Determining Event Durations: Models and Error Analysis (open access)

Determining Event Durations: Models and Error Analysis

This paper presents models to predict event durations.
Date: June 1, 2018
Creator: Vempala, Alakananda; Blanco, Eduardo & Palmer, Alexis
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Definition and Goals of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork (open access)

Definition and Goals of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork

Book chapter defining descriptive linguistic fieldwork, explores tasks that fall under this definition, outlines goals of descriptive linguistic fieldwork, and identifies aspirations and limitations of linguistic fieldworkers.
Date: 2011
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & de Reuse, Willem
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reproducible Research in Linguistics: A Position Statement on Data Citation and Attribution in Our Field (open access)

Reproducible Research in Linguistics: A Position Statement on Data Citation and Attribution in Our Field

This article is a position statement on reproducible research in linguistics, including data citation and attribution, that represents the collective views of some 41 colleagues.
Date: December 6, 2017
Creator: Berez-Kroeker, Andrea; Gawne, Lauren; Kung, Susan Smythe; Kelly, Barbara F.; Heston, Tyler; Holton, Gary et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Temporally-oriented possession: A corpus for tracking possession over time (open access)

Temporally-oriented possession: A corpus for tracking possession over time

This paper presents a new corpus of Wikipedia articles annotated with temporally-oriented possession or tracking concrete objects as they change hands over time.
Date: January 2019
Creator: Chinnappa, Dhivya; Palmer, Alexis & Blanco, Eduardo
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Traditional Personal Names in Klallam (open access)

Traditional Personal Names in Klallam

This paper describes the phonology, morphology, and syntax of personal names in Klallam, and includes a description of the importance of personal names in Klallam.
Date: January 7, 2012
Creator: Montler, Timothy; Smith, Adeline & Charles, Beatrice
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Classifying Semantic Clause Types: Modeling Context and Genre Characteristics with Recurrent Neural Networks and Attention (open access)

Classifying Semantic Clause Types: Modeling Context and Genre Characteristics with Recurrent Neural Networks and Attention

This paper introduces an attention mechanism that pinpoints relevant context not only for the current instance, but also for the larger context.
Date: August 2017
Creator: Becker, Maria; Staniek, Michael; Nastase, Vivi; Palmer, Alexis & Frank, Anette
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Semantic Clause Types and Modality as Features for Argument Analysis (open access)

Semantic Clause Types and Modality as Features for Argument Analysis

This article investigates the role of semantic clause types and modality in argumentative texts.
Date: August 17, 2017
Creator: Becker, Maria; Palmer, Alexis & Frank, Anette
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

A partial example of a Data Management Plan, with post-project comments

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation provides an example of a data management plan for a linguistics archiving project.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: de Reuse, Willem
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ethics in Data Sharing

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation discusses the ethics involved in data management and data sharing.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Harmonized Annotation and Data Formats

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation asks the authors various questions regarding harmonized annotation and data.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Simons, Gary F.; Aristar-Dry, Helen; Palmer, Alexis & Kung, Susan Smythe
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Lamkang Community Uses for CoRSAL

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation looks at language archiving needs and issues from the perspective of the Lamkang community.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Khular, Sumshot
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

A View from CL/NLP

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation provides an overview of the data structures needed for computational linguistics and natural language processing.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Palmer, Alexis
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Archive and database architecture and usability

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation discusses the use of a database for language archiving through the example of Himalayan Tibeto-Burman languages.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Caplow, Nancy J.; Khular, Sumshot & Willis Oko, Christina
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Computational Resource for South Asian Languages

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation provides an overview of the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages project.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
STREAMLInED Challenges: Aligning Research Interests with Shared Tasks (open access)

STREAMLInED Challenges: Aligning Research Interests with Shared Tasks

This paper describes the use of Shared Task Evaluation Campaigns by designing tasks that are compelling to speech and natural language processing researchers while addressing technical challenges in language documentation and exploiting growing archives of endangered language data.
Date: March 2017
Creator: Levow, Gina-Anne; Bender, Emily M.; Littell, Patrick; Howell, Kristen; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi; Crowgey, Joshua et al.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Automated Framework for Fast Cognate Detection and Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference in Computational Historical Linguistics (open access)

An Automated Framework for Fast Cognate Detection and Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference in Computational Historical Linguistics

Article presents a fully automated workflow for phylogenetic reconstruction on large datasets, consisting of two novel methods, one for fast detection of cognates and one for fast Bayesian phylogenetic inference.
Date: 2019
Creator: Kasicheyanula, Taraka & List, Johann-Mattis
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Corpus of Negations and their Underlying Positive Interpretations (open access)

A Corpus of Negations and their Underlying Positive Interpretations

Article presenting a corpus of negations and their underlying positive interpretations using negations from Simple Wikipedia, automatically generating potential positive interpretations, and collecting manual annotations that effectively rewrite the negation in positive terms. This article was presented at the Eighth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (SEM 2019) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 6-7, 2019.
Date: June 2019
Creator: Sarabi, Zahra; Killian, Erin; Blanco, Eduardo & Palmer, Alexis
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Illegal is not a Noun: Linguistic Form for Detection of Pejorative Nominalizations (open access)

Illegal is not a Noun: Linguistic Form for Detection of Pejorative Nominalizations

This paper focuses on a particular type of abusive language, targeting expressions in which typically neutral adjectives take on pejorative meaning when used as nouns.
Date: August 2017
Creator: Palmer, Alexis; Robinson, Melissa & Phillips, Kristy
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library