Fernando Pereira

Fernando Pereira is Distinguished Scientist at Google, where he leads projects in natural-language understanding and machine learning. His previous positions include chair of the Computer and Information Science department of the University of Pennsylvania, head of Machine Learning and Information Retrieval Research at AT&T Labs, and several roles at SRI International. He received a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 1982. He has over 120 research publications on computational linguistics, machine learning, bioinformatics, speech recognition, and logic programming, and several patents. He was elected AAAI Fellow in 1991 and ACM Fellow in 2010.

Google Publications

SLING: A framework for frame semantic parsing

Michael Ringgaard, Rahul Gupta, Fernando C. N. Pereira

arXiv (2017), pp. 9
Collective Entity Resolution with Multi-Focal Attention

Amir Globerson, Nevena Lazic, Soumen Chakrabarti, Amarnag Subramanya, Michael Ringaard, Fernando Pereira

ACL (2016)
Multinomial Loss on Held-out Data for the Sparse Non-negative Matrix Language Model

Ciprian Chelba, Fernando Pereira

ArXiv, Google (2015)
Plato: A Selective Context Model for Entity Resolution

Nevena Lazic, Amarnag Subramanya, Michael Ringgaard, Fernando Pereira

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, vol. 3 (2015), pp. 503-515
Yedalog: Exploring Knowledge at Scale

Brian Chin, Daniel von Dincklage, Vuk Ercegovac, Peter Hawkins, Mark S. Miller, Franz Och, Chris Olston, Fernando Pereira

1st Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2015), Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, Dagstuhl, Germany, pp. 63-78
Large Scale Distributed Acoustic Modeling With Back-off N-grams

Ciprian Chelba, Peng Xu, Fernando Pereira, Thomas Richardson

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 21 (2013), pp. 1158-1169
Large Scale Distributed Acoustic Modeling With Back-off N-grams

Ciprian Chelba, Peng Xu, Fernando Pereira, Thomas Richardson

ICSI, Berkeley, California (2013)
Distributed Acoustic Modeling with Back-off N-grams

Ciprian Chelba, Peng Xu, Fernando Pereira, Thomas Richardson

Proceedings of ICASSP 2012, IEEE, pp. 4129-4132
Controlling Complexity in Part-of-Speech Induction

Joao Graca, Kuzman Ganchev, Luisa Coheur, Fernando Pereira, Ben Taskar

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), vol. 41 (2011), pp. 527-551
Large-Scale Cross-Document Coreference Using Distributed Inference and Hierarchical Models

Sameer Singh, Amarnag Subramanya, Fernando Pereira, Andrew McCallum

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) (2011)
Posterior Sparsity in Dependency Grammar Induction

Jennifer Gillenwater, Kuzman Ganchev, Joao Graca, Fernando Pereira, Ben Taskar

Journal of Machine Learning Research, vol. 12 (2011), pp. 455-490
A theory of learning from different domains

Shai Ben-David, John Blitzer, Koby Crammer, Alex Kulesza, Fernando Pereira, Jennifer Vaughan

Machine Learning, vol. 79 (2010), pp. 151-175
Automatically incorporating new sources in keyword search-based data integration

Partha Pratim Talukdar, Zachary G. Ives, Fernando Pereira

SIGMOD Conference, ACM Press (2010), pp. 387-398
Distributed MAP Inference for Undirected Graphical Models

Sameer Singh, Amarnag Subramanya, Fernando Pereira, Andrew McCallum

Workshop on Learning on Cores, Clusters and Clouds (LCCC), Neural Information Processing Society (NIPS) (2010)
Efficient Graph-Based Semi-Supervised Learning of Structured Tagging Models

Amarnag Subramanya, Slav Petrov, Fernando Pereira

Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP '10)
Experiments in Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning Methods for Class-Instance Acquisition

Partha Pratim Talukdar, Fernando Pereira

48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010)
Exploiting Feature Covariance in High-Dimensional Online Learning

Justin Ma, Alex Kulesza, Mark Dredze, Koby Crammer, Lawrence Saul, Fernando Pereira

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, JMLR (2010), pp. 493-500
Sparsity in Dependency Grammar Induction

Jennifer Gillenwater, Kuzman Ganchev, João Graça, Fernando Pereira, Ben Taskar

48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010)
A transcription factor affinity-based code for mammalian transcription initiation

