- slides of a talk A new talk on a New Dictionary on Historical Principles on historical principles
concerning the genesis of the OED, given as a DCLRS talk
- Dynamic Generative model for Diachronic Sense Emergence Detection
(with Arun Jayapal) COLING 2016 conference
- An unsupervised EM method to infer time variation in sense probabilities
(with Arun Jayapal) ICON 2015 conference
- Detecting change and emergence for multiword expressions
(with Arun Jayapal) paper from EACL 2014 workshop on Multiword Expression - concerns unsupervised means to detect an emerging new 'MWE' usage of a given n-gram, such as the usage of smashed it to mean doing something excellently.
- Sense Changes and Multiword Expressions
A poster presentation of research concerning detecting an emerging multiword expression, presented at the PARSME 2014 meeting, held in Athens.
very condensed slides presentation of above
- Dynamic EM in Neologism Evolution
paper in proceedings of IDEAL 2013 14th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (pp 286-293), held in Hefei October 20-23 2013
slides summarising above
- Latent Ambiguity in Latent Semantic Analysis?
(with Alfredo Maldonado-Guerra), paper in proceedings of ICPRAM 2013 International Conference on Pattern Recognition Application and Methods (pp 115-120), held in Barcelona February 15-18 2013
slides summarising above
- On the Expressivity of Alignment-Based Distance and Similarity Measures on Sequence and Trees in Inducing Orderings (with Hector-Hugo Franco-Penya), chapter in Mathematical Methodologies in Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Springer 2012
- Projecting semantic roles via Tai mappings
(with Hector-Hugo Franco-Penya) paper in proceedings of KONVENS 2012 conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing (pp. 61-69), held at the University of Vienna, September 19-21, 2012.
- First-order and second-order context representations: geometrical considerations and performance in word-sense disambiguation and discrimination
(with Alfredo Maldonado-Guerra) paper in proceedeings of JADT 2012 International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data, 13-15th June 2012
- On Stochastic Tree Distances and their training via Expectation-Maximisation
slides of DCLRS talk given April 2012
- On order equivalences between distance and similarity measures on sequences and trees
(with Hector-Hugo Franco-Penya) paper in Proceedings of ICPRAM 2012 International Conference on Pattern Recognition Application and Methods (winner of Best Paper award)
Slides
summarising above
- On Stochastic Tree Distances and their training via Expectation-Maximisation
paper in Proceedings of ICPRAM 2012 International Conference on Pattern Recognition Application and Methods
Slides
- Measuring the compositionality of collocations via
word co-occurrence vectors
(with Alfredo Maldonado Guerra) paper in Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Distributional Semantics and Compositionality 2011 (DISCO 2011)
Slides
summarising above, by Alfredo Maldonado Guerra, presented at DISCO 2011
Trainable Tree Distance and an application to Question Categorisation
paper in proceedings Konvens 2010
Poster
version of above, presented at Konvens 2010
Slides
summarising above, presented at Konvens 2010
This work uses a semantically categorised question tree-bank. Follow the link for this data and a descrition of its construction
- Tree-distance and some other variants of evalb
paper in proceedings LREC 2008
Poster
version of above paper, presented at LREC 2008
For the software and data to replicate the results of this paper see Tree-distance software and data relating to LREC 2008 paper
- Variants of Tree Similarity in a Question Answering Task
paper at Linguistic Distances workshop at COLING 2006
- Clustering by Tree Distance for Parse Tree Normalisation
paper in proceedings of NLUCS 2006
- Slides from talk on Tree Distance and Question Answering
talk given Dublin Computational Linguistics Research Seminar series Feb 2006
- Adapting Tree Distance to Answer Retrieval and Parser Evaluations
paper in proceedings of ILINTEC 2005
- Tree Distance in Answer Retrieval and Parser Evaluations
paper in proceedings of NLUCS 2005
- A Prolog Based Information Extraction System
paer in proceedings of the International Applications of Prolog Conference 2001
