1 code implementation • ACL 2022 • Bin Liang, Qinglin Zhu, Xiang Li, Min Yang, Lin Gui, Yulan He, Ruifeng Xu
In this paper, we propose a joint contrastive learning (JointCL) framework, which consists of stance contrastive learning and target-aware prototypical graph contrastive learning.
2 code implementations • EMNLP 2021 • Bin Liang, Hang Su, Rongdi Yin, Lin Gui, Min Yang, Qin Zhao, Xiaoqi Yu, Ruifeng Xu
To be specific, we first regard each aspect as a pivot to derive aspect-aware words that are highly related to the aspect from external affective commonsense knowledge.
1 code implementation • ACL 2022 • Bin Liang, Chenwei Lou, Xiang Li, Min Yang, Lin Gui, Yulan He, Wenjie Pei, Ruifeng Xu
Then, the descriptions of the objects are served as a bridge to determine the importance of the association between the objects of image modality and the contextual words of text modality, so as to build a cross-modal graph for each multi-modal instance.
1 code implementation • 11 Sep 2024 • Guimin Hu, Yi Xin, Weimin Lyu, Haojian Huang, Chang Sun, Zhihong Zhu, Lin Gui, Ruichu Cai
The goal of this survey is to explore the current landscape of multimodal affective research, identify development trends, and highlight the similarities and differences across various tasks, offering a comprehensive report on the recent progress in multimodal affective computing from an NLP perspective.
Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Emotion Recognition in Conversation +2
1 code implementation • 26 Jun 2024 • Italo Luis da Silva, Hanqi Yan, Lin Gui, Yulan He
The inherent ambiguity of cause and effect boundaries poses a challenge in evaluating causal event extraction tasks.
no code implementations • 25 Jun 2024 • Hanqi Yan, Yanzheng Xiang, Guangyi Chen, Yifei Wang, Lin Gui, Yulan He
Consequently, we apply feature correlation as a proxy for monosemanticity and incorporate a feature decorrelation regularizer into the dynamic preference optimization process.
no code implementations • 17 Jun 2024 • Wenjia Zhang, Lin Gui, Rob Procter, Yulan He
To seek reliable information sources for news events, we introduce a novel task of expert recommendation, which aims to identify trustworthy sources based on their previously quoted statements.
no code implementations • 2 Jun 2024 • Lin Gui, Cristina Gârbacea, Victor Veitch
To answer this, we embed both the best-of-$n$ distribution and the sampling distributions learned by alignment procedures in a common class of tiltings of the base LLM distribution.
1 code implementation • 26 Apr 2024 • Qinglin Zhu, Runcong Zhao, Jinhua Du, Lin Gui, Yulan He
We propose PLAYER*, a novel framework that addresses the limitations of existing agent-based approaches built on Large Language Models (LLMs) in handling complex questions and understanding interpersonal relationships in dynamic environments.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2023 • Hanqi Yan, Lingjing Kong, Lin Gui, Yuejie Chi, Eric Xing, Yulan He, Kun Zhang
In this work, we tackle the domain-varying dependence between the content and the style variables inherent in the counterfactual generation task.
1 code implementation • 23 Feb 2024 • Yanzheng Xiang, Hanqi Yan, Lin Gui, Yulan He
This approach utilizes contrastive learning to align representations of in-context examples across different positions and introduces a consistency loss to ensure similar representations for inputs with different permutations.
no code implementations • 22 Feb 2024 • Han Zhang, Lin Gui, Yu Lei, Yuanzhao Zhai, Yehong Zhang, Yulan He, Hui Wang, Yue Yu, Kam-Fai Wong, Bin Liang, Ruifeng Xu
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is commonly utilized to improve the alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences.
no code implementations • 22 Feb 2024 • Xinyu Wang, Hainiu Xu, Lin Gui, Yulan He
Task embedding, a meta-learning technique that captures task-specific information, has gained popularity, especially in areas such as multi-task learning, model editing, and interpretability.
no code implementations • 22 Feb 2024 • Ang Li, Jingqian Zhao, Bin Liang, Lin Gui, Hui Wang, Xi Zeng, Xingwei Liang, Kam-Fai Wong, Ruifeng Xu
This approach enhances the calibration network, facilitating the debiasing and out-of-domain generalization.
