Computer Science - Computational Linguistics

Futrelle, R. P., Satterley, J., & McCormack, T. (2009) NLP-NG - A New NLP System for Biomedical Text Analysis. IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine - Workshop on NLP Approaches for Unmet Information Needs in Health Care. PDF

Robert P. Futrelle, Andrea Grimes & Mingyan Shao (2003). Extracting structure from HTML documents for language visualization and analysis. In WDA-2003 (Workshop on Web Document Analysis). (pp. 3-6) Edinburgh, Scotland.

Andrea Elaina Grimes & Robert P. Futrelle (2003). Text pattern visualization for natural language analysis of biology full text. In IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics Conference CSB2003. (pp. 648-651) Stanford, CA.

Futrelle, R. P. & Rumshisky, A. (2001). Discourse Structure of Text-Graphics Documents. 1st International Symposium on Smart Graphics Hawthorne, NY

Futrelle, R. P. & Rumshisky, A. (2001). Discourse Structure of Text-Graphics Documents. 1st International Symposium on Smart Graphics Hawthorne, NY

Futrelle, R. P., & Fridman, N. (1995). Principles and Tools for Authoring Knowledge-Rich Documents. In DEXA 95 (Database and Expert System Applications) Workshop on Digital Libraries, (pp. 357-362). London, U.K.

Futrelle, R. P., Zhang, X., & Sekiya, Y. (1995). Corpus Linguistics for Establishing the Natural Language Content of Digital Library Documents. In N. R. Adam, B. K. Bhargava & Y. Yesha (Eds.), Digital Libraries. Current Issues (pp. 165-180). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

Hafner, C., Baclawski, K., Futrelle, R., Fridman, N., & Sampath, S. (1994). Creating a Knowledge Base of Biological Research Papers. In 2nd Int'l. Conf. on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, (pp. 147-155). Stanford, CA: AAAI Press.

Futrelle, R. P., & Zhang, X. (1994). Large-Scale Persistent Object Systems for Corpus Linguistics and Information Retrieval. In Digital Libraries '94, (pp. 80-87). College Station, Texas: Dept. of Computer Science, Texas A&M University.

Baclawski, K., Fridman, N., Futrelle, R. P., & Pescitelli, M. J., Jr. (1993). Database Techniques for Biological Materials and Methods. In L. Hunter, D. Searls & J. Shavlik (Ed.), 1st Inter'l Conf. on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, (pp. 21-29). Washington, DC: AAAI Press.

Baclawski, K., Futrelle, R., Fridman, N., & Pescitelli, M. (1993). Data/knowledge bases for biological papers and techniques. In Symposium on Advanced Data Management for the Scientist and Engineer, (pp. 23-28): AAAS.

Gauch, S., & Futrelle, R. P. (1993). Experiments in Automatic Word Class and Word Sense Identification for Information Retrieval. In Third Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval, (pp. 425-434).

Gauch, S., & Futrelle, R. P. (1993). Experiments in syntactic and semantic classification and disambiguation using bootstrapping. In B. Boguraev & J. Pustejovksy (Ed.), Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge from Text, (pp. 117-127). Columbus, OH: Assoc. Computational Linguistics.

Gauch, S., & Futrelle, R. P. (1993). The Scientist's Assistant: Structure-Based Navigation of Technical Texts. In 2nd Ann. Symp. on Doc. Anal. and Information Retrieval, (pp. 367-377). Las Vegas, NV.

Futrelle, R. P. (1992). Machines Reading the Literature. In AAAI Summer Symposium on Communicating Scientific and Technical Knowledge, (pp. 125-132). San Jose, CA.

Futrelle, R. P., & Smith, L. C. (1982). Expert system using semantic representation of full text for question answering. In ASIS '82 (pp. 103-106).

Bailey, M. J., Barnett, M. P., & Futrelle, R. P. (1963). Format-Free Input in FORTRAN. Comm. of the ACM 6 (10) 605-608.

Barnett, M. P., & Futrelle, R. P. (1962). Syntactic analysis by digital computer. Comm. of the ACM, 5 (10), 515-526.

Computer Science - Diagrams

An annotated collection of downloadable papers on our diagram research is available here.

