William J. Black

Also published as: W.J. Black, William Black, William J Black


2012

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A data and analysis resource for an experiment in text mining a collection of micro-blogs on a political topic.
William Black | Rob Procter | Steven Gray | Sophia Ananiadou
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)

The analysis of a corpus of micro-blogs on the topic of the 2011 UK referendum about the Alternative Vote has been undertaken as a joint activity by text miners and social scientists. To facilitate the collaboration, the corpus and its analysis is managed in a Web-accessible framework that allows users to upload their own textual data for analysis and to manage their own text annotation resources used for analysis. The framework also allows annotations to be searched, and the analysis to be re-run after amending the analysis resources. The corpus is also doubly human-annotated stating both whether each tweet is overall positive or negative in sentiment and whether it is for or against the proposition of the referendum.

2006

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Arabic WordNet and the Challenges of Arabic
Sabri Elkateb | William Black | Piek Vossen | David Farwell | Horacio Rodríguez | Adam Pease | Musa Alkhalifa | Christiane Fellbaum
Proceedings of the International Conference on the Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT

Arabic WordNet is a lexical resource for Modern Standard Arabic based on the widely used Princeton WordNet for English (Fellbaum, 1998). Arabic WordNet (AWN) is based on the design and contents of the universally accepted Princeton WordNet (PWN) and will be mappable straightforwardly onto PWN 2.0 and EuroWordNet (EWN), enabling translation on the lexical level to English and dozens of other languages. We have developed and linked the AWN with the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO), where concepts are defined with machine interpretable semantics in first order logic (Niles and Pease, 2001). We have greatly extended the ontology and its set of mappings to provide formal terms and definitions for each synset. The end product would be a linguistic resource with a deep formal semantic foundation that is able to capture the richness of Arabic as described in Elkateb (2005). Tools we have developed as part of this effort include a lexicographer's interface modeled on that used for EuroWordNet, with added facilities for Arabic script, following Black and Elkateb's earlier work (2004). In this paper we describe our methodology for building a lexical resource in Arabic and the challenge of Arabic for lexical resources.

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Building a WordNet for Arabic
Sabri Elkateb | William Black | Horacio Rodríguez | Musa Alkhalifa | Piek Vossen | Adam Pease | Christiane Fellbaum
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06)

This paper introduces a recently initiated project that focuses on building a lexical resource for Modern Standard Arabic based on the widely used Princeton WordNet for English (Fellbaum, 1998). Our aim is to develop a linguistic resource with a deep formal semantic foundation in order to capture the richness of Arabic as described in Elkateb (2005). Arabic WordNet is being constructed following methods developed for EuroWordNet (Vossen, 1998). In addition to the standard wordnet representation of senses, word meanings are also being defined with a machine understandable semantics in first order logic. The basis for this semantics is the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology and its associated domain ontologies (Niles and Pease, 2001). We will greatly extend the ontology and its set of mappings to provide formal terms and definitions for each synset. Tools to be developed as part of this effort include a lexicographer's interface modeled on that used for EuroWordNet, with added facilities for Arabic script, following Black and Elkateb's earlier work (2004).

2004

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A Suite of Tools for Marking Up Textual Data for Temporal Text Mining Scenarios
Argyrios Vasilakopoulos | Michele Bersani | William J. Black
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’04)

2003

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Introduction: Dialogue Systems: Interaction, Adaptation and Styles of Management
Kristiina Jokinen | Björn Gämback | William Black | Roberta Catizone | Yorick Wilks
Proceedings of the 2003 EACL Workshop on Dialogue Systems: interaction, adaptation and styes of management

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Learning to Classify Utterances in a Task-Oriented Dialogue
William Black | Paul Thompson | Adam Funk | Andrew Conroy
Proceedings of the 2003 EACL Workshop on Dialogue Systems: interaction, adaptation and styes of management

2002

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Language Independent Named Entity Classification by modified Transformation-based Learning and by Decision Tree Induction
William J. Black | Argyrios Vasilakopoulos
COLING-02: The 6th Conference on Natural Language Learning 2002 (CoNLL-2002)

2000

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A Semi-automatic System for Conceptual Annotation, its Application to Resource Construction and Evaluation
W.J. Black | J. McNaught | G.P. Zarri | A. Persidis | A. Brasher | L. Gilardoni | E. Bertino | G. Semeraro | P. Leo
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’00)

1999

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Intranet learning tools for NLP
William J. Black | Simon Hill | Mahmoud Kassaei
EACL 1999: Computer and Internet Supported Education in Language and Speech Technology

1998

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FACILE: Description of the NE System Used for MUC-7
William J Black | Fabio Rinaldi | David Mowatt
Seventh Message Understanding Conference (MUC-7): Proceedings of a Conference Held in Fairfax, Virginia, April 29 - May 1, 1998

1994

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Bidirectional Incremental Generation and Analysis with Categorial Grammar and Indexed Quasi-Logical Form
Torbjoern Lager | William J. Black
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Natural Language Generation

1987

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Acquisition of Conceptual Data Models from Natural Language Descriptions
William J. Black
Third Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics