Pending Projects

Processing Parasitic Gaps
Time to get some actual data.

Evidential Marking and Hedging
Using betting market data to explore how people express sources of evidence, confidence, and tolerance for imprecision linguistically.

Asymmetric Association Measures
Most computational measures of word association are symmetric while most humage judgements of word association are not. Exploring the use of psycholinguistic data for building better association metrics.

Previous Projects

HedgeHunter: A System for Hedge Detection and Uncertainty Classification
Hedge detection and uncertainty classification are important components of a high precision IE system. This paper describes a two part supervised system which classifies words as hedge or non-hedged and sentences as certain or uncertain in biomedical and Wikipedia data. See the pdf.

Pressupostions in Natural Language Inference
Using factive presuppositions to improve the performance Bill MacCartney's NatLog textual entailment system. See the pdf.

Going Up

Rebuilding the Tower