Piek Vossen

GRaSP: A Multilayered Annotation Scheme for Perspectives

2016

This paper presents a framework and methodology for the annotation of perspectives in text.In the last decade, different aspects of linguistic encoding of perspectives have been targeted as separated phenomena through different annotation initiatives.We propose …

Systematic Study of Long Tail Phenomena in Entity Linking

2018 · VU Research Portal

State-of-the-art entity linkers achieve high accuracy scores with probabilistic methods. However,<br/>these scores should be considered in relation to the properties of the datasets they are evaluated<br/>on. Until now, there has not been a systematic investigation …

A modular architecture for creating multimodal agents

2022 · arXiv (Cornell University)

The paper describes a flexible and modular platform to create multimodal interactive agents. The platform operates through an event-bus on which signals and interpretations are posted in a sequence in time. Different sensors and interpretation …

An Empirical Analysis of Diversity in Argument Summarization

2024 · VU Research Portal

Presenting high-level arguments is a crucial task for fostering participation in online societal discussions. Current argument summarization approaches miss an important facet of this task -- capturing diversity -- which is important for accommodating multiple …

The Event StoryLine Corpus: A New Benchmark for Causal and Temporal Relation Extraction

2017

This paper reports on the Event StoryLine Corpus (ESC) v0.9, a new benchmark dataset for the temporal and causal relation detection. By developing this dataset, we also introduce a new task, the StoryLine Extraction from …