This paper describes approaches to identify Hope Speech in short, informal texts in English,
Malayalam and Tamil using different machine learning techniques. We demonstrate that …

This paper presents efforts to solve the shared task on discourse relation classification (disrpt
task 3). The intricate prediction task aims to predict a large number of classes from the …

In this chapter, I reflect on opportunities and limitations in Media and Cultural Studies, emerging
as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown. Media and Cultural Studies (MECS) curriculum in …

Contributing to the study of curated news flows, we investigated how conflicting participants
in an issue public fed mainstream news into their Twitter networks. In a quasi-experimental …

Estimating invested effort is a core dimension for evaluating own and others’ actions, and
views on the relationship between effort and rewards are deeply ingrained in various societal …

The mythological domain has various ways of expressing events and background knowledge.
Using data extracted according to the hylistic approach (Zgoll, 2019), we annotated a data …

Vladimir Propp’s theory Morphology of the Folktale identifies 31 invariant functions,
subfunctions, and seven classes of folktale characters to describe the narrative structure of the …

In this system paper, we present a transformer-based approach to the detection of
informativeness in English tweets on the topic of the current COVID-19 pandemic. Our models …

This paper describes the efforts in solving the Shared Task on the Disambiguation of German
Verbal Idioms at KONVENS 2021. It presents the team’s efforts to extend the training data …

We propose a novel approach for rapid prototyping of named entity recognisers through the
development of semi-automatically annotated datasets. We demonstrate the proposed …