ELLEN M RILOFF portrait
  • Adjunct Professor, School Of Computing
801-581-7544

Publications

  • Wagstaff, K. L. & Francis, R., Golombek, M., Lu, S., Riloff, E., Tamppari, L., Zhuang, Y., Stein, T. C. (2022). Targets from the Spirit Mars Exploration Rover in the Mars Target Encyclopedia . The 53rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC). Published, 03/2022.
  • Jiang, T. & Riloff, E. (2021). Learning Prototypical Functions for Physical Artifacts. Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021). Published, 08/2021.
  • Jiang, T. & Riloff, E. (2021). Exploiting Definitions for Frame Identification. Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2021). Published, 04/2021.
  • Zhuang, Y. , Jiang, T. & Riloff, E. (2020). Affective Event Classification with Discourse-enhanced Self-training. Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020). Published, 11/2020.
  • Zhuang, Y. & Riloff, E. (2020). Exploring the Role of Context to Distinguish Rhetorical and Information-Seeking Questions. ACL 2020 Student Research Workshop (SRW). Published, 07/2020.
  • Felt, C. & Riloff, E. (2020). Recognizing Euphemisms and Dysphemisms Using Sentiment Analysis. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (FigLang2020). Published, 07/2020.
  • Ding, H., Riloff, E. & Feng, Z. (2019). Improving Human Needs Categorization of Events with Semantic Classification. Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2019). Published, 06/2019.
  • Riloff, E., Qadir, A., Surve, P., De Silva, L., Gilbert, N., and Huang, R. (2013) "Sarcasm as Contrast between a Positive Sentiment and Negative Situation", Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2013). Published, 10/2013.
  • Huang, R. and Riloff, E. (2013) "Classifying Message Board Posts with an Extracted Lexicon of Patient Attributes", Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2013). Published, 10/2013.
  • Gilbert, N. and Riloff, E. (2013) "Domain-Specific Coreference Resolution with Lexicalized Features", Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2013), Short Paper. Published, 08/2013.
  • Huang, R. and Riloff, E. (2013) "Multi-faceted Event Recognition with Bootstrapped Dictionaries", Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT 2013). Published, 06/2013.
  • Qadir, A. and Riloff, E. (2013) "Bootstrapped Learning of Emotion Hashtags #hashtags4you", The 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2013). Published, 06/2013.
  • Stoyanov, V., Gilbert, N., Cardie, C., and Riloff, E. (2009), "Conundrums in Noun Phrase Coreference Resolution: Making Sense of the State-of-the-Art", Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2009). Published, 2009.
    http://www.cs.utah.edu/~riloff/pdfs/acl09-coref.pd...
  • Patwardhan, S. and Riloff, E. (2009) "A Unified Model of Phrasal and Sentential Evidence for Information Extraction", Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-09). Published, 2009.
    http://www.cs.utah.edu/~riloff/pdfs/emnlp09-ie.pdf

Research Statement

Professor Riloff

Research Keywords

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Computational Linguistics

Presentations

  • "Reasons to Love Rules in NLP", Keynote Speaker at the Pattern-based Approaches to NLP in the Age of Deep Learning (Pan-DL) Workshop at COLING 2022. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/2022.
  • "Weakly Supervised Methods for Affective Event Classification", Invited Talk at the Language Technologies Institute (LTI) Colloquium at Carnegie Mellon University. Other, Presented, 11/2021.
  • "Weakly Supervised Methods for Affective Event Classification", Invited Talk in the Language Technologies Institute (LTI) Colloquium at Carnegie Mellon University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/2021.
  • "Affective Events and Narrative Understanding", Invited Speaker at the ACL 2020 Workshop on Narrative Understanding, Storylines, and Events (NUSE). Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 07/2020.
  • "Identifying Affective Events and the Reasons for their Polarity", Keynote Speaker at the 8th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2019). Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2019.
    https://starsem.org/2019/
  • "Identifying Affective Events and the Reasons for their Polarity", Invited Talk at the AAAI-19 Workshop on Affective Content Analysis (AFFCON 2019). Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 01/2019.
    https://sites.google.com/view/affcon2019/invited-s...
  • Gave a talk about our research on information extraction for medical text to the Computational Methods Special Interest Group (CM SIG) in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. Other, Presented, 04/20/2017.

Research Groups

  • Carlos Jimenez, Undergraduate Student. School of Computing. 08/2019 - 05/2020.
  • Christian Felt, Undergraduate Student. Senior Thesis in SoC. 08/2018 - 05/2019.