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Douglas Oard

3 accepted papers

2022

Constrained Regeneration for Cross-Lingual Query-Focused Extractive Summarization

COLING 2022main

Query-focused summaries of foreign-language, retrieved documents can help a user understand whether a document is actually relevant to the query term. A standard approach to this problem is to first translate the source documents and then perform extractive summarization to find relevant snippets. H…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2021

Cross-language Sentence Selection via Data Augmentation and Rationale Training

ACL 2021long

This paper proposes an approach to cross-language sentence selection in a low-resource setting. It uses data augmentation and negative sampling techniques on noisy parallel sentence data to directly learn a cross-lingual embedding-based query relevance model. Results show that this approach performs…

Cited by 11SourcePDFScholar
2021

Syntopical Graphs for Computational Argumentation Tasks

ACL 2021long

Approaches to computational argumentation tasks such as stance detection and aspect detection have largely focused on the text of independent claims, losing out on potentially valuable context provided by the rest of the collection. We introduce a general approach to these tasks motivated by syntopi…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar