Papers by James H. Martin
The TalkMoves Dataset: K-12 Mathematics Lesson Transcripts Annotated for Teacher and Student Discursive Moves (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Currently, classroom recordings are limited due to practical and privacy concerns and sharing is restricted due to limited access to valuable resources and data sets. |
| Approach: | They propose to use the TalkMoves dataset to analyze the nature of teacher and student discourse in K-12 math classrooms. |
| Outcome: | The TalkMoves dataset contains 567 human-annotated K-12 mathematics lesson transcripts derived from video recordings. |
Building a Broad Infrastructure for Uniform Meaning Representations (2024.lrec-main)
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Julia Bonn, Matthew J. Buchholz, Jayeol Chun, Andrew Cowell, William Croft, Lukas Denk, Sijia Ge, Jan Hajič, Kenneth Lai, James H. Martin, Skatje Myers, Alexis Palmer, Martha Palmer, Claire Benet Post, James Pustejovsky, Kristine Stenzel, Haibo Sun, Zdeňka Urešová, Rosa Vallejos, Jens E. L. Van Gysel, Meagan Vigus, Nianwen Xue, Jin Zhao
| Challenge: | This paper reports the first release of the UMR data set for six languages . it includes annotations for six different languages that vary greatly in terms of their linguistic properties and resource availability. |
| Approach: | They report the first release of the UMR data set for six languages . they describe on-going efforts to enlarge the data set and extend it to other languages - including Navajo, Navájo, and Sanapaná . |
| Outcome: | The first release of the UMR data set includes annotations for six languages . the language dataset is available for free and can be extended to other languages if needed . |
X-AMR Annotation Tool (2024.eacl-demo)
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| Challenge: | X-AMR annotation tool is designed for annotating key corpus-level event semantics. |
| Approach: | They propose a new annotation tool for annotation of key corpus-level event semantics using machine assistance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed tool enhances the user experience and improves annotation efficiency. |
Linear Cross-document Event Coreference Resolution with X-AMR (2024.lrec-main)
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Shafiuddin Rehan Ahmed, George Arthur Baker, Evi Judge, Michael Reagan, Kristin Wright-Bettner, Martha Palmer, James H. Martin
| Challenge: | Event Coreference Resolution (ECR) is expensive both for automated systems and manual annotations. |
| Approach: | They propose a graphical representation of events anchored around individual mentions using a cross-document version of Abstract Meaning Representation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is anchored around individual mentions using a cross-document version of Abstract Meaning Representation. |
2*n is better than n2: Decomposing Event Coreference Resolution into Two Tractable Problems (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for training coreference systems sample from a largely skewed distribution, making it difficult to learn coreference beyond surface matching. |
| Approach: | They propose a heuristic to efficiently filter out a large number of non-coreferent pairs and a training approach on a balanced set of coreferent and non- coreferente mention pairs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach significantly reduces compute requirements on two popular ECR datasets while reducing the computational complexity. |
Enhancing Talk Moves Analysis in Mathematics Tutoring through Classroom Teaching Discourse (2025.coling-main)
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Jie Cao, Abhijit Suresh, Jennifer Jacobs, Charis Clevenger, Amanda Howard, Chelsea Brown, Brent Milne, Tom Fischaber, Tamara Sumner, James H. Martin
| Challenge: | a recent study focuses on analyzing tutoring discourse using talk moves . scaling the collection, annotation, and analysis of extensive tutoring dialogues is a challenge . |
| Approach: | They propose to analyze tutoring discourse using talk moves to develop machine learning models . they use a compact dataset to analyze dialogue context, speaker information and ablation data . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves performance in classrooms and in small groups . the proposed model is based on existing datasets and models designed for classroom teaching . |
Multimodal Cross-Document Event Coreference Resolution Using Linear Semantic Transfer and Mixed-Modality Ensembles (2024.lrec-main)
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Abhijnan Nath, Huma Jamil, Shafiuddin Rehan Ahmed, George Arthur Baker, Rahul Ghosh, James H. Martin, Nathaniel Blanchard, Nikhil Krishnaswamy
| Challenge: | Existing methods for cross-document coreference resolution do not provide images for all mentions of events. |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal cross-document event coreference resolution method that integrates visual and textual cues with a simple linear map between vision and language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on a popular ECB+ and AIDA datasets. |
CAMRA: Copilot for AMR Annotation (2023.emnlp-demo)
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| Challenge: | Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) is a formalism for deep lexical semantic representation. |
| Approach: | They introduce a web-based tool for constructing AMR from natural language text . CAMRA incorporates AMR parser models as coding co-pilots . |
| Outcome: | The proposed tool is based on the prototyping of existing AMR editors and integrates Propbank roleset lookup as an autocomplete feature. |