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- Jönsson, Simon, et al.
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A Component based Approach to Measuring Text Complexity
- 2018
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- We present results from assessing text complexity based on a factorisation of text property measures into components. The components are evaluated by investigating their ability to classify texts belonging to different genres. Our results show that the text complexity components correctly classify texts belonging to specific genres, given that the genres adhere to certain textual conventions. We also propose a radar chart visualisation to communicate component based text complexity.
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- Ahrenberg, Lars, 1948-, et al.
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Analysing Changes in Official Use of the Design Concept Using SweCLARIN Resources
- 2022
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In: Proceedings of the CLARIN Annual meeting.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We show how the tools and language resources developed within the SweClarin infrastructure can be used to investigate changes in the use and understanding of the Swedish related words arkitektur, design, form, and formgivning. Specifically, we compare their use in two governmental public reports on design, one from 1999 and the other from 2015. We test the hypothesis that their meaning has developed in a way that blurs distinctions that may be important to stakeholders in the respective fields.
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- Ahrenberg, Lars, 1948-, et al.
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Analysing changes in official use of the design concept using SweCLARIN resources
- 2023
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In: Selected papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2022. - Linköping : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 9789180752541
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We investigate changes in the use of four Swedish words from the fields of design and archi- tecture. It has been suggested that their meanings have been blurred, especially in governmental reports and policy documents, so that distinctions between them that are important to stakeholders in the respective fields are lost. Specifically, we compare usage in two governmental public reports on design, one from 1999 and the other from 2015, and additionally in opinion responses to the 2015 report. Our approach is to contextualise occurrences of the words in different representations of the texts using word embeddings, topic modelling and sentiment analysis. Tools and language resources developed within the SweClarin infrastructure have been crucial for the implementation of the study.
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- Ahrenberg, Lars, 1948-, et al.
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Studying Disability Related Terms with Swe-Clarin Resources
- 2019
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In Swedish, as in other languages, the words used to refer to disabilities and people with disabilities are manifold. Recommendations as to which terms to use have been changed several times over the last hundred years. In this exploratory paper we have used textual resources provided by Swe-Clarin to study such changes quantitatively. We demonstrate that old and new recommendations co-exist for long periods of time, and that usage sometimes converges.
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- Albertsson, Sarah, et al.
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Similarity-Based Alignment of Monolingual Corpora for Text Simplification
- 2016
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In: CL4LC 2016 - Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity. - : The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee. - 9784879747099 ; , s. 154-163
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Comparable or parallel corpora are beneficial for many NLP tasks. The automatic collection of corpora enables large-scale resources, even for less-resourced languages, which in turn can be useful for deducing rules and patterns for text rewriting algorithms, a subtask of automatic text simplification. We present two methods for the alignment of Swedish easy-to-read text segments to text segments from a reference corpus. The first method (M1) was originally developed for the task of text reuse detection, measuring sentence similarity by a modified version of a TF-IDF vector space model. A second method (M2), also accounting for part-of-speech tags, was devel- oped, and the methods were compared. For evaluation, a crowdsourcing platform was built for human judgement data collection, and preliminary results showed that cosine similarity relates better to human ranks than the Dice coefficient. We also saw a tendency that including syntactic context to the TF-IDF vector space model is beneficial for this kind of paraphrase alignment task.
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- Axelsson, Bodil, 1965-, et al.
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Studying Emerging New Contexts for Museum Digitisations on Pinterest
- 2021
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In: Selected Papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2020. - : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 9789179296094 ; , s. 24-36
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In a SweClarin cooperation project we apply topic modelling to the texts found with pins in Pin-terest boards. The data in focus are digitisations of Viking Age finds from the Swedish History Museum and the underlying research question is how they are given new contextual meanings in boards. We illustrate how topic modelling can support interpretation of polysemy and culturally situated meanings. It expands on the employment of topic modelling by accentuating the necessity of interpretation in every step of the process from capturing and cleaning the data, to modelling and visualisation. The paper concludes that the national context of digitisations of Viking Age jewellery in the Swedish History Museum’s collection management system is re-placed by several transnational contexts in which Viking Age jewellery is appreciated for its symbolical meanings and decorative functions in contemporary genres for re-imagining, relivingand performing European pasts and mythologies. The emerging contexts on Pinterest also high-light the business opportunities involved in genres such as reenactment, neo-paganism, lajv and fantasy. The boards are clues to how digitisations serve as prototypes for replicas.
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- Degerstedt, Lars, et al.
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A Method for Iterative Implementation of Dialogue Management
- 2001
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In: <em>IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems</em>, Seattle.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper presents an approach to implementation of dialogue management modules for dialogue systems. The implementation method is divided into two distinct, but correlated, steps; Conceptual design and Framework customisation. Conceptual design and framework customisation are two mutually dependent sides of the same phenomena, where the former is an on-paper activity that results in a design document and the latter results in the actual program code. The method is iterative and conforms with software development methods, such as, extreme programming, scenario-based design and reusable object-oriented software development. In the paper, this is further elaborated and how it relates to dialogue systems development.
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- Degerstedt, Lars, et al.
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Iterative Implementation of Dialogue System Modules
- 2001
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In: <em>Proceedings of Eurospeech 2001,</em>Aalborg, Denmark. - : International Speech Communication Association. - 8790834097 - 9788790834098 ; , s. 2193-2196
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper presents an approach to the implementation of modules for dialogue systems. The implementation method is divided into two distinct, but correlated, steps; Conceptual design and Framework customisation. Conceptual design and framework customisation are two mutually dependent sides of the same phenomena, where the former is an on-paper activity that results in a design document and the latter results in the actual implementation. The method is iterative and applicable in various phases of dialogue system development and also for different dialogue system modules. We also present the development of the dialogue management module in more detail. The development space for such modules involves issues on modularisation, knowledge representation and interface functionality internally, and between modules. Orthogonal to this are the various types of re-use for framework customisation; tools, framework template and code patterns. Taken together they form a scheme which is explored during the implementation process.
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- Degerstedt, Lars, 1965-, et al.
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LinTest, A development tool for testing dialogue systems
- 2006
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In: INTERSPEECH 2006 AND 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING. - Baixas, FRANCE : ISCA International Speech Communication Association. - 9781604234497 ; , s. 489-492
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this paper we present a development tool for testing dialogue systems. Testing software through the specification is important for software development in general and should be as automated as possible. For dialogue systems, the corpus can be seen as one part of the specification and the dialogue system should be tested on available corpora on each new build. The testing tool is inspired from work on agile software development methods, test driven development and unit testing, and can be used in two modes and during various phases of development.
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- Degerstedt, Lars, 1965-, et al.
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LinTest, A development tool for testing dialogue systems
- 2006
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In: INTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. - Pittsburgh (PA), USA : ICSLP. - 9781604234497 ; , s. 489-492
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- Degerstedt, Lars, 1965-, et al.
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Open Resources for Language Technology
- 2004
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In: Language Resources and Evaluation LREC,2004. - Paris : ELDA. ; , s. 1373-1376
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)
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- Falkenjack, Johan, et al.
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An Exploratory Study on Genre Classification using Readability Features
- 2016
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In: The Sixth Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC).
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We present a preliminary study that explores whether text features used for readability assessment are reliable genre-revealing features. We empirically explore the difference between genre and domain. We carry out two sets of experiments with both supervised and unsupervised methods. Findings on the Swedish national corpus (the SUC) show that readability cues are good indicators of genre variation.
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- Falkenjack, Johan, et al.
