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Too many facts and not enough theories: the rhetoric of the referendum campaign
No full textThe campaign over the UK’s referendum on our continued membership of the European Union is entering its final stretch, with numerous facts, figures, and assertions being thrown around with wilful abandon. Here, Alan Finlayson argues that both campaigns in are build on thin theories which utterly fail to understand each other
Show – don’t tell: political rhetoric is increasingly anecdotal but not particularly artful
No full textAnecdotes have become one of the most common rhetorical devices in political speeches and debates to prove the success of policies or to illustrate that a leader is ‘down to earth’. Judi Atkins and Alan Finlayson explain why our politicians are ignoring Shakespeare and Keats and instead turning to ‘Holly from Southampton’ to prove their virtues
Code for Java Libraries for Accessing the Princeton Wordnet: Comparison and Evaluation
No full textThis archive contains the code and data for running the evaluations described in: Finlayson, Mark Alan (2014) "Java Libraries for Accessing the Princeton Wordnet: comparison and Evaluation" in Proceedings of the 7th Global Wordnet Conference (GWC 2014). Tartu, Estonia, 25-29 January 2014. The archive contains five Eclipse projects (compatible with Eclipse 3.8.0) that may be imported directly into an Eclipse workspace. You will need a Java 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6 JRE to run all the code in the archive. Paper abstract: Java is a popular programming language for natural language processing. I compare and evaluate 12 Java libraries designed to access the information in the original Princeton Wordnet databases. From this comparison emerges a set of decision criteria that will enable a user to pick the library most suited to their purposes. I identify five deciding features: (1) availability of similarity metrics; (2) support for editing; (3) availability via Maven; (4) compatibility with retired Java versions; and (5) support for Enterprise Java. I also provide a comparison of other features of each library, the information exposed by each API, and the versions of Wordnet each library supports, and I evaluate each library for the speed of various retrieval operations. In the case that the user's application does not require one of the deciding features, I show that my library, JWI, the MIT Java Wordnet Interface, is the highest-performance, widest-coverage, easiest-to-use library available
Source code and data for MWE'2011 papers
No full textContains the source code and data necessary to run all computations described in the following two papers: Finlayson, Mark A. and Kulkarni, Nidhi (2011) "Detecting Multi-Word Expressions improves Word Sense Disambiguation", in Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Multiword Expressions, held at ACL'2011 in Portland, OR; Kulkarni, Nidhi and Finlayson, Mark A. (2011) "jMWE: A Java Toolkit for Detecting Multi-Word Expressions" in Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Multiword Expressions, held at ACL'2011 in Portland, OR
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