Search Results for author: Paul Buitelaar

Found 60 papers, 4 papers with code

NUIG-DSI at the WebNLG+ challenge: Leveraging Transfer Learning for RDF-to-text generation

no code implementations ACL (WebNLG, INLG) 2020 Nivranshu Pasricha, Mihael Arcan, Paul Buitelaar

This paper describes the system submitted by NUIG-DSI to the WebNLG+ challenge 2020 in the RDF-to-text generation task for the English language.

Text Generation Transfer Learning

Utilising Knowledge Graph Embeddings for Data-to-Text Generation

no code implementations ACL (WebNLG, INLG) 2020 Nivranshu Pasricha, Mihael Arcan, Paul Buitelaar

Data-to-text generation has recently seen a move away from modular and pipeline architectures towards end-to-end architectures based on neural networks.

Data-to-Text Generation Knowledge Graph Embeddings

Enhancing Multiple-Choice Question Answering with Causal Knowledge

no code implementations NAACL (DeeLIO) 2021 Dhairya Dalal, Mihael Arcan, Paul Buitelaar

To the best of our knowledge, no prior work has explored the efficacy of augmenting pretrained language models with external causal knowledge for multiple-choice causal question answering.

Multiple-choice Question Answering

A Hybrid Approach To Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis Using Transfer Learning

no code implementations25 Mar 2024 Gaurav Negi, Rajdeep Sarkar, Omnia Zayed, Paul Buitelaar

The approach focuses on generating weakly-supervised annotations by exploiting the strengths of both large language models (LLM) and traditional syntactic dependencies.

Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) +5

Inference to the Best Explanation in Large Language Models

no code implementations16 Feb 2024 Dhairya Dalal, Marco Valentino, André Freitas, Paul Buitelaar

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have found success in real-world applications, their underlying explanatory process is still poorly understood.

Question Answering

Empowering recommender systems using automatically generated Knowledge Graphs and Reinforcement Learning

1 code implementation11 Jul 2023 Ghanshyam Verma, Shovon Sengupta, Simon Simanta, Huan Chen, Janos A. Perge, Devishree Pillai, John P. McCrae, Paul Buitelaar

Personalized recommendations have a growing importance in direct marketing, which motivates research to enhance customer experiences by knowledge graph (KG) applications.

Decision Making Knowledge Graphs +3

TrollsWithOpinion: A Dataset for Predicting Domain-specific Opinion Manipulation in Troll Memes

no code implementations8 Sep 2021 Shardul Suryawanshi, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Mihael Arcan, Suzanne Little, Paul Buitelaar

To enable this analysis, we enhanced an existing dataset by annotating the data with our defined classes, resulting in a dataset of 8, 881 IWT or multimodal memes in the English language (TrollsWithOpinion dataset).

Adaptation of Word-Level Benchmark Datasets for Relation-Level Metaphor Identification

no code implementations WS 2020 Omnia Zayed, John Philip McCrae, Paul Buitelaar

The majority of current approaches pertaining to metaphor processing concentrate on word-level processing due to data availability.

Relation

Evaluation Dataset and Methodology for Extracting Application-Specific Taxonomies from the Wikipedia Knowledge Graph

no code implementations LREC 2020 Georgeta Bordea, Stefano Faralli, Fleur Mougin, Paul Buitelaar, Gayo Diallo

In this work, we propose an iterative methodology to extract an application-specific gold standard dataset from a knowledge graph and an evaluation framework to comparatively assess the quality of noisy automatically extracted taxonomies.

Knowledge Graphs

Multimodal Meme Dataset (MultiOFF) for Identifying Offensive Content in Image and Text

1 code implementation LREC 2020 Shardul Suryawanshi, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Mihael Arcan, Paul Buitelaar

Since there was no publicly available dataset for multimodal offensive meme content detection, we leveraged the memes related to the 2016 U. S. presidential election and created the MultiOFF multimodal meme dataset for offensive content detection dataset.

Abuse Detection Meme Classification

Figure Me Out: A Gold Standard Dataset for Metaphor Interpretation

no code implementations LREC 2020 Omnia Zayed, John Philip McCrae, Paul Buitelaar

Metaphor comprehension and understanding is a complex cognitive task that requires interpreting metaphors by grasping the interaction between the meaning of their target and source concepts.

Retrieval Semantic Similarity +2

Polylingual Wordnet

no code implementations4 Mar 2019 Mihael Arcan, John McCrae, Paul Buitelaar

The translation of wordnets is fundamentally complex because of the need to translate all senses of a word including low frequency senses, which is very challenging for current machine translation approaches.

Machine Translation Translation +1

Augmenting Neural Machine Translation with Knowledge Graphs

1 code implementation23 Feb 2019 Diego Moussallem, Mihael Arčan, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Paul Buitelaar

While neural networks have been used extensively to make substantial progress in the machine translation task, they are known for being heavily dependent on the availability of large amounts of training data.

