A. and Tomuro, N. (2009).
  "Search in Social Tagging Systems Using Ontological User Profiles".  In Proceedings of the 3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2009).
• Tomuro, N. and Lytinen, S. (2008).
  "Polysemy in Lexical Semantics -- Automatic Discovery of Polysemous Senses and Their Regularities".  NYU Symposium on Semantic Knowledge Discovery, Organization and Use.
• Kanzaki, K., Tomuro, N. and Isahara, H. (2008).
  "The \"Close-Distant\" Relation of Adjectival Concepts Based on Self-Organizing Map".  In Proceedings of the workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon at the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2008).
• Kanzaki, K., Bond, F., Tomuro, N. and Isahara, H. (2008).
  "Extraction of Attribute Concepts from Japanese Adjectives".  In Proceedings of the Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08).
• Tomuro, N., Lytinen, S., Kanzaki, K. and Isahara, H. (2007).
  "Clustering Using Feature Domain Similarity to Discover Word Senses for Adjectives".  In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC-2007).
• Tomuro, N., Kanzaki, K. and Isahara, H. (2007).
  "Discovering Word Senses for Polysemous Words Using Feature Domain Similarity".  In Proceedings of the Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING-2007).
• Kanzaki, K. Tomuro, N. and Isahara, H. (2007).
  "Extraction and Organization of Abstract Concepts that Categorize Adjectives From Corpora".  In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon (GL-2007).
• Tomuro, N., Kanzaki, K. and Isahara, H. (2007).
  "Self-organizing Conceptual Map and Taxonomy of Adjectives".  In Proceedings of the 18th Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference (MAICS 2007).
• Tomuro, N. and Lytinen, S.  (2004).
  "Retrieval Models and Q&A Learning with FAQ Files" (a book chapter).  New Directions in Question Answering, p. 183-194. AAAI Press / The MIT Press.
• Tomuro, N. (2004).
  "Question Terminology and Representation for Question Type Classification".  Journal of Terminology, 10 (1), pp. 153-168.
• Tomuro, N. (2003).
  "Interrogative reformulation patterns and acquisition of question paraphrases".  In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Paraphrasing (IWP?03) at ACL?2003, Sapporo, Japan.
• Tomuro, N. (2002).
  "Question Terminology and Representation for Question Type Classification".  In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Computational Terminology (COMPUTERM02), held at COLING-02, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Lytinen, S. and Tomuro, N. (2002).
  "The Use of Question Types to Match Questions in FAQFinder".  In Papers from the 2002 AAAI Spring Symposium on Mining Answers from Texts and Knowledge Bases, pp. 46-53.
• Tomuro, N. and Lytinen, S.  (2001).
  "Selecting Features for Paraphrasing Question Sentences".  In Proceedings of the Workshop on Automatic Paraphrasing at Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium (NLPRS 2001), Tokyo, Japan.
• Tomuro, N. and Lytinen, S.  (2001).
  "Abstract Left-corner Parsing for Unification Grammars".  In Proceedings of the Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium (NLPRS 2001), Tokyo, Japan.
• Tomuro, N. (2001).
  "Tree-cut and A Lexicon based on Systematic Polysemy".  In Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL2001).
• Tomuro, N. (2001).
  "Systematic Polysemy and Inter-annotator Disagreement: Empirical Examinations".  In Proceedings of the first International Workshop on Generative Approaches to Lexicon.
• Tomuro, N. and Lytinen, S.  (2001).
  "Nonminimal Derivations in Unification-based Parsing".  Computational Linguistics, Vol. 27 (2001), Number 2.
• Lytinen, S., Tomuro, N. and Repede, T. (2000).
  "The Use of WordNet Sense Tagging in FAQFinder". In Proceedings of  the workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Web Search at the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2000), Austin, TX.
• Tomuro, N. (2000).
  "Automatic Extraction of Systematic Polysemy Using Tree-cut".  In Proceedings of the workshop on Syntactic and Semantic Complexity in Natural Language Processing Systems at Language Technology Joint Conference, Applied Natural Language Processing and the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ANLP-NAACL2000), Seattle, WA, pp. 20-27.
• Tomuro, N., Alkoby, K., Berthiaume, A., Chomwong, P., Davidson, M., Furst, J., Konie, B., Lancaster, G., Lytinen, S., McDonald, J., Roychoudhuri, L., Toro, J. and Wolfe, R. (2000).
  "An Alternative Method for Building A Database for American Sign Language".  In Proceedings of the conference on Technologies for Persons with Disabilities (CSUN2000), Los Angeles, CA.
• Tomuro, N. (1998).
  "Semi-automatic Induction of Systematic Polysemy from WordNet".  In Proceedings of the workshop on Usage of WordNet in Natural Language Processing Systems at the 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-98) and the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-98), Montreal, Canada, pp. 108-114.
• Tomuro, N. (1998).
  "Semi-automatic Induction of Underspecified Semantic Classes".  In Proceedings of the workshop on Lexical Semantics in Context: Corpus, Inference and Discourse at the 10th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-98), Saabruecken, Germany.
• Burke, R., Hammond, K., Kulyukin, V., Lytinen, S., Tomuro, N. and Schoenberg, S. (1997).
  "Natural Language Processing in the FAQFinder System: Results and Prospects".  In Papers from the 1997 AAAI Spring Symposium on Natural Language Processing for the World Wide Web, pp. 17-26.
• Burke, R., Hammond, K., Kulyukin, V., Lytinen, S., Tomuro, N. and Schoenberg, S. (1997).
  "Question Answering from Frequently Asked Question Files:  Experiences with the FAQFinder System".  AI Magazine, Summer, 18 (2), pp. 57-66.
• Tomuro, N. (1996).
  "Maximizing Top-down Constraints for Unification-based Systems".  In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-96), Santa Cruz, CA.  pp. 381-383.
• Lytinen, S. and Tomuro, N. (1996).
  "Left-corner Unification-based Natural Language Processing".  In Proceedings of the 13th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-96), Portland, OR, pp.  1037-1043.
•  Lytinen, S. and Tomuro, N. (1995).
  "Steps Toward Real-time Natural Language Processing".  In Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Pittsburgh, PA, pp.  666-670.

