Publications
Stephen Wan
Research Scientist (CSIRO)

Contact Details
CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences
Building E6B, Macquarie University Campus
Herring Road, North Ryde NSW 2113, Australia
Locked Bag 17, North Ryde, NSW 1670, Australia
E-mail: Stephen.Wan@csiro.au
Telephone: (02) 9325 3142
Fax: (02) 9325 3200

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  • Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Robert Dale, Cecile Paris (2010) Spanning Tree Approaches for Statistical Sentence Generation. In Krahmer, E., Theune, M., eds.: Empirical
    Methods in Natural Language Generation. Volume 5980 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg
     

  • Stephen Wan, Cecile Paris, and Robert Dale (2010) Supporting Browsing-Specific Information Needs: Introducing the Citation-Sensitive In-Browser Summariser. To Appear in the Journal of Web Semantics.
     

  • Cecile Paris, Stephen Wan and Paul Thomas (2010) Focused and Aggregated Search: A Perspective from Natural Language Generation. To appear in Information Retrieval, Springer, Berline/Heidelberg.
     

  • Stephen Wan, Cecile Paris, and Robert Dale (2009) Supporting Browsing-Specific Information Needs: Introducing the Citation-Sensitive In-Browser Summariser. To Appear in the Journal of Web Semantics.
     

  • Rowlands, Tom, Thomas, Paul and Wan, Stephen (2009). Web Indexing on a Diet: Template Removal with the Sandwich Algorithm. In Proc. ADCS 2009.
     

  • Stephen Wan, Cécile Paris, Michael Muthukrishna, and Robert Dale (2009) Designing a Citation-Sensitive Research Tool: An Initial Study of Browsing-Specific Information Needs. In the Proceedings of the Workshop on text and citation analysis for scholarly digital libraries (NLPIR4DL). Singapore, Singapore.
     

  • C. Paris and S. Wan. (2009) Capturing the User's Reading Context for Tailoring Summaries. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Presentation 2009 (UMAP 2009).
     

  • Stephen Wan, Cécile Paris, Robert Dale (2009) Whetting the Appetite of Scientists:
    Producing Summaries Tailored to the Citation Context
    . To appear in the Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2009), Austin, Texas.
     

  • Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Robert Dale and Cécile Paris (2009) Improving Grammaticality in Statistical Sentence Generation: Introducing a Dependency Spanning Tree Algorithm with an Argument Satisfaction Model. In the Proceedings of Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics(EACL 2009). Athens, Greece.
     

  • Stephen Wan and Cécile Paris (2008) Experimenting with Clause Segmentation for Text Summarization. In the Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference 2008.
     

  • Stephen Wan, Cécile Paris and Alex Krumpholz (2008). From Aggravated to Aggregated Search: Improving Utility Through Coherent Organisation of an Answer Space. In Proceedings of the SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Aggregated Search, Singapore, July 24th, 2008.
     

  • Stephen Wan, Robert Dale, Mark Dras and Cecile Paris (2008) Seed and Grow: Augmenting Statistically Generated Summary Sentences using Schematic Word Patterns. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2008), 543-552. Hawaii, USA.
     

  • Stephen Wan and Cécile Paris (2008) In-Browser Summarisation: Generating Elaborative Summaries Biased Towards the Reading Context.  In the Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics: HLT -- Short Papers. Columbus, Ohio. [PDF]
     

  • Stephen Wan, Robert Dale, Mark Dras, Cécile Paris (2007) Global Revision in Summarisation: Generating Novel Sentences with Prim's Algorithm. In the Proceedings of PACLING 2007 - 10th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics. Melbourne, Australia. [PDF]
     

  • Andrew Mutton, Mark Dras, Stephen Wan and Robert Dale (2007) GLEU: Automatic Evaluation of Sentence-Level Fluency. In the Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics. Prague, Czech Republic. [PDF]
     

  • Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Robert Dale and Cecile Paris (2006) Using Dependency-based Features to Take the "Para-farce" out of Paraphrase. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2006 (ALTW 2006), 131-138. Sydney, Australia
     