Knowledge Graphs Machine Translation +2

Linking News Sentiment to Microblogs: A Distributional Semantics Approach to Enhance Microblog Sentiment Classification

no code implementations WS 2018 Tobias Daudert, Paul Buitelaar

Social media{'}s popularity in society and research is gaining momentum and simultaneously increasing the importance of short textual content such as microblogs.

General Classification Sentiment Analysis +2

Leveraging News Sentiment to Improve Microblog Sentiment Classification in the Financial Domain

no code implementations WS 2018 Tobias Daudert, Paul Buitelaar, Sapna Negi

With the rising popularity of social media in the society and in research, analysing texts short in length, such as microblogs, becomes an increasingly important task.

General Classification Sentiment Analysis +1

Open Domain Suggestion Mining: Problem Definition and Datasets

no code implementations6 Jun 2018 Sapna Negi, Maarten de Rijke, Paul Buitelaar

We first present an annotation study, and based on our observations propose a formal task definition and annotation procedure for creating benchmark datasets for suggestion mining.

Suggestion mining

Phrase-Level Metaphor Identification Using Distributed Representations of Word Meaning

no code implementations WS 2018 Omnia Zayed, John Philip McCrae, Paul Buitelaar

Metaphor is an essential element of human cognition which is often used to express ideas and emotions that might be difficult to express using literal language.

Machine Translation Semantic Textual Similarity +3

Automatic Taxonomy Generation - A Use-Case in the Legal Domain

no code implementations4 Oct 2017 Cécile Robin, James O'Neill, Paul Buitelaar

A key challenge in the legal domain is the adaptation and representation of the legal knowledge expressed through texts, in order for legal practitioners and researchers to access this information easier and faster to help with compliance related issues.

Inducing Distant Supervision in Suggestion Mining through Part-of-Speech Embeddings

no code implementations21 Sep 2017 Sapna Negi, Paul Buitelaar

The distant supervision is obtained through a large silver standard dataset, constructed using the text from wikiHow and Wikipedia.

Classification General Classification +5

Translating Terminological Expressions in Knowledge Bases with Neural Machine Translation

no code implementations7 Sep 2017 Mihael Arcan, Daniel Torregrosa, Paul Buitelaar

Our work presented in this paper focuses on the translation of terminological expressions represented in semantically structured resources, like ontologies or knowledge graphs.

Domain Adaptation Knowledge Graphs +2

Expanding wordnets to new languages with multilingual sense disambiguation

no code implementations COLING 2016 Mihael Arcan, John Philip McCrae, Paul Buitelaar

The translation of wordnets is fundamentally complex because of the need to translate all senses of a word including low frequency senses, which is very challenging for current machine translation approaches.

Information Retrieval Machine Translation +3

Forecasting Emerging Trends from Scientific Literature

no code implementations LREC 2016 Kartik Asooja, Georgeta Bordea, Gabriela Vulcu, Paul Buitelaar

Text analysis methods for the automatic identification of emerging technologies by analyzing the scientific publications, are gaining attention because of their socio-economic impact.

regression Time Series +1

IRIS: English-Irish Machine Translation System

no code implementations LREC 2016 Mihael Arcan, Caoilfhionn Lane, Eoin {\'O} Droighne{\'a}in, Paul Buitelaar

We describe IRIS, a statistical machine translation (SMT) system for translating from English into Irish and vice versa.

Machine Translation Translation

Missed opportunities in translation memory matching

no code implementations LREC 2014 Friedel Wolff, Laurette Pretorius, Paul Buitelaar

It attempts to respond to a query in the source language with a useful target text from the data set to assist a human translator.

Information Retrieval Machine Translation +2

Hot Topics and Schisms in NLP: Community and Trend Analysis with Saffron on ACL and LREC Proceedings

no code implementations LREC 2014 Paul Buitelaar, Georgeta Bordea, Barry Coughlan

In this paper we present a comparative analysis of two series of conferences in the field of Computational Linguistics, the LREC conference and the ACL conference.

Information Retrieval Machine Translation +2

Semi-Supervised Technical Term Tagging With Minimal User Feedback

no code implementations LREC 2012 Behrang QasemiZadeh, Paul Buitelaar, Tianqi Chen, Georgeta Bordea

In this paper, we address the problem of extracting technical terms automatically from an unannotated corpus.

Dependency Parsing Language Modelling +1

Expertise Mining for Enterprise Content Management

no code implementations LREC 2012 Georgeta Bordea, Sabrina Kirrane, Paul Buitelaar, Bianca Pereira

Enterprise content analysis and platform configuration for enterprise content management is often carried out by external consultants that are not necessarily domain experts.

Information Retrieval Management +2

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