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Eleni Metheniti

2 accepted papers

2024

Zero-shot Learning for Multilingual Discourse Relation Classification

COLING 2024main

Classifying discourse relations is known as a hard task, relying on complex indices. On the other hand, discourse-annotated data is scarce, especially for languages other than English: many corpora, of limited size, exist for several languages but the domain is split between different theoretical fr…

2020

How Relevant Are Selectional Preferences for Transformer-based Language Models?

COLING 2020main

Selectional preference is defined as the tendency of a predicate to favor particular arguments within a certain linguistic context, and likewise, reject others that result in conflicting or implausible meanings. The stellar success of contextual word embedding models such as BERT in NLP tasks has le…