Efficient Sequence Labeling with Actor-Critic Training

1 code implementation • 30 Sep 2018 • Saeed Najafi, Colin Cherry, Grzegorz Kondrak

We set out to establish RNNs as an attractive alternative to CRFs for sequence labeling.

Decision Making NER +1

Weakly-Supervised Questions for Zero-Shot Relation Extraction

1 code implementation • 21 Jan 2023 • Saeed Najafi, Alona Fyshe

Zero-Shot Relation Extraction (ZRE) is the task of Relation Extraction where the training and test sets have no shared relation types.

Question Answering Relation +1

String Transduction with Target Language Models and Insertion Handling

no code implementations • WS 2018 • Garrett Nicolai, Saeed Najafi, Grzegorz Kondrak

Many character-level tasks can be framed as sequence-to-sequence transduction, where the target is a word from a natural language.

Combining Neural and Non-Neural Methods for Low-Resource Morphological Reinflection

no code implementations • CONLL 2018 • Saeed Najafi, Bradley Hauer, Rashed Rubby Riyadh, Leyuan Yu, Grzegorz Kondrak

If you can't beat them, join them: the University of Alberta system description

no code implementations • CONLL 2017 • Garrett Nicolai, Bradley Hauer, Mohammad Motallebi, Saeed Najafi, Grzegorz Kondrak

Comparison of Assorted Models for Transliteration

no code implementations • WS 2018 • Saeed Najafi, Bradley Hauer, Rashed Rubby Riyadh, Leyuan Yu, Grzegorz Kondrak

We report the results of our experiments in the context of the NEWS 2018 Shared Task on Transliteration.

Transliteration

RIFF: Learning to Rephrase Inputs for Few-shot Fine-tuning of Language Models

no code implementations • 4 Mar 2024 • Saeed Najafi, Alona Fyshe

Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) can be accurately fine-tuned for downstream text processing tasks.

Few-Shot Text Classification text-classification