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2009

• OntoNotes: A Large Training Corpus for Enhanced Processing
  Ralph Weischedel, Eduard Hovy, Mitchell Marcus, Martha Palmer, Robert Belvin,
  Sameer Pradhan, Lance Ramshaw and Nianwen Xue
  to appear as chapter in the DARPA Global Autonomous Language Exploitation (GALE) Book.

• OntoNotes: The 90% Solution
  Sameer Pradhan and Nianwen Xue
  Tutorial presented at the Human Language Technology Conference, Boulder, CO, 2009.

2008

• Towards Robust Semantic Role Labeling
  Sameer Pradhan, Wayne Ward and James H. Martin
  Computational Linguistics Special Issue on Semantic Role Labeling, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 289-310, 2008.

2007

• OntoNotes: A Unified Relational Semantic Representation
  Sameer Pradhan, Eduard Hovy, Mitch Marcus, Martha Palmer, Lance Ramshaw, Ralph Weischedel
  invited paper, International Journal of Semantic Computing, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 405-419, 2007.
• OntoNotes: A Unified Relational Semantic Representation
  Sameer Pradhan, Eduard Hovy, Mitchell Marcus, Martha Palmer, Lance Ramshaw, Ralph Weischedel
  in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC),
  Irvine, CA, Sep. 17-19, 2007 Best Paper Award
  
• Unrestricted Coreference: Identifying Entities and Events in OntoNotes
  Sameer Pradhan, Lance Ramshaw, Ralph Weischedel, Jessica MacBride, Linnea Micciulla
  in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC),
  Irvine, CA, Sep. 17-19, 2007
  
• Towards Robust Semantic Role Labeling
  Sameer Pradhan, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin
  in Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference/North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting (HLT/NAACL-2007),
  Rochester, NY, April 22-27, 2007

2006

• Robust Semantic Role Labeling
  Sameer Pradhan, PhD Thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, 2006.
  

2005

• Support Vector Learning for Semantic Argument Classification
  Sameer Pradhan, Kadri Hacioglu, Valerie Krugler, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin, Daniel Jurafsky
  Machine Learning, Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 11-39, 2005
• Semantic Role Labeling Using Different Syntactic Views
  Sameer Pradhan, Wayne Ward, Kadri Hacioglu, James H. Martin, Daniel Jurafsky
  in Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 43rd annual meeting (ACL-2005),
  Ann Arbor, MI, June 25-30, 2005
• Semantic Role Chunking Combining Complementary Syntactic Views
  Sameer Pradhan, Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin, Daniel Jurafsky
  in Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2005),
  Ann Arbor, MI, June 29-30, 2005

2004

• Shallow Semantic Parsing Using Support Vector Machines
  Sameer Pradhan, Wayne Ward, Kadri Hacioglu, James H. Martin, Daniel Jurafsky
  in Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference/North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting (HLT/NAACL-2004),
  Boston, MA, May 2-7, 2004
• Parsing Arguments of Nominalizations in English and Chinese
  Sameer Pradhan, Sun, H., Wayne Ward, James H. Martin, Daniel Jurafsky
  in Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference/North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting (HLT/NAACL-2004),
  Boston, MA, May 2-7, 2004
• Mixing Weak Learners in Semantic Parsing
  Rodney Nielsen and Sameer Pradhan
  in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2004),
  Barcelona, Spain, July 25-26, 2004
• Semantic Role Labeling by Tagging Syntactic Chunks
  Kadri Hacioglu, Sameer Pradhan, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin, Daniel Jurafsky
  in Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Natural Language Learning (CONLL-2004),
  Boston, MA, May 6-7, 2004

2003

• Semantic Role Parsing: Adding Semantic Structure to Unstructured Text
  Sameer Pradhan, Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin, Daniel Jurafsky
  in Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM-2003),
  Melbourne, FL, Nov. 19-22, 2003

2002

• Using Semantic Representations in Question Answering
  Sameer Pradhan, Valerie Krugler, Wayne Ward, Daniel Jurafsky, James H. Martin
  in Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2002),
  Bombay, India, Dec. 2002, pp. 195-203
• Estimating Semantic Confidence for Spoken Dialogue Systems
  Sameer Pradhan and Wayne Ward
  in Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2002),
  Orlando, Florida, May 2002
• Building a Foundation System for Producing Short Answers to Factual Questions
  Sameer Pradhan, Gabriel Illouz, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Andrew Schlaikjer, Valerie Krugler, Elena Filatova,
  Pablo Duboue, Hong Yu, Rebecca Passonneau, Steven Bethard, Vasilis Hatzivassiloglou, Wayne Ward,
  Daniel Jurafsky, Kathy McKeown, James H. Martin
  in Proceedings of Text REtrieval Conference (TREC),
  Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 19-22, 2002

< 2002

• University of Colorado Dialog Systems for Travel and Navigation
  Bryan Pellom, Wayne Ward, John Hansen, Kadri Hacioglu, Jianping Zhang, Xiuyang Yu, Sameer Pradhan
  in Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference (HLT-2001),
  San Diego, March 2001
• User-Centered Agents for Structured Information Location
  Xindong Wu, Daniel Ngu, Sameer Pradhan
  Electronic Commerce Agents, Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Supply and Demad
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2033, Springer 2001, 323-331.
• The CU Communicator: An Architecture for Dialogue Systems
  Bryan Pellom, Wayne Ward, and Sameer Pradhan
  Proceedings of the sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, October 2000.
• Virtual Manufacturing Information System Using Java and JDBC
  Sameer Pradhan, and Wilfred Huang
  Proceedings of the twenty-third International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, 1997, 255-258.