no code implementations • 8 Nov 2023 • Yuliang Li, Nitin Kamra, Ruta Desai, Alon Halevy
The vision of creating AI-powered personal assistants also involves creating structured outputs, such as a plan for one's day, or for an overseas trip.
no code implementations • 8 Oct 2023 • Isabelle Augenstein, Timothy Baldwin, Meeyoung Cha, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, David Corney, Renee DiResta, Emilio Ferrara, Scott Hale, Alon Halevy, Eduard Hovy, Heng Ji, Filippo Menczer, Ruben Miguez, Preslav Nakov, Dietram Scheufele, Shivam Sharma, Giovanni Zagni
The emergence of tools based on Large Language Models (LLMs), such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Bing Chat, and Google's Bard, has garnered immense public attention.
no code implementations • 6 Jul 2023 • Nan Tang, Chenyu Yang, Ju Fan, Lei Cao, Yuyu Luo, Alon Halevy
We propose that verifying the outputs of generative AI from a data management perspective is an emerging issue for generative AI.
no code implementations • 1 Jun 2023 • Wang-Chiew Tan, Yuliang Li, Pedro Rodriguez, Richard James, Xi Victoria Lin, Alon Halevy, Scott Yih
We present a reality check on large language models and inspect the promise of retrieval augmented language models in comparison.
1 code implementation • 26 May 2023 • Caleb Ziems, Jane Dwivedi-Yu, Yi-Chia Wang, Alon Halevy, Diyi Yang
We present NormBank, a knowledge bank of 155k situational norms.
1 code implementation • 2 May 2023 • Giovanni Trappolini, Andrea Santilli, Emanuele Rodolà, Alon Halevy, Fabrizio Silvestri
The rise in loosely-structured data available through text, images, and other modalities has called for new ways of querying them.
no code implementations • 10 Apr 2023 • Alon Halevy, Jane Dwivedi-Yu
One of the limitations of large language models is that they do not have access to up-to-date, proprietary or personal data.
no code implementations • 20 Jul 2022 • Jonathan Stray, Alon Halevy, Parisa Assar, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Craig Boutilier, Amar Ashar, Lex Beattie, Michael Ekstrand, Claire Leibowicz, Connie Moon Sehat, Sara Johansen, Lianne Kerlin, David Vickrey, Spandana Singh, Sanne Vrijenhoek, Amy Zhang, McKane Andrus, Natali Helberger, Polina Proutskova, Tanushree Mitra, Nina Vasan
We collect a set of values that seem most relevant to recommender systems operating across different domains, then examine them from the perspectives of current industry practice, measurement, product design, and policy approaches.
1 code implementation • 9 May 2022 • Shivam Sharma, Firoj Alam, Md. Shad Akhtar, Dimitar Dimitrov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Hamed Firooz, Alon Halevy, Fabrizio Silvestri, Preslav Nakov, Tanmoy Chakraborty
One interesting finding is that many types of harmful memes are not really studied, e. g., such featuring self-harm and extremism, partly due to the lack of suitable datasets.
2 code implementations • ACL 2022 • Caleb Ziems, Jane A. Yu, Yi-Chia Wang, Alon Halevy, Diyi Yang
In this work, we introduce a new resource, not to authoritatively resolve moral ambiguities, but instead to facilitate systematic understanding of the intuitions, values and moral judgments reflected in the utterances of dialogue systems.
2 code implementations • NAACL 2022 • Belinda Z. Li, Jane Yu, Madian Khabsa, Luke Zettlemoyer, Alon Halevy, Jacob Andreas
When a neural language model (LM) is adapted to perform a new task, what aspects of the task predict the eventual performance of the model?
1 code implementation • 6 Sep 2021 • Oana Ignat, Y-Lan Boureau, Jane A. Yu, Alon Halevy
We release a dataset of 5, 800 inspiring and 5, 800 non-inspiring English-language public post unique ids collected from a dump of Reddit public posts made available by a third party and use linguistic heuristics to automatically detect which social media English-language posts are inspiring.
1 code implementation • ACL 2021 • James Thorne, Majid Yazdani, Marzieh Saeidi, Fabrizio Silvestri, Sebastian Riedel, Alon Halevy
Neural models have shown impressive performance gains in answering queries from natural language text.
no code implementations • 14 Oct 2020 • James Thorne, Majid Yazdani, Marzieh Saeidi, Fabrizio Silvestri, Sebastian Riedel, Alon Halevy
We describe NeuralDB, a database system with no pre-defined schema, in which updates and queries are given in natural language.
no code implementations • 22 Sep 2020 • Alon Halevy, Cristian Canton Ferrer, Hao Ma, Umut Ozertem, Patrick Pantel, Marzieh Saeidi, Fabrizio Silvestri, Ves Stoyanov
Online social networks provide a platform for sharing information and free expression.
no code implementations • 23 Jul 2019 • Sara Evensen, Yoshihiko Suhara, Alon Halevy, Vivian Li, Wang-Chiew Tan, Saran Mumick
We prototype one necessary component of such a system, the Happiness Entailment Recognition (HER) module, which takes as input a short text describing an event, a candidate suggestion, and outputs a determination about whether the suggestion is more likely to be good for this user based on the event described.
no code implementations • 4 Mar 2019 • Sara Evensen, Aaron Feng, Alon Halevy, Jinfeng Li, Vivian Li, Yuliang Li, Huining Liu, George Mihaila, John Morales, Natalie Nuno, Ekaterina Pavlovic, Wang-Chiew Tan, Xiaolan Wang
We describe Voyageur, which is an application of experiential search to the domain of travel.
no code implementations • NAACL 2019 • Nikita Bhutani, Yoshihiko Suhara, Wang-Chiew Tan, Alon Halevy, H. V. Jagadish
We describe NeurON, a system for extracting tuples from question-answer pairs.
no code implementations • 25 Feb 2019 • Yuliang Li, Aaron Xixuan Feng, Jinfeng Li, Saran Mumick, Alon Halevy, Vivian Li, Wang-Chiew Tan
In order to support experiential queries, a database system needs to model subjective data and also be able to process queries where the user can express varied subjective experiences in words chosen by the user, in addition to specifying predicates involving objective attributes.
Databases
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Dan Iter, Alon Halevy, Wang-Chiew Tan
A common need of NLP applications is to extract structured data from text corpora in order to perform analytics or trigger an appropriate action.
no code implementations • 3 May 2018 • Xiaolan Wang, Aaron Feng, Behzad Golshan, Alon Halevy, George Mihaila, Hidekazu Oiwa, Wang-Chiew Tan
KOKO is novel in that its extraction language simultaneously supports conditions on the surface of the text and on the structure of the dependency parse tree of sentences, thereby allowing for more refined extractions.
2 code implementations • LREC 2018 • Akari Asai, Sara Evensen, Behzad Golshan, Alon Halevy, Vivian Li, Andrei Lopatenko, Daniela Stepanov, Yoshihiko Suhara, Wang-Chiew Tan, Yinzhan Xu
The science of happiness is an area of positive psychology concerned with understanding what behaviors make people happy in a sustainable fashion.