Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity

Supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, Award No. 0906244 and Award No. 1319846

People involved:

Anna Feldman

Jing Peng

Past members: 

Manali Pradhan (MA in Applied Linguistics)

Bianca Wright (BA Linguistics)

Zachary Case (BA English)

Zachary Zerby (BA Linguistics)

Michael Ramos (CL Certificate student)

Shadasha Williams (undergraduate CS/Linguistics student)

Hamza Jazmati (undergraduate CS student)

Ekaterina Vylomova (Fulbright scholar, Bauman State Technical University)

Slavica Inglicar (M.S. student)

Marcho Antonio Chang Reyna (B.S. student)

Kurt Keena (B.A. student, Linguistics)

Lurdes Ruela (M.S., CL Certificate student)

Related publications, tools, events, etc.:

• Jing Peng, Anna Feldman. 2016. In God We Trust. All Others Must Bring Data. — W. Edwards Deming — Using word embeddings to recognize idioms.Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Symposium on Information Management and Big Data — SIMBig, Cusco, Peru. [[pdf]
• Jing Peng, Anna Feldman, and Hamza Jazmati. 2015.  Classifying Idiomatic and Literal Expressions Using Vector Space Representations. In Proceedings of the Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP) conference 2015, Hissar, Bulgaria, September 2015. [pdf]
• Jing Peng, Anna Feldman, and Ekaterina Vylomova. 2014. Classifying Idiomatic and Literal Expressions Using Topic Models and Intensity of Emotions. In Proceedings of the 2014 Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing Conference (EMNLP). [pdf]
• Anna Feldman and Jing Peng. 2013. Automatic Detection of Idiomatic Clauses. In Proceedings of Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing 2013), Part I, LNCS 7816, pp. 435-446, Springer Heidelberg. [preprint]. (best paper award, 1st place)
• Jing Peng, Anna Feldman, and Laura Street. 2010. Computing Linear Discriminants for Idiomatic Sentence Detection. In Research in Computing Science, Special issue: Natural Language Processing and its Applications, Vol. 46, pp. 17-28, Instituto Politecnico Nacional Centro de Investigacin en Computacien Mexico 2010, ISSN 1870-4069. [pdf]
• Laura Street, Rachel Silverstein, Nathan Michalov, Felicia Flowers, Angela Talucci, Michael Reynolds,Priscilla Pereira, Gabriella Morgon, Samantha Siegel, Marci Barousse, Lurdes Ruela, Antequa Anderson, Tashom Carroll, and Anna Feldman. 2010. Like Finding a Needle in a Haystack: Annotating the American  National Corpus for Idiomatic Expressions. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010). [BA/MA Fall 09 Class project].[pdf]
• Hiroki Yamakawa, Jing Peng, and Anna Feldman. 2010. Semantic Enrichment of Text Representation with Wikipedia for Text Classi cation. In Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC2010), Istanbul, Turkey. [pdf]
• Anna Feldman and Jing Peng. 2009. An Approach to Automatic Figurative Language Detection: A Pilot Study. In Proceedings of the Corpus-Based Approaches for Figurative Language Colloquium held in conjunction with the Corpus Linguistic 2009 endorsed by Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM), Liverpool, UK. ISSN 1368-9223 [pdf]   
  

Events:     

• Anna Feldman, Anna Kazantseva, and Stan Szpakowicz, Eds. 2016. Proceedings of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2016) 5th Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature (CLfL). http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W16/#0200
• David K. Elson, Anna Feldman, Anna Kazantseva, Stan Szpakowicz, Eds. 2015. Literature Lifts Computational Linguistics. Linguistics Issues in Language Technology: Special Volume on Computational Linguistics for Literature. Volume 12.  CSLI: Stanford University. http://csli-lilt.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/LiLT/article/view/54
• Anna Feldman, Anna Kazantseva, Corina Koolen, and Stan Szpakowicz, Eds. 2015. Proceedings of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2015) 4th Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature (CLfL). http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W15/#0700

• Anna Feldman, Anna Kazantseva, Stan Szpakowicz, Eds. 2014. Proceedings of the European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2014) 3rd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature (CLfL). http://aclweb.org/anthology//W/W14/W14-09.pdf 
• Paul Cook and Anna Feldman, Eds. 2010. Proceedings of the North-American Chapter of Association for Computational Linguistics -Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2010) Second Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity, Los Angeles, California. http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W10/#0300
• Anna Feldman and Birte Loenneker-Rodman, Eds. 2009. Proceedings of the North-American Chapter of Association for Computational Linguistics -Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2009) Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity, Boulder, Colorado. http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W09/#2000.
• Anna Feldman and Xiaofei Lu, Eds. 2007. Proceedings of the North-American Chapter of Association for Computational Linguistics -Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2007) Workshop on Computational Approaches to Figurative Language, Rochester, NY. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W07/#0100