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Shivam Mathur

2 accepted papers

2023

Interpreting Answers to Yes-No Questions in User-Generated Content

Shivam Mathur, Keun Hee Park, Dhivya Chinnappa, Saketh Kotamraju, Eduardo Blanco
EMNLP 2023long findings

Interpreting answers to yes-no questions in social media is difficult. Yes and no keywords are uncommon, and the few answers that include them are rarely to be interpreted what the keywords suggest. In this paper, we present a new corpus of 4,442 yes-no question-answer pairs from Twitter. We discuss…

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2023

Interpreting Indirect Answers to Yes-No Questions in Multiple Languages

Zijie Wang, Md Mosharaf Hossain, Shivam Mathur, Terry Cruz Melo, Kadir Bulut Ozler, Keun Hee Park +5
EMNLP 2023long findings

Yes-no questions expect a yes or no for an answer, but people often skip polar keywords. Instead, they answer with long explanations that must be interpreted. In this paper, we focus on this challenging problem and release new benchmarks in eight languages. We present a distant supervision approach…

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