Ask, and shall you receive?: Understanding Desire Fulfillment in Natural Language Text.

Snigdha Chaturvedi     Dan Goldwasser     Hal Daumé III    
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2016
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Abstract

The ability to comprehend wishes or desires and their fulfillment is important to Natural Language Understanding. This paper introduces the task of identifying if a desire expressed by a subject in a given short piece of text was fulfilled. We propose various unstructured and structured models that capture fulfillment cues such as the subject’s emotional state and actions. Our experiments with two different datasets demonstrate the importance of understanding the narrative and discourse structure to address this task


Bib Entry

  @InProceedings{CGD_aaai_2016,
    author = "Snigdha Chaturvedi and Dan Goldwasser and Hal Daumé III",
    title = "Ask, and shall you receive?: Understanding Desire Fulfillment in Natural Language Text.",
    booktitle = "Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)",
    year = "2016"
  }