Suma Bhat

Embedding Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions via Tensor Decomposition

2018 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Prepositions are among the most frequent words in English and play complex roles in the syntax and semantics of sentences. Not surprisingly, they pose well-known difficulties in automatic processing of sentences (prepositional attachment ambiguities and …

Generate, Prune, Select: A Pipeline for Counterspeech Generation against Online Hate Speech

2021

Warning: this paper contains content that may be offensive or upsetting.

All-but-the-Top: Simple and Effective Postprocessing for Word Representations

2017 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Real-valued word representations have transformed NLP applications; popular examples are word2vec and GloVe, recognized for their ability to capture linguistic regularities. In this paper, we demonstrate a {\em very simple}, and yet counter-intuitive, postprocessing technique …