Recent Papers
	Xi, Xiaoming, Derrick Higgins, Klaus Zechner, and David Williamson. (accepted). A comparison of two scoring methods for an automated scoring system. Accepted for publication in Journal of Educational Measurement.
	Zechner, Klaus, Derrick Higgins, Xiaoming Xi, and David Williamson. (accepted). Automatic Scoring of Non-Native Spontaneous Speech in Tests of Spoken English. Accepted for publication in Speech Communication.
	Shermis, Mark D., Jill Burstein, Derrick Higgins, and Klaus Zechner. (in press). Automated essay scoring: Writing assessment and instruction. In E. Baker, B. McGaw and N. S. Petersen (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education (3 ed.). Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
2009	Quinlan, Thomas, Derrick Higgins, and Suzanne Wolff. (2009). Evaluating the Construct Coverage of the e-rater® Scoring Engine. ETS Research Report #RR-09-01.
2008	Xi, Xiaoming, Derrick Higgins, Klaus Zechner, and David Williamson. (2008). Automated Scoring of Spontaneous Speech using SpeechRater v1.0. ETS Research Report #RR-08-62.
	Higgins, Derrick. (2007). Reliability of human annotation of semantic roles in noisy text. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Semantic Computing, pp. 501–508. Irvine, CA.
2007	Zechner, Klaus, Derrick Higgins & Xiaoming Xi. (2007). SpeechRater: A Construct- Driven Approach to Scoring Spontaneous Non-Native Speech. In Proceedings of The International Speech Communication Association Special Interest Group on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE). Farmington, PA.
	Higgins, Derrick, & Burstein, Jill. (2007). Sentence similarity measures for essay coherence. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-7), pp. 77–88. Tilburg, The Netherlands.
	Higgins, Derrick. (2007). Item Distiller: Text retrieval for computer-assisted test item creation. ETS Research Manuscript #RR-07-05.
	Higgins, Derrick, Jill Burstein and Yigal Attali. (2006). Identifying Off-Topic Student Essays Without Topic-Specific Training Data. Natural Language Engineering 12(2):115-129.
2006	Deane, Paul, Edith Aurora Graf, Derrick Higgins, Yoko Futagi, and René Lawless. (2006). Model Analysis and Model Creation: Capturing the Task-Model Structure of Quantitative Item Domains. ETS Research Report #RR-06-11.
	Deane, Paul and Derrick Higgins. (2006). Acquiring an extensible semantic lexicon by applying singular value decomposition to word-context associations. In: Corpus Linguistics beyond the Word: Research From Phrase to Discourse, pp. 43-58. Rodopi. Abstract
	Burstein, Jill, & Derrick Higgins. Advanced capabilities for evaluating student writing: Detecting off-topic essays without topic-specific training. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, July 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2005	Higgins, Derrick, Yoko Futagi and Paul Deane. (2005). Multilingual Generalization of the ModelCreator Software for Math Item Generation. ETS Research Report #RR-05-02.
	Higgins, Derrick. Which statistics reflect semantics? Rethinking synonymy and word similarity. Conference volume from the 2004 International Conference on Linguistic Evidence.
	Higgins, Derrick, Jill Burstein, Daniel Marcu, and Claudia Gentile. Evaluating multiple aspects of coherence in student essays. 2004 conference of the North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 185-192.
2004	Higgins, Derrick. A transformation-based approach to labeling semantic roles. 2004 Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, pp. 114-117.
	Higgins, Derrick, Jill Burstein, Claudia Gentile, and Daniel Marcu. Generating Instructional Feedback about the Coherence of Organizational Elements in Student Writing. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Educational Measurement.
	Higgins, Derrick, and Jerrold M. Sadock. A Machine Learning Approach to Discovering Scope Preferences. Computational Linguistics 29(1):73-96.
2003	Higgins, Derrick. A machine learning approach to the identification of WH gaps. Companion volume from the 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2003), pp. 99-102.
	Higgins, Derrick. Unsupervised Learning of Bulgarian POS Tags. Proceedings of the Workshop on Morphological Processing of Slavic Languages, EACL 2003. pp. 47-54.
2002	Higgins, Derrick. A Multi-modular Approach to Model Selection in Statistical NLP. University of Chicago Ph.D. thesis.
	Higgins, Derrick. An HMM-based model of morphological acquisition and representation. In: The Proceedings of the 36th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Volume 2: The Panels, pp. 119-132. Arika Okrent and John Boyle, eds.
2000	Goldsmith, John A., Derrick Higgins, and Svetlana Soglasnova. Automatic Language-Specific Stemming in Information Retrieval. Proceedings of CLEF 2000, pp. 273-284.
	Higgins, Derrick. The use of error tags in ARTFL's Encyclop馘ie: Does good error identification lead to good error correction? The Proceedings of the ANLP-NAACL 2000 Student Research Workshop, pp. 30-34.