Search Results for author: Daniel Hershcovich

Found 56 papers, 24 papers with code

How far can we get with one GPU in 100 hours? CoAStaL at MultiIndicMT Shared Task

no code implementations ACL (WAT) 2021 Rahul Aralikatte, Héctor Ricardo Murrieta Bello, Miryam de Lhoneux, Daniel Hershcovich, Marcel Bollmann, Anders Søgaard

This work shows that competitive translation results can be obtained in a constrained setting by incorporating the latest advances in memory and compute optimization.

Translation

A Multilingual Benchmark for Probing Negation-Awareness with Minimal Pairs

1 code implementation CoNLL (EMNLP) 2021 Mareike Hartmann, Miryam de Lhoneux, Daniel Hershcovich, Yova Kementchedjhieva, Lukas Nielsen, Chen Qiu, Anders Søgaard

Negation is one of the most fundamental concepts in human cognition and language, and several natural language inference (NLI) probes have been designed to investigate pretrained language models’ ability to detect and reason with negation.

Natural Language Inference Negation

Does Mapo Tofu Contain Coffee? Probing LLMs for Food-related Cultural Knowledge

no code implementations10 Apr 2024 Li Zhou, Taelin Karidi, Nicolas Garneau, Yong Cao, Wanlong Liu, Wenyu Chen, Daniel Hershcovich

Recent studies have highlighted the presence of cultural biases in Large Language Models (LLMs), yet often lack a robust methodology to dissect these phenomena comprehensively.

UniMEEC: Towards Unified Multimodal Emotion Recognition and Emotion Cause

no code implementations30 Mar 2024 Guimin Hu, Zhihong Zhu, Daniel Hershcovich, Hasti Seifi, Jiayuan Xie

In this paper, we propose a Unified Multimodal Emotion recognition and Emotion-Cause analysis framework (UniMEEC) to explore the causality and complementarity between emotion and emotion cause.

Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction Emotion Recognition in Conversation +1

Exploring Visual Culture Awareness in GPT-4V: A Comprehensive Probing

no code implementations8 Feb 2024 Yong Cao, Wenyan Li, Jiaang Li, Yifei Yuan, Antonia Karamolegkou, Daniel Hershcovich

Pretrained large Vision-Language models have drawn considerable interest in recent years due to their remarkable performance.

Image Captioning TAG

Bridging Cultural Nuances in Dialogue Agents through Cultural Value Surveys

1 code implementation18 Jan 2024 Yong Cao, Min Chen, Daniel Hershcovich

The cultural landscape of interactions with dialogue agents is a compelling yet relatively unexplored territory.

Dialogue Generation

Cultural Adaptation of Recipes

no code implementations26 Oct 2023 Yong Cao, Yova Kementchedjhieva, Ruixiang Cui, Antonia Karamolegkou, Li Zhou, Megan Dare, Lucia Donatelli, Daniel Hershcovich

We introduce a new task involving the translation and cultural adaptation of recipes between Chinese and English-speaking cuisines.

Information Retrieval Machine Translation +1

Rethinking Relation Classification with Graph Meaning Representations

no code implementations15 Oct 2023 Li Zhou, Wenyu Chen, Dingyi Zeng, Malu Zhang, Daniel Hershcovich

In the field of natural language understanding, the intersection of neural models and graph meaning representations (GMRs) remains a compelling area of research.

Classification Natural Language Understanding +3

Cultural Compass: Predicting Transfer Learning Success in Offensive Language Detection with Cultural Features

1 code implementation10 Oct 2023 Li Zhou, Antonia Karamolegkou, Wenyu Chen, Daniel Hershcovich

The increasing ubiquity of language technology necessitates a shift towards considering cultural diversity in the machine learning realm, particularly for subjective tasks that rely heavily on cultural nuances, such as Offensive Language Detection (OLD).

Transfer Learning

Geo-Encoder: A Chunk-Argument Bi-Encoder Framework for Chinese Geographic Re-Ranking

1 code implementation4 Sep 2023 Yong Cao, Ruixue Ding, Boli Chen, Xianzhi Li, Min Chen, Daniel Hershcovich, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang

Chinese geographic re-ranking task aims to find the most relevant addresses among retrieved candidates, which is crucial for location-related services such as navigation maps.

Chunking Multi-Task Learning +1

On Evaluating Multilingual Compositional Generalization with Translated Datasets

1 code implementation20 Jun 2023 Zi Wang, Daniel Hershcovich

To address this limitation, we craft a faithful rule-based translation of the MCWQ dataset from English to Chinese and Japanese.

