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Detecting Sarcasm is Extremely Easy ;-)

Description: 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.
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Impact of Mobility on Convergence Rate in a Wireless Sensor Network

Description: 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
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Towards a Domain Independent Semantics: Enhancing Semantic Representation with Construction Grammar

Description: 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
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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To Annotate More Accurately or to Annotate More

Description: 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
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Extracting a Representation from Text for Semantic Analysis

Description: 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
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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A Corpus of Fine-Grained Entailment Relations

Description: 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
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Mixing Weak Learners in Semantic Parsing

Description: 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
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Linguistic Considerations in Automatic Question Generation

Description: 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.
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Infusing NLU into Automatic Question Generation

Description: 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
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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SemEval-2013 Task 7: The Joint Student Response Analysis and 8th Recognizing Textual Embodiment Challenge

Description: 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.
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Co-Training for Topic Classification of Scholarly Data

Description: 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-
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Identifying Emotional and Informational Support in Online Health Communities

Description: 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
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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A Framework for Health Behavior Change Using Companionable Robots

Description: 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.
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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