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Full-Text Argumentation Mining on Scientific Publications

Scholarly Argumentation Mining (SAM) has recently gained attention due to its potential to help scholars with the rapid growth of published scientific literature. It comprises two subtasks: argumentative discourse unit recognition (ADUR) and …

Neighborhood Contrastive Learning for Scientific Document Representations with Citation Embeddings

Learning scientific document representations can be substantially improved through contrastive learning objectives, where the challenge lies in creating positive and negative training samples that encode the desired similarity semantics. Prior work …

A Linguistically Motivated Test Suite to Semi-Automatically Evaluate German–English Machine Translation Output

This paper presents a fine-grained test suite for the language pair German–English. The test suite is based on a number of linguistically motivated categories and phenomena and the semi-automatic evaluation is carried out with regular expressions. We …

An Annotated Corpus of Textual Explanations for Clinical Decision Support

In recent years, machine learning for clinical decision support has gained more and more attention. In order to introduce such applications into clinical practice, a good performance might be essential, however, the aspect of trust should not be …

Cross-lingual Approaches for the Detection of Adverse Drug Reactions in German from a Patient's Perspective

In this work, we present the first corpus for German Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) detection in patient-generated content. The data consists of 4,169 binary annotated documents from a German patient forum, where users talk about health issues and get …

Generating Extended and Multilingual Summaries with Pre-trained Transformers

Almost all summarisation methods and datasets focus on a single language and short summaries. We introduce a new dataset called WikinewsSum for English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, and Italian summarisation tailored for extended …

MobASA: Corpus for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis and Social Inclusion in the Mobility Domain

In this paper we show how aspect-based sentiment analysis might help public transport companies to improve their social responsibility for accessible travel. We present MobASA: a novel German-language corpus of tweets annotated with their relevance …

Subjective Text Complexity Assessment for German

For different reasons, text can be difficult to read and understand for many people, especially if the text’s language is too complex. In order to provide suitable text for the target audience, it is necessary to measure its complexity. In this paper …

Claim Extraction and Law Matching for COVID-19-related Legislation

To cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, many jurisdictions have introduced new or altered existing legislation. Even though these new rules are often communicated to the public in news articles, it remains challenging for laypersons to learn about what …

Specialized Document Embeddings for Aspect-based Similarity of Research Papers

Document embeddings and similarity measures underpin content-based recommender systems, whereby a document is commonly represented as a single generic embedding. However, similarity computed on single vector representations provides only one …