← Search

Rory Devine

2 accepted papers

2021

Can vectors read minds better than experts? Comparing data augmentation strategies for the automated scoring of children’s mindreading ability

ACL 2021long

In this paper we implement and compare 7 different data augmentation strategies for the task of automatic scoring of children’s ability to understand others’ thoughts, feelings, and desires (or “mindreading”). We recruit in-domain experts to re-annotate augmented samples and determine to what extent…

2020

“What is on your mind?” Automated Scoring of Mindreading in Childhood and Early Adolescence

COLING 2020main

In this paper we present the first work on the automated scoring of mindreading ability in middle childhood and early adolescence. We create MIND-CA, a new corpus of 11,311 question-answer pairs in English from 1,066 children aged from 7 to 14. We perform machine learning experiments and carry out e…