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cs.CL2023

Few-Shot Data-to-Text Generation via Unified Representation and Multi-Source Learning

Alexander Hanbo Li, Mingyue Shang, Evangelia Spiliopoulou +9

We present a novel approach for structured data-to-text generation that addresses the limitations of existing methods that primarily focus on specific types of structured data. Our…

cs.CL2023

A Static Evaluation of Code Completion by Large Language Models

Hantian Ding, Varun Kumar, Yuchen Tian +9

Large language models trained on code have shown great potential to increase productivity of software developers. Several execution-based benchmarks have been proposed to evaluate…

cs.CL2023

Efficient Shapley Values Estimation by Amortization for Text Classification

Chenghao Yang, Fan Yin, He He +3

Despite the popularity of Shapley Values in explaining neural text classification models, computing them is prohibitive for large pretrained models due to a large number of model e…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Generate then Select: Open-ended Visual Question Answering Guided by World Knowledge

Xingyu Fu, Sheng Zhang, Gukyeong Kwon +10

The open-ended Visual Question Answering (VQA) task requires AI models to jointly reason over visual and natural language inputs using world knowledge. Recently, pre-trained Langua…

cs.CL2023

Benchmarking Diverse-Modal Entity Linking with Generative Models

Sijia Wang, Alexander Hanbo Li, Henry Zhu +9

Entities can be expressed in diverse formats, such as texts, images, or column names and cell values in tables. While existing entity linking (EL) models work well on per modality…

cs.CL2023★ 9 cited

UNITE: A Unified Benchmark for Text-to-SQL Evaluation

Wuwei Lan, Zhiguo Wang, Anuj Chauhan +15

A practical text-to-SQL system should generalize well on a wide variety of natural language questions, unseen database schemas, and novel SQL query structures. To comprehensively e…

cs.CL2023★ 6 cited

STREET: A Multi-Task Structured Reasoning and Explanation Benchmark

Danilo Ribeiro, Shen Wang, Xiaofei Ma +10

We introduce STREET, a unified multi-task and multi-domain natural language reasoning and explanation benchmark. Unlike most existing question-answering (QA) datasets, we expect mo…

cs.CL2023★ 10 cited

Dr.Spider: A Diagnostic Evaluation Benchmark towards Text-to-SQL Robustness

Shuaichen Chang, Jun Wang, Mingwen Dong +13

Neural text-to-SQL models have achieved remarkable performance in translating natural language questions into SQL queries. However, recent studies reveal that text-to-SQL models ar…

cs.CL2022

Importance of Synthesizing High-quality Data for Text-to-SQL Parsing

Yiyun Zhao, Jiarong Jiang, Yiqun Hu +14

Recently, there has been increasing interest in synthesizing data to improve downstream text-to-SQL tasks. In this paper, we first examined the existing synthesized datasets and di…

cs.CL2022★ 11 cited

CoCoMIC: Code Completion By Jointly Modeling In-file and Cross-file Context

Yangruibo Ding, Zijian Wang, Wasi Uddin Ahmad +5

While pre-trained language models (LM) for code have achieved great success in code completion, they generate code conditioned only on the contents within the file, i.e., in-file c…

cs.CL2022

ContraCLM: Contrastive Learning For Causal Language Model

Nihal Jain, Dejiao Zhang, Wasi Uddin Ahmad +9

Despite exciting progress in causal language models, the expressiveness of the representations is largely limited due to poor discrimination ability. To remedy this issue, we prese…

cs.CL2022★ 18 cited

DecAF: Joint Decoding of Answers and Logical Forms for Question Answering over Knowledge Bases

Donghan Yu, Sheng Zhang, Patrick Ng +7

Question answering over knowledge bases (KBs) aims to answer natural language questions with factual information such as entities and relations in KBs. Previous methods either gene…

cs.CL2022

Improving Text-to-SQL Semantic Parsing with Fine-grained Query Understanding

Jun Wang, Patrick Ng, Alexander Hanbo Li +5

Most recent research on Text-to-SQL semantic parsing relies on either parser itself or simple heuristic based approach to understand natural language query (NLQ). When synthesizing…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

REKnow: Enhanced Knowledge for Joint Entity and Relation Extraction

Sheng Zhang, Patrick Ng, Zhiguo Wang +1

Relation extraction is an important but challenging task that aims to extract all hidden relational facts from the text. With the development of deep language models, relation extr…

cs.CL2022

Learning Dialogue Representations from Consecutive Utterances

Zhihan Zhou, Dejiao Zhang, Wei Xiao +4

Learning high-quality dialogue representations is essential for solving a variety of dialogue-oriented tasks, especially considering that dialogue systems often suffer from data sc…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

DQ-BART: Efficient Sequence-to-Sequence Model via Joint Distillation and Quantization

Zheng Li, Zijian Wang, Ming Tan +5

Large-scale pre-trained sequence-to-sequence models like BART and T5 achieve state-of-the-art performance on many generative NLP tasks. However, such models pose a great challenge…

cs.CL2021

Contrastive Document Representation Learning with Graph Attention Networks

Peng Xu, Xinchi Chen, Xiaofei Ma +2

Recent progress in pretrained Transformer-based language models has shown great success in learning contextual representation of text. However, due to the quadratic self-attention…

cs.CL2021★ 11 cited

Attention-guided Generative Models for Extractive Question Answering

Peng Xu, Davis Liang, Zhiheng Huang +1

We propose a novel method for applying Transformer models to extractive question answering (QA) tasks. Recently, pretrained generative sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models have ac…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Multiplicative Position-aware Transformer Models for Language Understanding

Zhiheng Huang, Davis Liang, Peng Xu +1

Transformer models, which leverage architectural improvements like self-attention, perform remarkably well on Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. The self-attention mechanism…

cs.CL2021

Pairwise Supervised Contrastive Learning of Sentence Representations

Dejiao Zhang, Shang-Wen Li, Wei Xiao +4

Many recent successes in sentence representation learning have been achieved by simply fine-tuning on the Natural Language Inference (NLI) datasets with triplet loss or siamese los…

cs.CL2021

Dual Reader-Parser on Hybrid Textual and Tabular Evidence for Open Domain Question Answering

Alexander Hanbo Li, Patrick Ng, Peng Xu +3

The current state-of-the-art generative models for open-domain question answering (ODQA) have focused on generating direct answers from unstructured textual information. However, a…

cs.CL2021

Joint Text and Label Generation for Spoken Language Understanding

Yang Li, Ben Athiwaratkun, Cicero Nogueira dos Santos +1

Generalization is a central problem in machine learning, especially when data is limited. Using prior information to enforce constraints is the principled way of encouraging genera…

cs.CL2021★ 5 cited

Improving Factual Consistency of Abstractive Summarization via Question Answering

Feng Nan, Cicero Nogueira dos Santos, Henghui Zhu +7

A commonly observed problem with the state-of-the art abstractive summarization models is that the generated summaries can be factually inconsistent with the input documents. The f…

cs.CL2021

Generative Context Pair Selection for Multi-hop Question Answering

Dheeru Dua, Cicero Nogueira dos Santos, Patrick Ng +4

Compositional reasoning tasks like multi-hop question answering, require making latent decisions to get the final answer, given a question. However, crowdsourced datasets often cap…