Nabin Maharjan


2018

pdf
A Tutorial Markov Analysis of Effective Human Tutorial Sessions
Nabin Maharjan | Vasile Rus
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications

This paper investigates what differentiates effective tutorial sessions from less effective sessions. Towards this end, we characterize and explore human tutors’ actions in tutorial dialogue sessions by mapping the tutor-tutee interactions, which are streams of dialogue utterances, into streams of actions, based on the language-as-action theory. Next, we use human expert judgment measures, evidence of learning (EL) and evidence of soundness (ES), to identify effective and ineffective sessions. We perform sub-sequence pattern mining to identify sub-sequences of dialogue modes that discriminate good sessions from bad sessions. We finally use the results of sub-sequence analysis method to generate a tutorial Markov process for effective tutorial sessions.

2017

pdf
DT_Team at SemEval-2017 Task 1: Semantic Similarity Using Alignments, Sentence-Level Embeddings and Gaussian Mixture Model Output
Nabin Maharjan | Rajendra Banjade | Dipesh Gautam | Lasang J. Tamang | Vasile Rus
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017)

We describe our system (DT Team) submitted at SemEval-2017 Task 1, Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) challenge for English (Track 5). We developed three different models with various features including similarity scores calculated using word and chunk alignments, word/sentence embeddings, and Gaussian Mixture Model(GMM). The correlation between our system’s output and the human judgments were up to 0.8536, which is more than 10% above baseline, and almost as good as the best performing system which was at 0.8547 correlation (the difference is just about 0.1%). Also, our system produced leading results when evaluated with a separate STS benchmark dataset. The word alignment and sentence embeddings based features were found to be very effective.

2016

pdf
DTSim at SemEval-2016 Task 1: Semantic Similarity Model Including Multi-Level Alignment and Vector-Based Compositional Semantics
Rajendra Banjade | Nabin Maharjan | Dipesh Gautam | Vasile Rus
Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2016)

pdf
DTSim at SemEval-2016 Task 2: Interpreting Similarity of Texts Based on Automated Chunking, Chunk Alignment and Semantic Relation Prediction
Rajendra Banjade | Nabin Maharjan | Nobal Bikram Niraula | Vasile Rus
Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2016)

pdf
Evaluation Dataset (DT-Grade) and Word Weighting Approach towards Constructed Short Answers Assessment in Tutorial Dialogue Context
Rajendra Banjade | Nabin Maharjan | Nobal Bikram Niraula | Dipesh Gautam | Borhan Samei | Vasile Rus
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

pdf
SemAligner: A Method and Tool for Aligning Chunks with Semantic Relation Types and Semantic Similarity Scores
Nabin Maharjan | Rajendra Banjade | Nobal Bikram Niraula | Vasile Rus
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)

This paper introduces a ruled-based method and software tool, called SemAligner, for aligning chunks across texts in a given pair of short English texts. The tool, based on the top performing method at the Interpretable Short Text Similarity shared task at SemEval 2015, where it was used with human annotated (gold) chunks, can now additionally process plain text-pairs using two powerful chunkers we developed, e.g. using Conditional Random Fields. Besides aligning chunks, the tool automatically assigns semantic relations to the aligned chunks (such as EQUI for equivalent and OPPO for opposite) and semantic similarity scores that measure the strength of the semantic relation between the aligned chunks. Experiments show that SemAligner performs competitively for system generated chunks and that these results are also comparable to results obtained on gold chunks. SemAligner has other capabilities such as handling various input formats and chunkers as well as extending lookup resources.

2015

pdf
NeRoSim: A System for Measuring and Interpreting Semantic Textual Similarity
Rajendra Banjade | Nobal Bikram Niraula | Nabin Maharjan | Vasile Rus | Dan Stefanescu | Mihai Lintean | Dipesh Gautam
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015)