Search Results for author: Bill Noble

Found 7 papers, 1 papers with code

Large-scale text pre-training helps with dialogue act recognition, but not without fine-tuning

no code implementations IWCS (ACL) 2021 Bill Noble, Vladislav Maraev

We use dialogue act recognition (DAR) to investigate how well BERT represents utterances in dialogue, and how fine-tuning and large-scale pre-training contribute to its performance.

In Search of Meaning and Its Representations for Computational Linguistics

no code implementations CLASP 2022 Simon Dobnik, Robin Cooper, Adam Ek, Bill Noble, Staffan Larsson, Nikolai Ilinykh, Vladislav Maraev, Vidya Somashekarappa

In this paper we examine different meaning representations that are commonly used in different natural language applications today and discuss their limits, both in terms of the aspects of the natural language meaning they are modelling and in terms of the aspects of the application for which they are used.

Personae under uncertainty: The case of topoi

no code implementations PaM 2020 Bill Noble, Ellen Breitholtz, Robin Cooper

In this paper, we propose a probabilistic model of social signalling which adopts a persona-based account of social meaning.

Describe me an Aucklet: Generating Grounded Perceptual Category Descriptions

1 code implementation7 Mar 2023 Bill Noble, Nikolai Ilinykh

Human speakers can generate descriptions of perceptual concepts, abstracted from the instance-level.

nlg evaluation Representation Learning +1

We went to look for meaning and all we got were these lousy representations: aspects of meaning representation for computational semantics

no code implementations10 Sep 2021 Simon Dobnik, Robin Cooper, Adam Ek, Bill Noble, Staffan Larsson, Nikolai Ilinykh, Vladislav Maraev, Vidya Somashekarappa

In this paper we examine different meaning representations that are commonly used in different natural language applications today and discuss their limits, both in terms of the aspects of the natural language meaning they are modelling and in terms of the aspects of the application for which they are used.

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