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03/27/2023
IRFL: Image Recognition of Figurative Language
Figures of speech such as metaphors, similes, and idioms allow language ...
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12/08/2022
VASR: Visual Analogies of Situation Recognition
A core process in human cognition is analogical mapping: the ability to ...
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11/15/2022
The Lean Data Scientist: Recent Advances towards Overcoming the Data Bottleneck
Machine learning (ML) is revolutionizing the world, affecting almost eve...
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11/15/2022
Breakpoint Transformers for Modeling and Tracking Intermediate Beliefs
Can we teach natural language understanding models to track their belief...
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10/31/2022
50 Ways to Bake a Cookie: Mapping the Landscape of Procedural Texts
The web is full of guidance on a wide variety of tasks, from changing th...
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10/24/2022
Cards Against AI: Predicting Humor in a Fill-in-the-blank Party Game
Humor is an inherently social phenomenon, with humorous utterances shape...
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10/21/2022
Life is a Circus and We are the Clowns: Automatically Finding Analogies between Situations and Processes
Analogy-making gives rise to reasoning, abstraction, flexible categoriza...
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05/31/2022
Augmenting Scientific Creativity with an Analogical Search Engine
Analogies have been central to creative problem-solving throughout the h...
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05/12/2022
From Users to (Sense)Makers: On the Pivotal Role of Stigmergic Social Annotation in the Quest for Collective Sensemaking
The web has become a dominant epistemic environment, influencing people'...
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11/30/2021
Dyna-bAbI: unlocking bAbI's potential with dynamic synthetic benchmarking
While neural language models often perform surprisingly well on natural ...
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06/09/2021
Catchphrase: Automatic Detection of Cultural References
A snowclone is a customizable phrasal template that can be realized in m...
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06/06/2021
How Did This Get Funded?! Automatically Identifying Quirky Scientific Achievements
Humor is an important social phenomenon, serving complex social and psyc...
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05/12/2021
"Alexa, what do you do for fun?" Characterizing playful requests with virtual assistants
Virtual assistants such as Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, Google Home, an...
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02/19/2021
Scaling Creative Inspiration with Fine-Grained Functional Facets of Product Ideas
Web-scale repositories of products, patents and scientific papers offer ...
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05/01/2020
Language (Re)modelling: Towards Embodied Language Understanding
While natural language understanding (NLU) is advancing rapidly, today's...
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03/10/2020
Ecological Semantics: Programming Environments for Situated Language Understanding
Large-scale natural language understanding (NLU) systems have made impre...
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11/10/2018
Playing by the Book: Towards Agent-based Narrative Understanding through Role-playing and Simulation
Understanding procedural text requires tracking entities, actions and ef...
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12/19/2017
Analogy Mining for Specific Design Needs
Finding analogical inspirations in distant domains is a powerful way of ...
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12/13/2017
Ballpark Crowdsourcing: The Wisdom of Rough Group Comparisons
Crowdsourcing has become a popular method for collecting labeled trainin...
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06/17/2017
Accelerating Innovation Through Analogy Mining
The availability of large idea repositories (e.g., the U.S. patent datab...
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06/30/2016