Search Results for author: Wai Lam

Found 118 papers, 60 papers with code

Abstractive Multi-Document Summarization via Phrase Selection and Merging

no code implementations IJCNLP 2015 Lidong Bing, Piji Li, Yi Liao, Wai Lam, Weiwei Guo, Rebecca J. Passonneau

We propose an abstraction-based multi-document summarization framework that can construct new sentences by exploring more fine-grained syntactic units than sentences, namely, noun/verb phrases.

Document Summarization Multi-Document Summarization +1

Jointly Learning Word Embeddings and Latent Topics

no code implementations21 Jun 2017 Bei Shi, Wai Lam, Shoaib Jameel, Steven Schockaert, Kwun Ping Lai

Word embedding models such as Skip-gram learn a vector-space representation for each word, based on the local word collocation patterns that are observed in a text corpus.

Learning Word Embeddings Topic Models

Neural Rating Regression with Abstractive Tips Generation for Recommendation

no code implementations1 Aug 2017 Piji Li, ZiHao Wang, Zhaochun Ren, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam

In essence, writing some tips and giving a numerical rating are two facets of a user's product assessment action, expressing the user experience and feelings.

regression Sentence

Deep Recurrent Generative Decoder for Abstractive Text Summarization

1 code implementation EMNLP 2017 Piji Li, Wai Lam, Lidong Bing, ZiHao Wang

We propose a new framework for abstractive text summarization based on a sequence-to-sequence oriented encoder-decoder model equipped with a deep recurrent generative decoder (DRGN).

Abstractive Text Summarization Variational Inference

Actor-Critic based Training Framework for Abstractive Summarization

no code implementations28 Mar 2018 Piji Li, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam

For the critic, we combine the maximum likelihood estimator with a well designed global summary quality estimator which is a neural network based binary classifier aiming to make the generated summaries indistinguishable from the human-written ones.

Abstractive Text Summarization

Aspect Term Extraction with History Attention and Selective Transformation

1 code implementation2 May 2018 Xin Li, Lidong Bing, Piji Li, Wai Lam, Zhimou Yang

Aspect Term Extraction (ATE), a key sub-task in Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis, aims to extract explicit aspect expressions from online user reviews.

Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) +2

Transformation Networks for Target-Oriented Sentiment Classification

2 code implementations ACL 2018 Xin Li, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam, Bei Shi

Between the two layers, we propose a component to generate target-specific representations of words in the sentence, meanwhile incorporate a mechanism for preserving the original contextual information from the RNN layer.

Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) Classification +3

Learning Domain-Sensitive and Sentiment-Aware Word Embeddings

no code implementations ACL 2018 Bei Shi, Zihao Fu, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam

Given reviews from different domains, some existing methods for word embeddings exploit sentiment information, but they cannot produce domain-sensitive embeddings.

Data Augmentation General Classification +4

Responding E-commerce Product Questions via Exploiting QA Collections and Reviews

no code implementations COLING 2018 Qian Yu, Wai Lam, ZiHao Wang

Providing instant responses for product questions in E-commerce sites can significantly improve satisfaction of potential consumers.

Learning-To-Rank Sentence

Skeleton-to-Response: Dialogue Generation Guided by Retrieval Memory

1 code implementation NAACL 2019 Deng Cai, Yan Wang, Victoria Bi, Zhaopeng Tu, Xiaojiang Liu, Wai Lam, Shuming Shi

Such models rely on insufficient information for generating a specific response since a certain query could be answered in multiple ways.

Dialogue Generation Information Retrieval +3

QuaSE: Sequence Editing under Quantifiable Guidance

1 code implementation EMNLP 2018 Yi Liao, Lidong Bing, Piji Li, Shuming Shi, Wai Lam, Tong Zhang

For example, an input sequence could be a word sequence, such as review sentence and advertisement text.

Disentanglement Sentence +1

Persona-Aware Tips Generation

no code implementations6 Mar 2019 Piji Li, ZiHao Wang, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam

In order to exploit the persona information, we propose a framework based on adversarial variational auto-encoders (aVAE) for persona modeling from the historical tips and reviews of users and items.

