--- title: "Michael White — papers and cards" description: "Michael White: 6 paper cards in the Research library (2002–2016), with what each paper is about, the ideas Mova took from it, and the co-authors." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-white/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-white/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Michael White # Michael White 6 paper cards in the Research library · 2002–2016 Michael White wrote 6 of the papers Mova reads, in 2002–2016, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Universal Dependencies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/), [Part-of-speech tagging](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/); often with [Rajakrishnan Rajkumar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rajakrishnan-rajkumar/), [Amanda Stent](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amanda-stent/), [Anja Belz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anja-belz/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5025147385) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3062-1719) · [**h-index 35**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5025147385) · [11560 citations](https://openalex.org/authors/A5025147385) · [220 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5025147385) — 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=Michael+White) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Michael+White) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Michael+White) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Michael+White) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/orcid-search/search?searchQuery=Michael+White) Topics: [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) 6 · [Universal Dependencies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/) 1 · [Part-of-speech tagging](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) 1 ## Papers 1. **[Enhancing PTB Universal Dependencies for Grammar-Based Surface Realization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/king-2016-enhancing-ptb-universal-dependencies-grammar/)** *(2016)* Grammar-based realisers work well when their input carries long-distance dependencies and coordination, but standard UD conversions from the Penn Treebank lose these, because the conversion ignores the traces. 2. **[The First Surface Realisation Shared Task: Overview and Evaluation Results](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/belz-2011-first-surface-realisation-shared-task/)** *(2011)* The paper reports the first surface realisation shared task. Teams received a common input (a shallow track and a deep track, both derived from Penn Treebank parses) and produced English sentences. Five teams submitted six systems, and the corpus sentences were scored as a human topline. Systems were judged… 3. **[Linguistically Motivated Complementizer Choice in Surface Realization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rajkumar-2011-linguistically-motivated-complementizer-choice-surface/)** *(2011)* The optional complementizer "that" (as in "he said that ...") is left out in about two thirds of Penn Treebank cases, and its presence changes fluency and sometimes meaning. 4. **[A More Precise Analysis of Punctuation for Broad-Coverage Surface Realization with CCG](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/white-2008-more-precise-analysis-punctuation-broad/)** *(2008)* The paper gives punctuation a lexical analysis in a broad-coverage CCG realisation grammar. In CCGbank, punctuation marks carry categories taken from their tags and sit inside binary rules, which is enough for parsing but overgenerates in realisation: a comma category can wrap a sentence in commas or repeat itself.… 5. **[Towards broad coverage surface realization with CCG](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/white-2007-broad-coverage-surface-realization-ccg/)** *(2007)* A progress report on the first broad-coverage English surface realiser for Combinatory Categorial Grammar, built on OpenCCG. 6. **[Learning Domain-Specific Transfer Rules: An Experiment with Korean to English Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lavoie-2002-learning-domain-specific-transfer-rules/)** *(2002)* An MT system that learns lexico-structural transfer rules from parsed bitexts, for domain-specific Korean-to-English translation. ## Co-authors (10) - [Rajakrishnan Rajkumar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rajakrishnan-rajkumar/) ×3 - [Amanda Stent](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amanda-stent/) - [Anja Belz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anja-belz/) - [Benoit Lavoie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benoit-lavoie/) - David L. King - Deirdre Hogan - Dominic Espinosa - Eric Kow - Scott Martin - Tanya Korelsky ## More papers in the library (1) Pages of the Research library: our summary, the ideas, references and who cites each. - [Breaking NLP: Using Morphosyntax, Semantics, Pragmatics and World Knowledge to Fool Sentiment Analysis Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mahler-2017-breaking-nlp-morphosyntax-semantics-pragmatics/) — Taylor Mahler, Willy Cheung, Micha Elsner, et al. · 2017