Srini Narayanan’s ICSI Homepage

I currently lead the AI group at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), am a core faculty member in the Cognitive Science Program, and an affiliate faculty member at the Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences (ICBS) at the University of California, Berkeley.

 

I primarily work in the language learning project NTL (previously called Lzero), at the International Computer Science Institute. For a brief period, I worked at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at SRI International.  My SRI homepage describes projects that apply aspects of NTL theory to System Building. For an overview of the NTL/Lzero project, see "Lzero: The First Five Years".

 

Recently, I have become interested in Information Technology for Developing Regions (IT4D). For our initial effort toward accessible primary health care in collaboration with Hesperian Press, please see The Hesperian Digital Resource.

 

NOTE: During the 2008/2009 Academic Year, I am at the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, as a Resident Fellow. Email is the best way to reach me during this time.

Research interests

Computational Biology, Computational Neuroscience, Probabilistic models of language interpretation, graphical models of stochastic grammars, semantics of linguistic aspect, on-line metaphor interpretation, embodied rationality. My  Curriculum Vitae has more information about my  research and interests.

Teaching

Selected recent publications

Current and Working Papers

  • Birte Loenneker-Rodman and Srini Narayanan (to appear). Computational Models of Figurative Language, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Psycholinguistics (to appear). Draft Manuscript
  • Leon Barrett and Srini Narayanan (2008). Learning all Optimal Policies with Multiple Criteria, Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2008), Helsinki, 2008. Preprint
  • S. Narayanan (2008). The Thermal Qualities of Substance: A cross-cultural study. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Science (CogSci 2008), Chicago 2008. Preprint.
  • J. Feldman and S. Narayanan (2008). Simulation and Cognition in Language Understanding, Exciting Biologies , France 2008 (to appear). Abstract.
  • J. Makin and Srini Narayanan (2008). Real Time Control of Human Coagulation (submitted), Proceedings of the Library of Science (PLoS), Computational Biology . Draft Manuscript
  • J. Makin and Srini Narayanan (2008). Hybrid System Modeling of Human Blood Clotting (to appear), Proceedings of the Library of Science (PLoS), Computational Biology . Also ICSI Technical Report ICSI-TR 08-02.
  • M. Gedigian and S. Narayanan (in preparation). A Multilingual Semantic Resource for Primary Health Care.  The resource pilot is at http://www.hesperian.net. Summary slides composite from talks at UC Berkeley, ICSI, and Google.
  • Srini Narayanan, Katie Sievers, and Steve Maiorano (2007). OCCAM: Ontology-Based Computational Contextual Analysis and Modeling, Modeling and Using Context (2007) , Lecture Notes in Computer Science , Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, V 4635/2007. Preprint

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  • B. Bergen, T. Matlock, S. Lindsay, and S. Narayanan (200). Spatial and linguistic aspects of visual imagery in sentence processing, Cognitive Science. Preprint
  • Lisa Aziz-Zadeh, Christian Fiebach, Srini Narayanan, Jerome Feldman, Ellen Dodge, Richard B. Ivry (2007) Modulation of FFA and PPA by language related to faces and places, Social Neuroscience, 1 – 10, Psychology Press, May 2007. Preprint

2006

  • B. Bergen, T. Matlock, and S. Narayanan (2006). Spatial and linguistic aspects of visual imagery in sentence processing, Cognitive Science (accepted for publication).
  • Makin, J. and S. Narayanan (2006). A Hybrid System Model of Human Blood Clotting. (Patent Pending US60/716,585).
  • Lisa Aziz-Zadeh, Christian Fiebach, Srini Narayanan, Jerome Feldman, Ellen Dodge, Richard B. Ivry (2006), Modulation of the FFA and PPA by language related to faces and places, Social Neuroscience (to appear in 2007).
  • Lisa Aziz-Zadeh, Christian Fiebach, Srini Narayanan, Jerome Feldman, Ellen Dodge, Richard B. Ivry (2006) Modulation of FFA and PPA by language related to faces and places, Human Brain Mapping Conference, Italy, May 2006).
  • S. Narayanan (2006). Information Access beyond English (slides from talk at Google)
  • Jan Scheffczyk, Collin F. Baker, Srini Narayanan (2006), Ontology-based Reasoning about Lexical Resources, Ontology and Lexical Resources in Natural Language Processing, Cambridge University Press, 2006 (to appear), earlier version presented at OntoLex 2006, Genoa, Italy, May 2006.
  • Gedigian, M. Bryant, J., Narayanan, S. and Ciric, B (2006). Catching Metaphors, Scalable Natural Language Understanding Conference, Boston, May 2006.
  • Charles Fillmore, Srini Narayanan, Collin Baker (2006), What Linguistics can contribute to Event Extraction, AAAI Workshop on Event Extraction, AAAI 2006, Boston.
  • Srini Narayanan (2006). Semantically Oriented Machine Translation (2006), Machine Translation for Indian Languages Workshop, Amrita University Jan 5, 2006.

