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most citedUsing Similarity Measures to Select Pretraining Data for NER

18 citations · 29 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CL20201 cited

An Effective Transition-based Model for Discontinuous NER

Xiang Dai, Sarvnaz Karimi, Ben Hachey +1

Unlike widely used Named Entity Recognition (NER) data sets in generic domains, biomedical NER data sets often contain mentions consisting of discontinuous spans. Conventional sequ…

cs.CL2020

DAN: Dual-View Representation Learning for Adapting Stance Classifiers to New Domains

Chang Xu, Cecile Paris, Surya Nepal +3

We address the issue of having a limited number of annotations for stance classification in a new domain, by adapting out-of-domain classifiers with domain adaptation. Existing app…

cs.CV2019

Towards Generating Stylized Image Captions via Adversarial Training

Omid Mohamad Nezami, Mark Dras, Stephen Wan +2

While most image captioning aims to generate objective descriptions of images, the last few years have seen work on generating visually grounded image captions which have a specifi…

cs.CV2019

Image Captioning using Facial Expression and Attention

Omid Mohamad Nezami, Mark Dras, Stephen Wan +1

Benefiting from advances in machine vision and natural language processing techniques, current image captioning systems are able to generate detailed visual descriptions. For the m…

cs.CL2019

Figurative Usage Detection of Symptom Words to Improve Personal Health Mention Detection

Adith Iyer, Aditya Joshi, Sarvnaz Karimi +2

Personal health mention detection deals with predicting whether or not a given sentence is a report of a health condition. Past work mentions errors in this prediction when symptom…

cs.CL20191 cited

A Comparison of Word-based and Context-based Representations for Classification Problems in Health Informatics

Aditya Joshi, Sarvnaz Karimi, Ross Sparks +2

Distributed representations of text can be used as features when training a statistical classifier. These representations may be created as a composition of word vectors or as cont…