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Ruben Branco

2 accepted papers

2021

Shortcutted Commonsense: Data Spuriousness in Deep Learning of Commonsense Reasoning

EMNLP 2021main

Commonsense is a quintessential human capacity that has been a core challenge to Artificial Intelligence since its inception. Impressive results in Natural Language Processing tasks, including in commonsense reasoning, have consistently been achieved with Transformer neural language models, even mat…

2020

Comparative Probing of Lexical Semantics Theories for Cognitive Plausibility and Technological Usefulness

COLING 2020main

Lexical semantics theories differ in advocating that the meaning of words is represented as an inference graph, a feature mapping or a cooccurrence vector, thus raising the question: is it the case that one of these approaches is superior to the others in representing lexical semantics appropriately…