no code implementations • ACL 2022 • Siqi Shen, Veronica Perez-Rosas, Charles Welch, Soujanya Poria, Rada Mihalcea
We propose a pipeline that collects domain knowledge through web mining, and show that retrieval from both domain-specific and commonsense knowledge bases improves the quality of generated responses.
1 code implementation • EMNLP (CINLP) 2021 • Fiona Anting Tan, Devamanyu Hazarika, See-Kiong Ng, Soujanya Poria, Roger Zimmermann
Scarcity of annotated causal texts leads to poor robustness when training state-of-the-art language models for causal sentence classification.
no code implementations • EMNLP 2020 • AmirAli Bagher Zadeh, Yansheng Cao, Simon Hessner, Paul Pu Liang, Soujanya Poria, Louis-Philippe Morency
It covers a diverse set topics and speakers, and carries supervision of 20 labels including sentiment (and subjectivity), emotions, and attributes.
no code implementations • 9 Nov 2024 • Yew Ken Chia, Liying Cheng, Hou Pong Chan, Chaoqun Liu, Maojia Song, Sharifah Mahani Aljunied, Soujanya Poria, Lidong Bing
In this work, we introduce M-LongDoc, a benchmark of 851 samples, and an automated framework to evaluate the performance of large multimodal models.
1 code implementation • 25 Oct 2024 • Wei Han, Pan Zhou, Soujanya Poria, Shuicheng Yan
The limited context window of contemporary large language models (LLMs) remains a huge barrier to their broader application across various domains.
no code implementations • 16 Oct 2024 • Vernon Y. H. Toh, Deepanway Ghosal, Soujanya Poria
We demonstrate that PROVE consistently outperforms vanilla majority voting as a heuristic for solving mathematical reasoning tasks across all datasets and model sizes.
1 code implementation • 9 Oct 2024 • Zonglin Yang, Wanhao Liu, Ben Gao, Tong Xie, Yuqiang Li, Wanli Ouyang, Soujanya Poria, Erik Cambria, Dongzhan Zhou
In this work, we investigate this central research question: Can LLMs automatically discover novel and valid chemistry research hypotheses given only a chemistry research background (consisting of a research question and/or a background survey), without limitation on the domain of the research question?
no code implementations • 7 Oct 2024 • Yew Ken Chia, Guizhen Chen, Weiwen Xu, Luu Anh Tuan, Soujanya Poria, Lidong Bing
We attribute this to the expansive solution space, where each step has the risk of diverging into mistakes.
no code implementations • 22 Sep 2024 • Yew Ken Chia, Qi Sun, Lidong Bing, Soujanya Poria
Large multimodal models have demonstrated impressive problem-solving abilities in vision and language tasks, and have the potential to encode extensive world knowledge.
1 code implementation • 17 Sep 2024 • Maojia Song, Shang Hong Sim, Rishabh Bhardwaj, Hai Leong Chieu, Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria
LLMs are an integral component of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems.
1 code implementation • 20 Aug 2024 • Tej Deep Pala, Vernon Y. H. Toh, Rishabh Bhardwaj, Soujanya Poria
To overcome these limitations, we propose Ferret, a novel approach that builds upon Rainbow Teaming by generating multiple adversarial prompt mutations per iteration and using a scoring function to rank and select the most effective adversarial prompt.
no code implementations • 18 Aug 2024 • Meng Luo, Hao Fei, Bobo Li, Shengqiong Wu, Qian Liu, Soujanya Poria, Erik Cambria, Mong-Li Lee, Wynne Hsu
While existing Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) has received extensive effort and advancement, there are still gaps in defining a more holistic research target seamlessly integrating multimodality, conversation context, fine-granularity, and also covering the changing sentiment dynamics as well as cognitive causal rationales.
Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) +3
1 code implementation • 7 Aug 2024 • Prannaya Gupta, Le Qi Yau, Hao Han Low, I-Shiang Lee, Hugo Maximus Lim, Yu Xin Teoh, Jia Hng Koh, Dar Win Liew, Rishabh Bhardwaj, Rajat Bhardwaj, Soujanya Poria
WalledEval is a comprehensive AI safety testing toolkit designed to evaluate large language models (LLMs).
no code implementations • 25 Jun 2024 • Yingting Li, Ambuj Mehrish, Bryan Chew, Bo Cheng, Soujanya Poria
Different languages have distinct phonetic systems and vary in their prosodic features making it challenging to develop a Text-to-Speech (TTS) model that can effectively synthesise speech in multilingual settings.
no code implementations • 21 Jun 2024 • Chia-Yu Hung, Navonil Majumder, Ambuj Mehrish, Soujanya Poria
Empirical evidences indicates that our method outperforms other inference-time alignment methods such as Best-of-N and ARGS on two widely accepted alignment benchmarks AlpacaEval 2 and MT-Bench.