Core Semantic First: A Top-down Approach for AMR Parsing

1 code implementation IJCNLP 2019 Deng Cai, Wai Lam

The output graph spans the nodes by the distance to the root, following the intuition of first grasping the main ideas then digging into more details.

AMR Parsing Sentence

Tackling Long-Tailed Relations and Uncommon Entities in Knowledge Graph Completion

no code implementations IJCNLP 2019 Zihao Wang, Kwun Ping Lai, Piji Li, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam

Therefore, we propose a meta-learning framework that aims at handling infrequent relations with few-shot learning and uncommon entities by using textual descriptions.

Few-Shot Learning

Review-based Question Generation with Adaptive Instance Transfer and Augmentation

no code implementations ACL 2020 Qian Yu, Lidong Bing, Qiong Zhang, Wai Lam, Luo Si

We propose an iterative learning framework for handling this challenge via adaptive transfer and augmentation of the training instances with the help of the available user-posed question-answer data.

Question Generation Question-Generation

Graph Transformer for Graph-to-Sequence Learning

1 code implementation18 Nov 2019 Deng Cai, Wai Lam

The dominant graph-to-sequence transduction models employ graph neural networks for graph representation learning, where the structural information is reflected by the receptive field of neurons.

AMR-to-Text Generation Graph Representation Learning +4

Relevance-Promoting Language Model for Short-Text Conversation

no code implementations26 Nov 2019 Xin Li, Piji Li, Wei Bi, Xiaojiang Liu, Wai Lam

In this paper, we propose to formulate the STC task as a language modeling problem and tailor-make a training strategy to adapt a language model for response generation.

Language Modelling Response Generation +1

Review-guided Helpful Answer Identification in E-commerce

1 code implementation13 Mar 2020 Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Lam, Yang Deng, Jing Ma

In this paper, we propose the Review-guided Answer Helpfulness Prediction (RAHP) model that not only considers the interactions between QA pairs but also investigates the opinion coherence between the answer and crowds' opinions reflected in the reviews, which is another important factor to identify helpful answers.

Answer Selection Community Question Answering

Salience Estimation with Multi-Attention Learning for Abstractive Text Summarization

no code implementations7 Apr 2020 Piji Li, Lidong Bing, Zhongyu Wei, Wai Lam

Different from neural machine translation, in the task of text summarization, salience estimation for words, phrases or sentences is a critical component, since the output summary is a distillation of the input text.

Abstractive Text Summarization Machine Translation +1

AMR Parsing via Graph-Sequence Iterative Inference

3 code implementations ACL 2020 Deng Cai, Wai Lam

We propose a new end-to-end model that treats AMR parsing as a series of dual decisions on the input sequence and the incrementally constructed graph.

AMR Parsing Language Modelling

Context-aware Helpfulness Prediction for Online Product Reviews

no code implementations27 Apr 2020 Iyiola E. Olatunji, Xin Li, Wai Lam

In this paper, we propose a neural deep learning model that predicts the helpfulness score of a review.

Answer Ranking for Product-Related Questions via Multiple Semantic Relations Modeling

no code implementations28 Jun 2020 Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, Wai Lam

In this paper, we investigate the answer ranking problem for product-related questions, with the relevant reviews treated as auxiliary information that can be exploited for facilitating the ranking.

Natural Language Inference Question Answering

CoreGen: Contextualized Code Representation Learning for Commit Message Generation

1 code implementation14 Jul 2020 Lun Yiu Nie, Cuiyun Gao, Zhicong Zhong, Wai Lam, Yang Liu, Zenglin Xu

In this paper, we propose a novel Contextualized code representation learning strategy for commit message Generation (CoreGen).

