Papers by Caitlin Westerfield
TutorialBank: A Manually-Collected Corpus for Prerequisite Chains, Survey Extraction and Resource Recommendation (P18-1)
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Alexander Fabbri, Irene Li, Prawat Trairatvorakul, Yijiao He, Weitai Ting, Robert Tung, Caitlin Westerfield, Dragomir Radev
| Challenge: | TutorialBank is a publicly available dataset that aims to facilitate NLP education and research . a google search of "Natural Language Processing" returns over 100 million hits with papers, tutorials, 1 http://aan.how blog posts, codebases and other related online resources. |
| Approach: | They have manually collected and categorized over 5,600 resources on NLP . they have created a search engine and command-line tool to search the corpus . |
| Outcome: | The tutorial bank dataset is the largest manually-picked corpus of resources intended for NLP education . it includes lists of research topics, relevant resources for each topic, prerequisite relations among topics . |
Improving Low-Resource Cross-lingual Document Retrieval by Reranking with Deep Bilingual Representations (P19-1)
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Rui Zhang, Caitlin Westerfield, Sungrok Shim, Garrett Bingham, Alexander Fabbri, William Hu, Neha Verma, Dragomir Radev
| Challenge: | Experimental results show that our model outperforms competitive translation-based baselines on cross-lingual relevance ranking tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose to match queries and documents in both source and target languages with deep bilingual query-document representations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms translation-based baselines on English-Swahili, English-Tagalog, and English-Somali cross-lingual retrieval tasks. |