Natural Language Generation Using Reinforcement Learning with External Rewards

1 code implementation • 26 Nov 2019 • Vidhushini Srinivasan, Sashank Santhanam, Samira Shaikh

We propose an approach towards natural language generation using a bidirectional encoder-decoder which incorporates external rewards through reinforcement learning (RL).

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL) +1

I Stand With You: Using Emojis to Study Solidarity in Crisis Events

1 code implementation • 19 Jul 2019 • Sashank Santhanam, Vidhushini Srinivasan, Shaina Glass, Samira Shaikh

We study how emojis are used to express solidarity in social media in the context of two major crisis events - a natural disaster, Hurricane Irma in 2017 and terrorist attacks that occurred on November 2015 in Paris.