Futrelle, R. P. (2007). The Diagram Understanding System - Strategies and Results. Technical report, May 2007. PDF

Mingyan Shao & Robert P. Futrelle (2006) Recognition and Classification of Figures in PDF Documents. in Graphics Recognition - Selected papers ed. W. Liu and J. Lladós, LNCS 3926 (Springer Verlag) (pp. 239-251).

Mingyan Shao & Robert P. Futrelle (2005) Graphics Recognition in PDF documents. in Sixth IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition - GREC 2005 August 25-26, 2005. Hong Kong, China.

Mingyan Shao & Robert P. Futrelle (2005). Moment-derived Object Models for Vectorization. in MVA2005. In IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications May 16-18, 2005. Tsukuba Science City, Japan.

Robert P. Futrelle (2004). Handling Figures in Document Summarization. in Text Summarization Branches Out July 25-26, 2004 Workshop at ACL 2004 (42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics) Barcelona, Spain (pp. 61-65).

Robert P. Futrelle (2004) Diagram Schemas: What, Why, How. In Diagrammatic Representation and Inference: Third International Conference, Diagrams 2004, Cambridge, UK, March 22-24, 2004. Springer LNCS 2980. (pp. 231-234).

Robert P. Futrelle, Mingyan Shao, Chris Cieslik & Andrea Grimes (2003). Extraction, layout analysis and classification of diagrams in PDF documents. In ICDAR-2003 (Intl. Conf. on Document Analysis & Recognition). (pp. 1007-1014) Edinburgh, Scotland.

Futrelle, R. P. (1999). Ambiguity in Visual Language Theory and its Role in Diagram Parsing. IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, (pp. 172-175) VL99, Tokyo, IEEE Computer Soc.

Futrelle, R. P. (1999). Summarization of Diagrams in Documents. Advances in Automated Text Summarization. I. Mani and M. Maybury. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press.

Futrelle, R. P., & Nikolakis, N. (1995). Efficient Analysis of Complex Diagrams using Constraint-Based Parsing. In ICDAR-95 (Intl. Conf. on Document Analysis & Recognition), (pp. 782-790). Montreal, Canada.

Futrelle, R. P., Kakadiaris, I. A., Alexander, J., Carriero, C. M., Nikolakis, N., & Futrelle, J. M. (1992). Understanding Diagrams in Technical Documents. IEEE Computer, 25(7), 75-78.

Futrelle, R. P. (1992). The Conversion of Diagrams to Knowledge Bases. In IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages, (pp. 240-242). Seattle, WA: IEEE Computer Society Press.

Futrelle, R. P., Carriero, C., Nikolakis, N., & Tselman, M. (1992). Informational Diagrams in Scientific Documents. In AAAI Spring Symposium on Reasoning with Diagrammatic Representations, (pp. 185-188). Stanford University.

Futrelle, R. P., Dunn, C. C., Ellis, D. S., & Pescitelli, M. J., Jr. (1991). Preprocessing and lexicon design for parsing technical text. In Proc. 2nd Intern'l Workshop on Parsing Technologies, (pp. 31-40). Morristown, New Jersey: Association for Computational linguistics.

Mukherjea, S., Cleary, M. E., & Futrelle, R. P. (1991). Building a knowledge base for scientific texts. In 6th Ann. Workshop on Conceptual Graphs.

Futrelle, R. P., & Kakadiaris, I. A. (1991). Diagram Understanding using Graphics Constraint Grammars. In S. G. Tzafestas (Eds.), Engineering Systems with Intelligence - Concepts, Tools and Applications (pp. 73-81). Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Press.

Futrelle, R. P., Pescitelli, M. J., Jr., Alexander, J., Cleary, M. E., Crisman, J. D., Dunn, C. E., et al (1991). Document analysis, understanding & knowledge access. In Proc. 1st Intern'l Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), (pp. 101-111).

Futrelle, R. P. (1990). Strategies for Diagram Understanding: Object/Spatial Data Structures, Animate Vision, and Generalized Equivalence. In 10th ICPR, (pp. 403-408): IEEE Press.

Futrelle, R. P. (1985). A Framework For Understanding Graphics In Technical Documents. In Expert Systems in Government Symposium (pp. 386-390): IEEE Computer Society.