1 code implementation • 18 Jun 2024 • Zhifeng Kong, Sang-gil Lee, Deepanway Ghosal, Navonil Majumder, Ambuj Mehrish, Rafael Valle, Soujanya Poria, Bryan Catanzaro
It is an open challenge to obtain high quality training data, especially captions, for text-to-audio models.
Ranked #4 on Audio Generation on AudioCaps (FD metric)
no code implementations • 17 Jun 2024 • Vernon Toh Yan Han, Rishabh Bhardwaj, Soujanya Poria
We propose Ruby Teaming, a method that improves on Rainbow Teaming by including a memory cache as its third dimension.
1 code implementation • 17 Jun 2024 • Pala Tej Deep, Rishabh Bhardwaj, Soujanya Poria
With the proliferation of domain-specific models, model merging has emerged as a set of techniques that combine the capabilities of multiple models into one that can multitask without the cost of additional training.
1 code implementation • 17 Jun 2024 • Rima Hazra, Sayan Layek, Somnath Banerjee, Soujanya Poria
Ensuring the safe alignment of large language models (LLMs) with human values is critical as they become integral to applications like translation and question answering.
no code implementations • 8 May 2024 • Yanfei Dong, Lambert Deng, Jiazheng Zhang, Xiaodong Yu, Ting Lin, Francesco Gelli, Soujanya Poria, Wee Sun Lee
We propose KNN-former, which incorporates a new kind of spatial bias in attention calculation based on the K-nearest-neighbor (KNN) graph of document entities.
no code implementations • 7 May 2024 • Siqi Shen, Lajanugen Logeswaran, Moontae Lee, Honglak Lee, Soujanya Poria, Rada Mihalcea
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated substantial commonsense understanding through numerous benchmark evaluations.
1 code implementation • 15 Apr 2024 • Navonil Majumder, Chia-Yu Hung, Deepanway Ghosal, Wei-Ning Hsu, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria
These models do not explicitly focus on the presence of concepts or events and their temporal ordering in the output audio with respect to the input prompt.
1 code implementation • 6 Apr 2024 • Yingting Li, Rishabh Bhardwaj, Ambuj Mehrish, Bo Cheng, Soujanya Poria
In this work, we present HyperTTS, which comprises a small learnable network, "hypernetwork", that generates parameters of the Adapter blocks, allowing us to condition Adapters on speaker representations and making them dynamic.
1 code implementation • 31 Mar 2024 • Xiang Li, Fan Bu, Ambuj Mehrish, Yingting Li, Jiale Han, Bo Cheng, Soujanya Poria
The pursuit of modern models, like Diffusion Models (DMs), holds promise for achieving high-fidelity, real-time speech synthesis.
2 code implementations • 20 Mar 2024 • Yew Ken Chia, Vernon Toh Yan Han, Deepanway Ghosal, Lidong Bing, Soujanya Poria
To diagnose the reasoning challenges in large multimodal models, we progressively guide the models with our ground truth reasoning explanations for visual perception, inductive reasoning, and deductive reasoning.
2 code implementations • 6 Mar 2024 • Deepanway Ghosal, Vernon Toh Yan Han, Chia Yew Ken, Soujanya Poria
We present a new dataset, AlgoPuzzleVQA designed to challenge and evaluate the capabilities of multimodal language models in solving algorithmic puzzles that necessitate both visual understanding, language understanding, and complex algorithmic reasoning.
Ranked #1 on Multimodal Reasoning on AlgoPuzzleVQA
1 code implementation • 22 Feb 2024 • Wei Han, Hui Chen, Soujanya Poria
Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) on multi-task instruction-following data has been proven to be a powerful learning paradigm for improving their zero-shot capabilities on new tasks.
3 code implementations • 19 Feb 2024 • Rishabh Bhardwaj, Do Duc Anh, Soujanya Poria
We demonstrate the effectiveness of RESTA in both parameter-efficient and full fine-tuning, covering a wide range of downstream tasks, including instruction following in Chinese, English, and Hindi, as well as problem-solving capabilities in Code and Math.
1 code implementation • 24 Jan 2024 • Qi Sun, Kun Huang, Xiaocui Yang, Rong Tong, Kun Zhang, Soujanya Poria
In this paper, we propose a Zero-shot Document-level Relation Triplet Extraction (ZeroDocRTE) framework, which generates labeled data by retrieval and denoising knowledge from LLMs, called GenRDK.
no code implementations • 20 Jan 2024 • Xianbing Zhao, Soujanya Poria, Xuejiao Li, Yixin Chen, Buzhou Tang
Recently, CLIP-based multimodal foundational models have demonstrated impressive performance on numerous multimodal tasks by learning the aligned cross-modal semantics of image and text pairs, but the multimodal foundational models are also unable to directly address scenarios involving modality absence.
1 code implementation • 19 Jan 2024 • Rima Hazra, Sayan Layek, Somnath Banerjee, Soujanya Poria
In the rapidly advancing field of artificial intelligence, the concept of Red-Teaming or Jailbreaking large language models (LLMs) has emerged as a crucial area of study.
