Michael Amsler


2020

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Benchmarking Automated Review Response Generation for the Hospitality Domain
Tannon Kew | Michael Amsler | Sarah Ebling
Proceedings of Workshop on Natural Language Processing in E-Commerce

Online customer reviews are of growing importance for many businesses in the hospitality industry, particularly restaurants and hotels. Managerial responses to such reviews provide businesses with the opportunity to influence the public discourse and to attain improved ratings over time. However, responding to each and every review is a time-consuming endeavour. Therefore, we investigate automatic generation of review responses in the hospitality domain for two languages, English and German. We apply an existing system, originally proposed for review response generation for smartphone apps. This approach employs an extended neural network sequence-to-sequence architecture and performs well in the original domain. However, as shown through our experiments, when applied to a new domain, such as hospitality, performance drops considerably. Therefore, we analyse potential causes for the differences in performance and provide evidence to suggest that review response generation in the hospitality domain is a more challenging task and thus requires further study and additional domain adaptation techniques.

2016

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Sentiframes: A Resource for Verb-centered German Sentiment Inference
Manfred Klenner | Michael Amsler
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)

In this paper, a German verb resource for verb-centered sentiment inference is introduced and evaluated. Our model specifies verb polarity frames that capture the polarity effects on the fillers of the verb’s arguments given a sentence with that verb frame. Verb signatures and selectional restrictions are also part of the model. An algorithm to apply the verb resource to treebank sentences and the results of our first evaluation are discussed.

2014

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SA-UZH: Verb-based Sentiment Analysis
Nora Hollenstein | Michael Amsler | Martina Bachmann | Manfred Klenner
Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2014)

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Measuring the Public Accountability of New Modes of Governance
Bruno Wueest | Gerold Schneider | Michael Amsler
Proceedings of the ACL 2014 Workshop on Language Technologies and Computational Social Science

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Inducing Domain-specific Noun Polarity Guided by Domain-independent Polarity Preferences of Adjectives
Manfred Klenner | Michael Amsler | Nora Hollenstein
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis