Work in Progress

F. T. Asr and M. Taboada. “Big data and quality data for automatic misinformation detection”.

F. T. Asr and V. Demberg “Interpretation of discourse connectives is probabilistic”.

V. Demberg, F. T. Asr and M. Scholman “Mapping PDTB and RST discourse relation annotations”.

Journal Papers and Book Chapters

T. Sanders, V. Demberg, J. Hoek, M. Scholman, F. T. Asr, S. Zufferey and J. Evers-Vermeul (2018) “Unifying dimensions in discourse relations: How various annotation frameworks are related”. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.

F. T. Asr, A. Fazly and Z. Azimifar (2013) ``From cues to categories: a computational study of children’s early word categorization”. Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

M. Samadi, F. T. Asr, J. Schaeffer and Z. Azimifar (2009) ``Extending the applicability of pattern and endgame databases”. IEEE Transaction on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games.

Conference Proceedings

F. T. Asr and M. Taboada (2018) “The data challenge in misinformation detection: source reputation vs. content veracity”. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER) collocated with EMNLP 2018, Brussels, Belgium.

F. T. Asr, R. Zinkov, and M. N. Jones (2018) “Querying word embeddings for similarity and relatedness”. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

F. T. Asr and M. N. Jones (2017) “An artificial language evaluation of distributional semantic models”. Proceedings of The 21st SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), Vancouver, Canada.

F. T. Asr, J. A. Willits and M. N. Jones (2016). “Comparing predictive and co-occurrence based models of lexical semantics trained on child-directed speech”. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

F. T. Asr and V. Demberg (2016). “But and Although under the microscope”. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

F. T. Asr and V. Demberg (2015). “Uniform Information Density at the level of discourse relations: negation markers and discourse connective omission”. The 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS), London, UK.

F. T. Asr, J. Sonntag, Y. Grishina and Manfred Stede (2014). “Conceptual and practical steps in event coreference analysis of large-scale data”. The 2nd Workshop on EVENTS: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation at ACL, Baltimore, USA.

F. T. Asr and V. Demberg (2013). “On the information conveyed by discourse markers” . Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics at ACL, Sofia, Bulgaria.

F. T. Asr and V. Demberg (2012). ``Implicitness of discourse relations”. 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling), Bombay, India.

F. T. Asr and V. Demberg (2012). ``Measuring the strength of linguistic cues for discourse relations”. Workshop on Advances in Discourse Analysis and its Computational Aspects (ADACA), Bombay, India.

F. T. Asr, A. Fazly and Z. Azimifar (2010). ``The effect of word-internal properties on syntactic categorization: a computational modeling approach”. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, USA.

M. Samadi, J. Schaeffer, F. T. Asr, M. Samar and Z. Azimifar (2008). ``Using abstraction in two-player games”. 18th Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Patras, Greece.

M. Samadi, F. T. Asr, Z. Azimifar and M. Z. Jahromi (2008). *``Separating the factors of the optimal solution in chess “. * 13th Annual Conference of Computer Society of Iran, Kish Island, Iran.

Conference Abstracts

F. T. Asr and M. N. Jones (2017). “Different layers of distributional semantics”. Annual Meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology (SCiP), Vancouver, BC, Canada.

P. R. Dachapally, F. T. Asr, W. R. Aue, J. D. Karpicke , and M. N. Jones (2017). “Automated keyword extraction from short passages using pre-trained neural embeddings”. Annual Meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology (SCiP), Vancouver, BC, Canada.

S. Jayamoorthy, F. T. Asr, W. R. Aue, J. D. Karpicke , and M. N. Jones (2017). “Automatic question and answer generation from texts for retrieval-based learning”. Annual Meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology (SCiP), Vancouver, BC, Canada.

F. T. Asr and M. N. Jones (2016). “Experimenting with the keyword matching approaches to automated short answer scoring”. Midwest Speech and Language Days & Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium 2016, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.

V. Demberg, F. T. Asr, H. Rohde and M. Scholman (2015). “Discourse expectations raised by contrastive connectives”. Conference on Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives (DETEC), Edmonton, Canada.

F. T. Asr (2015). “Colloquial Persian in discourse and dialogue”. At the panel on Formal vs. Colloquial Persian from a Language Technology Perspective, the second biennial Symposia Iranica 2015, Cambridge, UK.

F. T. Asr and V. Demberg (2015). “A discourse connector’s distribution determines its interpretation”. The CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2015, Los Angeles, California, USA.

F. T. Asr and V. Demberg (2015). “A distributional account of discourse connectives and its effect on fine-grained inferences”. Text-link Conference, Louvain, Belgium.

F. T. Asr and V. Demberg (2014). “Information density and the use of discourse cues”. Conference on the Architecture and Mechanism for Language Processing (AMLaP), Edinburgh, Scotland.

F. T. Asr and V. Demberg (2013). “Can neighboring relations help to anticipate upcoming discourse relations?”. Conference on the Architecture and Mechanism for Language Processing (AMLaP), Marseille, France.

F. T. Asr and V. Demberg (2012). ``Tendency for causality in implicit discourse relations”. Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis (CADSConf), Bologna, Italy.

F. T. Asr and V. Demberg (2012). ``Discourse expectations and implicitness of (causal) discourse relations”. Conference on the Architecture and Mechanism for Language Processing (AMLaP), Trento, Italy.

F. T. Asr, A. Fazly and Z. Azimifar (2011). ``Simulation of a psychological experiment in a computational framework”. 4th International Conference of Cognitive Science, Tehran, Iran.

F. T. Asr, Z. Azimifar and A. Fazly (2009). ``A statistical modeling approach for child syntax acquisition”. 3rd International Conference of Cognitive Science, Tehran, Iran.