Jeniya Tabassum


2020

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Code and Named Entity Recognition in StackOverflow
Jeniya Tabassum | Mounica Maddela | Wei Xu | Alan Ritter
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

There is an increasing interest in studying natural language and computer code together, as large corpora of programming texts become readily available on the Internet. For example, StackOverflow currently has over 15 million programming related questions written by 8.5 million users. Meanwhile, there is still a lack of fundamental NLP techniques for identifying code tokens or software-related named entities that appear within natural language sentences. In this paper, we introduce a new named entity recognition (NER) corpus for the computer programming domain, consisting of 15,372 sentences annotated with 20 fine-grained entity types. We trained in-domain BERT representations (BERTOverflow) on 152 million sentences from StackOverflow, which lead to an absolute increase of +10 F1 score over off-the-shelf BERT. We also present the SoftNER model which achieves an overall 79.10 F-1 score for code and named entity recognition on StackOverflow data. Our SoftNER model incorporates a context-independent code token classifier with corpus-level features to improve the BERT-based tagging model. Our code and data are available at: https://github.com/jeniyat/StackOverflowNER/

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WNUT-2020 Task 1 Overview: Extracting Entities and Relations from Wet Lab Protocols
Jeniya Tabassum | Wei Xu | Alan Ritter
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2020)

This paper presents the results of the wet labinformation extraction task at WNUT 2020.This task consisted of two sub tasks- (1) anamed entity recognition task with 13 partic-ipants; and (2) a relation extraction task with2 participants. We outline the task, data an-notation process, corpus statistics, and providea high-level overview of the participating sys-tems for each sub task.

2018

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Proceedings of ACL 2018, Student Research Workshop
Vered Shwartz | Jeniya Tabassum | Rob Voigt | Wanxiang Che | Marie-Catherine de Marneffe | Malvina Nissim
Proceedings of ACL 2018, Student Research Workshop

2016

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TweeTime : A Minimally Supervised Method for Recognizing and Normalizing Time Expressions in Twitter
Jeniya Tabassum | Alan Ritter | Wei Xu
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing