Yanfen Hao


2011

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Exploiting Readymades in Linguistic Creativity: A System Demonstration of the Jigsaw Bard
Tony Veale | Yanfen Hao
Proceedings of the ACL-HLT 2011 System Demonstrations

2009

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Growing Finely-Discriminating Taxonomies from Seeds of Varying Quality and Size
Tony Veale | Guofu Li | Yanfen Hao
Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL 2009)

2008

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Multilingual Harvesting of Cross-Cultural Stereotypes
Tony Veale | Yanfen Hao | Guofu Li
Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT

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Acquiring Naturalistic Concept Descriptions from the Web
Tony Veale | Yanfen Hao
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)

Many of the beliefs that one uses to reason about everyday entities and events are neither strictly true or even logically consistent. Rather, people appear to rely on a large body of folk knowledge in the form of stereotypical associations, clichés and other kinds of naturalistic descriptions, many of which express views of the world that are second-hand, overly-simplified and, in some cases, non-literal to the point of being poetic. These descriptions pervade our language yet one rarely finds them in authoritative linguistic resources like dictionaries and encyclopaedias. We describe here how such naturalistic descriptions can be harvested from the web in the guise of explicit similes and related text patterns, and empirically demonstrate that these descriptions do broadly capture the way people see the world, at least from the perspective of category organization in an ontology.

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A Fluid Knowledge Representation for Understanding and Generating Creative Metaphors
Tony Veale | Yanfen Hao
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2008)

2007

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Making Lexical Ontologies Functional and Context-Sensitive
Tony Veale | Yanfen Hao
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics