Researcher profile

Jeffrey Flanigan

4 papers in the PaperMetrix corpus

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Papers by this author

  1. Improving Neural Machine Translation with the Abstract Meaning Representation by Combining Graph and Sequence Transformers

    2022

    Previous studies have shown that the Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) can improve Neural Machine Translation (NMT). However, there has been little work investigating incorporating AMR graphs into Transformer models. In this work, we propose a …

  2. Does the “most sinfully decadent cake ever” taste good? Answering Yes/No Questions from Figurative Contexts

    2023

    Figurative language is commonplace in natural language, and while making communication memorable and creative, can be difficult to understand.In this work, we investigate the robustness of Question Answering (QA) models on figurative text.Yes/no questions, in …

  3. Part-of-Speech Tagging for Twitter: Annotation, Features, and Experiments

    2018 · Figshare

    We address the problem of part-of-speech tagging for English data from the popular microblogging service Twitter. We develop a tagset, annotate data, develop features, and report tagging results nearing 90% accuracy. The data and tools …

  4. Generation from Abstract Meaning Representation using Tree Transducers

    2016

    Jeffrey Flanigan, Chris Dyer, Noah A. Smith, Jaime Carbonell. Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. 2016.