3 accepted papers
Rhetorical figures play an important role in our communication. They are used to convey subtle, implicit meaning, or to emphasize statements. We notice them in hate speech, fake news, and propaganda. By improving the systems for computational detection of rhetorical figures, we can also improve task…
Rhetorical figures play an important role in influencing readers and listeners. Some of these word constructs that deviate from the usual language structure are known to be persuasive – antithesis is one of them. This figure combines parallel phrases with opposite ideas or words to highlight a contr…
Knowledge distillation is known as an effective technique for compressing over-parameterized language models. In this work, we propose to break down the global feature distillation task into N local sub-tasks. In this new framework, we consider each neuron in the last hidden layer of the teacher net…