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ARKref: a rule-based coreference resolution system
Brendan O'Connor, Michael Heilman
ARKref is a tool for noun phrase coreference. It is a deterministic, rule-based system that uses syntactic information from a constituent parser, and semantic information from an e…
Learning Frames from Text with an Unsupervised Latent Variable Model
Brendan O'Connor
We develop a probabilistic latent-variable model to discover semantic frames---types of events and their participants---from corpora. We present a Dirichlet-multinomial model in wh…
A framework for (under)specifying dependency syntax without overloading annotators
Nathan Schneider, Brendan O'Connor, Naomi Saphra +5
We introduce a framework for lightweight dependency syntax annotation. Our formalism builds upon the typical representation for unlabeled dependencies, permitting a simple notation…
An Online Environment for Democratic Deliberation: Motivations, Principles, and Design
Todd Davies, Brendan O'Connor, Alex Cochran +4
We have created a platform for online deliberation called Deme (which rhymes with 'team'). Deme is designed to allow groups of people to engage in collaborative drafting, focused d…
Displaying Asynchronous Reactions to a Document: Two Goals and a Design
Todd Davies, Benjamin Newman, Brendan O'Connor +2
We describe and motivate three goals for the screen display of asynchronous text deliberation pertaining to a document: (1) visibility of relationships between comments and the tex…
"Groupware for Groups": Problem-Driven Design in Deme
Todd Davies, Brendan O'Connor, Alex Cochran +1
Design choices can be clarified when group interaction software is directed at solving the interaction needs of particular groups that pre-date the groupware. We describe an exampl…