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Relating Boolean Gate Truth Tables to One-Way Functions

Description: In this paper, the authors present a schema to build one way functions from a family of Boolean gates. Moreover, the authors relate characteristics of these Boolean gate truth tables to properties of the derived one-way functions.
Date: March 3, 2008
Creator: Gomathisankaran, Mahadevan & Tyagi, Akhilesh
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Retention and Recruitment of Women in Computer Engineering

Description: This paper describes the efforts and results of a plan for actively recruiting women students to undergraduate computer engineering programs at the University of North Texas (UNT). It also describes a series of activities aimed at improving retention rates of women students already in our programs. Such recruitment and retention of women is critical to the country's efforts to increase the number of engineering professionals, and is a priority for the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Depa… more
Date: July 2006
Creator: Akl, Robert G. & Garlick, Ryan
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Robocamp: Encouraging Young Women to Embrace STEM

Description: This paper describes the efforts and results of a plan for actively recruiting students to undergraduate computer science and engineering programs at the University of North Texas (UNT). Such recruitment of students is critical to the country's efforts to increase the number of engineering professionals, and is a priority for the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department at UNT.
Date: February 2009
Creator: Akl, Robert G. & Keathly, David
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Semantic Indexing using WordNet Senses

Description: This article discusses semantic indexing using WordNet senses.
Date: October 8, 2000
Creator: Mihalcea, Rada, 1974- & Moldovan, Dan I.
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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The Semantic Wildcard

Description: This paper introduces the semantic wildcard, one of the most powerful operators implemented in IRSLO, which allows for searches along general-specific lines.
Date: May 2002
Creator: Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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SemEval-2007 Task 14: Affective Text

Description: 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-
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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SenseLearner: Minimally Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation for All Words in Open Text

Description: This paper introduces SenseLearner - a minimally supervised sense tagger that attempts to disambiguate all content words in a text using the sense from WordNet. SenseLearner participated in the SENSEVAL-3 English all words task, and achieved an average accuracy of 64.6%.
Date: 2004
Creator: Mihalcea, Rada, 1974- & Faruque, Ehsanul
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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The SENSEVAL-3 English Lexical Sample Task

Description: This paper presents the task definition, resources, participating systems, and comparative results for the English lexical sample task, which was organized as part of the SENSEVAL-3 evaluation exercise.
Date: July 2004
Creator: Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-; Chklovski, Timothy A. (Timothy Anatolievich), 1977- & Kilgarriff, Adam
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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The SENSEVAL-3 Multilingual English-Hindi Lexical Sample Task

Description: This paper describes the English-Hindi Multilingual lexical sample task in SENSEVAL-3.
Date: July 2004
Creator: Chklovski, Timothy A. (Timothy Anatolievich), 1977-; Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-; Pedersen, Ted & Purandare, Amruta
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Simulation of Throughput in UMTS Networks with Different Spreading Factors

Description: In this paper, the authors design and implement a local session admission control (SAC) algorithm for third-generation wireless networks which allows for the simulation of network throughput for different spreading factors and various mobility scenarios.
Date: September 2006
Creator: Akl, Robert G. & Arepally, Anurag
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Slurry Erosion of Thermal Spray Coatings: Effect of Sand Concentration

Description: This paper from the Malaysian International Tribology Conference 2013 conference proceedings discusses using Ni based thermal spray coatings deposited on a commonly used hydroturbine steel.
Date: April 12, 2014
Creator: Singh Grewal, Harpeet; Singh Arora, Harpreet; Agrawal, Anupam; Singh, Harpreet & Mukherjee, Sundeep
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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The Structure and Performance of an Open-Domain Question Answering System

Description: This article discusses the structure and performance of an open-domain question answering system.
Date: October 2000
Creator: Moldovan, Dan I.; Harabagiu, Sanda M.; Paşca, Marius. 1974-; Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-; Gîrju, Corina R.; Goodrum, Richard A. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation

Description: This paper investigates a new task, subjectivity word sense disambiguation (SWSD), which is to automatically determine which word instances in a corpus are being used with subjective senses, and which are being used with objective senses.
Date: August 2009
Creator: Akkaya, Cem; Wiebe, Janyce M. & Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Tantra: A fast PRNG algorithm and its implementation

Description: 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
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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