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Understanding Multimodal Procedural Knowledge by Sequencing Multimodal Instructional Manuals
Te-Lin Wu, Alex Spangher, Pegah Alipoormolabashi +3
The ability to sequence unordered events is an essential skill to comprehend and reason about real world task procedures, which often requires thorough understanding of temporal co…
"Don't quote me on that": Finding Mixtures of Sources in News Articles
Alexander Spangher, Nanyun Peng, Jonathan May +1
Journalists publish statements provided by people, or \textit{sources} to contextualize current events, help voters make informed decisions, and hold powerful individuals accountab…
Modeling "Newsworthiness" for Lead-Generation Across Corpora
Alexander Spangher, Nanyun Peng, Jonathan May +1
Journalists obtain "leads", or story ideas, by reading large corpora of government records: court cases, proposed bills, etc. However, only a small percentage of such records are i…
StateCensusLaws.org: A Web Application for Consuming and Annotating Legal Discourse Learning
Alexander Spangher, Jonathan May
In this work, we create a web application to highlight the output of NLP models trained to parse and label discourse segments in law text. Our system is built primarily with journa…
NewsEdits: A Dataset of Revision Histories for News Articles (Technical Report: Data Processing)
Alexander Spangher, Jonathan May
News article revision histories have the potential to give us novel insights across varied fields of linguistics and social sciences. In this work, we present, to our knowledge, th…
Multitask Learning for Class-Imbalanced Discourse Classification
Alexander Spangher, Jonathan May, Sz-rung Shiang +1
Small class-imbalanced datasets, common in many high-level semantic tasks like discourse analysis, present a particular challenge to current deep-learning architectures. In this wo…