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31
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4545
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13588
National Ranking
867

Overview

Diana McCarthy is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of Computer Science, focusing on several subfields. The main areas of their research include Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Cognitive Neuroscience, Information Systems, and Signal Processing.

Their work addresses a range of topics within these fields, such as Topic Modeling, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Multimodal Machine Learning Applications, Text Readability and Simplification, Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques, and Data Mining Algorithms and Applications.

McCarthy's recent publications include multiple papers primarily focused on data set construction, semantic analysis, and evaluation of word meaning in context, often intersecting with natural language processing and machine learning methodologies. Notable recent papers are:

  • Semantic Data Set Construction from Human Clustering and Spatial Arrangement, 2021, Computational Linguistics
  • Spatial Multi-Arrangement for Clustering and Multi-way Similarity Dataset Construction, 2020, Apollo (University of Cambridge)
  • AM2iCo: Evaluating Word Meaning in Context across Low-Resource Languages with Adversarial Examples, 2021, Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  • AM2iCo: Evaluating Word Meaning in Context across Low-Resource Languages with Adversarial Examples, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Measuring Context-Word Biases in Lexical Semantic Datasets, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors in McCarthy's work include Anna Korhonen, Ivan Vulić, Qianchu Liu, Olga Majewska, and Jasper J.F. van den Bosch. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary connections across language technologies and machine learning research.

The venues where McCarthy publishes frequently include arXiv (Cornell University), Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, and Apollo (University of Cambridge).

Best Publications

  • Finding Predominant Word Senses in Untagged Text

    Diana McCarthy;Rob Koeling;Julie Weeds;John Carroll

  • The English lexical substitution task

    Diana McCarthy;Roberto Navigli

  • Characterising measures of lexical distributional similarity

    Julie Weeds;David Weir;Diana McCarthy

  • SemEval-2007 Task 10: English Lexical Substitution Task

    Diana McCarthy;Roberto Navigli

  • Detecting a Continuum of Compositionality in Phrasal Verbs

    Diana McCarthy;Bill Keller;John Carroll

  • Disambiguating Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives Using Automatically Acquired Selectional Preferences

    Diana McCarthy;John Carroll

  • An Empirical Study on Compositionality in Compound Nouns

    Siva Reddy;Diana McCarthy;Suresh Manandhar

  • Word Sense Induction for Novel Sense Detection

    Jey Han Lau;Paul Cook;Diana McCarthy;David Newman

  • Unsupervised acquisition of predominant word senses

    Diana McCarthy;Rob Koeling;Julie Weeds;John Carroll

  • Corpus Linguistics: Readings in a Widening Discipline

    Geoffrey Sampson;Diana McCarthy

  • Lexical Acquisition at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: Diathesis Alternations, Subcategorization Frames and Selectional Preferences

    Diana McCarthy

  • Using semantic preferences to identify verbal participation in role switching alternations

    Diana McCarthy

  • Domain-Specific Sense Distributions and Predominant Sense Acquisition

    Rob Koeling;Diana McCarthy;John Carroll

  • Investigations on Word Senses and Word Usages

    Katrin Erk;Diana McCarthy;Nicholas Gaylord

  • Measuring Word Meaning in Context

    Katrin E Erk;Diana McCarthy;Nicholas Gaylord

  • SemEval-2010 Task 2: Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution

    Rada Mihalcea;Ravi Sinha;Diana McCarthy

  • Word Sense Disambiguation: An Overview

    Diana McCarthy

  • Editorial: Introduction to the special issue on multiword expressions: Having a crack at a hard nut

    Aline Villavicencio;Francis Bond;Anna Korhonen;Diana McCarthy

  • A lexicographic appraisal of an automatic approach for detecting new word-senses

    Paul Cook;Jey Han Lau;Michael Rundell;Diana McCarthy

  • 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

    Diana McCarthy;Shuly Wintner

  • SemEval-2010 Task 2: Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution

    Ravi Sinha;Diana McCarthy;Rada Mihalcea

Frequent Co-Authors

John M. Carroll
John M. Carroll University of Sussex
Anna Korhonen
Anna Korhonen University of Cambridge
Ivan Vulić
Ivan Vulić University of Cambridge
Timothy Baldwin
Timothy Baldwin University of Melbourne
Roberto Navigli
Roberto Navigli Sapienza University of Rome
Katrin Erk
Katrin Erk The University of Texas at Austin
Rada Mihalcea
Rada Mihalcea University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David J. Weir
David J. Weir Helsinki Institute of Physics
Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
Nikolaus Kriegeskorte Columbia University
Kate Cain
Kate Cain Lancaster University

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