Tom O'Hara
CS Ph.D. graduate (Aug 05)
New Mexico State University
Coursework:
Research Interests:
Computational Linguistics, aka Natural Language Processing (NLP):
Statistical Language Learning
Word Sense Disambiguation
Artificial Intelligence
Commonsense Knowledge Representation
Dissertation Work:
Published Papers:
O'Hara, Tom, Stefano Bertolo, Michael Witbrock, Bjørn Aldag, Kathy Panton,
Dave Schneider, Nancy Salay, and Jon Curtis (2004),
"Inferring parts of speech for lexical mappings via the Cyc KB",
in Proc. 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-04),
Geneva, August 2004. [PDF, 129 KB]
O'Hara, Tom, Nancy Salay, Michael Witbrock, Dave Schneider, Bjørn
Aldag, Stefano Bertolo, Kathy Panton, Fritz Lehmann, Matt Smith, David
Baxter, Jon Curtis, and Peter Wagner (2003), "Inducing criteria for
mass noun lexical mappings using the Cyc KB, and its extension to
WordNet", in Proc. Fifth International Workshop on
Computational Semantics (IWCS-5). [PDF, 161 KB]
How to reproduce the experiments: Scripts
O'Hara, Tom, Janyce Wiebe, and Rebecca Bruce (2000), "Selecting
Decomposable Models for Word-sense Disambiguation: The grling-sdm
System", Computers and the Humanities 34 (1-2): 159-164, Special
Issue on SENSEVAL.
O'Hara, Tom, Kavi Mahesh, and Sergei Nirenburg (1998),
"Lexical Acquisition with WordNet and the Mikrokosmos Ontology",
Usage of WordNet in Natural Language Processing Systems, Coling-ACL
'98 Workshop, August 16, 1998, University of Montreal. [postscript,
339 KB]
Wiebe, Janyce, Tom O'Hara, and Rebecca Bruce (1998),
"Constructing Bayesian Networks from WordNet for Word-Sense
Disambiguation: Representational and Processing Issues",
Usage of WordNet in Natural Language Processing Systems, Coling-ACL
'98 Workshop, August 16, 1998, University of Montreal. [postscript,
365 KB]
Wiebe, Janyce, Tom O'Hara, Ken McKeever, and Thorsten
Öhrström-Sandgren (1997),
"An Empirical Approach to Temporal Reference Resolution",
in Proceedings of 2nd Conference on Empirical Methods
in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP2), August 1-2, 1997, Providence,
Rhode Island.[postscript, 375 KB]
Poster papers:
O'Hara, Tom, Michael Witbrock, Bjørn Aldag, Stefano Bertolo, Nancy Salay, Jon Curtis,
and Kathy Panton (2003), "Inducing criteria for
lexicalization parts of speech using the Cyc KB", in
Proc. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(IJCAI-03), Poster Session, Acapulco, August 12-15, 2003. [PDF, 25 KB]
Unpublished papers:
Project Information:
Probabilistic Classifiers for Natural
Language Processing: GraphLing
Temporal and Speech Act Resolution Discourse
Processor: Artwork
Free software (in cost & in the GNU sense):
CWord, the Application: cword
Drivers for Orchid SoundWave32 (Windows
95 and Windows NT): sw32
Miscellaneous:
Links of Interest:
New Mexico State Defense Force: NMSDF
A most useful dictionary lookup tool: One Look
Correspondence:
Last updated: 21 March 2010