Allan Hanbury


2022

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Benchmark for Research Theme Classification of Scholarly Documents
Óscar E. Mendoza | Wojciech Kusa | Alaa El-Ebshihy | Ronin Wu | David Pride | Petr Knoth | Drahomira Herrmannova | Florina Piroi | Gabriella Pasi | Allan Hanbury
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing

We present a new gold-standard dataset and a benchmark for the Research Theme Identification task, a sub-task of the Scholarly Knowledge Graph Generation shared task, at the 3rd Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing. The objective of the shared task was to label given research papers with research themes from a total of 36 themes. The benchmark was compiled using data drawn from the largest overall assessment of university research output ever undertaken globally (the Research Excellence Framework - 2014). We provide a performance comparison of a transformer-based ensemble, which obtains multiple predictions for a research paper, given its multiple textual fields (e.g. title, abstract, reference), with traditional machine learning models. The ensemble involves enriching the initial data with additional information from open-access digital libraries and Argumentative Zoning techniques (CITATION). It uses a weighted sum aggregation for the multiple predictions to obtain a final single prediction for the given research paper. Both data and the ensemble are publicly available on https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/sdp2022-scholarly-knowledge-graph-generation/data?select=task1_test_no_label.csv and https://github.com/ProjectDoSSIER/sdp2022, respectively.

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DoSSIER at MedVidQA 2022: Text-based Approaches to Medical Video Answer Localization Problem
Wojciech Kusa | Georgios Peikos | Óscar Espitia | Allan Hanbury | Gabriella Pasi
Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing

This paper describes our contribution to the Answer Localization track of the MedVidQA 2022 Shared Task. We propose two answer localization approaches that use only textual information extracted from the video. In particular, our approaches exploit the text extracted from the video’s transcripts along with the text displayed in the video’s frames to create a set of features. Having created a set of features that represents a video’s textual information, we employ four different models to measure the similarity between a video’s segment and a corresponding question. Then, we employ two different methods to obtain the start and end times of the identified answer. One of them is based on a random forest regressor, whereas the other one uses an unsupervised peak detection model to detect the answer’s start time. Our findings suggest that for this task, leveraging only text-related features (transmitted either verbally or visually) and using a small amount of training data, lead to significant improvements over the benchmark Video Span Localization model that is based on deep neural networks.

2021

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DreamDrug - A crowdsourced NER dataset for detecting drugs in darknet markets
Johannes Bogensperger | Sven Schlarb | Allan Hanbury | Gábor Recski
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2021)

We present DreamDrug, a crowdsourced dataset for detecting mentions of drugs in noisy user-generated item listings from darknet markets. Our dataset contains nearly 15,000 manually annotated drug entities in over 3,500 item listings scraped from the darknet market platform “DreamMarket” in 2017. We also train and evaluate baseline models for detecting these entities, using contextual language models fine-tuned in a few-shot setting and on the full dataset, and examine the effect of pretraining on in-domain unannotated corpora.

2020

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Effective Crowd-Annotation of Participants, Interventions, and Outcomes in the Text of Clinical Trial Reports
Markus Zlabinger | Marta Sabou | Sebastian Hofstätter | Allan Hanbury
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020

The search for Participants, Interventions, and Outcomes (PIO) in clinical trial reports is a critical task in Evidence Based Medicine. For an automatic PIO extraction, high-quality corpora are needed. Obtaining such a corpus from crowdworkers, however, has been shown to be ineffective since (i) workers usually lack domain-specific expertise to conduct the task with sufficient quality, and (ii) the standard approach of annotating entire abstracts of trial reports as one task-instance (i.e. HIT) leads to an uneven distribution in task effort. In this paper, we switch from entire abstract to sentence annotation, referred to as the SenBase approach. We build upon SenBase in SenSupport, where we compensate the lack of domain-specific expertise of crowdworkers by showing for each task-instance similar sentences that are already annotated by experts. Such tailored task-instance examples are retrieved via unsupervised semantic short-text similarity (SSTS) method – and we evaluate nine methods to find an effective solution for SenSupport. We compute the Cohen’s Kappa agreement between crowd-annotations and gold standard annotations and show that (i) both sentence-based approaches outperform a Baseline approach where entire abstracts are annotated; (ii) supporting annotators with tailored task-instance examples is the best performing approach with Kappa agreements of 0.78/0.75/0.69 for P, I, and O respectively.

2018

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Medical Entity Corpus with PICO elements and Sentiment Analysis
Markus Zlabinger | Linda Andersson | Allan Hanbury | Michael Andersson | Vanessa Quasnik | Jon Brassey
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)

2017

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Volatility Prediction using Financial Disclosures Sentiments with Word Embedding-based IR Models
Navid Rekabsaz | Mihai Lupu | Artem Baklanov | Alexander Dür | Linda Andersson | Allan Hanbury
Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Volatility prediction—an essential concept in financial markets—has recently been addressed using sentiment analysis methods. We investigate the sentiment of annual disclosures of companies in stock markets to forecast volatility. We specifically explore the use of recent Information Retrieval (IR) term weighting models that are effectively extended by related terms using word embeddings. In parallel to textual information, factual market data have been widely used as the mainstream approach to forecast market risk. We therefore study different fusion methods to combine text and market data resources. Our word embedding-based approach significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods. In addition, we investigate the characteristics of the reports of the companies in different financial sectors.

2016

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Standard Test Collection for English-Persian Cross-Lingual Word Sense Disambiguation
Navid Rekabsaz | Serwah Sabetghadam | Mihai Lupu | Linda Andersson | Allan Hanbury
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)

In this paper, we address the shortage of evaluation benchmarks on Persian (Farsi) language by creating and making available a new benchmark for English to Persian Cross Lingual Word Sense Disambiguation (CL-WSD). In creating the benchmark, we follow the format of the SemEval 2013 CL-WSD task, such that the introduced tools of the task can also be applied on the benchmark. In fact, the new benchmark extends the SemEval-2013 CL-WSD task to Persian language.

2015

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Detecting Risks in the Banking System by Sentiment Analysis
Clemens Nopp | Allan Hanbury
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing