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Does referent predictability affect the choice of referential form? A computational approach using masked coreference resolution
Laura Aina, Xixian Liao, Gemma Boleda +1
It is often posited that more predictable parts of a speaker's meaning tend to be made less explicit, for instance using shorter, less informative words. Studying these dynamics in…
Don't Blame Distributional Semantics if it can't do Entailment
Matthijs Westera, Gemma Boleda
Distributional semantics has had enormous empirical success in Computational Linguistics and Cognitive Science in modeling various semantic phenomena, such as semantic similarity,…
What do Entity-Centric Models Learn? Insights from Entity Linking in Multi-Party Dialogue
Laura Aina, Carina Silberer, Matthijs Westera +2
Humans use language to refer to entities in the external world. Motivated by this, in recent years several models that incorporate a bias towards learning entity representations ha…
AMORE-UPF at SemEval-2018 Task 4: BiLSTM with Entity Library
Laura Aina, Carina Silberer, Ionut-Teodor Sorodoc +2
This paper describes our winning contribution to SemEval 2018 Task 4: Character Identification on Multiparty Dialogues. It is a simple, standard model with one key innovation, an e…