Ming Yin


2022

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A Holistic Framework for Analyzing the COVID-19 Vaccine Debate
Maria Leonor Pacheco | Tunazzina Islam | Monal Mahajan | Andrey Shor | Ming Yin | Lyle Ungar | Dan Goldwasser
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to infodemic of low quality information leading to poor health decisions. Combating the outcomes of this infodemic is not only a question of identifying false claims, but also reasoning about the decisions individuals make.In this work we propose a holistic analysis framework connecting stance and reason analysis, and fine-grained entity level moral sentiment analysis. We study how to model the dependencies between the different level of analysis and incorporate human insights into the learning process. Experiments show that our framework provides reliable predictions even in the low-supervision settings.

2021

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基于自动识别的委婉语历时性发展变化与社会共变研究(A Study on the Diachronic Development and Social Covariance of Euphemism Based on Automatic Recognition)
Chenlin Zhang (张辰麟) | Mingwen Wang (王明文) | Yiming Tan (谭亦鸣) | Ming Yin (尹明) | Xinyi Zhang (张心怡)
Proceedings of the 20th Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics

本文主要以汉语委婉语作为研究对象,基于大量人工标注,借助机器学习有监督分类方法,实现了较高精度的委婉语自动识别,并基于此对1946年-2017年的《人民日报》中的委婉语历时变化发展情况进行量化统计分析。从大规模数据的角度探讨委婉语历时性发展变化、委婉语与社会之间的共变关系,验证了语言的格雷什姆规律与更新规律。