Computational Linguistics & Phonetics Computational Linguistics & Phonetics Fachrichtung 4.7 Universität des Saarlandes

Publication list




2022

Label distributions help implicit discourse relation classification
Frances Yung, Kaveri Anuranjana, Merel Scholman, and Vera Demberg In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI@CoLing)
[to appear]

Establishing quality in multi-label annotations
Marian Marchal, Merel Scholman, Frances Yung, and Vera Demberg In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (CoLing 2022)
[to appear] [code]

Design Choices in Crowdsourcing Discourse Relation Annotations: The Effect of Worker Selection and Training
Merel C. J. Scholman, Valentina Pyatkin, Frances Yung, Ido Dagan, Reut Tsarfaty, and Vera Demberg In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
[paper]

DiscoGeM: A Crowdsourced Corpus of Genre-Mixed Implicit Discourse Relations
Merel C. J. Scholman, Tianai Dong, Frances Yung, and Vera Demberg In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
[paper] [resource]



2021

A practical perspective on connective generation
Frances Yung, Merel Scholman, and Vera Demberg
In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI@EMNLP)
[paper] [data]

Comparison of methods for explicit discourse connective identification across various domains
Merel Scholman, Tianai Dong, Frances Yung, and Vera Demberg
In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI@EMNLP)
[paper]

Limits to the rational production of discourse connectives
Frances Yung, Jana Jungbluth, and Vera Demberg
In Frontiers of Psychology 12 (2021): 660730
[paper] [data]



2020

Modeling the interplay of rational production and comprehension of ambiguous connectives.
Frances Yung, Jana Jungbluth, and Vera Demberg
In Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE)



2019

Crowdsourcing discourse relation annotations by a two-step connective insertion task
Frances Yung, Merel Scholman and Vera Demberg
Proceedings of the Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW@ACL)
[paper]

Acquiring Annotated Data with Cross-lingual Explicitation for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification
Wei Shi, Frances Yung and Vera Demberg
Proceedings of Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking (DISRPT@NAACL)
[paper]



2018

Do speakers produce discourse connectives rationally?
Frances Yung and Vera Demberg
Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning and Processing (CogACLL@ACL)
[paper]



2017

Can Discourse Relations be Identified Incrementally
Frances Yung, Hiroshi Noji, Yuji Matsumoto
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)
[paper] [appendix] [data] [additional data]

A Psycholinguistic Model for the Marking of Discourse Relations
Frances Yung, Kevin Duh, Taku Komura, Yuji Matsumoto
Dialogue & Discourse 8 (1), 106-131, doi:10.5087/dad.2017.104
[paper]

Using Explicit Discourse Connectives in Translation for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification
Wei Shi, Frances Yung, Raphael Rubino, Vera Demberg
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)
[paper]



2016

Modeling the interpretation of discourse connectives by bayesian pragmatics
Frances Yung, Kevin Duh, Taku Komura, Yuji Matsumoto
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
[paper]

Modelling the Usage of Discourse Connectives as Rational Speech Acts
Frances Yung, Kevin Duh, Taku Komura, Yuji Matsumoto
Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)
[paper]



2015

Crosslingual annotation and analysis of implicit discourse connectives for machine translation
Frances Yung, Kevin Duh, Yuji Matsumoto
Proceedings of the Workshop of Discourse in machine translation (DiscoMT@EMNLP)
[paper] [data]

Sequential annotation and chunking of Chinese discourse structure
Frances Yung, Kevin Duh, Yuji Matsumoto
Proceedings of the Workshop on Chinese Language Processing (SIGHAN@ACL)
[paper]

EVALution 1.0: an evolving semantic dataset for training and evaluation of distributional semantic models
E Santus, F Yung, A Lenci, CR Huang
Proceedings of the Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL@ACL)
[paper]



2014

Analysis and Prediction of Unalignable Words in Parallel Text
Frances Yung, Kevin Duh, Yuji Matsumoto
Proceedings of the Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)
[paper]

Towards a Discourse Relation-aware Approach for Chinese-English Machine Translation
Frances Yung
Proceedings of the ACL Student Research Workshop (ACLSRW)
[paper]



2013

Construction of English MWE Dictionary and its Application to POS Tagging
Yutaro Shigeto, Ai Azuma, Sorami Hisamoto, Shuhei Kondo, Tomoya Kouse, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Akifumi Yoshimoto, Frances Yung, Yuji Matsumoto
Proceedings of the Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE@NAACL-HLT)
[paper]