Fabian Schlotterbeck
2024
Ad Hoc Compounds for Stance Detection
Qi Yu
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Fabian Schlotterbeck
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Hening Wang
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Naomi Reichmann
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Britta Stolterfoht
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Regine Eckardt
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Miriam Butt
Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD) @ LREC-COLING 2024
In this paper we focus on a subclass of multi-word expressions, namely compound formation in German. The automatic detection of compounds is a known problem and we argue that its resolution should be given more urgency in light of a new role we uncovered with respect to ad hoc compound formation: the systematic expression of attitudinal meaning and its potential importance for the down-stream NLP task of stance detection. We demonstrate that ad hoc compounds in German indeed systematically express attitudinal meaning by adducing corpus linguistic and psycholinguistic experimental data. However, an investigation of state-of-the-art dependency parsers and Universal Dependency treebanks shows that German compounds are parsed and annotated very unevenly, so that currently one cannot reliably identify or access ad hoc compounds with attitudinal meaning in texts. Moreover, we report initial experiments with large language models underlining the challenges in capturing attitudinal meanings conveyed by ad hoc compounds. We consequently suggest a systematized way of annotating (and thereby also parsing) ad hoc compounds that is based on positive experiences from within the multilingual ParGram grammar development effort.
2023
An incremental RSA model for adjective ordering preferences in referential visual context
Fabian Schlotterbeck
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Hening Wang
Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2023
2011
Interpreting tractable versus intractable reciprocal sentences
Oliver Bott
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Fabian Schlotterbeck
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Jakub Szymanik
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2011)
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