Jacobo Rouces


2019

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Towards Assessing Argumentation Annotation - A First Step
Anna Lindahl | Lars Borin | Jacobo Rouces
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Argument Mining

This paper presents a first attempt at using Walton’s argumentation schemes for annotating arguments in Swedish political text and assessing the feasibility of using this particular set of schemes with two linguistically trained annotators. The texts are not pre-annotated with argumentation structure beforehand. The results show that the annotators differ both in number of annotated arguments and selection of the conclusion and premises which make up the arguments. They also differ in their labeling of the schemes, but grouping the schemes increases their agreement. The outcome from this will be used to develop guidelines for future annotations.

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Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis using BERT
Mickel Hoang | Oskar Alija Bihorac | Jacobo Rouces
Proceedings of the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics

Sentiment analysis has become very popular in both research and business due to the increasing amount of opinionated text from Internet users. Standard sentiment analysis deals with classifying the overall sentiment of a text, but this doesn’t include other important information such as towards which entity, topic or aspect within the text the sentiment is directed. Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) is a more complex task that consists in identifying both sentiments and aspects. This paper shows the potential of using the contextual word representations from the pre-trained language model BERT, together with a fine-tuning method with additional generated text, in order to solve out-of-domain ABSA and outperform previous state-of-the-art results on SemEval-2015 Task 12 subtask 2 and SemEval-2016 Task 5. To the best of our knowledge, no other existing work has been done on out-of-domain ABSA for aspect classification.

2018

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Generating a Gold Standard for a Swedish Sentiment Lexicon
Jacobo Rouces | Nina Tahmasebi | Lars Borin | Stian Rødven Eide
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)

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SenSALDO: Creating a Sentiment Lexicon for Swedish
Jacobo Rouces | Nina Tahmasebi | Lars Borin | Stian Rødven Eide
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)