Investigating Independence vs. Control: Agenda-Setting in Russian News Coverage on Social Media

1 code implementation • LREC 2022 • Annerose Eichel, Gabriella Lapesa, Sabine Schulte im Walde

Agenda-setting is a widely explored phenomenon in political science: powerful stakeholders (governments or their financial supporters) have control over the media and set their agenda: political and economical powers determine which news should be salient.

A Dataset for Physical and Abstract Plausibility and Sources of Human Disagreement

1 code implementation • 5 Apr 2024 • Annerose Eichel, Sabine Schulte im Walde

We present a novel dataset for physical and abstract plausibility of events in English.

Willkommens-Merkel, Chaos-Johnson, and Tore-Klose: Modeling the Evaluative Meaning of German Personal Name Compounds

no code implementations • 5 Apr 2024 • Annerose Eichel, Tana Deeg, André Blessing, Milena Belosevic, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Sabine Schulte im Walde

We present a comprehensive computational study of the under-investigated phenomenon of personal name compounds (PNCs) in German such as Willkommens-Merkel ('Welcome-Merkel').

Made of Steel? Learning Plausible Materials for Components in the Vehicle Repair Domain

1 code implementation • 28 Apr 2023 • Annerose Eichel, Helena Schlipf, Sabine Schulte im Walde

We propose a novel approach to learn domain-specific plausible materials for components in the vehicle repair domain by probing Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) in a cloze task style setting to overcome the lack of annotated datasets.

Domain Adaptation

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