James Hughes


2024

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StFX-NLP at SemEval-2024 Task 9: BRAINTEASER: Three Unsupervised Riddle-Solvers
Ethan Heavey | James Hughes | Milton King
Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024)

In this paper, we explore three unsupervised learning models that we applied to Task 9: BRAINTEASER of SemEval 2024. Two of these models incorporate word sense disambiguation and part-of-speech tagging, specifically leveraging SensEmBERT and the Stanford log-linear part-of-speech tagger. Our third model relies on a more traditional language modelling approach. The best performing model, a bag-of-words model leveraging word sense disambiguation and part-of-speech tagging, secured the 10th spot out of 11 places on both the sentence puzzle and word puzzle subtasks.

2023

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StFX-NLP at SemEval-2023 Task 4: Unsupervised and Supervised Approaches to Detecting Human Values in Arguments
Ethan Heavey | Milton King | James Hughes
Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)

In this paper, we discuss our models applied to Task 4: Human Value Detection of SemEval 2023, which incorporated two different embedding techniques to interpret the data. Preliminary experiments were conducted to observe important word types. Subsequently, we explored an XGBoost model, an unsupervised learning model, and two Ensemble learning models were then explored. The best performing model, an ensemble model employing a soft voting technique, secured the 34th spot out of 39 teams, on a class imbalanced dataset. We explored the inclusion of different parts of the provided knowledge resource and found that considering only specific parts assisted our models.

2019

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Identifying Patients with Pain in Emergency Departments using Conventional Machine Learning and Deep Learning
Thanh Vu | Anthony Nguyen | Nathan Brown | James Hughes
Proceedings of the 17th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association

Pain is the main symptom that patients present with to the emergency department (ED). Pain management, however, is often poorly done aspect of emergency care and patients with painful conditions can endure long waits before their pain is assessed or treated. To improve pain management quality, identifying whether or not an ED patient presents with pain is an important task and allows for further investigation of the quality of care provided. In this paper, machine learning was utilised to handle the task of automatically detecting patients who present at EDs with pain from retrospective data. Experimental results on a manually annotated dataset show that our proposed machine learning models achieve high performances, in which the highest accuracy and macro-averaged F1 are 91.00% and 90.96%, respectively.