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cs.CL2017

Summarizing Dialogic Arguments from Social Media

Amita Misra, Shereen Oraby, Shubhangi Tandon +3

Online argumentative dialog is a rich source of information on popular beliefs and opinions that could be useful to companies as well as governmental or public policy agencies. Com…

cs.CL2017★ 6 cited

Combining Search with Structured Data to Create a More Engaging User Experience in Open Domain Dialogue

Kevin K. Bowden, Shereen Oraby, Jiaqi Wu +2

The greatest challenges in building sophisticated open-domain conversational agents arise directly from the potential for ongoing mixed-initiative multi-turn dialogues, which do no…

cs.CL2017

Creating and Characterizing a Diverse Corpus of Sarcasm in Dialogue

Shereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Lena Reed +3

The use of irony and sarcasm in social media allows us to study them at scale for the first time. However, their diversity has made it difficult to construct a high-quality corpus…

cs.CL2017

Harvesting Creative Templates for Generating Stylistically Varied Restaurant Reviews

Shereen Oraby, Sheideh Homayon, Marilyn Walker

Many of the creative and figurative elements that make language exciting are lost in translation in current natural language generation engines. In this paper, we explore a method…

cs.CL2017

Are you serious?: Rhetorical Questions and Sarcasm in Social Media Dialog

Shereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Amita Misra +2

Effective models of social dialog must understand a broad range of rhetorical and figurative devices. Rhetorical questions (RQs) are a type of figurative language whose aim is to a…

cs.CL2017★ 55 cited

And That's A Fact: Distinguishing Factual and Emotional Argumentation in Online Dialogue

Shereen Oraby, Lena Reed, Ryan Compton +3

We investigate the characteristics of factual and emotional argumentation styles observed in online debates. Using an annotated set of "factual" and "feeling" debate forum posts, w…