Search Results for author: Lizhen Qu

Found 52 papers, 22 papers with code

Estimating Maximally Probable Constrained Relations by Mathematical Programming

no code implementations4 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.

Clustering General Classification +2

Big Data Small Data, In Domain Out-of Domain, Known Word Unknown Word: The Impact of Word Representation on Sequence Labelling Tasks

no code implementations21 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.

Chunking NER +4

STransE: a novel embedding model of entities and relationships in knowledge bases

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.

Knowledge Base Completion Link Prediction +1

Making Deep Neural Networks Robust to Label Noise: a Loss Correction Approach

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)

Learning with noisy labels Noise Estimation

Named Entity Recognition for Novel Types by Transfer Learning

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.

named-entity-recognition Named Entity Recognition +2

Automatic Generation of Grounded Visual Questions

no code implementations20 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.

Question Generation Question-Generation

Collective Vertex Classification Using Recursive Neural Network

no code implementations24 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.

Classification General Classification

Demographic Inference on Twitter using Recursive Neural Networks

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.

Network Embedding

f-GANs in an Information Geometric Nutshell

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.

Maximal Divergence Sequential Autoencoder for Binary Software Vulnerability Detection

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.

Computer Security Vulnerability Detection

ALTER: Auxiliary Text Rewriting Tool for Natural Language Generation

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.

Fairness Style Transfer +2

Privacy-Aware Text Rewriting

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.

Fairness Translation

Context Dependent Semantic Parsing: A Survey

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.

Semantic Parsing

COSMO: Conditional SEQ2SEQ-based Mixture Model for Zero-Shot Commonsense Question Answering

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.

Question Answering

On Robustness of Neural Semantic Parsers

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.

Data Augmentation Semantic Parsing

Total Recall: a Customized Continual Learning Method for Neural Semantic Parsers

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.

Continual Learning Semantic Parsing

Multimodal Transformer with Variable-length Memory for Vision-and-Language Navigation

1 code implementation10 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.

Navigate Vision and Language Navigation

Variational Autoencoder with Disentanglement Priors for Low-Resource Task-Specific Natural Language Generation

1 code implementation27 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.

Data Augmentation Disentanglement +3

Learning Object-Language Alignments for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection

1 code implementation27 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.

Object object-detection +3

Let's Negotiate! A Survey of Negotiation Dialogue Systems

no code implementations18 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.

When Federated Learning Meets Pre-trained Language Models' Parameter-Efficient Tuning Methods

1 code implementation20 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.

Federated Learning

Document Flattening: Beyond Concatenating Context for Document-Level Neural Machine Translation

no code implementations16 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.

Machine Translation Translation

Less is More: Mitigate Spurious Correlations for Open-Domain Dialogue Response Generation Models by Causal Discovery

1 code implementation2 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.

Causal Discovery Informativeness +1

Turning Flowchart into Dialog: Augmenting Flowchart-grounded Troubleshooting Dialogs via Synthetic Data Generation

1 code implementation2 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 (e. g., vehicle, laptop), have been gaining research interest in recent years.

Data Augmentation Response Generation +2

Language Independent Neuro-Symbolic Semantic Parsing for Form Understanding

1 code implementation8 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.

Relation Semantic Parsing

The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Human and Machine Translations for Multilingual Semantic Parsing with Active Learning

no code implementations22 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.

Active Learning Semantic Parsing

FACTUAL: A Benchmark for Faithful and Consistent Textual Scene Graph Parsing

1 code implementation27 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.

Graph Similarity Human Judgment Correlation +4

Can ChatGPT Perform Reasoning Using the IRAC Method in Analyzing Legal Scenarios Like a Lawyer?

1 code implementation23 Oct 2023 Xiaoxi Kang, Lizhen Qu, Lay-Ki Soon, Adnan Trakic, Terry Yue Zhuo, Patrick Charles Emerton, Genevieve Grant

Each scenario in the corpus is annotated with a complete IRAC analysis in a semi-structured format so that both machines and legal professionals are able to interpret and understand the annotations.

Legal Reasoning

TMID: A Comprehensive Real-world Dataset for Trademark Infringement Detection in E-Commerce

1 code implementation8 Dec 2023 Tongxin Hu, Zhuang Li, Xin Jin, Lizhen Qu, Xin Zhang

Annually, e-commerce platforms incur substantial financial losses due to trademark infringements, making it crucial to identify and mitigate potential legal risks tied to merchant information registered to the platforms.

Legal Reasoning

Importance-Aware Data Augmentation for Document-Level Neural Machine Translation

no code implementations27 Jan 2024 Minghao Wu, YuFei Wang, George Foster, Lizhen Qu, Gholamreza Haffari

Document-level neural machine translation (DocNMT) aims to generate translations that are both coherent and cohesive, in contrast to its sentence-level counterpart.

Data Augmentation Machine Translation +2

Assistive Large Language Model Agents for Socially-Aware Negotiation Dialogues

no code implementations29 Jan 2024 Yuncheng Hua, Lizhen Qu, Gholamreza Haffari

In this work, we aim to develop LLM agents to mitigate social norm violations in negotiations in a multi-agent setting.

In-Context Learning Language Modelling +1

RENOVI: A Benchmark Towards Remediating Norm Violations in Socio-Cultural Conversations

no code implementations17 Feb 2024 Haolan Zhan, Zhuang Li, Xiaoxi Kang, Tao Feng, Yuncheng Hua, Lizhen Qu, Yi Ying, Mei Rianto Chandra, Kelly Rosalin, Jureynolds Jureynolds, Suraj Sharma, Shilin Qu, Linhao Luo, Lay-Ki Soon, Zhaleh Semnani Azad, Ingrid Zukerman, Gholamreza Haffari

While collecting sufficient human-authored data is costly, synthetic conversations provide suitable amounts of data to help mitigate the scarcity of training data, as well as the chance to assess the alignment between LLMs and humans in the awareness of social norms.

FedPIT: Towards Privacy-preserving and Few-shot Federated Instruction Tuning

no code implementations10 Mar 2024 Zhuo Zhang, Jingyuan Zhang, Jintao Huang, Lizhen Qu, Hongzhi Zhang, Zenglin Xu

Extensive experiments on real-world medical data demonstrate the effectiveness of FedPIT in improving federated few-shot performance while preserving privacy and robustness against data heterogeneity.

Federated Learning In-Context Learning +1

Generative Region-Language Pretraining for Open-Ended Object Detection

1 code implementation15 Mar 2024 Chuang Lin, Yi Jiang, Lizhen Qu, Zehuan Yuan, Jianfei Cai

To address it, we formulate object detection as a generative problem and propose a simple framework named GenerateU, which can detect dense objects and generate their names in a free-form way.

Language Modelling Object +3

IMO: Greedy Layer-Wise Sparse Representation Learning for Out-of-Distribution Text Classification with Pre-trained Models

no code implementations21 Apr 2024 Tao Feng, Lizhen Qu, Zhuang Li, Haolan Zhan, Yuncheng Hua, Gholamreza Haffari

Machine learning models have made incredible progress, but they still struggle when applied to examples from unseen domains.

Personal Information Leakage Detection in Conversations

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.

Language Modelling

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