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most citedA Cross-Genre Ensemble Approach to Robust Reddit Part of Speech Tagging

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cs.CL2024

GDTB: Genre Diverse Data for English Shallow Discourse Parsing across Modalities, Text Types, and Domains

Yang Janet Liu, Tatsuya Aoyama, Wesley Scivetti +6

Work on shallow discourse parsing in English has focused on the Wall Street Journal corpus, the only large-scale dataset for the language in the PDTB framework. However, the data i…

cs.CL2024

Data Checklist: On Unit-Testing Datasets with Usable Information

Heidi C. Zhang, Shabnam Behzad, Kawin Ethayarajh +1

Model checklists (Ribeiro et al., 2020) have emerged as a useful tool for understanding the behavior of LLMs, analogous to unit-testing in software engineering. However, despite da…

cs.CL2024

MultiMUC: Multilingual Template Filling on MUC-4

William Gantt, Shabnam Behzad, Hannah YoungEun An +4

We introduce MultiMUC, the first multilingual parallel corpus for template filling, comprising translations of the classic MUC-4 template filling benchmark into five languages: Ara…

cs.CL2023

GENTLE: A Genre-Diverse Multilayer Challenge Set for English NLP and Linguistic Evaluation

Tatsuya Aoyama, Shabnam Behzad, Luke Gessler +6

We present GENTLE, a new mixed-genre English challenge corpus totaling 17K tokens and consisting of 8 unusual text types for out-of domain evaluation: dictionary entries, esports c…

cs.CL2022

Sentence-level Feedback Generation for English Language Learners: Does Data Augmentation Help?

Shabnam Behzad, Amir Zeldes, Nathan Schneider

In this paper, we present strong baselines for the task of Feedback Comment Generation for Writing Learning. Given a sentence and an error span, the task is to generate a feedback…

cs.CL2022

ELQA: A Corpus of Metalinguistic Questions and Answers about English

Shabnam Behzad, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Nathan Schneider +1

We present ELQA, a corpus of questions and answers in and about the English language. Collected from two online forums, the >70k questions (from English learners and others) cover…

cs.CL2021

DisCoDisCo at the DISRPT2021 Shared Task: A System for Discourse Segmentation, Classification, and Connective Detection

Luke Gessler, Shabnam Behzad, Yang Janet Liu +3

This paper describes our submission to the DISRPT2021 Shared Task on Discourse Unit Segmentation, Connective Detection, and Relation Classification. Our system, called DisCoDisCo,…

cs.CL2020

Team DoNotDistribute at SemEval-2020 Task 11: Features, Finetuning, and Data Augmentation in Neural Models for Propaganda Detection in News Articles

Michael Kranzlein, Shabnam Behzad, Nazli Goharian

This paper presents our systems for SemEval 2020 Shared Task 11: Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles. We participate in both the span identification and technique c…

cs.CL2020★ 5 cited

AMALGUM -- A Free, Balanced, Multilayer English Web Corpus

Luke Gessler, Siyao Peng, Yang Liu +3

We present a freely available, genre-balanced English web corpus totaling 4M tokens and featuring a large number of high-quality automatic annotation layers, including dependency t…

cs.CL2020★ 9 cited

A Cross-Genre Ensemble Approach to Robust Reddit Part of Speech Tagging

Shabnam Behzad, Amir Zeldes

Part of speech tagging is a fundamental NLP task often regarded as solved for high-resource languages such as English. Current state-of-the-art models have achieved high accuracy,…

cs.SI2018

Locating the Source in Real-world Diffusion Network

Shabnam Behzad, Arman Sepehr, Hamid Beigy +1

The problem of identifying the source of a propagation based on limited observations has been studied significantly in recent years, as it can help reducing the damage caused by un…