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Exploring Conditional Text Generation for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
Siva Uday Sampreeth Chebolu, Franck Dernoncourt, Nedim Lipka +1
Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) is an NLP task that entails processing user-generated reviews to determine (i) the target being evaluated, (ii) the aspect category to which…
From None to Severe: Predicting Severity in Movie Scripts
Yigeng Zhang, Mahsa Shafaei, Fabio Gonzalez +1
In this paper, we introduce the task of predicting severity of age-restricted aspects of movie content based solely on the dialogue script. We first investigate categorizing the or…
Data Augmentation for Cross-Domain Named Entity Recognition
Shuguang Chen, Gustavo Aguilar, Leonardo Neves +1
Current work in named entity recognition (NER) shows that data augmentation techniques can produce more robust models. However, most existing techniques focus on augmenting in-doma…
Mitigating Temporal-Drift: A Simple Approach to Keep NER Models Crisp
Shuguang Chen, Leonardo Neves, Thamar Solorio
Performance of neural models for named entity recognition degrades over time, becoming stale. This degradation is due to temporal drift, the change in our target variables' statist…
White Paper -- Objectionable Online Content: What is harmful, to whom, and why
Thamar Solorio, Mahsa Shafaei, Christos Smailis +5
This White Paper summarizes the authors' discussion regarding objectionable content for the University of Houston (UH) Research Team to outline a strategy for building an extensive…
A Case Study of Deep Learning Based Multi-Modal Methods for Predicting the Age-Suitability Rating of Movie Trailers
Mahsa Shafaei, Christos Smailis, Ioannis A. Kakadiaris +1
In this work, we explore different approaches to combine modalities for the problem of automated age-suitability rating of movie trailers. First, we introduce a new dataset contain…
Learning to Emphasize: Dataset and Shared Task Models for Selecting Emphasis in Presentation Slides
Amirreza Shirani, Giai Tran, Hieu Trinh +5
Presentation slides have become a common addition to the teaching material. Emphasizing strong leading words in presentation slides can allow the audience to direct the eye to cert…