1 code implementation • 15 Mar 2023 • Rahul Goel, Waleed Ammar, Aditya Gupta, Siddharth Vashishtha, Motoki Sano, Faiz Surani, Max Chang, HyunJeong Choe, David Greene, Kyle He, Rattima Nitisaroj, Anna Trukhina, Shachi Paul, Pararth Shah, Rushin Shah, Zhou Yu
Research interest in task-oriented dialogs has increased as systems such as Google Assistant, Alexa and Siri have become ubiquitous in everyday life.
1 code implementation • ACL 2020 • Lucy Lu Wang, Oyvind Tafjord, Arman Cohan, Sarthak Jain, Sam Skjonsberg, Carissa Schoenick, Nick Botner, Waleed Ammar
We fine-tune the contextualized word representations of the RoBERTa language model using labeled DDI data, and apply the fine-tuned model to identify supplement interactions.
1 code implementation • NAACL 2019 • Arman Cohan, Waleed Ammar, Madeleine van Zuylen, Field Cady
Identifying the intent of a citation in scientific papers (e. g., background information, use of methods, comparing results) is critical for machine reading of individual publications and automated analysis of the scientific literature.
Ranked #2 on
Sentence Classification
on SciCite
1 code implementation • WS 2019 • Mark Neumann, Daniel King, Iz Beltagy, Waleed Ammar
Despite recent advances in natural language processing, many statistical models for processing text perform extremely poorly under domain shift.
1 code implementation • NAACL 2019 • Iz Beltagy, Kyle Lo, Waleed Ammar
In relation extraction with distant supervision, noisy labels make it difficult to train quality models.
1 code implementation • WS 2018 • Lucy Lu Wang, Chandra Bhagavatula, Mark Neumann, Kyle Lo, Chris Wilhelm, Waleed Ammar
Ontology alignment is the task of identifying semantically equivalent entities from two given ontologies.
no code implementations • NAACL 2018 • Waleed Ammar, Dirk Groeneveld, Chandra Bhagavatula, Iz Beltagy, Miles Crawford, Doug Downey, Jason Dunkelberger, Ahmed Elgohary, Sergey Feldman, Vu Ha, Rodney Kinney, Sebastian Kohlmeier, Kyle Lo, Tyler Murray, Hsu-Han Ooi, Matthew Peters, Joanna Power, Sam Skjonsberg, Lucy Lu Wang, Chris Wilhelm, Zheng Yuan, Madeleine van Zuylen, Oren Etzioni
We describe a deployed scalable system for organizing published scientific literature into a heterogeneous graph to facilitate algorithmic manipulation and discovery.
1 code implementation • NAACL 2018 • Dongyeop Kang, Waleed Ammar, Bhavana Dalvi, Madeleine van Zuylen, Sebastian Kohlmeier, Eduard Hovy, Roy Schwartz
In the first task, we show that simple models can predict whether a paper is accepted with up to 21% error reduction compared to the majority baseline.
1 code implementation • 6 Apr 2018 • Noah Siegel, Nicholas Lourie, Russell Power, Waleed Ammar
Non-textual components such as charts, diagrams and tables provide key information in many scientific documents, but the lack of large labeled datasets has impeded the development of data-driven methods for scientific figure extraction.
1 code implementation • NAACL 2018 • Chandra Bhagavatula, Sergey Feldman, Russell Power, Waleed Ammar
We present a content-based method for recommending citations in an academic paper draft.
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2017 • Waleed Ammar, Matthew Peters, Ch Bhagavatula, ra, Russell Power
This paper describes our submission for the ScienceIE shared task (SemEval- 2017 Task 10) on entity and relation extraction from scientific papers.
1 code implementation • ACL 2017 • Pradeep Dasigi, Waleed Ammar, Chris Dyer, Eduard Hovy
Type-level word embeddings use the same set of parameters to represent all instances of a word regardless of its context, ignoring the inherent lexical ambiguity in language.
1 code implementation • ACL 2017 • Matthew E. Peters, Waleed Ammar, Chandra Bhagavatula, Russell Power
Pre-trained word embeddings learned from unlabeled text have become a standard component of neural network architectures for NLP tasks.
Ranked #4 on
Named Entity Recognition
on CoNLL 2003 (English)
4 code implementations • 15 Jan 2017 • Graham Neubig, Chris Dyer, Yoav Goldberg, Austin Matthews, Waleed Ammar, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Miguel Ballesteros, David Chiang, Daniel Clothiaux, Trevor Cohn, Kevin Duh, Manaal Faruqui, Cynthia Gan, Dan Garrette, Yangfeng Ji, Lingpeng Kong, Adhiguna Kuncoro, Gaurav Kumar, Chaitanya Malaviya, Paul Michel, Yusuke Oda, Matthew Richardson, Naomi Saphra, Swabha Swayamdipta, Pengcheng Yin
In the static declaration strategy that is used in toolkits like Theano, CNTK, and TensorFlow, the user first defines a computation graph (a symbolic representation of the computation), and then examples are fed into an engine that executes this computation and computes its derivatives.
1 code implementation • 5 Feb 2016 • Waleed Ammar, George Mulcaire, Yulia Tsvetkov, Guillaume Lample, Chris Dyer, Noah A. Smith
We introduce new methods for estimating and evaluating embeddings of words in more than fifty languages in a single shared embedding space.
1 code implementation • TACL 2016 • Waleed Ammar, George Mulcaire, Miguel Ballesteros, Chris Dyer, Noah A. Smith
We train one multilingual model for dependency parsing and use it to parse sentences in several languages.
no code implementations • HLT 2015 • Chu-Cheng Lin, Waleed Ammar, Chris Dyer, Lori Levin
Unsupervised word embeddings have been shown to be valuable as features in supervised learning problems; however, their role in unsupervised problems has been less thoroughly explored.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2014 • Waleed Ammar, Chris Dyer, Noah A. Smith
We introduce a framework for unsupervised learning of structured predictors with overlapping, global features.