Article

Weir, David, Reffin, Jeremy, Weeds, Julie and Kober, Thomas (2016) Aligning packed dependency trees: a theory of composition for distributional semantics. Computational Linguistics, 42 (4). pp. 727-761. ISSN 0891-2017

McCarthy, Diana, Koeling, Rob, Weeds, Julie and Carroll, John (2007) Unsupervised acquisition of predominant word senses. Computational Linguistics, 33 (4). pp. 553-590.

Weeds, Julie and Weir, David (2005) Co-occurrence retrieval: a general framework for lexical distributional similarity. Computational Linguistics, 31 (4). pp. 439-475. ISSN 0891-2017

Weeds, Julie, Dowdall, James, Schneider, Gerold, Keller, Bill and Weir, David (2005) Using distributional similarity to organise biomedical terminology. Terminology, 11 (1). pp. 107-141. ISSN 0929-9971

Book Section

Kober, Thomas, Weeds, Julie, Reffin, Jeremy and Weir, David (2016) Improving sparse word representations with distributional inference for semantic composition. In: Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1691-1702. ISBN 9781945626258

Weeds, Julie, Weir, David and Keller, Bill (2005) The distributional similarity of sub-parses. In: Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Empirical Modeling of Semantic Equivalence and Entailment. Proceedings of the Conference. . Association for Computational Linguistics, Menlo Park, CA. USA, pp. 7-12. ISBN 0736-587X

Keller, Bill, Owen, Tim, Wakeman, Ian, Weeds, Julie and Weir, David (2005) Middleware for user controlled environments. In: Third IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM '05). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 183-188. ISBN 0769523005

Conference or Workshop Item

Weeds, Julie, Weir, David and Keller, Bill (2005) The distributional similarity of sub-parses. In: ACL Workshop on Empirical Modelling of Semantic Equivalence and Entailment, June, 2005., Ann Arbor.

Rimmer, Jon, Owen, Tim, Wakeman, Ian, Keller, Bill, Weeds, Julie and Weir, David (2005) User Policies in Pervasive Computing Environments. In: User Experience Design for Pervasive Computing, Pervasive 2005 Workshop, Munich, Germany.

McCarthy, Diana, Koeling, Rob, Weeds, Julie and Carroll, John (2004) Automatic identification of infrequent word senses. In: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Geneva, Switzerland.

Weeds, Julie, Weir, David and McCarthy, Diana (2004) Characterising Measures of Lexical Similarity. In: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Geneva, Switzerland.

McCarthy, Diana, Koeling, Rob, Weeds, Julie and Carroll, John (2004) Using automatically acquired predominant senses for word sense disambiguation. In: 3rd International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text (SENSEVAL), Barcelona, Spain.

McCarthy, Diana Frances, Koeling, Rob, Weeds, Julie and Carroll, John (2004) Finding predominant word senses in untagged text. In: 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, Spain.

Conference Proceedings

Bertolini, Lorenzo, Weeds, Julie and Weir, David (2023) Towards unsupervised compositional entailment with multi-graph embedding models. 15th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS), Nancy, France, 20th to 23rd June 2023. Published in: 15th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS) Proceedings. Association for Computational Linguistics (Accepted)

Weeds, Julie and Rummer-Downing, Theo (2022) Leveraging out-of-the-box retrieval models to improve mental health support. 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, Lisbon, Portugal, 16th-18th February 2023. Published in: 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies. SCITEPRESS Digital Library (Accepted)

Li, Wing Yan, Weeds, Julie and Weir, David (2022) MuSeCLIR: a multiple senses and cross-lingual information retrieval dataset. 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Korea, October 12-17, 2022. Published in: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 1128-1135. International Committee on Computational Linguistics

Bertolini, Lorenzo, Weeds, Julie and Weir, David (2022) Testing large language models on compositionality and inference with phrase-level adjective-noun entailment. The 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, October 12-17, 2022. Published in: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 4084-4100. International Committee on Computational Linguistics, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea.

