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Serialising the ISO SynAF Syntactic Object Model
This paper introduces, an XML format developed to serialise the object model defined by the ISO Syntactic Annotation Framework SynAF.
A Deeper Look into Dependency-Based Word Embeddings
We investigate the effect of various dependency-based word embeddings on distinguishing between functional and domain similarity, word similarity rankings, and two downstream tasks in English.
A Predictive Model for Notional Anaphora in English
Notional anaphors are pronouns which disagree with their antecedents' grammatical categories for notional reasons, such as plural to singular agreement in: 'the government ... they'.
A Linked Coptic Dictionary Online
We describe a new project publishing a freely available online dictionary for Coptic.
A Characterwise Windowed Approach to Hebrew Morphological Segmentation
This paper presents a novel approach to the segmentation of orthographic word forms in contemporary Hebrew, focusing purely on splitting without carrying out morphological analysis or disambiguation.
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Text Segmentation
on Wiki5K Hebrew segmentation
The Coptic Universal Dependency Treebank
This paper presents the Coptic Universal Dependency Treebank, the first dependency treebank within the Egyptian subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic languages.
GumDrop at the DISRPT2019 Shared Task: A Model Stacking Approach to Discourse Unit Segmentation and Connective Detection
In this paper we present GumDrop, Georgetown University's entry at the DISRPT 2019 Shared Task on automatic discourse unit segmentation and connective detection.
A Discourse Signal Annotation System for RST Trees
This paper presents a new system for open-ended discourse relation signal annotation in the framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST), implemented on top of an online tool for RST annotation.
Introduction to Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking (DISRPT): 7th Workshop on Rhetorical Structure Theory and Related Formalisms
This overview summarizes the main contributions of the accepted papers at the 2019 workshop on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking (DISRPT 2019).
The DISRPT 2019 Shared Task on Elementary Discourse Unit Segmentation and Connective Detection
In 2019, we organized the first iteration of a shared task dedicated to the underlying units used in discourse parsing across formalisms: the DISRPT Shared Task on Elementary Discourse Unit Segmentation and Connective Detection.
All Roads Lead to UD: Converting Stanford and Penn Parses to English Universal Dependencies with Multilayer Annotations
We describe and evaluate different approaches to the conversion of gold standard corpus data from Stanford Typed Dependencies (SD) and Penn-style constituent trees to the latest English Universal Dependencies representation (UD 2. 2).
A Collaborative Ecosystem for Digital Coptic Studies
Scholarship on underresourced languages bring with them a variety of challenges which make access to the full spectrum of source materials and their evaluation difficult.
A Neural Approach to Discourse Relation Signal Detection
Previous data-driven work investigating the types and distributions of discourse relation signals, including discourse markers such as 'however' or phrases such as 'as a result' has focused on the relative frequencies of signal words within and outside text from each discourse relation.
A Cross-Genre Ensemble Approach to Robust Reddit Part of Speech Tagging
However, when these models are applied to other corpora with different genres, and especially user-generated data from the Web, we see substantial drops in performance.
Treebanking User-Generated Content: A Proposal for a Unified Representation in Universal Dependencies
The paper presents a discussion on the main linguistic phenomena of user-generated texts found in web and social media, and proposes a set of annotation guidelines for their treatment within the Universal Dependencies (UD) framework.
AMALGUM -- A Free, Balanced, Multilayer English Web Corpus
We present a freely available, genre-balanced English web corpus totaling 4M tokens and featuring a large number of high-quality automatic annotation layers, including dependency trees, non-named entity annotations, coreference resolution, and discourse trees in Rhetorical Structure Theory.
Exhaustive Entity Recognition for Coptic: Challenges and Solutions
Entity recognition provides semantic access to ancient materials in the Digital Humanities: itexposes people and places of interest in texts that cannot be read exhaustively, facilitates linkingresources and can provide a window into text contents, even for texts with no translations.
Treebanking User-Generated Content: a UD Based Overview of Guidelines, Corpora and Unified Recommendations
This article presents a discussion on the main linguistic phenomena which cause difficulties in the analysis of user-generated texts found on the web and in social media, and proposes a set of annotation guidelines for their treatment within the Universal Dependencies (UD) framework of syntactic analysis.
OntoGUM: Evaluating Contextualized SOTA Coreference Resolution on 12 More Genres
SOTA coreference resolution produces increasingly impressive scores on the OntoNotes benchmark.
Ranked #2 on
Coreference Resolution
on OntoGUM
Mischievous Nominal Constructions in Universal Dependencies
While the highly multilingual Universal Dependencies (UD) project provides extensive guidelines for clausal structure as well as structure within canonical nominal phrases, a standard treatment is lacking for many "mischievous" nominal phenomena that break the mold.
WikiGUM: Exhaustive Entity Linking for Wikification in 12 Genres
Previous work on Entity Linking has focused on resources targeting non-nested proper named entity mentions, often in data from Wikipedia, i. e. Wikification.
Ranked #1 on
Entity Linking
on GUM
DisCoDisCo at the DISRPT2021 Shared Task: A System for Discourse Segmentation, Classification, and Connective Detection
This paper describes our submission to the DISRPT2021 Shared Task on Discourse Unit Segmentation, Connective Detection, and Relation Classification.
Anatomy of OntoGUM--Adapting GUM to the OntoNotes Scheme to Evaluate Robustness of SOTA Coreference Algorithms
SOTA coreference resolution produces increasingly impressive scores on the OntoNotes benchmark.