Representation Learning Text Generation

Opinion-aware Answer Generation for Review-driven Question Answering in E-Commerce

1 code implementation27 Aug 2020 Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Lam

There are two main challenges when exploiting the opinion information from the reviews to facilitate the opinion-aware answer generation: (i) jointly modeling opinionated and interrelated information between the question and reviews to capture important information for answer generation, (ii) aggregating diverse opinion information to uncover the common opinion towards the given question.

Answer Generation Opinion Mining +1

Enhancing Dialogue Generation via Multi-Level Contrastive Learning

no code implementations19 Sep 2020 Xin Li, Piji Li, Yan Wang, Xiaojiang Liu, Wai Lam

Most of the existing works for dialogue generation are data-driven models trained directly on corpora crawled from websites.

Contrastive Learning Dialogue Generation +1

Multi-hop Inference for Question-driven Summarization

1 code implementation EMNLP 2020 Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Lam

Question-driven summarization has been recently studied as an effective approach to summarizing the source document to produce concise but informative answers for non-factoid questions.

Abstractive Text Summarization

Unsupervised Cross-lingual Adaptation for Sequence Tagging and Beyond

no code implementations23 Oct 2020 Xin Li, Lidong Bing, Wenxuan Zhang, Zheng Li, Wai Lam

Cross-lingual adaptation with multilingual pre-trained language models (mPTLMs) mainly consists of two lines of works: zero-shot approach and translation-based approach, which have been studied extensively on the sequence-level tasks.

Cross-Lingual Transfer Translation

Dynamic Topic Tracker for KB-to-Text Generation

no code implementations COLING 2020 Zihao Fu, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam, Shoaib Jameel

Recently, many KB-to-text generation tasks have been proposed to bridge the gap between knowledge bases and natural language by directly converting a group of knowledge base triples into human-readable sentences.

Sentence Text Generation

Answering Product-related Questions with Heterogeneous Information

no code implementations Asian Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020 Wenxuan Zhang, Qian Yu, Wai Lam

Providing instant response for product-related questions in E-commerce question answering platforms can greatly improve users{'} online shopping experience.

Attribute Question Answering

Narrative Incoherence Detection

no code implementations21 Dec 2020 Deng Cai, Yizhe Zhang, Yichen Huang, Wai Lam, Bill Dolan

We propose the task of narrative incoherence detection as a new arena for inter-sentential semantic understanding: Given a multi-sentence narrative, decide whether there exist any semantic discrepancies in the narrative flow.

Sentence Sentence Embedding

A Theoretical Analysis of the Repetition Problem in Text Generation

1 code implementation29 Dec 2020 Zihao Fu, Wai Lam, Anthony Man-Cho So, Bei Shi

The experimental results show that our theoretical framework is applicable in general generation models and our proposed rebalanced encoding approach alleviates the repetition problem significantly.

Text Generation

Contextualized Knowledge-aware Attentive Neural Network: Enhancing Answer Selection with Knowledge

no code implementations12 Apr 2021 Yang Deng, Yuexiang Xie, Yaliang Li, Min Yang, Wai Lam, Ying Shen

Answer selection, which is involved in many natural language processing applications such as dialog systems and question answering (QA), is an important yet challenging task in practice, since conventional methods typically suffer from the issues of ignoring diverse real-world background knowledge.

Answer Selection Representation Learning +1

Unified Conversational Recommendation Policy Learning via Graph-based Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations20 May 2021 Yang Deng, Yaliang Li, Fei Sun, Bolin Ding, Wai Lam

However, existing methods mainly target at solving one or two of these three decision-making problems in CRS with separated conversation and recommendation components, which restrict the scalability and generality of CRS and fall short of preserving a stable training procedure.

Attribute Decision Making +3

Dynamic Semantic Graph Construction and Reasoning for Explainable Multi-hop Science Question Answering

1 code implementation Findings (ACL) 2021 Weiwen Xu, Huihui Zhang, Deng Cai, Wai Lam

Our framework contains three new ideas: (a) {\tt AMR-SG}, an AMR-based Semantic Graph, constructed by candidate fact AMRs to uncover any hop relations among question, answer and multiple facts.

graph construction Knowledge Graphs +4

Conversational Fashion Image Retrieval via Multiturn Natural Language Feedback

1 code implementation8 Jun 2021 Yifei Yuan, Wai Lam

We study the task of conversational fashion image retrieval via multiturn natural language feedback.

