Search Results for author: Shriphani Palakodety

Found 6 papers, 0 papers with code

Annotation Efficient Language Identification from Weak Labels

no code implementations EMNLP (WNUT) 2020 Shriphani Palakodety, Ashiqur KhudaBukhsh

We release an annotated data set of 1, 000 comments in ten Romanized languages as a social media evaluation benchmark.

Language Identification

Discovering Bilingual Lexicons in Polyglot Word Embeddings

no code implementations31 Aug 2020 Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh, Shriphani Palakodety, Tom M. Mitchell

In this work, we utilize a single Skip-gram model trained on a multilingual corpus yielding polyglot word embeddings, and present a novel finding that a surprisingly simple constrained nearest-neighbor sampling technique in this embedding space can retrieve bilingual lexicons, even in harsh social media data sets predominantly written in English and Romanized Hindi and often exhibiting code switching.

Machine Translation Translation +1

Harnessing Code Switching to Transcend the Linguistic Barrier

no code implementations30 Jan 2020 Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh, Shriphani Palakodety, Jaime G. Carbonell

Code mixing (or code switching) is a common phenomenon observed in social-media content generated by a linguistically diverse user-base.

Voice for the Voiceless: Active Sampling to Detect Comments Supporting the Rohingyas

no code implementations8 Oct 2019 Shriphani Palakodety, Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh, Jaime G. Carbonell

The Rohingya refugee crisis is one of the biggest humanitarian crises of modern times with more than 600, 000 Rohingyas rendered homeless according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Active Learning Hate Speech Detection +1

Hope Speech Detection: A Computational Analysis of the Voice of Peace

no code implementations11 Sep 2019 Shriphani Palakodety, Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh, Jaime G. Carbonell

The recent Pulwama terror attack (February 14, 2019, Pulwama, Kashmir) triggered a chain of escalating events between India and Pakistan adding another episode to their 70-year-old dispute over Kashmir.

Hope Speech Detection Language Identification +1

Scalable Modeling of Conversational-role based Self-presentation Characteristics in Large Online Forums

no code implementations10 Dec 2015 Abhimanu Kumar, Shriphani Palakodety, Chong Wang, Carolyn P. Rose, Eric P. Xing, Miaomiao Wen

Online discussion forums are complex webs of overlapping subcommunities (macrolevel structure, across threads) in which users enact different roles depending on which subcommunity they are participating in within a particular time point (microlevel structure, within threads).

Topic Models Variational Inference

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