Sylvia Weber Russell, Affiliate Associate Professor
swr@cs.unh.edu
Department of Computer Science
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
03824, USA
Professor Sylvia Weber Russell received her
Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics from Stanford University in 1975.
In 1979 she joined the faculty of the University of New Hampshire,
where she is now an Affiliate Associate Professor of Computer Science.
Professor Russell has directed 1 Ph.D. thesis and 4 Master's theses.
She is the author or coauthor of 20 papers.
Research Interests
Professor Russell's research interests concern semantics issues in natural
language understanding, including metaphor, idioms and nominal compounds.
Recent Publications
Figurative Language
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"Computer Interpretation of Metaphoric Phrases."
Walter DeGruyter, Inc., Boston/Berlin (2015).
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"MAP: An abstraction-based metaphor analysis program
for overcoming cross-modal challenges."
In A. Neustein & J. Markowitz (Eds.), Where Humans Meet Machines:
Innovative Solutions to Knotty Natural Language Problems.
Springer Verlag, Heidelberg/New York (2013).
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"Abstraction as a Basis for Computational Interpretation of Creative
Cross-Modal Metaphor."
International Journal of Speech Technology, 11 (3), pp. 125-134 (2009).
DOI: 10.1007/s10772-009-9042-8
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"The Role of an Abstract Ontology in the Computational Interpretation
of Creative Cross-Modal Metaphor."
In B. Sharp & M. Zock (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop
on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science
(NLPCS 2008),
Barcelona, Spain, June 12, 2008.
- (Lead author, with
Ingrid Fischer
and Ricarda Dormeyer)
"The Cat and the Brocaded Bag: Using Metaphor Analysis to Process Creative Idioms."
In B. Sharp & M. Zock (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop
on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science
(NLPCS 2007),
Funchal, Portugal, June 12-13, 2007.
- (With Ricarda Dormeyer and
Ingrid Fischer)
"A lexicon for metaphors and idioms."
In S.Langer & D. Schnorbusch (Eds.), Semantik im Lexikon.
Tuebingen, Germany: Gunter Narr Verlag, pp. 203-221 (2005).
Mathematics Education
- (Lead author, with
Mark LeBlanc)
"Learning by Seeing by Doing."
The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 13 (2), 197-220 (2004).
- (With Dana Breslau and Mark LeBlanc)
"WebPals: An Internet-based mathematics education tool."
Poster session presented at the World Conference of the WWW, Internet and
Intranet (WebNet97), Toronto, Canada, (Oct. 31 - Nov. 5, 1997).
- (Lead author, with Mark LeBlanc).
"Doing Their Own Math: Computer support of discursive approaches to "real" math problems."
In D. Edelson & E. Domeshek (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 2d International Conference of the Learning Sciences,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (July 25-27, 1996),
Charlottesville, VA: AACE, pp. 324-331 (1996).
- (With Mark LeBlanc)
"Text integration and mathematical connections: A computer model of
arithmetic word problem solving."
Cognitive Science, 20 (3), 357-407 (1996).
Other Publications
Metaphor
- "Metaphoric coherence: Distinguishing verbal metaphor from `anomaly'."
Computational Intelligence, 8 (3), 553-574 (1992).
- "Verbal concepts as abstract structures: The most basic conceptual
metaphor?"
Metaphor and Symbolic Activity 4 (1), 55-60 (1989).
- "Metaphor and computational limits." Paper presented at
the Symposium on the Human Dimension of Artificial Intelligence,
sponsored by the University of Kentucky and Asbury Theological Seminary
(April, 1988).
- "Information and experience in metaphor: A perspective from computer analysis."
Metaphor and Symbolic Activity 1 (4) (1986).
- "Conceptual analysis of partial metaphor."
In L. Steels & J. Campbell (Eds.), Progress in Artificial Intelligence,
Chichester, West Sussex: Ellis Horwood Ltd., pp. 193-201 (1984).
- "Computer understanding of metaphorically used verbs."
American Journal of Computational Linguistics,
Microfiche 44 (1976).
Dialogue / Psychological Models
- S. Weber (With Kenneth Colby and Franklin Hilf)
"Artificial paranoia." Artificial Intelligence 2 (1), North Holland (1971).
- S. Weber (With Kenneth Colby, Franklin Hilf and Helen Kraemer)
A resemblance test for the validation of
a computer simulation of paranoid processes,
AI Memo 156, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (1971).
Other
- (With Richard Lyczak)
"An expert natural language interface for statistical packages."
Expert Systems With Applications, 5 (1992).
- S. Weber (With Roger Schank and Lawrence Tesler)
Spinoza II: Conceptual Case-Based Natural Language Analysis,
AI Memo 109, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (1970).
Professional Activities
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