1 code implementation • 17 Jan 2024 • Pengfei Hong, Navonil Majumder, Deepanway Ghosal, Somak Aditya, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria
Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased striking results on existing logical reasoning benchmarks, with some models even surpassing human performance.
1 code implementation • 15 Nov 2023 • Yew Ken Chia, Guizhen Chen, Luu Anh Tuan, Soujanya Poria, Lidong Bing
Compared to the conventional chain of thought, our approach provides both valid and invalid reasoning demonstrations, to guide the model to reason step-by-step while reducing reasoning mistakes.
2 code implementations • 14 Nov 2023 • Jan Melechovsky, Zixun Guo, Deepanway Ghosal, Navonil Majumder, Dorien Herremans, Soujanya Poria
Through extensive experiments, we show that the quality of the music generated by Mustango is state-of-the-art, and the controllability through music-specific text prompts greatly outperforms other models such as MusicGen and AudioLDM2.
Ranked #1 on Text-to-Music Generation on MusicBench
1 code implementation • 2 Nov 2023 • Jaeyong Kang, Soujanya Poria, Dorien Herremans
These distinct features are then employed as guiding input to our music generation model.
1 code implementation • 31 Oct 2023 • Deepanway Ghosal, Navonil Majumder, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria
Visual question answering (VQA) is the task of answering questions about an image.
no code implementations • 30 Oct 2023 • Rishabh Bhardwaj, Tushar Vaidya, Soujanya Poria
Adapters are widely popular parameter-efficient transfer learning approaches in natural language processing that insert trainable modules in between layers of a pre-trained language model.
1 code implementation • 22 Oct 2023 • Rishabh Bhardwaj, Soujanya Poria
On open-source models such as VICUNA-7B and LLAMA-2-CHAT 7B AND 13B, it shows an attack success rate of more than 91%.
2 code implementations • 13 Oct 2023 • Xiaocui Yang, Wenfang Wu, Shi Feng, Ming Wang, Daling Wang, Yang Li, Qi Sun, Yifei Zhang, XiaoMing Fu, Soujanya Poria
Consequently, our work complements research on the performance of MLLMs in multimodal comprehension tasks, achieving a more comprehensive and holistic evaluation of MLLMs.
1 code implementation • 6 Sep 2023 • Zonglin Yang, Xinya Du, Junxian Li, Jie Zheng, Soujanya Poria, Erik Cambria
Hypothetical induction is recognized as the main reasoning type when scientists make observations about the world and try to propose hypotheses to explain those observations.
1 code implementation • 18 Aug 2023 • Rishabh Bhardwaj, Soujanya Poria
In this work, we propose a new safety evaluation benchmark RED-EVAL that carries out red-teaming.
Ranked #1 on Text Generation on HarmfulQA
2 code implementations • 9 Jul 2023 • Wei Han, Hui Chen, Min-Yen Kan, Soujanya Poria
Video question-answering is a fundamental task in the field of video understanding.
Ranked #10 on TGIF-Frame on TGIF-QA
1 code implementation • 5 Jul 2023 • Deepanway Ghosal, Yew Ken Chia, Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria
Interestingly, despite being introduced four years ago, T5-based LLMs, such as FLAN-T5, continue to outperform the latest decoder-based LLMs, such as LLAMA and VICUNA, on tasks that require general problem-solving skills.
2 code implementations • 7 Jun 2023 • Yew Ken Chia, Pengfei Hong, Lidong Bing, Soujanya Poria
Instruction-tuned large language models have revolutionized natural language processing and have shown great potential in applications such as conversational agents.
1 code implementation • 29 May 2023 • Ambuj Mehrish, Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap, Li Yingting, Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria
There are significant challenges for speaker adaptation in text-to-speech for languages that are not widely spoken or for speakers with accents or dialects that are not well-represented in the training data.
no code implementations • 23 May 2023 • Yew Ken Chia, Hui Chen, Wei Han, Guizhen Chen, Sharifah Mahani Aljunied, Soujanya Poria, Lidong Bing
Through comprehensive experiments involving multiple tasks, settings, and models, we demonstrate that CASE can serve as a general decoding strategy for complex sentiment tasks.
Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) +4
no code implementations • 22 May 2023 • Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap, Thanh-Tung Nguyen, Viktor Schlegel, Stefan Winkler, See-Kiong Ng, Soujanya Poria
In this paper, we provide an overview of the different methods for sentence representation learning, focusing mostly on deep learning models.
1 code implementation • 22 May 2023 • Xingxuan Li, Ruochen Zhao, Yew Ken Chia, Bosheng Ding, Shafiq Joty, Soujanya Poria, Lidong Bing
Specifically, CoK consists of three stages: reasoning preparation, dynamic knowledge adapting, and answer consolidation.
1 code implementation • 20 May 2023 • Yi Xuan Tan, Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria
The pre-trained speech encoder wav2vec 2. 0 performs very well on various spoken language understanding (SLU) tasks.
