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GisPy: A Tool for Measuring Gist Inference Score in Text
Pedram Hosseini, Christopher R. Wolfe, Mona Diab +1
Decision making theories such as Fuzzy-Trace Theory (FTT) suggest that individuals tend to rely on gist, or bottom-line meaning, in the text when making decisions. In this work, we…
Predicting Directionality in Causal Relations in Text
Pedram Hosseini, David A. Broniatowski, Mona Diab
In this work, we test the performance of two bidirectional transformer-based language models, BERT and SpanBERT, on predicting directionality in causal pairs in the textual content…
ParsiNLU: A Suite of Language Understanding Challenges for Persian
Daniel Khashabi, Arman Cohan, Siamak Shakeri +22
Despite the progress made in recent years in addressing natural language understanding (NLU) challenges, the majority of this progress remains to be concentrated on resource-rich l…
A Multi-Modal Method for Satire Detection using Textual and Visual Cues
Lily Li, Or Levi, Pedram Hosseini +1
Satire is a form of humorous critique, but it is sometimes misinterpreted by readers as legitimate news, which can lead to harmful consequences. We observe that the images used in…
Content analysis of Persian/Farsi Tweets during COVID-19 pandemic in Iran using NLP
Pedram Hosseini, Poorya Hosseini, David A. Broniatowski
Iran, along with China, South Korea, and Italy was among the countries that were hit hard in the first wave of the COVID-19 spread. Twitter is one of the widely-used online platfor…
Automatically Identifying Political Ads on Facebook: Towards Understanding of Manipulation via User Targeting
Or Levi, Sardar Hamidian, Pedram Hosseini
The reports of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections brought into the center of public attention concerns related to the ability of foreign actors to increase so…