2005

  • J. Makin, S. Narayanan (2005). A Hybrid System Model of Human Blood Clotting (Patent Pending US60/716,585). Paper, Patent Application Cover letter.
  • B. Bergen, T. Matlock, and S. Narayanan (2005).   Spatial and Linguistic Aspects of visual processing (submitted) Paper (pdf)
  • S. Narayanan and D. Jurafsky (2005).   A Bayesian Model of Human Sentence Processing (in preparation) Paper (pdf)
  • S. Narayanan, M. Gerber (2005). Multimedia resources on the Semantic Web (in preparation). Download our Video Event Representation Language encoding (VERL in OWL) and the Video Event Markup Language in OWL (VEML in OWL) encoding. An example of running our translator on the Video Meeting ontology is at (Meeting Ontology in OWL)
  • S. Sinha, S. Narayanan (2005). Model Based Answer Selection. Textual Inference in Question Answering Workshop, AAAI 2005, Pittsburgh, July 2005. Paper (pdf)
  • L. Michaelis, N. Chang, S. Narayanan (2005). Together at last: An integrated semantics of Tense and Aspect, NDCL, 2005.
  •  S. Narayanan (2005). Computational Cognitive Semantics, Proceedings of the Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science (NLUCS) conference, Florida.

2004

  • J. Feldman and S. Narayanan (2004).   Embodied Meaning in a Neural Theory of Language, Brain and Language 89 (2004), 385-392, Elsevier Press, 2004.
  • S. Narayanan, S. Harabagiu (2004).   Question Answering based on Semantic Structures, International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2004), Geneva, Switzerland, August 22-29, 2004. pdf version
  • Narayanan, M. Gerber (2005). Multimedia resources on the Semantic Web, Video Event Representation Language Final Report, ARDA 2004.
  • N. Chang, J. Feldman and S. Narayanan (2004).   Structured Connectionist Models of Language, Cognition, and Action, Ninth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop, Plymouth, September, 2004. pdf version
  • S. Narayanan, S. Harabagiu (2004). Semantic Structures for Question Answering, HLT-NAACL tutorial, Boston, May 2004. (Slides from the tutorial (ppt))
  • S. Harabagiu, S. Narayanan (2004). Answering Questions using Advanced Semantics and Probabilistic Inference, Workshop on Pragmatics of Question Answering, HLT-NAACL, Boston, May 2004. pdf version

2003

 

  • S. Narayanan and S. McIlraith (2003).  Analysis and Simulation of Web Services, Computer Networks 42, 2003 (3rd. most cited 2003 Computer Networks paper) 675-693, Elsevier Press, B.V. pdf version
  • S. Narayanan (2003).   Cortico-Subcortical Loops and Cognition: A Computational Model and Preliminary Results, Neurocomputing 52-54 (2003) 605-614, Elsevier, 2003.pdf version
  • Behrang Mohit, S. Narayanan (2003): Semantic Extraction with Wide-Coverage Lexical Resources. In Marti Hearst and Mari Ostendorf (eds.), HLT-NAACL 2003: Companion Volume. Alberta, Canada. pp. 64-66.Postscript (516KB)  PDF(59 KB)
  • Narayanan, Srini, Miriam R. L. Petruck, Collin F. Baker, and Charles J. Fillmore (2003): Putting FrameNet Data into the ISO Linguistic Annotation FrameWork. In Proceedings of the ACL 2003 Workshop on Linguistic Annotation: Getting the Model Right, Sapporo, Japan. Postscript (84KB)  PDF(61 KB)
  • S. Narayanan, J. Feldman (2003). Coordinated Probabilistic Relational Models (unpublished manuscript (from a proposal))  pdf version
  • S. Narayanan (2003). Simulation Semantics: A neurally motivated compuational framework for metaphor, International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC, La Rioja, Spain, July 2003.
  • N. Chang, L. Michaelis, and S. Narayanan (2003).  Together at last: An integrated model of tense and aspect, International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC) , La Rioja, Spain, July 2003

2002

 

