no code implementations • JEP/TALN/RECITAL 2022 • Antoine Chaffin, Vincent Claveau, Ewa Kijak, Sylvain Lamprier, Benjamin Piwowarski, Thomas Scialom, Jacopo Staiano
Nous évaluons leurs avantages et inconvénients, en explorant leur précision respective sur des tâches de classification, ainsi que leur impact sur la génération coopérative et leur coût de calcul, dans le cadre d’une stratégie de décodage état de l’art, basée sur une recherche arborescente de Monte-Carlo (MCTS).
1 code implementation • 17 Nov 2023 • Daniel Russo, Shane Peter Kaszefski-Yaschuk, Jacopo Staiano, Marco Guerini
The proliferation of misinformation on social media platforms (SMPs) poses a significant danger to public health, social cohesion and ultimately democracy.
1 code implementation • 9 Oct 2023 • Marco Bronzini, Carlo Nicolini, Bruno Lepri, Andrea Passerini, Jacopo Staiano
Such information is publicly released in a variety of non-structured and multi-modal documentation.
no code implementations • 18 Jul 2023 • Federico Betti, Jacopo Staiano, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara, Nicu Sebe
Research in Image Generation has recently made significant progress, particularly boosted by the introduction of Vision-Language models which are able to produce high-quality visual content based on textual inputs.
2 code implementations • 26 Jan 2023 • Laura Nguyen, Thomas Scialom, Benjamin Piwowarski, Jacopo Staiano
Text Summarization is a popular task and an active area of research for the Natural Language Processing community.
1 code implementation • 25 Apr 2022 • Antoine Chaffin, Thomas Scialom, Sylvain Lamprier, Jacopo Staiano, Benjamin Piwowarski, Ewa Kijak, Vincent Claveau
Language models generate texts by successively predicting probability distributions for next tokens given past ones.
no code implementations • 28 Jan 2022 • Sylvain Lamprier, Thomas Scialom, Antoine Chaffin, Vincent Claveau, Ewa Kijak, Jacopo Staiano, Benjamin Piwowarski
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have known a tremendous success for many continuous generation tasks, especially in the field of image generation.
1 code implementation • Findings (EMNLP) 2021 • Laura Nguyen, Thomas Scialom, Jacopo Staiano, Benjamin Piwowarski
Motivated by human reading strategies, this paper presents Skim-Attention, a new attention mechanism that takes advantage of the structure of the document and its layout.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2021 • Thomas Scialom, Paul-Alexis Dray, Sylvain Lamprier, Benjamin Piwowarski, Jacopo Staiano
Due to the discrete nature of words, language GANs require to be optimized from rewards provided by discriminator networks, via reinforcement learning methods.
2 code implementations • 15 Apr 2021 • Thomas Scialom, Louis Martin, Jacopo Staiano, Éric Villemonte de la Clergerie, Benoît Sagot
In the context of Sentence Simplification, this is particularly challenging: the task requires by nature to replace complex words with simpler ones that shares the same meaning.
2 code implementations • EMNLP 2021 • Clément Rebuffel, Thomas Scialom, Laure Soulier, Benjamin Piwowarski, Sylvain Lamprier, Jacopo Staiano, Geoffrey Scoutheeten, Patrick Gallinari
QuestEval is a reference-less metric used in text-to-text tasks, that compares the generated summaries directly to the source text, by automatically asking and answering questions.
2 code implementations • EMNLP 2021 • Thomas Scialom, Paul-Alexis Dray, Patrick Gallinari, Sylvain Lamprier, Benjamin Piwowarski, Jacopo Staiano, Alex Wang
Summarization evaluation remains an open research problem: current metrics such as ROUGE are known to be limited and to correlate poorly with human judgments.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2021 • Arij Riabi, Thomas Scialom, Rachel Keraron, Benoît Sagot, Djamé Seddah, Jacopo Staiano
Coupled with the availability of large scale datasets, deep learning architectures have enabled rapid progress on the Question Answering task.
no code implementations • Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020 • Thomas Scialom, Serra Sinem Tekiroglu, Jacopo Staiano, Marco Guerini
In the context of chit-chat dialogues it has been shown that endowing systems with a persona profile is important to produce more coherent and meaningful conversations.
