Search Results for author: Leila Kosseim

Found 29 papers, 4 papers with code

Surface Realization Using Pretrained Language Models

no code implementations MSR (COLING) 2020 Farhood Farahnak, Laya Rafiee, Leila Kosseim, Thomas Fevens

In the context of Natural Language Generation, surface realization is the task of generating the linear form of a text following a given grammar.

Language Modelling Sentence +1

Deep Hedging with Market Impact

no code implementations20 Feb 2024 Andrei Neagu, Frédéric Godin, Clarence Simard, Leila Kosseim

Dynamic hedging is the practice of periodically transacting financial instruments to offset the risk caused by an investment or a liability.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

TIMBERT: Toponym Identifier For The Medical Domain Based on BERT

no code implementations COLING 2020 MohammadReza Davari, Leila Kosseim, Tien Bui

In this paper, we propose an approach to automate the process of place name detection in the medical domain to enable epidemiologists to better study and model the spread of viruses.

Sentence Toponym Recognition

Du bon usage d'ingr\'edients linguistiques sp\'eciaux pour classer des recettes exceptionnelles (Using Special Linguistic Ingredients to Classify Exceptional Recipes )

no code implementations JEPTALNRECITAL 2020 Elham Mohammadi, Louis Marceau, Eric Charton, Leila Kosseim, Luka Nerima, Marie-Jean Meurs

Nous pr{\'e}sentons un mod{\`e}le d{'}apprentissage automatique qui combine mod{\`e}les neuronaux et linguistiques pour traiter les t{\^a}ches de classification dans lesquelles la distribution des {\'e}tiquettes des instances est d{\'e}s{\'e}quilibr{\'e}e. Les performances de ce mod{\`e}le sont mesur{\'e}es {\`a} l{'}aide d{'}exp{\'e}riences men{\'e}es sur les t{\^a}ches de classification de recettes de cuisine de la campagne DEFT 2013 (Grouin et al., 2013).

Classification General Classification +1

On the Creation of a Corpus for Coherence Evaluation of Discursive Units

no code implementations LREC 2020 Elham Mohammadi, Timothe Beiko, Leila Kosseim

We experimented with a variety of corruption strategies to create synthetic incoherent pairs of discourse arguments from coherent ones.

Coherence Evaluation Sentence +1

Cooking Up a Neural-based Model for Recipe Classification

no code implementations LREC 2020 Elham Mohammadi, Nada Naji, Louis Marceau, Marc Queudot, Eric Charton, Leila Kosseim, Marie-Jean Meurs

In this paper, we propose a neural-based model to address the first task of the DEFT 2013 shared task, with the main challenge of a highly imbalanced dataset, using state-of-the-art embedding approaches and deep architectures.

Classification General Classification

The Concordia NLG Surface Realizer at SRST 2019

no code implementations WS 2019 Farhood Farahnak, Laya Rafiee, Leila Kosseim, Thomas Fevens

This paper presents the model we developed for the shallow track of the 2019 NLG Surface Realization Shared Task.

CLaC Lab at SemEval-2019 Task 3: Contextual Emotion Detection Using a Combination of Neural Networks and SVM

no code implementations SEMEVAL 2019 Elham Mohammadi, Hessam Amini, Leila Kosseim

This paper describes our system at SemEval 2019, Task 3 (EmoContext), which focused on the contextual detection of emotions in a dataset of 3-round dialogues.

POS Word Embeddings

Toponym Identification in Epidemiology Articles - A Deep Learning Approach

no code implementations24 Apr 2019 MohammadReza Davari, Leila Kosseim, Tien D. Bui

These results underline the importance of domain specific embedding as well as specific linguistic features in toponym detection in medical journals.

Epidemiology Toponym Recognition

CLaC @ DEFT 2018: Sentiment analysis of tweets on transport from \^Ile-de-France

no code implementations JEPTALNRECITAL 2018 Simon Jacques, Farhood Farahnak, Leila Kosseim

CLaC @ DEFT 2018: Analysis of tweets on transport on the {\^I}le-de-France This paper describes the system deployed by the CLaC lab at Concordia University in Montreal for the DEFT 2018 shared task.

Sentiment Analysis Task 2

ClaC: Semantic Relatedness of Words and Phrases

no code implementations SEMEVAL 2013 Reda Siblini, Leila Kosseim

The measurement of phrasal semantic relatedness is an important metric for many natural language processing applications.

Semantic Similarity Semantic Textual Similarity

Measuring the Effect of Discourse Relations on Blog Summarization

no code implementations IJCNLP 2013 Shamima Mithun, Leila Kosseim

The work presented in this paper attempts to evaluate and quantify the use of discourse relations in the context of blog summarization and compare their use to more traditional and factual texts.

Opinion Summarization

CLaC @ QATS: Quality Assessment for Text Simplification

no code implementations19 Aug 2017 Elnaz Davoodi, Leila Kosseim

This paper describes our approach to the 2016 QATS quality assessment shared task.

Language Modelling Sentence +1

The CLaC Discourse Parser at CoNLL-2015

1 code implementation CONLL 2015 Majid Laali, Elnaz Davoodi, Leila Kosseim

This paper describes our submission (kosseim15) to the CoNLL-2015 shared task on shallow discourse parsing.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Discourse Parsing

Automatic Identification of AltLexes using Monolingual Parallel Corpora

no code implementations RANLP 2017 Elnaz Davoodi, Leila Kosseim

The automatic identification of discourse relations is still a challenging task in natural language processing.

Text Simplification

N-gram and Neural Language Models for Discriminating Similar Languages

no code implementations WS 2016 Andre Cianflone, Leila Kosseim

This paper describes our submission (named clac) to the 2016 Discriminating Similar Languages (DSL) shared task.

BIG-bench Machine Learning

Improving Discourse Relation Projection to Build Discourse Annotated Corpora

1 code implementation RANLP 2017 Majid Laali, Leila Kosseim

We then used this corpus to train a classifier to identify the discourse-usage of French discourse connectives and show a 15% improvement of F1-score compared to the classifier trained on the non-filtered annotations.

Relation Translation +1

Automatic Mapping of French Discourse Connectives to PDTB Discourse Relations

1 code implementation WS 2017 Majid Laali, Leila Kosseim

In this paper, we present an approach to exploit phrase tables generated by statistical machine translation in order to map French discourse connectives to discourse relations.

Machine Translation Translation

Automatic Disambiguation of French Discourse Connectives

1 code implementation18 Apr 2017 Majid Laali, Leila Kosseim

Discourse connectives (e. g. however, because) are terms that can explicitly convey a discourse relation within a text.

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