1 code implementation • 18 May 2023 • Qi Sun, Kun Huang, Xiaocui Yang, Pengfei Hong, Kun Zhang, Soujanya Poria
Therefore, how to select effective pseudo labels to denoise DS data is still a challenge in document-level distant relation extraction.
no code implementations • 4 May 2023 • Pengfei Hong, Rishabh Bhardwaj, Navonil Majumdar, Somak Aditya, Soujanya Poria
Our experiments empirically show that the counterfactual samples sourced from our masked text lead to improved domain transfer on 10 out of 12 domain sentiment classification settings, with an average of 2% accuracy improvement over the state-of-the-art for unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA).
no code implementations • 30 Apr 2023 • Ambuj Mehrish, Navonil Majumder, Rishabh Bhardwaj, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria
The power of deep learning techniques has opened up new avenues for research and innovation in the field of speech processing, with far-reaching implications for a range of industries and applications.
1 code implementation • 24 Apr 2023 • Deepanway Ghosal, Navonil Majumder, Ambuj Mehrish, Soujanya Poria
The immense scale of the recent large language models (LLM) allows many interesting properties, such as, instruction- and chain-of-thought-based fine-tuning, that has significantly improved zero- and few-shot performance in many natural language processing (NLP) tasks.
Ranked #5 on Audio Generation on AudioCaps
2 code implementations • 4 Apr 2023 • Zhiqiang Hu, Lei Wang, Yihuai Lan, Wanyu Xu, Ee-Peng Lim, Lidong Bing, Xing Xu, Soujanya Poria, Roy Ka-Wei Lee
The success of large language models (LLMs), like GPT-4 and ChatGPT, has led to the development of numerous cost-effective and accessible alternatives that are created by finetuning open-access LLMs with task-specific data (e. g., ChatDoctor) or instruction data (e. g., Alpaca).
1 code implementation • 2 Mar 2023 • Yingting Li, Ambuj Mehrish, Shuai Zhao, Rishabh Bhardwaj, Amir Zadeh, Navonil Majumder, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria
To mitigate this issue, parameter-efficient transfer learning algorithms, such as adapters and prefix tuning, have been proposed as a way to introduce a few trainable parameters that can be plugged into large pre-trained language models such as BERT, and HuBERT.
1 code implementation • 7 Feb 2023 • Bhavitvya Malik, Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap, Min-Yen Kan, Soujanya Poria
We even outperform unsupervised domain adaptation methods such as DANN and DSN in sentiment classification, and we are within 0. 85% F1 for natural language inference task, by fine-tuning only a fraction of the full model parameters.
1 code implementation • 18 Nov 2022 • Yew Ken Chia, Lidong Bing, Sharifah Mahani Aljunied, Luo Si, Soujanya Poria
Hence, we propose CubeRE, a cube-filling model inspired by table-filling approaches and explicitly considers the interaction between relation triplets and qualifiers.
Ranked #2 on Hyper-Relational Extraction on HyperRED
1 code implementation • 12 Nov 2022 • Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Pengfei Hong, Soujanya Poria
To tackle this problem, we propose a novel method called Multimodal Probabilistic Fusion Prompts (MultiPoint) that leverages diverse cues from different modalities for multimodal sentiment detection in the few-shot scenario.
1 code implementation • 29 Oct 2022 • Deepanway Ghosal, Navonil Majumder, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria
We show the efficacy of our proposed approach in different tasks -- abductive reasoning, commonsense question answering, science question answering, and sentence completion.
Ranked #2 on Sentence Completion on HellaSwag
1 code implementation • 23 Oct 2022 • Hui Chen, Wei Han, Soujanya Poria
Self-training methods have been explored in recent years and have exhibited great performance in improving semi-supervised learning.
1 code implementation • 23 Oct 2022 • Wei Han, Hui Chen, Min-Yen Kan, Soujanya Poria
Existing multimodal tasks mostly target at the complete input modality setting, i. e., each modality is either complete or completely missing in both training and test sets.
1 code implementation • 6 Oct 2022 • Siqi Shen, Deepanway Ghosal, Navonil Majumder, Henry Lim, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria
Our results show that the proposed pre-training objectives are effective at adapting the pre-trained T5-Large model for the contextual commonsense inference task.
Ranked #1 on Multiview Contextual Commonsense Inference on CICERO (using extra training data)
1 code implementation • 27 Sep 2022 • Hoang Thang Ta, Abu Bakar Siddiqur Rahman, Navonil Majumder, Amir Hussain, Lotfollah Najjar, Newton Howard, Soujanya Poria, Alexander Gelbukh
In this paper, we introduce WikiDes, a novel dataset to generate short descriptions of Wikipedia articles for the problem of text summarization.
1 code implementation • COLING 2022 • Hui Chen, Wei Han, Diyi Yang, Soujanya Poria
This paper proposes a simple yet effective interpolation-based data augmentation approach termed DoubleMix, to improve the robustness of models in text classification.
