Publications

Journal

No evidence for culmination inferences based on Hindi ergative marking. Myrte Vos, Mohit Gurumukhani, Ashwini Vaidya, Eva Wittenberg (in submission)

Productivity and Argument Sharing in Hindi Light Verb Constructions. Ashwini Vaidya and Eva Wittenberg. Journal of South Asian Linguistics. Vol 11, Issue 3. (2020) pdf

Himanshu Yadav, Ashwini Vaidya, Vishakha Shukla and Samar Husain. Word order typology interacts with linguistic complexity: a cross-linguistic corpus study. Cognitive Science, Vol 44. pp 1-44 (2020) pdf

Vaidya Ashwini, Owen Rambow and Martha Palmer. Syntactic composition and selectional preferences in Hindi Light Verb constructions. Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, Vol 17:1. pp 1-30 (2019) pdf

Vaidya Ashwini, Samar Husain, Prashanth Mannem, Dipti Misra Sharma. 2009. A karaka-based dependency annotation scheme for English. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5449. pp. 4l-52 (2009) Springer-Verlag link

Book Chapter

Riyaz Ahmad Bhat, Rajesh Bhatt, Annahita Farudi, Prescott Klassen, Bhuvana Narasimhan, Martha Palmer, Owen Rambow, Dipti Misra Sharma, Ashwini Vaidya, Sri Ramagurumurthy Vishnu, and Fei Xia, 2017. The Hindi/Urdu Treebank Project, Handbook of Linguistic Annotation (edited by Nancy Ide and James Pustejovsky), Springer Press. link

Shantanu Kumar, Ashwini Vaidya and Sumeet Agarwal. Cognate Identification to Augment Lexical resources for NLP. In Applied cognitive science and technology: Implications of interactions between human cognition and technology. Eds Sumitava Mukherjee, Varun Dutt, Narayanan Srinivasan. Springer (2023) link

Peer reviewed Conference Publications

Kanishka Jain and Ashwini Vaidya. 2024. Revisiting VMWEs in Hindi: Annotating Layers of Predication. (accepted at MWE-UD workshop at LREC-COLING 2024)

Nandana Sengupta, Ashwini Vaidya and James Evans. 2023. In Her Shoes: Gendered Labelling in Crowdsourced Safety Perceptions Data from India. In the Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FacCT). link

Bhatia Kushagra, Divyanshu Aggarwal and Ashwini Vaidya. 2021. Fine-tuning distributional semantic models for closely related languages. In the Proceedings of VarDial- Eighth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects at EACL 2021 pdf

Carlos Ramisch, Agata Savary, Bruno Guillaume, Jakub Waszczuk, Marie Candito, Ashwini Vaidya, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Archna Bhatia, Uxoa Iñurrieta, Voula Giouli, Tunga Gungor, Menghan Jiang, Timm Lichte, Chaya Liebeskind, Johanna Monti, Renata Ramisch, Sara Stymne, Abigail Walsh, Hongzhi Xu. Edition 1.2 of the PARSEME shared task on semi-supervised identification of verbal multiword expressions. Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons at COLING 2020. pdf

Richard Shallam and Ashwini Vaidya. A metric for lexical complexity in Malayalam. Proceedings of ICON 2019, Hyderabad. pdf

Carlos Ramisch, Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro, Agata Savary, Veronika Vincze, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Archna Bhatia, Maja Buljan, Marie Candito, Polona Gantar, Voula Giouli, Tunga Güngör, Abdelati Hawwari, Uxoa Iñurrieta, Jolanta Kovalevskaitė, Simon Krek, Timm Lichte, Chaya Liebeskind, Johanna Monti, Carla Parra Escartín, Behrang QasemiZadeh, Renata Ramisch, Nathan Schneider, Ivelina Stoyanova, Ashwini Vaidya and Abigail Walsh. Edition 1.1 of the PARSEME Shared Task on Automatic Identification of Verbal Multiword Expressions. Proceedings of the LAW-MWE-CxG workshop at COLING 2018.pdf

Himanshu Yadav, Ashwini Vaidya and Samar Husain. 2017. Understanding constraints on non-projectivity using novel measures. Proceedings of DEPLING 2017, Pisa, Italy. pdf

Himanshu Yadav, Ashwini Vaidya and Samar Husain. 2017. Keeping it Simple: Generating Phrase Structure Trees from a Hindi Dependency Treebank. 5th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT15), Bloomington Indiana. pdf

Ashwini Vaidya, Sumeet Agarwal, Martha Palmer. 2016. Linguistic features for Hindi light verb construction identification. Proceedings of COLING 2016 pdf

Maaz Anwar Nomani, Riyaz Ahmad Bhat, Dipti Misra Sharma, Ashwini Vaidya, Martha Palmer, and Tafseer Ahmed. 2016. A Proposition Bank of Urdu. Proceedings of LREC, 2016. pdf

Riyaz Ahmad Bhat, Naman Jain, Dipti Misra Sharma, Ashwini Vaidya, Martha Palmer, James Babani, Tafseer Ahmed. 2014. Adapting Predicate Frames for Urdu PropBanking. In Proceedings of the EMNLP Workshop on Language Technology for Closely Related Languages and Language Variants. Pg 47—55. pdf

Sulger Sebastian and Ashwini Vaidya. 2014. Towards Identifying Hindi/Urdu Noun Templates in Support of a Large-Scale LFG Grammar. 4th Workshop on South and Southeast Asian NLP. COLING 2014 pdf

Vaidya Ashwini, Owen Rambow and Martha Palmer. 2014. Light verb constructions with ‘do’ and ‘be’ in Hindi. A TAG Analysis.Workshop on Lexical and Grammatical Resources for Language Processing. COLING 2014.pdf

Vaidya Ashwini, Martha Palmer and Bhuvana Narasimhan. 2013. Semantic roles for nominal predicates: Building a lexical resource.The 9th workshop on Multi-word expressions, NAACL, Atlanta, Georgia.pdf

Vaidya Ashwini, Jinho Choi, Martha Palmer and Bhuvana Narasimhan. 2012. Empty Argument Insertion in Hindi PropBank. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation-LREC 2012, Istanbul pdf

Vaidya Ashwini, Jinho Choi, Martha Palmer and Bhuvana Narasimhan. 2011. Analysis of the Hindi Proposition Bank using Dependency Structure. In Proceedings of the fifth Linguistic Annotation Workshop. ACL 2011, Portland. pp.21~29 pdf

Jena D. Hwang, Archna Bhatia, Claire Bonial, Aous Mansouri, Ashwini Vaidya, Nianwen Xue, and Martha Palmer. 2010. PropBank Annotation of Multilingual Light Verb Constructions. Proceedings of the Linguistic Annotation Workshop held in conjunction with ACL-2010. Uppsala, Sweden, July 15-16, 2010.pdf

Archna Bhatia, Rajesh Bhatt, Bhuvana Narasimhan, Martha Palmer, Owen Rambow, Dipti Misra Sharma, Michael Tepper, Ashwini Vaidya, Fei Xia. 2010. Empty Categories in a Hindi Treebank. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’10), Valletta, Malta, May, 2010.pdf

Vaidya Ashwini, Dipti Misra Sharma. 2009. Using paradigms for certain morphological phenomena in Marathi. Proceedings of ICON 2009, Hyderabad. pdf

Karthik Gali, Harshit Surana, Ashwini Vaidya, Praneeth Shishtla & Dipti Mishra Sharma. 2008. Aggregating Machine Learning and Rule based Heuristics for Named Entity Recognition. Proceedings of the IJCNLP-2008 workshop on NERSSEAL, Hyderabad. pdf