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BiSECT: Learning to Split and Rephrase Sentences with Bitexts
Joongwon Kim, Mounica Maddela, Reno Kriz +2
An important task in NLP applications such as sentence simplification is the ability to take a long, complex sentence and split it into shorter sentences, rephrasing as necessary.…
Pre-train or Annotate? Domain Adaptation with a Constrained Budget
Fan Bai, Alan Ritter, Wei Xu
Recent work has demonstrated that pre-training in-domain language models can boost performance when adapting to a new domain. However, the costs associated with pre-training raise…
Pre-training for Ad-hoc Retrieval: Hyperlink is Also You Need
Zhengyi Ma, Zhicheng Dou, Wei Xu +4
Designing pre-training objectives that more closely resemble the downstream tasks for pre-trained language models can lead to better performance at the fine-tuning stage, especiall…
Neural semi-Markov CRF for Monolingual Word Alignment
Wuwei Lan, Chao Jiang, Wei Xu
Monolingual word alignment is important for studying fine-grained editing operations (i.e., deletion, addition, and substitution) in text-to-text generation tasks, such as paraphra…