Automatic generation and scoring of positive interpretations from negated statements

Eduardo Blanco; Zahra Sarabi

doi:10.18653/v1/n16-1169

Automatic generation and scoring of positive interpretations from negated statements

Eduardo Blanco, Zahra Sarabi

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Abstract

This paper presents a methodology to extract positive interpretations from negated statements. First, we automatically generate plausible interpretations using well-known grammar rules and manipulating semantic roles. Second, we score plausible alternatives according to their likelihood. Manual annotations show that the positive interpretations are intuitive to humans, and experimental results show that the scoring task can be automated.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Subtitle of host publication	Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	1431-1441
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9781941643914
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/n16-1169
State	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	15th Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - San Diego, United States Duration: Jun 12 2016 → Jun 17 2016

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Name	2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference

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Conference	15th Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego
Period	6/12/16 → 6/17/16

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Computer Science Applications
Linguistics and Language
Language and Linguistics

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Blanco, E., & Sarabi, Z. (2016). Automatic generation and scoring of positive interpretations from negated statements. In 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference (pp. 1431-1441). (2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/n16-1169

Automatic generation and scoring of positive interpretations from negated statements. / Blanco, Eduardo; Sarabi, Zahra.
2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2016. p. 1431-1441 (2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Blanco, E & Sarabi, Z 2016, Automatic generation and scoring of positive interpretations from negated statements. in 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference. 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 1431-1441, 15th Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016, San Diego, United States, 6/12/16. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/n16-1169

Blanco E, Sarabi Z. Automatic generation and scoring of positive interpretations from negated statements. In 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2016. p. 1431-1441. (2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference). doi: 10.18653/v1/n16-1169

Blanco, Eduardo ; Sarabi, Zahra. / Automatic generation and scoring of positive interpretations from negated statements. 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2016. pp. 1431-1441 (2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference).

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