Publications (by Topic)

Yejin Choi

Papers:

• Language and Vision, Language Grounding
  
  From Large Scale Image Categorization to Entry-Level Categories.
  Vicente Ordonez, Jia Deng, Yejin Choi, Alexander C Berg, Tamara L Berg
  International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2013. -- Best paper
  
  Generalizing Image Captions for Image-Text Parallel Corpus.
  Polina Kuznetsova, Vicente Ordonez, Alexander Berg, Tamara Berg and Yejin Choi.
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), short, 2013.
  *Project Page        *Data: Generalized 1M image-caption corpus
  
  BabyTalk: Understanding and Generating Simple Image Descriptions.
  Girish Kulkarni, Visruth Premraj, Vicente Ordonez, Sagnik Dhar, Siming Li, Yejin Choi, Alexander C. Berg, Tamara L Berg.
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2013.
  
  Collective Generation of Natural Image Descriptions.
  Polina Kuznetsova, Vicente Ordonez, Alexander Berg, Tamara Berg and Yejin Choi.
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2012.
  
  Detecting Visual Text.
  Jesse Dodge, Amit Goyal, Xufeng Han, Alyssa Mensch, Margaret Mitchell, Karl Stratos, Kota Yamaguchi, Yejin Choi, Hal Daume' III, Alexander C. Berg, Tamara L. Berg.
  North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. (NAACL), 2012.
  
  Composing Simple Image Descriptions using Web-scale N-grams.
  Siming Li, Girish Kulkarni, Tamara Berg, Alex Berg and Yejin Choi.
  Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), 2011.
  
  Baby Talk: Understanding and Generating Image Descriptions.
  Girish Kulkarni, Visruth Premraj, Sagnik Dhar, Siming Li, Yejin Choi, Alexander C. Berg, and Tamara Berg.
  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011
  
  
• Writing Styles, Deception Detection, Personal Analytics (e.g., Authorship, Gender)
  
  Understanding and Quantifying Creativity in Lexical Composition.
  Polina Kuznetsova, Jianfu Chen and Yejin Choi.
  Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2013.
  *Project Page        *Data: Creative Lexical Composition Corpus
  
  Success with Style – Using Writing Style to Predict the Success of Novels.
  Vikas Ashok, Song Feng and Yejin Choi.
  Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2013.
  *Project Page        *Data Literary Success Corpus
  
  Characterizing Stylistic Elements in Syntactic Structure.
  Song Feng, Ritwik Banerjee and Yejin Choi.
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2012.
  
  Syntactic Stylometry for Deception Detection.
  Song Feng, Ritwik Banerjee and Yejin Choi.
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), short, 2012.
  
  Distributional Footprints of Deceptive Product Reviews.
  Song Feng, Longfei Xing, Anupam Gogar and Yejin Choi.
  International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. (ICWSM), 2012. -- Best paper runner up
  Featured in Investor's Business Daily (Aug 2012); MIT's Technology Review (Jun 2012); Newsweek (Sep 2012); Business Insider; Computer World; Consumerist;
  
  Domain Independent Authorship Attribution without Domain Adaptation.
  Rohith Menon and Yejin Choi.
  Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), 2011.
  
  Gender Attribution: Tracing Stylometric Evidence Beyond Topic and Genre.
  Ruchita Sarawgi, Kailash Gajulapalli and Yejin Choi.
  Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), 2011.
  
  Language of Vandalism: Improving Wikipedia Vandalism Detection via Stylometric Analysis.
  Manoj Harpalani, Michael Hart, Sandesh Singh, Rob Johnson and Yejin Choi.
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2011. short paper
  
  Finding Deceptive Opinion Spam by Any Stretch of the Imagination.
  Myle Ott, Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie, and Jeffrey Hancock.
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2011.
  
  
• Connotation, Opinion, and Sentiment Analysis
  
  Connotation Lexicon: A Dash of Sentiment Beneath the Surface Meaning.
  Song Feng, Jun Seok Kang, Polina Kuznetsova and Yejin Choi.
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2013.
  *Project Page        *Data: Connotation lexicon
  Featured in Fast Company
  
  Where Not to Eat? Improving Public Policy by Predicting Hygiene Inspections Using Online Reviews.
  Jun Seok Kang, Polina Kuznetsova, Michael Luca and Yejin Choi.
  Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), short, 2013.
  *Project Page        *Data: Hygiene Inspection Corpus
  Featured in The Atlantic
  
  Learning General Connotation of Words using Graph-based Algorithms.
  Song Feng, Ritwik Bose, and Yejin Choi.
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2011.
  
  Hierarchical Sequential Learning for Extracting Opinions and their Attributes.
  Yejin Choi, and Claire Cardie.
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2010. short paper.
  
  Automatically Generating Annotator Rationales to Improve Sentiment Classification.
  Ainur Yessenalina, Yejin Choi, and Claire Cardie.
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2010. short paper.
  
  Fine-Grained Opinion Analysis: Structure-Aware Approaches
  Yejin Choi
  Ph.D. Thesis, 2010. Adapting a Polarity Lexicon Using Integer Linear Programming for Domain-Specific Sentiment Classification.
  Yejin Choi and Claire Cardie.
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2009.
  
  Learning with Compositional Semantics as Structural Inference for Subsentential Sentiment Analysis.
  Yejin Choi and Claire Cardie.
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2008.
  
  Identifying Expressions of Opinion in Context.
  Eric Breck, Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie.
  International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2007.
  
  Cornell System Description for the NTCIR-6 Opinion Task.
  Eric Breck, Yejin Choi, Veselin Stoyanov, and Claire Cardie.
  The 6th NTCIR Workshop Meeting , 2007.
  
  Joint Extraction of Entities and Relations for Opinion Recognition.
  Yejin Choi, Eric Breck, Claire Cardie.
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2006.
  
  Identifying Sources of Opinions with Conditional Random Fields and Extraction Patterns.
  Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie, Ellen Riloff, and Siddharth Patwardhan.
  Human Language Technology Conference/Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT-EMNLP), 2005.
  
  OpinionFinder: A system for subjectivity analysis.
  Theresa Wilson, Paul Hoffmann, Swapna Somasundaran, Jason Kessler, Janyce Wiebe, Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie, Ellen Riloff and Siddharth Patwardhan.
  A demo at Human Language Technology Conference/Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT-EMNLP), 2005.
  
  
• Web Ad Retrieval
  
  Using Landing Pages for Sponsored Search Ad Selection
  Yejin Choi, Marcus Fontoura, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josifovski, Mauricio Mediano, and Bo Pang.
  International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2010.
  
  
• Coreference Resolution
  
  Structured Local Training and Biased Potential Functions for Conditional Random Fields with Application to Coreference Resolution
  Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie.
  Human Language Technologies: the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), 2007.

Patents:

System and method for summarizing fine-grained opinions in text
C. Cardie, Y. Choi, E. Breck, V. Stoyanov
[Patent pending] filed by Jodange, LLC, 2007.

Sparse caching for streaming media.
A. Grigorovitch, Y. Choi, T. Carvalho.
[Patent 20050066063] filed by Microsoft Corporation, 2003.

Midstream determination of varying bandwidth availability.
T. Batterberry, A. Grigorovitch, A. Klemets, J. Stewart, Y. Choi
[Patent 20040267503] filed by Microsoft Corporation, 2003.

System and method for automatically recovering from failed network connections in streaming media scenarios.
Y. Choi, A. Grigorovitch, T. Batterberry
[Patent 20030236905] filed by Microsoft Corporation, 2002.