no code implementations • 8 Feb 2024 • Nikhil Sharma, Q. Vera Liao, Ziang Xiao
Large language models (LLMs) powered conversational search systems have already been used by hundreds of millions of people, and are believed to bring many benefits over conventional search.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2023 • Alessandro Sordoni, Xingdi Yuan, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Matheus Pereira, Adam Trischler, Ziang Xiao, Arian Hosseini, Friederike Niedtner, Nicolas Le Roux
Thus, they can be seen as stochastic language layers in a language network, where the learnable parameters are the natural language prompts at each layer.
no code implementations • 1 Jun 2023 • Q. Vera Liao, Ziang Xiao
The recent development of generative and large language models (LLMs) poses new challenges for model evaluation that the research community and industry are grappling with.
1 code implementation • 24 May 2023 • Ziang Xiao, Susu Zhang, Vivian Lai, Q. Vera Liao
We address a fundamental challenge in Natural Language Generation (NLG) model evaluation -- the design and evaluation of evaluation metrics.
1 code implementation • 24 May 2023 • Ruoyao Wang, Graham Todd, Eric Yuan, Ziang Xiao, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Peter Jansen
In this work, we investigate the capacity of language models to generate explicit, interpretable, and interactive world models of scientific and common-sense reasoning tasks.
no code implementations • 17 Apr 2023 • Ziang Xiao, Xingdi Yuan, Q. Vera Liao, Rania Abdelghani, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
In this study, we explored the use of large language models (LLMs) in supporting deductive coding, a major category of qualitative analysis where researchers use pre-determined codebooks to label the data into a fixed set of codes.
no code implementations • 2 Feb 2023 • Ziang Xiao, Tiffany Wenting Li, Karrie Karahalios, Hari Sundaram
By comparing the chatbot with form-based interaction, we found the chatbot improved consent form reading, promoted participants' feelings of agency, and closed the power gap between the participant and the researcher.
no code implementations • 23 May 2022 • Yubin Ge, Ziang Xiao, Jana Diesner, Heng Ji, Karrie Karahalios, Hari Sundaram
We constructed a new human-annotated dataset of human-written follow-up questions with dialogue history and labeled knowledge in the context of conversational surveys.
no code implementations • 5 Feb 2020 • Ziang Xiao, Michelle X. Zhou, Wenxi Chen, Huahai Yang, Changyan Chi
Interview chatbots engage users in a text-based conversation to draw out their views and opinions.
no code implementations • 25 May 2019 • Ziang Xiao, Michelle X. Zhou, Q. Vera Liao, Gloria Mark, Changyan Chi, Wenxi Chen, Huahai Yang
The rise of increasingly more powerful chatbots offers a new way to collect information through conversational surveys, where a chatbot asks open-ended questions, interprets a user's free-text responses, and probes answers whenever needed.