Attribute Image Retrieval +1

Learning to Rank Question Answer Pairs with Bilateral Contrastive Data Augmentation

no code implementations WNUT (ACL) 2021 Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Lam

In this work, we propose a novel and easy-to-apply data augmentation strategy, namely Bilateral Generation (BiG), with a contrastive training objective for improving the performance of ranking question answer pairs with existing labeled data.

Answer Generation Data Augmentation +3

Sentence Structure and Word Relationship Modeling for Emphasis Selection

1 code implementation RANLP 2021 Haoran Yang, Wai Lam

In this paper, we propose a new framework that considers sentence structure via a sentence structure graph and word relationship via a word similarity graph.

Sentence Word Similarity

Contrastive Representation Learning for Exemplar-Guided Paraphrase Generation

1 code implementation Findings (EMNLP) 2021 Haoran Yang, Wai Lam, Piji Li

Exemplar-Guided Paraphrase Generation (EGPG) aims to generate a target sentence which conforms to the style of the given exemplar while encapsulating the content information of the source sentence.

Contrastive Learning Paraphrase Generation +4

Exploiting Reasoning Chains for Multi-hop Science Question Answering

1 code implementation Findings (EMNLP) 2021 Weiwen Xu, Yang Deng, Huihui Zhang, Deng Cai, Wai Lam

We propose a novel Chain Guided Retriever-reader ({\tt CGR}) framework to model the reasoning chain for multi-hop Science Question Answering.

Science Question Answering

Multilingual AMR Parsing with Noisy Knowledge Distillation

1 code implementation Findings (EMNLP) 2021 Deng Cai, Xin Li, Jackie Chun-Sing Ho, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam

We study multilingual AMR parsing from the perspective of knowledge distillation, where the aim is to learn and improve a multilingual AMR parser by using an existing English parser as its teacher.

AMR Parsing Knowledge Distillation

Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction as Paraphrase Generation

1 code implementation EMNLP 2021 Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, Xin Li, Yifei Yuan, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam

Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) has been extensively studied in recent years, which typically involves four fundamental sentiment elements, including the aspect category, aspect term, opinion term, and sentiment polarity.

Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) +2

Sentiment Analysis of Fashion Related Posts in Social Media

no code implementations15 Nov 2021 Yifei Yuan, Wai Lam

One characteristic of our model is that it extracts fashion attributes and integrates them with the image vision information for effective representation.

Attribute Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

Partner Personas Generation for Diverse Dialogue Generation

no code implementations27 Nov 2021 Hongyuan Lu, Wai Lam, Hong Cheng, Helen M. Meng

We incorporate reinforcement learning with a dedicatedly designed critic network for reward judgement.

Dialogue Generation Response Generation

Towards Personalized Answer Generation in E-Commerce via Multi-Perspective Preference Modeling

1 code implementation27 Dec 2021 Yang Deng, Yaliang Li, Wenxuan Zhang, Bolin Ding, Wai Lam

Recently, Product Question Answering (PQA) on E-Commerce platforms has attracted increasing attention as it can act as an intelligent online shopping assistant and improve the customer shopping experience.

Answer Generation Question Answering

User Satisfaction Estimation with Sequential Dialogue Act Modeling in Goal-oriented Conversational Systems

1 code implementation7 Feb 2022 Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Lam, Hong Cheng, Helen Meng

In this paper, we propose a novel framework, namely USDA, to incorporate the sequential dynamics of dialogue acts for predicting user satisfaction, by jointly learning User Satisfaction Estimation and Dialogue Act Recognition tasks.

Improving Lexical Embeddings for Robust Question Answering

no code implementations28 Feb 2022 Weiwen Xu, Bowei Zou, Wai Lam, Ai Ti Aw

Recent techniques in Question Answering (QA) have gained remarkable performance improvement with some QA models even surpassed human performance.

