Papers by Rodney Nielsen
Annotating Educational Questions for Student Response Analysis (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | a new taxonomy and annotated educational corpus of questions is proposed for question answering systems. |
| Approach: | They propose a taxonomy and annotated educational corpus of questions that can be used in automatic questions classification systems. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach achieves a weighted F1-score of 0.511, overtaking the baseline by 12%. |
Annotating Reflections for Health Behavior Change Therapy (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies show that depression can be treated by Motivational Interviewing (MI) |
| Approach: | They annotated reflections, an essential counselor behavioral code in motivational interviewing for psychotherapy on conversations that are a combination of casual and therapeutic dialogue. |
| Outcome: | The annotated transcripts are a vital resource for automated health behavior change therapy . the corpus is being constructed and annotating conversations by one annotator . |
A Corpus of Metaphor Novelty Scores for Syntactically-Related Word Pairs (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing data on metaphor novelty are limited, making it difficult to perform research on this topic. |
| Approach: | They propose to release a corpus of metaphor novelty scores for syntactically related word pairs . they establish a performance benchmark to which future researchers can compare . |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus of metaphor novelty scores is compared to other datasets . it performs better than chance or nave strategies, the authors show . |