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cs.CL2021★ 4 cited

SummaC: Re-Visiting NLI-based Models for Inconsistency Detection in Summarization

Philippe Laban, Tobias Schnabel, Paul N. Bennett +1

In the summarization domain, a key requirement for summaries is to be factually consistent with the input document. Previous work has found that natural language inference (NLI) mo…

cs.CL2021

Keep it Simple: Unsupervised Simplification of Multi-Paragraph Text

Philippe Laban, Tobias Schnabel, Paul Bennett +1

This work presents Keep it Simple (KiS), a new approach to unsupervised text simplification which learns to balance a reward across three properties: fluency, salience and simplici…

cs.CL2021★ 26 cited

What's The Latest? A Question-driven News Chatbot

Philippe Laban, John Canny, Marti A. Hearst

This work describes an automatic news chatbot that draws content from a diverse set of news articles and creates conversations with a user about the news. Key components of the sys…

cs.CL2021

News Headline Grouping as a Challenging NLU Task

Philippe Laban, Lucas Bandarkar, Marti A. Hearst

Recent progress in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) has seen the latest models outperform human performance on many standard tasks. These impressive results have led the commun…

cs.CL2021★ 27 cited

The Summary Loop: Learning to Write Abstractive Summaries Without Examples

Philippe Laban, Andrew Hsi, John Canny +1

This work presents a new approach to unsupervised abstractive summarization based on maximizing a combination of coverage and fluency for a given length constraint. It introduces a…

cs.DB2021★ 4 cited

Lux: Always-on Visualization Recommendations for Exploratory Dataframe Workflows

Doris Jung-Lin Lee, Dixin Tang, Kunal Agarwal +8

Exploratory data science largely happens in computational notebooks with dataframe APIs, such as pandas, that support flexible means to transform, clean, and analyze data. Yet, vis…