no code implementations • 23 Sep 2023 • Sam Davidson, Salvatore Romeo, Raphael Shu, James Gung, Arshit Gupta, Saab Mansour, Yi Zhang
One of the major impediments to the development of new task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems is the need for human evaluation at multiple stages and iterations of the development process.
1 code implementation • 24 May 2023 • Mujeen Sung, James Gung, Elman Mansimov, Nikolaos Pappas, Raphael Shu, Salvatore Romeo, Yi Zhang, Vittorio Castelli
Intent classification (IC) plays an important role in task-oriented dialogue systems.
2 code implementations • 25 Apr 2023 • James Gung, Raphael Shu, Emily Moeng, Wesley Rose, Salvatore Romeo, Yassine Benajiba, Arshit Gupta, Saab Mansour, Yi Zhang
With increasing demand for and adoption of virtual assistants, recent work has investigated ways to accelerate bot schema design through the automatic induction of intents or the induction of slots and dialogue states.
no code implementations • 20 Dec 2022 • Raphael Shu, Elman Mansimov, Tamer Alkhouli, Nikolaos Pappas, Salvatore Romeo, Arshit Gupta, Saab Mansour, Yi Zhang, Dan Roth
The conversational model interacts with the environment by generating and executing programs triggering a set of pre-defined APIs.
1 code implementation • ACL 2022 • Aaron Mueller, Jason Krone, Salvatore Romeo, Saab Mansour, Elman Mansimov, Yi Zhang, Dan Roth
Label semantic aware systems have leveraged this information for improved text classification performance during fine-tuning and prediction.
no code implementations • Findings (EMNLP) 2021 • Sawsan Alqahtani, Garima Lalwani, Yi Zhang, Salvatore Romeo, Saab Mansour
Recent studies have proposed different methods to improve multilingual word representations in contextualized settings including techniques that align between source and target embedding spaces.
no code implementations • IJCNLP 2019 • Yifan Zhang, Giovanni Da San Martino, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Salvatore Romeo, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Todor Staykovski, Israa Jaradat, Georgi Karadzhov, Ramy Baly, Kareem Darwish, James Glass, Preslav Nakov
We introduce Tanbih, a news aggregator with intelligent analysis tools to help readers understanding what's behind a news story.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2018 • Darsh J Shah, Tao Lei, Alessandro Moschitti, Salvatore Romeo, Preslav Nakov
We address the problem of detecting duplicate questions in forums, which is an important step towards automating the process of answering new questions.
no code implementations • ACL 2018 • Salvatore Romeo, Giovanni Da San Martino, Alberto Barr{\'o}n-Cede{\~n}o, Aless Moschitti, ro
Although deep neural networks have been proving to be excellent tools to deliver state-of-the-art results, when data is scarce and the tackled tasks involve complex semantic inference, deep linguistic processing and traditional structure-based approaches, such as tree kernel methods, are an alternative solution.
no code implementations • 4 Oct 2017 • Giovanni Da San Martino, Salvatore Romeo, Alberto Barron-Cedeno, Shafiq Joty, Lluis Marquez, Alessandro Moschitti, Preslav Nakov
We compare a kernel-based system with a feed-forward neural network in a scenario where a large parallel corpus is available for training a machine translation system, bilingual dictionaries, and cross-language word embeddings.
no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Alberto Barr{\'o}n-Cede{\~n}o, Giovanni Da San Martino, Salvatore Romeo, Aless Moschitti, ro
Community question answering (cQA) websites are focused on users who query questions onto an online forum, expecting for other users to provide them answers or suggestions.
no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Salvatore Romeo, Giovanni Da San Martino, Alberto Barr{\'o}n-Cede{\~n}o, Aless Moschitti, ro, Yonatan Belinkov, Wei-Ning Hsu, Yu Zhang, Mitra Mohtarami, James Glass
In real-world data, e. g., from Web forums, text is often contaminated with redundant or irrelevant content, which leads to introducing noise in machine learning algorithms.
no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty, Llu{\'\i}s M{\`a}rquez, Alberto Barr{\'o}n-Cede{\~n}o, Giovanni Da San Martino, Aless Moschitti, ro, Preslav Nakov, Salvatore Romeo, Giuseppe Carenini
We present an interactive system to provide effective and efficient search capabilities in Community Question Answering (cQA) forums.
no code implementations • 18 Oct 2016 • Giovanni Da San Martino, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Salvatore Romeo, Alessandro Moschitti, Shafiq Joty, Fahad A. Al Obaidli, Kateryna Tymoshenko, Antonio Uva
In the case of the Arabic question re-ranking task, for the first time we applied tree kernels on syntactic trees of Arabic sentences.
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2016 • Alberto Barr{\'o}n-Cede{\~n}o, Daniele Bonadiman, Giovanni Da San Martino, Shafiq Joty, Aless Moschitti, ro, Fahad Al Obaidli, Salvatore Romeo, Kateryna Tymoshenko, Antonio Uva
Ranked #2 on Question Answering on SemEvalCQA