1 code implementation • NAACL (TextGraphs) 2021 • Qi Zeng, Manling Li, Tuan Lai, Heng Ji, Mohit Bansal, Hanghang Tong
Current methods for event representation ignore related events in a corpus-level global context.
no code implementations • EMNLP 2020 • Manling Li, Qi Zeng, Ying Lin, Kyunghyun Cho, Heng Ji, Jonathan May, Nathanael Chambers, Clare Voss
Event schemas can guide our understanding and ability to make predictions with respect to what might happen next.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2021 • Manling Li, Tengfei Ma, Mo Yu, Lingfei Wu, Tian Gao, Heng Ji, Kathleen McKeown
Timeline Summarization identifies major events from a news collection and describes them following temporal order, with key dates tagged.
no code implementations • CRAC (ACL) 2021 • Liming Wang, Shengyu Feng, Xudong Lin, Manling Li, Heng Ji, Shih-Fu Chang
Event coreference resolution is critical to understand events in the growing number of online news with multiple modalities including text, video, speech, etc.
1 code implementation • ACL 2022 • Manling Li, Revanth Gangi Reddy, Ziqi Wang, Yi-shyuan Chiang, Tuan Lai, Pengfei Yu, Zixuan Zhang, Heng Ji
To tackle the challenge of accurate and timely communication regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, we present a COVID-19 Claim Radar to automatically extract supporting and refuting claims on a daily basis.
no code implementations • NAACL 2022 • Xiaomeng Jin, Manling Li, Heng Ji
To induce event schemas from historical events, previous work uses an event-by-event scheme, ignoring the global structure of the entire schema graph.
no code implementations • NAACL (ACL) 2022 • Muhao Chen, Lifu Huang, Manling Li, Ben Zhou, Heng Ji, Dan Roth
This tutorial targets researchers and practitioners who are interested in AI and ML technologies for structural information extraction (IE) from unstructured textual sources.
1 code implementation • NAACL (ACL) 2022 • Xinya Du, Zixuan Zhang, Sha Li, Pengfei Yu, Hongwei Wang, Tuan Lai, Xudong Lin, Ziqi Wang, Iris Liu, Ben Zhou, Haoyang Wen, Manling Li, Darryl Hannan, Jie Lei, Hyounghun Kim, Rotem Dror, Haoyu Wang, Michael Regan, Qi Zeng, Qing Lyu, Charles Yu, Carl Edwards, Xiaomeng Jin, Yizhu Jiao, Ghazaleh Kazeminejad, Zhenhailong Wang, Chris Callison-Burch, Mohit Bansal, Carl Vondrick, Jiawei Han, Dan Roth, Shih-Fu Chang, Martha Palmer, Heng Ji
We introduce RESIN-11, a new schema-guided event extraction&prediction framework that can be applied to a large variety of newsworthy scenarios.
no code implementations • 9 Apr 2024 • Zhenhailong Wang, Joy Hsu, Xingyao Wang, Kuan-Hao Huang, Manling Li, Jiajun Wu, Heng Ji
By casting an image to a text-based representation, we can leverage the power of language models to learn alignment from SVG to visual primitives and generalize to unseen question-answering tasks.
no code implementations • 26 Mar 2024 • Zhenyu Pan, Haozheng Luo, Manling Li, Han Liu
We present a Chain-of-Action (CoA) framework for multimodal and retrieval-augmented Question-Answering (QA).
no code implementations • 12 Feb 2024 • Kyungha Kim, Sangyun Lee, Kung-Hsiang Huang, Hou Pong Chan, Manling Li, Heng Ji
Fact-checking research has extensively explored verification but less so the generation of natural-language explanations, crucial for user trust.
no code implementations • 27 Nov 2023 • Chi Han, Jialiang Xu, Manling Li, Hanning Zhang, Tarek Abdelzaher, Heng Ji
Social media play a significant role in shaping public opinion and influencing ideological communities through information propagation.
1 code implementation • 22 Nov 2023 • Yangyi Chen, Xingyao Wang, Manling Li, Derek Hoiem, Heng Ji
We adopt a weakly-supervised approach to directly generate visual event structures from captions for ViStruct training, capitalizing on abundant image-caption pairs from the web.
no code implementations • 31 Oct 2023 • Sha Li, Chi Han, Pengfei Yu, Carl Edwards, Manling Li, Xingyao Wang, Yi R. Fung, Charles Yu, Joel R. Tetreault, Eduard H. Hovy, Heng Ji
The recent explosion of performance of large language models (LLMs) has changed the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) more abruptly and seismically than any other shift in the field's 80-year history.
