An Unsupervised System for Visual Exploration of Twitter Conversations - Derrick Higgins; Michael Heilman; Adrianna Jelesnianska; Keith Ingersoll (Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, WASSA@NAACL-HLT 2016, June 16, 2016, San Diego, California, USA, 2016)

Is getting the right answer just about choosing the right words? The role of syntactically-informed features in short answer scoring - Derrick Higgins; Chris Brew; Michael Heilman; Ramon Ziai; Lei Chen; Aoife Cahill; Michael Flor; Nitin Madnani; Joel R. Tetreault; Daniel Blanchard; Diane Napolitano; Chong Min Lee; et al. (CoRR, 2014)

Measuring the Use of Factual Information in Test-Taker Essays - Beata Beigman Klebanov; Derrick Higgins (Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using NLP, BEA@NAACL-HLT 2012, June 7, 2012, Montréal, Canada, 2012)

A three-stage approach to the automated scoring of spontaneous spoken responses - Derrick Higgins; Xiaoming Xi; Klaus Zechner; David M. Williamson (Comput. Speech Lang., 2011)

Non-English Response Detection Method for Automated Proficiency Scoring System - Su-Youn Yoon; Derrick Higgins (Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, BEA@ACL 2011, Portland, Oregon, USA, June 24, 2011, 2011)

Using Amazon Mechanical Turk for Transcription of Non-Native Speech - Keelan Evanini; Derrick Higgins; Klaus Zechner (Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Creating Speech and Language Data with Amazon's Mechanical Turk, Los Angeles, USA, June 6, 2010, 2010)

Automatic scoring of non-native spontaneous speech in tests of spoken English - Klaus Zechner; Derrick Higgins; Xiaoming Xi; David M. Williamson (Speech Commun., 2009)

Adapting the acoustic model of a speech recognizer for varied proficiency non-native spontaneous speech using read speech with language-specific pronunciation difficulty - Klaus Zechner; Derrick Higgins; René Lawless; Yoko Futagi; Sarah Ohls; George Ivanov (10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2009, Brighton, United Kingdom, September 6-10, 2009, 2009)

Reliability of human annotation of semantic roles in noisy text - Derrick Higgins (Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2007), September 17-19, 2007, Irvine, California, USA, 2007)

Speechrater\(^TM\): a construct-driven approach to scoring spontaneous non-native speech - Klaus Zechner; Derrick Higgins; Xiaoming Xi (Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, SLaTE 2007, Farmington, PA, USA, October 1-3, 2007, 2007)

Identifying off-topic student essays without topic-specific training data - Derrick Higgins; Jill Burstein; Y. Attali (Nat. Lang. Eng., 2006)

Advanced Capabilities for Evaluating Student Writing: Detecting Off-Topic Essays Without Topic-Specific Training - Jill Burstein; Derrick Higgins (Artificial Intelligence in Education - Supporting Learning through Intelligent and Socially Informed Technology, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2005, July 18-22, 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2005)

A transformation-based approach to argument labeling - Derrick Higgins (Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, CoNLL 2004, Held in cooperation with HLT-NAACL 2004, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, May 6-7, 2004, 2004)

Evaluating Multiple Aspects of Coherence in Student Essays - Derrick Higgins; Jill Burstein; Daniel Marcu; Claudia Gentile (Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, HLT-NAACL 2004, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, May 2-7, 2004, 2004)

A Machine Learning Approach to Modeling Scope Preferences - Derrick Higgins; Jerrold M. Sadock (Comput. Linguistics, 2003)

A machine learning approach to the identification of WH gaps - Derrick Higgins (EACL 2003, 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 12-17, 2003, Agro Hotel, Budapest, Hungary, 2003)

The use of error tags in ARTFL's Encyclopédie: Does good error identification lead to good error correction? - Derrick Higgins (6th Applied Natural Language Processing Conference, ANLP 2000, Seattle, Washington, USA, April 29 - May 4, 2000, 2000)

Automatic Language-Specific Stemming in Information Retrieval - John A. Goldsmith; Derrick Higgins; Svetlana Soglasnova (Cross-Language Information Retrieval and Evaluation, Workshop of Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2000, Lisbon, Portugal, September 21-22, 2000, Revised Papers, 2000)

Automatic Morphology (Summary) - John A. Goldsmith; Svetlana Soglasnova; Derrick Higgins (Working Notes for CLEF 2000 Workshop co-located with the 4th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2000), Lisbon, Portugal, September 21-22, 2000, 2000)

Parsing Parallel Grammatical Representation - Derrick Higgins (36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING-ACL '98, August 10-14, 1998, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Proceedings of the Conference, 1998)