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Aaron Mathews

2 accepted papers

2022

A Question-Answer Driven Approach to Reveal Affirmative Interpretations from Verbal Negations

Md Mosharaf Hossain, Luke Holman, Anusha Kakileti, Tiffany Kao, Nathan Brito, Aaron Mathews +1
NAACL 2022findings

This paper explores a question-answer driven approach to reveal affirmative interpretations from verbal negations (i.e., when a negation cue grammatically modifies a verb). We create a new corpus consisting of 4,472 verbal negations and discover that 67.1% of them convey that an event actually occur…

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2022

Disentangling Indirect Answers to Yes-No Questions in Real Conversations

Krishna Sanagavarapu, Jathin Singaraju, Anusha Kakileti, Anirudh Kaza, Aaron Mathews, Helen Li +2
NAACL 2022long

In this paper, we explore the task of determining indirect answers to yes-no questions in real conversations. We work with transcripts of phone conversations in the Switchboard Dialog Act (SwDA) corpus and create SwDA-IndirectAnswers (SwDA-IA), a subset of SwDA consisting of all conversations contai…

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