M Megraw, F Pereira, ST Jensen, U Ohler, AG Hatzigeorgiou

Genome Research, vol. 19 (2009), pp. 644-56
Gaussian Margin Machines

Koby Crammer, Mehryar Mohri, Fernando Pereira

Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2009), Clearwater Beach, Florida, pp. 105-112
Group Sparse Coding

Samy Bengio, Fernando Pereira, Yoram Singer, Dennis Strelow

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (2009)
Posterior vs. Parameter Sparsity in Latent Variable Models

Joao Graca, Kuzman Ganchev, Ben Taskar, Fernando Pereira

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22 (2009), pp. 664-672
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data

Alon Halevy, Peter Norvig, Fernando Pereira

IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 24 (2009), pp. 8-12
Confidence-Weighted Linear Classification

Mark Dredze, Koby Crammer, Fernando Pereira

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) (2008)
Generating Summary Keywords for Emails Using Topics

Mark Dredze, Hanna Wallach, Danny Puller, Fernando Pereira

Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
Intelligent Email: Reply and Attachment Prediction

Mark Dredze, Tova Brooks, Josh Carroll, Joshua Magarick, John Blitzer, Fernando Pereira

Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
Learning Bounds for Domain Adaptation

John Blitzer, Koby Crammer, Alex Kulesza, Fernando Pereira, Jennifer Wortman

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20, {MIT} Press, Cambridge, MA (2008)
Reading the Markets: Forecasting Public Opinion of Political Candidates by News Analysis

Kevin Lerman, Ari Gilder, Mark Dredze, Fernando Pereira

Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling) (2008)
Structured Learning with Approximate Inference

Alex Kulesza, Fernando Pereira

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20, {MIT} Press, Cambridge, MA (2008)
Weakly-Supervised Acquisition of Labeled Class Instances using Graph Random Walks

Partha Pratim Talukdar, Joseph Reisinger, Marius Pasca, Deepak Ravichandran, Rahul Bhagat, Fernando Pereira

Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-08), Association for Computational Linguistics, Honolulu, Hawaii (2008), pp. 582-590
Euclidean Embedding of Co-occurrence Data

Amir Globerson, Gal Chechik, Fernando Pereira, Naftali Tishby

Journal of Machine Learning Research, vol. 8 (2007), pp. 2265-2295
Frustratingly Hard Domain Adaptation for Dependency Parsing

Mark Dredze, John Blitzer, Partha Pratim Talukdar, Kuzman Ganchev, João V. Graça, Fernando Pereira

Proceedings of the CoNLL Shared Task Session of EMNLP-CoNLL 2007, pp. 1051-1055

Previous Publications

A rate-distortion one-class model and its applications to clustering

K. Crammer, P. Talukdar, F. Pereira

Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2008), Omnipress, pp. 184-191
Confidence-weighted linear classification

M. Dredze, K. Crammer, F. Pereira

Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2008), Omnipress, pp. 264-271
Evigan: a hidden variable model for integrating gene evidence for eukaryotic gene prediction

Qian Liu, Aaron J Mackey, David S Roos, Fernando C N Pereira

Bioinformatics, vol. 24 (2008), pp. 597-605
Intelligent Email: Aiding Users with AI

Mark Dredze, Hanna Wallach, Danny Puller, Tova Brooks, Josh Carroll, Joshua Magarick, John Blitzer, Fernando Pereira

American National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (2008)
Learning to Create Data-Integrating Queries

Partha Pratim Talukdar, Marie Jacob, M. Salman Mehmood, Koby Crammer, Zachary Ives, Fernando Pereira, Sudipto Guha

VLDB (2008)
Reranking candidate gene models with cross-species comparison for improved gene prediction

Qian Liu, Koby Crammer, Fernando C. Pereira, David S. Roos

BMC Bioinformatics, vol. 9 (2008), pp. 433
Speech Recognition with Weighted Finite-State Transducers

Mehryar Mohri, Fernando C. N. Pereira, Michael Riley

Handbook on Speech Processing and Speech Communication, Part E: Speech recognition, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany (2008)
Analysis of Representations for Domain Adaptation

Shai Ben-David, John Blitzer, Koby Crammer, Fernando Pereira

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (2007)
Biographies, Bollywood, Boom-boxes and Blenders: Domain Adaptation for Sentiment Classification

