--- title: "Ellen Riloff — papers and cards" description: "Ellen Riloff: 4 paper cards in the Research library (2009–2017), with what each paper is about, the ideas Mova took from it, and the co-authors." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ellen-riloff/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ellen-riloff/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ellen Riloff # Ellen Riloff 4 paper cards in the Research library · 2009–2017 Ellen Riloff wrote 4 of the papers Mova reads, in 2009–2017, most of them on [Coreference resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/); often with [Marilyn Walker](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marilyn-walker/), [Nathan Gilbert](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nathan-gilbert/), [Shereen Oraby](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shereen-oraby/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5005791318) · [**h-index 46**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5005791318) · [10539 citations](https://openalex.org/authors/A5005791318) · [185 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5005791318) — openalex-snapshot, 2026-10-14 The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Ellen+Riloff) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ellen+Riloff) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ellen+Riloff) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ellen+Riloff) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/orcid-search/search?searchQuery=Ellen+Riloff) Topics: [Coreference resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) 1 ## Papers 1. **[Are you serious?: Rhetorical Questions and Sarcasm in Social Media Dialog](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oraby-2017-are-you-serious-rhetorical-questions/)** *(2017)* Rhetorical questions (questions not meant to get an answer) are collected with an intent-based heuristic: a question in the middle of a turn that the same speaker answers at once, without giving up the turn. 2. **[Creating and Characterizing a Diverse Corpus of Sarcasm in Dialogue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oraby-2016-creating-characterizing-diverse-corpus-sarcasm/)** *(2016)* The authors build a sarcasm corpus from online debate forums (Internet Argument Corpus 2.0) with three balanced parts: generic sarcasm, rhetorical questions and hyperbole. 3. **[Sarcasm as Contrast between a Positive Sentiment and Negative Situation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/prag-2013-riloff-sarcasm-as-contrast-between-positive/)** *(2013)* The paper looks at one common form of sarcasm on Twitter: a positive sentiment verb or predicate placed just before a stereotypically negative situation. 4. **[Conundrums in Noun Phrase Coreference Resolution: Making Sense of the State-of-the-Art](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stoyanov-2009-conundrums-noun-phrase-coreference-resolution/)** *(2009)* The paper asks why published coreference scores differ so much between the MUC and ACE data sets. It uses the RECONCILE platform: a classifier with about 61 features, an averaged perceptron, and single-link clustering. Three subtasks are measured by giving the resolver more information. Gold named entities help only… ## Co-authors (13) - [Marilyn Walker](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marilyn-walker/) ×2 - [Nathan Gilbert](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nathan-gilbert/) ×2 - [Shereen Oraby](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shereen-oraby/) ×2 - [Vrindavan Harrison](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vrindavan-harrison/) ×2 - Amita Misra - Ashequl Qadir - Claire Cardie - Ernesto Hernandez - Lalindra De Silva - Lena Reed - Prafulla Surve - [Ruihong Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruihong-huang/) - Veselin Stoyanov ## More papers in the library (9) Pages of the Research library: our summary, the ideas, references and who cites each. - [Classifying Sentences as Speech Acts in Message Board Posts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qadir-2011-classifying-sentences-as-speech-acts/) — Ashequl Qadir, Ellen Riloff · 2011 - [The Taming of Reconcile as a Biomedical Coreference Resolver](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kim-2011-taming-reconcile-as-biomedical-coreference/) — Youngjun Kim, Ellen Riloff, Nathan Gilbert · 2011 - [Coreference Resolution with Reconcile](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stoyanov-2010-coreference-resolution-reconcile/) — Veselin Stoyanov, Claire Cardie, Nathan Gilbert, et al. · 2010 - [Semantic Class Learning from the Web with Hyponym Pattern Linkage Graphs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kozareva-2008-semantic-class-learning-web-hyponym/) — Zornitsa Kozareva, Ellen Riloff, Eduard Hovy · 2008 - [Unsupervised Learning of Contextual Role Knowledge for Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bean-2004-unsupervised-learning-contextual-role-knowledge/) — David Bean, Ellen Riloff · 2004 - [Learning Extraction Patterns for Subjective Expressions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/riloff-2003-learning-extraction-patterns-subjective-expressions/) — Ellen Riloff, Janyce Wiebe · 2003 - [Learning subjective nouns using extraction pattern bootstrapping](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/riloff-2003-learning-subjective-nouns-extraction-pattern/) — Ellen Riloff, Janyce Wiebe, Theresa Wilson · 2003 - [A Bootstrapping Method for Learning Semantic Lexicons using Extraction Pattern Contexts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/thelen-2002-bootstrapping-method-learning-semantic-lexicons/) — Michael Thelen, Ellen Riloff · 2002 - [Corpus-Based Identification of Non-Anaphoric Noun Phrases](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bean-1999-corpus-based-identification-non-anaphoric/) — David L. Bean, Ellen Riloff · 1999