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LEATHER: A Framework for Learning to Generate Human-like Text in Dialogue
Anthony Sicilia, Malihe Alikhani
Algorithms for text-generation in dialogue can be misguided. For example, in task-oriented settings, reinforcement learning that optimizes only task-success can lead to abysmal lex…
APPDIA: A Discourse-aware Transformer-based Style Transfer Model for Offensive Social Media Conversations
Katherine Atwell, Sabit Hassan, Malihe Alikhani
Using style-transfer models to reduce offensiveness of social media comments can help foster a more inclusive environment. However, there are no sizable datasets that contain offen…
PINEAPPLE: Personifying INanimate Entities by Acquiring Parallel Personification data for Learning Enhanced generation
Sedrick Scott Keh, Kevin Lu, Varun Gangal +4
A personification is a figure of speech that endows inanimate entities with properties and actions typically seen as requiring animacy. In this paper, we explore the task of person…
The Change that Matters in Discourse Parsing: Estimating the Impact of Domain Shift on Parser Error
Katherine Atwell, Anthony Sicilia, Seong Jae Hwang +1
Discourse analysis allows us to attain inferences of a text document that extend beyond the sentence-level. The current performance of discourse models is very low on texts outside…
Examining Covert Gender Bias: A Case Study in Turkish and English Machine Translation Models
Chloe Ciora, Nur Iren, Malihe Alikhani
As Machine Translation (MT) has become increasingly more powerful, accessible, and widespread, the potential for the perpetuation of bias has grown alongside its advances. While ov…
Including Signed Languages in Natural Language Processing
Kayo Yin, Amit Moryossef, Julie Hochgesang +2
Signed languages are the primary means of communication for many deaf and hard of hearing individuals. Since signed languages exhibit all the fundamental linguistic properties of n…