Eduardo Blanco PhD, Computer Science Human Language Technology Research Institute The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX 75080, USA eduardo@hlt.utdallas.edu

News

• Roser Morante and I are co-organizing the *SEM 2012 Shared Task: Resolving the Scope and Focus of Negation.
  It will be held within *SEM: First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, June 7-8 2012, Montreal, Canada.

Publications

1. Eduardo Blanco and Dan Moldovan. 2011. Unsupervised Learning of Semantic Relation Composition. In Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-HLT 2011), Portland, OR, USA. [bib, pdf]
2. Eduardo Blanco and Dan Moldovan. 2011. Semantic Representation of Negation Using Focus Detection. In Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-HLT 2011), Portland, OR, USA. [bib, pdf]
   The corpus used in this paper is being released as part of the *SEM 2012 Shared Task: Resolving the Scope and Focus of Negation.
3. Eduardo Blanco and Dan Moldovan. 2011. Some Issues on Detecting Negation from Text. In Proceedings of the 24th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-24), Palm Beach, FL, USA. [bib, pdf]
4. Eduardo Blanco, Hakki C. Cankaya and Dan Moldovan. 2011. Commonsense Knowledge Extraction Using Concepts Properties. In Proceedings of the 24th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-24), Palm Beach, FL, USA. [bib, pdf]
5. Eduardo Blanco and Dan Moldovan. 2011. A Model for Composing Semantic Relations. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2011), Oxford, UK. [bib, pdf]
6. Eduardo Blanco and Dan Moldovan. 2010. Automatic Discovery of Manner Relations and its Applications. In Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2010), Cambridge, MA, USA. [bib, pdf]
7. Eduardo Blanco, Hakki C. Cankaya and Dan Moldovan. 2010. Composition of Semantic Relations: Model and Applications. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), Poster Volume, Beijing, China. [bib, pdf]
8. Eduardo Blanco, Nuria Castell and Dan Moldovan. 2008. Causal Relation Extraction. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), Marrakech, Morocco. [bib, pdf]