John Blitzer, Mark Dredze, Fernando Pereira

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic (2007), pp. 440-447
Global Discriminative Learning for Higher-Accuracy Computational Gene Prediction

Axel Bernal, Koby Crammer, Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, Fernando Pereira

PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 3 (2007)
Learning to join everything

Fernando Pereira

CIKM (2007), pp. 9-10
Penn/UMass/CHOP Biocreative II systems

Kuzman Ganchev, Koby Crammer, Fernando Pereira, Gideon Mann, Kedar Bellare, Andrew McCallum, Steven Carroll, Yang Jin, Peter White

Proceedings of the Second BioCreative Challenge Evaluation Workshop (2007), pp. 119-124
Semi-Automated Named Entity Annotation

Kuzman Ganchev, Fernando Pereira, Mark Mandel, Steven Carroll, Peter White

Proceedings of the Linguistic Annotation Workshop, Association for Computational Linguistics (2007), pp. 53-56
Speech Recognition with Weighted Finite-State Transducers

Mehryar Mohri, Fernando C. N. Pereira, Michael Riley

Handbook on Speech Processing and Speech Communication, Part E: Speech recognition, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany (2007)
The Need for Open Source Software in Machine Learning

Soren Sonnenburg, Mikio L. Braun, Cheng Soon Ong, Samy Bengio, Leon Bottou, Geoff Holmes, Yann LeCun, Klaus-Robert Mueller, Fernando Pereira, Carl-Edward Rasmussen, Gunnar Raetsch, Bernhard Schoelkopf, Alexander Smola, Pascal Vincent, Jason Weston, Robert C. Williamson

Journal of Machine Learning Research, vol. 8 (2007), pp. 2443-2466
Transductive structured classification through constrained min-cuts

Kuzman Ganchev, Fernando Pereira

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on TextGraphs: Graph-Based Algorithms for Natural Language Processing, Association for Computational Linguistics (2007), pp. 37-44
"Sorry I forgot the attachment": Email Attachment Prediction

Mark Dredze, John Blitzer, Fernando Pereira

3rd Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, Stanford, CA (2006)
A Context Pattern Induction Method for Named Entity Extraction

Partha Pratim Talukdar, Thorsten Brants, Mark Liberman, Fernando Pereira

Proceedings of CoNLL-X (2006), pp. 141-148
An automated procedure to identify biomedical articles that contain cancer-associated gene variants

Ryan McDonald, R Scott Winters, Claire K Ankuda, Joan A Murphy, Amy E Rogers, Fernando Pereira, Marc S Greenblatt, Peter S White

Human Mutation, vol. 27 (2006), pp. 957-64
Automated recognition of malignancy mentions in biomedical literature

Yang Jin, Ryan T. McDonald, Kevin Lerman, Mark A. Mandel, Steven Carroll, Mark Y. Liberman, Fernando C. Pereira, Raymond S. Winters, Peter S. White

BMC Bioinformatics, vol. 7 (2006), pp. 492
Domain Adaptation with Structural Correspondence Learning

John Blitzer, Ryan McDonald, Fernando Pereira

EMNLP 2006: 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pp. 120-128
Embedding Heterogeneous Data Using Statistical Models

Amir Globerson, Gal Chechik, Fernando Pereira, Naftali Tishby

AAAI (2006)
Multilingual Dependency Parsing with a Two-Stage Discriminative Parser

Ryan McDonald, Kevin Lerman, Fernando Pereira

Tenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-X) (2006)
Online Learning of Approximate Dependency Parsing Algorithms

Ryan McDonald, Fernando Pereira

Proceedings of EACL (2006)
Online Learning of Approximate Dependency Parsing Algorithms

Ryan McDonald, Fernando Pereira

11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2006, pp. 81-88
A Conditional Random Field for Discriminatively-trained Finite-state String Edit Distance

Andrew McCallum, Kedar Bellare, Fernando Pereira

Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2005)
Automatically annotating documents with normalized gene lists

Jeremiah Crim, Ryan McDonald, Fernando Pereira

BMC Bioinformatics (2005)
Distributed Latent Variable Models of Lexical Co-occurrences

John Blitzer, Amir Globerson, Fernando Pereira

Tenth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (2005)
Flexible Text Segmentation with Structured Multilabel Classification

Ryan McDonald, Koby Crammer, Fernando Pereira

Proceedings of HLT-EMNLP (2005)
Identifying gene and protein mentions in text using conditional random fields

