Jessica Purcell: Papers

In Preparation

  1. Slope lengths and exceptional Dehn fillings.
    In preparation.

  2. Volume and Jones Polynomial from diagrams. With D. Futer and E. Kalfagianni.
    In preparation.

  3. Geometric types of generalized augmented links.
    In preparation.
Published or Submitted

  1. Meridians and generalized augmented links.
    In preparation. Preprint (15 pages): [ps], [pdf]. Also available on ArXiv

  2. Dehn filling, Volume, and the Jones polynomial. With D. Futer and E. Kalfagianni. Submitted for publication. Preprint (32 pages): [ps], [pdf]. Also available on ArXiv

  3. Volumes of highly twisted knots and links. Algebraic & Geometric Topology. 7 (2007) 93-108.

  4. Links with no exceptional surgeries. With David Futer. (29 pages) To appear in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici. [ps], [pdf]. Also available on ArXiv

  5. Cusp shapes under cone deformations. Submitted for publication.
    Preprint (35 pages): [ps], [pdf]. Also available on ArXiv

  6. Dissertation: Cusp Shapes of Hyperbolic Link Complements and Dehn Filling. (79 pages). Stanford University, June 2004.
    [ps], [pdf]
Publications in Computer Science (as Jessica Shepherd)
  1. Riloff, E. and Shepherd, J., (1999) "A Corpus-Based Bootstrapping Algorithm for Semi-Automated Semantic Lexicon Construction", Journal of Natural Language Engineering , 1999, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 147-156. [pdf]

  2. Riloff, E. and Shepherd, J. (1997) "A Corpus-Based Approach for Building Semantic Lexicons", Proceedings of the Second Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2) . [pdf]