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David Alfter

5 accepted papers

2024

Automatically Generated Definitions and their utility for Modeling Word Meaning

EMNLP 2024main

Modeling lexical semantics is a challenging task, often suffering from interpretability pitfalls. In this paper, we delve into the generation of dictionary-like sense definitions and explore their utility for modeling word meaning. We fine-tuned two Llama models and include an existing T5-based mode…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

More DWUGs: Extending and Evaluating Word Usage Graph Datasets in Multiple Languages

EMNLP 2024main

Word Usage Graphs (WUGs) represent human semantic proximity judgments for pairs of word uses in a weighted graph, which can be clustered to infer word sense clusters from simple pairwise word use judgments, avoiding the need for word sense definitions. SemEval-2020 Task 1 provided the first and to d…

2023

TCFLE-8: a Corpus of Learner Written Productions for French as a Foreign Language and its Application to Automated Essay Scoring

EMNLP 2023long main

Automated Essay Scoring (AES) aims to automatically assess the quality of essays. Automation enables large-scale assessment, improvements in consistency, reliability, and standardization. Those characteristics are of particular relevance in the context of language certification exams. However, a maj…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2022

Is Attention Explanation? An Introduction to the Debate

ACL 2022long

The performance of deep learning models in NLP and other fields of machine learning has led to a rise in their popularity, and so the need for explanations of these models becomes paramount. Attention has been seen as a solution to increase performance, while providing some explanations. However, a…

Cited by 131SourcePDFScholar
2022

Linguistic Corpus Annotation for Automatic Text Simplification Evaluation

EMNLP 2022main

Evaluating automatic text simplification (ATS) systems is a difficult task that is either performed by automatic metrics or user-based evaluations. However, from a linguistic point-of-view, it is not always clear on what bases these evaluations operate. In this paper, we propose annotations of the A…

Cited by 13SourcePDFScholar