Search Results for author: Imed Zitouni

Found 8 papers, 2 papers with code

Adapting Decoder-Based Language Models for Diverse Encoder Downstream Tasks

no code implementations4 Mar 2025 Paul Suganthan, Fedor Moiseev, Le Yan, Junru Wu, Jianmo Ni, Jay Han, Imed Zitouni, Enrique Alfonseca, Xuanhui Wang, Zhe Dong

Decoder-based transformers, while revolutionizing language modeling and scaling to immense sizes, have not completely overtaken encoder-heavy architectures in natural language processing.

Decoder Language Modeling +1

ArabicNLU 2024: The First Arabic Natural Language Understanding Shared Task

no code implementations30 Jul 2024 Mohammed Khalilia, Sanad Malaysha, Reem Suwaileh, Mustafa Jarrar, Alaa Aljabari, Tamer Elsayed, Imed Zitouni

This paper presents an overview of the Arabic Natural Language Understanding (ArabicNLU 2024) shared task, focusing on two subtasks: Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) and Location Mention Disambiguation (LMD).

Natural Language Understanding Word Sense Disambiguation

Exploring Dual Encoder Architectures for Question Answering

1 code implementation14 Apr 2022 Zhe Dong, Jianmo Ni, Daniel M. Bikel, Enrique Alfonseca, YuAn Wang, Chen Qu, Imed Zitouni

We further explore and explain why parameter sharing in projection layer significantly improves the efficacy of the dual encoders, by directly probing the embedding spaces of the two encoder towers with t-SNE algorithm.

Information Retrieval Question Answering +1

Bag of Experts Architectures for Model Reuse in Conversational Language Understanding

no code implementations NAACL 2018 Rahul Jha, Alex Marin, Suvamsh Shivaprasad, Imed Zitouni

Slot tagging, the task of detecting entities in input user utterances, is a key component of natural language understanding systems for personal digital assistants.

Domain Adaptation Natural Language Understanding

Off-policy evaluation for slate recommendation

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2017 Adith Swaminathan, Akshay Krishnamurthy, Alekh Agarwal, Miroslav Dudík, John Langford, Damien Jose, Imed Zitouni

This paper studies the evaluation of policies that recommend an ordered set of items (e. g., a ranking) based on some context---a common scenario in web search, ads, and recommendation.

Learning-To-Rank Off-policy evaluation

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