Search Results for author: Boualem Benatallah

Found 15 papers, 3 papers with code

Debiasing Pretrained Text Encoders by Paying Attention to Paying Attention

no code implementations29 Sep 2021 Yacine GACI, Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, Khalid Benabdeslem

Recent studies in fair Representation Learning have observed a strong inclination for natural language processing (NLP) models to exhibit discriminatory stereotypes across gender, religion, race and many such social constructs.

Fairness Representation Learning +2

Crowdsourcing Diverse Paraphrases for Training Task-oriented Bots

no code implementations20 Sep 2021 Jorge Ramírez, Auday Berro, Marcos Baez, Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati

A prominent approach to build datasets for training task-oriented bots is crowd-based paraphrasing.

A Query Language for Summarizing and Analyzing Business Process Data

no code implementations23 May 2021 Amin Beheshti, Boualem Benatallah, Hamid Reza Motahari-Nezhad, Samira Ghodratnama, Farhad Amouzgar

In the context of business processes, we consider the Big Data problem as a massive number of interconnected data islands from personal, shared and business data.

Automatic Generation of Chatbots for Conversational Web Browsing

no code implementations19 Aug 2020 Pietro Chittò, Marcos Baez, Florian Daniel, Boualem Benatallah

In this paper, we describe the foundations for generating a chatbot out of a website equipped with simple, bot-specific HTML annotations.

Chatbot

A Study of Incorrect Paraphrases in Crowdsourced User Utterances

1 code implementation NAACL 2019 Mohammad-Ali Yaghoub-Zadeh-Fard, Boualem Benatallah, Moshe Chai Barukh, Shayan Zamanirad

Developing bots demands highquality training samples, typically in the form of user utterances and their associated intents.

Combining Crowd and Machines for Multi-predicate Item Screening

no code implementations1 Apr 2019 Evgeny Krivosheev, Fabio Casati, Marcos Baez, Boualem Benatallah

This paper discusses how crowd and machine classifiers can be efficiently combined to screen items that satisfy a set of predicates.

Classification General Classification

Adversarial Collaborative Auto-encoder for Top-N Recommendation

no code implementations16 Aug 2018 Feng Yuan, Lina Yao, Boualem Benatallah

In this work, to address the above issue, we propose a general adversial training framework for neural network-based recommendation models, which improves both the model robustness and the overall performance.

GrCAN: Gradient Boost Convolutional Autoencoder with Neural Decision Forest

no code implementations21 Jun 2018 Manqing Dong, Lina Yao, Xianzhi Wang, Boualem Benatallah, Shuai Zhang

We develop a gradient boost module and embed it into the proposed convolutional autoencoder with neural decision forest to improve the performance.

A Unified Knowledge Representation and Context-aware Recommender System in Internet of Things

no code implementations10 May 2018 Yinhao Li, Awa Alqahtani, Ellis Solaiman, Charith Perera, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Boualem Benatallah, Rajiv Ranjan

Within the rapidly developing Internet of Things (IoT), numerous and diverse physical devices, Edge devices, Cloud infrastructure, and their quality of service requirements (QoS), need to be represented within a unified specification in order to enable rapid IoT application development, monitoring, and dynamic reconfiguration.

Recommendation Systems

Crowd-Machine Collaboration for Item Screening

no code implementations21 Mar 2018 Evgeny Krivosheev, Bahareh Harandizadeh, Fabio Casati, Boualem Benatallah

In this paper we describe how crowd and machine classifier can be efficiently combined to screen items that satisfy a set of predicates.

Data Curation APIs

1 code implementation10 Dec 2016 Seyed-Mehdi-Reza Beheshti, Alireza Tabebordbar, Boualem Benatallah, Reza Nouri

For deeper interpretation of and better intelligence with big data, it is important to transform raw data (unstructured, semi-structured and structured data sources, e. g., text, video, image data sets) into curated data: contextualized data and knowledge that is maintained and made available for use by end-users and applications.

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