no code implementations • ReInAct 2021 • Vladislav Maraev, Ellen Breitholtz, Christine Howes, Jean-Philippe Bernardy
In this paper we argue that to make dialogue systems able to actively explain their decisions they can make use of enthymematic reasoning.
no code implementations • CLASP 2022 • Simon Dobnik, Robin Cooper, Adam Ek, Bill Noble, Staffan Larsson, Nikolai Ilinykh, Vladislav Maraev, Vidya Somashekarappa
In this paper we examine different meaning representations that are commonly used in different natural language applications today and discuss their limits, both in terms of the aspects of the natural language meaning they are modelling and in terms of the aspects of the application for which they are used.
no code implementations • IWCS (ACL) 2021 • Bill Noble, Vladislav Maraev
We use dialogue act recognition (DAR) to investigate how well BERT represents utterances in dialogue, and how fine-tuning and large-scale pre-training contribute to its performance.
no code implementations • 10 Sep 2021 • Simon Dobnik, Robin Cooper, Adam Ek, Bill Noble, Staffan Larsson, Nikolai Ilinykh, Vladislav Maraev, Vidya Somashekarappa
In this paper we examine different meaning representations that are commonly used in different natural language applications today and discuss their limits, both in terms of the aspects of the natural language meaning they are modelling and in terms of the aspects of the application for which they are used.
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2017 • Jo{\~a}o Ant{\'o}nio Rodrigues, Chakaveh Saedi, Vladislav Maraev, Jo{\~a}o Silva, Ant{\'o}nio Branco
This paper presents the results of systematic experimentation on the impact in duplicate question detection of different types of questions across both a number of established approaches and a novel, superior one used to address this language processing task.