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Anger Breeds Controversy: Analyzing Controversy and Emotions on Reddit
Kai Chen, Zihao He, Rong-Ching Chang +2
Emotions play an important role in interpersonal interactions and social conflict, yet their function in the development of controversy and disagreement in online conversations has…
Checks and Strategies for Enabling Code-Switched Machine Translation
Thamme Gowda, Mozhdeh Gheini, Jonathan May
Code-switching is a common phenomenon among multilingual speakers, where alternation between two or more languages occurs within the context of a single conversation. While multili…
Segmenting Numerical Substitution Ciphers
Nada Aldarrab, Jonathan May
Deciphering historical substitution ciphers is a challenging problem. Example problems that have been previously studied include detecting cipher type, detecting plaintext language…
Opponent Modeling in Negotiation Dialogues by Related Data Adaptation
Kushal Chawla, Gale M. Lucas, Jonathan May +1
Opponent modeling is the task of inferring another party's mental state within the context of social interactions. In a multi-issue negotiation, it involves inferring the relative…
Salience-Aware Event Chain Modeling for Narrative Understanding
Xiyang Zhang, Muhao Chen, Jonathan May
Storytelling, whether via fables, news reports, documentaries, or memoirs, can be thought of as the communication of interesting and related events that, taken together, form a con…
Viola: A Topic Agnostic Generate-and-Rank Dialogue System
Hyundong Cho, Basel Shbita, Kartik Shenoy +5
We present Viola, an open-domain dialogue system for spoken conversation that uses a topic-agnostic dialogue manager based on a simple generate-and-rank approach. Leveraging recent…