1 code implementation • NAACL (MIA) 2022 • Gengyu Wang, Cheng Qian, Lin Pan, Haode Qi, Ladislav Kunc, Saloni Potdar
Current virtual assistant (VA) platforms are beholden to the limited number of languages they support.
no code implementations • 21 Oct 2024 • Yanzhu Guo, Simone Conia, Zelin Zhou, Min Li, Saloni Potdar, Henry Xiao
Despite the importance of this issue, the naturalness of multilingual LLM outputs has received limited attention.
no code implementations • 17 Oct 2024 • Simone Conia, Daniel Lee, Min Li, Umar Farooq Minhas, Saloni Potdar, Yunyao Li
Translating text that contains entity names is a challenging task, as cultural-related references can vary significantly across languages.
no code implementations • 12 Aug 2024 • Ronak Pradeep, Daniel Lee, Ali Mousavi, Jeff Pound, Yisi Sang, Jimmy Lin, Ihab Ilyas, Saloni Potdar, Mostafa Arefiyan, Yunyao Li
The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) and conversational assistants necessitates dynamic, scalable, and configurable conversational datasets for training and evaluation.
no code implementations • 23 May 2024 • Revanth Gangi Reddy, Omar Attia, Yunyao Li, Heng Ji, Saloni Potdar
Ranking is a fundamental and popular problem in search.
no code implementations • 2 Apr 2024 • Junxiong Wang, Ali Mousavi, Omar Attia, Ronak Pradeep, Saloni Potdar, Alexander M. Rush, Umar Farooq Minhas, Yunyao Li
Existing generative approaches demonstrate improved accuracy compared to classification approaches under the standardized ZELDA benchmark.
Ranked #1 on Entity Linking on KORE50 (Micro-F1 strong metric)
no code implementations • 16 Jan 2023 • Cheng Qian, Haode Qi, Gengyu Wang, Ladislav Kunc, Saloni Potdar
Out of Scope (OOS) detection in Conversational AI solutions enables a chatbot to handle a conversation gracefully when it is unable to make sense of the end-user query.
1 code implementation • NAACL (ACL) 2022 • Hui Wan, Siva Sankalp Patel, J. William Murdock, Saloni Potdar, Sachindra Joshi
Dialogue systems can benefit from being able to search through a corpus of text to find information relevant to user requests, especially when encountering a request for which no manually curated response is available.
no code implementations • 21 Jul 2021 • Lin Pan, Chung-Wei Hang, Avirup Sil, Saloni Potdar
We propose a simple and general method to regularize the fine-tuning of Transformer-based encoders for text classification tasks.
3 code implementations • 7 Jun 2021 • Xiangyang Mou, Chenghao Yang, Mo Yu, Bingsheng Yao, Xiaoxiao Guo, Saloni Potdar, Hui Su
Recent advancements in open-domain question answering (ODQA), i. e., finding answers from large open-domain corpus like Wikipedia, have led to human-level performance on many datasets.
1 code implementation • NAACL 2021 • Haode Qi, Lin Pan, Atin Sood, Abhishek Shah, Ladislav Kunc, Mo Yu, Saloni Potdar
Secondly, even with large training data, the intent detection models can see a different distribution of test data when being deployed in the real world, leading to poor accuracy.
no code implementations • NAACL 2021 • Lin Pan, Chung-Wei Hang, Haode Qi, Abhishek Shah, Saloni Potdar, Mo Yu
We propose a simple method to align multilingual contextual embeddings as a post-pretraining step for improved zero-shot cross-lingual transferability of the pretrained models.
no code implementations • WS 2020 • Xiangyang Mou, Mo Yu, Bingsheng Yao, Chenghao Yang, Xiaoxiao Guo, Saloni Potdar, Hui Su
A lot of progress has been made to improve question answering (QA) in recent years, but the special problem of QA over narrative book stories has not been explored in-depth.
no code implementations • IJCNLP 2019 • Ming Tan, Dakuo Wang, Yupeng Gao, Haoyu Wang, Saloni Potdar, Xiaoxiao Guo, Shiyu Chang, Mo Yu
In multi-party chat, it is common for multiple conversations to occur concurrently, leading to intermingled conversation threads in chat logs.
1 code implementation • IJCNLP 2019 • Ming Tan, Yang Yu, Haoyu Wang, Dakuo Wang, Saloni Potdar, Shiyu Chang, Mo Yu
Out-of-domain (OOD) detection for low-resource text classification is a realistic but understudied task.
1 code implementation • ACL 2019 • Haoyu Wang, Ming Tan, Mo Yu, Shiyu Chang, Dakuo Wang, Kun Xu, Xiaoxiao Guo, Saloni Potdar
Most approaches to extraction multiple relations from a paragraph require multiple passes over the paragraph.
Ranked #19 on Relation Extraction on SemEval-2010 Task-8
2 code implementations • NAACL 2018 • Mo Yu, Xiaoxiao Guo, Jin-Feng Yi, Shiyu Chang, Saloni Potdar, Yu Cheng, Gerald Tesauro, Haoyu Wang, Bo-Wen Zhou
We study few-shot learning in natural language domains.
no code implementations • 26 Aug 2017 • Mo Yu, Xiaoxiao Guo, Jin-Feng Yi, Shiyu Chang, Saloni Potdar, Gerald Tesauro, Haoyu Wang, Bo-Wen Zhou
We propose a new method to measure task similarities with cross-task transfer performance matrix for the deep learning scenario.
1 code implementation • 15 Jan 2017 • Feifei Zhai, Saloni Potdar, Bing Xiang, Bo-Wen Zhou
Many natural language understanding (NLU) tasks, such as shallow parsing (i. e., text chunking) and semantic slot filling, require the assignment of representative labels to the meaningful chunks in a sentence.