  • N. Chang, S. Narayanan, M. Petruck (2002). Putting Frames in Perspective,  The Nineteenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002), August 24 –Sept. 1, Taipei, Taiwan. Reprint.
  • S. Narayanan, S. McIlraith (2002). Simulation, Verification and Automated Composition of Web Services, Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2002), Honolulu,May 7-10 html version , pdf.
  • J. Hobbs, S. Narayanan (2002). Spatial Representation and Reasoning, Nature Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science . pdf version
  • S. Narayanan, and D.Jurafsky (2002). A Bayesian Model Predicts Human Parse Preference and Reading Time in Sentence Processing. In T. G. Dietterich, S. Becker and Z. Ghahramani (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 59-65. pdf version
  • L.Shastri, D. Grannes, S. Narayanan, and J.Feldman (2000). A Connectionist Model of Parameterized Schemas, Hybrid Information Processing in Adaptive Autonomous Vehicles, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Series in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Also ICSI Technical Report TR-02-008, 2002. (TR version in PDF)
  • S. Narayanan (2002). The Role of Cortico-Thalamic-Basal Ganglia Loops in  Working Memory and Executive Control , Computational Neuroscience(CNS 2002), Chicago, 2002.
  • S. Narayanan, C. Fillmore, C. Baker, M. Petruck (2002). FrameNet meets the Semantic Web: A DAML+OIL representation of FrameNet , Language Resources for the Semantic Web, AAAI 2002, Edmonton .
  • Ankolekar, A., Burstein, M., Hobbs, J., Lassila, O., Martin, D., McIllraith, S., Narayanan, S., Paolucci, M., Payne, T., Sycara, K., Zeng, H. (2002) DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Sardinia, June 2002 . pdf 
  • N. Chang, S. Narayanan, M. Petruck (2002),  From Frames to Inference, Scalable Natural Language Understanding (SCANALU), Heidelberg, May 22-25  .
  • S. Narayanan, D. Jurafsky (2002). Bayesian Models of Sentence Processing, CUNY conference on Sentence Processing, March 23-25, CUNY, NY.
  • Ankolekar, A., Burstein, M., Hobbs, J., Lassila, O., Martin, D., McIllraith, S., Narayanan, S., Paolucci, M., Payne, T., Sycara, K., Zeng, H. (2002) DAML-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services, The Semantic Web, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag.  (extended version of the SWWS (2001) paper).

2001

  • S. Narayanan, and D.Jurafsky (2001). A Bayesian Model Predicts Parse Preferences and Reading Times in Sentence Comprehension, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS2001). 
  • S. Narayanan, J. Feldman, and G. Lakoff (2001). Structured Connectionist Models of Action, Neurobiology of Language Conference,  Brain and Language.
  • Ankolekar, A., Burstein, M., Hobbs, J., Lassila, O., Martin, D., McIllraith, S., Narayanan, S., Paolucci, M., Payne, T., Sycara, K., Zeng, H. (2001). DAML-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services, Semantic Web Workshop (SWWS) Stanford, 2001. 
  • Denker, G., Hobbs, J., Martin D., Narayanan, S. and Waldinger,  R. (2001), Querying and Accessing Information on the Semantic Web, Proceedings of SemanticWeb Workshop,  10th Annual Worldwide Web Conference (WWW10), Hong Kong,  2001. 

2000

  •  J. Feldman, S. Narayanan, and G. Lakoff (2000). Active Schemas for Generation, Recognition, and Understanding of Action, International Conference on Mirror Neurons and the evolution of Language and Cognition, Dalmenhurst, July 5-9 , 2000. 
  • L.Shastri, D. Grannes, S. Narayanan, and J.Feldman (2000). A Connectionist Model of Parameterized Schemas, Hybrid Information Processing in Adaptive Autonomous Vehicles, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Series in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Also ICSI Technical Report TR-02-008, 2002.

1999

  • S. Narayanan (1999). Reasoning About Actions in Narrative Undertanding Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '99), pp. 350-358, Stockholm, Aug. 1-6, 1999, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, CA, 1999. Reprint.
  • S. Narayanan (1999). Moving Right Along: A Computational Model of Metaphoric Reasoning about Events Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '99), Orlando, Florida, July 18-22, 1999, pp 121-128, AAAI Press, 1999.  Reprint.

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Other Interests/Sites

A paper on the metaphoric and metonymic uses of hot and cold in South Asia, html (buggy) or postscript version

An essay about the naming conventions for Indian names, What's in a name

 Ethical Issues in Liberalization in India: Abstract
My Movie Reviews
ASHA
University of Oregon's metaphor site
Petri Nets
Britannica Online
Indiaworld

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Web Site maintained by Srini Narayanan

August 2, 1997