Recent Submissions

  • Towards bootstrapping a chatbot on industrial heritage through term and relation extraction 

    Arcan, Mihael; O’Halloran, Rory; Robin, Cecile; Buitelaar, Paul (Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022-11-20)
    We describe initial work in developing a methodology for the automatic generation of a conversational agent or ‘chatbot’ through term and relation extraction from a relevant corpus of language data. We develop our ...
  • ULD@NUIG at SemEval-2020 Task 9: Generative morphemes with an attention model for sentiment analysis in code-mixed text 

    Goswami, Koustava; Rani, Priya; Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja; Fransen, Theodorus; McCrae, John P. (International Committee for Computational Linguistics, 2020)
    Code mixing is a common phenomena in multilingual societies where people switch from one language to another for various reasons. Recent advances in public communication over different social media sites have led to an ...
  • Findings of the LoResMT 2021 shared task on COVID and sign language for low-resource languages 

    Ojha, Atul Kr.; Liu, Chao-Hong; Kann, Katharina; Ortega, John; Shatam, Sheetal; Fransen, Theodorus (Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 2021-08)
    We present the findings of the LoResMT 2021 shared task which focuses on machine translation (MT) of COVID-19 data for both low-resource spoken and sign languages. The organization of this task was conducted as part of the ...
  • NUIG-DSI’s submission to the GEM Benchmark 2021 

    Pasricha, Nivranshu; Arcan, Mihael; Buitelaar, Paul (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021-08-05)
    This paper describes the submission by NUIG-DSI to the GEM benchmark 2021. We participate in the modeling shared task where we submit outputs on four datasets for data-to-text generation, namely, DART, WebNLG (en), E2E and ...
  • Enhancing multiple-choice question answering with causal knowledge 

    Dalal, Dhairya; Arcan, Mihael; Buitelaar, Paul (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021-06-10)
    The task of causal question answering aims to reason about causes and effects over a provided real or hypothetical premise. Recent approaches have converged on using transformer-based language models to solve question ...
  • Edge2Guard: Botnet attacks detecting offline models for resource-constrained IoT devices 

    Sudharsan, Bharath; Sundaram, Dineshkumar; Patel, Pankesh; Breslin, John G.; Ali, Muhammad Intizar (National University of Ireland Galway, 2021-03-22)
    In today's IoT smart environments, dozens of MCU-based connected device types exist such as HVAC controllers, smart meters, smoke detectors, etc. The security conditions for these essential IoT devices remain unsatisfactory ...
  • Utilising knowledge graph embeddings for data-to-text generation 

    Pasricha, Nivranshu; Arcan, Mihael; Buitelaar, Paul (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020-12-18)
    Data-to-text generation has recently seen a move away from modular and pipeline architectures towards end-to-end architectures based on neural networks. In this work, we employ knowledge graph embeddings and explore their ...
  • NUIG-DSI at the WebNLG+ challenge: Leveraging transfer learning for RDF-to-text generation 

    Pasricha, Nivranshu; Arcan, Mihael; Buitelaar, Paul (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020-12-18)
    This paper describes the system submitted by NUIG-DSI to the WebNLG+ challenge 2020 in the RDF-to-text generation task for the English language. For this challenge, we leverage transfer learning by adopting the T5 model ...
  • A sentiment analysis dataset for code-mixed Malayalam-English 

    Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja; Jose, Navya; Suryawanshi, Shardul; Sherly, Elizabeth; McCrae, John P. (European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2020-05-11)
    There is an increasing demand for sentiment analysis of text from social media which are mostly code-mixed. Systems trained on monolingual data fail for code-mixed data due to the complexity of mixing at different levels ...
  • Corpus creation for sentiment analysis in code-mixed Tamil-English text 

    Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja; Muralidaran, Vigneshwaran; Priyadharshini, Ruba; McCrae, John P. (European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2020-05-11)
    Understanding the sentiment of a comment from a video or an image is an essential task in many applications. Sentiment analysis of a text can be useful for various decision-making processes. One such application is to ...
  • Is trust between AI institutions and the public “morally rotten?” 

