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Detecting Emerging Drugs in LA County Overdose Deaths

An early-warning system that reads medical examiner narratives to flag which substances are rising in Los Angeles County overdose deaths — and where.

NL-Augmenter: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation

Data augmentation is an important method for evaluating the robustness of and enhancing the diversity of training data for natural language processing (NLP) models. In this paper, we present NL-Augmenter, a new participatory Python-based natural …

EnDex: Evaluation of Dialogue Engagingness at Scale

We propose EnDex, the first human-reaction based model to evaluate dialogue engagingness. EnDex is trained on 80k Reddit-based Engagement Dataset (RED) curated using a novel distant-supervision framework. Engagingness is a key measure that captures …