1 code implementation • 22 Feb 2024 • Bin Liang, Ang Li, Jingqian Zhao, Lin Gui, Min Yang, Yue Yu, Kam-Fai Wong, Ruifeng Xu
Stance detection is a challenging task that aims to identify public opinion from social media platforms with respect to specific targets.
1 code implementation • 22 Feb 2024 • Hanqi Yan, Qinglin Zhu, Xinyu Wang, Lin Gui, Yulan He
While Large language models (LLMs) have the capability to iteratively reflect on their own outputs, recent studies have observed their struggles with knowledge-rich problems without access to external resources.
no code implementations • 16 Feb 2024 • Runcong Zhao, Qinglin Zhu, Hainiu Xu, Jiazheng Li, Yuxiang Zhou, Yulan He, Lin Gui
Existing datasets for narrative understanding often fail to represent the complexity and uncertainty of relationships in real-life social scenarios.
no code implementations • Conference 2024 • Han Zhang, Yu Lei, Lin Gui, Min Yang, Yulan He, Hui Wang, Ruifeng Xu
The approach of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is widely used for enhancing pre-trained Language Models (LM), enabling them to better align with human preferences.
no code implementations • 28 Dec 2023 • Xiaohao Mo, Lin Gui, Kai Ying, Xichao Sang, Xiaqing Diao
The performance of wireless communication systems is fundamentally constrained by random and uncontrollable wireless channels.
no code implementations • 1 Nov 2023 • Yuxiang Zhou, Jiazheng Li, Yanzheng Xiang, Hanqi Yan, Lin Gui, Yulan He
Understanding in-context learning (ICL) capability that enables large language models (LLMs) to excel in proficiency through demonstration examples is of utmost importance.
no code implementations • 28 Oct 2023 • Lixing Zhu, Runcong Zhao, Lin Gui, Yulan He
Narrative understanding involves capturing the author's cognitive processes, providing insights into their knowledge, intentions, beliefs, and desires.
no code implementations • 27 Oct 2023 • Xinyu Wang, Lin Gui, Yulan He
Table of contents (ToC) extraction centres on structuring documents in a hierarchical manner.
no code implementations • 24 Oct 2023 • Han Zhang, Lin Gui, Yuanzhao Zhai, Hui Wang, Yu Lei, Ruifeng Xu
The technique of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is a commonly employed method to improve pre-trained Language Models (LM), enhancing their ability to conform to human preferences.
no code implementations • 2 Oct 2023 • Runcong Zhao, Wenjia Zhang, Jiazheng Li, Lixing Zhu, Yanran Li, Yulan He, Lin Gui
In this paper, we introduce NarrativePlay, a novel system that allows users to role-play a fictional character and interact with other characters in narratives such as novels in an immersive environment.
1 code implementation • 6 Jun 2023 • Jiazheng Li, Zhaoyue Sun, Bin Liang, Lin Gui, Yulan He
We then generate text representations by perturbing the latent space which causes fluctuation in predictive uncertainty.
no code implementations • 30 May 2023 • Xinyu Wang, Lin Gui, Yulan He
By directly minimizing Hausdorff distance, the model is trained towards the global optimum directly, which improves performance and reduces training time.
1 code implementation • 24 May 2023 • Jiazheng Li, Runcong Zhao, Yongxin Yang, Yulan He, Lin Gui
The remarkable performance of pre-trained large language models has revolutionised various natural language processing applications.
1 code implementation • 22 May 2023 • Jiazheng Li, Lin Gui, Yuxiang Zhou, David West, Cesare Aloisi, Yulan He
Providing explainable and faithful feedback is crucial for automated student answer assessment.
no code implementations • 9 May 2023 • Hanqi Yan, Lin Gui, Menghan Wang, Kun Zhang, Yulan He
Explainable recommender systems can explain their recommendation decisions, enhancing user trust in the systems.
1 code implementation • 8 May 2023 • Runcong Zhao, Lin Gui, Yulan He
Contrastive opinion extraction aims to extract a structured summary or key points organised as positive and negative viewpoints towards a common aspect or topic.
