Automatic Extraction of Implicit Interpretations from Modal Constructions (open access)

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
Automatic Generation and Classification of Minimal Meaningful Propositions in Educational Systems (open access)

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
Automatic Generation and Scoring of Positive Interpretations from Negated Statements (open access)

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
Beyond Plain Spatial Knowledge: Determining Where Entities Are and Are Not Located, and For How Long (open access)

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
Dialogue Act Classification in Domain-Independent Conversations Using a Deep Recurrent Neural Network (open access)

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
Infusing NLU into Automatic Question Generation (open access)

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
Understanding Negation in Positive Terms Using Syntactic Dependencies (open access)

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