Papers by JIng Peng
NollySenti: Leveraging Transfer Learning and Machine Translation for Nigerian Movie Sentiment Classification (2023.acl-short)
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| Challenge: | Africa has over 2000 indigenous languages but they are under-represented in NLP research due to lack of datasets. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a dataset to classify sentiments for cross-domain adaptation for Nigerian and other African languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset compares the performance of cross-domain adaptation from Twitter domain and cross-lingual adaptation from English domain. |
CATs are Fuzzy PETs: A Corpus and Analysis of Potentially Euphemistic Terms (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Euphemisms are a difficult topic because they are subject to language change and humans may not agree on what is a euphemist. |
| Approach: | They analyze a corpus of potentially euphemistic terms (PETs) and examples from the GloWbE corpus to examine their meanings. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus of potentially euphemistic terms and examples from the GloWbE corpus show that PETs generally decrease negative and offensive sentiment. |