EMNLP 2024finding0 citations

Who Wrote When? Author Diarization in Social Media Discussions

Benedikt Boenninghoff, Henry Hosseini, Robert M. Nickel, Dorothea Kolossa

Abstract

We are proposing a novel framework for author diarization, i.e. attributing comments in online discussions to individual authors. We consider an innovative approach that merges pre-trained neural representations of writing style with author-conditional encoder-decoder diarization, enhanced by a Conditional Random Field with Viterbi decoding for alignment refinement. Additionally, we introduce two new large-scale German language datasets, one for authorship verification and the other for author diarization. We evaluate the performance of our diarization framework on these datasets, offering insights into the strengths and limitations of this approach.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{boenninghoff-etal-2024-wrote,
    title = "Who Wrote When? Author Diarization in Social Media Discussions",
    author = "Boenninghoff, Benedikt  and
      Hosseini, Henry  and
      Nickel, Robert M.  and
      Kolossa, Dorothea",
    editor = "Al-Onaizan, Yaser  and
      Bansal, Mohit  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024",
    month = nov,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.922/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.findings-emnlp.922",
    pages = "15721--15734"
}