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Detecting Sarcasm is Extremely Easy ;-)
This paper analyzes the performance of a domain-general sarcasm detection system on datasets from two different domains: Twitter and Amazon product reviews.
Date:
June 5, 2018
Creator:
Parde, Natalie & Nielsen, Rodney D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Impact of Mobility on Convergence Rate in a Wireless Sensor Network
This paper shows that introducing mobility increases the rate of convergence in partially connected and disconnected wireless sensor networks (WSN).
Date:
March 22, 2017
Creator:
Norouzi Kandalan, Roya; Singh, Ramanpreet; Namuduri, Kamesh; Varanasi, Murali R. & Buckles, Bill
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Towards a Domain Independent Semantics: Enhancing Semantic Representation with Construction Grammar
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.
Date:
June 2010
Creator:
Hwang, Jena D.; Nielsen, Rodney D. & Palmer, Martha
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Classification Errors in a Domain-Independent Assessment System
This paper presents a domain-independent technique for assessing learners' constructed responses.
Date:
June 19, 2008
Creator:
Nielsen, Rodney D.; Ward, Wayne & Martin, James H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
To Annotate More Accurately or to Annotate More
This paper demonstrates that the greatest value for annotation lies in single annotating more data.
Date:
July 2010
Creator:
Dligach, Dmitriy; Nielsen, Rodney D. & Palmer, Martha
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Extracting a Representation from Text for Semantic Analysis
This paper presents a novel fine-grained semantic representation of text and an approach to constructing it.
Date:
June 2008
Creator:
Nielsen, Rodney D.; Ward, Wayne; Martin, James H. & Palmer, Martha
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Corpus of Fine-Grained Entailment Relations
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.
Date:
June 2007
Creator:
Nielsen, Rodney D. & Ward, Wayne
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Finding Patterns in Noisy Crowds: Regression-based Annotation Aggregation for Crowdsourced Data
This paper presents an aggregation approach that learns a regression model from crowdsourced annotations to predict aggregated labels for instances that have no expert adjudications.
Date:
September 2017
Creator:
Nielsen, Rodney D. & Parde, Natalie
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Mixing Weak Learners in Semantic Parsing
This paper shows results from the application of a novel variant of Random Forests to the shallow semantic parsing problem.
Date:
July 2004
Creator:
Nielsen, Rodney D. & Pradhan, Sameer
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Towards Effective Tutorial Feedback for Explanation Questions: A Dataset and Baselines
This paper proposes a new shared task on grading student answers with the goal of enabling well-targeted and flexible feedback in a tutorial dialogue setting.
Date:
June 2012
Creator:
Dzikovska, Myroslava O.; Nielsen, Rodney D. & Brew, Chris
System:
The UNT Digital Library
If No Media Were Allowed inside the Venue, Was Anybody Allowed?
This paper presents a framework to understand negation in positive terms.
Date:
April 2017
Creator:
Sarabi, Zahra & Blanco, Eduardo
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Automatic Generation and Scoring of Positive Interpretations from Negated Statements
This paper presents a methodology to extract positive interpretations from negated statements.
Date:
June 2016
Creator:
Blanco, Eduardo & Sarabi, Zahra
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Linguistic Considerations in Automatic Question Generation
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.
Date:
June 2014
Creator:
Mazidi, Karen & Nielsen, Rodney D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Infusing NLU into Automatic Question Generation
This paper presents an approach to automatic question generation that significantly increases the percentage of acceptable questions compared to prior state-of-the-art systems.
Date:
September 2016
Creator:
Mazidi, Karen & Tarau, Paul
System:
The UNT Digital Library
SemEval-2013 Task 7: The Joint Student Response Analysis and 8th Recognizing Textual Embodiment Challenge
This paper presents the results of the Joint Student Response Analysis and 8th Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge, aiming to bring together researchers in educational NLP technology and textual entailment.
Date:
June 2013
Creator:
Dzikovska, Myroslava O.; Nielsen, Rodney D.; Brew, Chris; Leacock, Claudia; Giampiccolo, Danilo; Bentivogli, Luisa et al.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Beyond Plain Spatial Knowledge: Determining Where Entities Are and Are Not Located, and For How Long
This paper complements semantic role representations with spatial knowledge beyond indicating plain locations.
Date:
August 2016
Creator:
Vempala, Alakananda & Blanco, Eduardo
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Co-Training for Topic Classification of Scholarly Data
This paper describes a co-training approach that uses the text and citation information of a research article as two different views to predict the topic of an article.
Date:
September 2015
Creator:
Caragea, Cornelia; Bulgarov, Florin & Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Automatic Generation and Classification of Minimal Meaningful Propositions in Educational Systems
This paper introduces a new representation of sentences--Minimal Meaningful Propositions (MMPS), which allows significant improvement of the mapping between a learner's answer and the ideal response.
Date:
December 2016
Creator:
Godea, Andreea; Bulgarov, Florin & Nielsen, Rodney D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Dialogue Act Classification in Domain-Independent Conversations Using a Deep Recurrent Neural Network
This paper applies a deep long-short term memory (LSTM) structure to classify dialogue acts in open-domain conversations.
Date:
December 2016
Creator:
Khanpour, Hamed; Guntakandla, Nishitha & Nielsen, Rodney D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Identifying Emotional and Informational Support in Online Health Communities
This paper analyses user messages on an online cancer support community, Cancer Survivors Network (CSN), to identify the two types of social support present: emotional support and informational support.
Date:
August 2014
Creator:
Biyani, Prakhar; Caragea, Cornelia; Mitra, Prasenjit & Yen, John
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Automatic Extraction of Implicit Interpretations from Modal Constructions
This paper presents an approach to extract implicit interpretations from modal constructions.
Date:
November 2016
Creator:
Sanders, Jordan & Blanco, Eduardo
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Understanding Negation in Positive Terms Using Syntactic Dependencies
This paper presents a two-step procedure to extract positive meaning from verbal negation.
Date:
November 2016
Creator:
Sarabi, Zahra & Blanco, Eduardo
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Framework for Health Behavior Change Using Companionable Robots
This paper describes a dialogue system framework for a companionable robot, which aims to guide patients towards health behavior changes via natural language analysis and generation.
Date:
June 2014
Creator:
Sarma, Bandita; Das, Amitava & Nielsen, Rodney D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Citation-Enhanced Keyphrase Extraction from Research Papers: A Supervised Approach
This paper proposes a supervised model for keyphrase extraction from research papers, which are embedded in citation networks.
Date:
October 2014
Creator:
Caragea, Cornelia; Bulgarov, Florin; Godea, Andreea & Das Gollapalli, Sujatha
System:
The UNT Digital Library