Current projects:
Word Meaning and Large Language Models: an UMass HFA lab, with Rajesh Bhatt
Computationally analyzing centuries of U.S. legal argumentation in linguistic and historical context: A UMass HFA-CICS Collaborative Project, with Brendan O'Connor
Scientific feasibility in the DARPA SciFy program, https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/scientific-feasibilityÂ
Some completed projects:
Narrative based hypothesis generation using event coherence and probabilistic inference (DARPA AIDA)
Learning narrative schemas from text (DARPA KAIROS)
Advice summarization in online forums
Neural simulation of action verbs
DEEPsem: Deep natural language understanding with probabilistic logic and distributional similarity (NSF, 2015-2018)
Statistical Relational Learning and Script Induction for Textual Inference (DARPA DEFT, 2012-2017)
ISOGRAM: Word meaning beyond dictionary senses (NSF, 2009-2014)
Linguistically adequate empirical representation of word meaning (Humboldt TransCoop program, 2011-2013)
TeXIT: (Texas) X-lingual Interpretation of Texts. (New York Community Trust, 2008-2012)
EARL: Efficient Annotation of Resources by Learning (NSF, 2007-2009)
Shalmaneser: Semantics experimentation GUI (University of Texas Liberal Arts IT Services, 2007-2009)