1 code implementation • 8 May 2023 • Junru Lu, Gabriele Pergola, Lin Gui, Yulan He
In particular, we define event-related knowledge constraints based on the event trigger annotations in the QA datasets, and subsequently use them to regularize the posterior answer output probabilities from the backbone pre-trained language models used in the QA setting.
1 code implementation • 5 May 2023 • Wenjia Zhang, Lin Gui, Rob Procter, Yulan He
To enhance the ability to find credible evidence in news articles, we propose a novel task of expert recommendation, which aims to identify trustworthy experts on a specific news topic.
no code implementations • 1 Mar 2023 • Fei Liu, Chengyu Lu, Lin Gui, Qingfu Zhang, Xialiang Tong, Mingxuan Yuan
Vehicle routing is a well-known optimization research topic with significant practical importance.
no code implementations • 28 Feb 2023 • Runcong Zhao, Miguel Arana-Catania, Lixing Zhu, Elena Kochkina, Lin Gui, Arkaitz Zubiaga, Rob Procter, Maria Liakata, Yulan He
In this demo, we introduce a web-based misinformation detection system PANACEA on COVID-19 related claims, which has two modules, fact-checking and rumour detection.
1 code implementation • 13 Feb 2023 • Hongjing Li, Hanqi Yan, Yanran Li, Li Qian, Yulan He, Lin Gui
When using prompt-based learning for text classification, the goal is to use a pre-trained language model (PLM) to predict a missing token in a pre-defined template given an input text, which can be mapped to a class label.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2023 • ZiHao Wang, Lin Gui, Jeffrey Negrea, Victor Veitch
This suggests these models have internal representations that encode concepts in a `disentangled' manner.
1 code implementation • 3 Jan 2023 • Runcong Zhao, Lin Gui, Hanqi Yan, Yulan He
Monitoring online customer reviews is important for business organisations to measure customer satisfaction and better manage their reputations.
no code implementations • 1 Dec 2022 • Xichao Sang, Lin Gui, Kai Ying, Xiaqing Diao, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
The channel frequency responses on pilots (CFROPs) of places of interest are used for online mapping with the offline CFROP database.
1 code implementation • 24 Oct 2022 • Junru Lu, Xingwei Tan, Gabriele Pergola, Lin Gui, Yulan He
Our proposed model utilizes an invertible transformation matrix to project semantic vectors of events into a common event embedding space, trained with contrastive learning, and thus naturally inject event semantic knowledge into mainstream QA pipelines.
no code implementations • 30 Sep 2022 • Lin Gui, Victor Veitch
To estimate a causal effect from observational data, we need to adjust for confounding aspects of the text that affect both the treatment and outcome -- e. g., the topic or writing level of the text.
1 code implementation • 24 Aug 2022 • Hanqi Yan, Lin Gui, Wenjie Li, Yulan He
In this paper, we propose to use the distribution of singular values of outputs of each transformer layer to characterise the phenomenon of token uniformity and empirically illustrate that a less skewed singular value distribution can alleviate the `token uniformity' problem.
1 code implementation • 20 Feb 2022 • Hanqi Yan, Lin Gui, Yulan He
Neural models developed in NLP however often compose word semantics in a hierarchical manner and text classification requires hierarchical modelling to aggregate local information in order to deal with topic and label shifts more effectively.
no code implementations • 7 Sep 2021 • Jin Xie, Xinyu Li, Liang Gao, Lin Gui
According to the above finding, this paper proposes a new N8 neighborhood structure considering the movement of critical operations within a critical block and the movement of critical operations outside the critical block.
1 code implementation • 4 Sep 2021 • Wenjia Zhang, Lin Gui, Yulan He
Rather, previously published news articles on the similar event could be used to assess the credibility of a news report.
1 code implementation • ACL 2021 • Hanqi Yan, Lin Gui, Gabriele Pergola, Yulan He
To investigate the degree of reliance of existing ECE models on clause relative positions, we propose a novel strategy to generate adversarial examples in which the relative position information is no longer the indicative feature of cause clauses.
1 code implementation • ACL 2021 • Lixing Zhu, Gabriele Pergola, Lin Gui, Deyu Zhou, Yulan He
Emotion detection in dialogues is challenging as it often requires the identification of thematic topics underlying a conversation, the relevant commonsense knowledge, and the intricate transition patterns between the affective states.
