Litigation Analytics: Extracting and querying motions and orders from US federal courts

no code implementations • NAACL 2019 • Thomas Vacek, Dezhao Song, Hugo Molina-Salgado, Ronald Teo, Conner Cowling, Frank Schilder

In addition to a keyword search for judges, lawyers, law firms, parties and courts, we also implemented a question answering interface that offers targeted questions in order to get to the respective answers quicker.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Question Answering

Litigation Analytics: Case Outcomes Extracted from US Federal Court Dockets

no code implementations • WS 2019 • Thomas Vacek, Ronald Teo, Dezhao Song, Timothy Nugent, Conner Cowling, Frank Schilder

Dockets contain a wealth of information for planning a litigation strategy, but the information is locked up in semi-structured text.

The E2E NLG Challenge: A Tale of Two Systems

no code implementations • WS 2018 • Charese Smiley, Elnaz Davoodi, Dezhao Song, Frank Schilder

This paper presents the two systems we entered into the 2017 E2E NLG Challenge: TemplGen, a templated-based system and SeqGen, a neural network-based system.

Text Generation Vocal Bursts Valence Prediction

When to Plummet and When to Soar: Corpus Based Verb Selection for Natural Language Generation

no code implementations • WS 2016 • Charese Smiley, Vassilis Plachouras, Frank Schilder, Hiroko Bretz, Jochen Leidner, Dezhao Song

Text Generation

Natural Language Question Answering and Analytics for Diverse and Interlinked Datasets

no code implementations • NAACL 2015 • Dezhao Song, Frank Schilder, Charese Smiley, Chris Brew

Question Answering