  Tech Reports

• Tomuro, N. (1999).
  "Left-corner Parsing Algorithm for Unification Grammars".  Ph.D. thesis.  DePaul CTI Tech Report 99-006.
• Lytinen, S. and Tomuro, N. (1998).
  "Nonminimal Derivations in Unification-based Parsing".  DePaul CTI Tech Report 98-002.
• Tomuro, N. and Lytinen, S.  (1997).
  "Efficient Lazy Unification".  DePaul CTI Tech Report 97-006.

Conference Organization

  Workshop Organization

• 3rd Workshop on "Games and NLP" (GAMNLP-14), October 2014, Raleigh, NC.
  • Capacity: Main chair and organizer.
  • Planned and executed all aspects of the workshop (with two co-chairs).
• 2nd Workshop on "Games and NLP" (GAMNLP-13), November 2013, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Capacity: Main chair and organizer.
  • Planned and executed all aspects of the workshop (with co-chair).
• 1st Workshop on "Games and NLP" (GAMNLP-12), September 2012, Kanazawa, Japan.
  • Capacity: Main chair and organizer.
  • Created the workshop.  Managed all aspects of the workshop (with co-chair), including CFP, formation of program committee, review assignment and local arrangements.

  Conference Program Committee

• Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2013) -- Program committee member.
• North American Association for Computational Linguistics / Human Language Technologies Conference (NAACL-HLT 2012) -- Invited Paper Reviewer.
• 8th International Conference on NLP (JapTAL 2012) -- Program Committee member.
• Midwest AI Conferences (MAICS 2010 & 2011) -- Program Committee member.