b'Zhou Yu'

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∙ 07/31/2022

Using Chatbots to Teach Languages

This paper reports on progress towards building an online language learn...

Yu Li, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/22/2022

GODEL: Large-Scale Pre-Training for Goal-Directed Dialog

We introduce GODEL (Grounded Open Dialogue Language Model), a large pre-...

Baolin Peng, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/25/2022

Learning a Better Initialization for Soft Prompts via Meta-Learning

Prompt tuning (PT) is an effective approach to adapting pre-trained lang...

Yukun Huang, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/15/2022

Just Fine-tune Twice: Selective Differential Privacy for Large Language Models

With the increasing adoption of NLP models in real-world products, it be...

Weiyan Shi, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/26/2022

Fantastic Questions and Where to Find Them: FairytaleQA – An Authentic Dataset for Narrative Comprehension

Question answering (QA) is a fundamental means to facilitate assessment ...

Ying Xu, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/24/2022

Towards Efficient and Elastic Visual Question Answering with Doubly Slimmable Transformer

Transformer-based approaches have shown great success in visual question...

Zhou Yu, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/18/2022

Report from the NSF Future Directions Workshop on Automatic Evaluation of Dialog: Research Directions and Challenges

This is a report on the NSF Future Directions Workshop on Automatic Eval...

Shikib Mehri, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/15/2022

FastKASSIM: A Fast Tree Kernel-Based Syntactic Similarity Metric

Syntax is a fundamental component of language, yet few metrics have been...

Maximillian Chen, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/15/2022

Seamlessly Integrating Factual Information and Social Content with Persuasive Dialogue

Effective human-chatbot conversations need to achieve both coherence and...

Maximillian Chen, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/01/2022

Unsupervised Vision-and-Language Pre-training via Retrieval-based Multi-Granular Alignment

Vision-and-Language (V+L) pre-training models have achieved tremendous s...

Mingyang Zhou, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/10/2022

Random Forests Weighted Local Fréchet Regression with Theoretical Guarantee

Statistical analysis is increasingly confronted with complex data from g...

Rui Qiu, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/24/2021

Optimal Model Averaging of Support Vector Machines in Diverging Model Spaces

Support vector machine (SVM) is a powerful classification method that ha...

Chaoxia Yuan, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/15/2021

Insta-VAX: A Multimodal Benchmark for Anti-Vaccine and Misinformation Posts Detection on Social Media

Sharing of anti-vaccine posts on social media, including misinformation ...

Mingyang Zhou, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/15/2021

ErAConD : Error Annotated Conversational Dialog Dataset for Grammatical Error Correction

Currently available grammatical error correction (GEC) datasets are comp...

Xun Yuan, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/15/2021

Database Search Results Disambiguation for Task-Oriented Dialog Systems

As task-oriented dialog systems are becoming increasingly popular in our...

Kun Qian, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/15/2021

DG2: Data Augmentation Through Document Grounded Dialogue Generation

Collecting data for training dialog systems can be extremely expensive d...

Qingyang Wu, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/15/2021

AllWOZ: Towards Multilingual Task-Oriented Dialog Systems for All

A commonly observed problem of the state-of-the-art natural language tec...

Lei Zuo, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/15/2021

Improving Conversational Recommendation Systems' Quality with Context-Aware Item Meta Information

Conversational recommendation systems (CRS) engage with users by inferri...

Bowen Yang, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/15/2021

Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation with a Unified Knowledge Representation

Knowledge-grounded dialogue systems are challenging to build due to the ...

Yu Li, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/23/2021

A Global Two-stage Algorithm for Non-convex Penalized High-dimensional Linear Regression Problems

By the asymptotic oracle property, non-convex penalties represented by m...

Peili Li, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/25/2021

IconQA: A New Benchmark for Abstract Diagram Understanding and Visual Language Reasoning

Current visual question answering (VQA) tasks mainly consider answering ...

Pan Lu, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/15/2021

Learning with Noisy Labels by Targeted Relabeling

Crowdsourcing platforms are often used to collect datasets for training ...

Derek Chen, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/14/2021

Understanding the Evolution of Blockchain Ecosystems: A Longitudinal Measurement Study of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and EOSIO

The continuing expansion of the blockchain ecosystems has attracted much...

Ningyu He, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/10/2021

Zero-Shot Dialogue State Tracking via Cross-Task Transfer

Zero-shot transfer learning for dialogue state tracking (DST) enables us...

Zhaojiang Lin, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/07/2021

GOLD: Improving Out-of-Scope Detection in Dialogues using Data Augmentation

Practical dialogue systems require robust methods of detecting out-of-sc...

