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A Method for Studying Semantic Construal in Grammatical Constructions with Interpretable Contextual Embedding Spaces
Gabriella Chronis, Kyle Mahowald, Katrin Erk
We study semantic construal in grammatical constructions using large language models. First, we project contextual word embeddings into three interpretable semantic spaces, each de…
POQue: Asking Participant-specific Outcome Questions for a Deeper Understanding of Complex Events
Sai Vallurupalli, Sayontan Ghosh, Katrin Erk +2
Knowledge about outcomes is critical for complex event understanding but is hard to acquire. We show that by pre-identifying a participant in a complex event, crowd workers are abl…
longhorns at DADC 2022: How many linguists does it take to fool a Question Answering model? A systematic approach to adversarial attacks
Venelin Kovatchev, Trina Chatterjee, Venkata S Govindarajan +9
Developing methods to adversarially challenge NLP systems is a promising avenue for improving both model performance and interpretability. Here, we describe the approach of the tea…
Did they answer? Subjective acts and intents in conversational discourse
Elisa Ferracane, Greg Durrett, Junyi Jessy Li +1
Discourse signals are often implicit, leaving it up to the interpreter to draw the required inferences. At the same time, discourse is embedded in a social context, meaning that in…
Help! Need Advice on Identifying Advice
Venkata Subrahmanyan Govindarajan, Benjamin T Chen, Rebecca Warholic +2
Humans use language to accomplish a wide variety of tasks - asking for and giving advice being one of them. In online advice forums, advice is mixed in with non-advice, like emotio…
How to marry a star: probabilistic constraints for meaning in context
Katrin Erk, Aurelie Herbelot
In this paper, we derive a notion of 'word meaning in context' that characterizes meaning as both intensional and conceptual. We introduce a framework for specifying local as well…