Ryan McDonald, Fernando Pereira

BMC Bioinformatics (2005)
Non-Projective Dependency Parsing using Spanning Tree Algorithms

Ryan McDonald, Fernando Pereira, Kiril Ribarov, Jan Hajic

Proceedings of HLT-EMNLP (2005)
Non-Projective Dependency Parsing using Spanning Tree Algorithms

Ryan T. McDonald, Fernando Pereira, Kiril Ribarov, Jan Hajic

HLT/EMNLP (2005)
Online Large-Margin Training of Dependency Parsers

Ryan McDonald, Koby Crammer, Fernando Pereira

Proceedings of ACL (2005)
Online Large-Margin Training of Dependency Parsers

Ryan McDonald, Koby Crammer, Fernando Pereira

43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2005)
Reply Expectation Prediction for Email Management

Mark Dredze, John Blitzer, Fernando Pereira

CEAS (2005)
Reply Expectation Prediction for Email Management

Mark Dredze, John Blitzer, Fernando Pereira

2nd Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, Stanford, CA (2005)
Simple Algorithms for Complex Relation Extraction with Applications to Biomedical IE

Ryan McDonald, Seth Kulick, Fernando Pereira, Scott Winters, Yang Jin, Pete White

Proceedings of ACL (2005)
Simple Algorithms for Complex Relation Extraction with Applications to Biomedical IE

Ryan McDonald, Fernando Pereira, Seth Kulick, Scott Winters, Yang Jin, Pete White

43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2005)
Weighted Automata in Text and Speech Processing

Mehryar Mohri, Fernando Pereira, Michael Riley

arXiv, vol. abs/cs/0503077 (2005)
ATDD: An Algorithmic Tool for Domain Discovery in Protein Sequences

Stanislav Angelov, Sanjeev Khanna, Li Li, Fernando Pereira

Algorithms in Bioinformatics, 4th International Workshop (WABI 2004), Springer, pp. 206-217
An entity tagger for recognizing acquired genomic variations in cancer literature

Ryan McDonald, Scott Winters, Mark Mandel, Yang Jin, Pete White, Fernando Pereira

Bioinformatics (2004)
Case-Factor Diagrams for Structured Probabilistic Modeling

David A. McAllester, Michael Collins, Fernando Pereira

UAI (2004), pp. 382-391
Case-Factor Diagrams for Structured Probabilistic Modeling

David McAllester, Michael Collins, Fernando Pereira

Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (2004)
Euclidean Embedding of Co-Occurrence Data

Amir Globerson, Gal Chechik, Fernando C. Pereira, Naftali Tishby

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), MIT press, Cambridge, MA (2004), pp. 497-504
Hierarchical Distributed Representations for Statistical Language Modeling

John Blitzer, Kilian Q. Weinberger, Lawrence K. Saul, Fernando Pereira

NIPS (2004)
Hierarchical Distributed Representations for Statistical Language Modeling

John Blitzer, Kilian Weinberger, Lawrence Saul, Fernando Pereira

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 17, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (2004)
Shallow Parsing with Conditional Random Fields

Fei Sha, Fernando C. N. Pereira

HLT-NAACL (2003)
Weighted Finite-State Transducers in Speech Recognition

Mehryar Mohri, Fernando C. N. Pereira, Michael Riley

Computer Speech and Language, vol. 16 (2002), pp. 69-88
Weighted finite-state transducers in speech recognition

Mehryar Mohri, Fernando Pereira, Michael Riley

Computer Speech & Language, vol. 16 (2002), pp. 69-88
Conditional Random Fields: Probabilistic Models for Segmenting and Labeling Sequence Data

John Lafferty, Andrew McCallum, Fernando Pereira

Proceedings of ICML-01 (2001), pp. 282-289
Formal Grammar and Information Theory: Together Again?

