Search Results for author: Diana Maynard

Found 15 papers, 4 papers with code

Large Scale Semantic Annotation, Indexing and Search at The National Archives

no code implementations LREC 2012 Diana Maynard, Mark A. Greenwood

This paper describes a tool developed to improve access to the enormous volume of data housed at the UK's National Archives, both for the general public and for specialist researchers.

Who cares about Sarcastic Tweets? Investigating the Impact of Sarcasm on Sentiment Analysis.

no code implementations LREC 2014 Diana Maynard, Mark Greenwood

Sarcasm is a common phenomenon in social media, and is inherently difficult to analyse, not just automatically but often for humans too.

Opinion Mining Sarcasm Detection +1

Analysis of Named Entity Recognition and Linking for Tweets

no code implementations27 Oct 2014 Leon Derczynski, Diana Maynard, Giuseppe Rizzo, Marieke van Erp, Genevieve Gorrell, Raphaël Troncy, Johann Petrak, Kalina Bontcheva

Applying natural language processing for mining and intelligent information access to tweets (a form of microblog) is a challenging, emerging research area.

Entity Disambiguation Language Identification +4

Challenges of Evaluating Sentiment Analysis Tools on Social Media

no code implementations LREC 2016 Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva

This paper discusses the challenges in carrying out fair comparative evaluations of sentiment analysis systems.

Sentiment Analysis

Helping Crisis Responders Find the Informative Needle in the Tweet Haystack

1 code implementation29 Jan 2018 Leon Derczynski, Kenny Meesters, Kalina Bontcheva, Diana Maynard

Messages are filtered for informativeness based on a definition of the concept drawn from prior research and crisis response experts.

General Classification Informativeness

Classification Aware Neural Topic Model and its Application on a New COVID-19 Disinformation Corpus

no code implementations5 Jun 2020 Xingyi Song, Johann Petrak, Ye Jiang, Iknoor Singh, Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva

The explosion of disinformation accompanying the COVID-19 pandemic has overloaded fact-checkers and media worldwide, and brought a new major challenge to government responses worldwide.

Fact Checking General Classification

Examining Temporal Bias in Abusive Language Detection

no code implementations25 Sep 2023 Mali Jin, Yida Mu, Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva

The use of abusive language online has become an increasingly pervasive problem that damages both individuals and society, with effects ranging from psychological harm right through to escalation to real-life violence and even death.

Abusive Language

Dimensions of Online Conflict: Towards Modeling Agonism

1 code implementation6 Nov 2023 Matt Canute, Mali Jin, hannah holtzclaw, Alberto Lusoli, Philippa R Adams, Mugdha Pandya, Maite Taboada, Diana Maynard, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Agonism plays a vital role in democratic dialogue by fostering diverse perspectives and robust discussions.

Development of a Benchmark Corpus to Support Entity Recognition in Job Descriptions

no code implementations LREC 2022 Thomas Green, Diana Maynard, Chenghua Lin

We present the development of a benchmark suite consisting of an annotation schema, training corpus and baseline model for Entity Recognition (ER) in job descriptions, published under a Creative Commons license.

Recommendation Systems

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