Sándor Darányi


2020

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Detection of Reading Absorption in User-Generated Book Reviews: Resources Creation and Evaluation
Piroska Lendvai | Sándor Darányi | Christian Geng | Moniek Kuijpers | Oier Lopez de Lacalle | Jean-Christophe Mensonides | Simone Rebora | Uwe Reichel
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

To detect how and when readers are experiencing engagement with a literary work, we bring together empirical literary studies and language technology via focusing on the affective state of absorption. The goal of our resource development is to enable the detection of different levels of reading absorption in millions of user-generated reviews hosted on social reading platforms. We present a corpus of social book reviews in English that we annotated with reading absorption categories. Based on these data, we performed supervised, sentence level, binary classification of the explicit presence vs. absence of the mental state of absorption. We compared the performances of classical machine learners where features comprised sentence representations obtained from a pretrained embedding model (Universal Sentence Encoder) vs. neural classifiers in which sentence embedding vector representations are adapted or fine-tuned while training for the absorption recognition task. We discuss the challenges in creating the labeled data as well as the possibilities for releasing a benchmark corpus.

2010

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Integration of Linguistic Markup into Semantic Models of Folk Narratives: The Fairy Tale Use Case
Piroska Lendvai | Thierry Declerck | Sándor Darányi | Pablo Gervás | Raquel Hervás | Scott Malec | Federico Peinado
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)

Propp's influential structural analysis of fairy tales created a powerful schema for representing storylines in terms of character functions, which is directly exploitable for computational semantic analysis, and procedural generation of stories of this genre. We tackle two resources that draw on the Proppian model - one formalizes it as a semantic markup scheme and the other as an ontology -, both lacking linguistic phenomena explicitly represented in them. The need for integrating linguistic information into structured semantic resources is motivated by the emergence of suitable standards that facilitate this, as well as the benefits such joint representation would create for transdisciplinary research across Digital Humanities, Computational Linguistics, and Artificial Intelligence.

2009

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Improving Text Classification by a Sense Spectrum Approach to Term Expansion
Peter Wittek | Sándor Darányi | Chew Lim Tan
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2009)

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An Ordering of Terms Based on Semantic Relatedness
Peter Wittek | Sándor Darányi | Chew Lim Tan
Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Computational Semantics