Derek Chen, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/01/2021

Demystifying Scam Tokens on Uniswap Decentralized Exchange

The prosperity of the cryptocurrency ecosystem drives the needs for digi...

Pengcheng Xia, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/30/2021

Selective Differential Privacy for Language Modeling

With the increasing adoption of language models in applications involvin...

Weiyan Shi, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/16/2021

ROSITA: Enhancing Vision-and-Language Semantic Alignments via Cross- and Intra-modal Knowledge Integration

Vision-and-language pretraining (VLP) aims to learn generic multimodal r...

Yuhao Cui, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/22/2021

Evaluation of In-Person Counseling Strategies To Develop Physical Activity Chatbot for Women

Artificial intelligence chatbots are the vanguard in technology-based in...

Kai-Hui Liang, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/04/2021

The R-U-A-Robot Dataset: Helping Avoid Chatbot Deception by Detecting User Questions About Human or Non-Human Identity

Humans are increasingly interacting with machines through language, some...

David Gros, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/03/2021

Discovering Chatbot's Self-Disclosure's Impact on User Trust, Affinity, and Recommendation Effectiveness

In recent years, chatbots have been empowered to engage in social conver...

Kai-Hui Liang, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/02/2021

Towards Emotional Support Dialog Systems

Emotional support is a crucial ability for many conversation scenarios, ...

Siyang Liu, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/01/2021

HERALD: An Annotation Efficient Method to Detect User Disengagement in Social Conversations

Open-domain dialog systems have a user-centric goal: to provide humans w...

Weixin Liang, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/29/2021

Annotation Inconsistency and Entity Bias in MultiWOZ

MultiWOZ is one of the most popular multi-domain task-oriented dialog da...

Kun Qian, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/10/2021

Leveraging Slot Descriptions for Zero-Shot Cross-Domain Dialogue State Tracking

Zero-shot cross-domain dialogue state tracking (DST) enables us to handl...

Zhaojiang Lin, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/05/2021

LEGOEval: An Open-Source Toolkit for Dialogue System Evaluation via Crowdsourcing

We present LEGOEval, an open-source toolkit that enables researchers to ...

Yu Li, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/18/2021

Revealing Persona Biases in Dialogue Systems

Dialogue systems in the form of chatbots and personal assistants are bei...

Emily Sheng, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/12/2021

Ethereum Name Service: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

DNS has always been criticized for its inherent design flaws, making the...

Pengcheng Xia, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/06/2021

A Student-Teacher Architecture for Dialog Domain Adaptation under the Meta-Learning Setting

Numerous new dialog domains are being created every day while collecting...

Kun Qian, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/01/2021

Action-Based Conversations Dataset: A Corpus for Building More In-Depth Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems

Existing goal-oriented dialogue datasets focus mainly on identifying slo...

Derek Chen, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/01/2021

UC2: Universal Cross-lingual Cross-modal Vision-and-Language Pre-training

Vision-and-language pre-training has achieved impressive success in lear...

Mingyang Zhou, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/20/2021

Attribute Alignment: Controlling Text Generation from Pre-trained Language Models

Large language models benefit from training with a large amount of unlab...

Dian Yu, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/12/2021

Towards Socially Intelligent Agents with Mental State Transition and Human Utility

Building a socially intelligent agent involves many challenges, one of w...

Liang Qiu, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/04/2021

ChainCQG: Flow-Aware Conversational Question Generation

Conversational systems enable numerous valuable applications, and questi...

Jing Gu, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/31/2020

Continual Learning in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems

Continual learning in task-oriented dialogue systems can allow us to add...

Andrea Madotto, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/31/2020

Refine and Imitate: Reducing Repetition and Inconsistency in Persuasion Dialogues via Reinforcement Learning and Human Demonstration

Despite the recent success of large-scale language models on various dow...

Weiyan Shi, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/17/2020

Gunrock 2.0: A User Adaptive Social Conversational System

Gunrock 2.0 is built on top of Gunrock with an emphasis on user adaptati...

Kaihui Liang, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/14/2020

Memformer: The Memory-Augmented Transformer

Transformer models have obtained remarkable accomplishments in various N...

Qingyang Wu, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/03/2020

Code to Comment "Translation": Data, Metrics, Baselining Evaluation

The relationship of comments to code, and in particular, the task of gen...

David Gros, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/22/2020

ALICE: Active Learning with Contrastive Natural Language Explanations

Training a supervised neural network classifier typically requires many ...

Weixin Liang, et al. ∙

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