no code implementations • RANLP 2021 • Milton King, Paul Cook
We propose a novel WSD dataset and show that personalizing a WSD system with knowledge of an author’s sense distributions or predominant senses can greatly increase its performance.
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2021 • Milton King, Ali Hakimi Parizi, Samin Fakharian, Paul Cook
In this paper, we present three supervised systems for English lexical complexity prediction of single and multiword expressions for SemEval-2021 Task 1.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Milton King, Paul Cook
In this work, we consider the problem of personalizing language models, that is, building language models that are tailored to the writing style of an individual.
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2019 • Ali Hakimi Parizi, Milton King, Paul Cook
In this paper we apply a range of approaches to language modeling {--} including word-level n-gram and neural language models, and character-level neural language models {--} to the problem of detecting hate speech and offensive language.
no code implementations • ACL 2018 • Milton King, Paul Cook
In this paper we propose and evaluate models for classifying VNC usages as idiomatic or literal, based on a variety of approaches to forming distributed representations.
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2018 • Milton King, Ali Hakimi Parizi, Paul Cook
In this paper we present three unsupervised models for capturing discriminative attributes based on information from word embeddings, WordNet, and sentence-level word co-occurrence frequency.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Milton King, Paul Cook
Usage similarity (USim) is an approach to determining word meaning in context that does not rely on a sense inventory.