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most citedWhen Do Discourse Markers Affect Computational Sentence Understanding?

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cs.CL2023

Generating Explanations in Medical Question-Answering by Expectation Maximization Inference over Evidence

Wei Sun, Mingxiao Li, Damien Sileo +2

Medical Question Answering~(medical QA) systems play an essential role in assisting healthcare workers in finding answers to their questions. However, it is not sufficient to merel…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

When Do Discourse Markers Affect Computational Sentence Understanding?

Ruiqi Li, Liesbeth Allein, Damien Sileo +1

The capabilities and use cases of automatic natural language processing (NLP) have grown significantly over the last few years. While much work has been devoted to understanding ho…

cs.CL2023

Generating multiple-choice questions for medical question answering with distractors and cue-masking

Damien Sileo, Kanimozhi Uma, Marie-Francine Moens

Medical multiple-choice question answering (MCQA) is particularly difficult. Questions may describe patient symptoms and ask for the correct diagnosis, which requires domain knowle…

cs.CL2022

Probing neural language models for understanding of words of estimative probability

Damien Sileo, Marie-Francine Moens

Words of estimative probability (WEP) are expressions of a statement's plausibility (probably, maybe, likely, doubt, likely, unlikely, impossible...). Multiple surveys demonstrate…

cs.CL2021

Analysis and Prediction of NLP Models Via Task Embeddings

Damien Sileo, Marie-Francine Moens

Task embeddings are low-dimensional representations that are trained to capture task properties. In this paper, we propose MetaEval, a collection of NLP tasks. We fit a singl…

cs.CL2021

LIIR at SemEval-2021 task 6: Detection of Persuasion Techniques In Texts and Images using CLIP features

Erfan Ghadery, Damien Sileo, Marie-Francine Moens

We describe our approach for SemEval-2021 task 6 on detection of persuasion techniques in multimodal content (memes). Our system combines pretrained multimodal models (CLIP) and ch…