James Allen

21 papers · 2004–2023 · 9 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (19) 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🌍 Conference Polyglot (9) 🏃 Academic Marathon (19) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (6) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (5) 🔥 Unstoppable (5) 💎 Century Club (21) 📈 Trend Setter

Conferences

ACL (6) NAACL (4) SEMEVAL (4) CONLL (2) AAAI (1) COLING (1) EACL (1) EMNLP (1) INTERSPEECH (1)

Top co-authors

Naushad UzZaman (4) Mary Swift (4) Omid Bakhshandeh (4) Nathanael Chambers (3) Mehdi Manshadi (3) Nasrin Mostafazadeh (3) Lucian Galescu (3) George Ferguson (2) James Pustejovsky (2) Choh Man Teng (2)

Keywords

semantic parsing (4) natural language understanding (2) knowledge representation (1) semantic analysis (1) lexical ambiguity (1) semantic role labeling (1) narrative understanding (1) story comprehension (1) deep learning (1) automated reasoning (1) dataset bia (1) multi-turn dialogue (1) commonsense reasoning (1) symbolic representation (1) dialogue system (1) story cloze test (1) logical form (1) world knowledge (1) comparative reasoning (1) machine comprehension (1)

Papers

The Role of Semantic Parsing in Understanding Procedural Text EACL 2023

Improving Semantic Parsing Using Statistical Word Sense Disambiguation (Student Abstract) AAAI 2020

Building and Learning Structures in a Situated Blocks World Through Deep Language Understanding NAACL 2018

Tackling the Story Ending Biases in The Story Cloze Test ACL 2018

Apples to Apples: Learning Semantics of Common Entities Through a Novel Comprehension Task ACL 2017

Dialogue as Collaborative Problem Solving INTERSPEECH 2017

Learning to Jointly Predict Ellipsis and Comparison Structures CONLL 2016

A Corpus and Cloze Evaluation for Deeper Understanding of Commonsense Stories NAACL 2016

SemEval-2015 Task 5: QA TempEval - Evaluating Temporal Information Understanding with Question Answering SEMEVAL 2015

Quantity, Contrast, and Convention in Cross-Situated Language Comprehension CONLL 2015

Semantic Framework for Comparison Structures in Natural Language EMNLP 2015

Plurality, Negation, and Quantification:Towards Comprehensive Quantifier Scope Disambiguation ACL 2013

SemEval-2013 Task 1: TempEval-3: Evaluating Time Expressions, Events, and Temporal Relations SEMEVAL 2013

Expanding the Range of Tractable Scope-Underspecified Semantic Representations SEMEVAL 2012

A Corpus of Scope-disambiguated English Text ACL 2011

Temporal Evaluation ACL 2011

TRIPS and TRIOS System for TempEval-2: Extracting Temporal Information from Text SEMEVAL 2010

TESLA: A Tool for Annotating Geospatial Language Corpora NAACL 2009

Demonstration of PLOW: A Dialogue System for One-Shot Task Learning NAACL 2007

Two Diverse Systems Built using Generic Components for Spoken Dialogue (Recent Progress on TRIPS) ACL 2005

Skeletons in the parser: Using a shallow parser to improve deep parsing COLING 2004