Bryan Rink


2016

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Introducing the LCC Metaphor Datasets
Michael Mohler | Mary Brunson | Bryan Rink | Marc Tomlinson
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)

In this work, we present the Language Computer Corporation (LCC) annotated metaphor datasets, which represent the largest and most comprehensive resource for metaphor research to date. These datasets were produced over the course of three years by a staff of nine annotators working in four languages (English, Spanish, Russian, and Farsi). As part of these datasets, we provide (1) metaphoricity ratings for within-sentence word pairs on a four-point scale, (2) scored links to our repository of 114 source concept domains and 32 target concept domains, and (3) ratings for the affective polarity and intensity of each pair. Altogether, we provide 188,741 annotations in English (for 80,100 pairs), 159,915 annotations in Spanish (for 63,188 pairs), 99,740 annotations in Russian (for 44,632 pairs), and 137,186 annotations in Farsi (for 57,239 pairs). In addition, we are providing a large set of likely metaphors which have been independently extracted by our two state-of-the-art metaphor detection systems but which have not been analyzed by our team of annotators.

2015

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A Corpus of Rich Metaphor Annotation
Jonathan Gordon | Jerry Hobbs | Jonathan May | Michael Mohler | Fabrizio Morbini | Bryan Rink | Marc Tomlinson | Suzanne Wertheim
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Metaphor in NLP

2014

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Semi-supervised methods for expanding psycholinguistics norms by integrating distributional similarity with the structure of WordNet
Michael Mohler | Marc Tomlinson | David Bracewell | Bryan Rink
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)

In this work, we present two complementary methods for the expansion of psycholinguistics norms. The first method is a random-traversal spreading activation approach which transfers existing norms onto semantically related terms using notions of synonymy, hypernymy, and pertainymy to approach full coverage of the English language. The second method makes use of recent advances in distributional similarity representation to transfer existing norms to their closest neighbors in a high-dimensional vector space. These two methods (along with a naive hybrid approach combining the two) have been shown to significantly outperform a state-of-the-art resource expansion system at our pilot task of imageability expansion. We have evaluated these systems in a cross-validation experiment using 8,188 norms found in existing pscholinguistics literature. We have also validated the quality of these combined norms by performing a small study using Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT).

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A Novel Distributional Approach to Multilingual Conceptual Metaphor Recognition
Michael Mohler | Bryan Rink | David Bracewell | Marc Tomlinson
Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers

2013

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The Impact of Selectional Preference Agreement on Semantic Relational Similarity
Bryan Rink | Sanda Harabagiu
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2013) – Long Papers

2012

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UTD: Determining Relational Similarity Using Lexical Patterns
Bryan Rink | Sanda Harabagiu
*SEM 2012: The First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics – Volume 1: Proceedings of the main conference and the shared task, and Volume 2: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2012)

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UTDHLT: COPACETIC System for Choosing Plausible Alternatives
Travis Goodwin | Bryan Rink | Kirk Roberts | Sanda Harabagiu
*SEM 2012: The First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics – Volume 1: Proceedings of the main conference and the shared task, and Volume 2: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2012)

2011

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A generative model for unsupervised discovery of relations and argument classes from clinical texts
Bryan Rink | Sanda Harabagiu
Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2010

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UTD: Classifying Semantic Relations by Combining Lexical and Semantic Resources
Bryan Rink | Sanda Harabagiu
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation