no code implementations • Findings (EMNLP) 2021 • Lei Shu, Yassine Benajiba, Saab Mansour, Yi Zhang
In this work, we address the open-world classification problem with a method called ODIST, open world classification via distributionally shifted instances.
no code implementations • 24 Oct 2024 • Sadat Shahriar, Zheng Qi, Nikolaos Pappas, Srikanth Doss, Monica Sunkara, Kishaloy Halder, Manuel Mager, Yassine Benajiba
Aligning Large Language Models (LLM) to address subjectivity and nuanced preference levels requires adequate flexibility and control, which can be a resource-intensive and time-consuming procedure.
no code implementations • 16 Oct 2024 • Siyi Liu, Qiang Ning, Kishaloy Halder, Wei Xiao, Zheng Qi, Phu Mon Htut, Yi Zhang, Neha Anna John, Bonan Min, Yassine Benajiba, Dan Roth
Open domain question answering systems frequently rely on information retrieved from large collections of text (such as the Web) to answer questions.
no code implementations • 11 Oct 2024 • Qin Liu, Chao Shang, Ling Liu, Nikolaos Pappas, Jie Ma, Neha Anna John, Srikanth Doss, Lluis Marquez, Miguel Ballesteros, Yassine Benajiba
The safety alignment ability of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) is prone to be degraded by the integration of the vision module compared to its LLM backbone.
no code implementations • 8 Oct 2024 • Yang Li, Jie Ma, Miguel Ballesteros, Yassine Benajiba, Graham Horwood
Our approach models the dependencies across test examples, allowing accurate prediction of the evaluation outcomes for the remaining examples based on the outcomes of the selected ones.
no code implementations • 30 Apr 2024 • Robert Vacareanu, Anurag Pratik, Evangelia Spiliopoulou, Zheng Qi, Giovanni Paolini, Neha Anna John, Jie Ma, Yassine Benajiba, Miguel Ballesteros
Many of the recent capabilities demonstrated by Large Language Models (LLMs) arise primarily from their ability to exploit contextual information.
no code implementations • 10 Mar 2024 • Fei Wang, Chao Shang, Sarthak Jain, Shuai Wang, Qiang Ning, Bonan Min, Vittorio Castelli, Yassine Benajiba, Dan Roth
We investigate common constraints in NLP tasks, categorize them into three classes based on the types of their arguments, and propose a unified framework, ACT (Aligning to ConsTraints), to automatically produce supervision signals for user alignment with constraints.
no code implementations • 28 Feb 2024 • Alyssa Hwang, Kalpit Dixit, Miguel Ballesteros, Yassine Benajiba, Vittorio Castelli, Markus Dreyer, Mohit Bansal, Kathleen McKeown
We present NewsQs (news-cues), a dataset that provides question-answer pairs for multiple news documents.
1 code implementation • 26 May 2023 • Tyler A. Chang, Kishaloy Halder, Neha Anna John, Yogarshi Vyas, Yassine Benajiba, Miguel Ballesteros, Dan Roth
In this paper, we propose three dimensions of linguistic dataset drift: vocabulary, structural, and semantic drift.
1 code implementation • 26 May 2023 • Pietro Lesci, Yoshinari Fujinuma, Momchil Hardalov, Chao Shang, Yassine Benajiba, Lluis Marquez
Sequence-to-sequence state-of-the-art systems for dialogue state tracking (DST) use the full dialogue history as input, represent the current state as a list with all the slots, and generate the entire state from scratch at each dialogue turn.
no code implementations • 22 May 2023 • Karthikeyan K, Yogarshi Vyas, Jie Ma, Giovanni Paolini, Neha Anna John, Shuai Wang, Yassine Benajiba, Vittorio Castelli, Dan Roth, Miguel Ballesteros
We experiment with 6 diverse datasets and show that PLM consistently performs better than most other approaches (0. 5 - 2. 5 F1), including in novel settings for taxonomy expansion not considered in prior work.
2 code implementations • 25 Apr 2023 • James Gung, Raphael Shu, Emily Moeng, Wesley Rose, Salvatore Romeo, Yassine Benajiba, Arshit Gupta, Saab Mansour, Yi Zhang
With increasing demand for and adoption of virtual assistants, recent work has investigated ways to accelerate bot schema design through the automatic induction of intents or the induction of slots and dialogue states.
no code implementations • 21 Mar 2023 • Ming Shen, Jie Ma, Shuai Wang, Yogarshi Vyas, Kalpit Dixit, Miguel Ballesteros, Yassine Benajiba
Opinion summarization provides an important solution for summarizing opinions expressed among a large number of reviews.
no code implementations • 23 Feb 2023 • Katerina Margatina, Shuai Wang, Yogarshi Vyas, Neha Anna John, Yassine Benajiba, Miguel Ballesteros
Temporal concept drift refers to the problem of data changing over time.
1 code implementation • 12 Oct 2022 • Siddharth Varia, Shuai Wang, Kishaloy Halder, Robert Vacareanu, Miguel Ballesteros, Yassine Benajiba, Neha Anna John, Rishita Anubhai, Smaranda Muresan, Dan Roth
Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) is a fine-grained sentiment analysis task which involves four elements from user-generated texts: aspect term, aspect category, opinion term, and sentiment polarity.
Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) +3
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Mara Chinea-Rios, Marc Franco-Salvador, Yassine Benajiba
Experimental results show that Aspect On dramatically reduces the number of user clicks and effort required to post-edit the aspects extracted by the model.
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2019 • Angelo Basile, Marc Franco-Salvador, Neha Pawar, Sanja {\v{S}}tajner, Mara Chinea Rios, Yassine Benajiba
In this paper, we present our participation to the EmoContext shared task on detecting emotions in English textual conversations between a human and a chatbot.
Ranked #2 on Emotion Recognition in Conversation on EC
no code implementations • 17 Dec 2018 • Yassine Benajiba, Jin Sun, Yong Zhang, Longquan Jiang, Zhiliang Weng, Or Biran
Semantic Pattern Similarity is an interesting, though not often encountered NLP task where two sentences are compared not by their specific meaning, but by their more abstract semantic pattern (e. g., preposition or frame).
no code implementations • IJCNLP 2017 • Yassine Benajiba, Jin Sun, Yong Zhang, Zhiliang Weng, Or Biran
This paper introduces Mainiway AI Labs submitted system for the IJCNLP 2017 shared task on Dimensional Sentiment Analysis of Chinese Phrases (DSAP), and related experiments.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Yassine Benajiba, Or Biran, Zhiliang Weng, Yong Zhang, Jin Sun
Sub-character components of Chinese characters carry important semantic information, and recent studies have shown that utilizing this information can improve performance on core semantic tasks.