Search Results for author: Wenqiang Lei

Found 40 papers, 17 papers with code

GCPG: A General Framework for Controllable Paraphrase Generation

no code implementations Findings (ACL) 2022 Kexin Yang, Dayiheng Liu, Wenqiang Lei, Baosong Yang, Haibo Zhang, Xue Zhao, Wenqing Yao, Boxing Chen

Under GCPG, we reconstruct commonly adopted lexical condition (i. e., Keywords) and syntactical conditions (i. e., Part-Of-Speech sequence, Constituent Tree, Masked Template and Sentential Exemplar) and study the combination of the two types.

Paraphrase Generation

Re-examining the Role of Schema Linking in Text-to-SQL

no code implementations EMNLP 2020 Wenqiang Lei, Weixin Wang, Zhixin Ma, Tian Gan, Wei Lu, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua

By providing a schema linking corpus based on the Spider text-to-SQL dataset, we systematically study the role of schema linking.

Text-To-SQL

DiVa: An Iterative Framework to Harvest More Diverse and Valid Labels from User Comments for Music

1 code implementation9 Aug 2023 Hongru Liang, Jingyao Liu, Yuanxin Xiang, Jiachen Du, Lanjun Zhou, Shushen Pan, Wenqiang Lei

Based on the observation that such missing information may already be presented in user comments, we propose to study the automated music labeling in an essential but under-explored setting, where the model is required to harvest more diverse and valid labels from the users' comments given limited gold labels.

Adaptive Vague Preference Policy Learning for Multi-round Conversational Recommendation

no code implementations7 Jun 2023 Gangyi Zhang, Chongming Gao, Wenqiang Lei, Xiaojie Guo, Shijun Li, Lingfei Wu, Hongshen Chen, Zhuozhi Ding, Sulong Xu, Xiangnan He

To address this issue, we introduce a novel scenario called Vague Preference Multi-round Conversational Recommendation (VPMCR), which considers users' vague and volatile preferences in CRS. VPMCR employs a soft estimation mechanism to assign a non-zero confidence score for all candidate items to be displayed, naturally avoiding the over-filtering problem.

Recommendation Systems

Prompting and Evaluating Large Language Models for Proactive Dialogues: Clarification, Target-guided, and Non-collaboration

no code implementations23 May 2023 Yang Deng, Wenqiang Lei, Lizi Liao, Tat-Seng Chua

Conversational systems based on Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, show exceptional proficiency in context understanding and response generation.

Descriptive Response Generation

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.

Towards Fine-Grained Information: Identifying the Type and Location of Translation Errors

no code implementations17 Feb 2023 Keqin Bao, Yu Wan, Dayiheng Liu, Baosong Yang, Wenqiang Lei, Xiangnan He, Derek F. Wong, Jun Xie

In this paper, we propose Fine-Grained Translation Error Detection (FG-TED) task, aiming at identifying both the position and the type of translation errors on given source-hypothesis sentence pairs.

Translation

FFHR: Fully and Flexible Hyperbolic Representation for Knowledge Graph Completion

no code implementations7 Feb 2023 Wentao Shi, Junkang Wu, Xuezhi Cao, Jiawei Chen, Wenqiang Lei, Wei Wu, Xiangnan He

Specifically, they suffer from two main limitations: 1) existing Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) methods in hyperbolic space rely on tangent space approximation, which would incur approximation error in representation learning, and 2) due to the lack of inner product operation definition in hyperbolic space, existing methods can only measure the plausibility of facts (links) with hyperbolic distance, which is difficult to capture complex data patterns.

Knowledge Graph Completion Representation Learning

Reconciliation of Pre-trained Models and Prototypical Neural Networks in Few-shot Named Entity Recognition

1 code implementation7 Nov 2022 Youcheng Huang, Wenqiang Lei, Jie Fu, Jiancheng Lv

Incorporating large-scale pre-trained models with the prototypical neural networks is a de-facto paradigm in few-shot named entity recognition.

named-entity-recognition Named Entity Recognition +1

Alibaba-Translate China's Submission for WMT 2022 Quality Estimation Shared Task

1 code implementation18 Oct 2022 Keqin Bao, Yu Wan, Dayiheng Liu, Baosong Yang, Wenqiang Lei, Xiangnan He, Derek F. Wong, Jun Xie

In this paper, we present our submission to the sentence-level MQM benchmark at Quality Estimation Shared Task, named UniTE (Unified Translation Evaluation).

