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Catboost Algorithm Application in Legal Texts and UN 2030 Agenda
This article evaluates the application of the Catboost algorithm for automatic classification of legal texts in The United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The task consists of labeling texts from initial petitions and rulings based on identifying topics related to the objectives of the 2030 Agenda, which include sustainable development, quality education, gender equality, preservation of the environment, among other topics of interest to UN member countries. This work aims to help Judicial System employees in case management task, an activity that is manual and repetitive. Since the Catboost algorithm allows joining textual, numerical and categorical features in the same classification model. The proposed approach adds to the classification algorithm traditional metadata about legal processes, such as the Supreme Court Class and Field of Law. The main contributions of this work are: analysis of metadata in machine learning flows and evaluation of the Catboost algorithm for textual classification in legal contexts
Teaching machine translation and translation technology: a contrastive study
The Machine Translation course at Dublin City University is taught to undergraduate students in Applied Computational
Linguistics, while Computer-Assisted Translation is taught on two translator-training programmes, one undergraduate and
one postgraduate. Given the differing backgrounds of these sets of students, the course material, methods of teaching and assessment all differ. We report here on our experiences of teaching these courses over a number of years, which we hope will be of interest to lecturers of similar existing courses, as well as providing a reference point for others who may be considering the introduction of such material
Working out a common task: design and evaluation of user-intelligent system collaboration
This paper describes the design and user evaluation of an intelligent user interface intended to mediate between users and an Adaptive Information Extraction (AIE) system. The design goal was to support a synergistic and cooperative
work. Laboratory tests showed the approach was efficient and effective; focus groups were run to assess its ease of use. Logs, user satisfaction questionnaires, and interviews were exploited to investigate the interaction experience.
We found that userâ attitude is mainly hierarchical with the user wishing to control and check the systemâs initiatives. However when confidence in the system capabilities rises, a more cooperative interaction is adopted
Plan-And-Write: Towards Better Automatic Storytelling
Automatic storytelling is challenging since it requires generating long,
coherent natural language to describes a sensible sequence of events. Despite
considerable efforts on automatic story generation in the past, prior work
either is restricted in plot planning, or can only generate stories in a narrow
domain. In this paper, we explore open-domain story generation that writes
stories given a title (topic) as input. We propose a plan-and-write
hierarchical generation framework that first plans a storyline, and then
generates a story based on the storyline. We compare two planning strategies.
The dynamic schema interweaves story planning and its surface realization in
text, while the static schema plans out the entire storyline before generating
stories. Experiments show that with explicit storyline planning, the generated
stories are more diverse, coherent, and on topic than those generated without
creating a full plan, according to both automatic and human evaluations.Comment: Accepted by AAAI 201
Making AI Meaningful Again
Artificial intelligence (AI) research enjoyed an initial period of enthusiasm in the 1970s and 80s. But this enthusiasm was tempered by a long interlude of frustration when genuinely useful AI applications failed to be forthcoming. Today, we are experiencing once again a period of enthusiasm, fired above all by the successes of the technology of deep neural networks or deep machine learning. In this paper we draw attention to what we take to be serious problems underlying current views of artificial intelligence encouraged by these successes, especially in the domain of language processing. We then show an alternative approach to language-centric AI, in which we identify a role for philosophy
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