Question Answering

A Survey on Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: Tasks, Methods, and Challenges

1 code implementation2 Mar 2022 Wenxuan Zhang, Xin Li, Yang Deng, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam

More specifically, we provide a new taxonomy for ABSA which organizes existing studies from the axes of concerned sentiment elements, with an emphasis on recent advances of compound ABSA tasks.

Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA)

Parameter-Efficient Tuning by Manipulating Hidden States of Pretrained Language Models For Classification Tasks

no code implementations10 Apr 2022 Haoran Yang, Piji Li, Wai Lam

Continuous prompt tuning which prepends a few trainable vectors to the embeddings of input is one of these methods and has drawn much attention due to its effectiveness and efficiency.

UniGDD: A Unified Generative Framework for Goal-Oriented Document-Grounded Dialogue

1 code implementation ACL 2022 Chang Gao, Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Lam

The goal-oriented document-grounded dialogue aims at responding to the user query based on the dialogue context and supporting document.

Multi-Task Learning Response Generation +1

PCC: Paraphrasing with Bottom-k Sampling and Cyclic Learning for Curriculum Data Augmentation

1 code implementation17 Aug 2022 Hongyuan Lu, Wai Lam

This paper presents \textbf{PCC}: \textbf{P}araphrasing with Bottom-k Sampling and \textbf{C}yclic Learning for \textbf{C}urriculum Data Augmentation, a novel CDA framework via paraphrasing, which exploits the textual paraphrase similarity as the curriculum difficulty measure.

Data Augmentation Dialogue Generation +3

Informative Text Generation from Knowledge Triples

no code implementations26 Sep 2022 Zihao Fu, Yijiang River Dong, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam

As the development of the encoder-decoder architecture, researchers are able to study the text generation tasks with broader types of data.

Text Generation

Revamping Multilingual Agreement Bidirectionally via Switched Back-translation for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation

no code implementations28 Sep 2022 Hongyuan Lu, Haoyang Huang, Shuming Ma, Dongdong Zhang, Furu Wei, Wai Lam

Despite the fact that multilingual agreement (MA) has shown its importance for multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT), current methodologies in the field have two shortages: (i) require parallel data between multiple language pairs, which is not always realistic and (ii) optimize the agreement in an ambiguous direction, which hampers the translation performance.

Document Level Machine Translation Document Translation +2

PeerDA: Data Augmentation via Modeling Peer Relation for Span Identification Tasks

1 code implementation17 Oct 2022 Weiwen Xu, Xin Li, Yang Deng, Wai Lam, Lidong Bing

Specifically, a novel Peer Data Augmentation (PeerDA) approach is proposed which employs span pairs with the PR relation as the augmentation data for training.

Data Augmentation Relation

Retrofitting Multilingual Sentence Embeddings with Abstract Meaning Representation

1 code implementation18 Oct 2022 Deng Cai, Xin Li, Jackie Chun-Sing Ho, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam

Unlike most prior work that only evaluates the ability to measure semantic similarity, we present a thorough evaluation of existing multilingual sentence embeddings and our improved versions, which include a collection of five transfer tasks in different downstream applications.

Semantic Similarity Semantic Textual Similarity +2

McQueen: a Benchmark for Multimodal Conversational Query Rewrite

1 code implementation23 Oct 2022 Yifei Yuan, Chen Shi, Runze Wang, Liyi Chen, Feijun Jiang, Yuan You, Wai Lam

In this paper, we propose the task of multimodal conversational query rewrite (McQR), which performs query rewrite under the multimodal visual conversation setting.

Towards Generalizable and Robust Text-to-SQL Parsing

1 code implementation23 Oct 2022 Chang Gao, Bowen Li, Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Lam, Binhua Li, Fei Huang, Luo Si, Yongbin Li

Text-to-SQL parsing tackles the problem of mapping natural language questions to executable SQL queries.