XLM-R

ConReader: Exploring Implicit Relations in Contracts for Contract Clause Extraction

1 code implementation17 Oct 2022 Weiwen Xu, Yang Deng, Wenqiang Lei, Wenlong Zhao, Tat-Seng Chua, Wai Lam

We study automatic Contract Clause Extraction (CCE) by modeling implicit relations in legal contracts.

Implicit Relations

Draft, Command, and Edit: Controllable Text Editing in E-Commerce

no code implementations11 Aug 2022 Kexin Yang, Dayiheng Liu, Wenqiang Lei, Baosong Yang, Qian Qu, Jiancheng Lv

To address this challenge, we explore a new draft-command-edit manner in description generation, leading to the proposed new task-controllable text editing in E-commerce.

Data Augmentation

Towards Complex Document Understanding By Discrete Reasoning

no code implementations25 Jul 2022 Fengbin Zhu, Wenqiang Lei, Fuli Feng, Chao Wang, Haozhou Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua

Document Visual Question Answering (VQA) aims to understand visually-rich documents to answer questions in natural language, which is an emerging research topic for both Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision.

Question Answering Visual Question Answering

RDU: A Region-based Approach to Form-style Document Understanding

no code implementations14 Jun 2022 Fengbin Zhu, Chao Wang, Wenqiang Lei, Ziyang Liu, Tat Seng Chua

Key Information Extraction (KIE) is aimed at extracting structured information (e. g. key-value pairs) from form-style documents (e. g. invoices), which makes an important step towards intelligent document understanding.

Key Information Extraction object-detection +4

Tailor: A Prompt-Based Approach to Attribute-Based Controlled Text Generation

no code implementations28 Apr 2022 Kexin Yang, Dayiheng Liu, Wenqiang Lei, Baosong Yang, Mingfeng Xue, Boxing Chen, Jun Xie

We experimentally find that these prompts can be simply concatenated as a whole to multi-attribute CTG without any re-training, yet raises problems of fluency decrease and position sensitivity.

Text Generation

Interacting with Non-Cooperative User: A New Paradigm for Proactive Dialogue Policy

no code implementations7 Apr 2022 Wenqiang Lei, Yao Zhang, Feifan Song, Hongru Liang, Jiaxin Mao, Jiancheng Lv, Zhenglu Yang, Tat-Seng Chua

To this end, we contribute to advance the study of the proactive dialogue policy to a more natural and challenging setting, i. e., interacting dynamically with users.

CIRS: Bursting Filter Bubbles by Counterfactual Interactive Recommender System

1 code implementation4 Apr 2022 Chongming Gao, Shiqi Wang, Shijun Li, Jiawei Chen, Xiangnan He, Wenqiang Lei, Biao Li, Yuan Zhang, Peng Jiang

The basic idea is to first learn a causal user model on historical data to capture the overexposure effect of items on user satisfaction.

Causal Inference Offline RL +1

KuaiRec: A Fully-observed Dataset and Insights for Evaluating Recommender Systems

3 code implementations22 Feb 2022 Chongming Gao, Shijun Li, Wenqiang Lei, Jiawei Chen, Biao Li, Peng Jiang, Xiangnan He, Jiaxin Mao, Tat-Seng Chua

The progress of recommender systems is hampered mainly by evaluation as it requires real-time interactions between humans and systems, which is too laborious and expensive.

Recommendation Systems User Simulation

A Dual Prompt Learning Framework for Few-Shot Dialogue State Tracking

no code implementations15 Jan 2022 Yuting Yang, Wenqiang Lei, Pei Huang, Juan Cao, Jintao Li, Tat-Seng Chua

In this paper, we focus on how to utilize the language understanding and generation ability of pre-trained language models for DST.

Dialogue State Tracking Language Modelling

DisenKGAT: Knowledge Graph Embedding with Disentangled Graph Attention Network

2 code implementations22 Aug 2021 Junkang Wu, Wentao Shi, Xuezhi Cao, Jiawei Chen, Wenqiang Lei, Fuzheng Zhang, Wei Wu, Xiangnan He

Knowledge graph completion (KGC) has become a focus of attention across deep learning community owing to its excellent contribution to numerous downstream tasks.

Disentanglement Graph Attention +1

POS-Constrained Parallel Decoding for Non-autoregressive Generation

1 code implementation ACL 2021 Kexin Yang, Wenqiang Lei, Dayiheng Liu, Weizhen Qi, Jiancheng Lv

However, in this work, we experimentally reveal that this assumption does not always hold for the text generation tasks like text summarization and story ending generation.

