4 papers
Multilingual BERT Post-Pretraining Alignment
Lin Pan, Chung-Wei Hang, Haode Qi +3
We propose a simple method to align multilingual contextual embeddings as a post-pretraining step for improved zero-shot cross-lingual transferability of the pretrained models. Usi…
Octa: Omissions and Conflicts in Target-Aspect Sentiment Analysis
Zhe Zhang, Chung-Wei Hang, Munindar P. Singh
Sentiments in opinionated text are often determined by both aspects and target words (or targets). We observe that targets and aspects interrelate in subtle ways, often yielding co…
The Causal Link between News Framing and Legislation
Karthik Sheshadri, Chung-Wei Hang, Munindar Singh
We demonstrate that framing, a subjective aspect of news, is a causal precursor to both significant public perception changes, and to federal legislation. We posit, counter-intuiti…
Framing Matters: Predicting Framing Changes and Legislation from Topic News Patterns
Karthik Sheshadri, Chung-Wei Hang, Munindar Singh
News has traditionally been well researched, with studies ranging from sentiment analysis to event detection and topic tracking. We extend the focus to two surprisingly under-resea…