Executive summary of a proposal for the establishment of a Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science at North Texas State University, including information on the purpose, rationale and need, a description of the academy, personnel, organizational structure, management, a budget summary, and expected outcomes.

Proposal by Alfred Hurley requesting $1,000,000 from the Southland Corporation to support the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. Hurley points out the looming shortage of people with high-tech knowledge, and includes a copy of the proposal for the Academy.

Proposal for the establishment of a Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science at North Texas State University, including information on the purpose, expected outcomes, rationale and need, academy requirements, a description of the Academy, admission plans, an instructional program, a co-curricular program, the admissions process, nomination and selection criteria, organizational structure, personnel, management, an evaluation, the budget, and special considerations affecting the proposed academy. Proposed budgets from 1988 to 1993 are included, as is an outline of the curriculum.

This paper shows results from an investigation whether a classifier can be taught to identify these constructions and consideration of the hypothesis that identifying construction types can improve the semantic interpretation of previously unseen predicate uses.

This paper presents a domain-independent technique for assessing learners' constructed responses.

This paper analyzes the performance of a domain-general sarcasm detection system on datasets from two different domains: Twitter and Amazon product reviews.

This paper presents models to predict event durations.

This paper discusses the history of the Texas Digital Newspaper Program and associated digital newspaper initiatives at the University of North Texas Libraries.

This paper discusses measuring the impact of preserving digital assets.

This paper discusses the Classification of the End-of-Term Archive project.

This paper discusses Tantra. Tantra is a novel Pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) design that provides a long sequence high quality pseudorandom numbers at very high rate both in software and hardware implementations.

This paper accompanies a poster presentation on the anti-diabetic and cholesterol-lowering effects of common and cassia cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum and C. aromaticum).

This paper discusses explorations in automatic book summarization.

This paper discusses automatic generation of a coarse grained WordNet.

In this paper, the authors discuss research on whether they can use Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to acquire good annotations with respect to gold-standard data, whether they can filter out low-quality workers (spammers), and whether there is a learning effect associated with repeatedly completing the same kind of task.

This paper presents a novel fine-grained semantic representation of text and an approach to constructing it.

This paper analyzes the topic identification stage of single-document automatic text summarization across four different domains, consisting of newswire, literary, scientific and legal documents.

This paper presents the task definition, resources, participating systems, and comparative results for the shared task on word alignment which was organized as part of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2005 Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts. The shared task included English-Inuktitut, Romanian-English, and English-Hindi sub-tasks, and drew the participation of ten teams from around the world with a total of 50 systems.

This paper discusses linguistically motivated features for enhanced back-of-the-book indexing.

Paper for the 2011 ACL Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities. This paper discusses topic modeling on historical newspaper.

This paper discusses measuring the semantic similarity of texts.

This paper presents a methodology to extract positive interpretations from negated statements.

This paper describes on-going efforts to annotate a corpus of almost 16,000 answer pairs with an estimated 69,000 fine-grained entailment relationships.

This paper describes an automatic question generator that uses semantic pattern recognition to create questions of varying depth and type for self-study or tutoring.