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Marina Sokolova
Ph.D.(Computer Science)
M.Sc.(System Science)
Position: NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow.
Affiliation: research groups RALI and LISA
Research interests:
  • Machine Learning,
  • Application of Machine Learning to Natural Language Processing,
  • Text Data Mining,
  • Human Communication.



  • RECENT PUBLICATIONS

    Articles in peer-reviewed journals

  • Marina Sokolova and Stan Szpakowicz.
    "Strategies and Language Trends in Learning Success and Failure of Negotiation",
    Group Decision and Negotiation, 16, p.p. 469 -- 484, 2007.
  • Mohak Shah, Marina Sokolova, and Stan Szpakowicz.
    "Process-Specific Information for Learning Electronic Negotiation Outcomes"
    Fundamenta Informaticae, 74, p.p. 351 -- 373, 2006.
  • Marina Sokolova, Mohak Shah, and Stan Szpakowicz.
    "Comparative Analysis of Text Data in Successful Face-to-Face and Electronic Negotiations",
    Group Decision and Negotiations,15(2), p.p. 127 -- 140, 2006.
  • Mario Marchand and Marina Sokolova.
    "Learning with Decision Lists of Data-Dependent Features",
    Journal of Machine Learning Research, 6(Apr), p.p. 427--451, 2005.

  • Book chapters
  • Marina Sokolova, Vivi Nastase, Mohak Shah, and Stan Szpakowicz.
    "Feature Selection in Electronic Negotiation Texts",
    E-Negotiation - An Introduction, R. Kumar and J. Banda (ed), the Icfai University Press, 2006, ISBN 81-314-0448-X.
  • Marina Sokolova, Vivi Nastase, Stan Szpakowicz and Mohak Shah.
    "Analysis and Models of Language in Electronic Negotiations",
    Issues in Intelligent Systems. Models and Techniques, M. Draminski, P. Grzegorzewski, K. Trojanowski, S. Zadrozny (eds.), p.p. 197 - 211, EXIT, Warszawa, 2005, ISBN 83-87674-91-5.

  • Papers in conference proceedings
  • Marina Sokolova, Vivi Nastase, Stan Szpakowicz.
    " The Telling Tail: Signals of Success in Electronic Negotiation Texts",
    Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2008), p.p. 257 -- 264, 2008.
  • Vivi Nastase, Marina Sokolova and Jelber Sayyad Shirabad.
    "Do Happy Words Sound Happy? A study of the relation between form and meaning for English words expressing emotions" ,
    Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'2007), p.p. 406 -- 410, 2007.
  • Marina Sokolova and Guy Lapalme,
    "Performance Measures in Classification of Human Communication",
    Proceedings of the 20th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence ( AI'2007), p.p.159 - 170, 2007.
  • Marina Sokolova and Guy Lapalme,
    "Informativeness for Prediction of Negotiation Outcomes",
    Proceedings of Group Decision and Negotiations 2007, v. 2, p.p. 501 - 511, 2007.
  • Marina Sokolova, Nathalie Japkowicz, and Stan Szpakowicz.
    "Beyod Accuracy, F-score and ROC: a Family of Discriminant Measures for Performance Evaluation",
    Proceedings of the ACS Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, p.p. 1015-1021, 2006.
  • Vivi Nastase, Jelber Sayyad Shirabad, Marina Sokolova, and Stan Szpakowicz,
    "Learning Noun-Modifier Semantic Relations with Corpus-based and WordNet-based Features",
    Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2006), p.p. 781 -- 787, 2006.
  • Marina Sokolova and Stan Szpakowicz.
    "Language Patterns in the Learning of Strategies from Negotiation Texts",
    Proceedings of the 19th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'2006), pp. 288 - 299, Springer.
  • Marina Sokolova, Vivi Nastase, Mohak Shah, and Stan Szpakowicz.
    "Feature Selection in Electronic Negotiation Texts",
    Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'2005), p.p. 518 - 524, 2005.
  • Marina Sokolova and Stan Szpakowicz.
    "Analysis and Classification of Strategies in Electronic Negotiations",
    Proceedings of the 18th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'2005), p.p. 145-157, Springer.
  • Marina Sokolova, Vivi Nastase, and Stan Szpakowicz.
    "Language in Electronic Negotiations: Patterns in Completed and Uncompleted Negotiations",
    Natural Language Processing (Proceedings of ICON'2004), p.p.142-151, 2004.
  • Mohak Shah, Marina Sokolova and Stan Szpakowicz.
    "The Role of Domain-Specific Knowledge in Classifying the Language of E-negotiations",
    Natural Language Processing (Proceedings of ICON'2004), p.p. 99-108, 2004.
  • Marina Sokolova, Stan Szpakowicz, Vivi Nastase.
    "Using Language to Determine Success in Negotiations: A Preliminary Study",
    Proceedings of the 17th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI'2004), pp 449-453, Springer, 2004.
  • Mario Marchand, Mohak Shah,John Shawe-Taylor, and Marina Sokolova.
    "The Set Covering Machine with Data-Dependent Half-Spaces",
    Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'2003), pp. 520--527, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco CA, 2003.
  • Marina Sokolova, Mario Marchand, Nathalie Japkowicz, and John Shawe-Taylor.
    "The Decision List Machine",
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15, pp. 921--928, MIT-Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, (2003).

  • Papers in proceedings of international workshops
  • Marina Sokolova.
    "Assessing Invariance Properties of Evaluation Measures",
    Proceedings of NIPS'06 Workshop on Testing Deployable Learning and Decision Systems , 2006.
  • Marina Sokolova, Nathalie Japkowicz, and Stan Szpakowicz.
    "Beyod Accuracy, F-score and ROC: a Family of Discriminant Measures for Performance Evaluation",
    Proceedings of AAAI'06 Workshop on Evaluation Measures for Machine Learning
    (a preliminary version of Sokolova, Japkowicz, Szpakowicz, Australian AI 2006).
  • Marina Sokolova, Mohak Shah, and Stan Szpakowicz.
    "Comparative Analysis of Text Data in Successful Face-to-Face and Electronic Negotiations",
    Proceedings of Workshop on Formal and Informal Information Exchange during Negotiations, p.p. 33 - 42.
    (a preliminary version of Sokolova, Shah and Szpakowicz, GDN 2006.)


  • Theses:
  • Learning from Communication Data: Language in Electronic Business Negotiations,
    Doctoral Thesis, 2006.
  • The Decision List Machine,
    Master's Thesis, 2001.


  • International conference on Group Decision and Negotiations 2007, Mt. Tremblant, May 2007