10 papers
LLMBridge: An LLM Pipeline for End-to-end Referential Bridging Resolution in English
Lauren Levine, Amir Zeldes
In this paper, we introduce LLMBridge, a new LLM based system for the task of end-to-end referential bridging resolution in English. Our bridging resolution pipeline combines heuri…
Not Worth Mentioning? A Pilot Study on Salient Proposition Annotation
Amir Zeldes, Katherine Conhaim, Lauren Levine
Despite a long tradition of work on extractive summarization, which by nature aims to recover the most important propositions in a text, little work has been done on operationalizi…
GUMBridge: a Corpus for Varieties of Bridging Anaphora
Lauren Levine, Amir Zeldes
Bridging is an anaphoric phenomenon where the referent of an entity in a discourse is dependent on a previous, non-identical entity for interpretation, such as in "There is 'a hous…
DiscoTrack: A Multilingual LLM Benchmark for Discourse Tracking
Lanni Bu, Lauren Levine, Amir Zeldes
Recent LLM benchmarks have tested models on a range of phenomena, but are still focused primarily on natural language understanding for extraction of explicit information, such as…
Subjectivity in the Annotation of Bridging Anaphora
Lauren Levine, Amir Zeldes
Bridging refers to the associative relationship between inferable entities in a discourse and the antecedents which allow us to understand them, such as understanding what "the doo…
Building UD Cairo for Old English in the Classroom
Lauren Levine, Junghyun Min, Amir Zeldes
In this paper we present a sample treebank for Old English based on the UD Cairo sentences, collected and annotated as part of a classroom curriculum in Historical Linguistics. To…
GDTB: Genre Diverse Data for English Shallow Discourse Parsing across Modalities, Text Types, and Domains
Yang Janet Liu, Tatsuya Aoyama, Wesley Scivetti +6
Work on shallow discourse parsing in English has focused on the Wall Street Journal corpus, the only large-scale dataset for the language in the PDTB framework. However, the data i…
Unifying the Scope of Bridging Anaphora Types in English: Bridging Annotations in ARRAU and GUM
Lauren Levine, Amir Zeldes
Comparing bridging annotations across coreference resources is difficult, largely due to a lack of standardization across definitions and annotation schemas and narrow coverage of…
Lacuna Language Learning: Leveraging RNNs for Ranked Text Completion in Digitized Coptic Manuscripts
Lauren Levine, Cindy Tung Li, Lydia Bremer-McCollum +2
Ancient manuscripts are frequently damaged, containing gaps in the text known as lacunae. In this paper, we present a bidirectional RNN model for character prediction of Coptic cha…
GENTLE: A Genre-Diverse Multilayer Challenge Set for English NLP and Linguistic Evaluation
Tatsuya Aoyama, Shabnam Behzad, Luke Gessler +6
We present GENTLE, a new mixed-genre English challenge corpus totaling 17K tokens and consisting of 8 unusual text types for out-of domain evaluation: dictionary entries, esports c…