Knowledge Distillation POS +2

TAT-QA: A Question Answering Benchmark on a Hybrid of Tabular and Textual Content in Finance

1 code implementation ACL 2021 Fengbin Zhu, Wenqiang Lei, Youcheng Huang, Chao Wang, Shuo Zhang, Jiancheng Lv, Fuli Feng, Tat-Seng Chua

In this work, we extract samples from real financial reports to build a new large-scale QA dataset containing both Tabular And Textual data, named TAT-QA, where numerical reasoning is usually required to infer the answer, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, counting, comparison/sorting, and the compositions.

Question Answering

Retrieving and Reading: A Comprehensive Survey on Open-domain Question Answering

no code implementations4 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

Generalized Relation Learning with Semantic Correlation Awareness for Link Prediction

no code implementations22 Dec 2020 Yao Zhang, Xu Zhang, Jun Wang, Hongru Liang, Wenqiang Lei, Zhe Sun, Adam Jatowt, Zhenglu Yang

The current methods for the link prediction taskhavetwonaturalproblems:1)the relation distributions in KGs are usually unbalanced, and 2) there are many unseen relations that occur in practical situations.

Knowledge Graphs Link Prediction

GMH: A General Multi-hop Reasoning Model for KG Completion

no code implementations EMNLP 2021 Yao Zhang, Hongru Liang, Adam Jatowt, Wenqiang Lei, Xin Wei, Ning Jiang, Zhenglu Yang

To the best of our knowledge, there lacks a general framework that approaches multi-hop reasoning in mixed long-short distance reasoning scenarios.

Knowledge Graphs

Interactive Path Reasoning on Graph for Conversational Recommendation

no code implementations1 Jul 2020 Wenqiang Lei, Gangyi Zhang, Xiangnan He, Yisong Miao, Xiang Wang, Liang Chen, Tat-Seng Chua

Traditional recommendation systems estimate user preference on items from past interaction history, thus suffering from the limitations of obtaining fine-grained and dynamic user preference.

Recommendation Systems

Rethinking Dialogue State Tracking with Reasoning

no code implementations27 May 2020 Lizi Liao, Yunshan Ma, Wenqiang Lei, Tat-Seng Chua

Tracking dialogue states to better interpret user goals and feed downstream policy learning is a bottleneck in dialogue management.

Dialogue Management Dialogue State Tracking +1

Seamlessly Unifying Attributes and Items: Conversational Recommendation for Cold-Start Users

1 code implementation23 May 2020 Shijun Li, Wenqiang Lei, Qingyun Wu, Xiangnan He, Peng Jiang, Tat-Seng Chua

In this work, we consider the conversational recommendation for cold-start users, where a system can both ask the attributes from and recommend items to a user interactively.

Collaborative Filtering Thompson Sampling

Estimation-Action-Reflection: Towards Deep Interaction Between Conversational and Recommender Systems

no code implementations21 Feb 2020 Wenqiang Lei, Xiangnan He, Yisong Miao, Qingyun Wu, Richang Hong, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua

Recommender systems are embracing conversational technologies to obtain user preferences dynamically, and to overcome inherent limitations of their static models.

Recommendation Systems

Recent Advances in Neural Question Generation

no code implementations22 May 2019 Liangming Pan, Wenqiang Lei, Tat-Seng Chua, Min-Yen Kan

Emerging research in Neural Question Generation (NQG) has started to integrate a larger variety of inputs, and generating questions requiring higher levels of cognition.

Question Generation Question-Generation

Explicit State Tracking with Semi-Supervision for Neural Dialogue Generation

2 code implementations31 Aug 2018 Xisen Jin, Wenqiang Lei, Zhaochun Ren, Hongshen Chen, Shangsong Liang, Yihong Zhao, Dawei Yin

However, the \emph{expensive nature of state labeling} and the \emph{weak interpretability} make the dialogue state tracking a challenging problem for both task-oriented and non-task-oriented dialogue generation: For generating responses in task-oriented dialogues, state tracking is usually learned from manually annotated corpora, where the human annotation is expensive for training; for generating responses in non-task-oriented dialogues, most of existing work neglects the explicit state tracking due to the unlimited number of dialogue states.

Dialogue Generation Dialogue State Tracking

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