Search Results for author: Emily Allaway

Found 18 papers, 5 papers with code

Human Rationales as Attribution Priors for Explainable Stance Detection

1 code implementation EMNLP 2021 Sahil Jayaram, Emily Allaway

As NLP systems become better at detecting opinions and beliefs from text, it is important to ensure not only that models are accurate but also that they arrive at their predictions in ways that align with human reasoning.

Stance Detection

Beyond Denouncing Hate: Strategies for Countering Implied Biases and Stereotypes in Language

no code implementations31 Oct 2023 Jimin Mun, Emily Allaway, Akhila Yerukola, Laura Vianna, Sarah-Jane Leslie, Maarten Sap

Counterspeech, i. e., responses to counteract potential harms of hateful speech, has become an increasingly popular solution to address online hate speech without censorship.

Philosophy

Towards Countering Essentialism through Social Bias Reasoning

no code implementations28 Mar 2023 Emily Allaway, Nina Taneja, Sarah-Jane Leslie, Maarten Sap

Essentialist beliefs (i. e., believing that members of the same group are fundamentally alike) play a central role in social stereotypes and can lead to harm when left unchallenged.

Legal and Political Stance Detection of SCOTUS Language

1 code implementation21 Nov 2022 Noah Bergam, Emily Allaway, Kathleen McKeown

As a natural extension of this political stance detection, we propose the more specialized task of legal stance detection with our new dataset SC-stance, which matches written opinions to legal questions.

Stance Detection

SafeText: A Benchmark for Exploring Physical Safety in Language Models

no code implementations18 Oct 2022 Sharon Levy, Emily Allaway, Melanie Subbiah, Lydia Chilton, Desmond Patton, Kathleen McKeown, William Yang Wang

Understanding what constitutes safe text is an important issue in natural language processing and can often prevent the deployment of models deemed harmful and unsafe.

Text Generation

Mitigating Covertly Unsafe Text within Natural Language Systems

no code implementations17 Oct 2022 Alex Mei, Anisha Kabir, Sharon Levy, Melanie Subbiah, Emily Allaway, John Judge, Desmond Patton, Bruce Bimber, Kathleen McKeown, William Yang Wang

An increasingly prevalent problem for intelligent technologies is text safety, as uncontrolled systems may generate recommendations to their users that lead to injury or life-threatening consequences.

Penguins Don't Fly: Reasoning about Generics through Instantiations and Exceptions

no code implementations23 May 2022 Emily Allaway, Jena D. Hwang, Chandra Bhagavatula, Kathleen McKeown, Doug Downey, Yejin Choi

Generics express generalizations about the world (e. g., birds can fly) that are not universally true (e. g., newborn birds and penguins cannot fly).

Natural Language Inference

Seeded Hierarchical Clustering for Expert-Crafted Taxonomies

no code implementations23 May 2022 Anish Saha, Amith Ananthram, Emily Allaway, Heng Ji, Kathleen McKeown

Practitioners from many disciplines (e. g., political science) use expert-crafted taxonomies to make sense of large, unlabeled corpora.

Clustering

Mapping the Multilingual Margins: Intersectional Biases of Sentiment Analysis Systems in English, Spanish, and Arabic

no code implementations LTEDI (ACL) 2022 António Câmara, Nina Taneja, Tamjeed Azad, Emily Allaway, Richard Zemel

As natural language processing systems become more widespread, it is necessary to address fairness issues in their implementation and deployment to ensure that their negative impacts on society are understood and minimized.

Fairness regression +1

Adversarial Learning for Zero-Shot Stance Detection on Social Media

1 code implementation NAACL 2021 Emily Allaway, Malavika Srikanth, Kathleen McKeown

Stance detection on social media can help to identify and understand slanted news or commentary in everyday life.

Zero-Shot Stance Detection

Does Putting a Linguist in the Loop Improve NLU Data Collection?

no code implementations Findings (EMNLP) 2021 Alicia Parrish, William Huang, Omar Agha, Soo-Hwan Lee, Nikita Nangia, Alex Warstadt, Karmanya Aggarwal, Emily Allaway, Tal Linzen, Samuel R. Bowman

We take natural language inference as a test case and ask whether it is beneficial to put a linguist `in the loop' during data collection to dynamically identify and address gaps in the data by introducing novel constraints on the task.

Natural Language Inference

Event Guided Denoising for Multilingual Relation Learning

no code implementations4 Dec 2020 Amith Ananthram, Emily Allaway, Kathleen McKeown

General purpose relation extraction has recently seen considerable gains in part due to a massively data-intensive distant supervision technique from Soares et al. (2019) that produces state-of-the-art results across many benchmarks.

Denoising Relation +1

Event-Guided Denoising for Multilingual Relation Learning

no code implementations COLING 2020 Amith Ananthram, Emily Allaway, Kathleen McKeown

General purpose relation extraction has recently seen considerable gains in part due to a massively data-intensive distant supervision technique from Soares et al. (2019) that produces state-of-the-art results across many benchmarks.

Denoising Relation +1

A Unified Feature Representation for Lexical Connotations

no code implementations EACL 2021 Emily Allaway, Kathleen McKeown

Ideological attitudes and stance are often expressed through subtle meanings of words and phrases.

Stance Detection

ATOMIC: An Atlas of Machine Commonsense for If-Then Reasoning

2 code implementations31 Oct 2018 Maarten Sap, Ronan LeBras, Emily Allaway, Chandra Bhagavatula, Nicholas Lourie, Hannah Rashkin, Brendan Roof, Noah A. Smith, Yejin Choi

We present ATOMIC, an atlas of everyday commonsense reasoning, organized through 877k textual descriptions of inferential knowledge.

Relation

Event2Mind: Commonsense Inference on Events, Intents, and Reactions

no code implementations ACL 2018 Hannah Rashkin, Maarten Sap, Emily Allaway, Noah A. Smith, Yejin Choi

We investigate a new commonsense inference task: given an event described in a short free-form text ("X drinks coffee in the morning"), a system reasons about the likely intents ("X wants to stay awake") and reactions ("X feels alert") of the event's participants.

Common Sense Reasoning

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