1 code implementation • 6 Nov 2023 • Matt Canute, Mali Jin, hannah holtzclaw, Alberto Lusoli, Philippa R Adams, Mugdha Pandya, Maite Taboada, Diana Maynard, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Agonism plays a vital role in democratic dialogue by fostering diverse perspectives and robust discussions.
1 code implementation • 19 Apr 2023 • Valentin-Gabriel Soumah, Prashanth Rao, Philipp Eibl, Maite Taboada
We present the Radar de Parit\'e, an automated Natural Language Processing (NLP) system that measures the proportion of women and men quoted daily in six Canadian French-language media outlets.
2 code implementations • 11 Apr 2020 • Varada Kolhatkar, Nithum Thain, Jeffrey Sorensen, Lucas Dixon, Maite Taboada
The quality of the annotation scheme and the resulting dataset is evaluated using measurements of inter-annotator agreement, expert assessment of a sample, and by the constructiveness sub-characteristics, which we show provide a proxy for the general constructiveness concept.
no code implementations • CL 2018 • Farah Benamara, Diana Inkpen, Maite Taboada
This special issue contributes to a deeper understanding of the role of these interactions to process social media data from a new perspective in discourse interpretation.
1 code implementation • WS 2018 • Fatemeh Torabi Asr, Maite Taboada
Misinformation detection at the level of full news articles is a text classification problem.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Varada Kolhatkar, Maite Taboada
We examine the extent to which we are able to automatically identify constructive online comments.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Varada Kolhatkar, Maite Taboada
We discuss the characteristics of constructive news comments, and present methods to identify them.
no code implementations • CL 2017 • Farah Benamara, Maite Taboada, Yannick Mathieu
We then argue that the standard computational definition of the concept of evaluative language neglects the dynamic nature of evaluation, in which the interpretation of a given evaluation depends on linguistic and extra-linguistic contextual factors.
no code implementations • 24 Aug 2016 • Cliff Goddard, Maite Taboada, Radoslava Trnavac
We apply the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach (Goddard and Wierzbicka 2014) to the lexical-semantic analysis of English evaluational adjectives and compare the results with the picture developed in the Appraisal Framework (Martin and White 2005).
no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Natalia Konstantinova, Sheila C.M. de Sousa, Noa P. Cruz, Manuel J. Ma{\~n}a, Maite Taboada, Ruslan Mitkov
This paper presents a freely available resource for research on handling negation and speculation in review texts.