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20202023
most citedBetween words and characters: A Brief History of Open-Vocabulary Modeling and Tokenization in NLP

106 citations · 289 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.IR2023★ 4 cited

Automatic Feature Fairness in Recommendation via Adversaries

Hengchang Hu, Yiming Cao, Zhankui He +2

Fairness is a widely discussed topic in recommender systems, but its practical implementation faces challenges in defining sensitive features while maintaining recommendation accur…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Large Language Models of Code Fail at Completing Code with Potential Bugs

Tuan Dinh, Jinman Zhao, Samson Tan +4

Large language models of code (Code-LLMs) have recently brought tremendous advances to code completion, a fundamental feature of programming assistance and code intelligence. Howev…

cs.LG2022★ 7 cited

ReCode: Robustness Evaluation of Code Generation Models

Shiqi Wang, Zheng Li, Haifeng Qian +11

Code generation models have achieved impressive performance. However, they tend to be brittle as slight edits to a prompt could lead to very different generations; these robustness…

cs.CL2022

BotSIM: An End-to-End Bot Simulation Framework for Commercial Task-Oriented Dialog Systems

Guangsen Wang, Samson Tan, Shafiq Joty +3

We present BotSIM, a data-efficient end-to-end Bot SIMulation toolkit for commercial text-based task-oriented dialog (TOD) systems. BotSIM consists of three major components: 1) a…

cs.CL2022

BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model

BigScience Workshop, :, Teven Le Scao +391

Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be able to perform new tasks based on a few demonstrations or natural language instructions. While these capabilities have led to wi…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Whodunit? Learning to Contrast for Authorship Attribution

Bo Ai, Yuchen Wang, Yugin Tan +1

Authorship attribution is the task of identifying the author of a given text. The key is finding representations that can differentiate between authors. Existing approaches typical…

cs.CY2022★ 44 cited

Data Governance in the Age of Large-Scale Data-Driven Language Technology

Yacine Jernite, Huu Nguyen, Stella Biderman +18

The recent emergence and adoption of Machine Learning technology, and specifically of Large Language Models, has drawn attention to the need for systematic and transparent manageme…

cs.CL2021★ 106 cited

Between words and characters: A Brief History of Open-Vocabulary Modeling and Tokenization in NLP

Sabrina J. Mielke, Zaid Alyafeai, Elizabeth Salesky +8

What are the units of text that we want to model? From bytes to multi-word expressions, text can be analyzed and generated at many granularities. Until recently, most natural langu…

cs.CL2021★ 25 cited

NL-Augmenter: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation

Kaustubh D. Dhole, Varun Gangal, Sebastian Gehrmann +122

Data augmentation is an important component in the robustness evaluation of models in natural language processing (NLP) and in enhancing the diversity of the data they are trained…

cs.CL2021

TraVLR: Now You See It, Now You Don't! A Bimodal Dataset for Evaluating Visio-Linguistic Reasoning

Keng Ji Chow, Samson Tan, Min-Yen Kan

Numerous visio-linguistic (V+L) representation learning methods have been developed, yet existing datasets do not adequately evaluate the extent to which they represent visual and…

cs.CL2021

Interpreting the Robustness of Neural NLP Models to Textual Perturbations

Yunxiang Zhang, Liangming Pan, Samson Tan +1

Modern Natural Language Processing (NLP) models are known to be sensitive to input perturbations and their performance can decrease when applied to real-world, noisy data. However,…

cs.LG2021

Reliability Testing for Natural Language Processing Systems

Samson Tan, Shafiq Joty, Kathy Baxter +3

Questions of fairness, robustness, and transparency are paramount to address before deploying NLP systems. Central to these concerns is the question of reliability: Can NLP systems…

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

Code-Mixing on Sesame Street: Dawn of the Adversarial Polyglots

Samson Tan, Shafiq Joty

Multilingual models have demonstrated impressive cross-lingual transfer performance. However, test sets like XNLI are monolingual at the example level. In multilingual communities,…

cs.CL2021

Robustness Gym: Unifying the NLP Evaluation Landscape

Karan Goel, Nazneen Rajani, Jesse Vig +6

Despite impressive performance on standard benchmarks, deep neural networks are often brittle when deployed in real-world systems. Consequently, recent research has focused on test…

cs.CL2020★ 90 cited

It's Morphin' Time! Combating Linguistic Discrimination with Inflectional Perturbations

Samson Tan, Shafiq Joty, Min-Yen Kan +1

Training on only perfect Standard English corpora predisposes pre-trained neural networks to discriminate against minorities from non-standard linguistic backgrounds (e.g., African…

cs.CL2020★ 8 cited

Mind Your Inflections! Improving NLP for Non-Standard Englishes with Base-Inflection Encoding

Samson Tan, Shafiq Joty, Lav R. Varshney +1

Inflectional variation is a common feature of World Englishes such as Colloquial Singapore English and African American Vernacular English. Although comprehension by human readers…