Mel Mistica

Information Extraction from Legal Documents: A Study in the Context of Common Law Court Judgements

Meladel Mistica, Geordie Zhang, Hui Chia, Kabir Manandhar Shrestha, Rohit Gupta, Saket Khandelwal, Jeannie Paterson, Tim Baldwin, Daniel Beck

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Proceedings of the The 18th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association

‘Common Law’ judicial systems follow the doctrine of precedent, which means the legal principles articulated in court judgements a..

Semi-automatic Triage of Requests for Free Legal Assistance

Meladel Mistica, Jey Han Lau, Brayden Merrifield, Kate Fazio, Timothy Baldwin

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2021

Free legal assistance is critically underresourced, and many of those who seek legal help have their needs unmet. A major bottlene..

Automatic Resolution of Domain Name Disputes

Wayan Oger Vihikan, Meladel MISTICA, Inbar Levy, Andrew Christie, Timothy Baldwin, Meladel Mistica

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2021

We introduce the new task of domain name dispute resolution (DNDR), that predicts the outcome of a process for resolving disputes ..

Evaluating Document Coherence Modeling

Aili Shen, Meladel Mistica, Bahar Salehi, Hang Li, Timothy Baldwin, Jianzhong Qi

Journal article  |  2021  |  TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

While pretrained language models (LMs) have driven impressive gains over morphosyntactic and semantic tasks, their ability to mode..

ParGramBank: The ParGram parallel treebank

S Sulger, M Butt, TH King, P Meurer, T Laczkó, G Rákosi, CB Dione, H Dyvik, V Rosén, K De Smedt, A Patejuk, O Çetinoǧlu, IW Arka, M Mistica

Conference Proceedings  |  2013  |  ACL 2013 - 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Unsupervised Word Class Induction for Under-resourced Languages: A Case Study on Indonesian

M Mistica, JH Lau, T Baldwin

Conference Proceedings  |  2013  |  6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2013 - Proceedings of the Main Conference

In this study we investigate how we can learn both: (a) syntactic classes that capture the range of predicate argument structures ..

Word classes in Indonesian: A linguistic reality or a convenient fallacy in natural language processing?

M Mistica, T Baldwin, IW Arka

Conference Proceedings  |  2011  |  PACLIC 25 - Proceedings of the 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation

This paper looks at Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia), and the claim that there is no noun-verb distinction within the language as it ..

Double double, morphology and trouble: Looking into reduplication in Indonesian

M Mistica, A Andrews, IW Arka, T Baldwin

Conference Proceedings  |  2009  |  Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop, ALTA 2009 - Proceedings

This paper investigates reduplication in Indonesian. In particular, we focus on verb reduplication that has the agentive voice aff..

Recognising the predicate–argument structure of Tagalog

M Mistica, T Baldwin

Conference Proceedings  |  2009  |  NAACL-HLT 2009 - Human Language Technologies: 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Short Papers

This paper describes research on parsing Tagalog text for predicate–argument structure (PAS). We first outline the linguistic phen..

Applying discourse analysis and data mining methods to spoken OSCE assessments

M Mistica, T Baldwin, M Cordella, S Musgrave

Conference Proceedings  |  2008  |  Coling 2008 - 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

This paper looks at the transcribed data of patient-doctor consultations in an examination setting. The doctors are internationall..