NAP at SemEval-2023 Task 3: Is Less Really More? (Back-)Translation as Data Augmentation Strategies for Detecting Persuasion Techniques

no code implementations • 27 Apr 2023 • Neele Falk, Annerose Eichel, Prisca Piccirilli

Persuasion techniques detection in news in a multi-lingual setup is non-trivial and comes with challenges, including little training data.

Data Augmentation Translation

What Drives the Use of Metaphorical Language? Negative Insights from Abstractness, Affect, Discourse Coherence and Contextualized Word Representations

no code implementations • *SEM (NAACL) 2022 • Prisca Piccirilli, Sabine Schulte im Walde

Given a specific discourse, which discourse properties trigger the use of metaphorical language, rather than using literal alternatives?

Features of Perceived Metaphoricity on the Discourse Level: Abstractness and Emotionality

no code implementations • LREC 2022 • Prisca Piccirilli, Sabine Schulte im Walde

First, is a metaphorically-perceived discourse more abstract and more emotional in comparison to a literally-perceived discourse?

Sentence

Coordinate Constructions in English Enhanced Universal Dependencies: Analysis and Computational Modeling

no code implementations • EACL 2021 • Stefan Grünewald, Prisca Piccirilli, Annemarie Friedrich

In this paper, we address the representation of coordinate constructions in Enhanced Universal Dependencies (UD), where relevant dependency links are propagated from conjunction heads to other conjuncts.