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Sentence-Level BERT and Multi-Task Learning of Age and Gender in Social Media
Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Chiyu Zhang, Arun Rajendran +3
Social media currently provide a window on our lives, making it possible to learn how people from different places, with different backgrounds, ages, and genders use language. In t…
DiaNet: BERT and Hierarchical Attention Multi-Task Learning of Fine-Grained Dialect
Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Chiyu Zhang, AbdelRahim Elmadany +2
Prediction of language varieties and dialects is an important language processing task, with a wide range of applications. For Arabic, the native tongue of ~ 300 million people, mo…
UBC-NLP at SemEval-2019 Task 6:Ensemble Learning of Offensive Content With Enhanced Training Data
Arun Rajendran, Chiyu Zhang, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
We examine learning offensive content on Twitter with limited, imbalanced data. For the purpose, we investigate the utility of using various data enhancement methods with a host of…
Happy Together: Learning and Understanding Appraisal From Natural Language
Arun Rajendran, Chiyu Zhang, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
In this paper, we explore various approaches for learning two types of appraisal components from happy language. We focus on 'agency' of the author and the 'sociality' involved in…