no code implementations • 4 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.
no code implementations • 30 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).
no code implementations • 25 Jul 2024 • Wajdi Zaghouani, Mustafa Jarrar, Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Imed Zitouni, Mona Diab, Samhaa R. El-Beltagy, Muhammed AbuOdeh
The shared task addresses bias and propaganda annotation in multilingual news posts.
no code implementations • 5 Jun 2023 • Fedor Moiseev, Gustavo Hernandez Abrego, Peter Dornbach, Imed Zitouni, Enrique Alfonseca, Zhe Dong
Dual encoders have been used for retrieval tasks and representation learning with good results.
1 code implementation • 14 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.
no code implementations • CONLL 2019 • Kunho Kim, Rahul Jha, Kyle Williams, Alex Marin, Imed Zitouni
In this work, we extend the task oriented LU problem to human-to-human (H2H) conversations, focusing on the slot tagging task.
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.
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.