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20182026
most citedPersonalized Dialogue Generation with Diversified Traits

88 citations · 131 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.CL2026

On the Robustness of Knowledge Editing for Detoxification

Ming Dong, Shiyi Tang, Ziyan Peng +2

Knowledge-Editing-based (KE-based) detoxification has emerged as a promising approach for mitigating harmful behaviours in Large Language Models. Existing evaluations, however, lar…

cs.CL2026

How Do People Quantify Naturally: Evidence from Mandarin Picture Description

Yayun Zhang, Guanyi Chen, Fahime Same +2

Quantification is a fundamental component of everyday language use, yet little is known about how speakers decide whether and how to quantify in naturalistic production. We investi…

cs.CL2025

Do Large Language Models Judge Error Severity Like Humans?

Diege Sun, Guanyi Chen, Zhao Fan +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as automated evaluators in natural language generation, yet it remains unclear whether they can accurately replicate human judgme…

cs.CL2025

Emotional Supporters often Use Multiple Strategies in a Single Turn

Xin Bai, Guanyi Chen, Tingting He +2

Emotional Support Conversations (ESC) are crucial for providing empathy, validation, and actionable guidance to individuals in distress. However, existing definitions of the ESC ta…

cs.CL2025

CCNU at SemEval-2025 Task 3: Leveraging Internal and External Knowledge of Large Language Models for Multilingual Hallucination Annotation

Xu Liu, Guanyi Chen

We present the system developed by the Central China Normal University (CCNU) team for the Mu-SHROOM shared task, which focuses on identifying hallucinations in question-answering…

cs.CL2024

Computational Modelling of Plurality and Definiteness in Chinese Noun Phrases

Yuqi Liu, Guanyi Chen, Kees van Deemter

Theoretical linguists have suggested that some languages (e.g., Chinese and Japanese) are "cooler" than other languages based on the observation that the intended meaning of phrase…

cs.CL2024

Intrinsic Task-based Evaluation for Referring Expression Generation

Guanyi Chen, Fahime Same, Kees van Deemter

Recently, a human evaluation study of Referring Expression Generation (REG) models had an unexpected conclusion: on \textsc{webnlg}, Referring Expressions (REs) generated by the st…

cs.CL2023

A Survey on Semantic Processing Techniques

Rui Mao, Kai He, Xulang Zhang +4

Semantic processing is a fundamental research domain in computational linguistics. In the era of powerful pre-trained language models and large language models, the advancement of…

cs.AI2023★ 24 cited

GPTEval: A Survey on Assessments of ChatGPT and GPT-4

Rui Mao, Guanyi Chen, Xulang Zhang +2

The emergence of ChatGPT has generated much speculation in the press about its potential to disrupt social and economic systems. Its astonishing language ability has aroused strong…

cs.CL2023

Models of reference production: How do they withstand the test of time?

Fahime Same, Guanyi Chen, Kees van Deemter

In recent years, many NLP studies have focused solely on performance improvement. In this work, we focus on the linguistic and scientific aspects of NLP. We use the task of generat…

cs.CL2022

Assessing Neural Referential Form Selectors on a Realistic Multilingual Dataset

Guanyi Chen, Fahime Same, Kees van Deemter

Previous work on Neural Referring Expression Generation (REG) all uses WebNLG, an English dataset that has been shown to reflect a very limited range of referring expression (RE) u…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Understanding the Use of Quantifiers in Mandarin

Guanyi Chen, Kees van Deemter

We introduce a corpus of short texts in Mandarin, in which quantified expressions figure prominently. We illustrate the significance of the corpus by examining the hypothesis (know…

cs.CL2022

Accuracy on In-Domain Samples Matters When Building Out-of-Domain detectors: A Reply to Marek et al. (2021)

Yinhe Zheng, Guanyi Chen

We have noticed that Marek et al. (2021) try to re-implement our paper Zheng et al. (2020a) in their work "OodGAN: Generative Adversarial Network for Out-of-Domain Data Generation"…

cs.CL2022

Non-neural Models Matter: A Re-evaluation of Neural Referring Expression Generation Systems

Fahime Same, Guanyi Chen, Kees van Deemter

In recent years, neural models have often outperformed rule-based and classic Machine Learning approaches in NLG. These classic approaches are now often disregarded, for example wh…

cs.CL2021

What can Neural Referential Form Selectors Learn?

Guanyi Chen, Fahime Same, Kees van Deemter

Despite achieving encouraging results, neural Referring Expression Generation models are often thought to lack transparency. We probed neural Referential Form Selection (RFS) model…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Affective Decoding for Empathetic Response Generation

Chengkun Zeng, Guanyi Chen, Chenghua Lin +2

Understanding speaker's feelings and producing appropriate responses with emotion connection is a key communicative skill for empathetic dialogue systems. In this paper, we propose…

cs.CL2021

MMChat: Multi-Modal Chat Dataset on Social Media

Yinhe Zheng, Guanyi Chen, Xin Liu +1

Incorporating multi-modal contexts in conversation is important for developing more engaging dialogue systems. In this work, we explore this direction by introducing MMChat: a larg…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Highly Efficient Knowledge Graph Embedding Learning with Orthogonal Procrustes Analysis

Xutan Peng, Guanyi Chen, Chenghua Lin +1

Knowledge Graph Embeddings (KGEs) have been intensively explored in recent years due to their promise for a wide range of applications. However, existing studies focus on improving…

cs.CL2020★ 1 cited

Improving Variational Autoencoder for Text Modelling with Timestep-Wise Regularisation

Ruizhe Li, Xiao Li, Guanyi Chen +1

The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is a popular and powerful model applied to text modelling to generate diverse sentences. However, an issue known as posterior collapse (or KL loss…

cs.CL2020

Lessons from Computational Modelling of Reference Production in Mandarin and English

Guanyi Chen, Kees van Deemter

Referring expression generation (REG) algorithms offer computational models of the production of referring expressions. In earlier work, a corpus of referring expressions (REs) in…

cs.CL2020

Listener's Social Identity Matters in Personalised Response Generation

Guanyi Chen, Yinhe Zheng, Yupei Du

Personalised response generation enables generating human-like responses by means of assigning the generator a social identity. However, pragmatics theory suggests that human being…

cs.CL2019★ 8 cited

Out-of-domain Detection for Natural Language Understanding in Dialog Systems

Yinhe Zheng, Guanyi Chen, Minlie Huang

Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is a vital component of dialogue systems, and its ability to detect Out-of-Domain (OOD) inputs is critical in practical applications, since the…

cs.CL2019★ 88 cited

Personalized Dialogue Generation with Diversified Traits

Yinhe Zheng, Guanyi Chen, Minlie Huang +2

Endowing a dialogue system with particular personality traits is essential to deliver more human-like conversations. However, due to the challenge of embodying personality via lang…

cs.CL2018★ 6 cited

A Dual-Attention Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Network for Dialogue Act Classification

Ruizhe Li, Chenghua Lin, Matthew Collinson +2

Recognising dialogue acts (DA) is important for many natural language processing tasks such as dialogue generation and intention recognition. In this paper, we propose a dual-atten…