Julia Hirschberg

4 paper cards in Mova's library · 2018–2026

Julia Hirschberg wrote 4 of the papers Mova reads, in 2018–2026, most of them on Speech act theory, Word sense disambiguation; often with Morgan Ulinski, Anat Lerner, Andreas Weise.

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Papers

Completing and Validating the Re-Aligned Switchboard Dialog Act Corpus (2026)
The Switchboard Dialog Act corpus (1,155 phone conversations, ~205K utterances, 42 SWBD-DAMSL tags) had speech and text so badly aligned that prosody was useless for tagging.
"Talk to me with left, right, and angles": Lexical entrainment in spoken Hebrew dialogue (2021)
The question is whether Hebrew speakers adapt their word choice to each other in a Map Task, as English speakers do.
Crowdsourced Hedge Term Disambiguation (2019)
Hedge annotation is costly when experts do it, so the authors turn it into word sense disambiguation that crowd workers can do.
Using Hedge Detection to Improve Committed Belief Tagging (2018)
The paper adds hedge features to a committed-belief tagger. The tagger marks each proposition head as committed belief (CB), non-committed belief (NCB), reported belief (ROB) or non-belief (NA: desire, intention, question). Hedges are found from a 117-term dictionary in two ways: plain lemma lookup, or hand rules…