Ellen Riloff

4 paper cards in Mova's library · 2009–2017

Ellen Riloff wrote 4 of the papers Mova reads, in 2009–2017, most of them on Coreference resolution; often with Marilyn Walker, Nathan Gilbert, Shereen Oraby.

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Papers

Are you serious?: Rhetorical Questions and Sarcasm in Social Media Dialog (2017)
Rhetorical questions (questions not meant to get an answer) are collected with an intent-based heuristic: a question in the middle of a turn that the same speaker answers at once, without giving up the turn.
Creating and Characterizing a Diverse Corpus of Sarcasm in Dialogue (2016)
The authors build a sarcasm corpus from online debate forums (Internet Argument Corpus 2.0) with three balanced parts: generic sarcasm, rhetorical questions and hyperbole.
Sarcasm as Contrast between a Positive Sentiment and Negative Situation (2013)
The paper looks at one common form of sarcasm on Twitter: a positive sentiment verb or predicate placed just before a stereotypically negative situation.
Conundrums in Noun Phrase Coreference Resolution: Making Sense of the State-of-the-Art (2009)
The paper asks why published coreference scores differ so much between the MUC and ACE data sets. It uses the RECONCILE platform: a classifier with about 61 features, an averaged perceptron, and single-link clustering. Three subtasks are measured by giving the resolver more information. Gold named entities help only…