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20192022
most citedAsking Questions the Human Way: Scalable Question-Answer Generation from Text Corpus

46 citations · 136 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.IR2022

Learning What You Need from What You Did: Product Taxonomy Expansion with User Behaviors Supervision

Sijie Cheng, Zhouhong Gu, Bang Liu +3

Taxonomies have been widely used in various domains to underpin numerous applications. Specially, product taxonomies serve an essential role in the e-commerce domain for the recomm…

cs.SE2022★ 2 cited

Better Modeling the Programming World with Code Concept Graphs-augmented Multi-modal Learning

Martin Weyssow, Houari Sahraoui, Bang Liu

The progress made in code modeling has been tremendous in recent years thanks to the design of natural language processing learning approaches based on state-of-the-art model archi…

cs.CL2022

Grow-and-Clip: Informative-yet-Concise Evidence Distillation for Answer Explanation

Yuyan Chen, Yanghua Xiao, Bang Liu

Interpreting the predictions of existing Question Answering (QA) models is critical to many real-world intelligent applications, such as QA systems for healthcare, education, and f…

cs.CL2021

Tell Me How to Survey: Literature Review Made Simple with Automatic Reading Path Generation

Jiayuan Ding, Tong Xiang, Zijing Ou +5

Recent years have witnessed the dramatic growth of paper volumes with plenty of new research papers published every day, especially in the area of computer science. How to glean pa…

cs.IR2021

Refining BERT Embeddings for Document Hashing via Mutual Information Maximization

Zijing Ou, Qinliang Su, Jianxing Yu +3

Existing unsupervised document hashing methods are mostly established on generative models. Due to the difficulties of capturing long dependency structures, these methods rarely mo…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Semantic and Syntactic Enhanced Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction

Zhexue Chen, Hong Huang, Bang Liu +2

Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction (ASTE) aims to extract triplets from sentences, where each triplet includes an entity, its associated sentiment, and the opinion span explaining…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Encoder-Decoder Neural Architecture Optimization for Keyword Spotting

Tong Mo, Bang Liu

Keyword spotting aims to identify specific keyword audio utterances. In recent years, deep convolutional neural networks have been widely utilized in keyword spotting systems. Howe…

cs.CL2021★ 6 cited

Attend and select: A segment selective transformer for microblog hashtag generation

Qianren Mao, Xi Li, Bang Liu +4

Hashtag generation aims to generate short and informal topical tags from a microblog post, in which tokens or phrases form the hashtags. These tokens or phrases may originate from…

cs.IR2021★ 3 cited

Integrating Semantics and Neighborhood Information with Graph-Driven Generative Models for Document Retrieval

Zijing Ou, Qinliang Su, Jianxing Yu +5

With the need of fast retrieval speed and small memory footprint, document hashing has been playing a crucial role in large-scale information retrieval. To generate high-quality ha…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Guiding the Growth: Difficulty-Controllable Question Generation through Step-by-Step Rewriting

Yi Cheng, Siyao Li, Bang Liu +4

This paper explores the task of Difficulty-Controllable Question Generation (DCQG), which aims at generating questions with required difficulty levels. Previous research on this ta…

cs.CL2021

Noised Consistency Training for Text Summarization

Junnan Liu, Qianren Mao, Bang Liu +3

Neural abstractive summarization methods often require large quantities of labeled training data. However, labeling large amounts of summarization data is often prohibitive due to…

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

Imperfect also Deserves Reward: Multi-Level and Sequential Reward Modeling for Better Dialog Management

Zhengxu Hou, Bang Liu, Ruihui Zhao +4

For task-oriented dialog systems, training a Reinforcement Learning (RL) based Dialog Management module suffers from low sample efficiency and slow convergence speed due to the spa…

cs.CL2021★ 21 cited

Enquire One's Parent and Child Before Decision: Fully Exploit Hierarchical Structure for Self-Supervised Taxonomy Expansion

Suyuchen Wang, Ruihui Zhao, Xi Chen +2

Taxonomy is a hierarchically structured knowledge graph that plays a crucial role in machine intelligence. The taxonomy expansion task aims to find a position for a new term in an…

cs.AI2020★ 18 cited

QBSUM: a Large-Scale Query-Based Document Summarization Dataset from Real-world Applications

Mingjun Zhao, Shengli Yan, Bang Liu +6

Query-based document summarization aims to extract or generate a summary of a document which directly answers or is relevant to the search query. It is an important technique that…

cs.CL2020★ 9 cited

GIANT: Scalable Creation of a Web-scale Ontology

Bang Liu, Weidong Guo, Di Niu +4

Understanding what online users may pay attention to is key to content recommendation and search services. These services will benefit from a highly structured and web-scale ontolo…

cs.CL2020★ 46 cited

Asking Questions the Human Way: Scalable Question-Answer Generation from Text Corpus

Bang Liu, Haojie Wei, Di Niu +2

The ability to ask questions is important in both human and machine intelligence. Learning to ask questions helps knowledge acquisition, improves question-answering and machine rea…

cs.IR2019★ 26 cited

A User-Centered Concept Mining System for Query and Document Understanding at Tencent

Bang Liu, Weidong Guo, Di Niu +5

Concepts embody the knowledge of the world and facilitate the cognitive processes of human beings. Mining concepts from web documents and constructing the corresponding taxonomy ar…