Fernando Pereira

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 358 (2000), pp. 1239-1253
Machine Learning for Efficient Natural-Language Processing

Fernando C. N. Pereira

CPM (2000), pp. 11
Maximum Entropy Markov Models for Information Extraction and Segmentation

Andrew McCallum, Dayne Freitag, Fernando Pereira

Machine Learning: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference (ICML 2000), Stanford, California, pp. 591-598
The Design Principles of a Weighted Finite-State Transducer Library

Mehryar Mohri, Fernando C. N. Pereira, Michael Riley

Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 231 (2000), pp. 17-32
The information bottleneck method

Naftali Tishby, Fernando C. Pereira, William Bialek

arXiv, vol. physics/0004057 (2000)
Weighted Finite-State Transducers in Speech Recognition

Mehryar Mohri, Fernando C. N. Pereira, Michael Riley

Proceedings of the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop, Automatic Speech Recognition: Challenges for the new Millenium (ASR2000), Paris, France
AT&T at TREC-8

Amit Singhal, Steven P. Abney, Michiel Bacchiani, Michael Collins, Donald Hindle, Fernando C. N. Pereira

TREC (1999)
An Efficient Extension to Mixture Techniques for Prediction and Decision Trees

Fernando C. N. Pereira, Yoram Singer

Machine Learning, vol. 36 (1999), pp. 183-199
Declarative Programming for a Messy World

Fernando C. N. Pereira

ICLP (1999), pp. 3-5
Distributional Similarity Models: Clustering vs.~Nearest Neighbors

Lillian Lee, Fernando Pereira

37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, California (1999), pp. 33-40
Document Expansion for Speech Retrieval

Amit Singhal, Fernando C. N. Pereira

SIGIR (1999), pp. 34-41
Efficient General Lattice Generation and Rescoring

Andrej Ljolje, Fernando Pereira, Michael Riley

EUROSPEECH 99 (1999), pp. 1251-1254
Finding Information in Audio: A New Paradigm for Audio Browsing and Retrieval

Julia Hirschberg, Steve Whittaker, Don Hindle, Fernando Pereira, Amit Singhal

Accessing Information in Spoken Audio: Proceedings of the ESCA ETRW Workshop, Cambridge, England (1999), pp. 117-122
Multimedia Standards: Present and Future

Fernando C. N. Pereira

ICMCS, Vol. 1 (1999), pp. 145-146
Quantifiers, Anaphora, and Intensionality

Mary Dalrymple, John Lamping, Fernando Pereira, Vijay Saraswat

Semantics and Syntax in Lexical Functional Grammar, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1999), pp. 39-89
Relating Probabilistic Grammars and Automata

Steven P. Abney, David A. McAllester, Fernando Pereira

ACL (1999)
Relating Probabilistic Grammars and Automata

Steven Abney, David McAllester, Fernando Pereira

37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, California (1999), pp. 542-549
SCAN: Designing and Evaluating User Interfaces to Support Retrieval From Speech Archives

Steve Whittaker, Julia Hirschberg, John Choi, Donald Hindle, Fernando C. N. Pereira, Amit Singhal

SIGIR (1999), pp. 26-33
Similarity-Based Models of Word Cooccurrence Probabilities

Ido Dagan, Lillian Lee, Fernando C. N. Pereira

Machine Learning, vol. 34 (1999), pp. 43-69
The Information Bottleneck Method

Naftali Z. Tishby, Fernando Pereira, William Bialek

Proceedings of the 37th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Urbana, Illinois (1999)
A Rational Design for a Weighted Finite-State Transducer Library

Mehryar Mohri, Fernando C. N. Pereira, Michael Riley

Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Implementing Automata (WIA '97), Springer-Verlag, Berlin-NY (1998), pp. 144-158
AT&T at TREC-7

Amit Singhal, John Choi, Donald Hindle, David D. Lewis, Fernando C. N. Pereira

TREC (1998), pp. 186-198
Dynamic Compilation of Weighted Context-Free Grammars

Mehryar Mohri, Fernando Pereira

Proceedings of COLING-ACL '98, Montreal, Canada (1998), pp. 891-897
Dynamic Compilation of Weighted Context-Free Grammars

Mehryar Mohri, Fernando C. N. Pereira

36th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '98), Proceedings of the Conference, Montréal, Québec, Canada (1998), pp. 891-897
Full Expansion of Context-Dependent Networks in Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition

Mehryar Mohri, Michael Riley, Don Hindle, Andrej Ljolje, Fernando C. N. Pereira

Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP '98), Seattle, Washington (1998)
Modelling Divergent Production: A multi-domain approach

F. Pereira

ECAI (1998), pp. 131-132
SCAN - Speech Content Based Audio Navigator: A Systems Overview

John Choi, Don Hindle, Julia Hirschberg, Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau, Christine Nakatani, Fernando Pereira, Amit Singhal, Steve Whittaker

