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2 citations · 7 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.CL2026

For What Reason? Interpreting Models' Encoding of Causation and Antithesis

Abhidip Bhattacharyya, Shira Wein

Discourse relations provide document structure, critical to language understanding and enabling language model performance and ethicality. In this work, we investigate how instruct…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

SETUP: Sentence-level English-To-Uniform Meaning Representation Parser

Emma Markle, Javier Gutierrez Bach, Shira Wein

Uniform Meaning Representation (UMR) is a novel graph-based semantic representation which captures the core meaning of a text, with flexibility incorporated into the annotation sch…

cs.CL2025

When Does Meaning Backfire? Investigating the Role of AMRs in NLI

Junghyun Min, Xiulin Yang, Shira Wein

Natural Language Inference (NLI) relies heavily on adequately parsing the semantic content of the premise and hypothesis. In this work, we investigate whether adding semantic infor…

cs.CL2025

Generating Text from Uniform Meaning Representation

Emma Markle, Reihaneh Iranmanesh, Shira Wein

Uniform Meaning Representation (UMR) is a recently developed graph-based semantic representation, which expands on Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) in a number of ways, in par…

cs.CL2025

Can Uniform Meaning Representation Help GPT-4 Translate from Indigenous Languages?

Shira Wein

While ChatGPT and GPT-based models are able to effectively perform many tasks without additional fine-tuning, they struggle with tasks related to extremely low-resource languages a…

cs.CL2024

MASSIVE Multilingual Abstract Meaning Representation: A Dataset and Baselines for Hallucination Detection

Michael Regan, Shira Wein, George Baker +1

Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) is a semantic formalism that captures the core meaning of an utterance. There has been substantial work developing AMR corpora in English and…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Natural Language Processing RELIES on Linguistics

Juri Opitz, Shira Wein, Nathan Schneider

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become capable of generating highly fluent text in certain languages, without modules specially designed to capture grammar or semantic coherence.…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

AMR4NLI: Interpretable and robust NLI measures from semantic graphs

Juri Opitz, Shira Wein, Julius Steen +2

The task of natural language inference (NLI) asks whether a given premise (expressed in NL) entails a given NL hypothesis. NLI benchmarks contain human ratings of entailment, but t…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Lost in Translationese? Reducing Translation Effect Using Abstract Meaning Representation

Shira Wein, Nathan Schneider

Translated texts bear several hallmarks distinct from texts originating in the language. Though individual translated texts are often fluent and preserve meaning, at a large scale,…

cs.CL2022

Measuring Fine-Grained Semantic Equivalence with Abstract Meaning Representation

Shira Wein, Zhuxin Wang, Nathan Schneider

Identifying semantically equivalent sentences is important for many cross-lingual and mono-lingual NLP tasks. Current approaches to semantic equivalence take a loose, sentence-leve…

cs.CL2022

Spanish Abstract Meaning Representation: Annotation of a General Corpus

Shira Wein, Lucia Donatelli, Ethan Ricker +3

The Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) formalism, designed originally for English, has been adapted to a number of languages. We build on previous work proposing the annotation…

cs.CL2021

PASTRIE: A Corpus of Prepositions Annotated with Supersense Tags in Reddit International English

Michael Kranzlein, Emma Manning, Siyao Peng +4

We present the Prepositions Annotated with Supersense Tags in Reddit International English ("PASTRIE") corpus, a new dataset containing manually annotated preposition supersenses o…

cs.CL2021

Supersense and Sensibility: Proxy Tasks for Semantic Annotation of Prepositions

Luke Gessler, Shira Wein, Nathan Schneider

Prepositional supersense annotation is time-consuming and requires expert training. Here, we present two sensible methods for obtaining prepositional supersense annotations by elic…

cs.CL2020

A Human Evaluation of AMR-to-English Generation Systems

Emma Manning, Shira Wein, Nathan Schneider

Most current state-of-the art systems for generating English text from Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) have been evaluated only using automated metrics, such as BLEU, which a…