Automatic Methods

Previous work has shown that automatic methods can be used in building semantic lexicons. This work goes a step further by automatically creating not just clusters of related words, but …...

The article presents two automatic methods that reduce the complexity of the ambiguous space in- troduced by the omission of the part of speech tagger from the architecture of a …...

AbstractThe New Yorker publishes a weekly captionless cartoon. More than 5,000 readers submit captions for it. The editors select three of them and ask the readers to pick the funniest …...

AbstractSlot-filling models in task-driven dialog systems rely on carefully annotated training data. However, annotations by crowd workers are often inconsistent or contain errors. Simple solutions like manually checking annotations or …...

AbstractOn social media platforms, hateful and offensive language negatively impact the mental well-being of users and the participation of people from diverse backgrounds. Automatic methods to detect offensive language have …...