Computer Science - Other topics

Futrelle, R. P., & Speckert, G. C. (1978). Extraction of Motion Data by Interactive Image Processing. Proc. IEEE Conf., Pattern Recognition & Image Processing, 405-408.

Futrelle, R. P., & Barta, G. (1978). Towards the Design of an Intrinsically Graphical Language. SIGGRAPH, 28-32.

Futrelle, R. P., & Potel, M. J. (1975). The System design for GALATEA, an interactive real-time computer graphics system for movie and video analysis. Computers and Graphics, 1, 115-121.

Futrelle, R. P. (1974). GALATEA: Interactive Graphics for the Analysis of Moving Images. Information Processing 74 - North Holland Publishing Company, 712-716.

Biology and Physics:

Futrelle, R. P., & Miller, A. W. (1992). Simulation of metabolism and evolution using Quasichemistry. In J. Eisenfeld, M. Witten & D. S. Levine (Eds.), Biomedical Modeling and Simulation (pp. 273-280). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Futrelle, R. P. (1984). How molecules get to their detectors. Trends in NeuroSciences, 7(4), 116-120.

Futrelle, R. P., Traut, J., & McKee, G. W. (1982). Cell Behavior in Dictyostelium discoideum: Aggregation responses to localized cyclic AMP pulses. J. Cell Biology, 92, 807-821.

Futrelle, R. P. (1982). Dictyostelium Chemotactic Response to Spatial and Temporal Gradients. Theories of the Limits of Chemotactic Sensitivity and of Pseudochemotaxis. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, 18, 197-212.

Devreotes, P., R. Futrelle, G. Hazelbauer, and S. H. Zigmond. (1981). Chemotaxis workshop report. J. Cellular Biochemistry (UCLA Symposium on Cellular Recognition).

Futrelle, R. P., & Berg, H. C. (1972). Specification of Gradients used for Studies of Chemotaxis. Nature, 239, 517-518.

Gebbie, H. A., Bohlander, R. A., & Futrelle, R. P. (1972). Properties of Photons determined by Interferometric Spectroscopy. Nature, 240, 391-394.

Futrelle, R. P. (1972). Unified theory of spectral line broadening in gases. Phys. Rev. A, 5, 2162-2182.

Futrelle, R. P., & McGinty, D. J. (1971). Calculation of Spectra and Correlation Functions from Molecular Dynamics Data Using the Fast Fourier Transform. Chemical Physics Letters, 12(2), 285-287.

Fehder, P. L., Emeis, C. A., & Futrelle, R. P. (1971). Microscopic Mechanism for Self-Diffusion and Relative Diffusion in Simple Liquids. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 54(11), 4921-4934.

Futrelle, R. P., & McQuarrie, D. A. (1969). Linear programming and the calculation of upper and lower bounds of atomic mean excitation energies. J. Phys. B (Atom. Molec. Phys.), 2, 640-646.

Futrelle, R. P., & McQuarrie, D. A. (1968). Upper and Lower Bounds in Quantum Mechanical Perturbation Theory Using Linear Programming. Chemical Physics Letters, 2(4), 223-226.

Futrelle, R. P. (1967). Collision-Induced Absorption as a Probe of Rare-Gas Interatomic Potentials. Physical Review Letters, 19(9), 479-481.

Futrelle, R. P. (1966). New Method in the Kinetics of Classical Dense Fluids. Journal of Chemical Physics, 44(9), 3240-3247.

Reports, others (selected)

Baclawski, K., Futrelle, R., Hafner, C., Pescitelli, M., Fridman, N., Li, B., et al (1993). M&M-Query: Materials & Methods Knowledge Base and Query System. Rept. No NU-CCS-93-06. Northeastern University.

Futrelle, R. P., & Cleary, M. E. (1991). Tools for Natural Language Processing that can Aid Retrieval from Technical Text. In Working Notes, Natural Language Text Retrieval: AAAI Fall Symposium Series.

Futrelle, R. P. (1990). Current Activities in the Biological Knowledge Laboratory. Rept. No NU-CCS-90-20. Northeastern University.

Futrelle, R. P. (1989). An Introduction to the Biological Knowledge Laboratory. Technical Rept. No NU-CCS-89-15. Northeastern University.