Computational linguistics team wins international competition

A team of Georgetown students (Zhuoxuan Nymphea Ju, Jingni Wu, and Abhishek Purushothama) and their mentor, Computational Linguistics Prof. Amir Zeldes  submitted the top system for discourse relation classification in a recent international computational linguistics challenge. 

The DISRPT shared task  is a contest for models to identify often implicit relations between utterances such as understanding that “A is the cause of B”, or “B concedes a counterpoint to A” and so on. The team placed first among five entrants on the challenging task of relation classification. Read their paper about the system here.

Congratulations to the winning team!