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Bias Beyond English: Counterfactual Tests for Bias in Sentiment Analysis in Four Languages
Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant, Adam Lopez, Roi Blanco +1
Sentiment analysis (SA) systems are used in many products and hundreds of languages. Gender and racial biases are well-studied in English SA systems, but understudied in other lang…
BookQA: Stories of Challenges and Opportunities
Stefanos Angelidis, Lea Frermann, Diego Marcheggiani +2
We present a system for answering questions based on the full text of books (BookQA), which first selects book passages given a question at hand, and then uses a memory network to…
Efficient and Effective Tail Latency Minimization in Multi-Stage Retrieval Systems
Joel Mackenzie, J. Shane Culpepper, Roi Blanco +3
Scalable web search systems typically employ multi-stage retrieval architectures, where an initial stage generates a set of candidate documents that are then pruned and re-ranked.…
Part of Speech Based Term Weighting for Information Retrieval
Christina Lioma, Roi Blanco
Automatic language processing tools typically assign to terms so-called weights corresponding to the contribution of terms to information content. Traditionally, term weights are c…
Local Ranking Problem on the BrowseGraph
Michele Trevisiol, Luca Maria Aiello, Paolo Boldi +1
The "Local Ranking Problem" (LRP) is related to the computation of a centrality-like rank on a local graph, where the scores of the nodes could significantly differ from the ones c…
Entity-Linking via Graph-Distance Minimization
Roi Blanco, Paolo Boldi, Andrea Marino
Entity-linking is a natural-language-processing task that consists in identifying the entities mentioned in a piece of text, linking each to an appropriate item in some knowledge b…
TwitterPaul: Extracting and Aggregating Twitter Predictions
Naushad UzZaman, Roi Blanco, Michael Matthews
This paper introduces TwitterPaul, a system designed to make use of Social Media data to help to predict game outcomes for the 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament. To this end, we extra…