Papers by Nathan Brito
A Question-Answer Driven Approach to Reveal Affirmative Interpretations from Verbal Negations (2022.findings-naacl)
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Md Mosharaf Hossain, Luke Holman, Anusha Kakileti, Tiffany Kao, Nathan Brito, Aaron Mathews, Eduardo Blanco
| Challenge: | Negations carry affirmative meanings, which are difficult to process and understand by humans. |
| Approach: | They propose a question-answer driven approach to reveal affirmative interpretations from verbal negations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach is based on a natural language inference task . it shows that state-of-the-art transformers are insufficient to reveal affirmative interpretations . |
Disentangling Indirect Answers to Yes-No Questions in Real Conversations (2022.naacl-main)
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Krishna Sanagavarapu, Jathin Singaraju, Anusha Kakileti, Anirudh Kaza, Aaron Mathews, Helen Li, Nathan Brito, Eduardo Blanco
| Challenge: | Existing models with synthetic indirect answers to yes-no questions are not beneficial when working with real conversations. |
| Approach: | They propose to annotate the underlying direct answers to yes-no questions in real conversations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the majority baseline but the task remains a challenge. |