Towards a Domain Independent Semantics: Enhancing Semantic Representation with Construction Grammar (open access)

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
Detecting Sarcasm is Extremely Easy ;-) (open access)

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
Amazon Mechanical Turk for Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation (open access)

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
Quantifying the Limits and Success of Extractive Summarization Systems Across Domains (open access)

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
Topic Modeling on Historical Newspapers (open access)

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
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
Linguistic Considerations in Automatic Question Generation (open access)

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 (open access)

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
SemEval-2013 Task 7: The Joint Student Response Analysis and 8th Recognizing Textual Embodiment Challenge (open access)

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
Towards Effective Tutorial Feedback for Explanation Questions: A Dataset and Baselines (open access)

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