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This paper describes the participation of the team "TwiSE" in the SemEval 2016 challenge. Specifically, we participated in Task 4, namely "Sentiment Analysis in Twitter" for which we implemented sentiment classification systems for subtasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Georgios Balikas , Massih-Reza Amini

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to achieve high-quality semantic grouping without human-labeled annotations. With the advent of self-supervised pre-training, various frameworks utilize the pre-trained features to train prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Junho Kim , Byung-Kwan Lee , Yong Man Ro

Event detection refers to identifying event occurrences in a text and comprises of two subtasks; event identification and classification. We present EDM3, a novel approach for Event Detection that formulates three generative tasks:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Ujjwala Anantheswaran , Himanshu Gupta , Mihir Parmar , Kuntal Kumar Pal , Chitta Baral

As an essential task in information extraction (IE), Event-Event Causal Relation Extraction (ECRE) aims to identify and classify the causal relationships between event mentions in natural language texts. However, existing research on ECRE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Zimu Wang , Lei Xia , Wei Wang , Xinya Du

Causal influence measures for machine learnt classifiers shed light on the reasons behind classification, and aid in identifying influential input features and revealing their biases. However, such analyses involve evaluating the classifier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Shayak Sen , Piotr Mardziel , Anupam Datta , Matthew Fredrikson

Consumer Event-Cause Extraction, the task aimed at extracting the potential causes behind certain events in the text, has gained much attention in recent years due to its wide applications. The ICDM 2020 conference sets up an evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Congqing He , Jie Zhang , Xiangyu Zhu , Huan Liu , Yukun Huang

We present the results and the main findings of SemEval-2020 Task 11 on Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles. The task featured two subtasks. Subtask SI is about Span Identification: given a plain-text document, spot the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-08 G. Da San Martino , A. Barrón-Cedeño , H. Wachsmuth , R. Petrov , P. Nakov

Distributed representation plays an important role in deep learning based natural language processing. However, the representation of a sentence often varies in different tasks, which is usually learned from scratch and suffers from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Renjie Zheng , Junkun Chen , Xipeng Qiu

Detecting commonsense causal relations (causation) between events has long been an essential yet challenging task. Given that events are complicated, an event may have different causes under various contexts. Thus, exploiting context plays…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Zhaowei Wang , Quyet V. Do , Hongming Zhang , Jiayao Zhang , Weiqi Wang , Tianqing Fang , Yangqiu Song , Ginny Y. Wong , Simon See

Event Causality Identification (ECI) aims at determining whether there is a causal relation between two event mentions. Conventional prompt learning designs a prompt template to first predict an answer word and then maps it to the final…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Wei Xiang , Chuanhong Zhan , Bang Wang

This paper presents our submission to the SemEval 2020 - Task 10 on emphasis selection in written text. We approach this emphasis selection problem as a sequence labeling task where we represent the underlying text with various contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Sarthak Anand , Pradyumna Gupta , Hemant Yadav , Debanjan Mahata , Rakesh Gosangi , Haimin Zhang , Rajiv Ratn Shah

Relation and event extraction is an important task in natural language processing. We introduce a system which uses contextualized knowledge graph completion to classify relations and events between known entities in a noisy text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Chris Miller , Soroush Vosoughi

Recent papers show LLMs achieve near-random accuracy in causal relation classification, raising questions about whether such failures arise from limited pretraining exposure or deeper representational gaps. We investigate this under…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Oscar Lithgow-Serrano , Vani Kanjirangat , Alessandro Antonucci

Event Causality Identification (ECI) requires models to determine whether a given pair of events in a context exhibits a causal relationship. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance across various NLP tasks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Zhifeng Hao , Zhongjie Chen , Junhao Lu , Shengyin Yu , Guimin Hu , Keli Zhang , Ruichu Cai , Boyan Xu

Causality knowledge is crucial for many artificial intelligence systems. Conventional textual-based causality knowledge acquisition methods typically require laborious and expensive human annotations. As a result, their scale is often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Hongming Zhang , Yintong Huo , Xinran Zhao , Yangqiu Song , Dan Roth

We develop methodology for causal inference in observational studies when using propensity score subclassification on data constructed with probabilistic record linkage techniques. We focus on scenarios where covariates and binary treatment…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-03 Joan Heck Wortman , Jerome P. Reiter

In the third shared task of the Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching (CALCS) workshop, we focus on Named Entity Recognition (NER) on code-switched social-media data. We divide the shared task into two competitions based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Gustavo Aguilar , Fahad AlGhamdi , Victor Soto , Mona Diab , Julia Hirschberg , Thamar Solorio

Emotion is fundamental to humanity. The ability to perceive, understand and respond to social interactions in a human-like manner is one of the most desired capabilities in artificial agents, particularly in social-media bots. Over the past…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Yash Butala , Kanishk Singh , Adarsh Kumar , Shrey Shrivastava

This paper presents the IMS contribution to the PolEval 2018 Shared Task. We submitted systems for both of the Subtasks of Task 1. In Subtask (A), which was about dependency parsing, we used our ensemble system from the CoNLL 2017 UD Shared…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Agnieszka Falenska , Anders Björkelund , Xiang Yu , Jonas Kuhn

We describe a gold standard corpus of protest events that comprise of various local and international sources from various countries in English. The corpus contains document, sentence, and token level annotations. This corpus facilitates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Ali Hürriyetoğlu , Erdem Yörük , Deniz Yüret , Osman Mutlu , Çağrı Yoltar , Fırat Duruşan , Burak Gürel