Peng, Qiwei, Weir, David and Weeds, Julie (2022) Towards structure-aware paraphrase identification with phrase alignment using sentence encoders. 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Korea, October 12-17, 2022. Published in: 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 4113-4123. International Committee on Computational Linguistics

Peng, Qiwei, Weir, David, Weeds, Julie and Chai, Yekun (2022) Predicate-argument based Bi-encoder for paraphrase identification. 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Dublin, Ireland, 22nd - 27th May 2022. Published in: Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 1 5579-5589. Association for Computational Linguistics

Peng, Qiwei, Weir, David and Weeds, Julie (2021) Structure-aware sentence encoder in Bert-based siamese network. Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP-2021), Online, August 6, 2021. Published in: Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP. 57-63. Association for Computational Linguistics, Bangkok, Thailand. ISBN 9781954085725

Bertolini, Lorenzo, Weeds, Julie, Weir, David and Peng, Qiwei (2021) Representing syntax and composition with geometric transformations. The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021), Bangkok, Thailand, August 1-6, 2021. Published in: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2021. 3343-3353. Association for Computational Linguistics

Kober, Thomas, Weeds, Julie, Bertolini, Lorenzo and David, Weir (2021) Data augmentation for hypernymy detection. 16th conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), Kyiv / online, 19 - 23 April, 2021. Published in: Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume. 1034-1048. Association for Computational Linguistics

Younes, Ahmed and Weeds, Julie (2020) Embed More Ignore Less (EMIL): enriched representations for Arabic NLP. The Fifth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP 2020), Online, 12th December 2020. Published in: Proceedings of the Fifth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop. 139-154. Association for Computational Linguistics

Schmidt, Lena, Weeds, Julie and Higgins, Julian P T (2020) Data mining in clinical trial text: transformers for classification and question answering tasks. Health Informatics, Valletta, Malta, 24th-26th February 2020. Published in: Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies. 5 83-94. Science and Technology Publications ISSN 2184-4305 ISBN 9789897583988

Wang, Dong, Weeds, Julie and Comley, Ian (2020) Improving mental health using machine learning to assist humans in the moderation of forum posts. Health Informatics, Valletta, Malta, 24-26th February 2020. Published in: Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies. 5 187-197. Science and Technology Publications ISSN 2184-4305 ISBN 9789897583988

Kober, Thomas, Weeds, Julie, Wilkie, John, Reffin, Jeremy and Weir, David (2017) One representation per word - does it make sense for composition? Published in: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Sense, Concept and Entity Representations and their Applications [Valencia, Spain, 3rd-7th April 2017]. 79-90. Association for Computational Linguistics

Weeds, Julie, Kober, Thomas, Reffin, Jeremy and Weir, David (2017) When a red herring is not a red herring: using compositional methods to detect non-compositional phrases. Published in: Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics [Valencia, Spain, April 3-7, 2017]: Volume 2, Short Papers. 529-534. ISBN 9781945626357

Batchkarov, Miroslav, Kober, Thomas, Reffin, Jeremy, Weeds, Julie and Weir, David (2016) A critique of word similarity as a method for evaluating distributional semantic models. The 1st Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP, Berlin, 12th August 2016. Published in: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Evaluating Vector-Space Representations for NLP. 7-12. Association for Computational Linguistics, Berlin, Germany.

Weeds, Julie, Clarke, Daoud, Reffin, Jeremy, Weir, David and Keller, Bill (2014) Learning to distinguish hypernyms and co-hyponyms. COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Dublin, Ireland, August 23-29 2014. Published in: Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers. 0 2249-2259. Dublin City University and Association for Computational Linguistics, Dublin, Ireland.

Weeds, Julie, Weir, David and Reffin, Jeremy (2014) Distributional composition using higher-order dependency vectors. 2nd Workshop on Continuous Space Vector Models and their Composition (EACL 2014 Workshop), Gothenberg, Sweden, April 26-30, 2014. Published in: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality (CVSC). 11-20. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)