1 code implementation • COLING 2022 • Wei Han, Hui Chen, Zhen Hai, Soujanya Poria, Lidong Bing
With the boom of e-commerce, Multimodal Review Helpfulness Prediction (MRHP), which aims to sort product reviews according to the predicted helpfulness scores has become a research hotspot.
1 code implementation • NAACL 2022 • Devamanyu Hazarika, Yingting Li, Bo Cheng, Shuai Zhao, Roger Zimmermann, Soujanya Poria
In this work, we hope to address that by (i) Proposing simple diagnostic checks for modality robustness in a trained multimodal model.
1 code implementation • 23 May 2022 • Rishabh Bhardwaj, Amrita Saha, Steven C. H. Hoi, Soujanya Poria
VIP particularly focuses on two aspects -- contextual prompts that learns input-specific contextualization of the soft prompt tokens through a small-scale sentence encoder and quantized prompts that maps the contextualized prompts to a set of learnable codebook vectors through a Vector quantization network.
1 code implementation • ACL 2022 • Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap, Devamanyu Hazarika, Min-Yen Kan, Roger Zimmermann, Soujanya Poria
Automatic transfer of text between domains has become popular in recent times.
1 code implementation • ACL 2022 • Deepanway Ghosal, Siqi Shen, Navonil Majumder, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria
This paper addresses the problem of dialogue reasoning with contextualized commonsense inference.
Ranked #1 on Answer Generation on CICERO
2 code implementations • Findings (ACL) 2022 • Yew Ken Chia, Lidong Bing, Soujanya Poria, Luo Si
We introduce the task setting of Zero-Shot Relation Triplet Extraction (ZeroRTE) to encourage further research in low-resource relation extraction methods.
Ranked #1 on Zero-shot Relation Triplet Extraction on Wiki-ZSL
2 code implementations • COLING 2022 • Rishabh Bhardwaj, Tushar Vaidya, Soujanya Poria
We propose a new approach, Knowledge Distillation using Optimal Transport (KNOT), to distill the natural language semantic knowledge from multiple teacher networks to a student network.
Emotion Recognition in Conversation Knowledge Distillation +4
no code implementations • 10 Sep 2021 • Jiafei Duan, Samson Yu, Soujanya Poria, Bihan Wen, Cheston Tan
However, there is a lack of intuitive physics models that are tested on long physical interaction sequences with multiple interactions among different objects.
Ranked #1 on Semantic Object Interaction Classification on SPACE
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2021 • Deepanway Ghosal, Navonil Majumder, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria
Sentence order prediction is the task of finding the correct order of sentences in a randomly ordered document.
2 code implementations • EMNLP 2021 • Wei Han, Hui Chen, Soujanya Poria
In this work, we propose a framework named MultiModal InfoMax (MMIM), which hierarchically maximizes the Mutual Information (MI) in unimodal input pairs (inter-modality) and between multimodal fusion result and unimodal input in order to maintain task-related information through multimodal fusion.
Ranked #6 on Multimodal Sentiment Analysis on CMU-MOSI
1 code implementation • RANLP 2021 • Tapas Nayak, Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria
Distantly supervised models are very popular for relation extraction since we can obtain a large amount of training data using the distant supervision method without human annotation.
1 code implementation • 13 Aug 2021 • Samson Yu Bai Jian, Tapas Nayak, Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria
We first focus on sentiments expressed in a sentence, then identify the target aspect and opinion terms for that sentiment.
Ranked #7 on Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction on ASTE-Data-V2
Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction reinforcement-learning +4
1 code implementation • 3 Aug 2021 • Dushyant Singh Chauhan, Gopendra Vikram Singh, Navonil Majumder, Amir Zadeh, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Louis-Philippe Morency, Soujanya Poria
We propose several strong multimodal baselines and show the importance of contextual and multimodal information for humor recognition in conversations.
2 code implementations • 28 Jul 2021 • Wei Han, Hui Chen, Alexander Gelbukh, Amir Zadeh, Louis-Philippe Morency, Soujanya Poria
Multimodal sentiment analysis aims to extract and integrate semantic information collected from multiple modalities to recognize the expressed emotions and sentiment in multimodal data.
1 code implementation • 22 Jun 2021 • Navonil Majumder, Deepanway Ghosal, Devamanyu Hazarika, Alexander Gelbukh, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria
We empirically show that these approaches yield significant improvements in empathetic response quality in terms of both automated and human-evaluated metrics.
1 code implementation • ACL 2021 • Rishabh Bhardwaj, Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria, Eduard Hovy
In this work, we provide deeper theoretical analysis and empirical observations on the identifiability of attention weights.