  • D. Mollá and S. Wan (2006)  Macquarie University at DUC 2006: Question Answering for Summarisation . Proceedings DUC 2006, 62-69. [PDF]
     

  • Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Robert Dale and Cécile Paris (2005) Towards statistical paraphrase generation: preliminary evaluations of grammaticality.  In the Proceedings of The 3rd International Workshop on Paraphrasing (IWP2005) at IJCNLP 2005. Jeju Island, South Korea. [PDF]
     

  • Stephen Wan, Robert Dale, Mark Dras and Cécile Paris (2005) Statistically Generated Summary Sentences: A Preliminary Evaluation of Verisimilitude using Precision of Dependency Relations. In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation (UCNLG'05) at Corpus Linguistics 2005.  Birmingham, UK. [PDF]
     

  • Stephen Wan, Robert Dale, Mark Dras, and Cecile Paris. (2005) Searching for Grammaticality: Propagating Dependencies in the Viterbi Algorithm. In the Proceedings of the 10th European Natural Language Generation Workshop. Aberdeen Scotland. [PDF]
     

  • Stephen Wan and Kathleen McKeown. (2004) Generating Overview Summaries of Ongoing Email Thread Discussions. In Proceedings of COLING 2004, the20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Geneva, Switzerland. [PDF]
     

  • Stephen Wan, Robert Dale, Mark Dras, Cécile Paris. (2003) Straight to the Point: Discovering Themes for Summary Generation.  In the Proceedings of the Australian Workshop on Natural Language Processing 2003, Melbourne Australia. [postscript, 746K]
     

  • Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Cécile Paris, Robert Dale. (2003) Using Thematic Information in Statistical Headline Generation. In "The Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual Summarization and Question Answering" at ACL 2003, July 11, Sapporo, Japan. [PDF, 2.4M]
     

  • C. Paris, M. Wu, A-M Vercoustre, S. Wan, P. Wilkins and R. Wilkinson (2003). An Empirical Study of the Effect of Coherent and Tailored Document Delivery as an Interface to Organizational Websites.  In The Proceedings of the Adaptive Hypermedia Workshop at the 2003 User Modelling Conference, Pittsburgh, USA, June 22, 2003. pp 133 - 144.
     

  • Nathalie Colineau, Cécile Paris, Stephen Wan. (2001) Dynamic Content Presentation. In Proceedings of the 6th Australian Document Computing Symposium; Coffs Harbour, Australia. [postscript, 2.1M]

  • Nathalie Colineau and Stephen Wan. (2001) Mobile delivery of customised information using Natural Language Generation. In Monitor (Special Issue on Wireless Communication Special), 26 (3), September-November 2001. pp 27 - 31. [PDF, 5.9M]

  • Cécile Paris, Stephen Wan, Ross Wilkinson and Mingfang Wu. (2001). Generating Personal Travel Guides – and who wants them? In Proceedings of the International Conference on User Modelling (UM2001); Sonthofen, Germany, July 13-18, 2001. [PDF, 19k]

  • Stephen Wan. (2001)  Merging Sentences using Shallow Semantic Analysis. In the Proceedings of the Australian Workshop on Natural Language Processing 2001, Sydney, Australia. [postscript, 416k]

  • Cécile Paris, Stephen Wan, Ross Wilkinson, MingFang Wu. (2001)  Generating Personal Travel Guides – on demand, on the fly, on the go. In the Proceedings of the Australian Workshop on Natural Language Processing 2001, Sydney, Australia. [postscript, 497k]

  • Ross Wilkinson, ShiJian Lu, Francois Paradis, Cécile Paris, Stephen Wan, and Mingfang Wu. (2000) Generating Personal Travel Guides from Discourse Plans. In Proceedings of International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems. Trento, Italy, August, 2000. [postscript, 464k]

  • Wan, Stephen and Verspoor, Cornelia Maria. (1998).
    Automatic English-Chinese name transliteration for development of multilingual resources. In Proceedings of COLING-ACL'98, the joint meeting of 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Montreal, Canada. [postscript, 368k]