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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
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
Tantra: A fast PRNG algorithm and its implementation
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.
Date:
June 2009
Creator:
Gomathisankaran, Mahadevan & Lee, Ruby Bei-Loh
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Explorations in Automatic Book Summarization
This paper discusses explorations in automatic book summarization.
Date:
June 2007
Creator:
Ceylan, Hakan & Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Automatic generation of a coarse grained WordNet
This paper discusses automatic generation of a coarse grained WordNet.
Date:
June 2001
Creator:
Mihalcea, Rada, 1974- & Moldovan, Dan I.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Amazon Mechanical Turk for Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation
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.
Date:
June 2010
Creator:
Akkaya, Cem; Conrad, Alexander; Wiebe, Janyce M. & Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-
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
Quantifying the Limits and Success of Extractive Summarization Systems Across Domains
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.
Date:
June 2010
Creator:
Ceylan, Hakan; Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-; Ozertem, Umut; Lloret, Elena & Palomar, Manuel
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Word Alignment for Languages with Scarce Resources
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.
Date:
June 2005
Creator:
Martin, Joel; Mihalcea, Rada, 1974- & Pedersen, Ted
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Linguistically Motivated Features for Enhanced Back-of-the-Book Indexing
This paper discusses linguistically motivated features for enhanced back-of-the-book indexing.
Date:
June 2008
Creator:
Csomai, Andras & Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Topic Modeling on Historical Newspapers
Paper for the 2011 ACL Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities. This paper discusses topic modeling on historical newspaper.
Date:
June 2011
Creator:
Yang, Tze-I; Torget, Andrew J., 1978- & Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Measuring the Semantic Similarity of Texts
This paper discusses measuring the semantic similarity of texts.
Date:
June 2005
Creator:
Corley, Courtney & Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-
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
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
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
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
SenseLearner: Word Sense Disambiguation for All Words in Unrestricted Text
This paper describes SenseLearner, a minimally supervised word sense disambiguation system that attempts to disambiguate all content words in a text using WordNet senses.
Date:
June 2005
Creator:
Mihalcea, Rada, 1974- & Csomai, Andras
System:
The UNT Digital Library
UNT-Yahoo: SuperSenseLearner: Combining SenseLearner with SuperSense and other Coarse Semantic Features
This paper discusses combining SenseLearner with SuperSence and other coarse semantic features.
Date:
June 2007
Creator:
Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-; Csomai, Andras & Ciaramita, Massimiliano
System:
The UNT Digital Library
SemEval-2007 Task 14: Affective Text
The "Affective Text" task focuses on the classification of emotions and valence (positive/negative polarity) in news headlines, and is meant as an exploration of the connection between emotions and lexical semantics. In this paper, the authors describe the data set used in the evaluation and the results obtained by the participating systems.
Date:
June 2007
Creator:
Strapparava, Carlo, 1962- & Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
UNT: SubFinder: Combining Knowledge Sources for Automatic Lexical Substitution
This paper describes the University of North Texas SubFinder system. The system is able to provide the most likely set of substitutes for a word in a given context, by combining several techniques and knowledge sources. SubFinder has successfully participated in the best and out of ten (oot) tracks in the SEMEVAL lexical substitution task, consistently ranking in the first or second place.
Date:
June 2007
Creator:
Hassan, Samer; Csomai, Andras; Banea, Carmen; Sinha, Ravi & Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Learning Multilingual Subjective Language via Cross-Lingual Projections
This paper discusses learning multilingual subjective language via cross-lingual projections.
Date:
June 2007
Creator:
Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-; Banea, Carmen & Wiebe, Janyce M.
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
Attracting and Retaining Women in Computer Science and Engineering: Evaluating the Results
This paper discusses efforts to attract and retain students in computer science and engineering fields.
Date:
June 2007
Creator:
Keathly, David & Akl, Robert G.
System:
The UNT Digital Library