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Sydney (1998)
A Rational Design for a Weighted Finite-State Transducer Library

Mehryar Mohri, Fernando Pereira, Michael Riley

WIA'97: Proceedings of the Workshop on Implementing Automata, Springer-Verlag (1997)
A Rational Design for a Weighted Finite-State Transducer Library

Mehryar Mohri, Fernando C. N. Pereira, Michael Riley

Proceedings of the Workshop on Implementing Automata (WIA '97), London, Ontario, Canada, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada (1997)
AT&T at TREC-6: SDR Track

Amit Singhal, John Choi, Donald Hindle, Fernando C. N. Pereira

TREC (1997), pp. 227-232
Aggregate and Mixed-Order Markov Models for Statistical Language Processing

Lawrence Saul, Fernando Pereira

Proceedings of the Second Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Association for Computational Linguistics, Somerset, NJ. Distributed by Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, CA (1997), pp. 81-89
Finite-State Approximation of Phrase-Structure Grammars

Fernando Pereira, Rebecca N. Wright

Finite-State Language Processing, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1997), pp. 149-173
Quantifiers, Anaphora, and Intensionality

Mary Dalrymple, John Lamping, Fernando C. N. Pereira, Vijay A. Saraswat

Journal of Logic, Language, and Information, vol. 6, no. 3 (1997), pp. 219-273
Similarity-Based Methods For Word Sense Disambiguation

Ido Dagan, Lillian Lee, Fernando C. N. Pereira

arXiv (1997)
Similarity-Based Methods For Word Sense Disambiguation

Ido Dagan, Lillian Lee, Fernando Pereira

35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, California (1997), pp. 56-63
Speech Recognition by Composition of Weighted Finite Automata

Fernando Pereira, Michael Riley

Finite-State Language Processing, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1997), pp. 431-453
Transducer Composition for Context-Dependent Network Expansion

Michael Riley, Fernando Pereira, Mehryar Mohri

EuroSpeech'97, European Speech Communication Association, Genova, Italy (1997), pp. 1427-1430
Transducer Composition for Context-Dependent Network Expansion

Michael Riley, Fernando C. N. Pereira, Mehryar Mohri

Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech '97), Rhodes, Greece (1997)
A Deductive Account of Quantification in LFG

Mary Dalrymple, John Lamping, Fernando Pereira, Vijay Saraswat

Quantifiers, Deduction, and Context, {CSLI} Publications, Stanford, California (1996), pp. 33-57
Intensional Verbs Without Type-Raising or Lexical Ambiguity

Mary Dalrymple, John Lamping, Fernando Pereira, Vijay Saraswat

Logic, Language and Computation (Volume 1), {CSLI} Publications, Stanford, California (1996), pp. 167-182
Interactions of Scope and Ellipsis

Stuart M. Shieber, Fernando Pereira, Mary Dalrymple

Linguistics and Philosophy, vol. 19 (1996), pp. 527-552
Language, Computation and Artificial Intelligence

Fernando C. N. Pereira

ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 28 (1996), pp. 9
Rational Power Series in Text and Speech Processing

Mehryar Mohri, Fernando C. N. Pereira, Michael Riley

Graduate course, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Computer Science, Philadelphia, PA (1996)
Speech Recognition by Composition of Weighted Finite Automata

Fernando C. N. Pereira, Michael Riley

arXiv (1996)
Weighted Automata in Text and Speech Processing

Mehryar Mohri, Fernando C. N. Pereira, Michael Riley

Proceedings of the 12th biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-96), Workshop on Extended finite state models of language, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, Budapest, Hungary (1996)
Beyond Word N-Grams

Fernando Pereira, Yoram Singer, Naftali Z. Tishby

Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Very Large Corpora, Association for Computational Linguistics, Columbus, Ohio (1995), pp. 95-106
Design of a Linguistic Postprocessor using Variable Memory Length Markov Models

Isabelle Guyon, Fernando Pereira

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, California (1995), pp. 454-457
Ellipsis and Higher-Order Unification

Mary Dalrymple, Stuart M. Shieber, Fernando C. N. Pereira

arXiv (1995)
Linear Logic for Meaning Assembly

Mary Dalrymple, John Lamping, Fernando C. N. Pereira, Vijay A. Saraswat

arXiv (1995)
Principles and Implementation of Deductive Parsing

Stuart M. Shieber, Yves Schabes, Fernando Pereira

Journal of Logic Programming, vol. 24 (1995), pp. 3-36
The AT&T 60,000 Word Speech-to-Text System

