10 papers
Revisiting Semantic Role Labeling: Efficient Structured Inference with Dependency-Informed Analysis
Sangpil Youm, Leah Jones, Bonnie J. Dorr
Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) provides an explicit representation of predicate-argument structure, capturing linguistically grounded relations such as who did what to whom. While re…
Semantic Similarity is a Spurious Measure of Comic Understanding: Lessons Learned from Hallucinations in a Benchmarking Experiment
Christopher Driggers-Ellis, Nachiketh Tibrewal, Rohit Bogulla +4
A system that enables blind or visually impaired users to access comics/manga would introduce a new medium of storytelling to this community. However, no such system currently exis…
Predicting Depressive Symptoms through Emotion Pairs within Asian American Families
Sangpil Youm, Nari Yoo, Sou Hyun Jang
Studies on intergenerational relationships between parents and children in Asian American families highlight their impact on mental health and well-being. This study investigates t…
Beyond Stereotypes: Exploring How Minority College Students Experience Stigma on Reddit
Chaeeun Han, Sangpil Youm, Hojeong Yoo +1
Minority college students face unique challenges shaped by their identities based on their gender/sexual orientation, race, religion, and academic institutions, which influence the…
DETQUS: Decomposition-Enhanced Transformers for QUery-focused Summarization
Yasir Khan, Xinlei Wu, Sangpil Youm +5
Query-focused tabular summarization is an emerging task in table-to-text generation that synthesizes a summary response from tabular data based on user queries. Traditional transfo…
Balancing Transparency and Accuracy: A Comparative Analysis of Rule-Based and Deep Learning Models in Political Bias Classification
Manuel Nunez Martinez, Sonja Schmer-Galunder, Zoey Liu +3
The unchecked spread of digital information, combined with increasing political polarization and the tendency of individuals to isolate themselves from opposing political viewpoint…
AMREx: AMR for Explainable Fact Verification
Chathuri Jayaweera, Sangpil Youm, Bonnie Dorr
With the advent of social media networks and the vast amount of information circulating through them, automatic fact verification is an essential component to prevent the spread of…
DAHRS: Divergence-Aware Hallucination-Remediated SRL Projection
Sangpil Youm, Brodie Mather, Chathuri Jayaweera +2
Semantic role labeling (SRL) enriches many downstream applications, e.g., machine translation, question answering, summarization, and stance/belief detection. However, building mul…
Information Seeking and Communication among International Students on Reddit
Chaeeun Han, Sangpil Youm, Hojeong Yoo +1
This study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on information-seeking behaviors among international students, with a focus on the r/f1visa subreddit. Our study indicates a…
Modeling Bilingual Sentence Processing: Evaluating RNN and Transformer Architectures for Cross-Language Structural Priming
Demi Zhang, Bushi Xiao, Chao Gao +2
This study evaluates the performance of Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) and Transformer models in replicating cross-language structural priming, a key indicator of abstract grammati…