no code implementations • COLING 2020 • Mohammed Aldawsari, Adrian Perez, Deya Banisakher, Mark Finlayson
Determining whether an event in a news article is a foreground or background event would be useful in many natural language processing tasks, for example, temporal relation extraction, summarization, or storyline generation.
no code implementations • WS 2020 • Deya Banisakher, W. Victor Yarlott, Mohammed Aldawsari, Naphtali Rishe, Mark Finlayson
Identifying the discourse structure of documents is an important task in understanding written text.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Deya Banisakher, Naphtali Rishe, Mark A. Finlayson
To model conventions for section order, we integrated these n-gram models with a Hierarchical Hidden Markov Model (HHMM) representing the probabilities of observed section orders found in the corpus, and then used this HHMM n-gram model in a decoding framework to infer the most likely section boundaries and section types for documents with their section labels removed.