Nadia Sheikh


2023

In this paper we propose a first empirical mapping between the RST-DT and the PDTB 3.0. We provide an original algorithm which allowed the mapping of 6,510 (80.0%) explicit and implicit discourse relations between the overlapping articles of the RST-DT and PDTB 3.0 discourse annotated corpora. Results of the mapping show that while it is easier to align segments of implicit discourse relations, the mapping obtained between the aligned explicit discourse relations is more unambiguous.

2019

CLaC labs participated in Task 1 and 4 of SMM4H 2019. We pursed two main objectives in our submission. First we tried to use some textual features in a deep net framework, and second, the potential use of more than one word embedding was tested. The results seem positively affected by the proposed architectures.

2018

CLaC Labs participated in Tasks 1, 2, and 4 using the same base architecture for all tasks with various parameter variations. This was our first exploration of this data and the SMM4H Tasks, thus a unified system was useful to compare the behavior of our architecture over the different datasets and how they interact with different linguistic features.