A Corpus of Negations and their Underlying Positive Interpretations (open access)

A Corpus of Negations and their Underlying Positive Interpretations

Article presenting a corpus of negations and their underlying positive interpretations using negations from Simple Wikipedia, automatically generating potential positive interpretations, and collecting manual annotations that effectively rewrite the negation in positive terms. This article was presented at the Eighth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (SEM 2019) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 6-7, 2019.
Date: June 2019
Creator: Sarabi, Zahra; Killian, Erin; Blanco, Eduardo & Palmer, Alexis
System: The UNT Digital Library
WikiPossessions: Possession Timeline Generation as an Evaluation Benchmark for Machine Reading Comprehension of Long Texts (open access)

WikiPossessions: Possession Timeline Generation as an Evaluation Benchmark for Machine Reading Comprehension of Long Texts

Article presents WikiPossessions, a new benchmark corpus for the task of temporally-oriented possession (TOP), or tracking objects as they change hands over time. In addition to the corpus, the authors release evaluation scripts and a baseline model for the task.
Date: May 2020
Creator: Blanco, Eduardo; Palmer, Alexis & Chinnappa, Dhivya
System: The UNT Digital Library
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