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John P. McCrae

4 accepted papers

2024

MaCmS: Magahi Code-mixed Dataset for Sentiment Analysis

COLING 2024main

The present paper introduces new sentiment data, MaCMS, for Magahi-Hindi-English (MHE) code-mixed language, where Magahi is a less-resourced minority language. This dataset is the first Magahi-Hindi-English code-mixed dataset for sentiment analysis tasks. Further, we also provide a linguistics analy…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2021

Cross-lingual Sentence Embedding using Multi-Task Learning

EMNLP 2021main

Multilingual sentence embeddings capture rich semantic information not only for measuring similarity between texts but also for catering to a broad range of downstream cross-lingual NLP tasks. State-of-the-art multilingual sentence embedding models require large parallel corpora to learn efficiently…

Cited by 26SourcePDFScholar
2020

Suggest me a movie for tonight: Leveraging Knowledge Graphs for Conversational Recommendation

COLING 2020main

Conversational recommender systems focus on the task of suggesting products to users based on the conversation flow. Recently, the use of external knowledge in the form of knowledge graphs has shown to improve the performance in recommendation and dialogue systems. Information from knowledge graphs…

2020

Unsupervised Deep Language and Dialect Identification for Short Texts

COLING 2020main

Automatic Language Identification (LI) or Dialect Identification (DI) of short texts of closely related languages or dialects, is one of the primary steps in many natural language processing pipelines. Language identification is considered a solved task in many cases; however, in the case of very cl…

Cited by 13SourcePDFScholar