Shafiuddin Rehan Ahmed


2024

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X-AMR Annotation Tool
Shafiuddin Rehan Ahmed | Jon Cai | Martha Palmer | James H. Martin
Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations

This paper presents a novel Cross-document Abstract Meaning Representation (X-AMR) annotation tool designed for annotating key corpus-level event semantics. Leveraging machine assistance through the Prodigy Annotation Tool, we enhance the user experience, ensuring ease and efficiency in the annotation process. Through empirical analyses, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our tool in augmenting an existing event corpus, highlighting its advantages when integrated with GPT-4. Code and annotations: href{https://anonymous.4open.science/r/xamr-9ED0}{anonymous.4open.science/r/xamr-9ED0} footnote Demo: {href{https://youtu.be/TuirftxciNE}{https://youtu.be/TuirftxciNE}} footnote Live Link: {href{https://tinyurl.com/mrxmafwh}{https://tinyurl.com/mrxmafwh}}

2023

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CAMRA: Copilot for AMR Annotation
Jon Cai | Shafiuddin Rehan Ahmed | Julia Bonn | Kristin Wright-Bettner | Martha Palmer | James H. Martin
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations

In this paper, we introduce CAMRA (Copilot for AMR Annotatations), a cutting-edge web-based tool designed for constructing Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) from natural language text. CAMRA offers a novel approach to deep lexical semantics annotation such as AMR, treating AMR annotation akin to coding in programming languages. Leveraging the familiarity of programming paradigms, CAMRA encompasses all essential features of existing AMR editors, including example lookup, while going a step further by integrating Propbank roleset lookup as an autocomplete feature within the tool. Notably, CAMRA incorporates AMR parser models as coding co-pilots, greatly enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of AMR annotators.

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2*n is better than n2: Decomposing Event Coreference Resolution into Two Tractable Problems
Shafiuddin Rehan Ahmed | Abhijnan Nath | James H. Martin | Nikhil Krishnaswamy
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023

Event Coreference Resolution (ECR) is the task of linking mentions of the same event either within or across documents. Most mention pairs are not coreferent, yet many that are coreferent can be identified through simple techniques such as lemma matching of the event triggers or the sentences in which they appear. Existing methods for training coreference systems sample from a largely skewed distribution, making it difficult for the algorithm to learn coreference beyond surface matching. Additionally, these methods are intractable because of the quadratic operations needed. To address these challenges, we break the problem of ECR into two parts: a) a heuristic to efficiently filter out a large number of non-coreferent pairs, and b) a training approach on a balanced set of coreferent and non-coreferent mention pairs. By following this approach, we show that we get comparable results to the state of the art on two popular ECR datasets while significantly reducing compute requirements. We also analyze the mention pairs that are “hard” to accurately classify as coreferent or non-coreferentcode repo: \mathtt{github.com/ahmeshaf/lemma\_ce\_coref}.

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How Good Is the Model in Model-in-the-loop Event Coreference Resolution Annotation?
Shafiuddin Rehan Ahmed | Abhijnan Nath | Michael Regan | Adam Pollins | Nikhil Krishnaswamy | James H. Martin
Proceedings of the 17th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVII)

Annotating cross-document event coreference links is a time-consuming and cognitively demanding task that can compromise annotation quality and efficiency. To address this, we propose a model-in-the-loop annotation approach for event coreference resolution, where a machine learning model suggests likely corefering event pairs only. We evaluate the effectiveness of this approach by first simulating the annotation process and then, using a novel annotator-centric Recall-Annotation effort trade-off metric, we compare the results of various underlying models and datasets. We finally present a method for obtaining 97% recall while substantially reducing the workload required by a fully manual annotation process.