Ms GABRIELA FERRARO
Areas of expertise
- Natural Language Processing 080107
Research interests
Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning.
I work in the areas of Information Extraction and Computational Lexicology. I am specially interested in applying NLP technologies to make scientific and technical information accessible to laymen.
Available student projects
Learning to learn Multi-word expressions errors
http://people.cecs.anu.edu.au/projects/pid/0000001150
Invention Information Retrieval and Visualization
http://people.cecs.anu.edu.au/projects/pid/0000000943
Current student projects
Dilesha Seneriratne. Patent Wikification. PhD candidate, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
Past student projects
- Mona Golestan Far. Patent prior art search. MPhil, Australian National University.
- Shichao Dong. Improving Patent Claim Readability throught a Linguistically Motivated Indentation. Honors project, Australian National University.
- Donglu Wang. Automated Classification of Human Genome Sequences in Patent Documents. .Engn R&D Research project, Australian National University.
Publications
- Meireles, M, Ferraro, G & Geva, S 2016, 'Classification and information management for patent collections: a literature review and some research questions', Information Research: an International Electronic Journal, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 1-20pp.
- Golestan Far, M, Sanner, S, Bouadjenek, M et al 2015, 'On Term Selection Techniques for Patent Prior Art Search', Annual ACM SIGIR Conference SIGIR2015, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, USA, pp. 1-4.
- Qu, L, Ferraro, G, Zhou, L et al 2015, 'Big Data Small Data, In Domain Out-of Domain, Known Word Unknown Word: The Impact of Word Representations on Sequence Labelling Tasks', Conference on Computational Natural Language and Learning CoNLL-2015, ACL Anthology, USA, pp. 83-93.
- Bouadjenek, M, Sanner, S & Ferraro, G 2015, 'A Study of Query Reformulation of Patent Prior Art Search with Partial Patent Applications', 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2015), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA, pp. 1-11.
- Suominen, H, Zhou, L, Hanlen, L et al 2015, 'Benchmarking Clinical Speech Recognition and Information Extraction: New Data, Methods, and Evaluations', International Journal of Medical Informatics, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 1-23.
- Seneviratne, D, Geva, S, Zuccon, G et al 2015, 'A Signature Approach to Patent Classification', Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 9460, pp. 413-419.
- Bouadjenek, M, Sanner, S & Ferraro, G 2015, 'A study of query reformulation for petent prior art serach with partial patent applications', 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2015), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA, pp. 23-32.
- Suominen, H, Schreck, T, Leroy, G et al 2014, 'Task 1 of the CLEF eHealth evaluation lab 2014 visual-interactive search and exploration of eHealth data', CLEF 2014 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, CEUR-WS.ORG, USA, pp. 1-30pp.
- Ferraro, G & Wan, S, eds, 2014, Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2014, Australasian Language Technology Association, Melbourne, Australia.
- Donglu, W, Ferraro, G, Suominen, H et al 2014, 'Automated Categorisation of Patent Claims that Reference Human Genome Sequences', Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2014), ed. Park L.Zuccon G.Culp, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA, pp. 1-4.
- Suominen, H, Schreck, T, Leroy, G et al 2014, 'Task 1 of the CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2014', CLEF 2014 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, CEUR-WS.ORG, USA, pp. 1-30.
- Ferraro, G, Suominen, H & Nualart, J 2014, 'Segmentation of patent claims for improving their readability', 3rd Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations (PITR) 2014, ed. Sandra Williams, Advaith Siddharthan, Ani Nenkova, Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, PA 18360, USA, pp. 66-73.
- Ferraro, G, Nazar, R, Alonso Ramos, M et al 2014, 'Towards Advanced Collocation Error Correction in Spanish Learner Corpora', Language Resources and Evaluation, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 45-64.
- Suominen, H & Ferraro, G 2013, 'Noise in Speech-to-Text Voice: Analysis of Errors and Feasibility of Phonetic Similarity for Their Correction', Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop ALTA 2013, ed. Sarvnaz Karimi and Karin Vespoor, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, pp. 34-42pp.
- Rello, L, Ferraro, G & Gayo, I 2012, 'A first approach to the automatic detection of zero subjects and impersonal constructions in Portuguese', Procesamiento de Lenguaje Natural, vol. 49, pp. 163-170.
- Ferraro, G & Wanner, L 2012, 'Labeling semantically motivated clusters of verbal relations', Procesamiento de Lenguaje Natural, vol. 49, pp. 129-138.
- Ferraro, G & Wanner, L 2011, 'Towards the derivation of verbal content relations from patent claims using deep syntactic structures', Knowledge-Based Systems, vol. 24, no. 8, pp. 1233-1244.
- Rello, L, Ferraro, G & Burga, A 2011, 'Error analysis for the improvement of subject ellipsis detection', Procesamiento de Lenguaje Natural, vol. 47, pp. 223-230.