Publication

Exploring BERT’s Sensitivity to Lexical Cues using Tests from Semantic Priming Kanishka Misra, Allyson Ettinger, Julia Taylor Rayz Findings of ACL: EMNLP 2020

An Approximate Perspective on Word Prediction in Context: Ontological Semantics meets BERT Kanishka Misra, Julia Taylor Rayz NAFIPS, 2020

Using Fuzzy Sets to Assess Differences in Online Grooming Conversations with Victims, Decoys, and Law Enforcement Tatiana Ringenberg, Julia Rayz, Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar NAFIPS, 2020

Predicting popular contributors in innovation crowds: the case of My Starbucks Ideas Chien-Yi Hsiang, Julia Taylor Rayz Information Technology & People, 2020

Joke Recommender System Using Humor Theory Soumya Agrawal, Julia Taylor Rayz ICCM, 2020

Figure Descriptive Text Extraction Using Ontological Representation Gilchan Park, Julia Taylor Rayz, Line Pouchard The Thirty-Third International Flairs Conference, 2020

Scripts in the ontological semantic theory of humor Julia Taylor Rayz Script-Based Semantics: Foundations and Applications. Essays in Honor of Victor Raskin, 2020

Back to Classics: Controlling Smart Thermostats with Natural Language… with Personalization Julia Taylor Rayz, Saltanat Tazhibayeva, Panagiota Karava Decision Making under Constraints, 2020

Oppositions, overlaps, and ontologies–a response to Elliott Oring Julia Taylor Rayz Humor, 2019

Authorship Analysis of Online Predatory Conversations using Character Level Con- volution Neural Networks. Kanishka Misra, Hemanth Devarapalli, Tatiana Ringenberg, Julia Taylor Rayz 2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

A Sentiment Based Non-Factoid Question-Answering Framework Qiaofei Ye, Kanishka Misra, Hemanth Devarapalli, Julia Taylor Rayz 2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

Not So Cute but Fuzzy: Estimating Risk of Sexual Predation in Online Conversations. Tatiana Ringenberg, Kanishka Misra, Julia Taylor Rayz 2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

Exploring Automatic Identification of Fantasy-Driven and Contact-Driven Sexual Solicitors T Ringenberg, K Misra, KC Seigfried-Spellar, JT Rayz 2019 Third IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), 532-537

Measuring the Influence of L1 on Learner English Errors in Content Words within Word Embedding Models. Kanishka Misra, Hemanth Devarapalli, Julia Taylor Rayz 17th International Conference on Cognitive Modelling, 2019

Chat Analysis Triage Tool: Differentiating contact-driven vs. fantasy-driven child sex offenders Kathryn C Seigfried-Spellar, Marcus K Rogers, Julia T Rayz, Shih-Feng Yang, Kanishka Misra, Tatiana Ringenberg 2019 Forensic science international

Ontological Detection of Phishing Emails Gilchan Park, Julia Rayz 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)

Comparing Jokes with NLP: How Far Can Joke Vectors Take Us? Xiaonan Jing, Chinmay Talekar, Julia Taylor Rayz 2018 International Conference on Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Interactions

An event detection approach based on Twitter hashtags Shih-Feng Yang, Julia Taylor Rayz 2018 arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.11243

Cognitive Computing: Methodologies for Neural Computing and Semantic Computing in Brain-Inspired Systems Yingxu Wang, Victor Raskin, Julia Rayz, George Baciu, Aladdin Ayesh, Fumio Mizoguchi, Shusaku Tsumoto, Dilip Patel, Newton Howard 2018 International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence (IJSSCI)

Computational humor and Christie Davies’ basis for joke comparison Julia Rayz 2017 The European Journal of Humour Research

Ontological Semantic Theory of Humor in a context of humorous discourse Julia Rayz 2017 Humorous Discourse 11, 205

Extracting aspects of online reviews: What can we make of text similarity? Penghao Wang, Julia Rayz 2017 IEEE 16th International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing (ICCI* CC)

Cognitive imaging: Using knowledge representation for reliable segmentation of MR angiography data Julia Taylor Rayz, Vitaliy L Rayz, Victor Raskin 2017 IEEE 16th International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing (ICCI* CC)

Semantic Knowledge-based Language Education Device for Children with Developmental Disabilities Sangmi Shin, Byung-Cheol Min, Julia Rayz, Eric T Matson 2017 First IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC)

In pursuit of human-friendly interaction with a computational system: Computational humor Julia Rayz 2017 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics (SAMI)

Conceptual defaults in fuzzy ontology Julia M Taylor, Victor Raskin 2016 Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS)

Using frame semantics in authorship attribution Robert Hinh, Sangmi Shin, Julia Taylor 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)

Accessing implicit meaning: Towards computational ability to reconstruct textual omissions Julia M Taylor, Victor Raskin, Louis C Hickman 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)

Logic of natural language: Through the eyes of ontological semantics Julia Taylor Rayz, Victor Raskin 2016 IEEE 15th International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing (ICCI* CC)

Towards Simulation of Semantic Generation and Detection of Humorous Response Julia M Taylor, Vitaliy L Rayz 2016 International Conference on Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Interactions

Direct object omission as a sign of conceptual defaultness Louis Hickman, Julia Taylor, Victor Raskin 2016 The Twenty-Ninth International Flairs Conference

Dissecting the frog: What Can We Learn From Computers (Not) Understanding Humor Julia Taylor Rayz 2016 Dawn or Doom