Measuring Alignment to Authoritarian State Media as Framing Bias

1 code implementation • NLP4IF (COLING) 2020 • Timothy Niven, Hung-Yu Kao

We introduce what is to the best of our knowledge a new task in natural language processing: measuring alignment to authoritarian state media.

Selection bias

Detecting Argumentative Discourse Acts with Linguistic Alignment

1 code implementation • WS 2019 • Timothy Niven, Hung-Yu Kao

We report the results of preliminary investigations into the relationship between linguistic alignment and dialogical argumentation at the level of discourse acts.

Fill the GAP: Exploiting BERT for Pronoun Resolution

1 code implementation • WS 2019 • Kai-Chou Yang, Timothy Niven, Tzu Hsuan Chou, Hung-Yu Kao

In this paper, we describe our entry in the gendered pronoun resolution competition which achieved fourth place without data augmentation.

Coreference Resolution Data Augmentation +1

Probing Neural Network Comprehension of Natural Language Arguments

1 code implementation • ACL 2019 • Timothy Niven, Hung-Yu Kao

We are surprised to find that BERT's peak performance of 77% on the Argument Reasoning Comprehension Task reaches just three points below the average untrained human baseline.

Fake News Detection as Natural Language Inference

1 code implementation • 17 Jul 2019 • Kai-Chou Yang, Timothy Niven, Hung-Yu Kao

The remainder of test cases are classified by our ensemble.

Fake News Detection Management +2