SQL Parsing Text-To-SQL

From Cloze to Comprehension: Retrofitting Pre-trained Masked Language Model to Pre-trained Machine Reader

1 code implementation9 Dec 2022 Weiwen Xu, Xin Li, Wenxuan Zhang, Meng Zhou, Wai Lam, Luo Si, Lidong Bing

We present Pre-trained Machine Reader (PMR), a novel method for retrofitting pre-trained masked language models (MLMs) to pre-trained machine reading comprehension (MRC) models without acquiring labeled data.

Classification Extractive Question-Answering +6

Advancing Multilingual Pre-training: TRIP Triangular Document-level Pre-training for Multilingual Language Models

no code implementations15 Dec 2022 Hongyuan Lu, Haoyang Huang, Shuming Ma, Dongdong Zhang, Wai Lam, Furu Wei

Despite the success of multilingual sequence-to-sequence pre-training, most existing approaches rely on document-level monolingual corpora in many different languages, sentence-level bilingual corpora,\footnote{In this paper, we use `bilingual corpora' to denote parallel corpora with `bilingual translation pairs' in many different language pairs, each consisting of two sentences/documents with the same meaning written in different languages.

Abstractive Text Summarization Cross-Lingual Abstractive Summarization +4

Product Question Answering in E-Commerce: A Survey

no code implementations16 Feb 2023 Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Qian Yu, Wai Lam

Product question answering (PQA), aiming to automatically provide instant responses to customer's questions in E-Commerce platforms, has drawn increasing attention in recent years.

Question Answering

A Survey on Proactive Dialogue Systems: Problems, Methods, and Prospects

no code implementations4 May 2023 Yang Deng, Wenqiang Lei, Wai Lam, Tat-Seng Chua

Proactive dialogue systems, related to a wide range of real-world conversational applications, equip the conversational agent with the capability of leading the conversation direction towards achieving pre-defined targets or fulfilling certain goals from the system side.

Chain-of-Dictionary Prompting Elicits Translation in Large Language Models

no code implementations11 May 2023 Hongyuan Lu, Haoyang Huang, Dongdong Zhang, Haoran Yang, Wai Lam, Furu Wei

Large language models (LLMs) have shown surprisingly good performance in multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) even when trained without parallel data.

In-Context Learning Machine Translation +1

Progressive Translation: Improving Domain Robustness of Neural Machine Translation with Intermediate Sequences

1 code implementation16 May 2023 Chaojun Wang, Yang Liu, Wai Lam

Furthermore, we introduce a full-permutation multi-task learning to alleviate the spurious causal relations from intermediate sequences to the target, which results from exposure bias.

Inductive Bias Machine Translation +3

Easy-to-Hard Learning for Information Extraction

1 code implementation16 May 2023 Chang Gao, Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Lam, Lidong Bing

Information extraction (IE) systems aim to automatically extract structured information, such as named entities, relations between entities, and events, from unstructured texts.

Knowledge-enhanced Mixed-initiative Dialogue System for Emotional Support Conversations

1 code implementation17 May 2023 Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Yifei Yuan, Wai Lam

Unlike empathetic dialogues, the system in emotional support conversations (ESC) is expected to not only convey empathy for comforting the help-seeker, but also proactively assist in exploring and addressing their problems during the conversation.

Chain-of-Symbol Prompting Elicits Planning in Large Langauge Models

1 code implementation17 May 2023 Hanxu Hu, Hongyuan Lu, Huajian Zhang, Yun-Ze Song, Wai Lam, Yue Zhang

To this end, we propose a novel method called CoS (Chain-of-Symbol Prompting) that represents the complex environments with condensed symbolic spatial representations during the chained intermediate thinking steps.

A Frustratingly Simple Decoding Method for Neural Text Generation

1 code implementation22 May 2023 Haoran Yang, Deng Cai, Huayang Li, Wei Bi, Wai Lam, Shuming Shi

We introduce a frustratingly simple, super efficient and surprisingly effective decoding method, which we call Frustratingly Simple Decoding (FSD), for neural text generation.

