Murhaf Fares


2018

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The 2018 Shared Task on Extrinsic Parser Evaluation: On the Downstream Utility of English Universal Dependency Parsers
Murhaf Fares | Stephan Oepen | Lilja Øvrelid | Jari Björne | Richard Johansson
Proceedings of the CoNLL 2018 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies

We summarize empirical results and tentative conclusions from the Second Extrinsic Parser Evaluation Initiative (EPE 2018). We review the basic task setup, downstream applications involved, and end-to-end results for seventeen participating teams. Based on in-depth quantitative and qualitative analysis, we correlate intrinsic evaluation results at different layers of morph-syntactic analysis with observed downstream behavior.

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Transfer and Multi-Task Learning for Noun–Noun Compound Interpretation
Murhaf Fares | Stephan Oepen | Erik Velldal
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

In this paper, we empirically evaluate the utility of transfer and multi-task learning on a challenging semantic classification task: semantic interpretation of noun–noun compounds. Through a comprehensive series of experiments and in-depth error analysis, we show that transfer learning via parameter initialization and multi-task learning via parameter sharing can help a neural classification model generalize over a highly skewed distribution of relations. Further, we demonstrate how dual annotation with two distinct sets of relations over the same set of compounds can be exploited to improve the overall accuracy of a neural classifier and its F1 scores on the less frequent, but more difficult relations.

2017

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Word vectors, reuse, and replicability: Towards a community repository of large-text resources
Murhaf Fares | Andrey Kutuzov | Stephan Oepen | Erik Velldal
Proceedings of the 21st Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics

2016

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A Dataset for Joint Noun-Noun Compound Bracketing and Interpretation
Murhaf Fares
Proceedings of the ACL 2016 Student Research Workshop