Browsing by Subject "computational linguistics"
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Map Task Deviation Scores: A Reconstruction
(2020)The Human Communication Research Centre Map Task Corpus is a landmark data source for analysis of multimodal dialogue corpora. The task in this dialogue is the communication by an information giver of a path on a map to ... -
Measuring Synchrony in Dialog Transcripts
(Springer, 2012)A finite register method of processing dialog transcripts is used to measure interlocutor synchrony. Successive contributions by participants are measured for word n-gram repetitions and temporal overlaps. The Zipfian ... -
Methods for Analyzing Cognitive Architecture
(Springer International Publishing, 2023)We articulate aspects of our methods for analyzing human cognitive architecture. We focus on two approaches with a linked example. One approach is to analyze human cognitive abilities to isolate functions that have particular ... -
Multimodal Conformity of Expression between Blog Names and Content
(IEEE, 2013)Using a sentiment lexicon for German translated into English, Italian, Spanish and Swedish, Tumblr URL names for blog archives are inspected with regard to the category of the content. Across the five languages, where the ... -
Mutual Gaze and Linguistic Repetition in a Multimodal Corpus
(European Language Resources Association, 2022)This paper investigates the correlation between mutual gaze and linguistic repetition, a form of alignment, which we take as evidence of mutual understanding. We focus on a multimodal corpus made of three-party conversations ... -
N-gram Distributions in Texts as Proxy for Textual Fingerprints
(IOS Press, 2007)Recent experiments using mainly character unigram distributions in authorship attribution tasks are discussed. Results so far indicate efficacy in similarity judgements seemingly good enough for `balance of probabilities' ... -
Nouns and Verbs in Professional Reporting of Extreme Events
(2019)This corpus-based study tested whether linguistic devices that can evoke negative emotions are featured in Terrorist Attack news articles to a greater extent, in comparison to articles on Natural Disasters and Human ... -
On features and measures of psychological wellbeing
(2022)Low levels of psychological wellbeing pose considerable burdens on society in terms of mortality, unemployment, absen- teeism, medications, social services, morbidity, and in-out patients’ costs. Early detection and ... -
Q. Can Knowledge Graphs be used to Answer Boolean Questions? A. It's complicated!
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020)In this paper we explore the problem of machine reading comprehension, focusing on the BoolQ dataset of Yes/No questions. We carryout an error analysis of a BERT-based machine reading comprehension model on this ... -
Quality Estimation: an experimental study using unsupervised similarity measures
(The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2012)We present the approach we took for our participation to the WMT12 Quality Estimation Shared Task: our main goal is to achieve reasonably good results without appeal to supervised learning. We have used various similarity ... -
Quantitative and Qualitive Analysis of Politeness and Gender Effects in Romantic Comedies
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2022)This study investigates differences in markers of politeness between male and female characters in romantic comedies. While focusing on the gender of the speaker, the impact of the gender of the addressee and of the ... -
Stitching together the conversation - considerations in the design of extended social talk
(2018)Spoken interaction mediates much human social and practical activity. Talk is not monolithic in form but rather weaves in and out of different genres. Practical tasks are peppered with lubricating social talk, while casual ... -
Style-based distance features for author verification - Notebook for PAN at CLEF 2013.
(2013)In this paper we present the approach we took in our participation to the PAN 2013 Author Identification task. It relies on a complex process to se- lect the features which represent the author’s writing, using potentially ... -
Taking Offence
(2020)Between speakers and addressees, the perception of offensiveness in natural language may diverge distinctly to the potential for divergence of understanding of lexical content. Historically, the perception of offensiveness ... -
Temporal Dependence in Legal Documents
(Springer, 2013)Tasks and difficulties inherent in the largely open problem of temporal information extraction from legal text are outlined. We demonstrate the efficacy of tools and concepts available ?off-the-shelf? and suggest refinements ... -
Temporal predictive regression models for linguistic style analysis
(2018)This study focuses on modelling general and individual language change over several decades. A timeline prediction task was used to identify interesting temporal features. Our previous work achieved high accuracy in ... -
Towards the automatic detection of the source language of a literary translation
(ACL, 2012)Experiments on the detection of the source language of literary translations are described. Two feature types are exploited, n-gram based features and document-level statistics. Cross- validation results on a corpus of ... -
Tweet Analytics for Political Position Estimation
(2021)An increasingly popular method of predicting trends and forecasting voting outcomes is to create a prediction model based on alignment of publicly available social media content produced by voters with voting behaviours. ...