1 code implementation • SIGDIAL (ACL) 2021 • Deepanway Ghosal, Pengfei Hong, Siqi Shen, Navonil Majumder, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria
Commonsense inference to understand and explain human language is a fundamental research problem in natural language processing.
no code implementations • 31 Mar 2021 • Tapas Nayak, Navonil Majumder, Pawan Goyal, Soujanya Poria
Recently, with the advances made in continuous representation of words (word embeddings) and deep neural architectures, many research works are published in the area of relation extraction and it is very difficult to keep track of so many papers.
no code implementations • 4 Jan 2021 • Fengbin Zhu, Wenqiang Lei, Chao Wang, Jianming Zheng, Soujanya Poria, Tat-Seng Chua
Open-domain Question Answering (OpenQA) is an important task in Natural Language Processing (NLP), which aims to answer a question in the form of natural language based on large-scale unstructured documents.
Machine Reading Comprehension Open-Domain Question Answering
1 code implementation • 22 Dec 2020 • Soujanya Poria, Navonil Majumder, Devamanyu Hazarika, Deepanway Ghosal, Rishabh Bhardwaj, Samson Yu Bai Jian, Pengfei Hong, Romila Ghosh, Abhinaba Roy, Niyati Chhaya, Alexander Gelbukh, Rada Mihalcea
We address the problem of recognizing emotion cause in conversations, define two novel sub-tasks of this problem, and provide a corresponding dialogue-level dataset, along with strong Transformer-based baselines.
Ranked #1 on Recognizing Emotion Cause in Conversations on RECCON
no code implementations • 11 Dec 2020 • Abhinaba Roy, Deepanway Ghosal, Erik Cambria, Navonil Majumder, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria
Zero shot learning -- the problem of training and testing on a completely disjoint set of classes -- relies greatly on its ability to transfer knowledge from train classes to test classes.
no code implementations • 19 Nov 2020 • Hui Chen, Deepanway Ghosal, Navonil Majumder, Amir Hussain, Soujanya Poria
Persuasion aims at forming one's opinion and action via a series of persuasive messages containing persuader's strategies.
1 code implementation • NAACL 2021 • Jianing Yang, Yongxin Wang, Ruitao Yi, Yuying Zhu, Azaan Rehman, Amir Zadeh, Soujanya Poria, Louis-Philippe Morency
Human communication is multimodal in nature; it is through multiple modalities such as language, voice, and facial expressions, that opinions and emotions are expressed.
no code implementations • 19 Oct 2020 • Shagun Uppal, Sarthak Bhagat, Devamanyu Hazarika, Navonil Majumdar, Soujanya Poria, Roger Zimmermann, Amir Zadeh
Deep Learning and its applications have cascaded impactful research and development with a diverse range of modalities present in the real-world data.
1 code implementation • Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020 • Deepanway Ghosal, Navonil Majumder, Alexander Gelbukh, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria
In this paper, we address the task of utterance level emotion recognition in conversations using commonsense knowledge.
Ranked #12 on Emotion Recognition in Conversation on DailyDialog
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2020 • Navonil Majumder, Pengfei Hong, Shanshan Peng, Jiankun Lu, Deepanway Ghosal, Alexander Gelbukh, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria
Current approaches to empathetic response generation view the set of emotions expressed in the input text as a flat structure, where all the emotions are treated uniformly.
2 code implementations • 29 Sep 2020 • Deepanway Ghosal, Navonil Majumder, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria
Most of these approaches account for the context for effective understanding.
no code implementations • 10 Sep 2020 • Rishabh Bhardwaj, Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria
As a result, predictions of downstream NLP models can vary noticeably by varying gender words, such as replacing "he" to "she", or even gender-neutral words.
1 code implementation • 10 Sep 2020 • Hui Chen, Pengfei Hong, Wei Han, Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria
This graph is fed to a graph attention network for context propagation among relevant nodes, which effectively captures the dialogue context.
Ranked #7 on Dialog Relation Extraction on DialogRE (F1c (v1) metric)
no code implementations • 20 May 2020 • Abhinaba Roy, Biplab Banerjee, Amir Hussain, Soujanya Poria
Specifically, we pose the selection of potent local descriptors as filtering based feature selection problem which ranks the local features per category based on a novel measure of distinctiveness.
2 code implementations • 7 May 2020 • Devamanyu Hazarika, Roger Zimmermann, Soujanya Poria
In this paper, we aim to learn effective modality representations to aid the process of fusion.
no code implementations • 3 May 2020 • Navonil Majumder, Rishabh Bhardwaj, Soujanya Poria, Amir Zadeh, Alexander Gelbukh, Amir Hussain, Louis-Philippe Morency
Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA), a popular research area in NLP has two distinct parts -- aspect extraction (AE) and labeling the aspects with sentiment polarity (ALSA).
1 code implementation • ACL 2020 • Deepanway Ghosal, Devamanyu Hazarika, Abhinaba Roy, Navonil Majumder, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria
Cross-domain sentiment analysis has received significant attention in recent years, prompted by the need to combat the domain gap between different applications that make use of sentiment analysis.