Machine Translation Semantic Parsing +1

What does the Failure to Reason with "Respectively" in Zero/Few-Shot Settings Tell Us about Language Models?

no code implementations31 May 2023 Ruixiang Cui, Seolhwa Lee, Daniel Hershcovich, Anders Søgaard

Humans can effortlessly understand the coordinate structure of sentences such as "Niels Bohr and Kurt Cobain were born in Copenhagen and Seattle, respectively".

Common Sense Reasoning Few-Shot Learning +2

What's the Meaning of Superhuman Performance in Today's NLU?

no code implementations15 May 2023 Simone Tedeschi, Johan Bos, Thierry Declerck, Jan Hajic, Daniel Hershcovich, Eduard H. Hovy, Alexander Koller, Simon Krek, Steven Schockaert, Rico Sennrich, Ekaterina Shutova, Roberto Navigli

In the last five years, there has been a significant focus in Natural Language Processing (NLP) on developing larger Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) and introducing benchmarks such as SuperGLUE and SQuAD to measure their abilities in language understanding, reasoning, and reading comprehension.

Position Reading Comprehension

Pay More Attention to Relation Exploration for Knowledge Base Question Answering

no code implementations3 May 2023 Yong Cao, Xianzhi Li, Huiwen Liu, Wen Dai, Shuai Chen, Bin Wang, Min Chen, Daniel Hershcovich

In this study, we propose a novel framework, RE-KBQA, that utilizes relations in the knowledge base to enhance entity representation and introduce additional supervision.

Knowledge Base Question Answering Relation +1

Assessing Cross-Cultural Alignment between ChatGPT and Human Societies: An Empirical Study

1 code implementation30 Mar 2023 Yong Cao, Li Zhou, Seolhwa Lee, Laura Cabello, Min Chen, Daniel Hershcovich

The recent release of ChatGPT has garnered widespread recognition for its exceptional ability to generate human-like responses in dialogue.

Cultural Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction

A Two-Sided Discussion of Preregistration of NLP Research

no code implementations20 Feb 2023 Anders Søgaard, Daniel Hershcovich, Miryam de Lhoneux

Van Miltenburg et al. (2021) suggest NLP research should adopt preregistration to prevent fishing expeditions and to promote publication of negative results.

Vocal Bursts Valence Prediction

Towards Climate Awareness in NLP Research

1 code implementation10 May 2022 Daniel Hershcovich, Nicolas Webersinke, Mathias Kraus, Julia Anna Bingler, Markus Leippold

We argue that this deficiency is one of the reasons why very few publications in NLP report key figures that would allow a more thorough examination of environmental impact.

Evaluating Deep Taylor Decomposition for Reliability Assessment in the Wild

1 code implementation3 May 2022 Stephanie Brandl, Daniel Hershcovich, Anders Søgaard

We argue that we need to evaluate model interpretability methods 'in the wild', i. e., in situations where professionals make critical decisions, and models can potentially assist them.

Decision Making

Generalized Quantifiers as a Source of Error in Multilingual NLU Benchmarks

1 code implementation NAACL (DADC) 2022 Ruixiang Cui, Daniel Hershcovich, Anders Søgaard

Logical approaches to representing language have developed and evaluated computational models of quantifier words since the 19th century, but today's NLU models still struggle to capture their semantics.

Can Language Models Encode Perceptual Structure Without Grounding? A Case Study in Color

no code implementations CoNLL (EMNLP) 2021 Mostafa Abdou, Artur Kulmizev, Daniel Hershcovich, Stella Frank, Ellie Pavlick, Anders Søgaard

Pretrained language models have been shown to encode relational information, such as the relations between entities or concepts in knowledge-bases -- (Paris, Capital, France).

Compositional Generalization in Multilingual Semantic Parsing over Wikidata

1 code implementation7 Aug 2021 Ruixiang Cui, Rahul Aralikatte, Heather Lent, Daniel Hershcovich

We introduce such a dataset, which we call Multilingual Compositional Wikidata Questions (MCWQ), and use it to analyze the compositional generalization of semantic parsers in Hebrew, Kannada, Chinese and English.

Semantic Parsing Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer

Meaning Representation of Numeric Fused-Heads in UCCA

no code implementations4 Jun 2021 Ruixiang Cui, Daniel Hershcovich

We exhibit that the implicit UCCA parser does not address numeric fused-heads (NFHs) consistently, which could result either from inconsistent annotation, insufficient training data or a modelling limitation.

