Christopher Hidey
Christopher Hidey has 3 papers in our library, in 2016–2019, most of them on Discourse analysis; often with Kathy McKeown, Alyssa Hwang, Elena Musi.
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📄 3 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 124 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3940
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📚 Shelves 7The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 3 worksComputer Science · 3 worksArtificial Intelligence · 3 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 3 worksPhilosophy · 1 workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · 1 workMolecular Biology · 1 work
🧭 Topics 1Research subjects and languages the work is about.Discourse analysis · 1 work
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2010s
Papers
- Analyzing the Semantic Types of Claims and Premises in an Online Persuasive Forum (2017 · 166 citations)
The paper tackles a gap in argument mining. Most persuasion research has studied discourse-level signals such as connectives, hedges and argument structure, but the conceptual content of arguments has received little attention, largely because annotated data is missing. The authors build such data from the Change My… - Identifying Causal Relations Using Parallel Wikipedia Articles (2016 · 149 citations)
The paper tackles automatic detection of causality in text, focusing on AltLexes: open-class phrases like "prompting" or "thanks to" that signal causal links. - Discourse Relation Prediction: Revisiting Word Pairs with Convolutional Networks (2019 · 39 citations)
This work addresses discourse relation classification in the Penn Discourse Tree Bank (PDTB). The focus is implicit relations, where no connective such as "because" signals the link between two text spans. Earlier systems used cross-argument word pairs as discrete features, which produced very sparse feature spaces.…
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Venues
- Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): ACL 2016
- Workshop on Argument Mining: Workshop on Argument Mining 2017
- Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL): SIGDIAL 2019
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