6 papers
Verifying Rumors via Stance-Aware Structural Modeling
Gibson Nkhata, Uttamasha Anjally Oyshi, Quan Mai +1
Verifying rumors on social media is critical for mitigating the spread of false information. The stances of conversation replies often provide important cues to determine a rumor's…
Mind2: Mind-to-Mind Emotional Support System with Bidirectional Cognitive Discourse Analysis
Shi Yin Hong, Uttamasha Oyshi, Quan Mai +2
Emotional support (ES) systems alleviate users' mental distress by generating strategic supportive dialogues based on diverse user situations. However, ES systems are limited in th…
Sarcasm Detection as a Catalyst: Improving Stance Detection with Cross-Target Capabilities
Gibson Nkhata Shi Yin Hong, Susan Gauch
Stance Detection (SD) has become a critical area of interest due to its applications in various contexts leading to increased research within NLP. Yet the subtlety and complexity o…
Intermediate-Task Transfer Learning: Leveraging Sarcasm Detection for Stance Detection
Gibson Nkhata, Susan Gauch
Stance Detection (SD) on social media has emerged as a prominent area of interest with implications for social business and political applications thereby garnering escalating rese…
Fine-tuning BERT with Bidirectional LSTM for Fine-grained Movie Reviews Sentiment Analysis
Gibson Nkhata, Susan Gauch, Usman Anjum +1
Sentiment Analysis (SA) is instrumental in understanding peoples viewpoints facilitating social media monitoring recognizing products and brands and gauging customer satisfaction.…
Sentiment Analysis of Movie Reviews Using BERT
Gibson Nkhata, Usman Anjum, Justin Zhan
Sentiment Analysis (SA) or opinion mining is analysis of emotions and opinions from any kind of text. SA helps in tracking peoples viewpoints and it is an important factor when it…