ECNU at SemEval-2017 Task 7: Using Supervised and Unsupervised Methods to Detect and Locate English Puns

Yuhuan Xiu, Man Lan, Yuanbin Wu

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Abstract

This paper describes our submissions to task 7 in SemEval 2017, i.e., Detection and Interpretation of English Puns. We participated in the first two subtasks, which are to detect and locate English puns respectively. For subtask 1, we presented a supervised system to determine whether or not a sentence contains a pun using similarity features calculated on sense vectors or cluster center vectors. For subtask 2, we established an unsupervised system to locate the pun by scoring each word in the sentence and we assumed that the word with the smallest score is the pun.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationACL 2017 - 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations, SemEval 2017, Proceedings of the Workshop
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages453-456
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781945626555
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Event11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations, SemEval 2017, co-located with the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2017 - Vancouver, Canada
Duration: 3 Aug 20174 Aug 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
ISSN (Print)0736-587X

Conference

Conference11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations, SemEval 2017, co-located with the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2017
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver
Period3/08/174/08/17

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