4 papers
Detecting Everyday Scenarios in Narrative Texts
Lilian D. A. Wanzare, Michael Roth, Manfred Pinkal
Script knowledge consists of detailed information on everyday activities. Such information is often taken for granted in text and needs to be inferred by readers. Therefore, script…
Role Semantics for Better Models of Implicit Discourse Relations
Michael Roth
Predicting the structure of a discourse is challenging because relations between discourse segments are often implicit and thus hard to distinguish computationally. I extend previo…
Visually grounded cross-lingual keyword spotting in speech
Herman Kamper, Michael Roth
Recent work considered how images paired with speech can be used as supervision for building speech systems when transcriptions are not available. We ask whether visual grounding c…
MCScript: A Novel Dataset for Assessing Machine Comprehension Using Script Knowledge
Simon Ostermann, Ashutosh Modi, Michael Roth +2
We introduce a large dataset of narrative texts and questions about these texts, intended to be used in a machine comprehension task that requires reasoning using commonsense knowl…