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Implicit readability ranking using the latent variable of a Bayesian Probit model
- 2016
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In: CL4LC 2016 - Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity. - : Uppsala universitet Humanistisk-samhällsvetenskapliga vetenskapsområdet. - 9784879747099 ; , s. 104-112
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Data driven approaches to readability analysis for languages other than English has been plagued by a scarcity of suitable corpora. Often, relevant corpora consist only of easy-to-read texts with no rank information or empirical readability scores, making only binary approaches, such as classification, applicable. We propose a Bayesian, latent variable, approach to get the most out of these kinds of corpora. In this paper we present results on using such a model for readability ranking. The model is evaluated on a preliminary corpus of ranked student texts with encourag- ing results. We also assess the model by showing that it performs readability classification on par with a state of the art classifier while at the same being transparent enough to allow more sophisticated interpretations.
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- Falkenjack, Johan, 1986-, et al.
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Services for Text Simplification and Analysis
- 2017
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In: Proceedings of the 21st Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, NoDaLiDa. - : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 9789176856017 ; , s. 309-313
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- We present a language technology servicefor web editors’ work on making textseasier to understand, including tools fortext complexity analysis, text simplification and text summarization. We alsopresent a text analysis service focusing onmeasures of text complexity.
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- Falkenjack, Johan, 1986-
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Towards a Model of General Text Complexity for Swedish
- 2018
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Licentiate thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In an increasingly networked world, where the amount of written information is growing at a rate never before seen, the ability to read and absorb written information is of utmost importance for anything but a superficial understanding of life's complexities. That is an example of a sentence which is not very easy to read. It can be said to have a relatively high degree of text complexity. Nevertheless, the sentence is also true. It is important to be able to read and understand written materials. While not everyone might have a job where they have to read a lot, access to written material is necessary in order to participate in modern society. Most information, from news reporting, to medical information, to governmental information, come primarily in a written form.But what makes the sentence at the start of this abstract so complex? We can probably all agree that the length is part of it. But then what? Researches in the field of readability and text complexity analysis have been studying this question for almost 100 years. That research has over time come to include many computational and data driven methods within the field of computational linguistics.This thesis cover some of my contributions to this field of research, though with a main focus on Swedish rather than English text. It aims to explore two primary questions (1) Which linguistic features are most important when assessing text complexity in Swedish? and (2) How can we deal with the problem of data sparsity with regards to complexity annotated texts in Swedish?The first issue is tackled by exploring the task of identifying easy-to-read ("lättläst") text using classification with Support Vector Machines. A large set of linguistic features is evaluated with regards to predictive performance and is shown to separate easy-to-read texts from regular texts with a very high accuracy. Meanwhile, using a genetic algorithm for variable selection, we find that almost the same accuracy can be reached with only 8 features. This implies that this classification problem is not very hard and that results might not generalize to comparing less easy-to-read texts.This, in turn, brings us to the second question. Except for easy-to-read labeled texts, the data with text complexity annotations is very sparse. It consist of multiple small corpora using different scales to label documents. To deal with this problem, we propose a novel statistical model. The model belongs to the larger family of Probit models and is implemented in a Bayesian fashion and estimated using a Gibbs sampler based on extending a well established Gibbs sampler for the Ordered Probit model. This model is evaluated using both simulated and real world readability data with very promising results.
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- Fried, Andrea, 1972-, et al.
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Communicating preventive innovation - the case of the information security standard ISO/IEC 27001
- 2022
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Preventive innovation differs from ordinary innovation. The innovation diffusion literature claims that the economic benefits of preventive innovation to adopters, such as ensuring information security, are mainly intangible and often time-delayed and sometimes only adopted for incidents that may never occur. Adopter communication about preventive innovation therefore seems to be crucial.Using the example of the information security standard ISO/IEC 27001, we examine how communication of preventive innovations is shaped by its adopters. By analyzing texts about the information security standard ISO/IEC 27001 on Swedish corporate websites using computational linguistics tools and classical content analysis, we could identify, first, different adoption approaches of preventive innovation driven, second, by three modes of data governance: agency, stewardship and brokerage. Third, we provide evidence that the communication of preventive innovation depends on its data governance mode, but, fourth, also on the economic benefits of preventive innovation for adopters.Our contribution to the innovation literature is twofold. First, the concept of preventive innovation originally presented by Rogers (1995) is revived and further developed. Comparing it to its original scope, we show that preventive innovation can be meaningful for adopting organizations not only when they go through all possible adoption phases identified by Rogers (1995). Also an economic benefit from preventive innovation is possible. Both aspects, adoption approach as well as economic opportunity strongly shape the production of meaning in communication about preventive innovation. Second, we show that computational linguistics can support qualitative research in the study of meaning production in communication, especially when dealing with large amounts of data, for instance, gained from corporate websites.
