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20152023
most citedInferring Interpersonal Relations in Narrative Summaries

30 citations · 59 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.CL2023★ 17 cited

Benchmarking LLM powered Chatbots: Methods and Metrics

Debarag Banerjee, Pooja Singh, Arjun Avadhanam +1

Autonomous conversational agents, i.e. chatbots, are becoming an increasingly common mechanism for enterprises to provide support to customers and partners. In order to rate chatbo…

cs.CL2023

MaNtLE: Model-agnostic Natural Language Explainer

Rakesh R. Menon, Kerem Zaman, Shashank Srivastava

Understanding the internal reasoning behind the predictions of machine learning systems is increasingly vital, given their rising adoption and acceptance. While previous approaches…

cs.CL2022

LaSQuE: Improved Zero-Shot Classification from Explanations Through Quantifier Modeling and Curriculum Learning

Sayan Ghosh, Rakesh R Menon, Shashank Srivastava

A hallmark of human intelligence is the ability to learn new concepts purely from language. Several recent approaches have explored training machine learning models via natural lan…

cs.CL2022

What do Large Language Models Learn beyond Language?

Avinash Madasu, Shashank Srivastava

Large language models (LMs) have rapidly become a mainstay in Natural Language Processing. These models are known to acquire rich linguistic knowledge from training on large amount…

cs.CL2022

CLUES: A Benchmark for Learning Classifiers using Natural Language Explanations

Rakesh R Menon, Sayan Ghosh, Shashank Srivastava

Supervised learning has traditionally focused on inductive learning by observing labeled examples of a task. In contrast, humans have the ability to learn new concepts from languag…

cs.CL2021

Mapping Language to Programs using Multiple Reward Components with Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Sayan Ghosh, Shashank Srivastava

Mapping natural language instructions to programs that computers can process is a fundamental challenge. Existing approaches focus on likelihood-based training or using reinforceme…

cs.CL2021

Adversarial Scrubbing of Demographic Information for Text Classification

Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury, Sayan Ghosh, Yiyuan Li +3

Contextual representations learned by language models can often encode undesirable attributes, like demographic associations of the users, while being trained for an unrelated targ…

cs.CL2021

ePiC: Employing Proverbs in Context as a Benchmark for Abstract Language Understanding

Sayan Ghosh, Shashank Srivastava

While large language models have shown exciting progress on several NLP benchmarks, evaluating their ability for complex analogical reasoning remains under-explored. Here, we intro…

cs.CL2021

Improving and Simplifying Pattern Exploiting Training

Derek Tam, Rakesh R Menon, Mohit Bansal +2

Recently, pre-trained language models (LMs) have achieved strong performance when fine-tuned on difficult benchmarks like SuperGLUE. However, performance can suffer when there are…

cs.CL2020

PRover: Proof Generation for Interpretable Reasoning over Rules

Swarnadeep Saha, Sayan Ghosh, Shashank Srivastava +1

Recent work by Clark et al. (2020) shows that transformers can act as 'soft theorem provers' by answering questions over explicitly provided knowledge in natural language. In our w…

physics.flu-dyn2019

Models for Predicting Transonic Flutter of a Wing-Section with Sloshing in an Embedded Fuel Tank

Shashank Srivastava, Murali Damodaran, Boo Cheong Khoo

The present study focuses on the development, application, and comparison of three computational frameworks of varying fidelities for assessing the effects of fuel sloshing in inte…

cs.CE2019★ 5 cited

Machine Learning Surrogates for Predicting Response of an Aero-Structural-Sloshing System

Shashank Srivastava, Murali Damodaran, Boo Cheong Khoo

This study demonstrates the feasibility of developing machine learning (ML) surrogates based on Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) for predicting the unsteady aeroelastic response of…

cs.CL2015★ 30 cited

Inferring Interpersonal Relations in Narrative Summaries

Shashank Srivastava, Snigdha Chaturvedi, Tom Mitchell

Characterizing relationships between people is fundamental for the understanding of narratives. In this work, we address the problem of inferring the polarity of relationships betw…

cs.CL2015★ 7 cited

Modeling Dynamic Relationships Between Characters in Literary Novels

Snigdha Chaturvedi, Shashank Srivastava, Hal Daume +1

Studying characters plays a vital role in computationally representing and interpreting narratives. Unlike previous work, which has focused on inferring character roles, we focus o…