Papers by Pedram Hosseini
ParsiNLU: A Suite of Language Understanding Challenges for Persian (2021.tacl-1)
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Daniel Khashabi, Arman Cohan, Siamak Shakeri, Pedram Hosseini, Pouya Pezeshkpour, Malihe Alikhani, Moin Aminnaseri, Marzieh Bitaab, Faeze Brahman, Sarik Ghazarian, Mozhdeh Gheini, Arman Kabiri, Rabeeh Karimi Mahabagdi, Omid Memarrast, Ahmadreza Mosallanezhad, Erfan Noury, Shahab Raji, Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Sepideh Sadeghi, Erfan Sadeqi Azer, Niloofar Safi Samghabadi, Mahsa Shafaei, Saber Sheybani, Ali Tazarv, Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh
| Challenge: | Despite progress in natural language understanding, most progress is concentrated on resource-rich languages like English . despite high-quality benchmarks, there are few available NLU datasets for Persian language . |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark for Persian language that includes a range of language understanding tasks . they present their results on monolingual and multilingual pre-trained language models . |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmarks compare human performance with monolingual and multilingual models on Persian language with high quality evaluation datasets. |
Identifying Nuances in Fake News vs. Satire: Using Semantic and Linguistic Cues (D19-50)
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| Challenge: | a blurry line between fake news and protected-speech satire has been a struggle for social media platforms . purveyors of fake news have begun to masquerade as satirical sites to avoid being demoted . |
| Approach: | They propose to automatically classify fake news versus satire based on language differences . they hypothesize that nuances could be identified using semantic and linguistic cues . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can identify nuances between fake news and satire based on language differences . the proposed method is compared to the language-based baseline and is highly scalable . |