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Synthesis and Ionic Conductivity of Siloxane Based Polymer Electrolytes With Pendant Propyl Acetoacetate Groups (open access)

Synthesis and Ionic Conductivity of Siloxane Based Polymer Electrolytes With Pendant Propyl Acetoacetate Groups

This paper discusses decision to develop solid polyelectrolyte membrances on the basis of new siloxane matrices.
Date: April 13, 2018
Creator: Mukbaniani, Omai; Brostow, Witold, 1934-; Aneli, Jimsher; Tatrishvili, Tamara; Markarashvili, Eliza; Chigvinadze, Maia et al.
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
Composites Containing Bamboo With Different Binders (open access)

Composites Containing Bamboo With Different Binders

This paper discusses the formation of primary chemical bonds between bamboo surface active groups and the binders.
Date: March 29, 2018
Creator: Mukbaniani, Omai; Brostow, Witold, 1934-; Hagg Lobland, Haley E.; Aneli, Jimsher; Tatrishvili, Tamara; Markarashvili, Eliza et al.
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
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
Impact of Mobility on Convergence Rate in a Wireless Sensor Network (open access)

Impact of Mobility on Convergence Rate in a Wireless Sensor Network

This paper shows that introducing mobility increases the rate of convergence in partially connected and disconnected wireless sensor networks (WSN).
Date: March 22, 2017
Creator: Norouzi Kandalan, Roya; Singh, Ramanpreet; Namuduri, Kamesh; Varanasi, Murali R. & Buckles, Bill
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
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
To Annotate More Accurately or to Annotate More (open access)

To Annotate More Accurately or to Annotate More

This paper demonstrates that the greatest value for annotation lies in single annotating more data.
Date: July 2010
Creator: Dligach, Dmitriy; Nielsen, Rodney D. & Palmer, Martha
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
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
Finding Patterns in Noisy Crowds: Regression-based Annotation Aggregation for Crowdsourced Data (open access)

Finding Patterns in Noisy Crowds: Regression-based Annotation Aggregation for Crowdsourced Data

This paper presents an aggregation approach that learns a regression model from crowdsourced annotations to predict aggregated labels for instances that have no expert adjudications.
Date: September 2017
Creator: Nielsen, Rodney D. & Parde, Natalie
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
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
If No Media Were Allowed inside the Venue, Was Anybody Allowed? (open access)

If No Media Were Allowed inside the Venue, Was Anybody Allowed?

This paper presents a framework to understand negation in positive terms.
Date: April 2017
Creator: Sarabi, Zahra & Blanco, Eduardo
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
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
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
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
Co-Training for Topic Classification of Scholarly Data (open access)

Co-Training for Topic Classification of Scholarly Data

This paper describes a co-training approach that uses the text and citation information of a research article as two different views to predict the topic of an article.
Date: September 2015
Creator: Caragea, Cornelia; Bulgarov, Florin & Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-
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
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
Identifying Emotional and Informational Support in Online Health Communities (open access)

Identifying Emotional and Informational Support in Online Health Communities

This paper analyses user messages on an online cancer support community, Cancer Survivors Network (CSN), to identify the two types of social support present: emotional support and informational support.
Date: August 2014
Creator: Biyani, Prakhar; Caragea, Cornelia; Mitra, Prasenjit & Yen, John
System: The UNT Digital Library