3 papers
cs.CL2026
Keyphrase Generative Representation of Youth Crisis Conversations Beyond Static Taxonomies
Abeer Badawi, Will Aitken, Lydia Sequeira +3
Crisis Responders (CRs) rapidly assess thousands of youth SMS conversations each year to identify mental health concerns and guide support. Yet youth distress is increasingly expre…
cs.CL2023
Collaboration or Corporate Capture? Quantifying NLP's Reliance on Industry Artifacts and Contributions
Will Aitken, Mohamed Abdalla, Karen Rudie +1
Impressive performance of pre-trained models has garnered public attention and made news headlines in recent years. Almost always, these models are produced by or in collaboration…
cs.CL2022
Learning Better Intent Representations for Financial Open Intent Classification
Xianzhi Li, Will Aitken, Xiaodan Zhu +1
With the recent surge of NLP technologies in the financial domain, banks and other financial entities have adopted virtual agents (VA) to assist customers. A challenging problem fo…