1 code implementation • 1 May 2020 • Soujanya Poria, Devamanyu Hazarika, Navonil Majumder, Rada Mihalcea
Sentiment analysis as a field has come a long way since it was first introduced as a task nearly 20 years ago.
no code implementations • 22 Nov 2019 • Amir Zadeh, Chengfeng Mao, Kelly Shi, Yiwei Zhang, Paul Pu Liang, Soujanya Poria, Louis-Philippe Morency
As machine learning leaps towards better generalization to real world, multimodal sequential learning becomes a fundamental research area.
no code implementations • 21 Nov 2019 • Amir Zadeh, Tianjun Ma, Soujanya Poria, Louis-Philippe Morency
To this end, we introduce a novel trasnformer-based model called Spectro-Temporal Transformer (STT).
1 code implementation • 11 Oct 2019 • Devamanyu Hazarika, Soujanya Poria, Roger Zimmermann, Rada Mihalcea
We propose an approach, TL-ERC, where we pre-train a hierarchical dialogue model on multi-turn conversations (source) and then transfer its parameters to a conversational emotion classifier (target).
Ranked #20 on Emotion Recognition in Conversation on DailyDialog
2 code implementations • IJCNLP 2019 • Deepanway Ghosal, Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria, Niyati Chhaya, Alexander Gelbukh
Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) has received much attention, lately, from researchers due to its potential widespread applications in diverse areas, such as health-care, education, and human resources.
Ranked #1 on Emotion Recognition in Conversation on SEMAINE
Emotion Classification Emotion Recognition in Conversation +1
no code implementations • 13 Aug 2019 • Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria, Gangeshwar Krishnamurthy, Niyati Chhaya, Rada Mihalcea, Alexander Gelbukh
Multimodal fusion is considered a key step in multimodal tasks such as sentiment analysis, emotion detection, question answering, and others.
1 code implementation • ACL 2019 • Santiago Castro, Devamanyu Hazarika, Ver{\'o}nica P{\'e}rez-Rosas, Roger Zimmermann, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria
As a first step towards enabling the development of multimodal approaches for sarcasm detection, we propose a new sarcasm dataset, Multimodal Sarcasm Detection Dataset (MUStARD), compiled from popular TV shows.
1 code implementation • 5 Jun 2019 • Santiago Castro, Devamanyu Hazarika, Verónica Pérez-Rosas, Roger Zimmermann, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria
As a first step towards enabling the development of multimodal approaches for sarcasm detection, we propose a new sarcasm dataset, Multimodal Sarcasm Detection Dataset (MUStARD), compiled from popular TV shows.
no code implementations • NAACL 2019 • Md. Shad Akhtar, Dushyant Singh Chauhan, Deepanway Ghosal, Soujanya Poria, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
In this paper, we present a deep multi-task learning framework that jointly performs sentiment and emotion analysis both.
1 code implementation • 8 May 2019 • Soujanya Poria, Navonil Majumder, Rada Mihalcea, Eduard Hovy
Emotion is intrinsic to humans and consequently emotion understanding is a key part of human-like artificial intelligence (AI).
Ranked #6 on Emotion Recognition in Conversation on EC
no code implementations • 23 Jan 2019 • Haiyun Peng, Yukun Ma, Soujanya Poria, Yang Li, Erik Cambria
Furthermore, we also fuse phonetic features with textual and visual features in order to mimic the way humans read and understand Chinese text.
no code implementations • 23 Jan 2019 • Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria, Haiyun Peng, Niyati Chhaya, Erik Cambria, Alexander Gelbukh
We argue that knowledge in sarcasm detection can also be beneficial to sentiment classification and vice versa.
2 code implementations • 1 Nov 2018 • Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria, Devamanyu Hazarika, Rada Mihalcea, Alexander Gelbukh, Erik Cambria
Emotion detection in conversations is a necessary step for a number of applications, including opinion mining over chat history, social media threads, debates, argumentation mining, understanding consumer feedback in live conversations, etc.
Ranked #3 on Emotion Recognition in Conversation on SEMAINE
Emotion Classification Emotion Recognition in Conversation +2
8 code implementations • ACL 2019 • Soujanya Poria, Devamanyu Hazarika, Navonil Majumder, Gautam Naik, Erik Cambria, Rada Mihalcea
We propose several strong multimodal baselines and show the importance of contextual and multimodal information for emotion recognition in conversations.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2018 • Deepanway Ghosal, Md. Shad Akhtar, Dushyant Chauhan, Soujanya Poria, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
We evaluate our proposed approach on two multi-modal sentiment analysis benchmark datasets, viz.
Ranked #7 on Multimodal Sentiment Analysis on MOSI
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2018 • Devamanyu Hazarika, Soujanya Poria, Rada Mihalcea, Erik Cambria, Roger Zimmermann
Emotion recognition in conversations is crucial for building empathetic machines.
