5 accepted papers
We present an interesting application of narrative understanding in the clinical assessment of aphasia, where story retelling tasks are used to evaluate a patient’s communication abilities. This clinical setting provides a framework to help operationalize narrative discourse analysis and an applicat…
We present 𝛿-Stance, a large-scale dataset of stances involved in legal argumentation. 𝛿-Stance contains stance-annotated argument pairs, semi-automatically mined from millions of examples of U.S. judges citing precedent in context using citation signals. The dataset aims to facilitate work on the l…
To better analyze informal arguments on public forums, we propose the task of argument explication, which makes explicit a text’s argumentative structure and implicit reasoning by outputting triples of propositions ⟨claim, reason warrant⟩. The three slots, or argument components, are derived from th…
Relation extraction (RE) extracts structured tuples of relationships (e.g. friend, enemy) between entities (e.g. Sherlock Holmes, John Watson) from text, with exciting potential applications. Hundreds of RE papers have been published in recent years; do their evaluation practices inform these goals?…
Zero-shot event extraction (EE) methods infer richly structured event records from text, based only on a minimal user specification and no training examples, which enables flexibility in exploring and developing applications. Most event extraction research uses the Automatic Content Extraction (ACE)…