Projects

Current 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

Completed projects:

• • 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)