Language Modelling Text Generation

mPMR: A Multilingual Pre-trained Machine Reader at Scale

1 code implementation23 May 2023 Weiwen Xu, Xin Li, Wai Lam, Lidong Bing

mPMR aims to guide multilingual pre-trained language models (mPLMs) to perform natural language understanding (NLU) including both sequence classification and span extraction in multiple languages.

Classification Machine Reading Comprehension +3

Enhancing Grammatical Error Correction Systems with Explanations

1 code implementation25 May 2023 Yuejiao Fei, Leyang Cui, Sen yang, Wai Lam, Zhenzhong Lan, Shuming Shi

Grammatical error correction systems improve written communication by detecting and correcting language mistakes.

Grammatical Error Correction

Distributional Inclusion Hypothesis and Quantifications: Probing for Hypernymy in Functional Distributional Semantics

no code implementations15 Sep 2023 Chun Hei Lo, Wai Lam, Hong Cheng, Guy Emerson

Functional Distributional Semantics (FDS) models the meaning of words by truth-conditional functions.

Social Media Fashion Knowledge Extraction as Captioning

no code implementations28 Sep 2023 Yifei Yuan, Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, Wai Lam

Existing work on fashion knowledge extraction in social media is classification-based and requires to manually determine a set of fashion knowledge categories in advance.

Sentence

JsonTuning: Towards Generalizable, Robust, and Controllable Instruction Tuning

1 code implementation4 Oct 2023 Chang Gao, Wenxuan Zhang, Guizhen Chen, Wai Lam

Instruction tuning has emerged as a crucial process for harnessing the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by providing explicit task instructions, leading to improved performance in various tasks.

DepWiGNN: A Depth-wise Graph Neural Network for Multi-hop Spatial Reasoning in Text

1 code implementation19 Oct 2023 Shuaiyi Li, Yang Deng, Wai Lam

Specifically, we design a novel node memory scheme and aggregate the information over the depth dimension instead of the breadth dimension of the graph, which empowers the ability to collect long dependencies without stacking multiple layers.

Once Upon a $\textit{Time}$ in $\textit{Graph}$: Relative-Time Pretraining for Complex Temporal Reasoning

1 code implementation23 Oct 2023 Sen yang, Xin Li, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam

However, the knowledge-time association is usually insufficient for the downstream tasks that require reasoning over temporal dependencies between knowledge.

Question Answering

Plug-and-Play Policy Planner for Large Language Model Powered Dialogue Agents

1 code implementation1 Nov 2023 Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Lam, See-Kiong Ng, Tat-Seng Chua

Proactive dialogues serve as a practical yet challenging dialogue problem in the era of large language models (LLMs), where the dialogue policy planning is the key to improving the proactivity of LLMs.

Language Modelling Large Language Model

StrategyLLM: Large Language Models as Strategy Generators, Executors, Optimizers, and Evaluators for Problem Solving

no code implementations15 Nov 2023 Chang Gao, Haiyun Jiang, Deng Cai, Shuming Shi, Wai Lam

Most existing chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting methods suffer from the issues of generalizability and consistency, as they often rely on instance-specific solutions that may not be applicable to other cases and lack task-level consistency in their reasoning steps.

Math

Neuro-Symbolic Integration Brings Causal and Reliable Reasoning Proofs

1 code implementation16 Nov 2023 Sen yang, Xin Li, Leyang Cui, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam

Though prompting LLMs with various reasoning structures produces reasoning proofs along with answers, these proofs are not ensured to be causal and reliable due to the inherent defects of LLMs.

GSM8K

Reasons to Reject? Aligning Language Models with Judgments

1 code implementation22 Dec 2023 Weiwen Xu, Deng Cai, Zhisong Zhang, Wai Lam, Shuming Shi

As humans, we consistently engage in interactions with our peers and receive feedback in the form of natural language.