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- Jerdhaf, Oskar, et al.
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Evaluating Pre-Trained Language Models for Focused Terminology Extraction from Swedish Medical Records
- 2022
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In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Terminology in the 21st century. - : European Language Resources Association. - 9791095546955 ; , s. 30-32, s. 30-32
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In the experiments briefly presented in this abstract, we compare the performance of a generalist Swedish pre-trained language model with a domain-specific Swedish pre-trained model on the downstream task of focused terminology extraction of implant terms, which are terms that indicate the presence of implants in the body of patients. The fine-tuning is identical for both models. For the search strategy we rely on KD-Tree that we feed with two different lists of term seeds, one with noise and one without noise. Results shows that the use of a domain-specific pre-trained language model has a positive impact on focused terminology extraction only when using term seeds without noise.
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- Jerdhaf, Oskar, et al.
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Focused Terminology Extraction for CPSs The Case of "Implant Terms" in Electronic Medical Records
- 2021
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In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops). - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Language Technology is an essential component of many Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) because specialized linguistic knowledge is indispensable to prevent fatal errors. We present the case of automatic identification of implant terms. The need of an automatic identification of implant terms spurs from safety reasons because patients who have an implant may or may be not submitted to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Normally, MRI scans are safe. However, in some cases an MRI scan may not be recommended. It is important to know if a patient has an implant, because MRI scanning is incompatible with some implants. At present, the process of ascertain whether a patient could be at risk is lengthy, manual, and based on the specialized knowledge of medical staff. We argue that this process can be sped up, streamlined and become safer by sieving through patients’ medical records. In this paper, we explore how to discover implant terms in electronic medical records (EMRs) written in Swedish with an unsupervised approach. To this aim we use BERT, a state-of-the-art deep learning algorithm based on pre-trained word embeddings. We observe that BERT discovers a solid proportion of terms that are indicative of implants.
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- Jönsson, Arne, 1955-
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A Dialogue Manager for Natural Language Interfaces
- 1995
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In: <em>Proceedings of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics, Second conference</em> The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
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- Jönsson, Arne, 1955-
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A model for habitable and efficient dialogue management for natural language interaction
- 1997
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In: Natural Language Engineering. - 1351-3249 .- 1469-8110. ; 3:2/3, s. 103-122
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Natural language interfaces require dialogue models that allow for robust, habitable and efficient interaction. This paper presents such a model for dialogue management for natural language interfaces. The model is based on empirical studies of human computer interaction in various simple service applications. It is shown that for applications belonging to this class the dialogue can be handled using fairly simple means. The interaction can be modeled in a dialogue grammar with information on the functional role of an utterance as conveyed in the linguistic structure. Focusing is handled using dialogue objects recorded in a dialogue tree representing the constituents of the dialogue. The dialogue objects in the dialogue tree can be accessed by the various modules for interpretation, generation and background system access. Focused entities are modeled in entities pertaining to objects or sets of objects, and related domain concept information; properties of the domain objects. A simple copying principle, where a new dialogue object's focal parameters are instantiated with information from the preceding dialogue object, accounts for most context dependent utterances. The action to be carried out by the interface is determined on the basis of how the objects and related properties are specified. This in turn depends on information presented in the user utterance, context information from the dialogue tree and information in the domain model. The use of dialogue objects facilitates customization to the sublanguage utilized in a specific application. The framework has successfully been applied to various background systems and interaction modalities. In the paper results from the customization of the dialogue manager to three typed interaction applications are presented together with results from applying the model to two applications utilizing spoken interaction.
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- Jönsson, Arne, 1955-, et al.
