1 code implementation • EMNLP 2020 • Qiongkai Xu, Lizhen Qu, Zeyu Gao, Gholamreza Haffari
In this work, we propose to protect personal information by warning users of detected suspicious sentences generated by conversational assistants.
1 code implementation • 27 May 2023 • Zhuang Li, Yuyang Chai, Terry Yue Zhuo, Lizhen Qu, Gholamreza Haffari, Fei Li, Donghong Ji, Quan Hung Tran
Textual scene graph parsing has become increasingly important in various vision-language applications, including image caption evaluation and image retrieval.
no code implementations • 22 May 2023 • Zhuang Li, Lizhen Qu, Philip R. Cohen, Raj V. Tumuluri, Gholamreza Haffari
Multilingual semantic parsing aims to leverage the knowledge from the high-resource languages to improve low-resource semantic parsing, yet commonly suffers from the data imbalance problem.
1 code implementation • 8 May 2023 • Bhanu Prakash Voutharoja, Lizhen Qu, Fatemeh Shiri
Our model parses a form into a word-relation graph in order to identify entities and relations jointly and reduce the time complexity of inference.
no code implementations • 2 May 2023 • Haolan Zhan, Sameen Maruf, Lizhen Qu, YuFei Wang, Ingrid Zukerman, Gholamreza Haffari
Flowchart-grounded troubleshooting dialogue (FTD) systems, which follow the instructions of a flowchart to diagnose users' problems in specific domains (eg., vehicle, laptop), have been gaining research interest in recent years.
1 code implementation • 24 Apr 2023 • Haolan Zhan, Zhuang Li, YuFei Wang, Linhao Luo, Tao Feng, Xiaoxi Kang, Yuncheng Hua, Lizhen Qu, Lay-Ki Soon, Suraj Sharma, Ingrid Zukerman, Zhaleh Semnani-Azad, Gholamreza Haffari
To the best of our knowledge, SocialDial is the first socially-aware dialogue dataset that covers multiple social factors and has fine-grained labels.
Cultural Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction
Synthetic Data Generation
1 code implementation • 2 Mar 2023 • Tao Feng, Lizhen Qu, Gholamreza Haffari
In this paper, we conduct the first study on spurious correlations for open-domain response generation models based on a corpus CGDIALOG curated in our work.
no code implementations • 16 Feb 2023 • Minghao Wu, George Foster, Lizhen Qu, Gholamreza Haffari
Existing work in document-level neural machine translation commonly concatenates several consecutive sentences as a pseudo-document, and then learns inter-sentential dependencies.
1 code implementation • 20 Dec 2022 • Zhuo Zhang, Yuanhang Yang, Yong Dai, Lizhen Qu, Zenglin Xu
To facilitate the research of PETuning in FL, we also develop a federated tuning framework FedPETuning, which allows practitioners to exploit different PETuning methods under the FL training paradigm conveniently.
no code implementations • 18 Dec 2022 • Haolan Zhan, YuFei Wang, Tao Feng, Yuncheng Hua, Suraj Sharma, Zhuang Li, Lizhen Qu, Gholamreza Haffari
Negotiation is one of the crucial abilities in human communication, and there has been a resurgent research interest in negotiation dialogue systems recently, which goal is to empower intelligent agents with such ability that can efficiently help humans resolve conflicts or reach beneficial agreements.
1 code implementation • 27 Nov 2022 • Chuang Lin, Peize Sun, Yi Jiang, Ping Luo, Lizhen Qu, Gholamreza Haffari, Zehuan Yuan, Jianfei Cai
In this paper, we propose a novel open-vocabulary object detection framework directly learning from image-text pair data.
no code implementations • 11 Oct 2022 • Terry Yue Zhuo, Yaqing Liao, Yuecheng Lei, Lizhen Qu, Gerard de Melo, Xiaojun Chang, Yazhou Ren, Zenglin Xu
We introduce ViLPAct, a novel vision-language benchmark for human activity planning.
1 code implementation • 27 Feb 2022 • Zhuang Li, Lizhen Qu, Qiongkai Xu, Tongtong Wu, Tianyang Zhan, Gholamreza Haffari
In this paper, we propose a variational autoencoder with disentanglement priors, VAE-DPRIOR, for task-specific natural language generation with none or a handful of task-specific labeled examples.
1 code implementation • 10 Nov 2021 • Chuang Lin, Yi Jiang, Jianfei Cai, Lizhen Qu, Gholamreza Haffari, Zehuan Yuan
Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a task that an agent is required to follow a language instruction to navigate to the goal position, which relies on the ongoing interactions with the environment during moving.
no code implementations • Findings (EMNLP) 2021 • Sheng Bi, Xiya Cheng, Yuan-Fang Li, Lizhen Qu, Shirong Shen, Guilin Qi, Lu Pan, Yinlin Jiang
The ability to generate natural-language questions with controlled complexity levels is highly desirable as it further expands the applicability of question generation.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2021 • Zhuang Li, Lizhen Qu, Gholamreza Haffari
We conduct extensive experiments to study the research problems involved in continual semantic parsing and demonstrate that a neural semantic parser trained with TotalRecall achieves superior performance than the one trained directly with the SOTA continual learning algorithms and achieve a 3-6 times speedup compared to re-training from scratch.
no code implementations • COLING 2022 • Qiongkai Xu, Xuanli He, Lingjuan Lyu, Lizhen Qu, Gholamreza Haffari
Machine-learning-as-a-service (MLaaS) has attracted millions of users to their splendid large-scale models.
no code implementations • ACL 2021 • Farhad Moghimifar, Lizhen Qu, Yue Zhuo, Gholamreza Haffari, Mahsa Baktashmotlagh
The dynamic nature of commonsense knowledge postulates models capable of performing multi-hop reasoning over new situations.
no code implementations • EACL 2021 • Shuo Huang, Zhuang Li, Lizhen Qu, Lei Pan
In this paper, we provide the empirical study on the robustness of semantic parsers in the presence of adversarial attacks.
