Text-to-text Semantic Similarity for Automatic Short Answer Grading (open access)

Text-to-text Semantic Similarity for Automatic Short Answer Grading

In this paper, the authors explore unsupervised techniques for the task of automatic short answer grading.
Date: March 2009
Creator: Mohler, Michael & Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-
System: The UNT Digital Library
SenseLearner: Word Sense Disambiguation for All Words in Unrestricted Text (open access)

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
The Lie Detector: Explorations in the Automatic Recognition of Deceptive Language (open access)

The Lie Detector: Explorations in the Automatic Recognition of Deceptive Language

This paper discusses explorations in the automatic recognition of deceptive language.
Date: 2009
Creator: Mihalcea, Rada, 1974- & Strapparava, Carlo, 1962-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Grid-based Coordinated Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks (open access)

Grid-based Coordinated Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

This paper discusses grid-based coordinated routing in wireless sensor networks and compares the energy available in the network over time for different grid sizes. The authors explore the quality of service of wireless sensor networks, how the coordinator nodes are elected, and the size of the grid area that will minimize the total energy consumption and extend the lifetime of the network.
Date: January 2007
Creator: Akl, Robert G. & Sawant, Uttara
System: The UNT Digital Library
Robocamp: Encouraging Young Women to Embrace STEM (open access)

Robocamp: Encouraging Young Women to Embrace STEM

This paper describes the efforts and results of a plan for actively recruiting students to undergraduate computer science and engineering programs at the University of North Texas (UNT). Such recruitment of students is critical to the country's efforts to increase the number of engineering professionals, and is a priority for the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department at UNT.
Date: February 2009
Creator: Akl, Robert G. & Keathly, David
System: The UNT Digital Library
Language Independent Extractive Summarization (open access)

Language Independent Extractive Summarization

This paper discusses language independent extractive summarization.
Date: July 2005
Creator: Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNT-Yahoo: SuperSenseLearner: Combining SenseLearner with SuperSense and other Coarse Semantic Features (open access)

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 (open access)

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 (open access)

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
Creating Large Annotated Data Collections with Web Users' Help (open access)

Creating Large Annotated Data Collections with Web Users' Help

This paper discusses creating annotated data collections.
Date: April 2003
Creator: Mihalcea, Rada, 1974- & Chklovski, Timothy A. (Timothy Anatolievich), 1977-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Finding Semantic Associations on Express Lane (open access)

Finding Semantic Associations on Express Lane

This paper introduces a new codification scheme for efficient computation of measures in semantic networks. The scheme is particularly useful for fast computation of semantic associations between words and implementation of an informational retrieval operator for efficient search in semantic spaces. Other applications may also be possible.
Date: May 2004
Creator: Nastase, Vivi & Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Learning Multilingual Subjective Language via Cross-Lingual Projections (open access)

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
Graph-based Ranking Algorithms for Sentence Extraction, Applied to Text Summarization (open access)

Graph-based Ranking Algorithms for Sentence Extraction, Applied to Text Summarization

Abstract: This paper presents an innovative unsupervised method for automatic sentence extraction using graph-based ranking algorithms. We evaluate the method in the context of a text summarization task, and show that the results obtained compare favorably with previously published results on established benchmarks.
Date: July 2004
Creator: Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dynamic Agent Population in Agent-Based Distance Vector Routing (open access)

Dynamic Agent Population in Agent-Based Distance Vector Routing

This paper discusses dynamic agent population in agent-based distance vector routing.
Date: August 2002
Creator: Amin, Kaizar A. & Mikler, Armin R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Attracting and Retaining Women in Computer Science and Engineering: Evaluating the Results (open access)

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
Mixing Weak Learners in Semantic Parsing (open access)

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
PicNet: Augmenting Semantic Resources with Pictorial Representations (open access)

PicNet: Augmenting Semantic Resources with Pictorial Representations

In this paper, the authors introduce PicNet, a Web-based system for augmenting semantic resources with illustrative images using volunteer contributions over the Web.
Date: March 2005
Creator: Borman, Andy; Mihalcea, Rada, 1974- & Tarau, Paul
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Role of Lexico-Semantic Feedback in Open-Domain Textual Question-Answering (open access)

The Role of Lexico-Semantic Feedback in Open-Domain Textual Question-Answering

This article discusses the role of lexico-semantic feedback in open-domain textual question-answering.
Date: 2001
Creator: Harabagiu, Sanda M.; Moldovan, Dan I.; Paşca, Marius. 1974-; Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-; Surdeanu, Mihai; Bunescu, Răzvan et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Semi-Complete Disambiguation Algorithm for Open Text (open access)

A Semi-Complete Disambiguation Algorithm for Open Text

This paper discusses a semi-complete disambiguation algorithm for open text.
Date: 2000
Creator: Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-
System: The UNT Digital Library
FALCON: Boosting Knowledge for Answer Engines (open access)

FALCON: Boosting Knowledge for Answer Engines

This paper discusses FALCON, an answer engine that integrates different forms of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic knowledge for the goal of achieving better performance.
Date: November 2000
Creator: Harabagiu, Sanda M.; Moldovan, Dan I.; Paşca, Marius. 1974-; Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-; Surdeanu, Mihai; Bunescu, Răzvan et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Answering complex, list and context questions with LCC's Question-Answering Server (open access)

Answering complex, list and context questions with LCC's Question-Answering Server

This paper presents the architecture of the Question-Answering server (QAS) developed at the Language Computer Corporation (LCC) and used in the TREC-10 evaluations.
Date: November 2001
Creator: Harabagiu, Sanda M.; Moldovan, Dan I.; Paşca, Marius. 1974-; Surdeanu, Mihai; Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-; Gîrju, Corina R. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Semantic Wildcard (open access)

The Semantic Wildcard

This paper introduces the semantic wildcard, one of the most powerful operators implemented in IRSLO, which allows for searches along general-specific lines.
Date: May 2002
Creator: Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-
System: The UNT Digital Library
eXtended WordNet: progress report (open access)

eXtended WordNet: progress report

This paper discusses eXtended WordNet.
Date: June 2001
Creator: Mihalcea, Rada, 1974- & Moldovan, Dan I.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Structure and Performance of an Open-Domain Question Answering System (open access)

The Structure and Performance of an Open-Domain Question Answering System

This article discusses the structure and performance of an open-domain question answering system.
Date: October 2000
Creator: Moldovan, Dan I.; Harabagiu, Sanda M.; Paşca, Marius. 1974-; Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-; Gîrju, Corina R.; Goodrum, Richard A. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library