STAMP 4 NLP – An Agile Framework for Rapid Quality-Driven NLP Applications Development

Towards Agile and Test-Driven Development in NLP Applications

c-rater is the Educational Testing Service technology for automatic content scoring for short free-text responses. In this paper, we contend that an Agile and test-driven development environment optimizes the development of an NLP-based technology.

Coreference for NLP Applications

Demand-Driven NLP for ICALL

When the user input is first received by the erver, th system performs a string match comparing the user's answer to pre-stored answers. Each pre-stored answer is accompanied by a previously computed analysis for student model updates. Storing multiple answers allows for freer student input and, at an introductory level, involves little extra work. At an advanced level where exercises become ev...

SiSSA: An Infrastructure for Developing NLP Applications

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the commercial deployment of NLP technologies. This paper presents SiSSA, a project whose main aim is that of developing an infrastructure for prototyping, editing and validation of NLP application architectures. The system will provide the user with a graphical environment for (1) selecting the NLP activities relevant for the particular NLP ...

NLP Driven Citation Analysis

This paper summarizes ongoing research in NLP (Natural Language Processing) driven citation analysis and describes experiments and motivating examples of how this work can be used to enhance traditional scientometrics analysis that is based on simply treating citations as a “vote” from the citing paper to cited paper. In particular, we describe our dataset for citation polarity and citation pur...