Papers by Youmna Ismaeil
Discovering the Functions of Language in Online Forums (D19-55)
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| Challenge: | a vast amount of work has been dedicated to speech act categorization for characterizing discourses . lack of formalism and diversity of taxonomies make it difficult to compare different annotated datasets. |
| Approach: | They propose a semi-supervised framework for predicting the functions of Reddit comments . they propose to use the framework to analyze online forum conversations . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can predict functions of Reddit comments and 165K comments. |