2 code implementations • 3 Oct 2023 • Bohan Zhai, Shijia Yang, Chenfeng Xu, Sheng Shen, Kurt Keutzer, Chunyuan Li, Manling Li
Current Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) achieve remarkable progress, yet there remains significant uncertainty regarding their ability to accurately apprehend visual details, that is, in performing detailed captioning.
1 code implementation • 5 Jul 2023 • Sha Li, Ruining Zhao, Manling Li, Heng Ji, Chris Callison-Burch, Jiawei Han
Event schemas are a form of world knowledge about the typical progression of events.
1 code implementation • 27 May 2023 • Yu Zhou, Sha Li, Manling Li, Xudong Lin, Shih-Fu Chang, Mohit Bansal, Heng Ji
To automate the induction of such graph scripts for given tasks, we propose to take advantage of loosely aligned videos of people performing the tasks.
no code implementations • 22 May 2023 • Chi Han, Jialiang Xu, Manling Li, Yi Fung, Chenkai Sun, Nan Jiang, Tarek Abdelzaher, Heng Ji
As pre-training and fine-tuning are costly and might negatively impact model performance, it is desired to efficiently adapt an existing model to different conditions such as styles, sentiments or narratives, when facing different audiences or scenarios.
1 code implementation • 25 Mar 2023 • Revanth Gangi Reddy, Yi R. Fung, Qi Zeng, Manling Li, Ziqi Wang, Paul Sullivan, Heng Ji
Further, experiments show that expert analysts tend to add more information into the SmartBook reports, with only 2. 3% of the existing tokens being deleted, meaning SmartBook can serve as a useful foundation for analysts to build upon when creating intelligence reports.
1 code implementation • 10 Nov 2022 • Ke Yang, Charles Yu, Yi Fung, Manling Li, Heng Ji
Despite this, relatively few efforts have been made to debias PLMs by prompt tuning with continuous prompts compared to its discrete counterpart.
no code implementations • 3 Nov 2022 • Guang Yang, Manling Li, Jiajie Zhang, Xudong Lin, Shih-Fu Chang, Heng Ji
Video event extraction aims to detect salient events from a video and identify the arguments for each event as well as their semantic roles.
no code implementations • 9 Oct 2022 • Feng Wang, Manling Li, Xudong Lin, Hairong Lv, Alexander G. Schwing, Heng Ji
Recent advances in pre-training vision-language models like CLIP have shown great potential in learning transferable visual representations.
1 code implementation • 25 Aug 2022 • Qingyun Wang, Manling Li, Hou Pong Chan, Lifu Huang, Julia Hockenmaier, Girish Chowdhary, Heng Ji
Goal-oriented generative script learning aims to generate subsequent steps to reach a particular goal, which is an essential task to assist robots or humans in performing stereotypical activities.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2023 • Xudong Lin, Simran Tiwari, Shiyuan Huang, Manling Li, Mike Zheng Shou, Heng Ji, Shih-Fu Chang
We surprisingly find that discrete text tokens coupled with a pretrained contrastive text model yields the best performance, which can even outperform state-of-the-art on the iVQA and How2QA datasets without additional training on millions of video-text data.
Ranked #1 on Video Question Answering on iVQA
1 code implementation • 22 May 2022 • Zhenhailong Wang, Manling Li, Ruochen Xu, Luowei Zhou, Jie Lei, Xudong Lin, Shuohang Wang, ZiYi Yang, Chenguang Zhu, Derek Hoiem, Shih-Fu Chang, Mohit Bansal, Heng Ji
The goal of this work is to build flexible video-language models that can generalize to various video-to-text tasks from few examples, such as domain-specific captioning, question answering, and future event prediction.
1 code implementation • MMMPIE (COLING) 2022 • Zhenhailong Wang, Hang Yu, Manling Li, Han Zhao, Heng Ji
While much literature has been devoted to exploring alternative optimization strategies, we identify another essential aspect towards effective few-shot transfer learning, task sampling, which is previously only be viewed as part of data pre-processing in MAML.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2022 • Manling Li, Ruochen Xu, Shuohang Wang, Luowei Zhou, Xudong Lin, Chenguang Zhu, Michael Zeng, Heng Ji, Shih-Fu Chang
Vision-language (V+L) pretraining models have achieved great success in supporting multimedia applications by understanding the alignments between images and text.
