Search Results for author: Ross Sparks

Found 10 papers, 1 papers with code

Demonstrating the Reliability of Self-Annotated Emotion Data

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.

Assessing Social License to Operate from the Public Discourse on Social Media

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.

text-classification Text Classification +2

DAN: Dual-View Representation Learning for Adapting Stance Classifiers to New Domains

no code implementations13 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.

Domain Adaptation Representation Learning +1

Figurative Usage Detection of Symptom Words to Improve Personal Health Mention Detection

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.

Sentence

Recognising Agreement and Disagreement between Stances with Reason Comparing Networks

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.

Does Multi-Task Learning Always Help?: An Evaluation on Health Informatics

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.

Classification General Classification +1

Survey of Text-based Epidemic Intelligence: A Computational Linguistic Perspective

no code implementations14 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.

Event Detection General Classification

Cross-Target Stance Classification with Self-Attention Networks

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.

Classification General Classification +1

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