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cs.CL2026

Event Ontology Expansion via LLM-Based Conceptualization

Weicheng Ren, Zixuan Li, Long Bai +3

Event ontology expansion aims to discover emerging event types from data and extend them to appropriate positions in the existing event ontology.. Existing methods typically cluste…

cs.CL2026

Lost in a Single Vector: Improving Long-Document Retrieval with Chunk Evidence Aggregation

Shanshan Lyu, Yiwei Wang, Yujun Cai +2

Dense retrieval ranks one query vector against one document vector. On long documents, this interface can fail when a short but decisive span is weakened during document encoding b…

cs.CL2026

Iterative Structured Pruning for Large Language Models with Multi-Domain Calibration

Guangxin Wu, Hao Zhang, Zhang Zhibin +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across a wide spectrum of natural language processing tasks. However, their ever-growing scale introduces significant…

cs.CL2025

Estimating Commonsense Plausibility through Semantic Shifts

Wanqing Cui, Wei Huang, Keping Bi +2

Commonsense plausibility estimation is critical for evaluating language models (LMs), yet existing generative approaches--reliant on likelihoods or verbalized judgments--struggle w…

cs.CL2024

KnowCoder-X: Boosting Multilingual Information Extraction via Code

Yuxin Zuo, Wenxuan Jiang, Wenxuan Liu +7

Empirical evidence indicates that LLMs exhibit spontaneous cross-lingual alignment. However, although LLMs show promising cross-lingual alignment in Information Extraction (IE), a…

cs.CL2024

Controlling Risk of Retrieval-augmented Generation: A Counterfactual Prompting Framework

Lu Chen, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo +2

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as a popular solution to mitigate the hallucination issues of large language models. However, existing studies on RAG seldom addres…

cs.CL2024

QUITO: Accelerating Long-Context Reasoning through Query-Guided Context Compression

Wenshan Wang, Yihang Wang, Yixing Fan +2

In-context learning (ICL) capabilities are foundational to the success of large language models (LLMs). Recently, context compression has attracted growing interest since it can la…

cs.CL2024

Evaluating Implicit Bias in Large Language Models by Attacking From a Psychometric Perspective

Yuchen Wen, Keping Bi, Wei Chen +2

As large language models (LLMs) become an important way of information access, there have been increasing concerns that LLMs may intensify the spread of unethical content, includin…

cs.CL2024

Class-Incremental Few-Shot Event Detection

Kailin Zhao, Xiaolong Jin, Long Bai +2

Event detection is one of the fundamental tasks in information extraction and knowledge graph. However, a realistic event detection system often needs to deal with new event classe…

cs.CL2024

A Unified Causal View of Instruction Tuning

Lu Chen, Wei Huang, Ruqing Zhang +3

Instruction tuning on a mixture of tasks has improved zero-shot capabilities in natural language processing (NLP). Nevertheless, existing methods often learn features that exhibit…

cs.CL2024

MORE: Multi-mOdal REtrieval Augmented Generative Commonsense Reasoning

Wanqing Cui, Keping Bi, Jiafeng Guo +1

Since commonsense information has been recorded significantly less frequently than its existence, language models pre-trained by text generation have difficulty to learn sufficient…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

When Do LLMs Need Retrieval Augmentation? Mitigating LLMs' Overconfidence Helps Retrieval Augmentation

Shiyu Ni, Keping Bi, Jiafeng Guo +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been found to have difficulty knowing they do not possess certain knowledge and tend to provide specious answers in such cases. Retrieval Augmenta…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

RIGHT: Retrieval-augmented Generation for Mainstream Hashtag Recommendation

Run-Ze Fan, Yixing Fan, Jiangui Chen +3

Automatic mainstream hashtag recommendation aims to accurately provide users with concise and popular topical hashtags before publication. Generally, mainstream hashtag recommendat…

cs.CL2023

ProtoEM: A Prototype-Enhanced Matching Framework for Event Relation Extraction

Zhilei Hu, Zixuan Li, Daozhu Xu +5

Event Relation Extraction (ERE) aims to extract multiple kinds of relations among events in texts. However, existing methods singly categorize event relations as different classes,…

cs.CL2023

Nested Event Extraction upon Pivot Element Recogniton

Weicheng Ren, Zixuan Li, Xiaolong Jin +6

Nested Event Extraction (NEE) aims to extract complex event structures where an event contains other events as its arguments recursively. Nested events involve a kind of Pivot Elem…

cs.CL2023

Inducing Causal Structure for Abstractive Text Summarization

Lu Chen, Ruqing Zhang, Wei Huang +3

The mainstream of data-driven abstractive summarization models tends to explore the correlations rather than the causal relationships. Among such correlations, there can be spuriou…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Semantic Structure Enhanced Event Causality Identification

Zhilei Hu, Zixuan Li, Xiaolong Jin +4

Event Causality Identification (ECI) aims to identify causal relations between events in unstructured texts. This is a very challenging task, because causal relations are usually e…

cs.CL2022

Rich Event Modeling for Script Event Prediction

Long Bai, Saiping Guan, Zixuan Li +3

Script is a kind of structured knowledge extracted from texts, which contains a sequence of events. Based on such knowledge, script event prediction aims to predict the subsequent…

cs.CL2022

CofeNet: Context and Former-Label Enhanced Net for Complicated Quotation Extraction

Yequan Wang, Xiang Li, Aixin Sun +3

Quotation extraction aims to extract quotations from written text. There are three components in a quotation: source refers to the holder of the quotation, cue is the trigger word(…

cs.CL2022★ 55 cited

CorpusBrain: Pre-train a Generative Retrieval Model for Knowledge-Intensive Language Tasks

Jiangui Chen, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo +3

Knowledge-intensive language tasks (KILT) usually require a large body of information to provide correct answers. A popular paradigm to solve this problem is to combine a search sy…

cs.CL2022★ 63 cited

GERE: Generative Evidence Retrieval for Fact Verification

Jiangui Chen, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo +2

Fact verification (FV) is a challenging task which aims to verify a claim using multiple evidential sentences from trustworthy corpora, e.g., Wikipedia. Most existing approaches fo…

cs.CL2019

Neural or Statistical: An Empirical Study on Language Models for Chinese Input Recommendation on Mobile

Hainan Zhang, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo +2

Chinese input recommendation plays an important role in alleviating human cost in typing Chinese words, especially in the scenario of mobile applications. The fundamental problem i…

cs.CL2019★ 9 cited

ReCoSa: Detecting the Relevant Contexts with Self-Attention for Multi-turn Dialogue Generation

Hainan Zhang, Yanyan Lan, Liang Pang +2

In multi-turn dialogue generation, response is usually related with only a few contexts. Therefore, an ideal model should be able to detect these relevant contexts and produce a su…

cs.CL2019★ 5 cited

Outline Generation: Understanding the Inherent Content Structure of Documents

Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan +2

In this paper, we introduce and tackle the Outline Generation (OG) task, which aims to unveil the inherent content structure of a multi-paragraph document by identifying its potent…