    Carter, Sarah (Machine Ethics Research Group, School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, 2020)
    Developing artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has become a business of power. AI innovation is increasingly centralized in a few large companies – mainly, Google, Facebook, and Apple.1 Specialized data scientists - ...
  • A comparative study of different state-of-the-art hate speech detection methods in Hindi-English code-mixed data 

    Rani, Priya; Suryawanshi, Shardul; Goswami, Koustava; Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja; Fransen, Theodorus; McCrae, John P. (European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2020-05-11)
    Hate speech detection in social media communication has become one of the primary concerns to avoid conflicts and curb undesired activities. In an environment where multilingual speakers switch among multiple languages, ...
  • NUIG at TIAD: Combining unsupervised NLP and graph metrics for translation inference 

    McCrae, John P.; Arcan, Mihael (European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2020-05-11)
    In this paper, we present the NUIG system at the TIAD shard task. This system includes graph-based metrics calculated using novel algorithms, with an unsupervised document embedding tool called ONETA and an unsupervised ...
  • A dataset for troll classification of Tamil memes 

    Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja; Varma, Pranav; Arcan, Mihael; McCrae, John P.; Buitelaar, Paul; Shardul, Suryawanshi (European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2020-05-11)
    Social media are interactive platforms that facilitate the creation or sharing of information, ideas or other forms of expression among people. This exchange is not free from offensive, trolling or malicious contents ...
  • Multimodal meme dataset (MultiOFF) for identifying offensive content in image and text 

    Suryawanshi, Shardul; Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja; Arcan, Mihael; Buitelaar, Paul (European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2020-05-11)
    A meme is a form of media that spreads an idea or emotion across the internet. As posting meme has become a new form of communication of the web, due to the multimodal nature of memes, postings of hateful memes or related ...
  • Challenges of word sense alignment: Portuguese language resources 

    Salgado, Ana; Ahmadi, Sina; Simões, Alberto; McCrae, John P.; Costa, Rute (National University of Ireland Galway, 2020-05-16)
    This paper reports on an ongoing task of monolingual word sense alignment in which a comparative study between the Portuguese Academy of Sciences Dictionary and the Dicionario Aberto ´ is carried out in the context of the ...
  • A corpus of the Sorani Kurdish folkloric lyrics 

    Ahmadi, Sina; Hassani, Hossein; Abedi, Kamaladdin (National University of Ireland Galway, 2020-05-16)
    Kurdish poetry and prose narratives were historically transmitted orally and less in a written form. Being an essential medium of oral narration and literature, Kurdish lyrics have had a unique attribute in becoming a ...
  • Veritas annotator: Discovering the origin of a rumour 

    Azevedo, Lucas; Moustafa, Mohamed (Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019-11-03)
    Defined as the intentional or unintentional spread of false information (K et al., 2019) through context and/or content manipulation, fake news has become one of the most serious problems associated with online ...
  • Towards sharing task environments to support reproducible evaluations of interactive recommender systems 

    Barraza-Urbina, Andrea; d'Aquin, Mathieu (NUI Galway, 2019-09-20)
    Beyond sharing datasets or simulations, we believe the Recommender Systems (RS) community should share Task Environments. In this work, we propose a high-level logical architecture that will help to reason about the core ...
  • BEARS: Towards an evaluation framework for bandit-based interactive recommender systems 

    Barraza-Urbina, Andrea; Koutrika, Georgia; d'Aquin, Mathieu,; Hayes, Conor (NUI Galway, 2018-10-06)
    Recommender Systems (RS) deployed in fast-paced dynamic scenarios must quickly learn to adapt in response to user evaluative feedback. In these settings, the RS faces an online learning problem where each decision should ...

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