1 code implementation • EACL 2021 • Zhuang Li, Lizhen Qu, Shuo Huang, Gholamreza Haffari
In this work, we investigate the problems of semantic parsing in a few-shot learning setting.
1 code implementation • COLING 2020 • Zhuang Li, Lizhen Qu, Gholamreza Haffari
Semantic parsing is the task of translating natural language utterances into machine-readable meaning representations.
1 code implementation • COLING 2020 • Farhad Moghimifar, Lizhen Qu, Yue Zhuo, Mahsa Baktashmotlagh, Gholamreza Haffari
However, current approaches in this realm lack the ability to perform commonsense reasoning upon facing an unseen situation, mostly due to incapability of identifying a diverse range of implicit social relations.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Qiongkai Xu, Lizhen Qu, Chenchen Xu, Ran Cui
Biased decisions made by automatic systems have led to growing concerns in research communities.
1 code implementation • IJCNLP 2019 • Qiongkai Xu, Chenchen Xu, Lizhen Qu
In this paper, we describe ALTER, an auxiliary text rewriting tool that facilitates the rewriting process for natural language generation tasks, such as paraphrasing, text simplification, fairness-aware text rewriting, and text style transfer.
no code implementations • ICLR 2019 • Tue Le, Tuan Nguyen, Trung Le, Dinh Phung, Paul Montague, Olivier De Vel, Lizhen Qu
Due to the sharp increase in the severity of the threat imposed by software vulnerabilities, the detection of vulnerabilities in binary code has become an important concern in the software industry, such as the embedded systems industry, and in the field of computer security.
no code implementations • 13 Aug 2018 • Qiongkai Xu, Juyan Zhang, Lizhen Qu, Lexing Xie, Richard Nock
In this paper, we investigate the diversity aspect of paraphrase generation.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2017 • Richard Nock, Zac Cranko, Aditya Krishna Menon, Lizhen Qu, Robert C. Williamson
In this paper, we unveil a broad class of distributions for which such convergence happens --- namely, deformed exponential families, a wide superset of exponential families --- and show tight connections with the three other key GAN parameters: loss, game and architecture.
no code implementations • ACL 2017 • Sunghwan Mac Kim, Qiongkai Xu, Lizhen Qu, Stephen Wan, C{\'e}cile Paris
In social media, demographic inference is a critical task in order to gain a better understanding of a cohort and to facilitate interacting with one{'}s audience.
no code implementations • 24 Jan 2017 • Qiongkai Xu, Qing Wang, Chenchen Xu, Lizhen Qu
In this paper, we propose a graph-based recursive neural network framework for collective vertex classification.
no code implementations • 20 Dec 2016 • Shijie Zhang, Lizhen Qu, ShaoDi You, Zhenglu Yang, Jiawan Zhang
In this paper, we propose the first model to be able to generate visually grounded questions with diverse types for a single image.
no code implementations • EMNLP 2016 • Lizhen Qu, Gabriela Ferraro, Liyuan Zhou, Weiwei Hou, Timothy Baldwin
In named entity recognition, we often don't have a large in-domain training corpus or a knowledge base with adequate coverage to train a model directly.
2 code implementations • CVPR 2017 • Giorgio Patrini, Alessandro Rozza, Aditya Menon, Richard Nock, Lizhen Qu
We present a theoretically grounded approach to train deep neural networks, including recurrent networks, subject to class-dependent label noise.
Ranked #2 on
Image Classification
on Clothing1M (using clean data)
(using extra training data)
1 code implementation • NAACL 2016 • Dat Quoc Nguyen, Kairit Sirts, Lizhen Qu, Mark Johnson
Knowledge bases of real-world facts about entities and their relationships are useful resources for a variety of natural language processing tasks.
no code implementations • CONLL 2016 • Dat Quoc Nguyen, Kairit Sirts, Lizhen Qu, Mark Johnson
Knowledge bases are useful resources for many natural language processing tasks, however, they are far from complete.
no code implementations • 21 Apr 2015 • Lizhen Qu, Gabriela Ferraro, Liyuan Zhou, Weiwei Hou, Nathan Schneider, Timothy Baldwin
Word embeddings -- distributed word representations that can be learned from unlabelled data -- have been shown to have high utility in many natural language processing applications.
no code implementations • 4 Aug 2014 • Lizhen Qu, Bjoern Andres
Estimating (learning) a maximally probable measure, given (a training set of) related and unrelated pairs, is a convex optimization problem.
no code implementations • TACL 2014 • Lizhen Qu, Yi Zhang, Rui Wang, Lili Jiang, Rainer Gemulla, Gerhard Weikum
Extracting instances of sentiment-oriented relations from user-generated web documents is important for online marketing analysis.