Ranked #13 on Emotion Recognition in Conversation on DailyDialog
no code implementations • EACL 2021 • Gabriele Pergola, Elena Kochkina, Lin Gui, Maria Liakata, Yulan He
Biomedical question-answering (QA) has gained increased attention for its capability to provide users with high-quality information from a vast scientific literature.
no code implementations • EACL 2021 • Runcong Zhao, Lin Gui, Gabriele Pergola, Yulan He
In this paper, we propose the Brand-Topic Model (BTM) which aims to detect brand-associated polarity-bearing topics from product reviews.
1 code implementation • COLING 2020 • Bin Liang, Rongdi Yin, Lin Gui, Jiachen Du, Ruifeng Xu
Besides, to interactively extract the inter-aspect relations for the specific aspect, an inter-aspect GCN is adopted to model the representations learned by aspect-focused GCN based on the inter-aspect graph which is constructed by the relative dependencies between the aspect words and other aspects.
1 code implementation • COLING 2020 • Junru Lu, Gabriele Pergola, Lin Gui, Binyang Li, Yulan He
We introduce CHIME, a cross-passage hierarchical memory network for question answering (QA) via text generation.
1 code implementation • NAACL 2021 • Gabriele Pergola, Lin Gui, Yulan He
The flexibility of the inference process in Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) has recently led to revising traditional probabilistic topic models giving rise to Neural Topic Models (NTMs).
1 code implementation • ACL 2020 • Chuang Fan, Chaofa Yuan, Jiachen Du, Lin Gui, Min Yang, Ruifeng Xu
Emotion-cause pair extraction aims to extract all potential pairs of emotions and corresponding causes from unannotated emotion text.
Ranked #2 on Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction on ECPE-FanSplit
no code implementations • IJCNLP 2019 • Lin Gui, Jia Leng, Gabriele Pergola, Yu Zhou, Ruifeng Xu, Yulan He
In recent years, advances in neural variational inference have achieved many successes in text processing.
no code implementations • IJCNLP 2019 • Chuang Fan, Hongyu Yan, Jiachen Du, Lin Gui, Lidong Bing, Min Yang, Ruifeng Xu, Ruibin Mao
Emotion cause analysis, which aims to identify the reasons behind emotions, is a key topic in sentiment analysis.
Ranked #2 on Emotion Cause Extraction on ECE
no code implementations • 18 Aug 2019 • Gabriele Pergola, Lin Gui, Yulan He
We propose a topic-dependent attention model for sentiment classification and topic extraction.
no code implementations • EMNLP 2017 • Lin Gui, Jiannan Hu, Yulan He, Ruifeng Xu, Qin Lu, Jiachen Du
Emotion cause extraction aims to identify the reasons behind a certain emotion expressed in text.
no code implementations • 18 Aug 2017 • Lin Gui, Jiannan Hu, Yulan He, Ruifeng Xu, Qin Lu, Jiachen Du
Emotion cause extraction aims to identify the reasons behind a certain emotion expressed in text.
Ranked #8 on Emotion Cause Extraction on ECE
1 code implementation • 9 Dec 2016 • Hanbyul Joo, Tomas Simon, Xulong Li, Hao liu, Lei Tan, Lin Gui, Sean Banerjee, Timothy Godisart, Bart Nabbe, Iain Matthews, Takeo Kanade, Shohei Nobuhara, Yaser Sheikh
The core challenges in capturing social interactions are: (1) occlusion is functional and frequent; (2) subtle motion needs to be measured over a space large enough to host a social group; (3) human appearance and configuration variation is immense; and (4) attaching markers to the body may prime the nature of interactions.
1 code implementation • 11 Oct 2016 • Jingshu Wang, Lin Gui, Weijie J. Su, Chiara Sabatti, Art B. Owen
Replicability is a fundamental quality of scientific discoveries: we are interested in those signals that are detectable in different laboratories, study populations, across time etc.
Methodology
no code implementations • ICCV 2015 • Hanbyul Joo, Hao liu, Lei Tan, Lin Gui, Bart Nabbe, Iain Matthews, Takeo Kanade, Shohei Nobuhara, Yaser Sheikh
We present an approach to capture the 3D structure and motion of a group of people engaged in a social interaction.