Publications & Talks

Book Pendar, Nick (2007) Farsi: A complete course for beginners. New Yok, NY: Living Language, A Random House Company. Refereed Publications Chapelle, Carol A., Yoo-Ree Chung, Volker Hegelheimer, Nick Pendar, and Jing Xu (2010) Towards a computer-delivered test of productive grammatical ability. Language Testing. 27(4):443-469. Woodhead, Ira, Chris Hogan, and Nick Pendar (2009) RobotArmy: A Casual Framework for Massive Distributed Processing. DESI III Global E-Discovery/E-Disclosure Workshop: A Pre-Conference Workshop at the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2009). Barcelona, Spain. Pendar, Nick (2008) "Linguistic Constraint Systems as General Soft Constraint Satisfaction," Research on Language and Computation. DOI: 10.1007/s11168-008-9050-x. Springer. Pendar, Nick and Elena Cotos (2008) "Automatic Identification of Discourse Moves in Scientific Article Introductions" In The Proceedings of The Third Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications: 62-70. Columbus, Ohio. Pendar, Nick and Chapelle, Carol (2008) "Investigating the Promise of Learner Corpora: Methodological Issues," CALICO Journal. 25(2): 189-206. Pendar, Nick (2007) "Toward Spotting the Pedophile: Telling victim from predator in text chats " In The Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing: 235-241. Irvine, California. Pendar, Nick and Serge Sharoff (2007) "Supervised Lexical Acquisition for Persian from a Web Corpus" In The Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages: 106-113. Stanford University. Penn, Gerald, and MH1 (2003) "Topological Parsing" in Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 283-290. Budapest. MH1 Diane Massam and Kenji Oda (2002) "Number and Events: Verbal Reduplication in Niuean" Oceanic Linguistics. 41(2): 475-492. Assi, Mostafa and MH1 (2000) "Grammatical Tagging of a Persian Corpus" International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 5(1): 69-82. Non-Refereed Publications Cotos, Elena and Pendar, Nick (2008) "Automated diagnostic writing tests: Why? How?" In C. A. Chapelle, Y.-R. Chung, and J. Xu (Eds.), Towards Adaptive CALL: Natural language processing for diagnostic language assessment. pp. 65-81. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University. Pendar, Nick (2007) "Soft constraints at Interfaces" In the proceedings of the Grammar Engineering across Frameworks 2007 (GEAF07) Workshop: 285-305. Stanford University. MH1 (2003) "A Constraint-Based Approach to Information Structure and Prosody Correspondence" in Stefan Müller (ed.) Proceedings of The HPSG-2003 Conference. 143-162. Barrie, Michael, MH1, and Jonathon Herd (Eds.) (2003) Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Niagara Linguistic Society. 21. MH1 (2003) "Information-Prosody Correspondence in HPSG" in Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Niagara Linguistic Society. 21: 43-60. MH1 (2002) "Event Types in the Generative Lexicon: Implications for Persian Compounds" Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics. Proceedings of NLS 2000. 19. MH1 Diane Massam and Kenji Oda (2001) "Number and Events: Reduplication in Niuean" in 2001 CLA Proceedings. 25-36. Thesis MH (2005) Modularity and Soft Constraints: A Study of Conflict Resolution in Grammar. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Toronto. Conference & Workshop Presentations Pendar, Nick and Elena Cotos (2008) "Automatic Identification of Discourse Moves in Scientific Article Introductions" Paper presented at The Third Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. Columbus, Ohio. Grgurović, Maja and Pendar, Nick (2007) "NLP-based CALL: A review of evaluation and effectiveness" Paper presented at The Fifth Conference on Technology for Second Language Learning. Towards Adaptive CALL: Natural Language Processing for Diagnostic Language Assessment. Ames, Iowa. Cotos, Elena and Pendar, Nick (2007) "Automated diagnostic writing tests: Why? How?" Paper presented at The Fifth Conference on Technology for Second Language Learning. Towards Adaptive CALL: Natural Language Processing for Diagnostic Language Assessment. Ames, Iowa. Pendar, Nick (2007) "Toward Spotting the Pedophile: Telling victim from predator in text chats" Paper presented at the First IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing. Irvine, California. Pendar, Nick and Serge Sharoff (2007) "Supervised Lexical Acquisition for Persian from a Web Corpus" paper presented at The Second Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages.Stanford University. Pendar, Nick (2007) "Soft contraints at Interfaces" paper presented at the conference Grammar Engineering across Frameworks (GEAF) 2007.Stanford University. Pendar, Nick (2007) "Learner Language Characterization Using Generalized