Paul Nulty


2020

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The UCD-Net System at SemEval-2020 Task 1: Temporal Referencing with Semantic Network Distances
Paul Nulty | David Lillis
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

This paper describes the UCD system entered for SemEval 2020 Task 1: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection. We propose a novel method based on distance between temporally referenced nodes in a semantic network constructed from a combination of the time specific corpora. We argue for the value of semantic networks as objects for transparent exploratory analysis and visualisation of lexical semantic change, and present an implementation of a web application for the purpose of searching and visualising semantic networks. The results of the change measure used for this task were not among the best performing systems, but further calibration of the distance metric and backoff approaches may improve this method.

2017

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Network Visualisations for Exploring Political Concepts
Paul Nulty
IWCS 2017 — 12th International Conference on Computational Semantics — Short papers

2010

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UCD-PN: Selecting General Paraphrases Using Conditional Probability
Paul Nulty | Fintan Costello
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

2009

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Using Lexical Patterns in the Google Web 1T Corpus to Deduce Semantic Relations Between Nouns
Paul Nulty | Fintan Costello
Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions (SEW-2009)

2007

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Semantic Classification of Noun Phrases Using Web Counts and Learning Algorithms
Paul Nulty
Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Student Research Workshop

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UCD-PN: Classification of Semantic Relations Between Nominals using WordNet and Web Counts
Paul Nulty
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval-2007)