Research

2020


Discourse as a Function of Event: Profiling Discourse Structure in News Articles around the Main Event

Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Aaron Lee, Ruihong Huang and Lu Wang

in Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020)

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One Classifier for All Ambiguous Words: Overcoming Data Sparsity by Utilizing Sense Correlations Across Words

Prafulla Kumar Choubey and Ruihong Huang

in Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2020)

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Weakly-supervised Fine-grained Event Recognition on Social Media Texts for Disaster Management

Wenlin Yao, Cheng Zhang, Shiva Saravanan, Ruihong Huang and Ali Mostafavi

in Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020)

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2019


A Regularization Approach for Incorporating Event Knowledge and Coreference Relations into Neural Discourse Parsing

Zeyu Dai and Ruihong Huang

in Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)

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In Plain Sight: Media Bias through the Lens of Factual Reporting

Lisa Fan, Marshall White, Eva Sharma, Ruisi Su, Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Ruihong Huang and Lu Wang

in Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019) (Short Paper)

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Modeling Document-level Causal Structures for Event Causal Relation Identification

Lei Gao, Prafulla Kumar Choubey and Ruihong Huang

in Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2019)

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Improving Dialogue State Tracking by Discerning the Relevant Context

Sanuj Sharma, Prafulla Kumar Choubey and Ruihong Huang

in Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2019) (Short Paper)

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Exploring the Emergence of Influential Users on Social Media during Natural Disasters

Yang Yang, Cheng Zhang, Chao Fan, Wenlin Yao, Ruihong Huang and Ali Mostafavi

in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (2019): 101204

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A Graph-based Approach for Detecting Critical Infrastructure Disruptions on Social Media in Disasters

Chao Fan, Ali Mostafavi, Wenlin Yao and Ruihong Huang

in Proceedings of the 52nd HAWAII International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2019) (Best Paper Nomination)

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Coreference Aware Representation Learning for Neural Named Entity Recognition

Zeyu Dai, Hongliang Fei and Ping Li

in Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019)

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2018


Building Context-aware Clause Representations for Situation Entity Type Classification

Zeyu Dai and Ruihong Huang

in Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2018)

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Improving Event Coreference Resolution by Modeling Correlations between Event Coreference Chains and Document Topic Structures

Prafulla Kumar Choubey and Ruihong Huang

in Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018)

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Temporal Event Knowledge Acquisition via Identifying Narratives

Wenlin Yao and Ruihong Huang

in Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018)

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Improving Implicit Discourse Relation Classification by Modeling Inter-dependencies of Discourse Units in a Paragraph

Zeyu Dai and Ruihong Huang

in Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2018)

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Identifying the Most Dominant Event in a News Article by Mining Event Coreference Relations

Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Kaushik Raju and Ruihong Huang

in Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2018) (Short Paper)

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Fine-grained Structure-based News Genre Categorization

Zeyu Dai, Himanshu Taneja and Ruihong Huang

in Proceedings of the Events and Stories in the News Workshop (co-located with COLING 2018)

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2017


Event Coreference Resolution by Iteratively Unfolding Inter-dependencies among Events

Prafulla Kumar Choubey and Ruihong Huang

in Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2017)

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A Sequential Model for Classifying Temporal Relations between Intra-Sentence Events

Prafulla Kumar Choubey and Ruihong Huang

in Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2017) (Short Paper)

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A Weakly Supervised Approach to Train Temporal Relation Classifiers and Acquire Regular Event Pairs Simultaneously

Wenlin Yao, Saipravallika Nettyam and Ruihong Huang

in Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2017)

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Online Deception Detection Refueled by Real World Data Collection

Wenlin Yao, Zeyu Dai, Ruihong Huang and James Caverlee

in Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2017)

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Detecting Online Hate Speech Using Context Aware Models

Lei Gao and Ruihong Huang

in Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2017)

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Recognizing Explicit and Implicit Hate Speech Using a Weakly Supervised Two-path Bootstrapping Approach

Lei Gao and Ruihong Huang

in Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2017)

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Using Context Events in Neural Network Models for Event Temporal Status Identification

Zeyu Dai, Wenlin Yao and Ruihong Huang

in Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2017) (Short Paper)

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TAMU at KBP 2017: Event Nugget Detection and Coreference Resolution

Prafulla Kumar Choubey and Ruihong Huang

in Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference (TAC-2017)

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2016


Distinguishing Past, Ongoing and Future Events: the EventStatus Corpus

Ruihong Huang, Ignacio Cases, Dan Jurafsky, Cleo Condoravdi, Ellen Riloff

in Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2016)

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Extracting Subevents via an Effective Two-phase Approach

Allison Badgett, Ruihong Huang

in Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2016) (Short Papers)

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Learning Event Expressions via Bilingual Structure Projection

Fangyuan Li, Ruihong Huang, Deyi Xiong

in Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2016)

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CaseSummarizer: A System for Automated Summarization of Legal Texts

Seth Polsley, Pooja Jhunjhunwala, Ruihong Huang

in Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2016)(demo session)

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Towards Accurate Event Detection in Social Media: A Weakly Supervised Approach for Learning Implicit Event Indicators

Ajit Jain, Girish Kasiviswanathan, Ruihong Huang

in Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (co-located with COLING 2016)

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