Machine Translation Natural Language Inference +2

Great Service! Fine-grained Parsing of Implicit Arguments

1 code implementation ACL (IWPT) 2021 Ruixiang Cui, Daniel Hershcovich

Broad-coverage meaning representations in NLP mostly focus on explicitly expressed content.

Scaling Creative Inspiration with Fine-Grained Functional Aspects of Ideas

no code implementations19 Feb 2021 Tom Hope, Ronen Tamari, Hyeonsu Kang, Daniel Hershcovich, Joel Chan, Aniket Kittur, Dafna Shahaf

Large repositories of products, patents and scientific papers offer an opportunity for building systems that scour millions of ideas and help users discover inspirations.

Does injecting linguistic structure into language models lead to better alignment with brain recordings?

no code implementations29 Jan 2021 Mostafa Abdou, Ana Valeria Gonzalez, Mariya Toneva, Daniel Hershcovich, Anders Søgaard

We evaluate across two fMRI datasets whether language models align better with brain recordings, if their attention is biased by annotations from syntactic or semantic formalisms.

Cross-lingual Semantic Representation for NLP with UCCA

no code implementations COLING 2020 Omri Abend, Dotan Dvir, Daniel Hershcovich, Jakob Prange, Nathan Schneider

This is an introductory tutorial to UCCA (Universal Conceptual Cognitive Annotation), a cross-linguistically applicable framework for semantic representation, with corpora annotated in English, German and French, and ongoing annotation in Russian and Hebrew.

Philosophy UCCA Parsing

Comparison by Conversion: Reverse-Engineering UCCA from Syntax and Lexical Semantics

2 code implementations COLING 2020 Daniel Hershcovich, Nathan Schneider, Dotan Dvir, Jakob Prange, Miryam de Lhoneux, Omri Abend

Building robust natural language understanding systems will require a clear characterization of whether and how various linguistic meaning representations complement each other.

Natural Language Understanding Sentence

HUJI-KU at MRP 2020: Two Transition-based Neural Parsers

no code implementations CONLL 2020 Ofir Arviv, Ruixiang Cui, Daniel Hershcovich

This paper describes the HUJI-KU system submission to the shared task on CrossFramework Meaning Representation Parsing (MRP) at the 2020 Conference for Computational Language Learning (CoNLL), employing TUPA and the HIT-SCIR parser, which were, respectively, the baseline system and winning system in the 2019 MRP shared task.

Vocal Bursts Valence Prediction

MRP 2020: The Second Shared Task on Cross-Framework and Cross-Lingual Meaning Representation Parsing

no code implementations CONLL 2020 Stephan Oepen, Omri Abend, Lasha Abzianidze, Johan Bos, Jan Hajic, Daniel Hershcovich, Bin Li, Tim O{'}Gorman, Nianwen Xue, Daniel Zeman

Extending a similar setup from the previous year, five distinct approaches to the representation of sentence meaning in the form of directed graphs were represented in the English training and evaluation data for the task, packaged in a uniform graph abstraction and serialization; for four of these representation frameworks, additional training and evaluation data was provided for one additional language per framework.

Sentence

HUJI-KU at MRP~2020: Two Transition-based Neural Parsers

no code implementations12 Oct 2020 Ofir Arviv, Ruixiang Cui, Daniel Hershcovich

This paper describes the HUJI-KU system submission to the shared task on Cross-Framework Meaning Representation Parsing (MRP) at the 2020 Conference for Computational Language Learning (CoNLL), employing TUPA and the HIT-SCIR parser, which were, respectively, the baseline system and winning system in the 2019 MRP shared task.

Semantic Parsing Vocal Bursts Valence Prediction

Joint Semantic Analysis with Document-Level Cross-Task Coherence Rewards

1 code implementation12 Oct 2020 Rahul Aralikatte, Mostafa Abdou, Heather Lent, Daniel Hershcovich, Anders Søgaard

Coreference resolution and semantic role labeling are NLP tasks that capture different aspects of semantics, indicating respectively, which expressions refer to the same entity, and what semantic roles expressions serve in the sentence.

coreference-resolution Natural Language Understanding +2

Køpsala: Transition-Based Graph Parsing via Efficient Training and Effective Encoding

1 code implementation25 May 2020 Daniel Hershcovich, Miryam de Lhoneux, Artur Kulmizev, Elham Pejhan, Joakim Nivre

We present K{\o}psala, the Copenhagen-Uppsala system for the Enhanced Universal Dependencies Shared Task at IWPT 2020.

Sentence

Lexical Semantic Recognition

2 code implementations ACL (MWE) 2021 Nelson F. Liu, Daniel Hershcovich, Michael Kranzlein, Nathan Schneider

In lexical semantics, full-sentence segmentation and segment labeling of various phenomena are generally treated separately, despite their interdependence.

