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Implicit Dimension Identification in User-Generated Text with LSTM Networks
In the process of online storytelling, individual users create and consume
highly diverse content that contains a great deal of implicit beliefs and not
plainly expressed narrative. It is hard to manually detect these implicit
beliefs, intentions and moral foundations of the writers. We study and
investigate two different tasks, each of which reflect the difficulty of
detecting an implicit user's knowledge, intent or belief that may be based on
writer's moral foundation: 1) political perspective detection in news articles
2) identification of informational vs. conversational questions in community
question answering (CQA) archives and. In both tasks we first describe new
interesting annotated datasets and make the datasets publicly available.
Second, we compare various classification algorithms, and show the differences
in their performance on both tasks. Third, in political perspective detection
task we utilize a narrative representation language of local press to identify
perspective differences between presumably neutral American and British press
Sensing Ambiguity in Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw"
Fields such as the philosophy of language, continental philosophy, and
literary studies have long established that human language is, at its essence,
ambiguous and that this quality, although challenging to communication,
enriches language and points to the complexity of human thought. On the other
hand, in the NLP field there have been ongoing efforts aimed at disambiguation
for various downstream tasks. This work brings together computational text
analysis and literary analysis to demonstrate the extent to which ambiguity in
certain texts plays a key role in shaping meaning and thus requires analysis
rather than elimination. We revisit the discussion, well known in the
humanities, about the role ambiguity plays in Henry James' 19th century
novella, The Turn of the Screw. We model each of the novella's two competing
interpretations as a topic and computationally demonstrate that the duality
between them exists consistently throughout the work and shapes, rather than
obscures, its meaning. We also demonstrate that cosine similarity and word
mover's distance are sensitive enough to detect ambiguity in its most subtle
literary form, despite doubts to the contrary raised by literary scholars. Our
analysis is built on topic word lists and word embeddings from various sources.
We first claim, and then empirically show, the interdependence between
computational analysis and close reading performed by a human expert