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Classifying Organizations for Food System Ontologies using Natural Language Processing
Tianyu Jiang, Sonia Vinogradova, Nathan Stringham +7
Our research explores the use of natural language processing (NLP) methods to automatically classify entities for the purpose of knowledge graph population and integration with foo…
Creating and Characterizing a Diverse Corpus of Sarcasm in Dialogue
Shereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Lena Reed +3
The use of irony and sarcasm in social media allows us to study them at scale for the first time. However, their diversity has made it difficult to construct a high-quality corpus…
Are you serious?: Rhetorical Questions and Sarcasm in Social Media Dialog
Shereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Amita Misra +2
Effective models of social dialog must understand a broad range of rhetorical and figurative devices. Rhetorical questions (RQs) are a type of figurative language whose aim is to a…
And That's A Fact: Distinguishing Factual and Emotional Argumentation in Online Dialogue
Shereen Oraby, Lena Reed, Ryan Compton +3
We investigate the characteristics of factual and emotional argumentation styles observed in online debates. Using an annotated set of "factual" and "feeling" debate forum posts, w…
Looking Under the Hood : Tools for Diagnosing your Question Answering Engine
Eric Breck, Marc Light, Gideon S. Mann +4
In this paper we analyze two question answering tasks : the TREC-8 question answering task and a set of reading comprehension exams. First, we show that Q/A systems perform better…
A Corpus-Based Approach for Building Semantic Lexicons
Ellen Riloff, Jessica Shepherd
Semantic knowledge can be a great asset to natural language processing systems, but it is usually hand-coded for each application. Although some semantic information is available i…