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Incorporating Annotator Uncertainty into Representations of Discourse Relations
S. Magalí López Cortez, Cassandra L. Jacobs
Annotation of discourse relations is a known difficult task, especially for non-expert annotators. In this paper, we investigate novice annotators' uncertainty on the annotation of…
The distribution of discourse relations within and across turns in spontaneous conversation
S. Magalí López Cortez, Cassandra L. Jacobs
Time pressure and topic negotiation may impose constraints on how people leverage discourse relations (DRs) in spontaneous conversational contexts. In this work, we adapt a system…
Lost in Space Marking
Cassandra L. Jacobs, Yuval Pinter
We look at a decision taken early in training a subword tokenizer, namely whether it should be the word-initial token that carries a special mark, or the word-final one. Based on s…
Will it Unblend?
Yuval Pinter, Cassandra L. Jacobs, Jacob Eisenstein
Natural language processing systems often struggle with out-of-vocabulary (OOV) terms, which do not appear in training data. Blends, such as "innoventor", are one particularly chal…
NYTWIT: A Dataset of Novel Words in the New York Times
Yuval Pinter, Cassandra L. Jacobs, Max Bittker
We present the New York Times Word Innovation Types dataset, or NYTWIT, a collection of over 2,500 novel English words published in the New York Times between November 2017 and Mar…