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- 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.
- Analyzing the Persistence of Referenced Web Resources with Memento
- Paper presenting the results of a study into the persistence and availability of web resources reference from papers in scholarly repositories.
- An assessment of MODIS Collection 5 global land cover product for biological conservation studies
- This paper identifies the uncertain areas and figures out the problematic land cover types in the MODIS Collection 5 global land cover dataset without ground validation samples.
- 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.
- Automatic Generation and Scoring of Positive Interpretations from Negated Statements
- This paper presents a methodology to extract positive interpretations from negated statements.
- Automatic generation of a coarse grained WordNet
- This paper discusses automatic generation of a coarse grained WordNet.
- Classification Errors in a Domain-Independent Assessment System
- This paper presents a domain-independent technique for assessing learners' constructed responses.
- Classifying the End-of-Term Archive
- This paper discusses the Classification of the End-of-Term Archive project.
- 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.
- 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.
- Determining Event Durations: Models and Error Analysis
- This paper presents models to predict event durations.
- Enhancing the Undergraduate Research Experience in a Senior Design Context
- This paper discusses enhancing the undergraduate research experience in a senior design context.
- Explorations in Automatic Book Summarization
- This paper discusses explorations in automatic book summarization.
- eXtended WordNet: progress report
- This paper discusses eXtended WordNet.
- 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.
- 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.
- Gender Differences in 7th Grade Students' Interest in STEM after Participating in a Solenoid Instructional Unit
- Paper presented at the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. The research presented studies achievement scores and affinity towards STEM scores of male and female students after participating in a unit focused on understanding a solenoid.
- Getting ETDs off the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for Growing ETD Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks
- Paper contributed to the 2009 International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). This paper discusses digital preservation readiness for growing ETD collections and distributed preservation networks.
- 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.
- Hierarchical Coding Scheme: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives
- This is the hierarchical coding scheme used for qualitative analysis of interviews with language archive managers, depositors, and end-users as part of the 'Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives' project (January 2019-August 2020).
- Immersion Librarianship: An assessment of transforming LIS students' professional worldview through a service learning project at an international school library
- This paper was presented at the 2017 IFLA World Library and Information Congress. This paper contains a summary of the study to discern what students learned from a library and information science service learning study abroad program to Russia in 2012.
- Joabin's Silence: Public and Private Life in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis (1626)
- Unpublished manuscript exploring the role of Joabin in Francis Bacon's novel New Atlantis. This manuscript was part of the conference proceedings from the Academy of Jewish Philosophy, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, OH, June 9-10, 1991.
- Laying the Groundwork for Newspaper Preservation through Collaboration and Communication: The Texas Digital Newspaper Program
- This paper discusses the history of the Texas Digital Newspaper Program and associated digital newspaper initiatives at the University of North Texas Libraries.
- Learning Multilingual Subjective Language via Cross-Lingual Projections
- This paper discusses learning multilingual subjective language via cross-lingual projections.
- 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.
- Linguistically Motivated Features for Enhanced Back-of-the-Book Indexing
- This paper discusses linguistically motivated features for enhanced back-of-the-book indexing.
- A Machine Learning Approach to Evaluating Translation Quality
- This paper explores the possibility of applying Machine Learning for Machine Translation evaluation.
- Mapping the Interoperability Landscape for Networked Information Retrieval
- This paper discusses interoperability of networked information. Interoperability is a fundamental challenge for networked information discovery and retrieval. Often treated monolithically in the literature, interoperability is multifaceted and can be analyzed into different types and levels. This paper discusses an approach to map the interoperability landscape for networked information retrieval as part of an interoperability assessment research project.
- Measuring the Impact of Preserving Digital Assets
- This paper discusses measuring the impact of preserving digital assets.
- Measuring the Semantic Similarity of Texts
- This paper discusses measuring the semantic similarity of texts.
- A Method for Word Sense Disambiguation of Unrestricted Text
- This paper discusses a method for word sense disambiguation of unrestricted text.
- Moving the End of Term Web Archive to the Cloud to Encourage Research Use and Reuse
- Short paper presented at the 2022 Web Archiving and Digital Libraries Virtual Workshop, in conjunction with the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), on June 24, 2022. The paper discusses the End of Term (EOT) Web Archive project and process of organizing, staging, processing, and moving these collections into the Amazon cloud.
- P02.123. The anti-diabetic and cholesterol-lowering effects of common and cassia cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum and C. aromaticum): a randomized controlled trial
- This paper accompanies a poster presentation on the anti-diabetic and cholesterol-lowering effects of common and cassia cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum and C. aromaticum).
- PREMIS Event Service
- This paper discusses the PREMIS Event Service. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries have created a digital library infrastructure that is designed using the Curation Micro Services methodology for building repositories. Based on modular components designed for reuse and re-configuration the authors propose a general-purpose preservation event logging system using the PREMIS Event and Agent data model. An example implementation developed with the Django Web framework and employing RESTful design patterns with the Atom Publishing Protocol is described.
- Projecting on Polynomial Dirac Spinors
- In this paper, the authors adapt Axler and Ramey's method of constructing the harmonic part of a homogeneous polynomial to the Fischer decomposition associated to Dirac operators acting on polynomial spinors.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- SenseLearner: Word Sense Disambiguation for All Words in Unrestricted Text
- This paper describes SenseLearner, a minimally supervised word sense disambiguation system that attempts to disambiguate all content words in a text using WordNet senses.
- 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.
- Teaching STEM undergraduates discipline-specific writing skills: A data-driven learning approach
- Paper presented at the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. The research presented was funded by the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education and seeks to improve the quality of technical writing instruction for undergraduate STEM students by creating a data-driven learning approach for teaching STEM students writing patterns specific to their respective disciplines.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- UNT-Yahoo: SuperSenseLearner: Combining SenseLearner with SuperSense and other Coarse Semantic Features
- This paper discusses combining SenseLearner with SuperSence and other coarse semantic features.
- Word Alignment for Languages with Scarce Resources
- This paper presents the task definition, resources, participating systems, and comparative results for the shared task on word alignment which was organized as part of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2005 Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts. The shared task included English-Inuktitut, Romanian-English, and English-Hindi sub-tasks, and drew the participation of ten teams from around the world with a total of 50 systems.