Michael Riley, Andrej Ljolje, Don Hindle, Fernando Pereira

Eurospeech'95: ESCA 4th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Madrid, Spain (1995), pp. 207-210
Frequencies vs Biases: Machine Learning Problems in Natural Language Processing (Extended Abstract)

Fernando C. N. Pereira

COLT (1994), pp. 12
Frequencies vs. Biases: Machine Learning Problems in Natural Language Processing - Abstract

Fernando C. N. Pereira

ICML (1994), pp. 380
Similarity-Based Estimation of Word Cooccurrence Probabilities

Ido Dagan, Fernando Pereira, Lillian Lee

32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, California (1994), pp. 272-278
Weighted Rational Transductions and their Application to Human Language Processing

Fernando Pereira, Michael Riley, Richard W. Sproat

Human Language Technology Workshop, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, California (1994), pp. 262-267
Distributional Clustering of English Words

Fernando Pereira, Naftali Z. Tishby, Lillian Lee

30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, Columbus, Ohio (1993), pp. 183-190
Introduction to Special Issue on Natural Language Processing

Fernando Pereira, Barbara J. Grosz

Artificial Intelligence, vol. 63 (1993), pp. 1-15
A spoken language translator for restricted-domain context-free languages

David B. Roe, Pedro J. Moreno, Richard W. Sproat, Fernando Pereira, Michael Riley, Alejandro Macarrón

Speech Communication, vol. 11 (1992), pp. 311-319
Efficient Grammar Processing for a Spoken Language Translation System

David B. Roe, Pedro J. Moreno, Richard W. Sproat, Fernando Pereira, Michael Riley, Alejandro Macarrón

Proceedings of ICASSP, IEEE, San Francisco, California (1992), pp. 213-216
Empirical Properties of Finite State Approximations for Phrase Structure Grammars

Fernando Pereira, David B. Roe

Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Banff, Alberta (1992), pp. 261-264
Inside-Outside Reestimation from Partially Bracketed Corpora

Fernando Pereira, Yves Schabes

30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, Newark, Delaware (1992), pp. 128-135
Quantifier Scoping

Douglas B. Moran, Fernando Pereira

The Core Language Engine, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1992), pp. 149-172
Deductive Interpretation

Fernando Pereira

Natural Language and Speech, Springer-Verlag (1991), pp. 116-133
Ellipsis and Higher-Order Unification

Mary Dalrymple, Stuart M. Shieber, Fernando Pereira

Linguistics and Philosophy, vol. 14 (1991), pp. 399-452
Finite-State Approximation of Phrase-Structure Grammars

Fernando Pereira, Rebecca N. Wright

29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, Berkeley, California (1991), pp. 246-255
Incremental Interpretation

Fernando Pereira, Martha E. Pollack

Artificial Intelligence, vol. 50 (1991), pp. 37-82
Semantic Interpretation as Higher-Order Deduction

Fernando Pereira

Logics in AI: European Workshop JELIA'90, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, Amsterdam, Holland (1991), pp. 78-96
Toward a Spoken Language Translator for Restricted-Domain Context-Free Languages

David B. Roe, Fernando Pereira, Richard W. Sproat, Michael Riley, Pedro J. Moreno, Alejandro Macarrón

EUROSPEECH 91 -- 2nd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Genova, Italy (1991), pp. 1063-1066
Categorial Semantics and Scoping

Fernando Pereira

Computational Linguistics, vol. 16 (1990), pp. 1-10
Finite-State Approximations of Grammars

Fernando Pereira

Proceedings of the Second Speech and Natural Language Workshop (1990), pp. 20-25
Prolog and Natural-Language Analysis: into the Third Decade

Fernando Pereira

Logic Programming: Proceedings of the 1990 North American Conference, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Austin, Texas, pp. 813-832
Semantic-Head-Driven Generation

Stuart M. Shieber, Gertjan van Noord, Fernando Pereira, Robert C. Moore

Computational Linguistics, vol. 16 (1990), pp. 30-42
A Calculus for Semantic Composition and Scoping

Fernando Pereira

27th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (1989), pp. 152-160
A Semantic-Head-Driven Generation Algorithm for Unification-Based Formalisms