Ranked #56 on Emotion Recognition in Conversation on IEMOCAP
Emotion Recognition in Conversation General Classification +2
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2018 • Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria, Alex Gelbukh, er, Md. Shad Akhtar, Erik Cambria, Asif Ekbal
Sentiment analysis has immense implications in e-commerce through user feedback mining.
no code implementations • ACL 2018 • AmirAli Bagher Zadeh, Paul Pu Liang, Soujanya Poria, Erik Cambria, Louis-Philippe Morency
Analyzing human multimodal language is an emerging area of research in NLP.
Ranked #11 on Multimodal Sentiment Analysis on CMU-MOSEI (using extra training data)
1 code implementation • NAACL 2018 • Devamanyu Hazarika, Soujanya Poria, Prateek Vij, Gangeshwar Krishnamurthy, Erik Cambria, Roger Zimmermann
Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis is a fine-grained task of sentiment classification for multiple aspects in a sentence.
Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) +4
1 code implementation • NAACL 2018 • Devamanyu Hazarika, Soujanya Poria, Amir Zadeh, Erik Cambria, Louis-Philippe Morency, Roger Zimmermann
Emotion recognition in conversations is crucial for the development of empathetic machines.
Ranked #58 on Emotion Recognition in Conversation on IEMOCAP
no code implementations • 30 May 2018 • Rhea Sukthanker, Soujanya Poria, Erik Cambria, Ramkumar Thirunavukarasu
Entity resolution aims at resolving repeated references to an entity in a document and forms a core component of natural language processing (NLP) research.
1 code implementation • COLING 2018 • Devamanyu Hazarika, Soujanya Poria, Sruthi Gorantla, Erik Cambria, Roger Zimmermann, Rada Mihalcea
The literature in automated sarcasm detection has mainly focused on lexical, syntactic and semantic-level analysis of text.
Ranked #1 on Sarcasm Detection on SARC (all-bal)
no code implementations • 19 Mar 2018 • Soujanya Poria, Navonil Majumder, Devamanyu Hazarika, Erik Cambria, Alexander Gelbukh, Amir Hussain
We compile baselines, along with dataset split, for multimodal sentiment analysis.
no code implementations • 1 Mar 2018 • Gangeshwar Krishnamurthy, Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria, Erik Cambria
Automatic deception detection is an important task that has gained momentum in computational linguistics due to its potential applications.
2 code implementations • 3 Feb 2018 • Amir Zadeh, Paul Pu Liang, Soujanya Poria, Prateek Vij, Erik Cambria, Louis-Philippe Morency
AI must understand each modality and the interactions between them that shape human communication.
Ranked #10 on Multimodal Sentiment Analysis on MOSI
2 code implementations • 3 Feb 2018 • Amir Zadeh, Paul Pu Liang, Navonil Mazumder, Soujanya Poria, Erik Cambria, Louis-Philippe Morency
In this paper, we present a new neural architecture for multi-view sequential learning called the Memory Fusion Network (MFN) that explicitly accounts for both interactions in a neural architecture and continuously models them through time.
no code implementations • 18 Oct 2017 • Iti Chaturvedi, Soujanya Poria, Erik Cambria
Subjectivity detection is the task of identifying objective and subjective sentences.
3 code implementations • 9 Aug 2017 • Tom Young, Devamanyu Hazarika, Soujanya Poria, Erik Cambria
Deep learning methods employ multiple processing layers to learn hierarchical representations of data and have produced state-of-the-art results in many domains.
no code implementations • 29 Jul 2017 • Erik Cambria, Devamanyu Hazarika, Soujanya Poria, Amir Hussain, R. B. V. Subramaanyam
We propose a framework for multimodal sentiment analysis and emotion recognition using convolutional neural network-based feature extraction from text and visual modalities.
2 code implementations • EMNLP 2017 • Amir Zadeh, Minghai Chen, Soujanya Poria, Erik Cambria, Louis-Philippe Morency
Multimodal sentiment analysis is an increasingly popular research area, which extends the conventional language-based definition of sentiment analysis to a multimodal setup where other relevant modalities accompany language.
no code implementations • 14 Jul 2017 • Rajiv Bajpai, Soujanya Poria, Danyun Ho, Erik Cambria
In this paper, we present Singlish sentiment lexicon, a concept-level knowledge base for sentiment analysis that associates multiword expressions to a set of emotion labels and a polarity value.
2 code implementations • ACL 2017 • Soujanya Poria, Erik Cambria, Devamanyu Hazarika, Navonil Majumder, Amir Zadeh, Louis-Philippe Morency
Multimodal sentiment analysis is a developing area of research, which involves the identification of sentiments in videos.
Ranked #3 on Emotion Recognition in Conversation on CPED
Emotion Recognition in Conversation General Classification +4
no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Erik Cambria, Soujanya Poria, Rajiv Bajpai, Bjoern Schuller
An important difference between traditional AI systems and human intelligence is the human ability to harness commonsense knowledge gleaned from a lifetime of learning and experience to make informed decisions.
3 code implementations • COLING 2016 • Soujanya Poria, Erik Cambria, Devamanyu Hazarika, Prateek Vij
Sarcasm detection is a key task for many natural language processing tasks.