Instance Sets," poster presenation at AAAL 2007, Costa Mesa, CA. Kosterina, Anna, and Nick Pendar (2007) "Issues with Annotating Learner Corpora," CALL Club presentation, Iowa State University. Kosterina, Anna, and MH1 (2006) "Annotation of Learner Corpora: Developing a markup scheme," presenation at Applied Linguistics Colloquium Series, Iowa State University. MH1, Volker Hegelheimer, Maja Grgurović, and Anne O'Bryan (2006) "Multimedia Systems Research for Second Language Education," poster presentation at Network for Effective Collaboration Technologies through Advanced Research (NECTAR) Annual General Meeting 2006. Banff, Alberta. (presented by Gerald Penn). MH1 (2006) "Computational Linguists & Applied Linguists: Bridging the gap," poster presentation at the Joint Conference of AAAL & ACLA/CALL 2006, Montréal. MH1 and Chapelle, Carol (2006) "How can NLP help SLA research?" paper presented at the Canadian Linguistic Association Conference (CLA 2006), York University, Toronto. Chapelle, Carol and MH1 (2006) "Investigating the promise of learner corpora," paper presented at CALICO 2006. University of Hawai'i at Manoa. MH1 (2004) "Are probabilistic grammars good markedness estimators?" paper presented at the workshop Markedness in Linguistics. Toronto, ON. MH1 (2004) "Influence of Prosodic Weight on Sentential Discourse Structure" poster presentation at the conference Experimental and Empirical Methods in Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language. Edmonton, AL. MH1 (2003) "A Constraint-Based Approach to Information Structure and Prosody Correspondence" paper presented (by Gerald Penn) at The 10th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG03). East Lansing, MI. Penn, Gerald, and MH1 (2003) "Topological Parsing" paper presented at The 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Budapest. MH1 (2003) "Information-Prosody Correspondence in HPSG" paper presented at The Fourth Annual NLS Conference. Dept. of Linguistics, University of Toronto. MH1, Diane Massam and Kenji Oda (2001) "Number and Events: Reduplication in Niuean" paper presented at Canadian Linguistics Association 2001 Conference. Quebec City. MH1, Diane Massam and Kenji Oda (2001) "Pluractional Reduplication in Niuean" paper presented at the Phonology Workshop at the Dept. of Linguistics, University of Toronto. MH1 (1998) "Grammatical Tagging of a Persian Corpus" paper presented at The Fourth Conference on Linguistics. Tehran. MH1 (1997) "Bilingual Lexicography in Iran: History, Classification and Evaluation" paper presented at the conference Dictionaries in Asia: Research and Pedagogical Implications. Hong Kong. Invited Talks Pendar, Nick. (2008). "Using Text Categorization to Distinguish Predators from Victims," Invited talk at the Department of Computer Science, Naval Postgraduate School. Monterey, CA. MH1 (2005) "Interface Modules and Graded Constraints," Invited talk at the Department of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, Syracuse University. Syracuse, NY. MH1 (2005) "Graded Constraints at Interfaces," Invited talk at the Department of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno, CA. MH1 (2005) "Graded Constraints: Where do they fit?" Invited talk at Département de Linguistique et didactique des langues, l'Université du Québec à Montréal. MH1 (2005) "Graded Interface Constraints," Invited talk at the Department of Writing and Linguistics, Georgia Southern University. Statesboro, GA. MH1 (2005) "Soft Constraints and Intermodular Interactions," Invited talk at the Department of English, Iowa State University of Science and Technology. Ames, IA. MH1 (2005) "Graded Constraints and Modularity in Linguistic Theory," Invited talk at the Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa. MH1 (2000) "A Computer-Aided Language Learning Program: Final Report" invited talk at the Dept. of Linguistics, University of Toronto. Software Pendar, Nick (2007) WebLinDa: A Web-based Linguistic Database. Deliverables ALE/TRALE Indexed Documentation MH1 and Gerald Penn (2003) "ALE Reference Manual". Submitted to Project MilCA/A4 of the BMBF. MH1 and Gerald Penn (2002) "Topological Grammar Compiler: User's Manual". Submitted to Project MilCA/A4 of the BMBF. Penn, Gerald and MH1 (2002) "Topological Parsing: A Linearisation Parser Specification". Submitted to Project MilCA/A4 of the BMBF. Penn, Gerald and MH1 (2002) "TRALE 1.0: User's Manual". Submitted to Project MilCA/A4 of the BMBF. Book Review MH1 (2003) Review of Taylor, Martin M., Françoise Néel and Don Bouwhuis (2000) Structure of Multimodal Dialogue II. John Benjamins. In University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2001. 72(1) 342-344. University of Toronto Press. 1 References with MH are under my native name, Mohammad Haji-Abdolhosseini.