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Selected Publications

2008

C. DiMarco, P. Bray, H.D. Covvey, D.D. Cowan, V. DiCiccio, E. Hovy, J. Lipa, and C. Yang.
"Authoring and generation of individualised patient education materials."
Journal on Information Technology in Healthcare, February 2008.
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2007

C. DiMarco, H. Dominic Covvey, P. Bray, D. Cowan, V. DiCiccio, E. Hovy, J. Lipa, D. Mulholland.
"The development of a natural language generation system for personalized e-health information."
12th International Health (Medical) Informatics Congress, Medinfo 2007, Brisbane, Australia, August 2007. (poster presentation)
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2006

Chrysanne DiMarco; Robert E. Mercer; and Victoria L. Rubin.
"A design methodology for a document indexing tool using pragmatic evidence in text."
Conference on Intelligent Interactive Learning Object Repositories (I2LOR-06), Montreal, QC, November 2006.

Chrysanne DiMarco; Peter Bray; H. Dominic Covvey; D.D. Cowan; Vic DiCiccio;
Eduard Hovy; Joan Lipa; and Cathy Yang.
"Authoring and generation of individualized patient education materials."
Conference of the American Medical Informatics Association Washington DC, November 2006.
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Chrysanne DiMarco; Don Cowan; Peter Bray; Dominic Covvey; Vic DiCiccio;
Eduard Hovy; Joan Lipa; and Doug Mulholland.
"A physician's authoring tool for generation of personalized health education in reconstructive surgery."
American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Spring Symposium on Argumentation for Consumers of Healthcare, Stanford University, March 2006.
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2005

DiMarco, Chrysanne; Bray, Peter; Covvey, Dominic; Cowan, Don; DiCiccio, Vic; Hovy, Eduard; Lipa, Joan; and Yang, Cathy.
"Authoring and generation of tailored preoperative patient education materials."
Workshop on Personalisation in e-Health, User Modelling Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005.
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He, Xiaofen, and DiMarco, Chrysanne.
"Using lexical chaining to rank protein-protein interactions in biomedical texts."
BioLink 2005: Workshop on Linking Biological Literature, Ontologies and Databases: Mining Biological Semantics, Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, (poster presentation), Detroit, Michigan, June 2005.
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2004

Mercer, Robert E., DiMarco, Chrysanne, and Kroon, Frederick.
"The frequency of hedging cues in citation contexts in scientific writing."
Proceedings, 2004 Conference of the Canadian Society for the Computational Studies of Intelligence (CSCSI), London, Ontario, May 2004.
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Mercer, Robert E., and DiMarco, Chrysanne.
"A design methodology for a biomedical literature indexing tool using the rhetoric of science."
2004 Joint Conference on Human Language Technology/North American Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL) (BioLink 2004: Workshop on Linking Biological Literature, Ontologies and Databases: Tools for Users), (poster presentation), Boston, USA, May 2004.
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DiMarco, Chrysanne, and Mercer, Robert E.
"Hedging in scientific articles as a means of classifying citations"
Working Notes of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Spring Symposium on Exploring Attitude and Affect in Text: Theories and Applications, Stanford University, March 2004.
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2003

DiMarco, Chrysanne, and Mercer, Robert E.
"Toward a catalogue of citation-related rhetorical cues in scientific texts"
Proceedings of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING) Conference, Halifax, Canada, August 2003.
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Mercer, Robert E., and DiMarco, Chrysanne.
"The importance of fine-grained cue phrases in scientific citations"
Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the Canadian Society for the Computational Studies of Intelligence (CSCSI), Halifax, Canada, June 2003.
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2000

Banks, Steven, and Di Marco, Chrysanne.
"Surface form to sentence plans: A method for English-to-English translation"
Proceedings, The 4th Symposium on Natural Language Processing, Chiang Mai, Thailand, May 2000.
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1997

Hirst, Graeme; DiMarco, Chrysanne; Hovy, Eduard; and Parsons, Kimberley.
"Authoring and generating health-education documents that are tailored to the needs of the individual patient"
Proceedings, Sixth International Conference on User Modeling, Sardinia, Italy, June 1997.
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DiMarco, Chrysanne; Hirst, Graeme; and Hovy, Eduard.
"Generation by selection and repair as a method for adapting text for the individual reader"
Proceedings, Workshop on Flexible Hypertext, Eighth ACM International Hypertext Conference,
Southampton, U.K., April 1997.
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DiMarco, Chrysanne, and Foster, Mary Ellen.
"The automated generation of Web documents that are tailored to the individual reader"
Proceedings, AAAI Spring Symposium on Natural Language Processing on the World Wide Web,
Stanford University, March 1997.
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1995

DiMarco, Chrysanne; Hirst, Graeme; Wanner, Leo; and Wilkinson, John.
"HealthDoc: Customizing patient information and health education by medical condition and personal characteristics"
Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Patient Education, Glasgow, Scotland, August 1995.
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1994

DiMarco, Chrysanne, and Mah, Keith.
"A model of comparative stylistics for machine translation"
Machine Translation, 9(1), 1994, 21-59.
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Hoyt, Pat, and DiMarco, Chrysanne.
"A goal-directed multi-level stylistic analyzer"
Proceedings, 1994 Conference of the Canadian Society for the Computational Studies of Intelligence (CSCSI), Banff, Alberta, May 1994.
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1993

DiMarco, Chrysanne, and Hirst, Graeme.
"A computational theory of goal-directed style in syntax"
Computational Linguistics, 19(3), September 1993, 451--499.
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DiMarco, Chrysanne, and Hirst, Graeme.
"Usage notes as the basis for a representation of near-synonymy for lexical choice"
Proceedings, Ninth Annual Conference of the University of Waterloo Centre for the New Oxford English Dictionary and Text Research, Oxford University, September 1993.
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DiMarco, Chrysanne; Hirst, Graeme; and Stede, Manfred.
"The semantic and stylistic differentiation of synonyms and near-synonyms"
Proceedings, AAAI Spring Symposium on Building Lexicons for Machine Translation, Stanford University, March 1993.
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