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20152024
most citedLearning to Select, Track, and Generate for Data-to-Text

35 citations · 151 across the 44 of their papers we have counts for

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47 papers

cs.CL2024

Likelihood-based Mitigation of Evaluation Bias in Large Language Models

Masanari Oi, Masahiro Kaneko, Ryuto Koike +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used to evaluate natural language generation tasks as automated metrics. However, the likelihood, a measure of LLM's plausibility for a sent…

cs.CL2024★ 6 cited

Evaluating Gender Bias in Large Language Models via Chain-of-Thought Prompting

Masahiro Kaneko, Danushka Bollegala, Naoaki Okazaki +1

There exist both scalable tasks, like reading comprehension and fact-checking, where model performance improves with model size, and unscalable tasks, like arithmetic reasoning and…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

How You Prompt Matters! Even Task-Oriented Constraints in Instructions Affect LLM-Generated Text Detection

Ryuto Koike, Masahiro Kaneko, Naoaki Okazaki

To combat the misuse of Large Language Models (LLMs), many recent studies have presented LLM-generated-text detectors with promising performance. When users instruct LLMs to genera…

cs.CL2023

SAIE Framework: Support Alone Isn't Enough -- Advancing LLM Training with Adversarial Remarks

Mengsay Loem, Masahiro Kaneko, Naoaki Okazaki

Large Language Models (LLMs) can justify or critique their predictions through discussions with other models or humans, thereby enriching their intrinsic understanding of instances…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Controlled Generation with Prompt Insertion for Natural Language Explanations in Grammatical Error Correction

Masahiro Kaneko, Naoaki Okazaki

In Grammatical Error Correction (GEC), it is crucial to ensure the user's comprehension of a reason for correction. Existing studies present tokens, examples, and hints as to the b…

cs.CL2023

The Impact of Debiasing on the Performance of Language Models in Downstream Tasks is Underestimated

Masahiro Kaneko, Danushka Bollegala, Naoaki Okazaki

Pre-trained language models trained on large-scale data have learned serious levels of social biases. Consequently, various methods have been proposed to debias pre-trained models.…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Evaluating Gender Bias of Pre-trained Language Models in Natural Language Inference by Considering All Labels

Panatchakorn Anantaprayoon, Masahiro Kaneko, Naoaki Okazaki

Discriminatory gender biases have been found in Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) for multiple languages. In Natural Language Inference (NLI), existing bias evaluation methods hav…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

OUTFOX: LLM-Generated Essay Detection Through In-Context Learning with Adversarially Generated Examples

Ryuto Koike, Masahiro Kaneko, Naoaki Okazaki

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved human-level fluency in text generation, making it difficult to distinguish between human-written and LLM-generated texts. This poses a gr…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

SciCap+: A Knowledge Augmented Dataset to Study the Challenges of Scientific Figure Captioning

Zhishen Yang, Raj Dabre, Hideki Tanaka +1

In scholarly documents, figures provide a straightforward way of communicating scientific findings to readers. Automating figure caption generation helps move model understandings…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

Exploring Effectiveness of GPT-3 in Grammatical Error Correction: A Study on Performance and Controllability in Prompt-Based Methods

Mengsay Loem, Masahiro Kaneko, Sho Takase +1

Large-scale pre-trained language models such as GPT-3 have shown remarkable performance across various natural language processing tasks. However, applying prompt-based methods wit…

cs.CL2023

Reducing Sequence Length by Predicting Edit Operations with Large Language Models

Masahiro Kaneko, Naoaki Okazaki

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in various tasks and gained significant attention. LLMs are also used for local sequence transduction tasks, i…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Solving NLP Problems through Human-System Collaboration: A Discussion-based Approach

Masahiro Kaneko, Graham Neubig, Naoaki Okazaki

Humans work together to solve common problems by having discussions, explaining, and agreeing or disagreeing with each other. Similarly, if a system can have discussions with human…

cs.CL2023

Semantic Specialization for Knowledge-based Word Sense Disambiguation

Sakae Mizuki, Naoaki Okazaki

A promising approach for knowledge-based Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is to select the sense whose contextualized embeddings computed for its definition sentence are closest to…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

DREEAM: Guiding Attention with Evidence for Improving Document-Level Relation Extraction

Youmi Ma, An Wang, Naoaki Okazaki

Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) is the task of identifying all relations between each entity pair in a document. Evidence, defined as sentences containing clues for the…

cs.CL2023

Comparing Intrinsic Gender Bias Evaluation Measures without using Human Annotated Examples

Masahiro Kaneko, Danushka Bollegala, Naoaki Okazaki

Numerous types of social biases have been identified in pre-trained language models (PLMs), and various intrinsic bias evaluation measures have been proposed for quantifying those…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Sparse Retrieval by Filling Vocabulary and Word Frequency Gaps

Hiroki Iida, Naoaki Okazaki

IR models using a pretrained language model significantly outperform lexical approaches like BM25. In particular, SPLADE, which encodes texts to sparse vectors, is an effective mod…

cs.CL2022★ 9 cited

Debiasing isn't enough! -- On the Effectiveness of Debiasing MLMs and their Social Biases in Downstream Tasks

Masahiro Kaneko, Danushka Bollegala, Naoaki Okazaki

We study the relationship between task-agnostic intrinsic and task-specific extrinsic social bias evaluation measures for Masked Language Models (MLMs), and find that there exists…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

Nearest Neighbor Non-autoregressive Text Generation

Ayana Niwa, Sho Takase, Naoaki Okazaki

Non-autoregressive (NAR) models can generate sentences with less computation than autoregressive models but sacrifice generation quality. Previous studies addressed this issue thro…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Are Neighbors Enough? Multi-Head Neural n-gram can be Alternative to Self-attention

Mengsay Loem, Sho Takase, Masahiro Kaneko +1

Impressive performance of Transformer has been attributed to self-attention, where dependencies between entire input in a sequence are considered at every position. In this work, w…

cs.CL2022

Gender Bias in Masked Language Models for Multiple Languages

Masahiro Kaneko, Aizhan Imankulova, Danushka Bollegala +1

Masked Language Models (MLMs) pre-trained by predicting masked tokens on large corpora have been used successfully in natural language processing tasks for a variety of languages.…

cs.CL2022

PLOG: Table-to-Logic Pretraining for Logical Table-to-Text Generation

Ao Liu, Haoyu Dong, Naoaki Okazaki +2

Logical table-to-text generation is a task that involves generating logically faithful sentences from tables, which requires models to derive logical level facts from table records…

cs.CL2022

Gender Bias in Meta-Embeddings

Masahiro Kaneko, Danushka Bollegala, Naoaki Okazaki

Different methods have been proposed to develop meta-embeddings from a given set of source embeddings. However, the source embeddings can contain unfair gender-related biases, and…

cs.CL2022

Semi-Supervised Formality Style Transfer with Consistency Training

Ao Liu, An Wang, Naoaki Okazaki

Formality style transfer (FST) is a task that involves paraphrasing an informal sentence into a formal one without altering its meaning. To address the data-scarcity problem of exi…

cs.CL2022

Single Model Ensemble for Subword Regularized Models in Low-Resource Machine Translation

Sho Takase, Tatsuya Hiraoka, Naoaki Okazaki

Subword regularizations use multiple subword segmentations during training to improve the robustness of neural machine translation models. In previous subword regularizations, we u…