4 papers
Analyzing Temporal Relationships between Trending Terms on Twitter and Urban Dictionary Activity
Steven R. Wilson, Walid Magdy, Barbara McGillivray +1
As an online, crowd-sourced, open English-language slang dictionary, the Urban Dictionary platform contains a wealth of opinions, jokes, and definitions of terms, phrases, acronyms…
Predicting Human Activities from User-Generated Content
Steven R. Wilson, Rada Mihalcea
The activities we do are linked to our interests, personality, political preferences, and decisions we make about the future. In this paper, we explore the task of predicting human…
Multi-Label Transfer Learning for Multi-Relational Semantic Similarity
Li Zhang, Steven R. Wilson, Rada Mihalcea
Multi-relational semantic similarity datasets define the semantic relations between two short texts in multiple ways, e.g., similarity, relatedness, and so on. Yet, all the systems…
Direct Network Transfer: Transfer Learning of Sentence Embeddings for Semantic Similarity
Li Zhang, Steven R. Wilson, Rada Mihalcea
Sentence encoders, which produce sentence embeddings using neural networks, are typically evaluated by how well they transfer to downstream tasks. This includes semantic similarity…