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An interactive flowcharting technique for communicating and realizing algorithms
- 1984
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Licentiate thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis describes the design, specification, implementation and experience of the use of an interactive flowcharting technique for communicating and realizing algorithms. Our goals are: 1) to help novices to understand computers, by giving them a framework for organizing algorithms, and 2) to support development of software produced by groups of people over an extended period of time. Based on the notions of Dimensional Flowcharts, a system called the DIMsystem has been developed for handling structured flowcharts. The DIMsystem consist of different modules for creating, manipulating and communicating dimensional flowcharts. The current research implementation is in Pascal and runs on a VAX/VMS computer system.
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- Jönsson, Arne, 1955-, et al.
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Analyses of information security standards on data crawled from company web sites using SweClarin resources
- 2024
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In: Proceedings of the CLARIN Annual Conference 2023.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- With the purpose of analysing Swedish companies' adherence and adoption of the information security standard ISO 27001 and to examine the communicative constitution of preventive innovation in organisations, we have created a corpus of corporate texts from Swedish company websites. The corpus was analysed from multiple interdisciplinary perspectives in close cooperation with management researchers and SweClarin researchers using SweClarin tools and resources as well as standard language technology tools. Some analyses require deep reading, which was performed by management researchers, often guided by results from language analyses. Initial results have been presented at a management studies conference. In this paper, we focus on presenting the research issues, the methods used in the project, the results, and the experience of SweClarin researchers supporting researchers in social sciences. Our contribution is to show how it is possible, through the integration of human insights and digital methods, to increase the credibility and validity of a digitally acquired data set and subsequent research findings. In our view, a combination of human deep reading (management researchers), contextual lexical verification (management studies) and language technology (content and sentiment analysis) can help to sensitise computational text analysis for medium-sized data sets.
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- Jönsson, Arne, 1955-, et al.
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Distilling dialogues - A method using natural dialogue corpora for dialogue systems development
- 2000
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In: ANLC '00: Proceedings of the sixth conference on Applied natural language processing. - USA : Association for Computational Linguistics Stroudsburg. ; , s. 44-51
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We report on a method for utilising corpora collected in natural settings. It is based on distilling (re-writing) natural dialogues to elicit the type of dialogue that would occur if one the dialogue participants was a computer instead of a human. The method is a complement to other means such as Wizard of Oz-studies and un-distilled natural dialogues. We present the distilling method and guidelines for distillation. We also illustrate how the method affects a corpus of dialogues and discuss the pros and cons of three approaches in different phases of dialogue systems development.
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- Jönsson, Arne, 1955-, et al.
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Experiences from combining dialogue system development with information extraction techniques
- 2004
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In: New directions in question answering. - Boston : AAAI Press. - 0262633043 ; , s. 153-168
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Next generation question answering systems are challenged on many fronts including but not limited to massive, heterogeneous and sometimes streaming collections, diverse and challenging users, and the need to be sensitive to context, ambiguity, and even deception. This chapter describes new directions in question answering (QA) including enhanced question processing, source selection, document retrieval, answer determination, and answer presentation generation. We consider important directions such as answering questions in context (e.g., previous queries, day or time, the data, the task, location of the interactive device), scenario based QA, event and temporal QA, spatial QA, opinionoid QA, multimodal QA, multilingual QA, user centered and collaborative QA, explanation, interactive QA, QA reuse, and novel architectures for QA. The chapter concludes by outlining a roadmap of the future of question answering, articulating necessary resources for, impediments to, and planned or possible future capabilities.
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- Jönsson, Arne, 1955-
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Natural Language Generation without Intentions
- 1996
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In: <em>Proceedings of the ECAI 96 Workshop Gaps and Bridges: New Directions in Planning and Natural Language Generation</em>.
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- Jönsson, Arne, 1955-, et al.
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Skim reading of audio information
- 2008
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In: The second Swedish Language Technology Conference SLTC-08,2008. ; , s. 23-24
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)
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- Jönsson, Arne, 1955-, et al.
