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most citedDifficulty Controllable Generation of Reading Comprehension Questions

16 citations · 94 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.CV2023

AutoPoster: A Highly Automatic and Content-aware Design System for Advertising Poster Generation

Jinpeng Lin, Min Zhou, Ye Ma +5

Advertising posters, a form of information presentation, combine visual and linguistic modalities. Creating a poster involves multiple steps and necessitates design experience and…

cs.CV2023★ 6 cited

TextPainter: Multimodal Text Image Generation with Visual-harmony and Text-comprehension for Poster Design

Yifan Gao, Jinpeng Lin, Min Zhou +4

Text design is one of the most critical procedures in poster design, as it relies heavily on the creativity and expertise of humans to design text images considering the visual har…

cs.CL2023

Situated Natural Language Explanations

Zining Zhu, Haoming Jiang, Jingfeng Yang +6

Natural language is among the most accessible tools for explaining decisions to humans, and large pretrained language models (PLMs) have demonstrated impressive abilities to genera…

cs.CL2023

Graph Reasoning for Question Answering with Triplet Retrieval

Shiyang Li, Yifan Gao, Haoming Jiang +5

Answering complex questions often requires reasoning over knowledge graphs (KGs). State-of-the-art methods often utilize entities in questions to retrieve local subgraphs, which ar…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

CCGen: Explainable Complementary Concept Generation in E-Commerce

Jie Huang, Yifan Gao, Zheng Li +7

We propose and study Complementary Concept Generation (CCGen): given a concept of interest, e.g., "Digital Cameras", generating a list of complementary concepts, e.g., 1) Camera Le…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

SCOTT: Self-Consistent Chain-of-Thought Distillation

Peifeng Wang, Zhengyang Wang, Zheng Li +3

Large language models (LMs) beyond a certain scale, demonstrate the emergent capability of generating free-text rationales for their predictions via chain-of-thought (CoT) promptin…

cs.AI2022★ 3 cited

The ProfessionAl Go annotation datasEt (PAGE)

Yifan Gao, Danni Zhang, Haoyue Li

The game of Go has been highly under-researched due to the lack of game records and analysis tools. In recent years, the increasing number of professional competitions and the adve…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

FolkScope: Intention Knowledge Graph Construction for E-commerce Commonsense Discovery

Changlong Yu, Weiqi Wang, Xin Liu +6

Understanding users' intentions in e-commerce platforms requires commonsense knowledge. In this paper, we present FolkScope, an intention knowledge graph construction framework to…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

Improving Task Generalization via Unified Schema Prompt

Wanjun Zhong, Yifan Gao, Ning Ding +5

Task generalization has been a long standing challenge in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Recent research attempts to improve the task generalization ability of pre-trained lang…

cs.CL2022

Retrieval-Augmented Multilingual Keyphrase Generation with Retriever-Generator Iterative Training

Yifan Gao, Qingyu Yin, Zheng Li +5

Keyphrase generation is the task of automatically predicting keyphrases given a piece of long text. Despite its recent flourishing, keyphrase generation on non-English languages ha…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

ProQA: Structural Prompt-based Pre-training for Unified Question Answering

Wanjun Zhong, Yifan Gao, Ning Ding +6

Question Answering (QA) is a longstanding challenge in natural language processing. Existing QA works mostly focus on specific question types, knowledge domains, or reasoning skill…

cs.AI2022

PGD: A Large-scale Professional Go Dataset for Data-driven Analytics

Yifan Gao

Lee Sedol is on a winning streak--does this legend rise again after the competition with AlphaGo? Ke Jie is invincible in the world championship--can he still win the title this ti…

cs.CL2021★ 13 cited

Open-Retrieval Conversational Machine Reading

Yifan Gao, Jingjing Li, Chien-Sheng Wu +2

In conversational machine reading, systems need to interpret natural language rules, answer high-level questions such as "May I qualify for VA health care benefits?", and ask follo…

cs.CL2020★ 3 cited

Answering Ambiguous Questions through Generative Evidence Fusion and Round-Trip Prediction

Yifan Gao, Henghui Zhu, Patrick Ng +7

In open-domain question answering, questions are highly likely to be ambiguous because users may not know the scope of relevant topics when formulating them. Therefore, a system ne…

cs.CL2020★ 6 cited

Discern: Discourse-Aware Entailment Reasoning Network for Conversational Machine Reading

Yifan Gao, Chien-Sheng Wu, Jingjing Li +5

Document interpretation and dialog understanding are the two major challenges for conversational machine reading. In this work, we propose Discern, a discourse-aware entailment rea…

cs.CL2020★ 2 cited

Dialogue Generation on Infrequent Sentence Functions via Structured Meta-Learning

Yifan Gao, Piji Li, Wei Bi +3

Sentence function is an important linguistic feature indicating the communicative purpose in uttering a sentence. Incorporating sentence functions into conversations has shown impr…

cs.CL2020★ 3 cited

Explicit Memory Tracker with Coarse-to-Fine Reasoning for Conversational Machine Reading

Yifan Gao, Chien-Sheng Wu, Shafiq Joty +5

The goal of conversational machine reading is to answer user questions given a knowledge base text which may require asking clarification questions. Existing approaches are limited…

cs.CL2019★ 6 cited

Improving Question Generation With to the Point Context

Jingjing Li, Yifan Gao, Lidong Bing +2

Question generation (QG) is the task of generating a question from a reference sentence and a specified answer within the sentence. A major challenge in QG is to identify answer-re…

cs.CL2019★ 10 cited

Interconnected Question Generation with Coreference Alignment and Conversation Flow Modeling

Yifan Gao, Piji Li, Irwin King +1

We study the problem of generating interconnected questions in question-answering style conversations. Compared with previous works which generate questions based on a single sente…

cs.CL2018★ 13 cited

Generating Distractors for Reading Comprehension Questions from Real Examinations

Yifan Gao, Lidong Bing, Piji Li +2

We investigate the task of distractor generation for multiple choice reading comprehension questions from examinations. In contrast to all previous works, we do not aim at preparin…

cs.CL2018★ 3 cited

Title-Guided Encoding for Keyphrase Generation

Wang Chen, Yifan Gao, Jiani Zhang +2

Keyphrase generation (KG) aims to generate a set of keyphrases given a document, which is a fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP). Most previous methods solve this…

cs.CL2018★ 16 cited

Difficulty Controllable Generation of Reading Comprehension Questions

Yifan Gao, Lidong Bing, Wang Chen +2

We investigate the difficulty levels of questions in reading comprehension datasets such as SQuAD, and propose a new question generation setting, named Difficulty-controllable Ques…

cs.CV2016

Learning Multi-level Features For Sensor-based Human Action Recognition

Yan Xu, Zhengyang Shen, Xin Zhang +5

This paper proposes a multi-level feature learning framework for human action recognition using a single body-worn inertial sensor. The framework consists of three phases, respecti…