no code implementations • 6 Jan 2024 • Zhenan Fan, Bissan Ghaddar, Xinglu Wang, Linzi Xing, Yong Zhang, Zirui Zhou
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques has opened up new opportunities to revolutionize various fields, including operations research (OR).
no code implementations • 30 Nov 2023 • Linzi Xing, Quan Tran, Fabian Caba, Franck Dernoncourt, Seunghyun Yoon, Zhaowen Wang, Trung Bui, Giuseppe Carenini
Video topic segmentation unveils the coarse-grained semantic structure underlying videos and is essential for other video understanding tasks.
no code implementations • 24 Nov 2023 • Linzi Xing, Brad Hackinen, Giuseppe Carenini
U. S. Federal Regulators receive over one million comment letters each year from businesses, interest groups, and members of the public, all advocating for changes to proposed regulations.
1 code implementation • 25 May 2023 • Raymond Li, Felipe González-Pizarro, Linzi Xing, Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini
The standard approach for neural topic modeling uses a variational autoencoder (VAE) framework that jointly minimizes the KL divergence between the estimated posterior and prior, in addition to the reconstruction loss.
no code implementations • COLING (CODI, CRAC) 2022 • Linzi Xing, Patrick Huber, Giuseppe Carenini
Recent neural supervised topic segmentation models achieve distinguished superior effectiveness over unsupervised methods, with the availability of large-scale training corpora sampled from Wikipedia.
no code implementations • 12 Dec 2021 • Patrick Huber, Linzi Xing, Giuseppe Carenini
RST-style discourse parsing plays a vital role in many NLP tasks, revealing the underlying semantic/pragmatic structure of potentially complex and diverse documents.
1 code implementation • 10 Dec 2021 • Raymond Li, Wen Xiao, Linzi Xing, Lanjun Wang, Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini
The multi-head self-attention mechanism of the transformer model has been thoroughly investigated recently.
1 code implementation • SIGDIAL (ACL) 2021 • Linzi Xing, Giuseppe Carenini
Dialogue topic segmentation is critical in several dialogue modeling problems.
no code implementations • ACL 2021 • Linzi Xing, Wen Xiao, Giuseppe Carenini
In news articles the lead bias is a common phenomenon that usually dominates the learning signals for neural extractive summarizers, severely limiting their performance on data with different or even no bias.
no code implementations • Asian Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020 • Linzi Xing, Brad Hackinen, Giuseppe Carenini, Francesco Trebbi
Topic segmentation is critical in key NLP tasks and recent works favor highly effective neural supervised approaches.
2 code implementations • LREC 2020 • Xiaolei Huang, Linzi Xing, Franck Dernoncourt, Michael J. Paul
Existing research on fairness evaluation of document classification models mainly uses synthetic monolingual data without ground truth for author demographic attributes.
1 code implementation • IJCNLP 2019 • Linzi Xing, Michael J. Paul, Giuseppe Carenini
Probabilistic topic models such as latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) are popularly used with Bayesian inference methods such as Gibbs sampling to learn posterior distributions over topic model parameters.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Linzi Xing, Michael J. Paul
Low-dimensional vector representations of social media users can benefit applications like recommendation systems and user attribute inference.