Eduardo Blanco

2 paper cards in Mova's library · 2020–2022

Eduardo Blanco wrote 2 of the papers Mova reads, in 2020–2022; often with Aaron Mathews, Anirudh Kaza, Anusha Kakileti.

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Papers

Disentangling Indirect Answers to Yes-No Questions in Real Conversations (2022)
The authors take every yes/no question in the Switchboard Dialog Act corpus whose next turn is not a direct answer: 2,544 questions, which is 43.5% of all yes/no questions there (77% of conversations have one); 41% of the questions are themselves indirect, without a question mark («I don't know if you're familiar…
An Analysis of Natural Language Inference Benchmarks through the Lens of Negation (2020)
The paper asks how much negation matters in natural language inference (NLI) benchmarks. Negation occurs in 8.69% to 29.92% of sentences in general English corpora, but in only 7.16% of RTE pairs and 1.19% of SNLI pairs (MNLI: 22.63%). In most of the negated pairs the negation can be ignored without changing the…