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20162026
most citedNeural Network Models for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification in English and Chinese without Surface Features

10 citations · 28 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.AI2026

VecCISC: Improving Confidence-Informed Self-Consistency with Reasoning Trace Clustering and Candidate Answer Selection

James Petullo, Sonny George, Dylan Cashman +1

A standard technique for scaling inference-time reasoning is Self-Consistency, whereby multiple candidate answers are sampled from an LLM and the most common answer is selected. Mo…

cs.CL2026

CA-SQL: Complexity-Aware Inference Time Reasoning for Text-to-SQL via Exploration and Compute Budget Allocation

James Petullo, Nianwen Xue

While recent advancements in inference-time learning have improved LLM reasoning on Text-to-SQL tasks, current solutions still struggle to perform well on the most challenging task…

cs.CL2025

Fact-checking AI-generated news reports: Can LLMs catch their own lies?

Jiayi Yao, Haibo Sun, Nianwen Xue

In this paper, we evaluate the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to assess the veracity of claims in ''news reports'' generated by themselves or other LLMs. Our goal is to de…

cs.CL2022

A Kind Introduction to Lexical and Grammatical Aspect, with a Survey of Computational Approaches

Annemarie Friedrich, Nianwen Xue, Alexis Palmer

Aspectual meaning refers to how the internal temporal structure of situations is presented. This includes whether a situation is described as a state or as an event, whether the si…

cs.CL2021

A Joint Model for Dropped Pronoun Recovery and Conversational Discourse Parsing in Chinese Conversational Speech

Jingxuan Yang, Kerui Xu, Jun Xu +5

In this paper, we present a neural model for joint dropped pronoun recovery (DPR) and conversational discourse parsing (CDP) in Chinese conversational speech. We show that DPR and…

cs.CL2020

Transformer-GCRF: Recovering Chinese Dropped Pronouns with General Conditional Random Fields

Jingxuan Yang, Kerui Xu, Jun Xu +5

Pronouns are often dropped in Chinese conversations and recovering the dropped pronouns is important for NLP applications such as Machine Translation. Existing approaches usually f…

cs.CL2019★ 6 cited

Recovering Dropped Pronouns in Chinese Conversations via Modeling Their Referents

Jingxuan Yang, Jianzhuo Tong, Si Li +3

Pronouns are often dropped in Chinese sentences, and this happens more frequently in conversational genres as their referents can be easily understood from context. Recovering drop…

cs.CL2018

Neural Ranking Models for Temporal Dependency Structure Parsing

Yuchen Zhang, Nianwen Xue

We design and build the first neural temporal dependency parser. It utilizes a neural ranking model with minimal feature engineering, and parses time expressions and events in a te…

cs.CL2018

Structured Interpretation of Temporal Relations

Yuchen Zhang, Nianwen Xue

Temporal relations between events and time expressions in a document are often modeled in an unstructured manner where relations between individual pairs of time expressions and ev…

cs.CL2017★ 9 cited

Addressing the Data Sparsity Issue in Neural AMR Parsing

Xiaochang Peng, Chuan Wang, Daniel Gildea +1

Neural attention models have achieved great success in different NLP tasks. How- ever, they have not fulfilled their promise on the AMR parsing task due to the data sparsity issue.…

cs.CL2016★ 3 cited

Towards Accurate Word Segmentation for Chinese Patents

Si Li, Nianwen Xue

A patent is a property right for an invention granted by the government to the inventor. An invention is a solution to a specific technological problem. So patents often have a hig…

cs.CL2016★ 10 cited

Neural Network Models for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification in English and Chinese without Surface Features

Attapol T. Rutherford, Vera Demberg, Nianwen Xue

Inferring implicit discourse relations in natural language text is the most difficult subtask in discourse parsing. Surface features achieve good performance, but they are not read…