It’s not a Non-Issue: Negation as a Source of Error in Machine Translation (open access)

It’s not a Non-Issue: Negation as a Source of Error in Machine Translation

Article investigates whether translating negation is an issue for modern MT systems using 17 translation directions as test bed and provides a linguistically motivated analysis that explains the majority of the findings. The authors release their annotations and code to replicate analysis here: https://github.com/mosharafhossain/negation-mt.
Date: November 2020
Creator: Hossain, Md Mosharaf; Blanco, Eduardo; Palmer, Alexis & Anastasopoulos, Antonios
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determining Event Outcomes: The Case of #fail (open access)

Determining Event Outcomes: The Case of #fail

Article presents research determining event outcomes in social media.
Date: November 2020
Creator: Murugan, Srikala; Chinnappa, DhivyaAssociation for Computational Linguistics & Blanco, Eduardo
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Natural Language Inference Benchmarks through the Lens of Negation (open access)

An Analysis of Natural Language Inference Benchmarks through the Lens of Negation

Article presents a new benchmark for natural language inference in which negation plays a critical role and shows that state-of-the-art transformers struggle making inference judgments with the new pairs.
Date: November 2020
Creator: Hossain, Md Mosharaf; Dutta, Pranoy; Kao, Tiffany; Wei, Elizabeth; Blanco, Eduardo & Kovatchev, Venelin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Helpful or Hierarchical? Predicting the Communicative Strategies of Chat Participants, and their Impact on Success (open access)

Helpful or Hierarchical? Predicting the Communicative Strategies of Chat Participants, and their Impact on Success

Article studies the communication styles present in chat interactions of thousands of aspiring entrepreneurs who discuss and develop business models. The authors find that these styles can be reliably predicted, and that the communication styles can be used to predict a number of indices of business success.
Date: November 2020
Creator: Rashid, Farzana; Blanco, Eduardo; Fornaciari, Tommaso; Hovy, Dirk & Vega-Redondo, Fernando
System: The UNT Digital Library