Thamar Solorio Computer Science Department University of Texas at El Paso 500 W. University Drive El Paso Texas, 79912 Tel. 915.747.7941 Fax 915.747.5030 email: tsolorio at utep dot remove the obvious edu

List of Publications by Year:

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(2007)

• Nigel G. Ward, Rafael Escalante, Yaffa Al Bayyari, and Thamar Solorio. Learning to show you’re listening. Computer Assisted Language Learning, submitted.



• Olac Fuentes, David Vera, and Thamar Solorio. A filter-based approach to detect end-of-utterances from prosody in dialog systems. In Proceedings of the The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2007), Rochester, NY, April 2007.



• Juan C. Franco and Thamar Solorio. Baby steps towards a language model for Spanglish. In The Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics CICLing-2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007.

(2006)

• Thamar Solorio, Olac Fuentes, Nigel Ward, and Yaffa Al Bayyari. Prosodic feature generation for back-channel prediction. In INTERSPEECH 2006, 2006.



• Ted Pedersen, Anagha Kulkarni, Roxana Angheluta, Zornista Kozareva, and Thamar Solorio. Improving name discrimination : A language salad approach. In Proceedings of the EACL 2006 Workshop on Cross- Language Knowledge Induction, April 2006.



• Ted Pedersen, Anagha Kulkarni, Roxana Angheluta, Zornista Kozareva, and Thamar Solorio. An unsupervised language independent method of name discrimination using second order co-occurrence features. In Alexander Gelbukh, editor, Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: Seventh International Conference, CICLing 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, February 2006.








(2005)

• Thamar Solorio. Exploiting named entity taggers in a second language. In Chris Callison-Burch and Stephen Wan, editors, Student Research Workshop at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 25–30, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005. The Association for Computational Linguistics.



• Thamar Solorio. Improvement of Named Entity Tagging by Machine Learning. Ph.D. thesis, National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Puebla, Mexico, September 2005.



• Thamar Solorio, Olac Fuentes, Roberto Terlevich, and Elena Terlevich. An active instance-based machine learning method for stellar population studies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 363(2), October 2005.



• Thamar Solorio and Aurelio López López. Learning named entity recognition in Portuguese from Spanish. In Alexander Gelbukh, editor, Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: Sixth International Conference, CICLing 2005, volume 3406 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, February 2005.



• Thamar Solorio, Manuel Pérez Coutiño, Manuel Montes y Gómez, Luis Villaseñor Pineda, and Aurelio López López. Question classification in Spanish and Portuguese. In Alexander Gelbukh, editor, Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: Sixth International Conference, CICLing 2005, volume 3406 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, February 2005.








(2004)

• Thamar Solorio and Aurelio López López. Adapting a named entity recognition system for Spanish to Portuguese. In Guillermo de Ita, Olac Fuentes, and Mauricio Osorio, editors, IX Iberoamerican Workshops on Artificial Intelligence: Workshop on Herramientas y Recursos Linguísticos para el Español y el Portugués, pages 292–297, Puebla, Mexico, November 2004.



• Olac Fuentes, Thamar Solorio, Roberto Terlevich, and Elena Terlevich. Analysis of galactic spectra using active instance-based learning and domain knowledge. In Christian Lemaître, Carlos Reyes, and Jesús A. González, editors, Advances in Artificial Intelligence – IBERAMIA 2004, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3315, pages 215–224, Puebla, Mexico, November 2004. Springer.



• Manuel Pérez Coutiño, Thamar Solorio, Manuel Montes y Gómez, Aurelio López López, and Luis Villaseñor Pineda. Question answering for Spanish based on lexical and context annotation. In Christian Lemaître, Carlos Reyes, and Jesús A. González, editors, Advances in Artificial Intelligence – IBERAMIA 2004, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3315, pages 325–333, Puebla, Mexico, November 2004. Springer.



• Manuel Pérez-Coutiño, Thamar Solorio, Manuel Montes y Gómez, Aurelio López López, and Luis Villaseñor Pineda. The use of lexical context in question answering for Spanish. In Carol Peters and Francesca Borri, editors, Working Notes for the Cross Language Evaluation Forum Workshop, (CLEF-2004), Bath, England, September 2004. ISTI-CNR.



• Elena Terlevich, Roberto Terlevich, Juan P. Torres Papaqui, Trilce Estrada Piedra, Olac Fuentes, Thamar Solorio, and Sandro Bressan. Computer science approach to the stellar fabric of violent starforming regions in AGN. In Th. Storchi Bergmann, L. C. Ho, and H. R. Schmitt, editors, IAU Symposium, the interplay among black holes, stars and ISM in Galactic Nuclei, number 222. International Astronomical Union, 2004.



• Thamar Solorio, Manuel Pérez Coutiño, Manuel Montes y Gómez, Luis Villaseñor Pineda, and Aurelio López López. A language independent method for question classification. In The 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING-04, volume II, pages 1374–1380, Geneva, Switzerland, August 2004.



• Manuel Pérez Coutiño, Thamar Solorio, Manuel Montes y Gómez, Aurelio López López, and Luis Villaseñor Pineda. Toward a document model for question answering systems. In Jesus Favela, Ernestina Menasalvas, and Edgar Chávez, editors, Advances in Web Intelligence: Second International Atlantic Web Intelligent Conference AWIC 2004, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3034, pages 145–154, Cancun, Mexico, May 2004. Springer.



• Olac Fuentes and Thamar Solorio. An optimization algorithm based on active and instance-based learning. In R. Monroy, G. Arroyo-Figueroa, L. E. Sucar, and H. Sossa, editors, MICAI 2004: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Third Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2972, pages 242–251, Mexico City, Mexico, April 2004. Springer.



• Thamar Solorio and Aurelio López López. Learning named entity classifiers using support vector machines. In Alexander Gelbukh, editor, Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: Fifth International Conference, CICLing 2004, volume 2945/2004 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2945, pages 158–167. Springer, February 2004.






(2003)

• Thamar Solorio, Olac Fuentes, Roberto Terlevich, Elena Terlevich, and Sandro Bressan. Automated determination of stellar population parameters in galaxies using active instance-based learning. In Francois Oshsenbein, Mark G. Allen, and Daniel Egret, editors, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIII (ADASS XIII), volume 314 of Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, pages 609–612, Strasbourg, France, October 2003. A.S.P.



• Olac Fuentes and Thamar Solorio. Principal component analysis and active instance-based machine learning for interferogram analysis. In Proc. of the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA2003), Benalmádena, Spain, September 2003.






(2002)

• Thamar Solorio and Olac Fuentes. Improving classification accuracy of large test sets using the ordered classification algorithm. In F.J. Garijo, J.C. Riquelme, and M. Toro (Eds.), editors, Advances in Artificial Intelligence - IBERAMIA 2002: 8th Ibero-American Conference on AI, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2527, pages 70–79, Seville, Spain, November 2002. Springer.


• Thamar Solorio and Olac Fuentes. Taking advantage of unlabeled data with the ordered classification algorithm. In Proceedings of IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Banff, Canada, July 2002.






(2001)

• Thamar Solorio and Olac Fuentes. Using unlabeled data to improve the automated prediction of stellar atmospheric parameters. In David A. Bohlender, Daniel Durand, and T. H. Handley, editors, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XI, pages 405–408, Victoria, B.C., Canada, October 2001. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series Volume 281.



• Thamar Solorio and Olac Fuentes. Improving classifier accuracy using unlabeled data. In M.H. Hamza, editor, Proc. of the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pages 409–412, Marbella, Spain, September 2001.