A Thorough Examination of Decoding Methods in the Era of LLMs

no code implementations10 Feb 2024 Chufan Shi, Haoran Yang, Deng Cai, Zhisong Zhang, Yifan Wang, Yujiu Yang, Wai Lam

Decoding methods play an indispensable role in converting language models from next-token predictors into practical task solvers.

Quantization

Asking Multimodal Clarifying Questions in Mixed-Initiative Conversational Search

no code implementations12 Feb 2024 Yifei Yuan, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Maarten de Rijke, Wai Lam

Therefore, we propose to add images to clarifying questions and formulate the novel task of asking multimodal clarifying questions in open-domain, mixed-initiative conversational search systems.

4k Conversational Search

Consecutive Model Editing with Batch alongside HooK Layers

no code implementations8 Mar 2024 Shuaiyi Li, Yang Deng, Deng Cai, Hongyuan Lu, Liang Chen, Wai Lam

As the typical retraining paradigm is unacceptably time- and resource-consuming, researchers are turning to model editing in order to seek an effective, consecutive, and batch-supportive way to edit the model behavior directly.

Model Editing

Exploring Safety Generalization Challenges of Large Language Models via Code

no code implementations12 Mar 2024 Qibing Ren, Chang Gao, Jing Shao, Junchi Yan, Xin Tan, Yu Qiao, Wai Lam, Lizhuang Ma

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has brought about remarkable generative capabilities but also raised concerns about their potential misuse.

Code Completion

Unveiling the Generalization Power of Fine-Tuned Large Language Models

1 code implementation14 Mar 2024 Haoran Yang, Yumeng Zhang, Jiaqi Xu, Hongyuan Lu, Pheng Ann Heng, Wai Lam

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional multitasking abilities, fine-tuning these models on downstream, domain-specific datasets is often necessary to yield superior performance on test sets compared to their counterparts without fine-tuning.

In-Context Learning

VisualWebBench: How Far Have Multimodal LLMs Evolved in Web Page Understanding and Grounding?

no code implementations9 Apr 2024 Junpeng Liu, YiFan Song, Bill Yuchen Lin, Wai Lam, Graham Neubig, Yuanzhi Li, Xiang Yue

Multimodal Large Language models (MLLMs) have shown promise in web-related tasks, but evaluating their performance in the web domain remains a challenge due to the lack of comprehensive benchmarks.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Semantic Composition with PSHRG for Derivation Tree Reconstruction from Graph-Based Meaning Representations

1 code implementation ACL 2022 Chun Hei Lo, Wai Lam, Hong Cheng

We introduce a data-driven approach to generating derivation trees from meaning representation graphs with probabilistic synchronous hyperedge replacement grammar (PSHRG).

Semantic Composition

Towards Domain-Generalizable Paraphrase Identification by Avoiding the Shortcut Learning

no code implementations RANLP 2021 Xin Shen, Wai Lam

Our method forces the network to learn the necessary features for all the words in the input, which alleviates the shortcut learning problem.

Domain Generalization Paraphrase Identification

On Controlling Fallback Responses for Grounded Dialogue Generation

no code implementations Findings (ACL) 2022 Hongyuan Lu, Wai Lam, Hong Cheng, Helen Meng

We propose a novel framework that automatically generates a control token with the generator to bias the succeeding response towards informativeness for answerable contexts and fallback for unanswerable contexts in an end-to-end manner.

Dialogue Generation Informativeness

Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis in Question Answering Forums

1 code implementation Findings (EMNLP) 2021 Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, Xin Li, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam

This motivates us to investigate the task of ABSA on QA forums (ABSA-QA), aiming to jointly detect the discussed aspects and their sentiment polarities for a given QA pair.

Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) +2

AnswerFact: Fact Checking in Product Question Answering

no code implementations EMNLP 2020 Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, Jing Ma, Wai Lam

Product-related question answering platforms nowadays are widely employed in many E-commerce sites, providing a convenient way for potential customers to address their concerns during online shopping.

Fact Checking Misinformation +1

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