no code implementations • NAACL 2022 • Hung Le, Nancy Chen, Steven Hoi
Neural module networks (NMN) have achieved success in image-grounded tasks such as Visual Question Answering (VQA) on synthetic images.
1 code implementation • SIGDIAL (ACL) 2021 • Ibrahim Taha Aksu, Zhengyuan Liu, Min-Yen Kan, Nancy Chen
We introduce a synthetic dialogue generation framework, Velocidapter, which addresses the corpus availability problem for dialogue comprehension.
no code implementations • SIGDIAL (ACL) 2022 • Zhengyuan Liu, Nancy Chen
Although fine-tuning pre-trained backbones produces fluent and grammatically-correct text in various language generation tasks, factual consistency in abstractive summarization remains challenging.
no code implementations • 6 Aug 2023 • Mathieu Ravaut, Hailin Chen, Ruochen Zhao, Chengwei Qin, Shafiq Joty, Nancy Chen
Prompt tuning (PT), a parameter-efficient technique that only tunes the additional prompt embeddings while keeping the backbone pre-trained language model (PLM) frozen, has shown promising results in language understanding tasks, especially in low-resource scenarios.
2 code implementations • 19 Dec 2022 • Mathieu Ravaut, Shafiq Joty, Nancy Chen
With the rise of task-specific pre-training objectives, abstractive summarization models like PEGASUS offer appealing zero-shot performance on downstream summarization tasks.
no code implementations • 26 Sep 2022 • Susan E. Johnston, Nancy Chen, Emily B. Josephs
A key goal in studies of ecology and evolution is understanding the causes of phenotypic diversity in nature.
no code implementations • COLING 2020 • Zhengyuan Liu, Pavitra Krishnaswamy, Ai Ti Aw, Nancy Chen
While neural approaches have achieved significant improvement in machine comprehension tasks, models often work as a black-box, resulting in lower interpretability, which requires special attention in domains such as healthcare or education.
no code implementations • ACL 2020 • Yi Tay, Donovan Ong, Jie Fu, Alvin Chan, Nancy Chen, Anh Tuan Luu, Chris Pal
Understanding human preferences, along with cultural and social nuances, lives at the heart of natural language understanding.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Zhengyuan Liu, Nancy Chen
We investigate how the sub-sentential segmentation improves extractive summarization performance when content selection is modeled through two basic neural network architectures and a deep bi-directional transformer.
no code implementations • IJCNLP 2019 • Litton J Kurisinkel, Nancy Chen
This task differs from other natural language generation tasks in the following ways: (1) The input is a set of identifiable entities (ICD codes) where the relations between individual entity are not explicitly specified.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Minh Nguyen, Gia H. Ngo, Nancy Chen
Finding that explicitly modeling structures leads to better generalization, we consider the task of predicting Cantonese pronunciations of logographs (Chinese characters) using logographs{'} recursive structures.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Yuling Gu, Nancy Chen
We investigate English pronunciation patterns in Singaporean children in relation to their American and British counterparts by conducting archetypal analysis on selected vowel pairs.
no code implementations • ACL 2019 • Zhengyuan Liu, Nancy Chen
Comprehending multi-turn spoken conversations is an emerging research area, presenting challenges different from reading comprehension of passages due to the interactive nature of information exchange from at least two speakers.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Nancy Chen, Xiangyu Duan, Min Zhang, Rafael E. Banchs, Haizhou Li
Transliteration is defined as phonetic translation of names across languages.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Nancy Chen, Rafael E. Banchs, Min Zhang, Xiangyu Duan, Haizhou Li
This report presents the results from the Named Entity Transliteration Shared Task conducted as part of The Seventh Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2018) held at ACL 2018 in Melbourne, Australia.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Jiewen Wu, Rafael E. Banchs, Luis Fern D{'}Haro, o, Pavitra Krishnaswamy, Nancy Chen
The problem of sequence labelling in language understanding would benefit from approaches inspired by semantic priming phenomena.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Snigdha Singhania, Minh Nguyen, Gia H. Ngo, Nancy Chen
This paper reports the results of our trans-literation experiments conducted on NEWS 2018 Shared Task dataset.
1 code implementation • 17 Jun 2017 • Zhe Wang, Kingsley Kuan, Mathieu Ravaut, Gaurav Manek, Sibo Song, Yuan Fang, Seokhwan Kim, Nancy Chen, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Luu Anh Tuan, Hongyuan Zhu, Zeng Zeng, Ngai Man Cheung, Georgios Piliouras, Jie Lin, Vijay Chandrasekhar
Beyond that, we extend the original competition by including text information in the classification, making this a truly multi-modal approach with vision, audio and text.
no code implementations • WS 2016 • Wenda Chen, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Nancy Chen, Preethi Jyothi, Lav Varshney
We evaluate our techniques using mismatched transcriptions for Cantonese speech acquired from native English and Mandarin speakers.