Natural Language Understanding Sentence +1

MRP 2019: Cross-Framework Meaning Representation Parsing

no code implementations CONLL 2019 Stephan Oepen, Omri Abend, Jan Hajic, Daniel Hershcovich, Marco Kuhlmann, Tim O{'}Gorman, Nianwen Xue, Jayeol Chun, Milan Straka, Zdenka Uresova

The 2019 Shared Task at the Conference for Computational Language Learning (CoNLL) was devoted to Meaning Representation Parsing (MRP) across frameworks.

Sentence

TUPA at MRP 2019: A Multi-Task Baseline System

no code implementations CONLL 2019 Daniel Hershcovich, Ofir Arviv

This paper describes the TUPA system submission to the shared task on Cross-Framework Meaning Representation Parsing (MRP) at the 2019 Conference for Computational Language Learning (CoNLL).

Multi-Task Learning UCCA Parsing

Rewarding Coreference Resolvers for Being Consistent with World Knowledge

1 code implementation IJCNLP 2019 Rahul Aralikatte, Heather Lent, Ana Valeria Gonzalez, Daniel Hershcovich, Chen Qiu, Anders Sandholm, Michael Ringaard, Anders Søgaard

Unresolved coreference is a bottleneck for relation extraction, and high-quality coreference resolvers may produce an output that makes it a lot easier to extract knowledge triples.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL) +3

Argument Invention from First Principles

no code implementations ACL 2019 Yonatan Bilu, Ariel Gera, Daniel Hershcovich, Benjamin Sznajder, Dan Lahav, Guy Moshkowich, Anael Malet, Assaf Gavron, Noam Slonim

In this work we aim to explicitly define a taxonomy of such principled recurring arguments, and, given a controversial topic, to automatically identify which of these arguments are relevant to the topic.

Content Differences in Syntactic and Semantic Representation

2 code implementations NAACL 2019 Daniel Hershcovich, Omri Abend, Ari Rappoport

Syntactic analysis plays an important role in semantic parsing, but the nature of this role remains a topic of ongoing debate.

UCCA Parsing

The Language of Legal and Illegal Activity on the Darknet

2 code implementations ACL 2019 Leshem Choshen, Dan Eldad, Daniel Hershcovich, Elior Sulem, Omri Abend

The non-indexed parts of the Internet (the Darknet) have become a haven for both legal and illegal anonymous activity.

POS

Syntactic Interchangeability in Word Embedding Models

1 code implementation WS 2019 Daniel Hershcovich, Assaf Toledo, Alon Halfon, Noam Slonim

Nearest neighbors in word embedding models are commonly observed to be semantically similar, but the relations between them can vary greatly.

POS valid +1

Content Differences in Syntactic and Semantic Representations

1 code implementation15 Mar 2019 Daniel Hershcovich, Omri Abend, Ari Rappoport

Syntactic analysis plays an important role in semantic parsing, but the nature of this role remains a topic of ongoing debate.

UCCA Parsing

SemEval-2019 Task 1: Cross-lingual Semantic Parsing with UCCA

no code implementations SEMEVAL 2019 Daniel Hershcovich, Zohar Aizenbud, Leshem Choshen, Elior Sulem, Ari Rappoport, Omri Abend

We present the SemEval 2019 shared task on UCCA parsing in English, German and French, and discuss the participating systems and results.

UCCA Parsing

SemEval 2019 Shared Task: Cross-lingual Semantic Parsing with UCCA - Call for Participation

no code implementations31 May 2018 Daniel Hershcovich, Leshem Choshen, Elior Sulem, Zohar Aizenbud, Ari Rappoport, Omri Abend

Given the success of recent semantic parsing shared tasks (on SDP and AMR), we expect the task to have a significant contribution to the advancement of UCCA parsing in particular, and semantic parsing in general.

UCCA Parsing

Multitask Parsing Across Semantic Representations

1 code implementation ACL 2018 Daniel Hershcovich, Omri Abend, Ari Rappoport

The ability to consolidate information of different types is at the core of intelligence, and has tremendous practical value in allowing learning for one task to benefit from generalizations learned for others.

UCCA Parsing

A Transition-Based Directed Acyclic Graph Parser for UCCA

1 code implementation ACL 2017 Daniel Hershcovich, Omri Abend, Ari Rappoport

We present the first parser for UCCA, a cross-linguistically applicable framework for semantic representation, which builds on extensive typological work and supports rapid annotation.

UCCA Parsing

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