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Infusing Automatic Question Generation with Natural Language Understanding
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Automatic Language Identification for Metadata Records: Measuring the Effectiveness of Various Approaches
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Co-Training for Topic Classification of Scholarly Data
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In: 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, September 17-21, 2015. Lisbon, Portugal. (2015)
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Exploration of Visual, Acoustic, and Physiological Modalities to Complement Linguistic Representations for Sentiment Analysis
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Finding Meaning in Context Using Graph Algorithms in Mono- and Cross-lingual Settings
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Making computers automatically find the appropriate meaning of words in context is an interesting problem that has proven to be one of the most challenging tasks in natural language processing (NLP). Widespread potential applications of a possible solution to the problem could be envisaged in several NLP tasks such as text simplification, language learning, machine translation, query expansion, information retrieval and text summarization. Ambiguity of words has always been a challenge in these applications, and the traditional endeavor to solve the problem of this ambiguity, namely doing word sense disambiguation using resources like WordNet, has been fraught with debate about the feasibility of the granularity that exists in WordNet senses. The recent trend has therefore been to move away from enforcing any given lexical resource upon automated systems from which to pick potential candidate senses,and to instead encourage them to pick and choose their own resources. Given a sentence with a target ambiguous word, an alternative solution consists of picking potential candidate substitutes for the target, filtering the list of the candidates to a much shorter list using various heuristics, and trying to match these system predictions against a human generated gold standard, with a view to ensuring that the meaning of the sentence does not change after the substitutions. This solution has manifested itself in the SemEval 2007 task of lexical substitution and the more recent SemEval 2010 task of cross-lingual lexical substitution (which I helped organize), where given an English context and a target word within that context, the systems are required to provide between one and ten appropriate substitutes (in English) or translations (in Spanish) for the target word. In this dissertation, I present a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art research and describe new experiments to tackle the tasks of lexical substitution and cross-lingual lexical substitution. In particular I attempt to answer some research questions pertinent to the tasks, mostly focusing on completely unsupervised approaches. I present a new framework for unsupervised lexical substitution using graphs and centrality algorithms. An additional novelty in this approach is the use of directional similarity rather than the traditional, symmetric word similarity. Additionally, the thesis also explores the extension of the monolingual framework into a cross-lingual one, and examines how well this cross-lingual framework can work for the monolingual lexical substitution and cross-lingual lexical substitution tasks. A comprehensive set of comparative investigations are presented amongst supervised and unsupervised methods, several graph based methods, and the use of monolingual and multilingual information.
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cross lingual; disambiguations; Lexical substitution; word sense
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URL: http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271899/
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Sentence Similarity Analysis with Applications in Automatic Short Answer Grading
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Measuring Semantic Relatedness Using Salient Encyclopedic Concepts
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Topic Modeling on Historical Newspapers
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In: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LATECH), 2011, Portland, Oregon, United States (2011)
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Multilingual Subjectivity: Are More Languages Better?
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In: International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2010, Beijing, China (2010)
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SemEval-2010 Task 2: Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution
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In: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval), 2010, Uppsala, Sweden (2010)
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Annotating and Identifying Emotions in Text
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In: Intelligent Information Access, 2010. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, v. 301/2010, pp. 21-38. (2010)
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Text Mining for Automatic Image Tagging
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In: Twenty-third Annual International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2010, Beijing, China (2010)
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Amazon Mechanical Turk for Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation
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In: North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Workshop on Creating Speech and Language Data with Amazon's Mechanical Turk, 2010, Los Angeles, California, United States (2010)
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Linguistic Ethnography: Identifying Dominant Word Classes in Text
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In: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing), 2009, Mexico City, Mexico (2009)
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Combining Lexical Resources for Contextual Synonym Expansion
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In: International Conference in Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), 2009, Borovets, Bulgaria (2009)
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The Decomposition of Human-Written Book Summaries
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In: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing), 2009, Mexico City, Mexico (2009)
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Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation
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In: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2009, Singapore (2009)
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