Project Grant 2310334

The University of Arizona will receive $310,982 from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to develop resources and algorithms for understanding negation in language from October 1, 2022 to April 30, 2024.

Under the Project Grant award, researchers will create a corpus annotating negations and positive interpretations across domains and genres. They will also develop computational methods to automatically generate positive interpretations from negated text and evaluate these techniques on natural language understanding tasks. The project aims to help machines better comprehend the implied meanings behind sentences containing negation, which could benefit applications such as dialogue systems, machine translation and general text understanding.