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
Getting Smarter: Definition, Scope, and Implications of Smart Libraries (open access)

Getting Smarter: Definition, Scope, and Implications of Smart Libraries

This paper describes a meta-synthesis of existing qualitative research on smart libraries to demonstrate the transition of technology changing to meet users' needs.
Date: June 4, 2018
Creator: Zimmerman, Tara & Chang, Hsia-Ching
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unfolding Research Data Services: An Information Architecture Perspective (open access)

Unfolding Research Data Services: An Information Architecture Perspective

This paper describes the use of a content analysis with the lens of information architecture to better understand how research data services are organize in North American academic library websites, and to what extent the research data lifecycle is supported within these services.
Date: June 4, 2018
Creator: Khan, Hammad; Chang, Hsia-Ching & Kim, Jeonghyun
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
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
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
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
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
Enhancing the Undergraduate Research Experience in a Senior Design Context (open access)

Enhancing the Undergraduate Research Experience in a Senior Design Context

This paper discusses enhancing the undergraduate research experience in a senior design context.
Date: June 2010
Creator: Attarzadeh, Farrokh; Barbieri, Enrique & Ramos, Miguel
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
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
Tantra: A fast PRNG algorithm and its implementation (open access)

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
Classification Errors in a Domain-Independent Assessment System (open access)

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
Extracting a Representation from Text for Semantic Analysis (open access)

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
Linguistically Motivated Features for Enhanced Back-of-the-Book Indexing (open access)

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
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
A Corpus of Fine-Grained Entailment Relations (open access)

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
Explorations in Automatic Book Summarization (open access)

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
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
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
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
Measuring the Semantic Similarity of Texts (open access)

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