no code implementations • NAACL (CLPsych) 2021 • Anton Malko, Cecile Paris, Andreas Duenser, Maria Kangas, Diego Molla, Ross Sparks, Stephen Wan
Vent is a specialised iOS/Android social media platform with the stated goal to encourage people to post about their feelings and explicitly label them.
no code implementations • COLING 2020 • Chang Xu, Cecile Paris, Ross Sparks, Surya Nepal, Keith VanderLinden
Our experimental results show that SIRTA is highly effective in distilling stances from social posts for SLO level assessment, and that the continuous monitoring of SLO levels afforded by SIRTA enables the early detection of critical SLO changes.
no code implementations • 13 Mar 2020 • Chang Xu, Cecile Paris, Surya Nepal, Ross Sparks, Chong Long, Yafang Wang
We address the issue of having a limited number of annotations for stance classification in a new domain, by adapting out-of-domain classifiers with domain adaptation.
no code implementations • ACL 2019 • Adith Iyer, Aditya Joshi, Sarvnaz Karimi, Ross Sparks, Cecile Paris
The introduction of figurative usage detection results in an average improvement of 2. 21% F-score of personal health mention detection, in the case of the feature augmentation-based approach.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Aditya Joshi, Sarvnaz Karimi, Ross Sparks, Cecile Paris, C Raina MacIntyre
Distributed representations of text can be used as features when training a statistical classifier.
no code implementations • ACL 2019 • Chang Xu, Cecile Paris, Surya Nepal, Ross Sparks
We identify agreement and disagreement between utterances that express stances towards a topic of discussion.
no code implementations • ALTA 2019 • Aditya Joshi, Sarvnaz Karimi, Ross Sparks, Cecile Paris, C Raina MacIntyre
Multi-Task Learning (MTL) has been an attractive approach to deal with limited labeled datasets or leverage related tasks, for a variety of NLP problems.
no code implementations • 14 Mar 2019 • Aditya Joshi, Sarvnaz Karimi, Ross Sparks, Cecile Paris, C Raina MacIntyre
Epidemic intelligence deals with the detection of disease outbreaks using formal (such as hospital records) and informal sources (such as user-generated text on the web) of information.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Aditya Joshi, Xiang Dai, Sarvnaz Karimi, Ross Sparks, C{\'e}cile Paris, C Raina MacIntyre
Vaccination behaviour detection deals with predicting whether or not a person received/was about to receive a vaccine.
1 code implementation • ACL 2018 • Chang Xu, Cecile Paris, Surya Nepal, Ross Sparks
In stance classification, the target on which the stance is made defines the boundary of the task, and a classifier is usually trained for prediction on the same target.