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Using Language Technology to Improve Interaction and Provide Skim Reading Abilities to Audio Information Services
- 2008
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In: Collaboration and the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications, Case Studies. - : IOS Press. - 9781586039240 ; , s. 1289-
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In this paper we present language technology enhancements to audio-based information services (i.e. services where information is presented using spoken language). The enhancements presented in the paper addresses two issues for audio-based services: 1) interaction with the service is rigid and 2) the ability to listen to summaries is limited. Our developments allow for more natural and efficient control of the service and means that facilitates skim reading. Using speech dialogue instead of traditional buttons provides means for more advanced navigation in the audio material. Vector space techniques are used to collect the most relevant sentences in a text and allows for skim reading of varying depth.
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- Kanebrant, Erik, et al.
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T-MASTER -- A tool for assessing students' reading abilities
- 2015
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In: <em>Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2015),</em> Lisbon, Portugal. - : SciTePress. - 9789897581083 - 9789897581076 ; , s. 220-227
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We present T-MASTER, a tool for assessing students’ reading skills on a variety of dimensions. T-MASTER uses sophisticated measures for assessing a student’s reading comprehension and vocabulary understanding. Texts are selected based on their difficulty using novel readability measures and tests are created based on the texts. The results are analyzed in T-MASTER, and the numerical results are mapped to textual descriptions that describe the student’s reading abilities on the dimensions being analysed. These results are presented to the teacher in a form that is easily comprehensible, and lends itself to inspection of each individual student’s results.
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- Keskisärkkä, Robin, et al.
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Investigations of Synonym Replacement for Swedish
- 2013
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In: Northern European Journal of Language Technology (NEJLT). - Linköping, Sverige : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 2000-1533. ; 3:3, s. 41-59
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We present results from an investigation on automatic synonym replacement for Swedish. Three different methods for choosing alternative synonyms were evaluated: (1) based on word frequency, (2) based on word length, and (3) based on level of synonymy. These three strategies were evaluated in terms of standardized readability metrics for Swedish, average word length, proportion of long words, and in relation to the ratio of errors in relation to replacements. The results show an improvement in readability for most strategies, but also show that erroneous substitutions are frequent.
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- Leifler, Ola, 1978-, et al.
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Teaching sustainability, ethics and scientific writing : An integrated approach
- 2020
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In: Proceedings of 2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). - : IEEE. - 9781728189611 - 9781728189628
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This Innovative Practice Full Paper presents an approach to integrate three critical elements in Computer Science education.The call to imbue computer science graduates with strategic skills needed to address our pressing global sustainability challenges is extremely important, and a great challenge to degree programmes in computer science and software engineering. Doing this successfully requires great care, and possibly several iterations across an entire curriculum. In this regard, learning for sustainability faces similar challenges as understanding scientific results and ethics. Improving skills in searching for, reading, and producing academic texts are often neglected, as are skills in understanding ethics; what norms and values that guide our choices of methods for solving problems. To handle the fact that these subjects (academic writing, ethics and sustainability) are treated separately, and thereby lowering student engagement with the topics, we have successfully integrated them into one coherent subject of Professionalism in Computer Science. By integrating the three subjects, we do three things: a) describe a multi-faceted but integrated engineering role; b) integrate the three aspects of the role we focus on in education and steer away from the view that these are add-ons; and c) increase the motivation of students to take on these aspects of the engineering role.Our approach uses a flipped-classroom style with students playing educational games, participating in discussion seminars and conducting critical analyses of other students’ choices in IT system design. Much emphasis is on the students academic writing abilities, including critical information search and a student peer-review procedure. Also, we do this using an integrated assessment format where teachers from different disciplinary backgrounds jointly assess material from students, which stimulates discussions among ourselves about what and how to assess, and provides a practical way to integrate assessments. We present results from attitude surveys, course evaluations and the contents of the students’ analyses in their final essays. In conclusion, our approach demonstrates a clear shift in how students perceive sustainability, showing that it is possible to achieve changes in attitude towards the subjects as such and their importance for computer scientists.
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