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20182022
most citedAutomatically Learning Data Augmentation Policies for Dialogue Tasks

2 citations · 2 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CL2022

OneAligner: Zero-shot Cross-lingual Transfer with One Rich-Resource Language Pair for Low-Resource Sentence Retrieval

Tong Niu, Kazuma Hashimoto, Yingbo Zhou +1

Aligning parallel sentences in multilingual corpora is essential to curating data for downstream applications such as Machine Translation. In this work, we present OneAligner, an a…

cs.CL2020

Explaining and Improving Model Behavior with k Nearest Neighbor Representations

Nazneen Fatema Rajani, Ben Krause, Wengpeng Yin +3

Interpretability techniques in NLP have mainly focused on understanding individual predictions using attention visualization or gradient-based saliency maps over tokens. We propose…

cs.CL2020

Unsupervised Paraphrasing with Pretrained Language Models

Tong Niu, Semih Yavuz, Yingbo Zhou +3

Paraphrase generation has benefited extensively from recent progress in the designing of training objectives and model architectures. However, previous explorations have largely fo…

cs.CL2020

CoCo: Controllable Counterfactuals for Evaluating Dialogue State Trackers

Shiyang Li, Semih Yavuz, Kazuma Hashimoto +6

Dialogue state trackers have made significant progress on benchmark datasets, but their generalization capability to novel and realistic scenarios beyond the held-out conversations…

cs.CL2020

Char2Subword: Extending the Subword Embedding Space Using Robust Character Compositionality

Gustavo Aguilar, Bryan McCann, Tong Niu +3

Byte-pair encoding (BPE) is a ubiquitous algorithm in the subword tokenization process of language models as it provides multiple benefits. However, this process is solely based on…

cs.CL2020

AvgOut: A Simple Output-Probability Measure to Eliminate Dull Responses

Tong Niu, Mohit Bansal

Many sequence-to-sequence dialogue models tend to generate safe, uninformative responses. There have been various useful efforts on trying to eliminate them. However, these approac…