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Proceedings Article

2019

Narrative Analytics

Automated Narrative Extraction from Administrative Records

Karine Megerdoomian, Karl Branting, Charles E. Horowitz, Amy B. Marsh, Nick Modly, Stacy J. Petersen, Eric O. Scott and Sujit B. Wariyar

Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and the Administrative State (AIAS 2019)

Describes a prototype that extracts structured information and timelines from probation documents using PDF extraction, text mining, and language analytics. Focuses on mental health, substance use, and treatment histories to make narrative records more accessible for analysis.

Book Chapter

2019

Persian NLP

Computational Linguistics

Karine Megerdoomian

The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics. Anousha Sedighi and Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi (eds.). Routledge.

Introduces computational linguistics and NLP, examining their relationship to formal linguistic theory. Reviews Persian language technologies and challenges involving the writing system, word boundaries, compounds, and light verb constructions, and identifies directions for further development.

Presentation

2019

Fractal Linguistics
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Recursion and Scaling in Complex Predicates: Light Verbs as Underspecified Regular Verbs

Karine Megerdoomian

Workshop on Complex Predicates in Iranian languages, in conjunction with the Second North American Conference in Iranian Linguistics (NACIL2)

Proposes that Persian light verbs are underspecified regular verbs and that complex predicates reproduce verb phrase structure at a smaller scale. Differences in interpretation emerge from the verb's degree of underspecification and its combination with the nonverbal element.

Journal Article

2017

Armenian linguistics

On the Positional Distribution of an Armenian Auxiliary: Second Position Clisis, Focus and Phases

Arsalan Kahnemuyipour and Karine Megerdoomian

Syntax, Vol. 20, Issue 1, pp 77-97

Analyzes the Eastern Armenian auxiliary's placement in neutral and focused sentences. Proposes second-position clisis within the verb phrase and a phase-based account of its distribution, drawing on parallels between verbal and clausal structure.

Presentation

2016

Scientometrics
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Coauthorship Networks in Linguistics

Karine Megerdoomian

Presentation for course in Network Analysis, Computational Social Science department, George Mason University

Compares collaboration patterns in theoretical linguistics and NLP using publication data, coauthorship networks, and topic analysis. The study finds a more interconnected NLP network, while the linguistics network contains many isolated authors and smaller collaboration groups, with differences across research areas and institutions.

Proceedings Article

2016

General AI

Event Classification in Foreign Language Aviation Reports

Anil Yelundur, Chris Giannella, Karine Megerdoomian and Craig Pfeifer

International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining (IJKEDM), Vol. 4, No. 1, pp 54-73

Develops and evaluates automatic event classification for Japanese and French aviation incident reports. Uses annotated corpora to compare a Bayesian logistic regression approach with a new feature selection method against an existing classification approach.

Proceedings Article

2015

Health & AI

Modeling Community Resilience for a Post-Epidemic Society

Michel Shaun and Karine Megerdoomian

Proceedings of the Computational Social Science Society of the Americas Conference. Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Presents an agent-based model for studying community resilience during an epidemic. Integrates social networks, movement, and perceived contact risk to explore relationships among community responses, fatalities, and the disruption of social ties.

Journal Article

2015

Social media analytics

Human Language Reveals a Universal Positivity Bias

Peter Sheridan Dodds, Eric M. Clark, Suma Desuc, Morgan R. Frank, Andrew J. Reagan, Jake Ryland Williams, Lewis Mitchell, Kameron Decker Harris, Isabel M. Kloumann, James P. Bagrow, Karine Megerdoomian, Matthew T. McMahon, Brian F. Tivnan, and Christopher M. Danforth

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) , Vol. 112, No. 8, pp 2389–2394

Examines emotional ratings of words across 24 corpora in ten languages, finding a consistent positivity bias in the sampled vocabulary. The study also develops methods for measuring the emotional content of large text collections.

Technical Report

2014

Surveys & evaluations
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Language ID for Short Texts: Evaluation Report

Megerdoomian, Karine, Mohammad Shahab Khan, John Henderson, Dan Loehr, Keith Miller, and Ali Obaidi

MITRE. McLean, Virginia

Describes an evaluation of eleven language identification tools on short texts across thirty language and script combinations. Assesses language coverage, accuracy, precision and recall, speed, scalability, and robustness.

Unpublished Manuscript

2014

Persian NLP
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Multilayer Explorations of Zipf's Law in Linguistic Structure

Karine Megerdoomian

Paper for course in Power Law, Computational Social Science department, George Mason University,

Tests Zipf’s Law across Persian corpora at different levels of linguistic analysis, including word forms, compounds, morphology, and word senses. Finds Zipfian patterns across several word-level representations, but not in the frequency distribution of syntactic categories alone.

Technical Report

2014

Scientometrics
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State of the Research in Human Language Technology: A Study of ACL and NAACL Publications from 2007 through 2014

Karine Megerdoomian

MITRE. McLean, Virginia

Maps research trends and collaboration networks in ACL and NAACL publications from 2007-2014. Topic and co-authorship analyses examine the prominence of statistical machine translation, emerging semantic approaches, and the concentration and interconnectedness of research activity.

Technical Report

2014

Surveys & evaluations
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Text Normalization

Karine Megerdoomian

MITRE. McLean, Virginia

Examines how spelling, capitalization, diacritics, and character encoding affect text matching across languages. Illustrates the benefits and limitations of normalization through its application to Arabic sentiment analysis in the Hedonometer project.

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