1 code implementation • LREC 2020 • Rachel Keraron, Guillaume Lancrenon, Mathilde Bras, Frédéric Allary, Gilles Moyse, Thomas Scialom, Edmundo-Pavel Soriano-Morales, Jacopo Staiano
Motivated by the lack of data for non-English languages, in particular for the evaluation of downstream tasks such as Question Answering, we present a participatory effort to collect a native French Question Answering Dataset.
Ranked #4 on
Question Answering
on FQuAD
(using extra training data)
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2020 • Thomas Scialom, Paul-Alexis Dray, Sylvain Lamprier, Benjamin Piwowarski, Jacopo Staiano
Training regimes based on Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) suffer from known limitations, often leading to poorly generated text sequences.
no code implementations • EMNLP 2020 • Thomas Scialom, Paul-Alexis Dray, Sylvain Lamprier, Benjamin Piwowarski, Jacopo Staiano
We present MLSUM, the first large-scale MultiLingual SUMmarization dataset.
no code implementations • INLG (ACL) 2020 • Thomas Scialom, Patrick Bordes, Paul-Alexis Dray, Jacopo Staiano, Patrick Gallinari
Pre-trained language models have recently contributed to significant advances in NLP tasks.
1 code implementation • ICML 2020 • Thomas Scialom, Paul-Alexis Dray, Sylvain Lamprier, Benjamin Piwowarski, Jacopo Staiano
We introduce a novel approach for sequence decoding, Discriminative Adversarial Search (DAS), which has the desirable properties of alleviating the effects of exposure bias without requiring external metrics.
no code implementations • COLING 2020 • Thomas Scialom, Jacopo Staiano
We propose a novel text generation task, namely Curiosity-driven Question Generation.
Conversational Question Answering
Machine Reading Comprehension
+3
2 code implementations • IJCNLP 2019 • Thomas Scialom, Sylvain Lamprier, Benjamin Piwowarski, Jacopo Staiano
Abstractive summarization approaches based on Reinforcement Learning (RL) have recently been proposed to overcome classical likelihood maximization.
no code implementations • ACL 2019 • Thomas Scialom, Benjamin Piwowarski, Jacopo Staiano
Neural architectures based on self-attention, such as Transformers, recently attracted interest from the research community, and obtained significant improvements over the state of the art in several tasks.
1 code implementation • 8 Oct 2018 • Oscar Araque, Lorenzo Gatti, Jacopo Staiano, Marco Guerini
Several lexica for sentiment analysis have been developed and made available in the NLP community.
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2017 • Youness Mansar, Lorenzo Gatti, Sira Ferradans, Marco Guerini, Jacopo Staiano
In this paper, we describe a methodology to infer Bullish or Bearish sentiment towards companies/brands.
1 code implementation • 13 Mar 2016 • Marco De Nadai, Jacopo Staiano, Roberto Larcher, Nicu Sebe, Daniele Quercia, Bruno Lepri
This is mainly because it is hard to collect data about "city life".
Computers and Society Social and Information Networks Physics and Society
no code implementations • 23 Jun 2015 • Xavier Alameda-Pineda, Jacopo Staiano, Ramanathan Subramanian, Ligia Batrinca, Elisa Ricci, Bruno Lepri, Oswald Lanz, Nicu Sebe
Studying free-standing conversational groups (FCGs) in unstructured social settings (e. g., cocktail party ) is gratifying due to the wealth of information available at the group (mining social networks) and individual (recognizing native behavioral and personality traits) levels.
1 code implementation • 16 Mar 2015 • Marco Guerini, Jacopo Staiano
This article provides a comprehensive investigation on the relations between virality of news articles and the emotions they are found to evoke.
no code implementations • 7 May 2014 • Jacopo Staiano, Marco Guerini
While many lexica annotated with words polarity are available for sentiment analysis, very few tackle the harder task of emotion analysis and are usually quite limited in coverage.