Research

My work is on natural language generation from formal mathematics proofs, specifically those produced by the Nuprl system. As the first step in this project, I developed a study to examine how people translate formal proofs created by Nuprl to English proofs. This study was administered via the web and is still available on-line.We have an initial version of the system running based on our findings from this study.

My advisors on this project are Robert Constable and Claire Cardie and I am a member of the Nuprl research group. The libraries of formal mathematics that we generate text from are available on the Nuprl group page, as well as information on other projects going on within the group.

Sample Results

Texts generated automatically by our system (as described in the AAAI99 paper below) are available here.

 

Papers

Amanda M. Holland-Minkley, Regina Barzilay, and Robert Constable. Verbalization of High-Level Formal Proofs. Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (to appear) (postscript)

 

Informal Writing and Presentations

"Generating Text from High-Level Formal Proofs", Second Annual Graduate Conference of the Northeastern Cognitive Science Society (NECCS), University of Pennsylvania, April 30-May 1, 1999

"Verbalization of High-Level Formal Proofs", Prl Seminar, Cornell University, February 1, 1999

Informal Discussion of the Motivation of the Project of Generating Text from Nuprl Proofs, Fall 1998

Informal Discussion of the Study to Create a Corpus of Human-Generated Texts, Fall 1998

 

Related Web Pages

Natural Language Generation/Processing

The Computation and Language E-Print Archive: papers on computational linguistics, natural-language processing, speech processing and related fields from 1994 to present

Relevant Conferences and Organizations

American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

General Computer Science Resources

Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies: searchable archive of BibTeX for tons of computer science articles and books, culled from over 1000 different bibliographies

Common Lisp: The Language, 2nd Edition: on-line version of book by Guy L. Steele Jr.

LNCS/LNAI Home Page

Lecture Notes in Computer Science WWW-Database: covers volumes 500 to the present; has bibliographic information and abstracts