Can we Fix the Scope for Coreference? Problems and Solutions for Benchmarks beyond OntoNotes
Current work on automatic coreference resolution has focused on the OntoNotes benchmark dataset, due to both its size and consistency.
ELQA: A Corpus of Metalinguistic Questions and Answers about English
We present ELQA, a corpus of questions and answers in and about the English language.
Chinese Discourse Annotation Reference Manual
This document provides extensive guidelines and examples for Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) annotation in Mandarin Chinese.
A Second Wave of UD Hebrew Treebanking and Cross-Domain Parsing
Foundational Hebrew NLP tasks such as segmentation, tagging and parsing, have relied to date on various versions of the Hebrew Treebank (HTB, Sima'an et al. 2001).
GCDT: A Chinese RST Treebank for Multigenre and Multilingual Discourse Parsing
A lack of large-scale human-annotated data has hampered the hierarchical discourse parsing of Chinese.
Sentence-level Feedback Generation for English Language Learners: Does Data Augmentation Help?
In this paper, we present strong baselines for the task of Feedback Comment Generation for Writing Learning.
MicroBERT: Effective Training of Low-resource Monolingual BERTs through Parameter Reduction and Multitask Learning
Transformer language models (TLMs) are critical for most NLP tasks, but they are difficult to create for low-resource languages because of how much pretraining data they require.
Are UD Treebanks Getting More Consistent? A Report Card for English UD
Recent efforts to consolidate guidelines and treebanks in the Universal Dependencies project raise the expectation that joint training and dataset comparison is increasingly possible for high-resource languages such as English, which have multiple corpora.
Why Can't Discourse Parsing Generalize? A Thorough Investigation of the Impact of Data Diversity
To our knowledge, this study is the first to fully evaluate cross-corpus RST parsing generalizability on complete trees, examine between-genre degradation within an RST corpus, and investigate the impact of genre diversity in training data composition.
GENTLE: A Genre-Diverse Multilayer Challenge Set for English NLP and Linguistic Evaluation
We evaluate state-of-the-art NLP systems on GENTLE and find severe degradation for at least some genres in their performance on all tasks, which indicates GENTLE's utility as an evaluation dataset for NLP systems.
GUMSum: Multi-Genre Data and Evaluation for English Abstractive Summarization
Automatic summarization with pre-trained language models has led to impressively fluent results, but is prone to 'hallucinations', low performance on non-news genres, and outputs which are not exactly summaries.
What's Hard in English RST Parsing? Predictive Models for Error Analysis
Despite recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), hierarchical discourse parsing in the framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory remains challenging, and our understanding of the reasons for this are as yet limited.
Incorporating Singletons and Mention-based Features in Coreference Resolution via Multi-task Learning for Better Generalization
Previous attempts to incorporate a mention detection step into end-to-end neural coreference resolution for English have been hampered by the lack of singleton mention span data as well as other entity information.
Ranked #1 on
Coreference Resolution
on OntoGUM
GUMsley: Evaluating Entity Salience in Summarization for 12 English Genres
As NLP models become increasingly capable of understanding documents in terms of coherent entities rather than strings, obtaining the most salient entities for each document is not only an important end task in itself but also vital for Information Retrieval (IR) and other downstream applications such as controllable summarization.
eRST: A Signaled Graph Theory of Discourse Relations and Organization
In this article we present Enhanced Rhetorical Structure Theory (eRST), a new theoretical framework for computational discourse analysis, based on an expansion of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST).
SPLICE: A Singleton-Enhanced PipeLIne for Coreference REsolution
We then propose a two-step neural mention and coreference resolution system, named SPLICE, and compare its performance to the end-to-end approach in two scenarios: the OntoNotes test set and the out-of-domain (OOD) OntoGUM corpus.
UCxn: Typologically Informed Annotation of Constructions Atop Universal Dependencies
The Universal Dependencies (UD) project has created an invaluable collection of treebanks with contributions in over 140 languages.
Midas Loop: A Prioritized Human-in-the-Loop Annotation for Large Scale Multilayer Data
Large scale annotation of rich multilayer corpus data is expensive and time consuming, motivating approaches that integrate high quality automatic tools with active learning in order to prioritize human labeling of hard cases.
A Balanced and Broadly Targeted Computational Linguistics Curriculum
This paper describes the primarily-graduate computational linguistics and NLP curriculum at Georgetown University, a U. S. university that has seen significant growth in these areas in recent years.
The Making of Coptic Wordnet
With the increasing availability of wordnets for ancient languages, such as Ancient Greek and Latin, gaps remain in the coverage of less studied languages of antiquity.
Anatomy of OntoGUM—Adapting GUM to the OntoNotes Scheme to Evaluate Robustness of SOTA Coreference Algorithms
SOTA coreference resolution produces increasingly impressive scores on the OntoNotes benchmark.
The DISRPT 2021 Shared Task on Elementary Discourse Unit Segmentation, Connective Detection, and Relation Classification
In 2021, we organized the second iteration of a shared task dedicated to the underlying units used in discourse parsing across formalisms: the DISRPT Shared Task (Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking).
CorefUD 1.0: Coreference Meets Universal Dependencies
Recent advances in standardization for annotated language resources have led to successful large scale efforts, such as the Universal Dependencies (UD) project for multilingual syntactically annotated data.
