Search Results for author: Michael Roth

Found 34 papers, 3 papers with code

UnImplicit Shared Task Report: Detecting Clarification Requirements in Instructional Text

no code implementations ACL (unimplicit) 2021 Michael Roth, Talita Anthonio

This paper describes the data, task setup, and results of the shared task at the First Workshop on Understanding Implicit and Underspecified Language (UnImplicit).

Sentence

Resolving Implicit References in Instructional Texts

no code implementations CODI 2021 Talita Anthonio, Michael Roth

The usage of (co-)referring expressions in discourse contributes to the coherence of a text.

Reading Comprehension

Predicting Coreference in Abstract Meaning Representations

no code implementations COLING (CRAC) 2020 Tatiana Anikina, Alexander Koller, Michael Roth

This work addresses coreference resolution in Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) graphs, a popular formalism for semantic parsing.

coreference-resolution Semantic Parsing

Clarifying Implicit and Underspecified Phrases in Instructional Text

no code implementations LREC 2022 Talita Anthonio, Anna Sauer, Michael Roth

In this paper, we present a data set of such phrases in English from instructional texts together with multiple possible clarifications.

Language Modelling

Towards Modeling Revision Requirements in wikiHow Instructions

no code implementations EMNLP 2020 Irshad Bhat, Talita Anthonio, Michael Roth

wikiHow is a resource of how-to guidesthat describe the steps necessary to accomplish a goal.

A Computational Analysis of Vagueness in Revisions of Instructional Texts

no code implementations EACL 2021 Alok Debnath, Michael Roth

WikiHow is an open-domain repository of instructional articles for a variety of tasks, which can be revised by users.

How-to Guides for Specific Audiences: A Corpus and Initial Findings

no code implementations21 Sep 2023 Nicola Fanton, Agnieszka Falenska, Michael Roth

Instructional texts for specific target groups should ideally take into account the prior knowledge and needs of the readers in order to guide them efficiently to their desired goals.

Exploring the trilemma of cost-efficient, equitable and publicly acceptable onshore wind expansion planning

no code implementations29 Jun 2021 Jann Michael Weinand, Russell McKenna, Heidi Heinrichs, Michael Roth, Detlef Stolten, Wolf Fichtner

Onshore wind development has historically focused on cost-efficiency, which may lead to inequitable turbine distributions and public resistance due to landscape impacts.

What Can We Learn from Noun Substitutions in Revision Histories?

no code implementations COLING 2020 Talita Anthonio, Michael Roth

The subset of revisions considered here are noun substitutions, which often involve interesting semantic relations, including synonymy, antonymy and hypernymy.

Sentence Specificity

wikiHowToImprove: A Resource and Analyses on Edits in Instructional Texts

no code implementations LREC 2020 Talita Anthonio, Irshad Bhat, Michael Roth

Instructional texts, such as articles in wikiHow, describe the actions necessary to accomplish a certain goal.

Sentence

HAWKEYE: Adversarial Example Detector for Deep Neural Networks

no code implementations22 Sep 2019 Jinkyu Koo, Michael Roth, Saurabh Bagchi

Adversarial examples (AEs) are images that can mislead deep neural network (DNN) classifiers via introducing slight perturbations into original images.

Quantization

Combining Discourse Markers and Cross-lingual Embeddings for Synonym--Antonym Classification

no code implementations NAACL 2019 Michael Roth, Shyam Upadhyay

It is well-known that distributional semantic approaches have difficulty in distinguishing between synonyms and antonyms (Grefenstette, 1992; Pad{\'o} and Lapata, 2003).

Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings General Classification +1

MCScript2.0: A Machine Comprehension Corpus Focused on Script Events and Participants

no code implementations SEMEVAL 2019 Simon Ostermann, Michael Roth, Manfred Pinkal

Half of the questions cannot be answered from the reading texts, but require the use of commonsense and, in particular, script knowledge.

Reading Comprehension

Role Semantics for Better Models of Implicit Discourse Relations

no code implementations WS 2017 Michael Roth

Predicting the structure of a discourse is challenging because relations between discourse segments are often implicit and thus hard to distinguish computationally.

Visually grounded cross-lingual keyword spotting in speech

no code implementations13 Jun 2018 Herman Kamper, Michael Roth

Recent work considered how images paired with speech can be used as supervision for building speech systems when transcriptions are not available.

Keyword Spotting Visual Grounding

MCScript: A Novel Dataset for Assessing Machine Comprehension Using Script Knowledge

no code implementations LREC 2018 Simon Ostermann, Ashutosh Modi, Michael Roth, Stefan Thater, Manfred Pinkal

We introduce a large dataset of narrative texts and questions about these texts, intended to be used in a machine comprehension task that requires reasoning using commonsense knowledge.

Natural Language Understanding Reading Comprehension

Aligning Script Events with Narrative Texts

no code implementations SEMEVAL 2017 Simon Ostermann, Michael Roth, Stefan Thater, Manfred Pinkal

Script knowledge plays a central role in text understanding and is relevant for a variety of downstream tasks.

Neural Semantic Role Labeling with Dependency Path Embeddings

1 code implementation ACL 2016 Michael Roth, Mirella Lapata

This paper introduces a novel model for semantic role labeling that makes use of neural sequence modeling techniques.

Semantic Role Labeling

Context-aware Frame-Semantic Role Labeling

1 code implementation TACL 2015 Michael Roth, Mirella Lapata

Frame semantic representations have been useful in several applications ranging from text-to-scene generation, to question answering and social network analysis.

Question Answering Scene Generation +3

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