Reid Swanson


2015

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Argument Mining: Extracting Arguments from Online Dialogue
Reid Swanson | Brian Ecker | Marilyn Walker
Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

2014

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Getting Reliable Annotations for Sarcasm in Online Dialogues
Reid Swanson | Stephanie Lukin | Luke Eisenberg | Thomas Corcoran | Marilyn Walker
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)

The language used in online forums differs in many ways from that of traditional language resources such as news. One difference is the use and frequency of nonliteral, subjective dialogue acts such as sarcasm. Whether the aim is to develop a theory of sarcasm in dialogue, or engineer automatic methods for reliably detecting sarcasm, a major challenge is simply the difficulty of getting enough reliably labelled examples. In this paper we describe our work on methods for achieving highly reliable sarcasm annotations from untrained annotators on Mechanical Turk. We explore the use of a number of common statistical reliability measures, such as Kappa, Karger’s, Majority Class, and EM. We show that more sophisticated measures do not appear to yield better results for our data than simple measures such as assuming that the correct label is the one that a majority of Turkers apply.

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Identifying Narrative Clause Types in Personal Stories
Reid Swanson | Elahe Rahimtoroghi | Thomas Corcoran | Marilyn Walker
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)

2013

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Unsupervised Induction of Contingent Event Pairs from Film Scenes
Zhichao Hu | Elahe Rahimtoroghi | Larissa Munishkina | Reid Swanson | Marilyn A. Walker
Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2007

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Generalizing semantic role annotations across syntactically similar verbs
Andrew Gordon | Reid Swanson
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics

2006

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A Comparison of Alternative Parse Tree Paths for Labeling Semantic Roles
Reid Swanson | Andrew S. Gordon
Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions