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cs.CL2020

EmotionGIF-IITP-AINLPML: Ensemble-based Automated Deep Neural System for predicting category(ies) of a GIF response

Soumitra Ghosh, Arkaprava Roy, Asif Ekbal +1

In this paper, we describe the systems submitted by our IITP-AINLPML team in the shared task of SocialNLP 2020, EmotionGIF 2020, on predicting the category(ies) of a GIF response f…

cs.CL2020★ 16 cited

Hostility Detection Dataset in Hindi

Mohit Bhardwaj, Md Shad Akhtar, Asif Ekbal +2

In this paper, we present a novel hostility detection dataset in Hindi language. We collect and manually annotate ~8200 online posts. The annotated dataset covers four hostility di…

cs.CL2020★ 273 cited

Fighting an Infodemic: COVID-19 Fake News Dataset

Parth Patwa, Shivam Sharma, Srinivas Pykl +6

Along with COVID-19 pandemic we are also fighting an `infodemic'. Fake news and rumors are rampant on social media. Believing in rumors can cause significant harm. This is further…

cs.CL2020

Hierarchical Deep Multi-modal Network for Medical Visual Question Answering

Deepak Gupta, Swati Suman, Asif Ekbal

Visual Question Answering in Medical domain (VQA-Med) plays an important role in providing medical assistance to the end-users. These users are expected to raise either a straightf…

cs.CL2020

Assessing the Severity of Health States based on Social Media Posts

Shweta Yadav, Joy Prakash Sain, Amit Sheth +3

The unprecedented growth of Internet users has resulted in an abundance of unstructured information on social media including health forums, where patients request health-related i…

cs.CL2020

Relation Extraction from Biomedical and Clinical Text: Unified Multitask Learning Framework

Shweta Yadav, Srivatsa Ramesh, Sriparna Saha +1

To minimize the accelerating amount of time invested in the biomedical literature search, numerous approaches for automated knowledge extraction have been proposed. Relation extrac…

cs.CL2020

Tweet to News Conversion: An Investigation into Unsupervised Controllable Text Generation

Zishan Ahmad, Mukuntha N S, Asif Ekbal +1

Text generator systems have become extremely popular with the advent of recent deep learning models such as encoder-decoder. Controlling the information and style of the generated…

cs.CL2020★ 13 cited

Exploiting stance hierarchies for cost-sensitive stance detection of Web documents

Arjun Roy, Pavlos Fafalios, Asif Ekbal +2

Fact checking is an essential challenge when combating fake news. Identifying documents that agree or disagree with a particular statement (claim) is a core task in this process. I…

cs.CL2020★ 6 cited

Investigating Deep Learning Approaches for Hate Speech Detection in Social Media

Prashant Kapil, Asif Ekbal, Dipankar Das

The phenomenal growth on the internet has helped in empowering individual's expressions, but the misuse of freedom of expression has also led to the increase of various cyber crime…

cs.CL2020★ 21 cited

A Deep Learning Approach for Automatic Detection of Fake News

Tanik Saikh, Arkadipta De, Asif Ekbal +1

Fake news detection is a very prominent and essential task in the field of journalism. This challenging problem is seen so far in the field of politics, but it could be even more c…

cs.CL2020

Reinforced Multi-task Approach for Multi-hop Question Generation

Deepak Gupta, Hardik Chauhan, Akella Ravi Tej +2

Question generation (QG) attempts to solve the inverse of question answering (QA) problem by generating a natural language question given a document and an answer. While sequence t…

cs.CL2020★ 1 cited

Related Tasks can Share! A Multi-task Framework for Affective language

Kumar Shikhar Deep, Md Shad Akhtar, Asif Ekbal +1

Expressing the polarity of sentiment as 'positive' and 'negative' usually have limited scope compared with the intensity/degree of polarity. These two tasks (i.e. sentiment classif…

cs.CL2020★ 1 cited

A Deep Neural Framework for Contextual Affect Detection

Kumar Shikhar Deep, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

A short and simple text carrying no emotion can represent some strong emotions when reading along with its context, i.e., the same sentence can express extreme anger as well as hap…