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Template-based Abstractive Microblog Opinion Summarisation
Iman Munire Bilal, Bo Wang, Adam Tsakalidis +3
We introduce the task of microblog opinion summarisation (MOS) and share a dataset of 3100 gold-standard opinion summaries to facilitate research in this domain. The dataset contai…
Understanding Public Opinion on Using Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 Treatment via Social Media
Thuy T. Do, Du Nguyen, Anh Le +5
Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is used to prevent or treat malaria caused by mosquito bites. Recently, the drug has been suggested to treat COVID-19, but that has not been supported by s…
Semantic Journeys: Quantifying Change in Emoji Meaning from 2012-2018
Alexander Robertson, Farhana Ferdousi Liza, Dong Nguyen +2
The semantics of emoji has, to date, been considered from a static perspective. We offer the first longitudinal study of how emoji semantics changes over time, applying techniques…
HateCheck: Functional Tests for Hate Speech Detection Models
Paul Röttger, Bertram Vidgen, Dong Nguyen +3
Detecting online hate is a difficult task that even state-of-the-art models struggle with. Typically, hate speech detection models are evaluated by measuring their performance on h…
Better Early than Late: Fusing Topics with Word Embeddings for Neural Question Paraphrase Identification
Nicole Peinelt, Dong Nguyen, Maria Liakata
Question paraphrase identification is a key task in Community Question Answering (CQA) to determine if an incoming question has been previously asked. Many current models use word…
Emo, Love, and God: Making Sense of Urban Dictionary, a Crowd-Sourced Online Dictionary
Dong Nguyen, Barbara McGillivray, Taha Yasseri
The Internet facilitates large-scale collaborative projects and the emergence of Web 2.0 platforms, where producers and consumers of content unify, has drastically changed the info…
Resource Selection for Federated Search on the Web
Dong Nguyen, Thomas Demeester, Dolf Trieschnigg +1
A publicly available dataset for federated search reflecting a real web environment has long been absent, making it difficult for researchers to test the validity of their federate…
A Kernel Independence Test for Geographical Language Variation
Dong Nguyen, Jacob Eisenstein
Quantifying the degree of spatial dependence for linguistic variables is a key task for analyzing dialectal variation. However, existing approaches have important drawbacks. First,…
Predicting Relevance based on Assessor Disagreement: Analysis and Practical Applications for Search Evaluation
Thomas Demeester, Robin Aly, Djoerd Hiemstra +2
Evaluation of search engines relies on assessments of search results for selected test queries, from which we would ideally like to draw conclusions in terms of relevance of the re…