Nancy Chang


2020

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(Re)construing Meaning in NLP
Sean Trott | Tiago Timponi Torrent | Nancy Chang | Nathan Schneider
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Human speakers have an extensive toolkit of ways to express themselves. In this paper, we engage with an idea largely absent from discussions of meaning in natural language understanding—namely, that the way something is expressed reflects different ways of conceptualizing or construing the information being conveyed. We first define this phenomenon more precisely, drawing on considerable prior work in theoretical cognitive semantics and psycholinguistics. We then survey some dimensions of construed meaning and show how insights from construal could inform theoretical and practical work in NLP.

2015

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Scaling Semantic Frame Annotation
Nancy Chang | Praveen Paritosh | David Huynh | Collin F. Baker
Proceedings of the 9th Linguistic Annotation Workshop

2014

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Cooking with Semantics
Jonathan Malmaud | Earl Wagner | Nancy Chang | Kevin Murphy
Proceedings of the ACL 2014 Workshop on Semantic Parsing

2004

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Putting Meaning into Grammar Learning
Nancy Chang
Proceedings of the Workshop on Psycho-Computational Models of Human Language Acquisition

2002

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Putting Frames in Perspective
Nancy Chang | Srini Narayanan | Miriam R.L. Petruck
COLING 2002: The 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1996

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A Stochastic Finite-State Word-Segmentation Algorithm for Chinese
Richard W. Sproat | Chilin Shih | William Gale | Nancy Chang
Computational Linguistics, Volume 22, Number 3, September 1996

1994

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A Stochastic Finite-State Word-Segmentation Algorithm for Chinese
Richard Sproat | Chilin Shih | William Gale | Nancy Chang
32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics