no code implementations • SIGDIAL (ACL) 2021 • Khyati Mahajan, Samira Shaikh
We present a comprehensive survey of available corpora for multi-party dialogue.
no code implementations • LREC 2022 • Jennifer Tracey, Owen Rambow, Claire Cardie, Adam Dalton, Hoa Trang Dang, Mona Diab, Bonnie Dorr, Louise Guthrie, Magdalena Markowska, Smaranda Muresan, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Samira Shaikh, Tomek Strzalkowski
We present the BeSt corpus, which records cognitive state: who believes what (i. e., factuality), and who has what sentiment towards what.
no code implementations • 18 Mar 2022 • Shikib Mehri, Jinho Choi, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Jan Deriu, Maxine Eskenazi, Milica Gasic, Kallirroi Georgila, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Zekang Li, Verena Rieser, Samira Shaikh, David Traum, Yi-Ting Yeh, Zhou Yu, Yizhe Zhang, Chen Zhang
This is a report on the NSF Future Directions Workshop on Automatic Evaluation of Dialog.
no code implementations • 10 Feb 2022 • Erfan Al-Hossami, Samira Shaikh
Then, we overview the field of conversational assistants and their applications in software engineering and education.
1 code implementation • 8 Feb 2022 • Pietro Liguori, Erfan Al-Hossami, Domenico Cotroneo, Roberto Natella, Bojan Cukic, Samira Shaikh
Writing software exploits is an important practice for offensive security analysts to investigate and prevent attacks.
Ranked #1 on
Code Generation
on Shellcode_IA32
no code implementations • ACL 2021 • Lolo Aboufoul, Khyati Mahajan, Tiffany Gallicano, Sara Levens, Samira Shaikh
The events that took place at the Unite the Right rally held in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 11-12, 2017 caused intense reaction on social media from users across the political spectrum.
1 code implementation • ACL (NLP4Prog) 2021 • Pietro Liguori, Erfan Al-Hossami, Domenico Cotroneo, Roberto Natella, Bojan Cukic, Samira Shaikh
We take the first step to address the task of automatically generating shellcodes, i. e., small pieces of code used as a payload in the exploitation of a software vulnerability, starting from natural language comments.
Ranked #3 on
Code Generation
on Shellcode_IA32
1 code implementation • 19 Apr 2021 • Khyati Mahajan, Erfan Al-Hossami, Samira Shaikh
We describe our approach to fine-tuning RoBERTa for Hope Speech detection in English and our approach to fine-tuning XLM-RoBERTa for Hope Speech detection in Tamil and Malayalam, two low resource Indic languages.
Ranked #1 on
Hope Speech Detection for English
on HopeEDI
no code implementations • ACL (GEM) 2021 • Sebastian Gehrmann, Tosin Adewumi, Karmanya Aggarwal, Pawan Sasanka Ammanamanchi, Aremu Anuoluwapo, Antoine Bosselut, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Miruna Clinciu, Dipanjan Das, Kaustubh D. Dhole, Wanyu Du, Esin Durmus, Ondřej Dušek, Chris Emezue, Varun Gangal, Cristina Garbacea, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Yufang Hou, Yacine Jernite, Harsh Jhamtani, Yangfeng Ji, Shailza Jolly, Mihir Kale, Dhruv Kumar, Faisal Ladhak, Aman Madaan, Mounica Maddela, Khyati Mahajan, Saad Mahamood, Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Pedro Henrique Martins, Angelina McMillan-Major, Simon Mille, Emiel van Miltenburg, Moin Nadeem, Shashi Narayan, Vitaly Nikolaev, Rubungo Andre Niyongabo, Salomey Osei, Ankur Parikh, Laura Perez-Beltrachini, Niranjan Ramesh Rao, Vikas Raunak, Juan Diego Rodriguez, Sashank Santhanam, João Sedoc, Thibault Sellam, Samira Shaikh, Anastasia Shimorina, Marco Antonio Sobrevilla Cabezudo, Hendrik Strobelt, Nishant Subramani, Wei Xu, Diyi Yang, Akhila Yerukola, Jiawei Zhou
We introduce GEM, a living benchmark for natural language Generation (NLG), its Evaluation, and Metrics.
Ranked #1 on
Extreme Summarization
on GEM-XSum
Abstractive Text Summarization
Cross-Lingual Abstractive Summarization
+5
no code implementations • Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020 • Sashank Santhanam, Zhuo Cheng, Brodie Mather, Bonnie Dorr, Archna Bhatia, Bryanna Hebenstreit, Alan Zemel, Adam Dalton, Tomek Strzalkowski, Samira Shaikh
Achieving true human-like ability to conduct a conversation remains an elusive goal for open-ended dialogue systems.
no code implementations • WS 2020 • Sashank Santhanam, Samira Shaikh
Evaluation of output from natural language generation (NLG) systems is typically conducted via crowdsourced human judgments.
no code implementations • WS 2020 • Khyati Mahajan, Samira Shaikh
We highlight the contribution of emotional and moral language towards information contagion online.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Adam Dalton, Ehsan Aghaei, Ehab Al-Shaer, Archna Bhatia, Esteban Castillo, Zhuo Cheng, Sreekar Dhaduvai, Qi Duan, Bryanna Hebenstreit, Md Mazharul Islam, Younes Karimi, Amir Masoumzadeh, Brodie Mather, Sashank Santhanam, Samira Shaikh, Alan Zemel, Tomek Strzalkowski, Bonnie J. Dorr
We describe a system that supports natural language processing (NLP) components for active defenses against social engineering attacks.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Archna Bhatia, Adam Dalton, Brodie Mather, Sashank Santhanam, Samira Shaikh, Alan Zemel, Tomek Strzalkowski, Bonnie J. Dorr
We present a paradigm for extensible lexicon development based on Lexical Conceptual Structure to support social engineering detection and response generation.
no code implementations • 20 Apr 2020 • Adam Dalton, Ehsan Aghaei, Ehab Al-Shaer, Archna Bhatia, Esteban Castillo, Zhuo Cheng, Sreekar Dhaduvai, Qi Duan, Md Mazharul Islam, Younes Karimi, Amir Masoumzadeh, Brodie Mather, Sashank Santhanam, Samira Shaikh, Tomek Strzalkowski, Bonnie J. Dorr
We describe Panacea, a system that supports natural language processing (NLP) components for active defenses against social engineering attacks.
no code implementations • 25 Feb 2020 • Bonnie J. Dorr, Archna Bhatia, Adam Dalton, Brodie Mather, Bryanna Hebenstreit, Sashank Santhanam, Zhuo Cheng, Samira Shaikh, Alan Zemel, Tomek Strzalkowski
Social engineers attempt to manipulate users into undertaking actions such as downloading malware by clicking links or providing access to money or sensitive information.
no code implementations • 18 Feb 2020 • Sashank Santhanam, Alireza Karduni, Samira Shaikh
To investigate, we conducted a between-subjects study with 77 crowdsourced workers to understand the role of cognitive biases, specifically anchoring bias, when humans are asked to evaluate the output of conversational agents.
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).
1 code implementation • CCNLG (ACL) 2019 • Sashank Santhanam, Samira Shaikh
Emotional language generation is one of the keys to human-like artificial intelligence.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Hani Al-Omari, Malak Abdullah, Ola AlTiti, Samira Shaikh
Defining {``}fake news{''} is not well established yet, however, it can be categorized under several labels: false, biased, or framed to mislead the readers that are characterized as propaganda.
1 code implementation • WS 2019 • Sashank Santhanam, Samira Shaikh
To overcome the limitations of automated metrics (e. g. BLEU, METEOR) for evaluating dialogue systems, researchers typically use human judgments to provide convergent evidence.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Khyati Mahajan, Samira Shaikh
We study emoji usage patterns across two social media platforms, one of them considered a fringe community called Gab, and the other Twitter.
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.
no code implementations • 2 Jun 2019 • Sashank Santhanam, Samira Shaikh
We provide a comprehensive review towards building open domain dialogue systems, an important application of natural language generation.
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2018 • Malak Abdullah, Samira Shaikh
This paper describes TeamUNCC{'}s system to detect emotions in English and Arabic tweets.
no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Ting Liu, Kit Cho, Tomek Strzalkowski, Samira Shaikh, Mehrdad Mirzaei
In this article, we present a method to validate a multi-lingual (English, Spanish, Russian, and Farsi) corpus on imageability ratings automatically expanded from MRCPD (Liu et al., 2014).
no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Samira Shaikh, Kit Cho, Tomek Strzalkowski, Laurie Feldman, John Lien, Ting Liu, George Aaron Broadwell
The main contributions of this work are: 1) A general method for expansion and creation of lexicons with scores of words on psychological constructs such as valence, arousal or dominance; and 2) a procedure for ensuring validity of the newly constructed resources.
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2015 • Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Tomas By, Julia Hirschberg, Owen Rambow, Samira Shaikh, Tomek Strzalkowski, Jennifer Tracey, Michael Arrigo, Rupayan Basu, Micah Clark, Adam Dalton, Mona Diab, Louise Guthrie, Anna Prokofieva, Stephanie Strassel, Gregory Werner, Yorick Wilks, Janyce Wiebe
no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Samira Shaikh, Tomek Strzalkowski, Ting Liu, George Aaron Broadwell, Boris Yamrom, Sarah Taylor, Laurie Feldman, Kit Cho, Umit Boz, Ignacio Cases, Yuliya Peshkova, Ching-Sheng Lin
Researchers in the field can use this resource as a reference of typical metaphors used across these cultures.
no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Ting Liu, Kit Cho, G. Aaron Broadwell, Samira Shaikh, Tomek Strzalkowski, John Lien, Sarah Taylor, Laurie Feldman, Boris Yamrom, Nick Webb, Umit Boz, Ignacio Cases, Ching-Sheng Lin
Unfortunately, word imageability ratings were collected for only a limited number of words: 9, 240 words in English, 6, 233 in Spanish; and are unavailable at all in the other two languages studied: Russian and Farsi.
no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Ting Liu, Samira Shaikh, Tomek Strzalkowski, Aaron Broadwell, Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Sarah Taylor, Umit Boz, Xiaoai Ren, Jingsi Wu
In this paper, we report our efforts in building a multi-lingual multi-party online chat corpus in order to develop a firm understanding in a set of social constructs such as agenda control, influence, and leadership as well as to computationally model such constructs in online interactions.
no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Ching-Sheng Lin, Zumrut Akcam, Samira Shaikh, Sharon Small, Ken Stahl, Tomek Strzalkowski, Nick Webb
The hypothesis of this work is that there are communities or groups which can be characterized by a network of concepts and the corresponding valuations of those concepts that are agreed upon by the members of the community.