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Composites Containing Bamboo With Different Binders

Description: 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.
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Unfolding Research Data Services: An Information Architecture Perspective

Description: 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
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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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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