Team Taurus at SemEval-2019 Task 9: Expert-informed pattern recognition for suggestion mining

Nelleke Oostdijk, Hans van Halteren


Abstract
This paper presents our submissions to SemEval-2019 Task9, Suggestion Mining. Our system is one in a series of systems in which we compare an approach using expert-defined rules with a comparable one using machine learning. We target tasks with a syntactic or semantic component that might be better described by a human understanding the task than by a machine learner only able to count features. For Semeval-2019 Task 9, the expert rules clearly outperformed our machine learning model when training and testing on equally balanced testsets.
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S19-2219
Volume:
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Month:
June
Year:
2019
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova, Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu, Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1247–1253
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/S19-2219
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S19-2219
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Nelleke Oostdijk and Hans van Halteren. 2019. Team Taurus at SemEval-2019 Task 9: Expert-informed pattern recognition for suggestion mining. In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 1247–1253, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Team Taurus at SemEval-2019 Task 9: Expert-informed pattern recognition for suggestion mining (Oostdijk & van Halteren, SemEval 2019)
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