Stuart M. Shieber, Gertjan van Noord, Robert C. Moore, Fernando C. N. Pereira

ACL (1989), pp. 7-17
A Semantic-Head-Driven Generation Algorithm for Unification-Based Formalisms

Stuart M. Shieber, Gertjan van Noord, Robert C. Moore, Fernando Pereira

27th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (1989), pp. 7-17
Integrating Speech and Natural Language Processing

Robert C. Moore, Fernando Pereira, Hy Murveit

First Speech and Natural Language Workshop (1989), pp. 243-247
Synergistic Use of Direct Manipulation and Natural Language

Phil R. Cohen, Mary Dalrymple, Douglas B. Moran, Fernando Pereira, J. W. Sullivan, R. A. Gargan, Jr., J. L. Schlossberg, S. W. Tyler

Proceedings of CHI'89, Austin, Texas (1989)
An Integrated Framework for Semantic and Pragmatic Interpretation

Martha E. Pollack, Fernando Pereira

26th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, Buffalo, New York (1988), pp. 75-86
Grammars and Logics of Partial Information

Fernando Pereira

Logic Programming: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference, MIT Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, Melbourne, Australia (1987), pp. 989-1013
Prolog and Natural-Language Analysis

Fernando Pereira, Stuart M. Shieber

Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, California (1987)
TEAM: An Experiment in the Design of Transportable Natural Language Interfaces

Barbara J. Grosz, Douglas E. Appelt, Paul A. Martin, Fernando Pereira

Artificial Intelligence, vol. 32 (1987), pp. 173-243
A Sheaf-Theoretic Model of Concurrency

Luis F. Monteiro, Fernando Pereira

Symposium on Logic and Computer Science, IEEE Computer Society Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1986), pp. 66-76
Can Drawing Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style

Fernando Pereira

Logic Programming and Its Applications, Ablex, Norwood, New Jersey (1986), pp. 175-187
TEAM: An Experimental Transportable Natural-Language Interface

Paul A. Martin, Douglas E. Appelt, Barbara J. Grosz, Fernando C. N. Pereira

FJCC (1986), pp. 260-267
A New Characterization of Attachment Preferences

Fernando Pereira

Natural Language Parsing---Psychological, Computational and Theoretical perspectives, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England (1985), pp. 307-319
A Structure-Sharing Representation for Unification-Based Grammar Formalisms

Fernando Pereira

23rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, Chicago, Illinois (1985), pp. 137-144
An Overview of Automated Reasoning and Related Fields

L. Wos, Fernando Pereira, Robert Hong, Robert S. Boyer, J Strother Moore, W. W. Bledsoe, L. J. Henschen, Bruce G. Buchanan, Graham Wrightson, Cordell Green

Journal of Automated Reasoning, vol. 1 (1985), pp. 5-48
The Semantics of Grammar Formalisms Seen as Computer Languages

Fernando Pereira, Stuart M. Shieber

Proceedings of COLING 84, Association for Computational Linguistics, Stanford, California (1984), pp. 123-129
A Fact Dependency System for the Logic Programmer

Peter S. G. Swinson, Fernando Pereira, Aart Bijl

Computer-Aided Design, vol. 14 (1983), pp. 235-243
Can Drawing Be Liberated From the Von Neumann Style?

Fernando C. N. Pereira

Databases for Business and Office Applications (1983), pp. 184-190
Parsing as Deduction

Fernando Pereira, David H. D. Warren

21st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1983), pp. 137-144
Transportability and Generality in a Natural-Language Interface System

Paul A. Martin, Douglas E. Appelt, Fernando Pereira

Proceedings of the Eight International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (1983), pp. 573-581
An Efficient Easily Adaptable System for Interpreting Natural Language Queries

David H. D. Warren, Fernando Pereira

Computational Linguistics, vol. 8 (1982), pp. 110-122
Extraposition Grammars

Fernando Pereira

Computational Linguistics, vol. 7 (1981), pp. 243-256
Definite Clause Grammars for Language Analysis---a Survey of the Formalism and a Comparison with Augmented Transition Networks

Fernando Pereira, David H. D. Warren

Artificial Intelligence, vol. 13 (1980), pp. 231-278
Prolog -- The Language and its Implementation Compared with Lisp

David H. D. Warren, Luis M. Pereira, Fernando Pereira

Proceedings of the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Programming Languages, Rochester, New York (1977), pp. 109-115

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