Elizabeth Merkhofer

Also published as: Elizabeth M. Merkhofer


2021

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Perceptual Models of Machine-Edited Text
Elizabeth Merkhofer | Monica-Ann Mendoza | Rebecca Marvin | John Henderson
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021

2019

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MITRE at SemEval-2019 Task 5: Transfer Learning for Multilingual Hate Speech Detection
Abigail Gertner | John Henderson | Elizabeth Merkhofer | Amy Marsh | Ben Wellner | Guido Zarrella
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

This paper describes MITRE’s participation in SemEval-2019 Task 5, HatEval: Multilingual detection of hate speech against immigrants and women in Twitter. The techniques explored range from simple bag-of-ngrams classifiers to neural architectures with varied attention mechanisms. We describe several styles of transfer learning from auxiliary tasks, including a novel method for adapting pre-trained BERT models to Twitter data. Logistic regression ties the systems together into an ensemble submitted for evaluation. The resulting system was used to produce predictions for all four HatEval subtasks, achieving the best mean rank of all teams that participated in all four conditions.

2018

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MITRE at SemEval-2018 Task 11: Commonsense Reasoning without Commonsense Knowledge
Elizabeth Merkhofer | John Henderson | David Bloom | Laura Strickhart | Guido Zarrella
Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

This paper describes MITRE’s participation in SemEval-2018 Task 11: Machine Comprehension using Commonsense Knowledge. The techniques explored range from simple bag-of-ngrams classifiers to neural architectures with varied attention and alignment mechanisms. Logistic regression ties the systems together into an ensemble submitted for evaluation. The resulting system answers reading comprehension questions with 82.27% accuracy.

2017

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MITRE at SemEval-2017 Task 1: Simple Semantic Similarity
John Henderson | Elizabeth Merkhofer | Laura Strickhart | Guido Zarrella
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017)

This paper describes MITRE’s participation in the Semantic Textual Similarity task (SemEval-2017 Task 1), which evaluated machine learning approaches to the identification of similar meaning among text snippets in English, Arabic, Spanish, and Turkish. We detail the techniques we explored ranging from simple bag-of-ngrams classifiers to neural architectures with varied attention and alignment mechanisms. Linear regression is used to tie the systems together into an ensemble submitted for evaluation. The resulting system is capable of matching human similarity ratings of image captions with correlations of 0.73 to 0.83 in monolingual settings and 0.68 to 0.78 in cross-lingual conditions, demonstrating the power of relatively simple approaches.

2015

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MITRE: Seven Systems for Semantic Similarity in Tweets
Guido Zarrella | John Henderson | Elizabeth M. Merkhofer | Laura Strickhart
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015)