2 code implementations • 20 Dec 2021 • Revanth Gangi Reddy, Xilin Rui, Manling Li, Xudong Lin, Haoyang Wen, Jaemin Cho, Lifu Huang, Mohit Bansal, Avirup Sil, Shih-Fu Chang, Alexander Schwing, Heng Ji
Specifically, the task involves multi-hop questions that require reasoning over image-caption pairs to identify the grounded visual object being referred to and then predicting a span from the news body text to answer the question.
no code implementations • Findings (EMNLP) 2021 • Brian Chen, Xudong Lin, Christopher Thomas, Manling Li, Shoya Yoshida, Lovish Chum, Heng Ji, Shih-Fu Chang
We introduce the new task of Video MultiMedia Event Extraction (Video M2E2) and propose two novel components to build the first system towards this task.
no code implementations • ACL 2021 • Muhao Chen, Hongming Zhang, Qiang Ning, Manling Li, Heng Ji, Kathleen McKeown, Dan Roth
This tutorial targets researchers and practitioners who are interested in AI technologies that help machines understand natural language text, particularly real-world events described in the text.
1 code implementation • NAACL 2021 • Haoyang Wen, Ying Lin, Tuan Lai, Xiaoman Pan, Sha Li, Xudong Lin, Ben Zhou, Manling Li, Haoyu Wang, Hongming Zhang, Xiaodong Yu, Alexander Dong, Zhenhailong Wang, Yi Fung, Piyush Mishra, Qing Lyu, D{\'\i}dac Sur{\'\i}s, Brian Chen, Susan Windisch Brown, Martha Palmer, Chris Callison-Burch, Carl Vondrick, Jiawei Han, Dan Roth, Shih-Fu Chang, Heng Ji
We present a new information extraction system that can automatically construct temporal event graphs from a collection of news documents from multiple sources, multiple languages (English and Spanish for our experiment), and multiple data modalities (speech, text, image and video).
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2021 • Manling Li, Sha Li, Zhenhailong Wang, Lifu Huang, Kyunghyun Cho, Heng Ji, Jiawei Han, Clare Voss
We introduce a new concept of Temporal Complex Event Schema: a graph-based schema representation that encompasses events, arguments, temporal connections and argument relations.
no code implementations • NAACL 2021 • Qingyun Wang, Manling Li, Xuan Wang, Nikolaus Parulian, Guangxing Han, Jiawei Ma, Jingxuan Tu, Ying Lin, Haoran Zhang, Weili Liu, Aabhas Chauhan, Yingjun Guan, Bangzheng Li, Ruisong Li, Xiangchen Song, Yi R. Fung, Heng Ji, Jiawei Han, Shih-Fu Chang, James Pustejovsky, Jasmine Rah, David Liem, Ahmed Elsayed, Martha Palmer, Clare Voss, Cynthia Schneider, Boyan Onyshkevych
To combat COVID-19, both clinicians and scientists need to digest vast amounts of relevant biomedical knowledge in scientific literature to understand the disease mechanism and related biological functions.
no code implementations • ACL 2020 • Manling Li, Alireza Zareian, Ying Lin, Xiaoman Pan, Spencer Whitehead, Brian Chen, Bo Wu, Heng Ji, Shih-Fu Chang, Clare Voss, Daniel Napierski, Marjorie Freedman
We present the first comprehensive, open source multimedia knowledge extraction system that takes a massive stream of unstructured, heterogeneous multimedia data from various sources and languages as input, and creates a coherent, structured knowledge base, indexing entities, relations, and events, following a rich, fine-grained ontology.
no code implementations • ACL 2020 • Manling Li, Alireza Zareian, Qi Zeng, Spencer Whitehead, Di Lu, Heng Ji, Shih-Fu Chang
We introduce a new task, MultiMedia Event Extraction (M2E2), which aims to extract events and their arguments from multimedia documents.
no code implementations • ACL 2019 • Manling Li, Lingyu Zhang, Heng Ji, Richard J. Radke
Transcripts of natural, multi-person meetings differ significantly from documents like news articles, which can make Natural Language Generation models for generating summaries unfocused.
no code implementations • NAACL 2019 • Manling Li, Ying Lin, Joseph Hoover, Spencer Whitehead, Clare Voss, Morteza Dehghani, Heng Ji
This paper demonstrates a state-of-the-art end-to-end multilingual (English, Russian, and Ukrainian) knowledge extraction system that can perform entity discovery and linking, relation extraction, event extraction, and coreference.
no code implementations • 29 Oct 2017 • Denghui Zhang, Pengshan Cai, Yantao Jia, Manling Li, Yuanzhuo Wang, Xue-Qi Cheng
Fine-grained entity typing aims to assign entity mentions in the free text with types arranged in a hierarchical structure.
1 code implementation • 30 Mar 2017 • Denghui Zhang, Manling Li, Yantao Jia, Yuanzhuo Wang, Xue-Qi Cheng
Knowledge graph embedding aims to embed entities and relations of knowledge graphs into low-dimensional vector spaces.
Ranked #1 on Link Prediction on WN18 (filtered)