1 code implementation • NAACL (WNU) 2022 • Pedram Hosseini, Christopher R. Wolfe, Mona Diab, David A. Broniatowski
Decision making theories such as Fuzzy-Trace Theory (FTT) suggest that individuals tend to rely on gist, or bottom-line meaning, in the text when making decisions.
1 code implementation • CSRR (ACL) 2022 • Pedram Hosseini, David A. Broniatowski, Mona Diab
Previous studies have shown the efficacy of knowledge augmentation methods in pretrained language models.
2 code implementations • 25 Mar 2021 • Pedram Hosseini, David A. Broniatowski, Mona Diab
In this work, we test the performance of two bidirectional transformer-based language models, BERT and SpanBERT, on predicting directionality in causal pairs in the textual content.
1 code implementation • 11 Dec 2020 • Daniel Khashabi, Arman Cohan, Siamak Shakeri, Pedram Hosseini, Pouya Pezeshkpour, Malihe Alikhani, Moin Aminnaseri, Marzieh Bitaab, Faeze Brahman, Sarik Ghazarian, Mozhdeh Gheini, Arman Kabiri, Rabeeh Karimi Mahabadi, Omid Memarrast, Ahmadreza Mosallanezhad, Erfan Noury, Shahab Raji, Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Sepideh Sadeghi, Erfan Sadeqi Azer, Niloofar Safi Samghabadi, Mahsa Shafaei, Saber Sheybani, Ali Tazarv, Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh
Despite the progress made in recent years in addressing natural language understanding (NLU) challenges, the majority of this progress remains to be concentrated on resource-rich languages like English.
1 code implementation • NLP4IF (COLING) 2020 • Lily Li, Or Levi, Pedram Hosseini, David A. Broniatowski
Satire is a form of humorous critique, but it is sometimes misinterpreted by readers as legitimate news, which can lead to harmful consequences.
1 code implementation • EMNLP (NLP-COVID19) 2020 • Pedram Hosseini, Poorya Hosseini, David A. Broniatowski
Iran, along with China, South Korea, and Italy was among the countries that were hit hard in the first wave of the COVID-19 spread.
1 code implementation • 13 Nov 2019 • Behnam Sabeti, Pedram Hosseini, Gholamreza Ghassem-Sani, Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel
The results show an acceptable performance in terms of accuracy and F-measure in the generated sentiment lexicon.
1 code implementation • WS 2019 • Or Levi, Pedram Hosseini, Mona Diab, David A. Broniatowski
As avenues for future work, we consider studying additional linguistic features related to the humor aspect, and enriching the data with current news events, to help identify a political or social message.
1 code implementation • International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2019 • Pedram Hosseini, Mona Diab, David A. Broniatowski
In this paper, we test the hypothesis that causal and semantic coherence are associated with online sharing of misinformative social media content using Coh-Metrix – a widely-used set of psycholinguistic measures.
1 code implementation • 23 Jan 2018 • Pedram Hosseini, Ali Ahmadian Ramaki, Hassan Maleki, Mansoureh Anvari, Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel
To the best of our knowledge, SentiPers is a unique sentiment corpus with such a rich annotation in three different levels including document-level, sentence-level, and entity/aspect-level for Persian.