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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…
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…
Narrative Interpolation for Generating and Understanding Stories
Su Wang, Greg Durrett, Katrin Erk
We propose a method for controlled narrative/story generation where we are able to guide the model to produce coherent narratives with user-specified target endings by interpolatio…
Attending to Entities for Better Text Understanding
Pengxiang Cheng, Katrin Erk
Recent progress in NLP witnessed the development of large-scale pre-trained language models (GPT, BERT, XLNet, etc.) based on Transformer (Vaswani et al. 2017), and in a range of e…
Query-Focused Scenario Construction
Su Wang, Greg Durrett, Katrin Erk
The news coverage of events often contains not one but multiple incompatible accounts of what happened. We develop a query-based system that extracts compatible sets of events (sce…
Evaluating Discourse in Structured Text Representations
Elisa Ferracane, Greg Durrett, Junyi Jessy Li +1
Discourse structure is integral to understanding a text and is helpful in many NLP tasks. Learning latent representations of discourse is an attractive alternative to acquiring exp…