Papers by John Philip McCrae
Recent Developments for the Linguistic Linked Open Data Infrastructure (2020.lrec-1)
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Thierry Declerck, John Philip McCrae, Matthias Hartung, Jorge Gracia, Christian Chiarcos, Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, Philipp Cimiano, Artem Revenko, Roser Saurí, Deirdre Lee, Stefania Racioppa, Jamal Abdul Nasir, Matthias Orlikowsk, Marta Lanau-Coronas, Christian Fäth, Mariano Rico, Mohammad Fazleh Elahi, Maria Khvalchik, Meritxell Gonzalez, Katharine Cooney
| Challenge: | Language data is rarely 'ready-to-use' and language technology specialists spend over 80% of their time cleaning, organizing and collecting language datasets. |
| Approach: | They propose a methodology for building data value chains based around language resources and language technologies that can be integrated by means of semantic technologies. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methodology is based on language resources and language technologies that can be integrated by means of semantic technologies. |
Figure Me Out: A Gold Standard Dataset for Metaphor Interpretation (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Metaphor comprehension and understanding is a complex cognitive task that requires interpreting metaphors by grasping the interaction between the meaning of their target and source concepts. |
| Approach: | They propose an automatic retrieval approach to annotate verb-noun metaphors in text . they validated their approach by annotating around 1,500 metaphors from tweets . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method reduces the workload on annotators and maintains consistency . it can be used to interpret verb-noun metaphoric expressions in tweets . |
A Multilingual Evaluation Dataset for Monolingual Word Sense Alignment (2020.lrec-1)
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Sina Ahmadi, John Philip McCrae, Sanni Nimb, Fahad Khan, Monica Monachini, Bolette Pedersen, Thierry Declerck, Tanja Wissik, Andrea Bellandi, Irene Pisani, Thomas Troelsgård, Sussi Olsen, Simon Krek, Veronika Lipp, Tamás Váradi, László Simon, András Gyorffy, Carole Tiberius, Tanneke Schoonheim, Yifat Ben Moshe, Maya Rudich, Raya Abu Ahmad, Dorielle Lonke, Kira Kovalenko, Margit Langemets, Jelena Kallas, Oksana Dereza, Theodorus Fransen, David Cillessen, David Lindemann, Mikel Alonso, Ana Salgado, José Luis Sancho, Rafael-J. Ureña-Ruiz, Jordi Porta Zamorano, Kiril Simov, Petya Osenova, Zara Kancheva, Ivaylo Radev, Ranka Stanković, Andrej Perdih, Dejan Gabrovsek
| Challenge: | a new dataset aims to align monolingual dictionaries with a single sense level for 15 languages . this dataset covers a wide range of languages and resources . |
| Approach: | They propose to manually align monolingual dictionaries with possible semantic relationships . they use 15 languages to create a new baseline for the task of monolingual word sense alignment . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset covers 15 languages and covers the more challenging task of linking general-purpose language. |
Some Issues with Building a Multilingual Wordnet (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Notable extensions include: confidence, corpus frequency, orthographic variants, lexicalized and non-lexicalised synsets and lemmas, new parts of speech, and more. |
| Approach: | They propose to integrate a new open multilingual wordnet format that tests the extensions introduced by the new format and integrates a set of tools to ensure the integrity of the Collaborative Interlingual Index. |
| Outcome: | The proposed format integrates a set of tools that test the extensions while ensuring the integrity of the Collaborative Interlingual Index (CILI). |
Evaluating Text Style Transfer Evaluation: Are There Any Reliable Metrics? (2025.naacl-srw)
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| Challenge: | Text style transfer (TST) is a multidimensional task requiring the assessment of style transfer accuracy, content preservation, and naturalness. |
| Approach: | They propose to use text style transfer metrics to evaluate outputs of text editors . they also investigate the potential of large language models as tools for TST evaluation . |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods provide better insights than existing metrics, the authors show . their meta-evaluation through correlation with hu-man judgments shows they are effective . |