Determining event outcomes: The case of #fail

Srikala Murugan, Dhivya Chinnappa, Eduardo Blanco

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Abstract

This paper targets the task of determining event outcomes in social media. We work with tweets containing either #cookingFail or #bakingFail, and show that many of the events described in them resulted in something edible. Tweets that contain images are more likely to result in edible albeit imperfect outcomes. Experimental results show that edibility is easier to predict than outcome quality.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics Findings of ACL
Subtitle of host publicationEMNLP 2020
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages4021-4033
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9781952148903
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
EventFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2020: EMNLP 2020 - Virtual, Online
Duration: Nov 16 2020Nov 20 2020

Publication series

NameFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics Findings of ACL: EMNLP 2020

Conference

ConferenceFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2020: EMNLP 2020
CityVirtual, Online
Period11/16/2011/20/20

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics

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