Search Results for author: Zhisong Zhang

Found 27 papers, 18 papers with code

Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition with Context-aware Character-enhanced Embeddings

no code implementations COLING 2016 Lianhui Qin, Zhisong Zhang, Hai Zhao

For the task of implicit discourse relation recognition, traditional models utilizing manual features can suffer from data sparsity problem.

Machine Translation Question Answering +2

Adversarial Connective-exploiting Networks for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification

no code implementations ACL 2017 Lianhui Qin, Zhisong Zhang, Hai Zhao, Zhiting Hu, Eric P. Xing

Implicit discourse relation classification is of great challenge due to the lack of connectives as strong linguistic cues, which motivates the use of annotated implicit connectives to improve the recognition.

Classification General Classification +3

Fast and Accurate Neural Word Segmentation for Chinese

1 code implementation ACL 2017 Deng Cai, Hai Zhao, Zhisong Zhang, Yuan Xin, Yongjian Wu, Feiyue Huang

Neural models with minimal feature engineering have achieved competitive performance against traditional methods for the task of Chinese word segmentation.

Chinese Word Segmentation Feature Engineering +1

A Transition-based System for Universal Dependency Parsing

no code implementations CONLL 2017 Hao Wang, Hai Zhao, Zhisong Zhang

This paper describes the system for our participation in the CoNLL 2017 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies.

Transfer Learning Transition-Based Dependency Parsing

Exploring Recombination for Efficient Decoding of Neural Machine Translation

1 code implementation EMNLP 2018 Zhisong Zhang, Rui Wang, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, Hai Zhao

In Neural Machine Translation (NMT), the decoder can capture the features of the entire prediction history with neural connections and representations.

Machine Translation NMT +1

Choosing Transfer Languages for Cross-Lingual Learning

1 code implementation ACL 2019 Yu-Hsiang Lin, Chian-Yu Chen, Jean Lee, Zirui Li, Yuyan Zhang, Mengzhou Xia, Shruti Rijhwani, Junxian He, Zhisong Zhang, Xuezhe Ma, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Patrick Littell, Graham Neubig

Cross-lingual transfer, where a high-resource transfer language is used to improve the accuracy of a low-resource task language, is now an invaluable tool for improving performance of natural language processing (NLP) on low-resource languages.

Cross-Lingual Transfer

An Empirical Investigation of Structured Output Modeling for Graph-based Neural Dependency Parsing

1 code implementation ACL 2019 Zhisong Zhang, Xuezhe Ma, Eduard Hovy

In this paper, we investigate the aspect of structured output modeling for the state-of-the-art graph-based neural dependency parser (Dozat and Manning, 2017).

Dependency Parsing Sentence

SOURCE: SOURce-Conditional Elmo-style Model for Machine Translation Quality Estimation

no code implementations WS 2019 Junpei Zhou, Zhisong Zhang, Zecong Hu

In WMT-2019 QE task, our system ranked in the second place on En-De NMT dataset and the third place on En-Ru NMT dataset.

Machine Translation NMT +2

Cross-lingual Dependency Parsing with Unlabeled Auxiliary Languages

1 code implementation CONLL 2019 Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Zhisong Zhang, Xuezhe Ma, Kai-Wei Chang, Nanyun Peng

We conduct experiments on cross-lingual dependency parsing where we train a dependency parser on a source language and transfer it to a wide range of target languages.

Cross-Lingual Transfer Dependency Parsing +2

A Two-Step Approach for Implicit Event Argument Detection

no code implementations ACL 2020 Zhisong Zhang, Xiang Kong, Zhengzhong Liu, Xuezhe Ma, Eduard Hovy

It remains a challenge to detect implicit arguments, calling for more future work of document-level modeling for this task.

Sentence Vocal Bursts Valence Prediction

Incorporating a Local Translation Mechanism into Non-autoregressive Translation

1 code implementation EMNLP 2020 Xiang Kong, Zhisong Zhang, Eduard Hovy

In this work, we introduce a novel local autoregressive translation (LAT) mechanism into non-autoregressive translation (NAT) models so as to capture local dependencies among tar-get outputs.

Machine Translation Position +2

Towards More Efficient Insertion Transformer with Fractional Positional Encoding

1 code implementation12 Dec 2021 Zhisong Zhang, Yizhe Zhang, Bill Dolan

Nevertheless, due to the incompatibility between absolute positional encoding and insertion-based generation schemes, it needs to refresh the encoding of every token in the generated partial hypothesis at each step, which could be costly.

Text Generation

A Survey of Active Learning for Natural Language Processing

1 code implementation18 Oct 2022 Zhisong Zhang, Emma Strubell, Eduard Hovy

In this work, we provide a survey of active learning (AL) for its applications in natural language processing (NLP).

Active Learning Structured Prediction

Data-efficient Active Learning for Structured Prediction with Partial Annotation and Self-Training

1 code implementation22 May 2023 Zhisong Zhang, Emma Strubell, Eduard Hovy

To address this challenge, we adopt an error estimator to adaptively decide the partial selection ratio according to the current model's capability.

Active Learning Structured Prediction

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

Self-playing Adversarial Language Game Enhances LLM Reasoning

1 code implementation16 Apr 2024 Pengyu Cheng, Tianhao Hu, Han Xu, Zhisong Zhang, Yong Dai, Lei Han, Nan Du

Hence, we are curious about whether LLMs' reasoning ability can be further enhanced by Self-Play in this Adversarial language Game (SPAG).

On the Benefit of Syntactic Supervision for Cross-lingual Transfer in Semantic Role Labeling

1 code implementation EMNLP 2021 Zhisong Zhang, Emma Strubell, Eduard Hovy

Although recent developments in neural architectures and pre-trained representations have greatly increased state-of-the-art model performance on fully-supervised semantic role labeling (SRL), the task remains challenging for languages where supervised SRL training data are not abundant.

Cross-Lingual Transfer Semantic Role Labeling

Comparing Span Extraction Methods for Semantic Role Labeling

1 code implementation ACL (spnlp) 2021 Zhisong Zhang, Emma Strubell, Eduard Hovy

In this work, we empirically compare span extraction methods for the task of semantic role labeling (SRL).

Semantic Role Labeling

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